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January 6, 2025 • 46 mins
The guys break down player rankings for playoff fantasy football and which teams having the best odds to win the whole thing as the playoffs start up in less than a week's time.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
At least he's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt
Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the
Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back guy, and is the Matt Williamson who apparently
does not know what this means. It's like three times
in the last week and a half that you I
did what a Madden showed.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Just a half hour ago. We were talking about English
football and uh, I just got yeah, yeah, you'apping on
and on and then.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
We went live and you know you're gonna know these
you gonna know these things. Come on, you gotta get
this stuff right. Anyways, welcome to our number two. It
is time for a little Fantasy football focus here and
of course we put together our dfs. We swored one
hundred and thirty six point nine to two points, which

(00:57):
just missed in the contest. We were in just miss
being in the money, which is kind of disappointing because
we had one real big a couple, one real big
swing and miss. And it was not Russell Wilson who
had eleven point five two points. He was only using
the three point five percent of lineups and we got
eleven point five to two points at him. That was fine.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, that didn't kill us. Didn't kill us.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Jean Robinson was used in thirty four point two percent
of lineups. We got thirty four point three points out
of him. That's a plus.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
There were a couple of big running back Weeks Gibbs
last night on expensive Guys.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We had Ray Davis in the lineup at fifty two
hundred dollars. He got five point three percent ownership and
who got fourteen and a half points out of he scored,
So that was solid. The one that killed us was
last night's game. Okay, the pass catchers in last night's game.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, we hit that one pretty hard because they weren't
ready to pick for him. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
We had a mon Ross Ain't Brown at seventy seven hundred.
He got us thirteen point seven points. It was six
for seventy seven. It wasn't horror, but it's not good
enough for good.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
The big one Jordan Addison, Oh yeah, one catch for
no yards at sixty four hundred dollars. He was twenty
two point eight percent ownership. We got one flipping point
out of him.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I forgot. We went down that road. Yeah, not great
at all.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
We we finished out of them. We missed being in
the money by just over just under two points one.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
One catch, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Does it for any yardage? Does it? And we just
didn't get it. Donald was Donald was awful.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
It was awful. I thought the Vikings offensive staff got
out coached. I mean, the aggressiveness of the Lions was rough.
Donald was missing Jefferson too many times.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
This was one of those situations where the coach, one
coach allowed himself to be talked into doing things that
he didn't doesn't normally do. But the coach on the
other sideline, the Vikings are not a go for it
on fourth nineteen are Lions are And two different times
the Vikings have the ball inside to ten. Now, you'd

(03:05):
like to score touchdowns in those situations, but if they
kick the field goals in those situations instead of coming
away with nothing.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's super early in the game too.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
They would have been up fifteen to nine at one point.
Coaches do this a lot, and it's just such human nature.
It's something that Hartbaugh does against Tomlinald.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
You know, like I know I have to score a
ton in this game or in Detroit huge game. I'm
gonna play a little out of my comfort zone. Do
things we're not as good at. Yeah, end up not
getting those three points, you know, right even they probably
lose anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
But it probably do.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
But if it's all we have these conversations about Steeler
games a lot, it goes a lot different. You know,
the second quarter, the third quarter isn't the same because
the game's.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Close, thirty one to nine, if it was twenty four
to fifteen or something along those lines. Before they score
that final touchdown again, you're you're in the game.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
You're in it, and everything changes from that point. It's close,
you're still hanging around. You don't get knocked out in
the third round.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Right, right, right, don't lose the game early. That's I mean,
that was a playoff type game last night. You know,
both teams knew they were in, but they were playing
for the number one. They were playing for a week off.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
And the one thing I meant to text you while
we were going back and forth next change is and
your quarterback wasn't playing well? Your quarterback a quarterback was
super sharp and Wasi's game And okay, maybe we do
go for it on fourth and three here or whatever. Yeah,
because like as soon as the first read wasn't dere
Darnold was not completing anything, you know, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
On that night, he was just struggling. Alamadi Zekias Uh,
he had two catches for fifty one yards with seven
point nine percent ownership. He was forty five hundred dollars.
Though we didn't we spend up. We saved money there
so we could spend up with some other spots and
it just didn't work out with it.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
They pulled Daniels out of that game. I didn't pay
a lot of a whole lot of.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Tests like a five bruis or contusion or something like that.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
But they didn't pull the other starters out.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
No, they didn't. And Zakias actually had his catches after
Andiels left, but he had three. He had three targets early.
They just didn't connect. But he got a seven point
one points, which wasn't good for forty five hundred dollars player.
That's fine. Yeah, yeah, we had Pat Freyermouth at tight
end that was good, thirty nine hundred dollars. He got
us twenty two and a half points. Uh, seventeen point

(05:18):
five percent ownership, could have had more if he catches
that late one, right, and I don't.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Know if i'd call that a drop or a PBu.
By the way, I'm not sure if they even get
another playoff if he does catch.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't know either, but I'd like to find out.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, me, and I'm sure he's not thrilled to himself,
don't me wrong. I'm not excusing it, but.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was it was a good ball.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was well thrown.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I thought it was a drop just watching, but it
was not an easy no bre an easy catch, but
one that I take you to drop if you yeah,
if you asked Pat farm and he's like, oh, yeah,
I should have caught that.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
He was definitely one of the offensive positives.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
By the way, Marvin Harrison at fifty five hundred seventeen
point three points, he had five for sixty three in
a touchdowns. They scored one point eight percent ownership. Wow,
that worked out.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, I wonder why it was so low. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that was that was pretty good. And then the
Broncos defense against the Chiefs backups at uh when we
spent on that three thy twenty seven out Yeah, wow,
twenty seven point two percent ownership, five sacks, no points,
fifteen points there.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Case, he had no interest what's that? None? Right? Right?
I don't know if Wentz is good or bad or what,
but it didn't matter. They had no interest at all.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, So one hundred and point nine to two points
was pretty good. If we get anything out of Jordan Addison.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Addison shocker, he was hot going into that game.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, when your quarterbacks off he's Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Vikings offense was not itself.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Let's talk about a little different thing here this week.
Let's talk a little fantasy football playoffs. Okay, and for
those of the structures for this, yeah, yeah, the most
common one is your draft, your guys going into the post,
and then you ride with what you got.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
You might get a buye in the first round, but
you get.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tell your guys eliminated you got them. So the key
to this one is not necessarily taking the number one
overall seed. It's taking a team that's seeded two through
seven that you think is going to at least play
three games, right, So really the two seed is the
team that you most time run.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is if you can get someone the plays this weekend and
they go to the Super Bowl, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Or at least get you to the championship game, because
then you're getting three games out of them.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, So you want to try to guarantee yourself as
many games as possible, particularly the quarterback position.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
So taking a zero from a Chief or Lion isn't
really the end of the world.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
No, right, So looking at that, I'm looking here at
some rankings. They have Josh Allen one.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay. The other format that I like that I've played
before is you pick a team every week, but you
can't use anyone twice. Yeah yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
You have to like you got to figure it out,
like you gotta be strategic.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
You gotta be real strategic, Like, don't use any NFC
quarterbacks because you don't want to be left with and
the Super Bowl will not be able to pick a
quarterback because you already used them all and there's one
to pick from.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Or pick teams you think are gonna maybe lose, but
that quarterback is gonna have to throw a thousand times
because they're losing.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Maybe Tampa, you use Baker up this week something like that,
or this is my only time to use Evans or
you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right, Uh, they have Lamar number two. Allen was one,
Allen one, Lamar two, okay, Jalen Hurts three he's not
been cleared from concussion program.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, that would be a little concerned.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Jared Goff four, Patrick Mahomes five.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Rather Mahomes are golf though.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Probably golf. They're gonna play all their games indoors.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, and whether it's something to worry about too, for sure.
And I think that you're talking about January, if we're
if we're looking at this realistically, I think the Lions
have a better shot to go to the super Bowl
than the Chiefs. I think they have a better chance
to winch fewer team championship game, fewer teams that they
have to write. I agree, I agree with that. I

(09:12):
just worry that the Chiefs are turning the corner perhaps,
and their their weapons are better than they've been and
Mahomes looks good, but Detroit.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Detroit's defense is so bad. Yeah, that they gotta they gotta.
They know, going into a game, we gotta score thirty.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
It's golf. The NFC quarterback you'd want, I mean, I
think i'd want them overheards. Yeah, Yeah, because they're gonna
they have to they have to play.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I mean, they got a score and they're gonna
probably end up in this in some shootouts.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
In every time. Yeah, I'm going to Philly.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
You know at six they have Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well, he's a fantasy producer.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean you might be getting one game out of them.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
They favored in the I haven't looked at the lines
and the Steelers, do you know if they're favored in
wild Card weekend?

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I doubt it they're going to they're on the road,
on the road, Yeah, I bet not. But he could
have forty five point game.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
He could, and if he thinks that's on enough.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, justin Herbert at seven.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I mean, now you're getting into the guys that have
a hard time. Yeah, playing a couple of games again.
Sam Darnold at eight, I'm sure they're favored. That's not terrible.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Baker Mayfield at nine, okay, Matthew Stafford at ten, yeah,
bo Nick's at eleven.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Like, if this was a DFS format where you had
to cut corners, I might consider a Baker or a Donald,
so I could go heavy on whoever.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, Gibbs Jordan Love at twelve, C J. Stroud at thirteen,
and Russell Wilson at fourteen.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I expected Wilson be fourteen. Yeah, Okay, that basically adds up,
But man, I would want, definitely want one of those top.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Three or four at running back. Saquon Barkley's will one, okay,
Gibbs two.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
James Cook is two. He scored a lot of touchdowns
he did surprising. I'd rather Gibbs, I would too.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Derek. Do they think you're getting extra game out of Buffalo? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Dereck Henry is three, okay. Jamiir Gibbs is four.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Do we think Montgomery's back? Sounds like there's a chance,
there's a chance. I don't know if we'll see. I mean,
Gibbs is good with him.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
This is where it kind of goes off kilter here
for me in these rankings. JK. Dobbins is five.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's good and he's kind of only show in town.
But I don't know what they're gonna win.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I don't know either, and I don't know that they're
gonna win two.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I guess if you win one, though, as a wild
card team, it goes pretty far for these type of things.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Aaron Jones is six.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'd have him over Dobbin I would too, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Kyen Williams is seven, Yeah, Josh Jacobs eight. Isaic Aya
Pa Checko at nine. I would have Isaiah Pachecko.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It'll probably win at least one.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I would have Isaiah Pachecko at five.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, I would say Jones Verus Pacheco is a conversation
for me. Yeah, I do think the Vikings could win
a couple.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Joe Mixing his ten, Bucky Irving eleven, that's so bad either.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
No, I mean again, if these are all weighted, if
you're like putting together a DFS had the cut corner somewhere.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Brian Robinson at twelve. He has been a non factor
for several Lar came back's back at the right time. Yeah,
so I'm not buying that at all.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
That doesn't at all.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Rashad White thirteen, No.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, I know the Steelers guys over here.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, Kareem Hunt at fourteen too, Yeah, Naujie Harris and
Jleb Warner at fifteen and sixteen.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Pretty high for Hunt, he's a true backup. Too high
for Hunt.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I think you're gonna ride Pa Checko Now, I
would think Ray Davis at seventeen, Craig Reynolds at eighteen.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's all about winning games. Yeah. The teams they think
are to play multiple games.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
There's a there's a sleeper down here that we're not
This isn't him Javonte Williams at nineteen, Jualil McLachlan McLachlin,
Julia McLachlan at twenty. Yeah, I'd rather have him than say,
Rashad White. Yeah, I was thinking that too, Like he's
the number one and Buffalo's run defense.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Is a problem. There's a chance they win.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, there's a chance, and he catches passes right now.
He could have a big game and they can lose
Kenneth game. While at twenty one, what.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
If Barkley gets nicked up at some point, it'd be gold. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I also think that Harris and Warren are a
little bit too low from where they should.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Be probably, I mean, they're assuming they're gonna split time
and they're not gonna win a game.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
But I'd rather have them than Kareem Hunt may.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Not play like White.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
You hide that list too, Brian robbertson, Yeah, I'm not
impressed wide receiver justin Jefferson number one.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Like if we will we do a DFS lineup this week? Absolutely,
like Echelor excites me more. I could see him taking
over for Robinson. I assume he'll be cheap. That's my point.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, we might be able to find there's probably other
yas too, but justin Justin Jefferson's one, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
A J.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Brown two, I think I agree, Aman Ross Saint Brown
is three.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, but that all three NF Someone's not gonna be happy.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right, That's what I'm saying. Mike Evans four.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
I don't know who my AFC number one would be though.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, yeah, it's Terry mcclaurin is five. There's a lot
of one guys are gonna be one and out here
they're all mc guys. Yeah, pukin the.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Coup is six, and they're all great, But you're most
of them are not be happy with, right, because half
of them are gonna eliminated right off.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Ladd McConkie is seven.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
He's the first one in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
DeVante Smith is eight.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
If Jay Flowers was healthy, would he be ahead of Maconkee? Yeah?
I would think yeah, because they have a better chance
of advancing the charters. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Uh. Khalil Shakir at nine, who's the best?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Bill? I guess Shakir.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Would be the Yeah. Jordan Addison at ten, who's the
best Chief. Apparently they don't know he yes, he's ranking.
Why it's weird. Jamison Williams at twelve. I'm sorry, Courtland
Courtland Sutton at eleven.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Okay, he's like mcconkee, he's only showing town but unlikely
to get the second round. Wow, less likely.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Jamison Williams at twelve.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's been pretty good, but you don't get nothing out.
You get nothing on him in the first week.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Zave Flowers at thirteen.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Do we know the extent of his injury? Like, I
don't think he's not playing, but do you think he's there?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Harboss said he's day Harbass said he's day to day
and he could be.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
You know, it's season. Okay, they're not put him.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
On ir DeAndre Hopkins at fourteen. Not the Chief that
I would have taken.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I gotta take Pickens over some of these guys.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's where That's where I'm getting like, yeah, yeah, Pickens
doesn't even show up on this list. Do they think
the Steelers are going to score no points against the Ravens?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Right? Right? I mean I know he had a zero man,
but no, he would be come.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
There's another guy on here that that is low on
this list. That I just don't get and that's it.
Fifteen is Nico Collins. Wow, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I don't know what's spreading that game, but I give
him almost a fifty percent chance of winning. He's going
to have you get two games out an ECO. That's
a lot of points.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean, some who did this list? Who is this?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
This is?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
This is from USA Today's Fantasy Charles Curtis. Charles, I've
never heard of you, and there might be list to build,
but there might be a reason for that because I'm
not agreeing with this list necessarily.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
This is I'm curious about the tight end zone now
that we're going down.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I am too, But does gives you an idea of
the names here as we talked and talked to through
this one. Xavier Worthy is sixteen. Cooper Cup seventeen. I
mean he's been slow, but they could win a game
where Shad Bateman is eighteen.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
If they's out. That's kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Our first packer is Jayden Reid at nineteen. Christian Watson,
he's out for the years. He's out, he's done for
the season.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Romeo Dobbs missed the game last week.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Like they're gonna be favorite. Well, no, they're not gonna
be favorite in Philly my time, but.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
I get it to.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
One game and a lot of spread thin.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Amari Cooper at twenty is he.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
An injury to I think he left the game or
he's never been right since he's been a flow.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Quentin Johnston at twenty one.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
He's been sort of productive.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Jaylen McMillan at twenty two, he's got one pretty strong.
You can get a thousand targets on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, since Godwin's injury, he's been pretty good. Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Romeo Dobbs at twenty three, and the last receiver ranked
here is Marvin Mims. No George Pickens. Mims has been
quite good, but no George Pickens. Yeah, him not being
on there at all, it's crazy. No, Hollywood Brown, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
He would probably be my number one.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
He would be the first chief that I would take.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, Yeah, Worthies come on, and Hopkins okay, but I
would take.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Brown over dude, come on. Yeah, got a better list
than that.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, that's on.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Nico Collins at fifteen.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's a steal too. Again, if these were all dfs,
we'd be signed up for those guys. Are you.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah. Absolutely. If that's where the DFS rankings go, sign
me up. I'll take Nico Collins. I'm looking at it
like six thousand dollars and George Pickens for six thousand.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Okay, one of them wins, you get a huge bonus,
go worth it. What's the tight ends? I'm just curious. Okay,
we'll get to that here. Number one Travis Kelce. I
think I have Laporta over Kelsey. I guess come playoff time,
they're not gonna hold Kelsey back. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Number two is Mark Andrews pretty good, yeah, Three Sam Laporta, okay,
Four is t J. Hawkinson. Goddard was though He's actually
got Sam laporter on this list twice, so Sam Laporta
is going to be doubly good. Come on, man, you've
got to be better than that USA today.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, come on, who's the editor?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Geez? Dalton Kinkad at six or five as it were.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I wonder if Goddard was supposed to be there. I
would take Goddard over.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Goddard is back.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah. Is he not on the list. He is not
on the list. That should probably his spot.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Probably Dalton can Kate at six. Zach Ertz at seven,
Tucker Craft at eight.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
He's appealing with another receiver injury.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, Will Disley at nine. Then you started Tyler Higbee
at ten. All the way down at eleven is Pat Fryarmouth.
I paid a little bit of attention here.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, I'd have him over rams and last two or
three you mentioned, yeah, yeah, come on, it's Kate Adden healthy. Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
They declared him he was questionable, and they declared him out. Yeah,
and then and then the backup went out and caught
another touchdown.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
That guy a couple weeks ago. I assume he'll be
back for this game, though.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I would think, oh no, yeah, kicker Justin Tucker won.
This isn't nineteen twenty seventeen. He would not be my
number one. Tyler bast who.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
I think I take the Bills or the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'd take Jake Bates from the Lions.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, actually got to wait a week.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
That's all right. He's going to kick indoors the entire time. Yeah, yeah, Like,
and he's got a big leg. Jake Elliott four, he's
been dicey this year. Harrison Butker five, got a butcker
pretty high, Cameron Dicker six, Will reikerd seven. He stinks.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, he's bad.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Chase mcglack games, Yeah, Chase McLaughlin is eight, Zane Gonzalez nine,
Chris Boswell ten, even Steelers lose.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I bet bos puts the points. It's pretty consistent.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Josh Cardy is eleven from the Rams and twelve is
Brandon McManus.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Kickers. I would just want best teams. Yeah, I don't
even care who's good.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
And then the defenses are Kansas City, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Minnesota,
the Chargers, the Rams, the Commanders, Tampa Bay, and Green Bay.
The Steelers get no mention there.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
They should do a DFS like this and have all
those you know, bat prices and you just have to put.
You got one hundred grand put.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm here to tell you right now, and we're gonna
talk about this in the next segment. To say that
the Steelers have no chance to go to Baltimore and
win a game when they've won eight of the last
ten game against the Ravens, Yeah, including what five and
the last seven in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Zero chances.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I think there's a better chance of that happening than
some of these other teams winning games that are have
guys ranked much higher, let's put.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
It that way. Yeah, I don't think that's crazy, especially
because the Steelers fantasy wise, it's not like Pickens is
competing with t Higgins, you know, like and Friar Move's
been productive Boswell's stud you know, so there's not as
many mouths to feed right in the fantasy world.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, So anyways, that's gonna do it for the fantasy
playoff fantasy it's different, fun, totally different approach.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, uh, we'll do our DFS lineup later in the week.
He is Matt Williamson and I am Dale Lolly. You're
listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.
Matt and I will be back with more right after this.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
At least.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
your twenty four to seven home of the Black and
Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly. He is the
Matt Williamson.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
We know all fourteen teams now that are in the
postseason And Jeff Chadeah from the NFL NFL dot comish
has put together his list of ranking all fourteen playoff
contenders one through fourteen. So I thought we'd take a
look at that and decide if this is how we

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would have them or not.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Okay, I like it was this best chance to win
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes, okay, all right, let's go from the top on
this one.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah. I think he would have won.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
He has Buffalo. H That's not who I would have.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I don't think I would either. I think the NFC
is an easier road. Again, a bye goes a long
way for those both those buy teams. I would imagine
the Lions get a couple of guys back, right.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't want to play them in their building. I
don't want to go to Kansas City either. No, I
think i'd take one of the bye teams. That's just
such an advantage. I would too, and you're still going
to get pick. I would probably pick Detroit.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah. The Chiefs would be right behind him, though they
both be ahead of Buffalo. They would both be ahead
of Buffalo. Yeah. At two years Philadelphia, I think the
Eagles have a really good chance to win the Super Bowls,
just they don't have as easy a path.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Get there, and the quarterbacks can still concuss.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I say, what are we doing with her?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's a little bit of an issue.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I mean, it's only Monday. We haven't talked about that.
A lot injury reports aren't coming out. But if my
Wednesday or Thursday, this is an issue, I don't know
if you beat the.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Packers right now. That being said, Jordan Love also dealing
with an issue.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Jayden Daniels also has something. Yeah, I don't know, quad contusion. Okay, yeah,
because it's it's just weird. They pulled him out and
not any other starter. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
At three is Kansas.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
City, pretty low for back to back Super Bowl champs. Yeah,
in their building with a BUYE.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Four is Detroit.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
My top two would be those two, Yeah, just easier.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Road five is Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
We knew that the loser last night was going to
be much tougher road and I'm not ready. Darnold didn't
play well, but I'm not ready to say he's a boss.
Let him go. He's staying. You know, it was a.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Bad game in a hostile environment. I don't know how much.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
I don't think this coaching staff helped him a time.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know that he's ever been in that kind
of environment before either.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Probably not in a game that mattered like that, you know,
So I don't think the first sixteen games are a
fluke in this one. That is who he is. I'm
not there yet. They could go on a run. They
could play Detroit again.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah. Six is Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
I think they're a really good team, but they'd be six. Okay,
So if they win, they probably could go to Buffalo. Yes,
I mean that's tough road.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, no, yeah, they would. They were most likely if
they win, they would go to Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
If all the favorites win, home teams win.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Seven is green Bay.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
First is out.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
But here's the thing. You have the Eagles at two.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Mm hmm, and then you would have to go to Detroit.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And you haven't beaten any of those teams all year long. Yeah,
including the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know who have next, but maybe Tampa. Tampa's
kind of a giant killer.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Tampa would be because Tampa can go in and score
with any defense is problematic, but they can score.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
At eight, he has the Chargers. M Chargers can't win this.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
They can't give the Chargers ahead of Houston. I don't
think Chargers just don't have a lot of I don't.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I don't love Houston. I don't love the Chargers neither either,
at nine, he is Denver.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I don't see.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
You got Buffalo at number one. Is your team the
team that you feels, and you've got the team that
they play at number nine.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
I have Tampa head all those teams at least they
have a home game.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Quite frankly, I would have the Steelers ahead of the
Chargers and Broncos.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
I can't imagine Denver.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I can create a path that if the Steelers win
in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, yeah, then they likely go to Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
And they would go to Kansas City. All right, fine,
I mean, of course we're gonna be a big dog, right,
But so would Denver want to.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Say all these guys at the same they don't just
let you walk into the sea.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
The Chargers and Broncos also would go to Kansas.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
City exactly, And I don't think the division stuff helps
them as much as the division stuff helps the AFC
North teams.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
This week, No, at ten, he has the Rams.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I might have them higher veteran quarterback coach that's been there,
maybe you can.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Most certainly have them ahead of Denver and the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Me to have mentioned Tampa. No, Tampa and the Rams
I think are both.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Eleven at eleven. He has Tampa.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Okay, I mean I guess the thought process is only
three teams in the NFC of any chance, maybe four,
But I don't see it that way.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
They win other ones. They could certainly win this week
against the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Absolutely, and they could go to Detroit and knock someone off.
I mean they could, they could.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
They beat them earlier this year.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah, that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
They did that because they're a team that can score
with that.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Team, Yeah, they beat good teams. Green Bay doesn't.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Twelve is Washington?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Washington be last for me. I just think it's too soon.
It's way too now.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Been there done a factor none right, right, right? None whatsoever?
They would be last for thirteen and.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Actually Denver as some of that field to the rookie quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Thirteen is Houston.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I understand them being that low.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
That's a toss up game though this week.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Right, they're the same as It's good.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah right, It's the same as if the Steelers had
gone to Houston and stayed in the five spot. You know,
I would like their chances to win that game. But
Houston could win that game.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Houston could definitely win that game. They're semi rested you know.
I mean it didn't play you know recently. I think
that's too low for them.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
And at fourteen, as the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
I knew they're gonna be last. I mean, just because
they're going in with a losing streak.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
But that's again, that's to me, that's recency bias.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Did you read this Did you see the stat pack
at the game? The post game stat pack I DIDFL
put out Steelers are only one of the third team
in NFL history to go into the playoffs on a
four or more game losing streak. Now it's a tiny
sample size, but the first two went one on one, right,
you know what I mean, Like, it doesn't mean like
it's it's not it's not the at the end of

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the world. Right, It's not like they both lost by sixty,
you know, right.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
And I keep going back to those games. I mean, honestly,
they were in each one of those games deep into
the ball game, and the first three kind of got
away from him a little bit.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
The only game that I looked at, some boy they
just had they got completely was was Kansas City against
the Sancy was very winnable. It was extremely winnable. You know,
if they win that game or they suddenly well they
are they six spots highering this let's say, is.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
If if you pull that one out or comes down
to Boswell's leg at the end and he happened, he
makes it, you know, Fremuth catch the ball or.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
What everybody's saying. Oh, Cincinnati is a team you don't
want to see in the playoffs. The Bengals were saying
after the game, nobody wants us in the playoff because
we're red hot?

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Are you red hot?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Because you didn't the Steelers mucked it up pretty good
against them. I want a play from winning that game.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I wonder what the spread and Baltimore would be if
the Steelers found a way to win the other day
and on a list like this, would they be ahead
of Houston Denver Chargers in the AFC believe they should be,
And I would say the answer is, guess just they're
on a losing streak, that the wheels has come off.
It's over. I think that's the perception. We'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, doesn't mean they doesn't mean that, you know they
go to Baltimore and lose, all right?

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, it is what it is. I'm not implying like,
if I set the line, it'd be a two and
a half. No, I mean Baltimore's really good, right, But
I mean that game and since he could have or
the Sincey game could have gone differently.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Sure, the result the game in Baltimore, we went through
it earlier in the show, could have gone differently. The
game against Philadelphia could have gone differently if if Nausee
Harris doesn't fumble, you're going in for a you know,
for a tying score at that point late in the
third quarter. You know there were plays in the Chiefs
game to be made. You just didn't make them.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Again, I think some of the issues, certainly that plugged
the defense got figured out.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah. Over the encouraged with the defense, for sure.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I wasn't encouraged by the game plan in the Cincinnati game,
but that doesn't mean that they don't figure some things out. Offensively.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I wasn't encouraged with the execution either. I thought it
was poor quarterback play, poor left tackle play, too many drops,
too many drops, too many drops right, too many drops.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, but I don't think they should be fourteen.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
On this list. I don't either.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
I think they're a better football team ideally, than Houston.
I think they're a better football team than Washington. They
showed that in Washington.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Did the exercise like who is the best? How many
rosters are better, not how they're playing, like who has
better football players? They'd be ahead of at least five
of those teams, I agree, you know, Yeah, I mean
they're ahead of Washington for me, even just in terms
of it was a better roster, Yeah, DJ Watton, Cam

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and you know, I mean Washington I think is still a
year away, same as the Chargers. Like both those teams
court new coaches, you know, like they inherited a lot
of roster holes, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Their defense to me is as dangerous as Tampa Bay's offense. Yeah,
it can win you a game in the playoffs. It
can win you two games in the playoffs. If things
fall right in.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Terms of dangerous defenses, I would have Philly ahead of them, right,
Baltimore I would not a Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I don't know if Baltimore is a dangerous They don't
take the ball away necessarily a lot.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Chargers are probably similar. I probably have Denver ahead of them.
Denver's defense I'm really impressed with. Yeah, Detroit's is dangerous
and same with Minnesota. Yeah, I mean they're dangerous because
they're so aggressive. But not Green Bay, not Washington, not Tampa,
not Washington, not the Rams, you know, not Houston. Well,

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Houston's close. Houston's got a good defense. They've got the
edge mass rusher.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Not Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Not Buffalo. No, they're kind of a hold on for
dear life defense.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, but miss defense takes the ball.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Away, yeah, and causes big plays and hits.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Quarter causes fumbles and yeah, hits your quarterback a lot.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
I mean that's definitely their path to winning playoff games. Yeah.
It's big plays on defense, dangerous defense, and special and
special teams. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, you know, the if the offense is good enough.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
It needs to be better.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
It needs to be better than it has been. There's
about it.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
You got to possess the football and be physical and
three yard runs you turn the six yard runs in
the fourth quarter. Yeah, and picking the football and Wilson
needs to be sharper. But these are things we've seen happen, right,
It's not like they're projecting the total fiction.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
No, right, So I just I don't know how you
put this list together and say, for example, Philadelphia has
second best chance to go to the super Bowl and
win the Super Bowl and then turn around and say
that seven is green Bay. Right, the best of the
wildcard teams is green Bay, who ate didn't beat anybody
all season long, and B place Philadelphia your number two team.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Modest thing is you gotta start to worry about matchups, Like,
I don't have any problem if you're doing a power
rank to have green Bay ahead of Tampa. But I
like Tampa's path a lot better, right, I mean, let's
go to Philly. Philly is terrible, terrible, I mean, assuming
Hurts is playing. Yeah, I mean going to Phillies is
one of the worst things of going yeah in the
first round. Yeah, that's probably my least favorite place to
play in the first round. Yeah, you gotta go to Buffalo.

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Do I go to Baltimore? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
So just an interesting list. Playoffs should be fun again.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
It's it.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
You've heard this a dozen times, one hundred times over,
Like it's it's a clean slate going into the playoffs.
Nothing that mattered. And I thought Mike Tomlin mentioned something
interesting today because everybody wanted to bring up it was
brought up to him, and everybody likes to bring up. Well,
the Steelers haven't won a playoff game since twenty sixteen.
And Thomas said, look, that's not the players in that

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locker rooms, right, That's not.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
All that was in here. I mean the starting quarterback
wasn't here. Who was here? You know?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Three guys?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Is it three? Three?

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Is it bos Cam and bos Cam? And uh what No,
I wasn't even here and I was here, right, But
so he's been here for since seventeen. You know, these
guys have they haven't lived through this. All they know
is this particular chance in the playoffs, in the postseason.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean you could bring up things like remember when
Leonard Fournette came up here and ran all over you guys. No,
I was in junior high.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, other than Camwell wasn't on the field for that.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, yeah, you know, like that's I mean, yes, Tomlin
was here. Yes, the same people owned the team. Yes,
we've all been fans that long. But the dude that
was in sixth grade doesn't really care about the game.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
No, it means nothing to these guys the same in
the same fashion. And then this is why I haven't
pound this. You know, the Steelers are ten and two
in these in games against divisional opponents in the postseason.
But what they did in nineteen seventy eight has no
bearing on what happens in this game.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Beat the Oilers. Yeah, people listening like, who the Oilers?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Right? It don't even exist anymore, right right? There are Titans.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah they beat Dan Patreen. No, that doesn't matter anymore.
Joe Green's not walking through that door. But I do
think there's something to be said for Tomlin or Harbaugh
that's done this a million years when you play a
division team a third time, as what's different? You know,
we've at least been down this road as a head coach.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
And that was something interesting that Tomlin said today. And
I want to get to this in the next segment
about this will be the third meeting in nine weeks,
crazy like that doesn't happen often at all, So I
want to talk about that when we return. He is
Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly. You're listening to the
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(37:59):
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with more right after this.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
At least.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and
Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
And we are back. I am Dale Lolli. He is
the Matt Williamson and Matt mentioned Mike Tomlin talking about
playing the Bengal or for Yeah, the Bengals the Ravens
for the third time in nine weeks, and he said,
I wonder.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
How many times that's happened in history.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I didn't get a chance to look it up, but
it can't have happened much.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I bet by Wednesday you'll know that answer. Probably might Yeah,
you'll be texting me.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
But he said, somebody asked me if it makes him,
if it makes things more or easier for the coaching
staff too.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Curious what the answer would have been, he.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Said, actually, it makes it a little more difficult because
now instead of just you know, the exit. You know
who the players.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Are, Yeah, I know Mark Andrews is right now.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
It becomes a situation where Okay, what what am I
going to do or what are we going to do
as a coaching staff to scheme things up differently, because
this is how they did this here so now and
we played them twice in the last month and a half. Basically,
how do you zig when you're when they're when they're
trying to zag or vice versa. In this situation, he goes,

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this is one of the things that you love about
being a coach.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah. Yeah, So as you're saying that, I'm like, let's
say they had to play the Bengals next week. You
know you just played them. Yeah, when that's happened in history,
and that would be a really really condensed version. Well,
the Steelers came out running versus the Bengals in game two,
came out throwing in game one. Well what do you do?

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Like one worked and one didn't, and the other coach
is probably going, well, they're probably gonna try throwing again
because that worked and running didn't you know where they
regret in the most recent meeting or you know, for
this one, they have a great history of not letting
Lamar beat them on the ground. They hit him a lot.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
We've talked about that, butts against it.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Right, So you're gonna be like, oh, let's key on
the big back a little bit more than we have
in the past. You know, I'm just saying those small
little things, you know, the Andrews wrinkle with Minca, the
Preston Smith thing. You know, that's something we're gonna try
against this.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
That's one thing.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
The Andrews thing with Minco was something they did in
the first meeting without Elliott. The second meeting they couldn't
do it because they didn't have Ellie exactly.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah, I got the wires cross on that exactly. And
so this one is Elliott just gonna follow Andrews. Right,
you put Manco on there is make it maybe play
some slot. I don't I don't know, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, So there's there's gonna be something that they come
up with here that because you know, it's not like
a situation where you played somebody in week two, you
played them in week ten, and then you're playing them again.
This is like, this is a really two game. You
might as well throw away. Yeah, I mean, you're watching
both completely different teams at the start of the season, exactly.
I mean, but now there's a lot to take from

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the first meeting. Yeah, all these AFC North games and
the second half of the season, you know. Yeah, so
that's interesting. And I don't know who it favors. I
don't either. I don't either.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
I don't have the home team thing. I don't think
it's a necessarily more talented thing. It's whatever coordinator rolls
the right dice, you know.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, And you know, I don't want to say guess
is right, but it's kind of some guessworking.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Guess work. All these things are. I mean, the Steelers
were guessing the best path to beating the Bengals was
run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. Yeah,
I guess wrong. You know that happens, right, Yeah. Look,
if you're getting cover two, well we didn't get covered two, right,
cover two.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
They decided to do this instead looking at the opponents
for the twenty twenty five season. At home, the Steelers
will play Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland obviously, Buffalo, Green Bay, Minnesota, Miami, Indianapolis,
and Seattle.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Sounding pretty good teams playing. So they're playing the NFC
North yes, which is the best divisional league.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
So that's well, yeah, last year at this time we
would have said the AFC North is the best division
in the league.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Change subject. Buffalo is still pretty good.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, but you'd rather play them here than up there.
You'd rather play Minnesota here than up there. You'd rather
play green Bay here than up there.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
But I guess that means they're going to Detroit, Chicago.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
You'd rather play Miami here than there, especially hopefully hopefully,
but right if it's here, Okay, all right, take the
Colts outside. Absolutely, Seattle is not the greatest place to
play either.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
No, I'm trying to think of the other This is
the first I've heard any of this. Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
The away games Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland obviously, Chicago, Detroit, New England,
the Jets.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Right new coach.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
And the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Okay, Charger will be nice. It'll be a lot of
steel fans.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
There'll be a lot of Steeler fans in l A.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Probably doesn't matter what time.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
I just wonder which one of those games is going
to be in Ireland, because that's gonna happen. I think
that's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Would probably be a home game it'll be uh oh yeah,
to be a home You got more home games for
the Steelers. Yeah, so will all the overseas games be
an AFC home game next year because they get one
more that works that.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
I don't know for Sugar nine, do they but probably yeah?
Probably probably So you still have aid at home.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I would think that you ding those teams. Yeah, they
call it an AFC home game. It doesn't mean it
can't be an FC game. No. Look without the Packers,
they have green colors.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Like last time they went, uh went overseas they played
the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Oh really yeah, hmm, it's not that'd be a better
game like in Norway.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Probably not going to play make Seattle go to Ireland. Yeah,
that's a long trip.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Patriots and the Patriots was on the road.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Patriots are on the road.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Won't be a division game.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Could be a division game.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
I guess that's not unprecedented, right.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah, they think they did that this year. Right, somebody
did that this year.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
If anyone is probably Jags, probably they are always they
play several a bunch of Jags and a bunch of Jags.
But anyway, that's interesting though, we'll.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Find all that Outlet you know that will find out
that you know, if and when that's announced, if that
breaks that way.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
But how many new coaches on that list?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Uh, well as we know as of right now, I
mean a subject to change.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
This is yeah officially Black Monday, but there's gonna be
a lot more heads roll in the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
And look like any of the home teams right now
as of right now, but certainly uh.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
To New England, Chicago, Chicago.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Yeah, so three three in that situation, Cleveland could have
a new quarterback, they have a new coordinator.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
We know, do you guys? Let go? Yeah, I'm sure
there's some new quarterbacks on there too, Jets.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
And then if you if you look at the big
time quarterbacks that you play, well, obviously you play a
lamar in Burrow for you play Allen five, you can
include Darnold in that.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Two of love. I'll put love over those two. I
wouldn't put Gino. But all those guys are good. It's
not horrible, No, it's not horrible. I mean, you don't
play Herbert on the road, but that's not gonna be
like a road game. Yeah, it's another big time quarterback.
Yeah though, but I mean you play four no matter what,
every year, right, you know that going ends right at

(45:47):
least they're familiar.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, absolutely, But that's gonna do it for the show today, Matt,
all right, no fire and Brimstone, folks, if you're tuning
in to uh fire everybody, man, I'm probably not gonna
hear that on this show, but and.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
I don't think it'll happen either, by the way.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yeah right, but anyways, that's going to do it for
our show. So for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin
Miller here on site running the Justin Miller hotline and
the soundboard, and for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure our video
gets out there onto YouTube. I am Dale Lollie. We
thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive
on the Steelers Audio Network.
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