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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 1: It's a lovely Friday here in Pittsburgh. Probably might be

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Speaker 1: a stretch Friday Friday in January, and it's not snowing. True.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen you in so long. It's every other

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Speaker 1: day things. Yeah, it's like weird. But we were texting

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Speaker 1: back and forth though, with some different ideas here of

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about and things happen, such as

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Speaker 1: the Vance McDonald retirement announcement, a couple of things we've

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Speaker 1: been going on in the last two days. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the world's been spending pretty quick here McDonald. You had

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Speaker 1: laid this out well earlier in the week, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I think we'll probably talk about more salary caps

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Speaker 1: stuff and off season plans. But I don't think rightfully

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Speaker 1: he should have been in the off season plans unless

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Speaker 1: it was, hey, we're gonna release you if you want

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Speaker 1: to come back on our number and hold down the

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Speaker 1: fort while somebody that's a hard position to fill. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But so, I mean he looked like he was kind

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Speaker 1: of put together with duct tape the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: don't you think, you know a little bit. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: he said today that he had, you know, he had

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Speaker 1: made this decision in May that this was going to

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Speaker 1: be his last year and and kind of kept that

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Speaker 1: to himself. Let everybody know after the game after they

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Speaker 1: lost to the Browns in the playoffs that that was

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Speaker 1: indeed it um so uh, good luck to him moving

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Speaker 1: forward does lead the Steelers with the whole but does

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Speaker 1: create five point two million dollars in salary kept pace,

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Speaker 1: right which no offense advance. I'd rather a five point

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Speaker 1: to than advance at this stage of his career. Um

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Speaker 1: hecko pick up though, I mean Kevin Colberg gave like

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Speaker 1: nothing up to get Van McDonald and that worked out

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Speaker 1: really well for a couple of years. Tight ends are hard,

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Speaker 1: which brings me to finding tight ends are kind of

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Speaker 1: hard to do because early, you know, young ones coming

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Speaker 1: two way guys. You know, sometimes they even ingram types

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Speaker 1: when they're not dropping it, when they're not dropping it,

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Speaker 1: um and then finding the Jesse James of the World

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Speaker 1: I'm curious of what the approaches because Ebron is not

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Speaker 1: the typical inline guy. I mean, Abron is more of

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Speaker 1: a replacement for Juju. I mean he's more of a

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Speaker 1: I think he's closer to Juju than he is Mark Bruner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's there's no doubt about that for sure. Of course.

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Speaker 1: The other big news yesterday, uh, the Steelers signing Dwayne Haskins,

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Speaker 1: and I can't believe the amounts of criticism the Steelers

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Speaker 1: have gotten. Ows me away. I think people just don't

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Speaker 1: understan end they don't. I don't know if they understand

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Speaker 1: what a futures contract is, and that is a little

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Speaker 1: can you tell them. I mean, there's no signing bonus involved.

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Speaker 1: It's a minimum contract. You're not guaranteed a roster spot,

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Speaker 1: you're one of the ninety or whatever they comes. You're

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Speaker 1: you're a camping viting, You're This is no different than

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Speaker 1: when they signed Devlin Hodges two years ago, coming out

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Speaker 1: of coming out of Samford or any camp arm right

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Speaker 1: or frankly, it's the exact same thing as the Paxson

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Speaker 1: you pick a guy right right right, you know you're

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Speaker 1: just at this point you're at camp arm. He's a

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Speaker 1: guy obviously has some first round talent. I went back

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Speaker 1: and looked at the evaluations. I think ESPN had him

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Speaker 1: years ago. Uh Daniel Daniel Jeremiah had him twenty second.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know so, I mean amazing year in Ohio

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Speaker 1: stage that people are like, well, he's never done anything.

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Speaker 1: never done anything at any point in his career. I said,

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Speaker 1: he guy had fifty touchdown passes in his one season

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great move. I mean because there's

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Speaker 1: I would take less to come here than some futures

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Speaker 1: Maybe someone offered him a decent contract or a real contract.

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Speaker 1: The only the only other offer you have was from

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Speaker 1: the CA Atlanta. Okay, that was it um At this point,

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Speaker 1: teams weren't going to offer real money. Nobody's gonna offer

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Speaker 1: what the cap is and all those things, and boy,

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Speaker 1: we need a quarterback and he's worth a rib at

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Speaker 1: this point, the Steelers. The Steelers don't have a quarterback

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Speaker 1: on their roster who is on under contract after this

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Speaker 1: sea after season zero, free agent Roethlisberger is a free agent.

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Speaker 1: Haskins is going to be a free and Dobbs up now. Now,

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Speaker 1: Dobbs is not a Steeler, right right. Dwayne Haskins was

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Speaker 1: signed essentially to replace Devil and Hodges and Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 1: That's it. He wasn't signed to be the starter. He

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Speaker 1: So there's at least again it's so familiar with the

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Speaker 1: Paxton Lynch thing. Take a shot on a first round

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Speaker 1: you decide Josh Dobbs no longer in the equation, well

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Speaker 1: you saved money on your third quarterback, you know. And

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Speaker 1: they because if you sign Dobbs back, he's gonna cost

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Speaker 1: without Josh Dobbs just fine. And I think he's got

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Speaker 1: rows the ball up better and Dobbs Absolutely Haskins has

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Speaker 1: a That's the one thing that Haskins has is an

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Speaker 1: need some work? Absolutely? Um. You know there there's some

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Speaker 1: probably more mobile than Mason Rudolph. I would say they're

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Speaker 1: remember Haskin's running much at Ohio State. I would actually

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Speaker 1: be curious what those numbers were because he didn't have to.

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Speaker 1: I would never ask him to run an Ohio State

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Speaker 1: and to J. K. Dobbins, Right, But Curtis Samuel, here

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Speaker 1: you go. There's two things I think wells. Three big

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Speaker 1: the stripper thing without a mask, it's probably just a dumb,

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Speaker 1: here's the problem with that. Washington made the mistake, and

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Speaker 1: He's the big guy, he's the big guy that the

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Speaker 1: saying either one of those players are dumb, but they

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Speaker 1: because they can. Because they can't. They've got better athletes

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Speaker 1: and everybody else. Right, we're gonna keep it very simple,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna throw for what fifty touchdowns to four

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Speaker 1: So there's it's not like the guy doesn't have talent

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Speaker 1: and he cost you nothing. And if he continues to

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Speaker 1: doing what he's supposed to be doing, he won't be here.

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Speaker 1: I say, if he does something stupid tomorrow, he won't

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Speaker 1: be a stealer the next day. There's no cost there.

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Speaker 1: I again, I didn't love the player, but this has

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Speaker 1: there's no downside to this. If they hand him to

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Speaker 1: trade anything for him. I wasn't going to sign him

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Speaker 1: Stewards a better organization than Washington too. They got more

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Speaker 1: pieces around him. Yes, there's more offensive weapons. Even if

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ali here with Matt Williamson. And Matt.

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Speaker 1: I sent you this little exercise the other night, Yes,

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Speaker 1: in a year of his deal, so we can't restructure him.

424
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 1: We'll talk about him in a second and say they

425
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: can do things with him, but let's get let's do

426
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: some other things for Yeah, Joe Hayden, Steven Nelson, I said,

427
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 1: what about Nelson we could do? I think I don't

428
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: know if we can restructure Nelson. I think next year,

429
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: but let's see what see if it allows me to

430
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 1: do that. I think he might be I thought he

431
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 1: was able to do it. Okay, And I don't think

432
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: you save a ton. I don't think he's making a

433
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: ton this year. That doesn't that doesn't do enough. That

434
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: doesn't do enough to make it worth it. No, what

435
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 1: about Boswell? Boswell? We can I played around with that.

436
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: That gets just I think saves us a million dollars,

437
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 1: certainly worth it. Yeah, he's not going anywhere. I mean no.

438
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: The only way that hurts you is if one of

439
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 1: these players turns like it hurt him when they did

440
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: this with a B Yeah, because he wasn't gonna be there.

441
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: But if you know the guy is gonna be with you,

442
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: then you can go ahead and do it. All right,

443
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: So restructuring Boswell gets us a fourteen million, Okay, we'll

444
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: take the million. Okay, um, But by the way, we

445
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 1: still have a ton to spend a year from now. Yeah,

446
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 1: we still have hundreds. We still have a hundred and

447
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: sixty eight million dollars to spend next year. Next year

448
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: two twelve million dollars spend three um, and guys like

449
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: t J are going to get extensions. We could also

450
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: if we wanted to restructure Derek, what would you consider

451
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 1: cutting him? No? Probably not, because you need you need

452
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,679
Speaker 1: you need to special team value, and then you have

453
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: to go get another and you're gonna you're gonna want

454
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: a fullback. His cap numbers not crazy, it's it's capt

455
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: numbers three point eight million dollars. Well, I mean, if

456
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: you could get them down, if you can save a

457
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: million on him, I would consider it. We can save

458
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars, that get us down

459
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: to thirteen million dollars, and t J is gonna take

460
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: a lot less to stay with his brother, I would think,

461
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: so that probably doesn't hurt all right, So if we're

462
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: thirteen million dollars, now we have to start making the

463
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: tougher decisions. Now, okay, now we probably get to cut somebody. Well,

464
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: let's let's look at this first though. How about we

465
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: extend Ben Roethlisberger. See, people are gonna say, why would

466
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: you do that? I don't want to be married this

467
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: guy forever. He's been killing our cap for years. He's

468
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: not worth forty one million, even though that's not what

469
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: he's getting. Um, why would we do that? Dale? Because

470
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: we get to take that that signing bonus money that's

471
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: killing the cap for the twenty two million dollars of

472
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: what we're what he counts against the cap this year

473
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: isn't signing bonus. He's only making nineteen million dollars and

474
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 1: new money that comes right off the cap, boom, right

475
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: off the bat. So we can't spread that out right,

476
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: we cut that down to a million dollar based salary

477
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: and expending only one more year. We can't go to

478
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: because either way, even if he retires next year, if

479
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: we do, if we do two dummy years on this

480
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: now we get to spread that out this year over

481
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: three years instead of two. Even if he doesn't in

482
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: and the caps don't keep going up and up and up.

483
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. It adds maybe another million dollars

484
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 1: to our cap next year if he does then retire.

485
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: But we got the money. We got the money, and

486
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty two cap. It might be too forty, right,

487
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, it could be extreme

488
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: thing that I don't know about. Okay, about Roethlisberger's deal,

489
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 1: and I have to find this out. He has a

490
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar roster bonus, do I believe on March

491
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: three or something somewhere around there. I don't know what

492
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: you can do with that. I think that just comes

493
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: off the top, right, Well, yeah, I don't know if

494
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: you can. If you can, then say, hey, how about

495
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: we waive that. I think Boswell did this. Let's wave

496
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: that roster bonus and have a bigger signing bonus. Yeah,

497
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 1: we'll give you, you know, we'll give you that these

498
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: new fifteen million we'll give you that fifteen million dollars

499
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: over the next three years. And all of this, folks,

500
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it means you're gonna be paying him. He's

501
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: gonna hurt your cap the next two or two years

502
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: after this, but you have way more to spend. And

503
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: if he decides to retire or you've decided you don't

504
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: want him back, you can. It doesn't mean he's coming back.

505
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: He doesn't mean you're married to the player. You're married

506
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: to the contract a little, but again, you have that

507
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: money to spend. And it's not all the question that

508
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: he has a good year and he wants to come back,

509
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, And let's say they you know, let's say

510
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: he does, you know, Philip, Philip Rivers had a much

511
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: better year this year than he had last year or

512
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: two years ago. So let's say let's say we just

513
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: for you know, just for arguments sake, we say, okay, Ben,

514
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you the We're gonna give you fifty

515
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: million dollars in new money the next two seasons. He

516
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: likes that as your as your salary. So we're gonna

517
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: give you a two year million dollar base base salary, okay,

518
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: which you probably will never see, but you probably never

519
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: see it. But we're also going to give you that

520
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: roster bonus spread out over the next two seasons. But

521
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: if you retire, that's guaranteed money that you still get that,

522
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: no matter what's on your couch for two years, and

523
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: you still get that. So his say yes, because he

524
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: gets a chunk now, Yeah, he gets a chunk. Now,

525
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: he gets a bigger chunk now than he would have.

526
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: And it's just if you look at um, what this

527
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: does for him. That drops that that saves you five

528
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: million dollars against your cap this year this year, and

529
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: it hurts your next year in the year after. And

530
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there there are some things in there,

531
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: but they can. But you're also not gonna have a

532
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: forty million dollar quarterback next year or the year after. Right,

533
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have a draft. You're probably your quarterback

534
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: room will be very cheap. And unless you do some

535
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: kind of Watson Dack type move with whoever the next

536
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: guy is in that, which I don't see this organization doing.

537
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: I think they'll draft their guy or it's something along

538
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: those lines. So yeah, I'm cool with that. I mean,

539
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: because I believe the cap is gonna go up dramatically

540
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: the next two years. So with with those moves, I'm

541
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: now at just two dollars over they it's like nothing.

542
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: It's like nothing. Now, maybe I'm messing up here somewhere,

543
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: maybe there's here in the ballpark, but I'm in the ballpark.

544
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: So now let's say, now we need to start perhaps

545
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: releasing players, right because we have not resigned anybody that's

546
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: a free agent at this point. We've talked about this one.

547
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 1: I'm cutting Vince william That saves us on four million dollars.

548
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: Now we're at three point seven million dollars or a

549
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: three point eight million dollars essentially under the cap. This

550
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 1: is again one million dollars. We think it's gonna come in.

551
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: If it comes in a hundred nine million dollars, now

552
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: we're twelve point seven millions exact. This is the worst

553
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: case scenario. And I would imagine three point whatever you

554
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: said is probably close to covering all your draft picks. Yeah, well,

555
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: it's all setting down right there. Um side note, I

556
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: would consider, and maybe it happens after the draft if

557
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: you don't take a linebacker in the third, fourth round

558
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: or so, have a contract set there for Williams and

559
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: Williamson saying here's a slightly better than league minimum one

560
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,479
Speaker 1: year deal. If one whoever signs at first Convince, we're

561
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna cut you because we can't. We can't pay you

562
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: that salary, but we'd like to have you back at

563
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: this um. And if Williamson takes it before that, well, sorry,

564
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: Vincence takes I'd rather Vincent Williamson. I think he brings

565
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: more mentally, leadership, all those things. Yeah, I probably would too. Um,

566
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: if we extend t J. Watt, which needs to happen,

567
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: no matter what, needs to happen at some point. Right now,

568
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: his cap hit is at ten point basically ten point

569
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: one million dollars. Um. I think I did this the

570
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: other night and I finangled it. I saved by extending

571
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: him for four years at a hundred million dollars four

572
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: over Hunter. Okay, Wow, I got that number down to

573
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: for this year because I gave him a bunch of

574
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: I can I can then lower his contract. Think that's

575
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: guaranteed money again. I don't know how that works with

576
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: the guarantees again in the ballpark. Um, but that would

577
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: allow me to lower his salary this year while giving

578
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: him new money, and and it takes off that hundred

579
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: and sixty we have next year or whatever to play with. Yeah,

580
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: you got him on his I think I saved a

581
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: million dollars doing that again. That headache has obviously gone now,

582
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: don't Again, that's without doing anything with Joe Hayden. That's

583
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: without doing anything with Steven Nelson. You didn't think nelson

584
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: restructure was worth it? I don't think so. That's without

585
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: doing anything with David de Castro. We still t J. Watt,

586
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: You still Eric Ebron, Devon Bush. That's without gutting your roster.

587
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: The only guy that you the only guys that you've

588
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: lost now our pouncy Williams and McDonald and you're under

589
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: the cap. Okay, but now how do I get Banner

590
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: or Lulu Sutton and a couple of others. Well, there's

591
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: some roster displacement there. So every time you sign one

592
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: of those guys, you know, you're right now the the

593
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: lowest paid player on their roster six hundred and sixty dollars.

594
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: So essentially, if you signed Tyson and Louillu to a

595
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: one year three million dollars deal, it's really a one

596
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: year two point four million dollars because that bottom guy

597
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: falls the bottom guy falls off. Yeah. I don't know

598
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: if everyone understands that either. That can be a little

599
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: roster displacement because only your top fifty one count against

600
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: the number fifty one. Everyone moves down or wrong. Yeah,

601
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: and so that six falls off. Now, you could certainly

602
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: make some other moves here. Let's let's say you do. Okay, Uh, Joe,

603
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: we don't think he can. We'd love to have you

604
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: back this year, but we can't bring you back at

605
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: at fifty your cap numbers fifteen point five seven. That's

606
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: a yeah. Now his basse sellers only seven. I don't

607
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: see a replacement. If you cut him that again, it

608
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: only saves you seven million dollars. I think I'd rather

609
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: play with Hayden next year for seven million. Now, maybe

610
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: you could go to him as Joe, how about we

611
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: extend you for another year or two. He seems happy here,

612
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: he's still playing well. If he drops off, it will

613
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: hurt you. But I mean I bet he could be

614
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: a third corner for if he drops off. Yeah, you

615
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I mean we talk to him before.

616
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: Maybe he's your your nickel safety or something like that.

617
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: You know, there's things that you can do with him,

618
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, allow Edmunds to play up in the box.

619
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't love the idea of investing

620
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: in a corner of his age in a bubble. I'm

621
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: not saying that you're you're offering him fifteen million dollars

622
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: a year again, but you're you're allowing him to play

623
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: football for more years. Joe, you like it here. We'd

624
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: like to have you here. You know we we need again,

625
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: you're asking two players in this situation, much like you

626
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: did with Roethlisberger. Hey, we need to keep this thing together.

627
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: You guys are at the end of your career. Do

628
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: you want to win? Where do you want to You

629
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: know we could get we can make a totally different

630
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: approach to this. Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm okay with

631
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: that with Hayden. So if you if you do something

632
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: like that and you save another four or five million dollars,

633
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: now you get the money to do some of these things. Again,

634
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: this is a a d eighty one million dollars. If

635
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: it comes into a hundred ninety, you've got four almost

636
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars. And we're not even having this conversation.

637
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: Those moves alone get you essentially the money you need

638
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: to do all the moves that you make need to

639
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: make this officer that gets you the Bann or a

640
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: Lulu Sutton wonderful. Yeah, it doesn't get your Bud. No, Yeah,

641
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: I mean you could make this happen with Bud, but

642
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: you'd have to you'd have to cut rathless band um

643
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: and do a bunch of other stuff here. And I

644
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: just don't see that where that makes you a contender

645
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: be anytime soon. Right, it's a shame to lose them,

646
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: but you also get a third rund pick for him

647
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: in return a year from now, and you just you

648
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: got good years out of him. And it's price to

649
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: do a business, which is tough in this league. I mean,

650
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, it's all along, you've talked about it. Well,

651
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: it's either t J or Bud because you can't have

652
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: to you can't spend million dollars at the outside linebacker position. No,

653
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: it's just the hamstrings everywhere else, and everybody would pick

654
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: t J over Bud. Right, So, and we've been saying

655
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: that all along. We knew this day was coming, you know.

656
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it be great to be able to figure

657
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: out a way to keep them. It's a shame to

658
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: lose such a good player. That's ascending, but that's way,

659
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: that's the way it works. Plus it's doing business in

660
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah. So we just got them, got them

661
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: under the cap, and it wasn't it wasn't that painful.

662
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there are other ways. I mean, this

663
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: is Man's McDonald talked about it today. This is a

664
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: puzzle and it's gonna get put together. I've said that

665
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: all along. Um, you know how this puzzle comes together.

666
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: Much of it is going to depend on much like

667
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: when you sit down to do a puzzle. You don't

668
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: just sit down and take a puzzle blindly and you know,

669
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: throw the box away and say, okay, where's this? You

670
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: look at the picture, get a strategy, Get a strategy. Okay,

671
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna this area here. I can make these fingers

672
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: that should be pretty easy to find. All this yellow

673
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: goes together. You need to see what the salary cap

674
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: is first. Absolutely, it's hard to do any of these

675
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: things without that. Now, some of these moves you're gonna

676
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: make regardless, yes, something, yeah, because the reality is is

677
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: that you don't have to be under the cap until March. Okay,

678
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: plenty of time so you can remember, comes out soon.

679
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: I think I think they're announcing it within the next

680
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: week or two. They're gonna have to They still got

681
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: to negotiate these things. Yeah, Um, so there are moves

682
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: that they can make here pre you know, they can

683
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: start renegotiating contracts or anything like that. They can sign

684
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: guys because they don't have to be under the cap

685
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I guess that's true too. You can

686
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: grab a somebody that's been released or whatever. You can

687
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: resign your own guys. There's nothing stop guys, nothing stopping

688
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: you from doing that. You don't have to be under

689
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: the cap until March. That's when the tough decisions have

690
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: to be me. They can make a banner move or

691
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: in a Lulu move or something like that. Already, Okay,

692
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: it's it's tight, it's tight. But the beauty thing here

693
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: is you've got a lot of draft picks the next

694
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: two years, and you have a lot of cap space

695
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: the next two years, and you gotta find a quarterback somewhere.

696
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: And then, by the way, all those moves now are

697
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: are we still have a hundred thirty seven million dollars

698
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: in cap space already locked up. Well that that that

699
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: doesn't come off of this yet. But even so t

700
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: J's number isn't going to destroy that salary cap on

701
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: hundred thirty seven million. Could you extend MAKA Yeah, but

702
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: he's not making anything this year. He counts, he counts

703
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: two point seven million dollars against your cap. You're not

704
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: getting you're not signed, yeah, for under two point seven

705
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: Part of the beauty of trading form that we talked about,

706
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: You don't you're not on the hook for any of

707
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: the signing bonus and right now that pushes. That makes

708
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's cap number in thirty million dollars, whether he's here

709
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: or not, whether he's well, if he's not here, then

710
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: you just cut him and it costs you another five

711
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: million whatever is signing bonuses. Yeah right, Uh, it makes

712
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: Heywards cap hit a sixteen point eight two and his

713
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: twelve point nine. Um fine with those numbers not show

714
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: right now, it's not so bad. So I mean this

715
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: this can be done. It's gonna be done. And you

716
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: still need to infuse the team through the draft. Yeah,

717
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: that's the draft, and they did well this past year.

718
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to ian not all there. They're still

719
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: we've created holes here, like who's the starting center, who's

720
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: the two way tight end? I don't really have a

721
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: running back. Juju's gone, and maybe there's enough on the

722
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: team to replace him. Do I need somebody to challenge

723
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: high Smith? I just lost two inside linebackers, you know,

724
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: like you took some Williams. I mean, I'm just saying

725
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: about guys that won't be back. You know, you've got

726
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: spots that need filled. I mean, there's roster holes here.

727
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: But it's it's doable. So anyways, he is Matt Williamson.

728
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on

729
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take another break. We'll be

730
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: back right after this your tunes about drive on Home

731
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

732
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson and Matt. Some

733
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: people may have listened to that last segments of well,

734
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: I can't have been back at forty two million dollars. Well,

735
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: that's why we were talking about getting that that cap

736
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: number down in reality is in reality his number is

737
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: nineteen million dollars because if you cut him, that's all

738
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: that's what you would gain. Nineteen million dollars. If I

739
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: can make that number million dollars, Yeah, thirteen ten to

740
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars, which means I'm saving that money off

741
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: of my cap. I'd rather have been And if you're

742
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 1: gonna get a Brissett or somebody like that, they don't

743
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: play for free, you know, and you're not gonna get

744
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: those guys. Washington needs a quarterback. New England needs a quarterback.

745
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: Indianapolis needs a quarterback. New Orleans, although they don't have

746
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: the money to spend on it needs a quarterback. Um,

747
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: there are other teams out there that are going to

748
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: be in the market for a quarterback. Who oh, by

749
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: the way, have more money than you. Most teams don't

750
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 1: have more money. You're not gonna be able to get

751
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: into a spending war trying to get one of these

752
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,959
Speaker 1: quarter Chicago is going to need a starting quarterback. Oh yeah,

753
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: and we probably three names, and you talk about I mean,

754
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: what about Carolina. I mean it did probably rather draft one. Um,

755
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of guys get traded, you know, the

756
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: Wins and Staffords and Donalds and those guys. And but

757
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: those guys cost money to and you gave up a

758
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: draft pick, right right, you know, so okay, yeah, trade

759
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: for Wins? All right, Well he cost you eleven million

760
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: dollars and a draft pick. So now you just spent

761
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: if you that's a frow retires. Now you spent thirty

762
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: million dollars, actually spent fifty two million dollars on the

763
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: quarterback of theosition, and he didn't necessarily get back, and

764
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: you didn't get better. He could be your answer, but

765
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: you also gave up You also gave up draft picks. Yeah,

766
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: And I mean what I was saying is maybe Chicago

767
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: makes that move. Some of those teams will fall off

768
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: that list, absolutely and some will draft them obviously, but

769
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot of quarterback I'm not getting into

770
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: a bidding war for Jacoby Percet. That's silly, right, That's

771
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: how you end up. That's how you end up his

772
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: Minnesota paying Kirk Cousins thirty million dollars a year guaranteed.

773
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: The more I look at it, I don't think there's

774
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: an answer or a quarterback. I would take a twenty

775
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: four that has a chance to be there. Trey Lance

776
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: isn't going to be there, and Jones does Mac Jones doesn't.

777
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: The only quarterback that's going to be available this year

778
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: not even know he's going to be available. That I

779
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: would say, Okay, let's you know this is this is

780
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: when where you blow up your salary cap and go

781
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: get will be Dak Prescott, right, and you're you're not

782
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: gonna have the money to get an outfit the Patriots

783
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: on him or Cowboys or whoever, right right, right, No,

784
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to do that. I love

785
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: that Doc, but he's gonna be forty million a year. Right,

786
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: he cussed money. Um So, I was asked on my

787
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: on my live queues the other day on on d

788
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: K Pittsburgh Sports, Um, if Ben comes back, who has

789
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: the best quarterback situation in the in the a f

790
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: C North or if with the if I look at

791
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: it both ways, if he doesn't come back, or if

792
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,959
Speaker 1: he does come back, if he comes back, I think

793
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: they're they're at worst a wash with everybody else, give

794
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: or take. It's close. It's not the but if but

795
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: if it's Mason Rudolph as the quarterback, the Steelers have

796
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: the fourth best quarterback situation in the a f C North.

797
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: That's why you bring Ben Roethlisberger back. You won the

798
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: a f C North this year, right with three teams

799
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs. My worry versus those other three

800
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: is the duration of the season. You know, like up

801
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: until Thanksgiving, you might be second in the division in

802
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback arms race, But what about once you're in

803
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs and where is he and you have to

804
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: take the wear and tear off his body again. They

805
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: they've got to get him a running game. And yes, right,

806
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: and whether that running game again, if it's the back

807
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: running the football or the back catching the ball if

808
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: it's Alvin Kamara. Okay, yeah, absolutely. I mean those teams

809
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: are in better quarterback situations big picture, without question. I

810
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: mean they've been bad teams, They've got their young quarterbacks

811
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: in place, they have two Ohio teams got to pick

812
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: first overall. You know, if that helps pick first overall,

813
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: two years from now, they'll be in probably pretty good quarterbacks.

814
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: They were picking first overall this year, they'd be in

815
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: a great place. You know, that's just the way it goes.

816
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: But you have to be in on this them being

817
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: just got awful to get there. And I don't think

818
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: anybody in nobody in Pittsburgh is going to accept that

819
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: as much as much as they talk about as much

820
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: as Steeler fans like, just tear it down and they

821
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: would complain the whole season long with the Steelers were

822
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: going two and fourteen. I've heard enough complaints when you

823
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: know when they go eight and eight, let alone go

824
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: to and fourteen. Um, there's an outside shot maybe Rudolph

825
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: could be a starter. Yeah, I mean so I think

826
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: that's something. Maybe they'd like him more than any of

827
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: us know, maybe has concerns into something I'm not banking

828
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: on any one of those things, don't get me wrong,

829
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: but that there's at least that out there, you know,

830
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, totally dismissed. But the you know, the

831
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: to me, the the upside potential for for example, Mason

832
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: Rudolph is kirk Cousins right right. I mean he's never

833
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: gonna be He's not going to be a top ten quarterbacks.

834
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: It may not be a top fifteen quarterback. Right now,

835
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: you're back into you know, starting Neil O'Donnell and hoping

836
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: that your defense is the best in the league to

837
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: get you to a tough to win that way. Nowadays,

838
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: it's a very four quarterbacks are still playing. Yeah, you know,

839
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: I mean it's not an accident. I think it's even

840
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 1: more so than when I was growing up as a kid,

841
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: that winning in the playoffs is about the quarterback more

842
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: than ever. And maybe it's always been that to that degree,

843
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: but it's tough, um. But people. If people need to

844
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: think about though, is there's not many options of who

845
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: you can line up behind center next year if Ben

846
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: chooses to retire, though, are you and are you then

847
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: kind of hunting at the quarterback position for a year,

848
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: or are you entertaining the Brissette Winston Dalton then you

849
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: have to do that. Then you have to go that route.

850
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,959
Speaker 1: And I don't know that they're better. They're not better

851
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: than Ben right now. I don't think so either. Like

852
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: that's the there's there's a certain fraction of Steeler fans

853
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: out there. I think Roethlisberger was awful. Left a bad

854
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth at the end, but that's he

855
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: threw thirty three touchdown passes and ten interceptions in the

856
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: regular season. Also through were five hundred yards not left

857
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: five yards of four touchdowns and then in the playoff

858
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: game right right, Um, the ability is still there, but

859
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: you have to help him. You have to help him.

860
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 1: My worry for next year is does can they build

861
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: a running game that's not the big thing to add overnight? Um?

862
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: And will Ben be more willing to push the ball

863
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: down the field and get people out of the box,

864
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: And will they change how they play on offense? Coaching changes?

865
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: Imply you will. Well, his last six quarters for him

866
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: throwing the football down the field, absolutely second half worth

867
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: of cold you know, those type of things. So I

868
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: assume he and the the staff recognize this. Yeah, I

869
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: think that's one of the main reasons that Randy Fikner

870
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: had to go. Um and I said this before, like

871
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, when you sit down with with Randy and say, okay, Randy,

872
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: what has been Randy had been with Ben for thirteen years,

873
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: fourteen years? Well he's still Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah, he's you know,

874
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 1: put on the Superman cape. Maybe he can't do it

875
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: as often as he did before, but he can still

876
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: put the Superman cape on. And you know, no, I've

877
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: seen the time and time again. That's not what you

878
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: want him to have to do. You might need a

879
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: new set eyes. And maybe even Canada is that guy

880
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,959
Speaker 1: he's only wanted to removed or I don't care about

881
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: what he did five years ago. Yeah, any any new

882
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: coach he's gonna and that includes Canada, any new offensive

883
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: coordinator as gonna come and say, well, I know what

884
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: he is now. I don't care what he was five

885
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 1: years ago or ten years ago, whereas Fekner did, because

886
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: that's in and it's not a knock against feature he

887
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: had been with the guy, he had seen him play Superman.

888
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: I bet and the castro think that too, absolutely right,

889
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: right right, I've been down that road. I've been to

890
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: a lot of battles with this guy, so that's a

891
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: good point. You've gotta make things easier on him. You've

892
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: got to say, Okay, he this is what he is. Now,

893
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: can he make five high level throws a game for us? Yeah?

894
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: I think I think he can do that. So I

895
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: think he's proven that every game almost ever, maybe that

896
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: Bengled debacle. But when you ask him to have to

897
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: do too much, even in the second half of that game,

898
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: he made plays. The first half was awful. It's as

899
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: bad as I've seen him play. Um, But if you

900
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: have a running game, but you have to convince him

901
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: of this too, Like he can check out a run.

902
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: He said for years that he you know, he'd love

903
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: to have a running you know, he told Levy on Bell,

904
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: I want you to be my my Terrell uh Davis,

905
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: Terrell Davis and I you know, to my John Elway

906
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: and we'll you know, go win that way. Well, now

907
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: you actually have a defense that you can do that with.

908
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: Do it? I think you have to. But if I'm

909
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and I'm looking at that group of running backs

910
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 1: and listen, well, James Conner, I know he's not Tarell days,

911
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: and he smells not two all days. Like I get it.

912
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: We've said this a million times. I really do think

913
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: a high level or a media him levels starting running

914
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: back would have paid off dramatically these past two years. Absolutely.

915
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean it was bad two years ago and not

916
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: enough was done. Um Connors is too hard to count on.

917
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously you bring him back because he

918
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: doesn't cost you anything, you know, But I sent you

919
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: some names the other night of even if it's if you,

920
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: if you, if you miss on a running back, a

921
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: rookie running back, you're not comfortable handing things over to

922
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: a rookie running back. I mixed feelings. Use the first

923
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: round pick on running back? Yeah, I mean I'm not

924
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: a favorite doing that much. Rather start building that offensive line,

925
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: and that doesn't mean taking a you know, let's just

926
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: take the best center available. No, get yourself a tackle,

927
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: get your you know, somebody, because the young tackle is

928
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: probably gonna play a little bit for you. Even you

929
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: think in somewhere you'll figure out, you'll figure out ways

930
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: to use him. Um, and we'll start talking draft more

931
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: and more. But there also doesn't look like a center.

932
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: You're drafted money four either. You know. That's if your

933
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: first three picks are are are a center, running back

934
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: in an offensive tackle. I don't care what order it no, right, right,

935
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: but that makes a lot of sense. That makes a

936
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: ton of sense. You use a lot of high picks

937
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: on defense lately, it's time to address the other side

938
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: of the ball and that helps. That helps for Roethlisberger again,

939
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: I you know that question. We said all last offseason.

940
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to be a top ten quarterback anymoere.

941
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: He needs to be top fifteen, sixteen in that range.

942
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: We think he's still that. I think it's also worth

943
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: bringing up. I don't know if you have it handy.

944
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: I remember some of the names of free agent running backs,

945
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be We've talked about this from Connor's perspective.

946
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a really weak market. It's a bad

947
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: year to be a free agent running back. And there

948
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: are guys out I mean, but there's a couple of

949
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: names that I would have that I think the Steelers

950
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: would have killed for this year, that you could get

951
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: for super cheap from outside the organization. UM two or

952
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: three bigger names, which probably is pie in the sky.

953
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: But there's guys that it's such a Steeler move to

954
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: sign Wayne Goldman, who sounds like no bad think there's

955
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: at Wayne Golman. But they could use Wayne Golman this

956
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: year and use a second round pick on the running back.

957
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: That's what they do, you know, they right, somebody's the

958
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: placeholder who we can line up in in week one

959
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: and play. And this young guy who's four the draft happens,

960
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: you have a guy that you can live with and

961
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: win with on week one and if the draft doesn't

962
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 1: goes playing, then you live with him. But I think

963
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: there's four or five names you mentioned. Yeah, You've got

964
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: guys like uh as you mentioned Wayne Gallman, You've got

965
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: um Gus Edwards is out there, yeah right, I mean

966
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: he he runs hard, runs hard. Mike Davis, Jeff Wilson. Um,

967
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: those guys aren't bad. Malcolm Brown is he is even?

968
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're guys out there who could who

969
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,439
Speaker 1: could be You're starting back on day one? Weren't gonna

970
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: cost you jillion dollars. Carlos Hide again, those guys. I

971
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: mean there's Aaron Jones and Chris Carson that are big names.

972
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: I can't put money into Carson with the wear and

973
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: tear that he's had the only time, the only time

974
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: since I've covered the Steelers that they've gone in and

975
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: just handed the starting running back job to a rookie.

976
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: It was with lev On Bell and he got hurt.

977
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: If you remember, missed us first four games of his

978
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: rookie year, the first three games, I'm sorry, first three

979
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: games of his rookie year. And that was before he

980
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: lost the weight. Yeah, he was playing it like two

981
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: thirty as opposed to you know, the to twenty that

982
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: he played at later in his career. Um, and you're

983
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: not going to hand it the Snell or McFarland. That's

984
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: just not that's they're not that kind of players right now.

985
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: So maybe McFarland get better. But you can get one

986
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: of these guys for you know, a couple of million

987
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: dollars and he's your placeholder. Yeah, that makes your mentor

988
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: and you're, you know, the guy who's there's a lot

989
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: of games this year they could have used Wayne Gallman

990
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: and Carlos Hide. I mean, they're not great, and but

991
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: that's that's the market you're in. And then you add

992
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,959
Speaker 1: maybe you add the Bama kid Harris or I really

993
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: like the Williams kid from North Carolina's Carolina. You know.

994
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a couple and they will always

995
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: be backs. This year they seem like they're a little

996
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: on the small side, but that's that's the way the

997
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: legst trending here. That's the way things are trending in

998
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: college football. So that's not really the Steeler way. I

999
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: don't think will be in the market for a t

1000
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: N or any of the two pounders. Yeah, yeah, maybe

1001
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. They did drifting Farland this year. Yeah, he

1002
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lilly. You're listening to the

1003
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break.

1004
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: When we come back, time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

1005
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: Do that right after this. He's the Drive with Dale

1006
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: Lolly and Matt Williamson on your home of the Black

1007
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio. You are back. It's time

1008
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Football Focus, And as we have done

1009
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, met we're gonna do a line

1010
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: up here on Draft Kids again. We get fifteen thousand

1011
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: dollars to fill out our our roster. I've already got us.

1012
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: We're into a five dollar contest here. Single entry classic classics.

1013
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: So we're taking a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers,

1014
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: a tight end to flex in a defense, and special teams,

1015
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: and uh, where do we want to start at this week? Um?

1016
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: Only four only four teams playing, so this gets a

1017
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 1: little more difficult, and none of the defenses are real attractive.

1018
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: It's about to say, is I might just take the

1019
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: cheapest D and hope keep your fingers crossed and hope

1020
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,479
Speaker 1: they get a pick six or something, because those d's

1021
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,240
Speaker 1: are in for long days. I think where the opposite

1022
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: is true a quarterback, in my opinion, which makes really

1023
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: good options. Yeah. Well, the defenses, let's just we'll start there.

1024
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: The Packers are thirty six d the Chiefs are thirty

1025
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: one hundred, the Bills are hundred, and the Bucks are

1026
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: twenty seven hundred. I think one of the bottom two.

1027
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't really have a strong preference on either, but

1028
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: the Bucks. One thing the Bucks did do, and I

1029
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: don't expect it to keep up. But when they met

1030
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: the first time they got after Rogers, they did and

1031
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: they shut down the run. But I'm much sure that matters. Um,

1032
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: I just want to go what about in terms of

1033
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: the return games that might be. What that might be.

1034
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: The thing that you look at is that the tiebreaker

1035
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: with some of these that which team has the best

1036
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: return game. Green Bay and Kansas City aren't particularly strong

1037
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: on special teams in general. UM, I don't know who. Tampa.

1038
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: The Bills averaged the most points to They average seven

1039
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: point six fantasy points per game during the regular season.

1040
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: The Bucks were second among this group at seven point three. Uh,

1041
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for at six point seven, and Green Bay

1042
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: was at five point eight. Mahomes probably won't be super mobile.

1043
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: One thing to think about, does sound like Edwards Hilaire

1044
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: and Sammy Watkins are playing. That doesn't help the Bills,

1045
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: cause there are I think they'll be weather in both games,

1046
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: but not horrible, not tons of wind or anything. There

1047
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 1: was his quarterbacks. I don't know either one of those

1048
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: two bottom chief Let's take Let's take the Bills and Hope.

1049
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: I say, I like the Bucks to rush the pass

1050
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: for better than the Bills, But I'm fine with the Bills.

1051
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: They are getting back we can they are. That will help.

1052
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: Let's go with the Bucks, all right, Let's fine, Let's

1053
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: go with the Bucks. I think they have I think

1054
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: it's probably a long day for all four. All right,

1055
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: we want to go quarterback next. We wanna look at

1056
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,959
Speaker 1: the running backs. I think the running backs is running

1057
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: back a Scar's let's let's take a look at that,

1058
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: because that's gonna be tough. Aaron Jones is the top guy,

1059
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: has to be way more than everybody else. He's more

1060
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: than anybody else. But Tampa was the number one defense

1061
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: in the defense the league, right right, right, So there's that. Now,

1062
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: Leonard four net is the top. Next up on that

1063
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: list screen base against the run, against opposing running backs,

1064
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: he's fifty both. He'll be pretty chalky. Well, I'm sure

1065
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: we get four both. It's yeah, I mean, but they're

1066
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: not crazy. So the the two guys will get you. I

1067
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: think that's pretty chalky. You're talking about eleven eight. Now,

1068
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: some of the other guys. Edwards Hilaire's five thousand. He

1069
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: ran all over the bills the first time around he did.

1070
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: I think that's noteworthy. But how much will we play

1071
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams is mhmm, will be great. If Ronald Jones

1072
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: is questionable, he's uh. I don't like the way he

1073
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: time he gets in the open field, and you know

1074
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: he gets benched every other game anyway. Yeah, Devin Singletary,

1075
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: that's not horrible. I mean he has a very low ceiling.

1076
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: But both those A f C defenses are gonna beg

1077
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: teams to run. I know Singletary didn't really pay off

1078
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: for us last time we used them, but it's not

1079
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: the worst thing. I mean, really, these other guy you

1080
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: know then, you guys aren't even play. And you're looking

1081
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: at Jamal Williams who may or may not even dress. Uh,

1082
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: Levan Bell who got nope, he doesn't play nothing, right, Thompson,

1083
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: Anthony Sherman. I mean, you're you're into the guys, you're

1084
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: in the backups, so you gotta picked. I feel like

1085
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna have Jones and for Net because the other

1086
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: options are so scary, and I'm fine with doing it.

1087
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: But but if you think Edwards Hilaire is going to

1088
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: blow up, could and I don't hate Singletary for the

1089
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: cheap buck. Come back to running back. Let's come back

1090
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: to running back. Let's let's look at quarterback, because there's

1091
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: only four. I probably take the cheapest one. Well, the

1092
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: cheapest one is Brady. I'm fine with that. Uh, Aaron

1093
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: Rodgers is that's not that much of a difference. Josh Allen,

1094
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: I think it'll run a lot. Patrick Mahomes is seventy.

1095
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: I can't go Homes. I can't go Mahomes because the

1096
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: toe not. So the question is, then do you go

1097
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: with Allan? Is Alan's rushing yards going to be it's

1098
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: worth eight hundred bucks? I think it is. See I'm

1099
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,359
Speaker 1: leading towards Brady because I'm gonna want Kelsey when that came.

1100
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: But that conversation comes around too. That's fine. I mean,

1101
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: maybe all those things happen, we might be able to

1102
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: get them all. Think Brady dons only gabs playing by

1103
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: the way he's not he's been declaring. I think Brady's

1104
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of success throwing in anyone not

1105
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: named Jarry Alexander. But they also may come on and say, hey,

1106
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the ball forty times in this game.

1107
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: They might have all the four teams. I think they'll

1108
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: be the most run heavy in game. Neutral scripts or

1109
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: whatever you know, which is a worrisome and the weather doesn't,

1110
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: we could we could split the difference and go Aaron Rodgers.

1111
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: That's fine, Let's try that, because I mean, if if

1112
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is your fault back. You're doing pretty doing

1113
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: all right? Three bothered me to be honest. No, Yeah,

1114
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: there's just other positions. I know I'm gonna want to

1115
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: spend that all right, wide receiver. Okay, Davante Adams is

1116
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: eight thousand. Now we've got four. We've we've only spent

1117
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: on a quarterback in a defense, We've we've spent two.

1118
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: Do we have to get? Okay? So Adams is how

1119
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: about this? Let' let's see what this looks like if

1120
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: we go Adams Tyreek kill stuff on dicks. Wow? Okay,

1121
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: because I think we might be able to afford it.

1122
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you can be playing running back and Davante

1123
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: Adams stefon digs Tyreek Hill. Wow. That leaves us eighteen thousand,

1124
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: six hundred to get a tight end to flex in

1125
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: two running backs. All right, Well let's talk tight ends then,

1126
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: all right, Because there's a couple of receivers. I mean,

1127
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: I know he heard us, but I wouldn't mind going

1128
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: John Brown. I mean there's some other receivers down the

1129
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: list that I don't think are horrible. Okay, So Kelsey's

1130
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: eight thousands, he's as much as he costs, as much

1131
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: as Davante Adams, who's the highest, the highest guy on

1132
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: the board. Robert tonyans, it's not bad. The other guys

1133
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: to be armed Brons thirty two, Cameron Bread, three thousand,

1134
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox is Kansas City ut against opposing. It's not

1135
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: a bad in that league I'm in. I'm playing Knox.

1136
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: But atly we can go tanyond do I cheap it

1137
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: out with Knox and that will probably get us Aaron

1138
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: Jones and four net and see what it looks like. Okay,

1139
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 1: it's hundred on Dawson Knox, and then we need we

1140
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: have fifteen eight to spend on two running backs in

1141
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: a flex. And that's with three studd receivers already, that's

1142
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: with that's with Davante Adam, Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill.

1143
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: What if we do four net and Jones? Alright, so

1144
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: running back four net and Jones. That leaves us reflex,

1145
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: which actually isn't bad. Guess who's available? John Brown? John

1146
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: Brown I fell into place pretty well. The other guys

1147
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: who were available Allan, Allan, Lazard, Bell, Cole Beasley at

1148
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: all right, still prefer Brown, uh, Darwin Thompson and four thousand,

1149
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: So it's really one of those guys. Um, see you

1150
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: have John Brown, Let's see what happens. Uh if we

1151
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: go to if we can get to an extra two

1152
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, So if we weren't, we could go down

1153
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 1: to Braid. Oh I screwed up. I took Aaron Jones

1154
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: and Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Never mind that, so four net

1155
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: is actually more? So that leaves us four thousand then,

1156
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: which wouldn't break my heart though, with Edwards Hilaire over

1157
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: four net if it gets me Brown verse yeah versus

1158
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: these other guys. Unless you think mccaub Hardman is gonna

1159
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: go off with Watkins coming back, Keyshawn Vaughan or Marque

1160
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: is about scantling. That's an all or nothing play that's

1161
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: a winner for you though, or Sammy Watkins also kind

1162
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: of an all or nothing player that could get you

1163
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan as your flex Yeah, I think I like

1164
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: Brown and Edwards Hilaire more that could get you. How

1165
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: about this one, Scotty Miller sneaky? Who would we? Who we?

1166
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: That gets us four nets? That gets us four net

1167
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: and Jones? That gets us for an and Jones? Who's Jones?

1168
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones? Yeah? So if we put if we put

1169
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: Scotty Milliner, we have an extra six hundred dollars left.

1170
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller is a guy, But do we like Scotty

1171
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: Miller more than Johnson? I'm not sure who's higher on

1172
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: the pecking order with out played a lot. That's the problem.

1173
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: That is a problem. Who's cheaper? What are they about

1174
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: to say receiver? Johnson is three thousand and Miller is

1175
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: a little more, and Miller's a little bit more than that.

1176
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: I know they're very high on Johnson. I think they

1177
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: like Miller a lot too, though I know Brady likex Miller. Right,

1178
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: you could rather John Brown and Edwards Hilaire game. Here's

1179
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: the thing, the last well Tyler Johnson. Henson had one

1180
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: more more than one target in the game since Week eight.

1181
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: Maybe he's played a lot, but right anybe he's played

1182
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: a lot. Scotty Miller even last week at two targets

1183
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: um he's averaged two one three, two three to he

1184
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 1: has been the more the guy's been on the field more. See,

1185
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 1: these guys aren't close to John Brown to me, though,

1186
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: where four Nett and Edwards layer close. I still kind

1187
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: of like Tanyan two in terms of for that flex spot.

1188
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: He seems to catch a touchdown every time in four

1189
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: for sixty last week. The week before that against Chicago,

1190
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: they didn't need it. He only had two free team,

1191
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: but he had a touchdown. Um, I mean he's he's

1192
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: almost that with four net. That's with four net. That's

1193
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: not bad. I like that better than going to Miller

1194
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: Johnson route. Yeah, that would still leave us four hundred

1195
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: dollars left over. We could bump up from Aaron Rodgers. No,

1196
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Allen's more than that. I think all No,

1197
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: that would that would be exactly that. So if you

1198
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 1: put tanyan in there that allows you to flax, that

1199
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: allows you to go to Josh Allen a nice So

1200
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: then your lineup will be Josh Allen, Aaron Jones, Leonard Fournett,

1201
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Stefon Diggs, Tyreek Hill, Dawson Knox, Robert Tonyan

1202
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: and the bucks. One of those tight ends catches a touchdown,

1203
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: we're pretty good shape. Yeah, book it. You like that

1204
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: one that? I mean, those three receivers. If you can

1205
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: get those three receivers plus the top two running backs

1206
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: on the board, I bet to quit. I mean I've

1207
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: bet ownership. With the quarterbacks, it's probably a quarter a

1208
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: quarter requarterer probably to a large like Mahomes will probably

1209
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: be like even with the because because the price isn't

1210
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 1: it's not outrageous. Yeah, I wouldn't pay up for him, No,

1211
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't need. I mean, Allen's gonna get you the

1212
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: rushing yards too. He's gonna have to throw the football.

1213
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: Who run on that? Yeah? I think I like it done.

1214
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: All right, So our lineup is congratulations. We are in

1215
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: Josh Allen at quarterback, Leonard four Nette running back along

1216
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: with Aaron Jones. Will get the top two running backs

1217
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill. And we have

1218
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 1: the top five position players. Yeah, that gets as Dawson

1219
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: Knox and Robert Tonyan at the tight tight tight inflex

1220
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: Tany was the number two tight end. And the Buccaneers

1221
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 1: defense we'll see so you can make a play. I

1222
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: mean they rushed fast for well, and you get some

1223
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: guys back they could jump something. They could you know.

1224
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 1: There's but all the defense are bad. Yeah, I don't

1225
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: care what your defense. We have In the end, as

1226
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: they don't get us negative points, that's the well unless

1227
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 1: everybody else gets negative points. Yeah, there be four the

1228
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: defenses get negative points this week. Um yeah, but if

1229
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: they're getting negative points here, that means that Aaron Jones

1230
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: and Davante ad Was probably went off. We've got we're high.

1231
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: We We've got three packers in the lineup. So if

1232
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,439
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay defense doesn't do well, I mean, those

1233
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: are the three guys that are going to do the damage.

1234
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: Sure for the most part, Like I realized, Jarry Alexander

1235
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: Andre Davis White a playing this weekend. But I don't

1236
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,479
Speaker 1: think any of the receivers have bad matchups, especially those

1237
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: three because Jarry Alexander doesn't line up against any of them.

1238
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: Yea Evans are God, when would scare me more than

1239
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: those three? Which any pay We just never know what

1240
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: that you're kind of guessing, you know, the these guys

1241
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: are gonna get the football even if they're losing by

1242
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: a million, especially if they're losing right right right. Yeah,

1243
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: So again that is uh, Josh Allen at quarterback, Leonard

1244
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: Fournette at running back, to Aaron Jones at running back,

1245
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, Stefon Digs, Tyreek Hill at wide receiver, Dawson

1246
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: Knox at tight end. I think that's that could be

1247
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: the Dawson Knox Robert Tonyan. That might be if we

1248
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: make money or not. That's gonna that's gonna say, if

1249
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: you make money, because everybody's gonna have those other guys

1250
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: who were they filling in with a lot of those

1251
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: other guys are pretty gonna be pretty chalky. You probably

1252
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 1: look many will have all three of those receiving Well,

1253
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: that's the tough thing maybe because there's probably some people

1254
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: are gonna have Kelsey. We need Kelsey not to go

1255
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Speaker 1: off to the only people who don't have them. That

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01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: would Yeah, that's obviously now we could we could make

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01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: see what that looks like if we try to get

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01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: Kelsey in the lineup. Do wanta do that? No, because

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01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: we'd have to give up one of those receipt We

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01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: probably have to give up Davante Adams there. That's that's

1261
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: a straight train. If the turned Adams into Brown or somebody. Yeah,

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01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: uh no, I mean, I'd love to get Kelsey, but

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01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: they're both money in the bank. But I like what

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01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: we got, Okay, we'll stick with that. Then, all right,

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01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson's catch the touchdown. I would be nice.

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01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: Austin Knox catches the Robert Towny catch. Either one of

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01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: those guys could catch a touchdown pretty easily. Yeah, without

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01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: a question. And so I think that's a solid I

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01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: heard a great Tyree hillstad and I wish I had

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01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: the exact numbers in front of me. But all the

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01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: high scoring Chiefs games, he has like unbelievable fantasy points,

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: and I think it will be high score in Chiefs game, okay,

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01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: which I guess goes on handed in here we go. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So that's our lineup. We'll see how it does on

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Speaker 1: when we come back on Monday. He is Matt Williams

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Speaker 1: and I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. That was our fantasy football focus.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. You were tunes about

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Speaker 1: drive on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Adio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, come Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: really excited about that fantasy Actually, it's it's pretty darn

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01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: close to the lineup I put out, except I think

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01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think that I had Alan at quarterback

1284
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 1: basically the same skill position guys I can't remember who

1285
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 1: I went with the I'm gonna end up changing it

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01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: around a little bit. I fiddle with it, but uh, yeah,

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01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: it's pretty darn close. I mean it's for only four

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01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 1: teams to pick from. There's some nice options there for

1289
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: this week. I mean the prices, the prices are not outrageous. Yeah.

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01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,600
Speaker 1: But Daniel Jeremiah of NFL dot Com I have a

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01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: lot of respect for his work, and he put out

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01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: his uh his first mock draft years um, and so

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01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: I thought we would get familiar with some of these

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01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: names bowls rolling around soon and take a look at this.

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01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: Of course, no surprise. For the number one pick, he

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01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: has the Jacksonville Jaguars taking Trevor Lawrence. Um, that gets interesting. Yeah. Uh.

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01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: At number two, he has the New York Jets taking

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01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,920
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson. Yeah, that doesn't shoot you. I think there's

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01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 1: a really good chance he goes ahead of Fields. I

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01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: also think the Jets probably better than a fifty percent

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01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: chance they to stay point and take a quarterback. Number three,

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01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,879
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, who got to pick from the Houston Texans,

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01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: take Jamaar Chase, the wide receiver out of l s U.

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01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,799
Speaker 1: So that would be over the Alabama guys for Towah.

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01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 1: My only problem with that is there's just so many

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01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: good second round wide receivers. Like, if I'm using a

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01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 1: top five eight pick on a wide out, he better

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01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:37,799
Speaker 1: be freaky. And I know Chase is really really good,

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01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: and but it seems a little early, you know, when

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01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: considering the other especially they have two first round draft

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01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: picks where they could get They could go and say,

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01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 1: get Sewell here, or they could get a court, you know,

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: they could they could pun on to a and you know,

1314
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: take fields or something like that, or get a ransom

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01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: and trade possible. And you know, I think I take

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01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: Sel over oversea or yeah, although he doesn't have so

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: going next either at four or the Falcons. He has

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01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: the Falcons taking tray Lance takes Lance over the field

1319
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,759
Speaker 1: that I've read a lot of good things about Lance

1320
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: of what he's been doing off the field since their

1321
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,879
Speaker 1: season ended so early, and he's getting read for views

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01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: and all his work with quarterback coaches. I guess that's

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01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 1: not a knock on Fields, but I think there's a

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Speaker 1: really good chance that fourth picks a quarterback. Fifth that's

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01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 1: the Bungles, right is Cincinnati Bengals. He has them taking

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01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater out of the offensive tack. No way do

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01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: they pass out of Northwestern. I know people love Slater.

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01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: He's a little short for a tackle, so I think

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01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: he's even a guard center. He's a great player. But

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01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: how I mean the Bengals the guy that I mean,

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01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: DJs more dialed into me. But I can't believe this

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01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 1: later will be the first. The one thing that that

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01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: would do is is they they drafted Williams out of

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01:10:56,840 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: Alabama two years ago, and he could play left or right. Yeah,

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: even guard possible, even guard. Well, that's what kind of

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01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 1: what Slater could do for you to he can. He

1337
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 1: gives you two pieces that you'll be able to move around.

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01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: Although you take you're picking fifth, fifth, I don't know.

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01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: From what I've seen, Souls are rare prospect and Slaters

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01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,719
Speaker 1: are very good prospect. It wouldn't shock me if Slaters

1341
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: they're pick at five, but only if Souls off the board. Yeah,

1342
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,719
Speaker 1: but okay, at number six, he has the Philadelphia Eagles

1343
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: taking Patricks certain the cornerback out of Alabama. They're sort

1344
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: of a no man's land. I mean, with their their

1345
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,680
Speaker 1: coaching higher, I would guess they roll it. Back with

1346
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:36,680
Speaker 1: Wents and Hurts Um a corner would make sense, but

1347
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: you could probably move down three or four spots and

1348
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: get certained or Farley the top two corners. Well, he's not,

1349
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: he's yeah. That's the thing about these marks. Field still

1350
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: hasn't gone Fields hasn't gone right. Number seven, Detroit. So

1351
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 1: here's the three teams in a row where if these

1352
01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: top four quarterbacks are there, I don't know how they

1353
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 1: get passed up or make it through those three teams.

1354
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: He has the Lions taking DeVonta Smith. They need it.

1355
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Galladay and Jones are free agents. I mean,

1356
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 1: that's makes perfect sense if you're gonna, you know, if

1357
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna. First of all, both of those guys are

1358
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: free agents. It's really tough to throw a rookie running,

1359
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback into then say okay, here you go

1360
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: right right right. And I assume that's a vote of

1361
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: confidence that they keep Stafford Staffords thirty two. It's something

1362
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 1: he's over the hill. No, not at all. Uh. At eight,

1363
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers take Justin Fields, quarterback out of Ohio State.

1364
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:35,719
Speaker 1: I also can't believe Stool won't go in the top eight. Picks.

1365
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean, is there something we don't know about it?

1366
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: Make that the top nine because he has a Denver

1367
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: Broncos At nine, taking Caleb Farley, the cornerback average in

1368
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,759
Speaker 1: the tech big press man corner that would make some sense.

1369
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: Yeah for them, that makes there. I also think they

1370
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: might be a team that might have a quarterback on

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01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: board by now, because two teams pick ahead of them

1372
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: at Night's quarterbacks. For them to say, oh, we'll get

1373
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: one of the four or rookies is probably a long

1374
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: and you probably don't want to go that route with

1375
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: Lock two. With Locked, you just spent a second round

1376
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: pick two years ago in Lock. I mean, like Dalton,

1377
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: it's not perfect, but give me somebody that's kind of

1378
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: a bird in the hand that are in there right.

1379
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: At ten, the Dallas Cowboys take Suel Penny Sewell, the

1380
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: offensive tackle for more. That's that's kind of a gift.

1381
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: And Tyron Smith's not around forever. Maybe he'd even be

1382
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: a cap casualty because comes back to ye. At eleven,

1383
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: the New York Giants take Jaylen Waddell, the Alabama something

1384
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: wid Waddle should be ahead of Smith, even Smith had

1385
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 1: a better year, but Waddle was better before he got hurt.

1386
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: He's a little bit more of the tester. Yeah, but yeah,

1387
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean they're both little though right there. I mean,

1388
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, Smith's a little bit taller. Yeah, but a

1389
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: big play guy who sure certainly would not be a

1390
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 1: bad idea of absolutely not. At twelve. This is a

1391
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: weird one here the San Francisco forty Niners. I gotta

1392
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: disagree with this one. Take Kyle Pitts, the tight end

1393
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 1: at at Florida. I don't know if you've watched this

1394
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: guy yet. I love him. I mean, really what he is,

1395
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:17,720
Speaker 1: the big receiver. But do you need you got kindled right?

1396
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: I assume that DJ's thinking is this guy can't fall

1397
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 1: any further. I think he's got a chance to be

1398
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: a top like I've seen him mocked to the Bengals

1399
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: at five if someone's gone, you know, I think he's

1400
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: a really special talent. And maybe they think, boy, we

1401
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 1: don't need much. We'll take the luxury pick. But that's

1402
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: about the last thing they need, right, Let's see who

1403
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 1: goes right after that? For the Chargers, this is Elijah

1404
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 1: Vera Tucker, the offensive tackle on a USC Do I

1405
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 1: think he's a name we're gonna talk about a lot

1406
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, possibly a twenty four. Not think right.

1407
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: Some think he's a guard, but I guess he kicked

1408
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,759
Speaker 1: out the left tackle this year and did really well.

1409
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,560
Speaker 1: But he's six four ish, he's not. So there's a

1410
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 1: couple of these tackles that I'm sure we'll talk about

1411
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,560
Speaker 1: a ton that could go from like here to that.

1412
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure a couple of names are coming up at fourteen.

1413
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: Gregory Rousso, the edge rusher out of Miami to the

1414
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: Vikings to Minnesota. That makes sense to know that they

1415
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: need an edge guy bad. He opted out this year.

1416
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: It's fifteen Micah Parsons to the Patriots out of Penn State.

1417
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: They need everything. From what I've seen from Parsons, he's

1418
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 1: a special player, but I mean he can rush the

1419
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,440
Speaker 1: passer off the edge, but he's really a second level guy.

1420
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,640
Speaker 1: Um he also opted out. Of course, I don't know

1421
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,839
Speaker 1: that he can fall much other than that. Uh. Sixteen

1422
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 1: is the Cardinals. He has them taking Chillan, Philip Jalien,

1423
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips. I should say, yeah, edge rusher out of Miami. Yeah.

1424
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 1: I don't know as much about him. He's kind of

1425
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: a new name in the first round. Conversation, but a

1426
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: great year. Uh. Seventeen is the Raiders taking linebacker Jeremiah

1427
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: o Wosumra from Notre Dame. From Notre Dame. Yeah, he's

1428
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: a smaller, modern day running hit safety, linebacker, speed guy, versatile.

1429
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 1: They need the best defensive player available. I would imagine

1430
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 1: eighteen the Dolphins with their second pick take Christian Derris Saw,

1431
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 1: the offensive tackle in a Virginia Tech. He was a

1432
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: name I was about to bring up to I mean

1433
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: early in the process, a month or two ago he

1434
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: was going like twenty four and later in the first round.

1435
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 1: And now I guess he's had a really good year,

1436
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: powerful dude that I have a feeling we're gonna this

1437
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: will be our our steeler. Derris saw a narrative. Well,

1438
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 1: if he's there, you take there. Saw Otherwise, here's three

1439
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: other names, you know, and chances are it doesn't look

1440
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be there. But yeah, nineteen is can

1441
01:16:41,080 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: Darius Tony, the wide receiver at of Florida. He's kind

1442
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: of a do it all, you know weapon. Where do

1443
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 1: they have him going? That's to Washington? Yeah they could

1444
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: use Oh I bet they end up taking drafting your

1445
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: signing Curtis Samuel, who's in the same type of dude.

1446
01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 1: Twenty the Bears take Jalen Mayfield, the offensive tackle in Michigan. Yeah,

1447
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 1: could certainly go lineman, and I assume his name will

1448
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: come up with the Steelers when the time comes around

1449
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:12,879
Speaker 1: to one. Queetie Pay from UH to the Colts from Michigan.

1450
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: Super athlete, edge rusher, great tester. They probably won't bring

1451
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 1: Justin Houston back, probably not yet. Two j C. Horn

1452
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,719
Speaker 1: at a South Carolina at the cornerback to the Titans.

1453
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: He's Joe Horne's kid. Joe Horn Um Titans. Wow, his

1454
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: corner of their biggest need. I mean, if you lose

1455
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 1: a tight end of wide receiver and don't have an

1456
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: edge pass rush and they don't know what you don't

1457
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,639
Speaker 1: have a lot of money to spend. But they could

1458
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: certainly upgrade their corner. I mean they could use anything.

1459
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:45,679
Speaker 1: There's a lot they could use on defense and especially

1460
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 1: pass defense. But I mean, I think people are pretty

1461
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: high on Horn. He's got sized too. Twenty three the

1462
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: Jets take Travis A. T n the running back out

1463
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: of Clemson. I think that's about the earliest of back

1464
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:01,600
Speaker 1: could go and they need big play guys. You know

1465
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 1: you're breaking a young quarterback. I mean, Frank Gorer and

1466
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: company aren't gonna cut it for long. And it's twenty four.

1467
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: The Steelers take Tevin Jenkins, offensive tackle out of Oklahoma State,

1468
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: another big guy whose stock is rising the more. And

1469
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: this is kind of just new and again I'm not

1470
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: super deep in my my draft coverage, and I will

1471
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: get more into it a Senior Bowl week. We just

1472
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: named four or five tackles from what fourteen to twenty

1473
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 1: four that's shaping up where originally a lot of these

1474
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: lists had the costume kid from Texas as the two

1475
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: and a huge gap and now he's not really going

1476
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 1: in the first round that dry saw and these couple

1477
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: of guys are eclipsing him. So the tier two tackles,

1478
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 1: to my point, which would be the Steelers neighborhood, seemed

1479
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,559
Speaker 1: to be gaining steam. Seemed to be as they always do,

1480
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 1: they always do it right and the need. Jacksonville takes

1481
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 1: Trayvon Murig, the safety out of Tea. See you, they

1482
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: might have the first two safeties drafted out of the

1483
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: top two s crazy on the board, which is crazy ones,

1484
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:10,799
Speaker 1: big ones, little uh twenty to Brown steake Xavin Collins

1485
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: out of Tulsa, a linebacker. He's another one's getting a

1486
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: lot of steam. And he's really like a three or

1487
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: four outside linebacker type. Really good athlete, had a great year,

1488
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 1: can drop into coverage. Haven't makes some sense? Uh? Seven

1489
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: The Ravens take ozz Ojilari, the eddresher at a Georgia.

1490
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: He's another one's gaining some steam. To we we've talked

1491
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: about their edge. For their edge, they get problems there.

1492
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 1: I could also see them just taking the best guard

1493
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:38,600
Speaker 1: on board. Uh. The Saints take Nick Bolton, linebacker at

1494
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: a Missouri. It's interesting to me that Mac Jones has

1495
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: him gone. His dealers, the pass Saints, the passed, the

1496
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: Patriots of past people that would know him. Bolton is

1497
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: just a good football player. They don't need linebackers or

1498
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: they need everything else. They're gonna need a little bit

1499
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: of everything. Yeah, just best player available. I guess. Tampa

1500
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: Bay takes Joe try On, the dresher at of Washington. Yeah, okay, Shack,

1501
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: it's a free agent. Pierre Paul is not young thirty

1502
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: The billsteake Aaron Robinson, cornerback at a UCF. They really

1503
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:10,799
Speaker 1: need a second corner. I mean, you look at their starters.

1504
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: I think their second corner is probably it's a problem spot. Yeah.

1505
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: The Packers at thirty one take two to at Well

1506
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver out of Louisville, m that's the highest I've

1507
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 1: seen his name. I mean, there's a lot of receivers

1508
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:25,759
Speaker 1: that we're going to go in these top two rounds,

1509
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: and I absolutely could see one go into Green Bay

1510
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the first round. Yeah. And the

1511
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:35,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs at thirty two take Levi unwin Zeriku whatever that

1512
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: is out of Washington. He's a defensive tackle, first defensive tack.

1513
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't see that. I don't see that happening. No,

1514
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:45,600
Speaker 1: And from what I know about him, he's like a

1515
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: six two six three explosive three technique type. I think

1516
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: they need other things. Yeah, I could see, I mean,

1517
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: could they use him, Yeah. Sure. I don't see one

1518
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 1: defensive tackle going in the first round and it only

1519
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 1: being a pick thirty two. It's a early weak year,

1520
01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: and those people have the Barnmore kid from Alabama being

1521
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: the first one, and he had a good National title game.

1522
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: It's just not how the league works. You know. Everybody

1523
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:14,559
Speaker 1: passes on every defensive tackle, and I'm not sure that's

1524
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: the direction I go far the Chiefs too, I mean,

1525
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:19,680
Speaker 1: we had no interior offensive lineman really go, not a

1526
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: one there, you know, which were bobo for the Steelers.

1527
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: Also who did not go was Harris. Who's Harris? Harris?

1528
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: Oh right? Right? Right? Only one running back in the

1529
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 1: first running back right, and I would bet he doesn't

1530
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:32,479
Speaker 1: last long? Like could he get past the Falcons in

1531
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: round two? Probably? You know, but there's not many landing

1532
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 1: spots for the top running backs, all right, yeah? I mean,

1533
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 1: especially if Aaron Jones which his teams and Dylan becomes

1534
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: a starter there that would fill a hole. Um could

1535
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: could Seattle be in the market for one? Maybe? But

1536
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: I bet you can't come up with five names of

1537
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: teams that are running back needy in the first two rounds.

1538
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: Be difficult, which makes me think again, it's gonna be

1539
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: hard for me. As much as I like Harris to

1540
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: use the pick on him, boy, it would be great Steeler,

1541
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 1: but it doesn't. It's not the smart move, you know

1542
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 1: what I mean? Would you potentially, say, trade your fourth

1543
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 1: round compensatory pick or even your regular fourth rounder to

1544
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: move up in the second round to go get him.

1545
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: That's the two things I was thinking is would you

1546
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: give two and a four for Harris to get him

1547
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: early or two and next year's three, or would you

1548
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: trade down from twenty four to thirty and do it twice?

1549
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, take the best tackle and

1550
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 1: then move up again. You know, because there were a

1551
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 1: lot There weren't any tackles taken after the Steelers made

1552
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 1: their pick, so good point. Yeah, So it would be interesting.

1553
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 1: And that's that's, of course, to hit Daniel Jeremiah's first

1554
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: mock draft. He's tuned in, I mean, trust me, he

1555
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: knows more than me. I mean, but even his draft

1556
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: will change dramatically over the next four months. The story

1557
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: of the draft is gonna be the top four quarterbacks. Yeah,

1558
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 1: and I think they'll go higher than anyone thinks, Like

1559
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 1: I think you get it four in the top ten,

1560
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 1: Well he did, did four in the top nine, Yeah,

1561
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: because he has went nine to Carolina. And if you

1562
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: get in that situation of those first nine teams, I

1563
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 1: want to say five or six of them need quarterbacks Miami,

1564
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,680
Speaker 1: and since he doesn't, that screams trade up to get

1565
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 1: ahead of your your body, they'll they'll I think there'll

1566
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: be a decent fair amount of trades this year, especially

1567
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: the teams may have, you know a little bit more

1568
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: like Miami at three. If two quarterbacks go off the

1569
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: board and you're sitting there at three and those teams

1570
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 1: at nine eight have to get ahead of their buddies

1571
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 1: like you could, that might work benefits or since you

1572
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: could move back. Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally.

1573
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

1574
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be back with our

1575
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: final segment right after this. Your tunes about drive home

1576
01:23:43,640 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

1577
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lellye here with Matt Williamson and Matt Um.

1578
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: One of the questions we've talked about the Steelers resigning

1579
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:23,799
Speaker 1: Zack Banner. Yes, that would then give them Zack Banner

1580
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 1: and Chookes a core for And your natural inclination would be, well,

1581
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 1: Banner is the better run blocker, he should probably go

1582
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: right to the the right tackle and move a core forward

1583
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: the left tackle. I've been told that the Steelers potentially

1584
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: like Banner at left tackle. Yeah, that when he was

1585
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 1: healthy right tackle, And I'm sure that the people are thinking, well,

1586
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:47,559
Speaker 1: didn't Banner just beat out Chooks when he was healthy

1587
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: for the right tackle job. Yeah, but you don't have

1588
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: a whole left tackle at the time, right yeah. Um

1589
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: to to me, the difference that the difference between the

1590
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: left and right tackle in the NFL doesn't really matter

1591
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 1: as much anymore because if you think about where the

1592
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:08,640
Speaker 1: top edge rusher's line up at, t J. Watts on

1593
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: the right side, Von Miller's on the right side. I mean,

1594
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: you could go on down the list. It's really equal. Now.

1595
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 1: It used to be put your best guy in the

1596
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:18,599
Speaker 1: back on the quarterback's blind side. Well then everybody figured out, well,

1597
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 1: everybody's putting their best, their most athletic tackle over there,

1598
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 1: So why would we do that when we can put

1599
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: it over here on the right guy who's usually more

1600
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: of a power guy. And it used to be tight

1601
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: end with line up on the right to be a

1602
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: right handed offense. So that doesn't happen anymore either, even

1603
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: like in the division, Myles Garrett plays on both sides.

1604
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 1: You know. In fact, if you look at him in

1605
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 1: the postseason, most of the time he lined up on

1606
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 1: the right side. Yeah, right, right, I mean they moved

1607
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: him all over the place. I just wonder if part

1608
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: of that was because he was a little nicked up

1609
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:50,680
Speaker 1: and maybe rushed a little better off the right. I

1610
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe they're looking at matchups the thing. We

1611
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,679
Speaker 1: don't know, And maybe you would when you get closer

1612
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: to the team and the world opens up a little bit,

1613
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: which one of your where choops rather play? Where would

1614
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: bann or rather play? Like? Well, they both played left

1615
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: tackle in college, so that's that's a wash, so they

1616
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: probably prefer it. But after a year of exclusively playing right,

1617
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: troops might not want to move. That's that's that's part

1618
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: of it too, you know, I know when the when

1619
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers are making the decision about whether or not

1620
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 1: to move um flip flop, t J Watt and Bud

1621
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: Dupree what expressed a preference to play on the right side.

1622
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: That's where he had played in college. So he was

1623
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:33,080
Speaker 1: your better guy, so hey, let's make him comfortable. Absolutely.

1624
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 1: That seemed to work out pretty well. Absolutely, And still

1625
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 1: that was a good conversation back then too, because the

1626
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: right tackle and left tackle aren't much different anymore. But still,

1627
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: Bud's power verse traditional finesse left tackles I thought set

1628
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: up really well. And t J speed and technique against

1629
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: heavier footed traditional right tackles sure sets up well. That

1630
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 1: TJ t J speed against anybody sets up I don't

1631
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 1: care who. I want that guy to be as comfortable

1632
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 1: is possible. The tackle situation is not to that point

1633
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:06,440
Speaker 1: where there's one that is way more comfortable than others.

1634
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: Maybe your first round pick only can play left tackle.

1635
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 1: Perhaps that perhaps, and that might influence how you how

1636
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:14,719
Speaker 1: it works out. Yeah, and that's the thing that could

1637
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: change all of that thinking, like maybe you get again

1638
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: a guy who's who You get that guy and said, well,

1639
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,400
Speaker 1: he's our left tackle, Okay, Yeah, then then you know

1640
01:27:25,439 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: that's an you have that right tackle conversation or battle

1641
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:31,600
Speaker 1: again again. Yeah, run it back again with that um.

1642
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,519
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of having one of those guys too,

1643
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:37,560
Speaker 1: you know, and counting on a first round tackle to

1644
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:41,679
Speaker 1: start opening day. It's tough, right, but you know most

1645
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 1: first round pick start an opening day sink or swim. Yeah,

1646
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of been the situation. And again,

1647
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:49,800
Speaker 1: if it's just one tackle, you can help him out

1648
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: a little bit, and yeah, leaving him on an island

1649
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:53,960
Speaker 1: and I keep bringing this up, but the loser of

1650
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,599
Speaker 1: the banner Chooks battle would still play a lot. Yeah,

1651
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: he's still your tight ends aren't real strong? Yeah, still

1652
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: your six. I mean, in fact, you might do more

1653
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: of that if you don't have a blocking tight end.

1654
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 1: I think you've do more of that, no matter whatnot,

1655
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 1: assuming you have one more tackle in the mix. That's

1656
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: even a second or third rounder. I bet they play

1657
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: more six offensive line sets than we've seen. That's a lot. Oh, absolutely, Yeah,

1658
01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 1: They're usually high on the list on that. Yeah, so

1659
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 1: I think that that would be interesting. Um, And of

1660
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:19,680
Speaker 1: course a lot of that will also depend on who

1661
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator is. Maybe one Monday we get together.

1662
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: Maybe on Monday we'll know who that guy is. But

1663
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 1: the Steelers have interviewed Hugh Hugh Jackson. They've interviewed, of course,

1664
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:39,560
Speaker 1: Matt Canada. Yeah, now Pep Hamilton's Chargers Chargers quarterbacks coach. Um,

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Speaker 1: what's interesting to me is if you don't bump Canada,

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01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: and you know, his ego doesn't take a big hit,

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01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 1: you could have two of the three. Yeah, you know

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01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. If you add a new offensive coordinator,

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01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: bump up Canada's responsibilities but don't necessarily give him the

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01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:03,599
Speaker 1: title that might be the most bang for your buck. Yeah,

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01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 1: I I You know, again, it goes back to our

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01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: conversation previously where no matter who you bring in, and

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Speaker 1: even if it's Canada, is that higher. Um. I heard

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01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying, well, Canada, that's just more

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01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: of the same, is it, because he's only been here

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01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:23,320
Speaker 1: for years at all? No, I don't think so. Knowing

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01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: the system and the verbage too. Yeah, you're not changing

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01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: the verbiage. You're not You're not reinventing the wheel. I

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01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,840
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of the playing the fence

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01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 1: on both sides. Because I looked back when the Steelers

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01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: hired Todd Haley. Um, there were quotes from Roethlisberger in

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01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 1: in O T as well, we're still learning this verbiage

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01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 1: and you know, blah blah blah. And then I look

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01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 1: back again at some things that I wrote talking to

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01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,120
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger at the start of training camp, and he was

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01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 1: talking about how to walk through you know, he and

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01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: Heath Miller thought that they were you know, we were.

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01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 1: Heath Miller and I thought we were on the same

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01:29:57,680 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 1: same page with this. We ran this play, we get

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01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: back in the huddle, and we find out we ran

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01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 1: the wrong play because they didn't have the verbage down yet.

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01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:08,920
Speaker 1: And that's Keith Miller and Ben Roethlisberg. It's not just Roethlisberger.

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01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: Of course, it's hard for anybody. I mean, they're learning

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01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 1: new languages or you know, a lot of not a

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01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,759
Speaker 1: lot of change to that, especially with is it harder

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01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:20,559
Speaker 1: for longer for guys who have been in one system

1697
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:23,800
Speaker 1: for a long time, or is it harder on guys

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01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: who are who have coming from college where maybe they

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01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 1: had two different systems, they had two different offices. Now

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01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 1: they're they're learning a new system in the NFL. I

1701
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:35,760
Speaker 1: bet it's no matter what, harder for the youngster, you know,

1702
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 1: just because there's you know, you can at least in

1703
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: steps are probably the same. Yeah, at least okay, something different.

1704
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna run this this play. We called it this,

1705
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:47,000
Speaker 1: but now it's called this. There's a little bit different

1706
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:49,720
Speaker 1: twist on it, but it's really this play. And I

1707
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:52,600
Speaker 1: bet they don't drastically change the verbage and stuff like

1708
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 1: that no matter who the guy is, because I mean,

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01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:58,040
Speaker 1: whoever coming in can have new ideas. But you call

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01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:00,360
Speaker 1: it what they used to call it, right, What I mean,

1711
01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: it's it's just easier to have the new guy learned. Right.

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01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:05,920
Speaker 1: You're very like Brady learning the Buck system as opposed

1713
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:09,880
Speaker 1: to all the bucks. You know, and throughout the course

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01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: of the year, you still take Patriot concepts. Yeah, you

1715
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You had to. You had to

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01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 1: it that way and learned together, especially if you have

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01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 1: a real off season in a preseason that would help.

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01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:24,520
Speaker 1: I think really hurt the Canada addition this year. Yeah,

1719
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind about that. I mean,

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01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:29,200
Speaker 1: four team practices is not enough time not to institute

1721
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 1: big new concept. And it's different to me than the

1722
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: teams that were instituting a new a whole new offense.

1723
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:39,120
Speaker 1: You had to Yeah, you're starting from ground so okay,

1724
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna start from ground z or everybody's learning at

1725
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:45,280
Speaker 1: the same time, as opposed to Okay, we're gonna inst

1726
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 1: thirty chapters in the book. Yeah, and now we're gonna

1727
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:49,720
Speaker 1: write three extra ones and you guys all gotta all

1728
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 1: know this and we're gonna go back. The other teams

1729
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: had install something just to snap the ball on, right.

1730
01:31:55,360 --> 01:31:56,840
Speaker 1: You didn't need to do that, so you didn't work

1731
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 1: on that stuff as much once you got into regular seasons.

1732
01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: Some quarter yeah for things like that. Who do you

1733
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:05,599
Speaker 1: got this weekend before? These games ain't gonna be great.

1734
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be good games. I have the

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01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:11,600
Speaker 1: Packers and Bills winning. I have the Packers and Chiefs

1736
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: both winning thirty five thirty. I feel stronger about the

1737
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:19,759
Speaker 1: NFC side though. I think this. I think the Bills

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01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:22,679
Speaker 1: might win the Super Bowl next year. They've gone pretty far.

1739
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: I think when the Chips are down, the team that's

1740
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 1: been there has an advantage. I don't see that advantage

1741
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:32,120
Speaker 1: in the NFC. Bills have gone awfully far, but they're

1742
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah. I think their defense is playing better,

1743
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:38,559
Speaker 1: and I like I like what Alan's doing right now.

1744
01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:41,640
Speaker 1: And I just think went in doubt bet against the

1745
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:44,679
Speaker 1: Concuss quarterback. He went in doubt. I'm not betting against

1746
01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: my homes and read. I also think we might actually

1747
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 1: see a real home field advantage this week. We might

1748
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: that might be some a little bit of crowd noise,

1749
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 1: you know, that'd be that would be nice. The league

1750
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: did announce today that they're gonna allow two fans in

1751
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Really and they're also but they're gonna

1752
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: be uh, first responders who have who have been who

1753
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:08,280
Speaker 1: have had their vaccine. People who are doctors, nurses, whatever

1754
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 1: in the building, who are I've been tested, or who

1755
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:14,120
Speaker 1: are who have gotten the vaccine? Already? That kills so

1756
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:16,960
Speaker 1: many birds with one stone. I mean, obviously, first of all,

1757
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:18,960
Speaker 1: I've heard great things about this vaccine. Not that's my

1758
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:22,120
Speaker 1: specialty at all, but they would all be vaccinated, and

1759
01:33:22,120 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: they've all done tremendous work during difficult times to be rewarded.

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01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:27,599
Speaker 1: You know. That's cool, that's a good thing. Yeah, So

1761
01:33:27,640 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 1: it will at least they'll be some fans there for

1762
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:31,880
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl would be you know, won't be anything

1763
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 1: near a full stadium, but that's close to half a stadium.

1764
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,400
Speaker 1: And again that goes back to the revenues. Yeah right,

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01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about that too, like just get that

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01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 1: cap up. But that's gonna do it for our show

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Speaker 1: today and for the week. So for my partner Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: for Jacob here on site, I'm del Lali. We want

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Speaker 1: to thank you for listening to this edition of The

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Speaker 1: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.