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

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Stealer Nation, how we do it? Well, that's

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Speaker 2: good us too. Our number two here of the drive

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Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 2: and Gold. Matt, you know who had themselves a good day?

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Speaker 2: The Brisker family. Oh I bet, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: and listen, that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I like to think, Matt, one of my better

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Speaker 2: traits in life is being self aware. Okay, I don't

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Speaker 2: have a ton of strengths in life, sure here, but

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Speaker 2: I think one of the I don't know how clearly

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Speaker 2: he was like, obviously we all know your butts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're good at bringing in and she dealing with

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Speaker 4: the radio.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, I need somebody to hoot and

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Speaker 2: holler about WU for thirty seconds. I'll call you up.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I am self aware, and I realize I feel like

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Speaker 2: we've done this a lot this offseason already because of

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Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy and his ties to this region and Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: and because of a lot of his staff and their

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Speaker 2: ties to this region with Pittsburgh. But the Steelers signing

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Speaker 2: Jakwan Brisker. We discussed this last week, but officially official today, signed, sealed, delivered,

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Speaker 2: attended Gateway High School, originally from Wilkinsburg, PA, A Whippio

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Speaker 2: grad penn State guy. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty cool to it.

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Speaker 2: I know, sometimes people get tired of here and they're like,

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Speaker 2: I don't care. I think particularly there's a ton of

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Speaker 2: Steelers fans and a ton of our listeners who don't

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Speaker 2: have ties to Western Pennsylvania Pittsburg, and they're like, I

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Speaker 2: don't care. Just win football games to get the best

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Speaker 2: player at the best and that is most important. That

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Speaker 2: is most important, certainly. But it's also pretty cool for

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Speaker 2: us when a guy like this, who you know, grew

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Speaker 2: up like we did, waving his terrible towel and rooting

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Speaker 2: they had over state. Then they did yeh teammates a

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Speaker 2: state like I'm sure they.

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Speaker 4: Probably played against each other Whippis and then.

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Speaker 2: Probably played in some All Star games and things like

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Speaker 2: seven on seven tournaments.

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Speaker 4: You're that highly recruited in the same ab. You've been

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Speaker 4: after camps together, You've been.

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Speaker 2: To camps together, and all that stuff. So pretty cool, uh,

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Speaker 2: him talking about those emotions, sharing the news with his

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Speaker 2: mom and his family, what it means for him, and

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Speaker 2: obviously a lot of x's and o's, and his excitement

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Speaker 2: about joining this organization and this new staff and this

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Speaker 2: new era of Steelers football. Here's what Jakwan Brisker had

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Speaker 2: to say this afternoon, just.

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Speaker 3: You know, going through the tunnels, you know, seeing the city,

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Speaker 3: you know, seeing that beautiful water. You know, it feels

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Speaker 3: amazing to be back.

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Speaker 5: For sure, playing football in the backyard, thinking you wanted

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Speaker 5: to be a Steeler, pretending you're a Steeler teams you're

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Speaker 3: Up into into Yeah, just growing up. Started football at

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Speaker 3: water balls, acting like f you know, I'm playing football

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Speaker 3: things like that. But never thought I would be a stealer,

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Speaker 3: which is crazy. But now that I'm here, No, I'm

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Speaker 3: and you know, I just get chilled, you know, just

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Speaker 3: knowing that I'm I'm being Pittsburgh stealer and I'm from Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 6: So you're going you've been described as of uh Chris

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Speaker 6: Carter's proposed cause that you've been described to a Swiss army knife.

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Speaker 4: Last year, you played you know, not directly even.

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Speaker 7: But close to even your box and free.

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Speaker 8: What do you feel like you're most excited to play

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Speaker 8: the Steelers defense, you know, with the way they're gonna

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Speaker 3: Says Yeah, I just feel excited to just be you know, used,

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Speaker 3: like you said, like a Swiss only playing free, playing strong,

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Speaker 3: willing to do it all. I looked like the Bears

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's a great opportunity, you know, to

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Speaker 9: Again, a story about you and Joey Lack a Patch State.

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Speaker 3: I had to, I ha, I had to, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'll say that, you know, he had to mature. But

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Speaker 3: it's amazing. And he's gonna be a great player in

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Speaker 3: So you know that was you know, he's from Pittsburgh

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Speaker 9: Signed just how do.

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Speaker 5: You put into words, what do you think it's going

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Speaker 9: Wearing that jersey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got. When I was thinking about that, I'm

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Speaker 3: That's all I just wanna do. Just you know that energy,

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Speaker 3: So they travel well, and you know, I can't wait

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Speaker 10: As a follow up to that, have you been to

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Speaker 3: No, I only been. I've been to La Trobe one

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Speaker 11: Yeah, pushing other pushing Joey, did you look forward and

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Speaker 3: I've seen Jalen you know play corner at a high

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Speaker 11: Kill State with a five star with a big ego,

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Speaker 11: you kind of have the opposite experience, right to go

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Speaker 11: to La Kawana. How do you keep your self confidence

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Speaker 3: I always just believed in myself. I just needed an

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Speaker 3: And when I'm with the Penn State, I just you know,

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Speaker 9: One of the last.

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Speaker 5: Few days been like for you were worried when you found.

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Speaker 9: Out about the deal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the last few days it's honestly been crazy. My

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my gosh, that's how many like causing

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Speaker 3: texts I was getting in the first person. I called

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Speaker 3: was amazing out. I was in California. I was training, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Joey was kind of on a on a on a

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Speaker 3: are you gonna do. I'm like, bro, I'm probably gonna

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Speaker 2: Great stuff there from newest Pittsburgh Steeler, fellow Western Pennsylvania

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's a problem at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, no, absolutely not so great stuff from him.

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Speaker 2: We will hear a little bit from Sebastian Joseph Day

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Speaker 2: when we return. We're also going to get to your

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Speaker 2: tweets before we get up out of here. Plenty more

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Speaker 2: to get to on this edition of the Drive was

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Speaker 2: Shuler Matt Williamson, Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 12: What's up, NFL fans? The NFL Draft is finally here,

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Speaker 12: and while you might not know who your team is

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Speaker 12: drafting this year, you do know your watch party's number

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Speaker 12: one pick. Bud Light, the clean, crisp taste that has

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Speaker 12: group's go to draft beer season after season. Be sure

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Speaker 12: to order around for the table before your team's on

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Speaker 12: the clock. Bud Light easy to drink, easy to enjoy,

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Rolling along here on this Monday, a new week with

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Speaker 2: some new Steelers being announced. We're going to hear from

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Speaker 2: Sebastian Joseph Day here in just a moment, But first, Matt,

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Speaker 2: I did want to just make sure to touch on

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Speaker 2: this briefly. The performance based pay oh yeah yeah program,

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Speaker 2: which basically contract incentives for these guys, has been released

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Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty five season, and a nice little,

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Speaker 2: nice little bonus for Mason McCormick and Peyton Wilson off

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Speaker 2: of you know, hitting some some incentives, some accelerators in

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Speaker 2: their contract. Looks like Mason McCormick got a little over

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Speaker 2: a million dollars in incentives, same with Peyton Wilson, both

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Speaker 2: of them right in that range. So hey, good for

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Speaker 2: those two. Nice little, nice little bump, little pay day

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Speaker 2: for two guys still on their rookie contracts, and hopefully nice,

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Speaker 2: nice twenty twenty six is ahead for both of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know exactly even how that works, to

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Speaker 4: be honest with you, and it's not a really reported

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Speaker 4: thing all that much but I think it's usually like

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Speaker 4: mid round picks that aren't making a ton it means

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Speaker 4: a lot to them.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, it's not the sixth overall who's making

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Speaker 2: a nice contract already. Yeah, most of these guys are

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Speaker 2: all a lot of I mean, there's only Devin Whites,

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Speaker 2: the only one on here who's who's a first a

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Speaker 2: former first.

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Speaker 4: Round guy's a different contract and.

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Speaker 2: He's on a different contract.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how that works.

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Speaker 2: There's it's kind of like the comp pick thing to me,

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Speaker 2: like I know that it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: and then there's some rhyme or reason too.

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Speaker 4: And what I don't get too is how much this

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Speaker 4: hurts your salary cap too?

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Speaker 2: You know, yes, yeah, that's a great point, because I

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Speaker 2: think it does.

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Speaker 4: It changes change your salary cap. But is it had

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Speaker 4: a good year? Absolutely, and Wilson and McCormick certainly did.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Thanks to UH To Josiah for sending that to

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Speaker 2: us on Twitter. We will get to your tweets here

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Speaker 2: in just a few minutes, but first wanted to hear

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Speaker 2: a little bit from Sebastian Joseph Day one of the

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Speaker 2: UH the pair of new Steelers officially announced down on

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Speaker 2: the South Side Monday afternoon, new defensive tackle, most recently

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Speaker 2: with the Titans, heading into his ninth year in the

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Speaker 2: National Football League. Here's what Sebastian Joseph Day had to

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Speaker 2: say earlier today.

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Speaker 6: What was uh, your excitement to work with Patrick Graham

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Speaker 6: when you know about what he does in defense.

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Speaker 3: And how they're gonna use you.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, no, the excitement. I'm really excited. I'm really pumped up. Uh,

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Speaker 10: some of those conversations I think kind of just want

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Speaker 10: to stick between him and I what they want to

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Speaker 10: do with me. But I'm really excited. I'm really excited

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Speaker 10: to be teaming up with Patrick Graham and obviously it's

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Speaker 10: an amazing front that they have already and it's gonna

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Speaker 10: be really exciting, man, the things we're gonna do. So

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Speaker 10: I'm pumped, really pumped. It put a smile on my

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Speaker 10: face as you see what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: It you looking forward to being here in Pittsburgh and working.

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Speaker 10: I'm just excited to manage to win games, you know,

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Speaker 10: like just to win games. You know, they they they

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Speaker 10: won their conference last year, and it's just exciting that

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Speaker 10: you know that we have such an amazing roster before

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Speaker 10: I even got here, right, the rosters already a fire,

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Speaker 10: and I'm so excited and honored that I get to

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Speaker 10: join this group and go to work with them.

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Speaker 3: At you to be so versatile.

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Speaker 10: Who has a great question? I think, honestly, it's me

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Speaker 10: not boxing myself in. And from the start, you know,

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Speaker 10: the beginning of my career, I played a lot of

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Speaker 10: nose next to Aaron Aaron Donald. And then when I

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Speaker 10: left the Rams, we had a need, We kind of

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Speaker 10: had a need. We had one of our d tackles

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Speaker 10: that they signed with me get hurt. So they were like, hey,

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Speaker 10: can you play Can you play this three? And I

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Speaker 10: was like, whatever the team needs me to do, and

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Speaker 10: I did it, And you know, I just didn't. I

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Speaker 10: just didn't box myself in. And then when I went

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Speaker 10: to Tennessee, you know there was sweat and sweats, like

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Speaker 10: you know, sweat sweats like three hundred and like sixty

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Speaker 10: pounds a big man. So you know, he couldn't pat obviously,

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Speaker 10: he couldn't play four. He couldn't play four or five.

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Speaker 10: So it was a no brainer. Jeff was the three,

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Speaker 10: and I was like, I'll play the five. I played

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Speaker 10: the six, I'll play the four, and I think it's

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Speaker 10: just me just not letting myself get boxed in, just

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Speaker 10: being able to adapt and uh, taking pride in being

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Speaker 10: that guy that could, you know, whatever, whatever you need

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Speaker 10: me to do, I'll get it done.

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Speaker 2: Be that army switch knife noticed references.

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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, no, yeah, as soon as I as soon

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Speaker 10: as I walked in, I went to walk in the

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Speaker 10: weight room. I took a photo because I'm sending it

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Speaker 10: to him and be like I'm in I'm in you

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Speaker 10: York City now. But uh yeah, no, shout out to

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Speaker 10: Aaron Man. Uh, like I said earlier, you know, amazing,

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Speaker 10: amazing football player, but even a better person. Man, great person,

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Speaker 10: and and I'm super thankful for him because you know,

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Speaker 10: he helped me a lot really in my career.

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Speaker 9: Schlsburg steel Country or Eagle Country, no.

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Speaker 10: Believe it or not, Strausburg is pretty even the divided.

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Speaker 10: I know, I had a lot of Steelers fans, a

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Speaker 10: lot of friends that were Steeler fans, and a lot

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Speaker 10: of friends that were also Eagle fans. So I didn't

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Speaker 10: have believe it or not, growing up. This is gonna

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Speaker 10: sound crazy, but growing up I was actually a Vikings

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Speaker 10: fans because when I was like when I was when

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Speaker 10: I was really young, I fell in love with their uniforms.

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Speaker 10: I always was a Vikings fan. When they didn't draft me,

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Speaker 10: I was heartbroken.

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Speaker 7: I was talking to them to during the draft process.

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Speaker 7: I was like, oh no, so, uh.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I got over that. I definitely got over. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 10: Ram super Bowl, two Super Bowls in like four years.

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Speaker 10: I wasn't complaining, but uh yeah, so shouts works. Pretty

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Speaker 10: excited A lot a lot of a lot of texts,

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Speaker 10: a lot of messages, A lot of people are coming

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Speaker 10: to that tend.

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Speaker 7: What do you know about.

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Speaker 6: About Cam Hayward his game and just how much are

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Speaker 6: you looking forward to playing alongside it? Oh?

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Speaker 10: Man, I mean Cam first ballot, man, I mean tremendous,

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Speaker 10: tremendous football player and from what I see from Afar,

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Speaker 10: I don't know him personally, from what I see him

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Speaker 10: from Afar even better human being. What he does in

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Speaker 10: the community, and that's awesome. I'm just super excited to

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Speaker 10: pair up with him. His game is his game is amazing, man.

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Speaker 10: I mean when I watch film, because you know, a

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Speaker 10: lot of the teams I've played for were three four

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Speaker 10: defenses and stuff and whatnot, so you know, you always

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Speaker 10: watch teams that have comps to you, so you kind

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Speaker 10: of see what the blocks you get.

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Speaker 7: I always watch Cam and.

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Speaker 10: He's always he's always whipping ass, sees my language with

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Speaker 10: you know, I I rarely I never see him mose

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Speaker 10: for real, honestly and great, Like I said, great football player.

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Speaker 10: I'm super excited to pair with pair up with him

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Speaker 10: and the rest of the guys and fit in wherever

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Speaker 10: they need me to do whatever they need me to

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Speaker 10: and just help the team in whatever way I can.

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Speaker 8: Brian Becker from the posts, by the way, you mentioned

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Speaker 8: when you got your amazing roster, you think and you know,

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Speaker 8: bringing you in, do you feel.

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Speaker 3: Like this is a team that still kind of making.

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Speaker 8: Those those win now moves with the quote unquote window open,

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Speaker 8: especially as someone who's been there and seen it going

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Speaker 8: to the Super.

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Speaker 10: Bowl, like you have no, Yeah, for sure, you know

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Speaker 10: you definitely see the moves they're making, man, and it's

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Speaker 10: it's really impressive. You know, they're doing a great job.

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Speaker 10: And again from my perspective, I see a lot of

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Speaker 10: great things that they're doing to lead us in that

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Speaker 10: in that direction. But obviously, you know, it always comes

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Speaker 10: back to us executing and doing what we have to do.

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Speaker 10: But I'm paper, yes, we look obviously, we look very

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Speaker 10: we look very nice, especially on the defensive side of

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Speaker 10: the ball. I don't want to speak on the offensive

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Speaker 10: side of the ball because that's not my that's not

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Speaker 10: my side.

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Speaker 7: But I'm just speaking defensively.

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Speaker 5: With so much newness, so much newness on this see,

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Speaker 5: I mean, almost completely new goading staff, what do you

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Speaker 5: look forward? What's your mindset when you're entering a team.

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Speaker 5: I guess with almost a completely clean slate outside.

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Speaker 9: Of them, never better as in the game.

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Speaker 10: I think my mindset is just to do whatever I

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Speaker 10: gotta do to put the team in a great position

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Speaker 10: to win. That's just my mindset, to be completely honest.

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Speaker 10: I'm it's just about being selfless and you know, doing

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Speaker 10: what to ask of you to help, whether that's whatever

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Speaker 10: it is that they wanted to do with me, and

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Speaker 10: and I'm I'm here for it, you know, you know,

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Speaker 10: I just want to I just want to win games again.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's been it's been a little different two

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Speaker 10: years for me. You know, nothing but love for Tennessee

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Speaker 10: at all the two years over there it has been.

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Speaker 10: You know, I went from I'm winning so much. I

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Speaker 10: went to like being in playoffs, I think six years,

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Speaker 10: because even my first year had the Chargers, you know,

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Speaker 10: we were we were in playoffs to you know, kind

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Speaker 10: of going on a little skid. So I think I

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Speaker 10: think it's really been humbling because I got to see

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Speaker 10: the duality of it both, right, the duality of it,

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Speaker 10: both of the things that you do to win and

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Speaker 10: the things that obviously don't you know, that don't help

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Speaker 10: you know, that don't help you win games. So I

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Speaker 10: just want to get back on that, right, I want

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Speaker 10: to get back on that winning path and do whatever

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Speaker 10: it takes to do that, whatever that role is for

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Speaker 10: me that they have for me in San Diego.

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Speaker 9: The exit had to be shocking for you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, did you ever get.

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Speaker 9: An understanding a truth about what happened?

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Speaker 7: Then that's actually a really good question.

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Speaker 10: No, I never really did, unfortunately, you know it was

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Speaker 10: it was a very funky situation, you know, head coach

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Speaker 10: gang fired. I get brought up, you know, head coach

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Speaker 10: gang fired. I go up to you know, thank them

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Speaker 10: for everything. Then my d line coach gets fired, and

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Speaker 10: then I get called in the office. I get called

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Speaker 10: in the office obviously by the interim head coach, and

652
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Speaker 10: he asked me to, you know, support him because at

653
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Speaker 10: the time I was a two time captain over there,

654
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Speaker 10: so he was like, hey, I need you. I need

655
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Speaker 10: you to help me. I need you to help me

656
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Speaker 10: steer these guys. You know you got to steer the

657
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Speaker 10: ship still be locked in. You know, I need you

658
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Speaker 10: to support me. You know some of the things that

659
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Speaker 10: a lot of positive conversation, like just about how we're

660
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Speaker 10: going to try to finish this thing the right way,

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Speaker 10: even though there was a lot of unfortunate events that

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Speaker 10: took place. And yeah, I had that conversation with him,

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Speaker 10: and then you know, a couple a couple of days

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Speaker 10: went by and some things transpire that I'm probably not

665
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Speaker 10: going to get into that you know that I didn't

666
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Speaker 10: think was fair. But that's life, you know, that's life.

667
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Speaker 10: That's how it goes. And I'm thankful for it because

668
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Speaker 10: it shaped me. It shaped me, and it helped it

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Speaker 10: helped me become a better person also a better player.

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Speaker 10: And if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't I want

671
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Speaker 10: to end up in Tennessee and been playing five and

672
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Speaker 10: six technique, right, I wouldn't have been.

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Speaker 7: Able to ooh sorry, I wouldn't been.

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Speaker 10: Able to, like you said, expand, expand my role and

675
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Speaker 10: know that I could do different things on the defensive front.

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Speaker 7: And so I'm.

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Speaker 10: Super thankful for them, Super thankful for the Chargers. Shout

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Speaker 10: out to the Spanoses, shout out to Shout out to Ed.

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Speaker 10: Super thankful for them and and my time there. Shout

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Speaker 10: out to my teammates, seriously, Shout to my teammates, Justin,

681
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Speaker 10: Herbert Derwin, Khalil Mack. Great great guys, great human beings.

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Speaker 10: And yeah, I hope that answers your question.

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Speaker 11: Welcome to Pittsburgh counse holders in Pittsburgh sports. Now you

684
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Speaker 11: talk about being a captain, you talking about having sweat

685
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Speaker 11: next to you.

686
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Speaker 7: Who's a younger guy?

687
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Speaker 3: In Tennessee the Steeers have invested a lot in the

688
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Speaker 3: future of their defensive line. They got three young guys.

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Speaker 9: How did you become a guy.

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Speaker 11: That was willing to sort of take a guy under

691
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Speaker 11: your wing and what are you looking forward to about

692
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Speaker 11: that part of the process here?

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Speaker 10: I just think I just think, honestly, it's just about

694
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Speaker 10: just being authentic, being yourself right, and not pushing it

695
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Speaker 10: upon anyone. Just there's going to work every day and like,

696
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Speaker 10: you know, letting it just naturally happen, you know, just

697
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Speaker 10: letting it naturally, let letting people just naturally gravitate towards you. Again,

698
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Speaker 10: I'm truly just I just believe in just being seen

699
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Speaker 10: but not heard, you know, Like that's kind of like

700
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Speaker 10: my deal obviously, as I'm yapping away up here, right,

701
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 10: but uh, that's kind of like just my that's kind

702
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Speaker 10: of my deal. When I play, I just try not to,

703
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Speaker 10: you know, not to be seen. I feel like if

704
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Speaker 10: I'm not seen, then I'm doing a good job, you know,

705
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Speaker 10: but I'm heard, you know, meaning like you know, most

706
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Speaker 10: passengerseph day on the stop or you know, something like that.

707
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Speaker 10: That's the way I kind of just try to live,

708
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Speaker 10: live it out and uh do what I have to

709
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Speaker 10: do on the football field, and you know, and hopefully,

710
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Speaker 10: you know, if they if they gravitate, and if I

711
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 10: could pour something, if they come to me and then

712
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 10: I could pour some knowledge that was poured into me

713
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Speaker 10: my rookie year by Aaron and by Sue and by

714
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Speaker 10: Michael Brockers, then you know, then yeah, so be it.

715
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Speaker 3: It does look like.

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Speaker 9: You've had a few fun media roles over the year.

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Speaker 8: How'd you get into that and do you have anything

718
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Speaker 8: else on the agenda coming up?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? You know, it's been fun. You know.

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Speaker 10: When I'm done playing, obviously I would I would love

721
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Speaker 10: to be doing some sort of.

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Speaker 7: On air type type things. That's what I went to

723
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Speaker 7: school for.

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Speaker 10: On to school for media relations, and I minored in

725
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Speaker 10: labor So that'd definitely be something that I want to

726
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Speaker 10: get into when I'm done playing. How I got into

727
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 10: it just long story short, long story short. I had

728
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Speaker 10: a friend that owned a company who shot Mike Tyson's

729
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Speaker 10: podcast and he was doing my my food review stuff

730
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Speaker 10: and he knew that obviously I went to school for,

731
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Speaker 10: so he suggested me.

732
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Speaker 7: I went. I went to help out. They called me

733
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Speaker 7: on on Really it was really weird.

734
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Speaker 10: I was like working out. They called me and they say, hey,

735
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Speaker 10: can you do the show? Can you do the show

736
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Speaker 10: with Mike Tyson? I was like shit, yeah, like what

737
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Speaker 10: that's Mike Tyson? And I did the first I did.

738
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Speaker 10: The first episode of trail Owens went great and it

739
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Speaker 10: was easy because I was like I grew up watching

740
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Speaker 10: the Owens, you know, being from you know, being raised

741
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 10: in Stotsworth, Pennslvani a lot of Philly fans did that

742
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Speaker 10: went well, they went ghost went ghosts Like I didn't

743
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Speaker 10: hear from them for like a month, and then next

744
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 10: thing you know, they called me back and like, hey,

745
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 10: Mike wants you back again. I was like all right,

746
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 10: cool and mint of work out again. I was like,

747
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Speaker 10: I was like, who is it? Who's the next Who's

748
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Speaker 10: a guest? And like T Pain, I was like keep paying,

749
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Speaker 10: Like sorry, I got.

750
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Speaker 7: Excited, Like I still get excited.

751
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Speaker 10: I was like, it's tea pain, Like this is what

752
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Speaker 10: I grew up on, Like what like I was in

753
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 10: the club tea Pain, you know what I mean?

754
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Speaker 7: So sorry I got excited again.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, anyways, but I got excited and I was like, yeah,

756
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Speaker 10: te Pain what Like I didn't have to I didn't

757
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 10: have to study my questions, you know, because I know

758
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Speaker 10: all that.

759
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Speaker 3: I know.

760
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 7: I know what you know.

761
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Speaker 10: And you guys know his journalist like you know, you study,

762
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 10: you study on the person you're gonna interview and whatnot.

763
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Speaker 10: And I was like, oh man, I know like so

764
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Speaker 10: much about I'm already because you know, at that time,

765
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 10: at that time growing up, I was like maybe like twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

766
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Speaker 10: So T Pain was like a really big hit during

767
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Speaker 10: that time, so it was really fun. Killed the interview

768
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Speaker 10: and the rest was kind of history. I just became

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Speaker 10: his co host for a while a whole yeah, for

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Speaker 10: like two three years now. The show has been stopped,

771
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Speaker 10: but I've been I was a co host since it's

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Speaker 10: been stopped.

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Speaker 7: So it's been fun.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff there, Sebastian Joseph Day, Matt, He's gonna take

775
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: our job one day. I'm worried.

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Speaker 4: I found out who T Pain is and who that

777
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 4: was throt myself right under the bus. Yeah, he's coming

778
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: for our jobs. We're gonna have to kick slide keep

779
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 4: him off us.

780
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Speaker 2: You know, right, You guys think Matt knows a T

781
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: Pain song? You you've been to weddings and stuff.

782
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Speaker 4: Though I've been to weddings.

783
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Speaker 3: It's movie.

784
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Speaker 2: He's got that one song, apple bottom jeans bootsweat played

785
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: it like every.

786
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 4: Wedding, every wedding in the planet, a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of movies. I know that, Like, yeah, that was

788
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Speaker 2: a that was a poppulardy Look at Matt Williamson.

789
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Speaker 4: What's up?

790
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Speaker 2: Boys? No great stuff there from the man.

791
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 4: A good talker, he's, what I say, another really well

792
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 4: spoken personal dude.

793
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 2: Smart point in the off season, and I liked it.

794
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Speaker 4: I mean, he mentioned some Hall of famers he's been

795
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 4: hanging out with in those rooms too, starting with Aaron

796
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 4: Donald of course, pretty Domokong, Sue Jeffrey Simmons last year,

797
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 4: and now Cam, you know, like pretty, he realizes he's

798
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,240
Speaker 4: not Batman. But I mean, I'm going to adapt around

799
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: these great players and learn a lot from them. It's awesome.

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00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Both of these guys really enjoyed what they

801
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: had to say to Yeah. Yeah, and I think we're

802
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 2: going to really enjoy seeing them get going here in

803
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: the Black and Gold. One more segment to go. You

804
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Speaker 2: know what that means. We will close things down with

805
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Speaker 2: your tweets. On the other side at Wesley Yueler at Williamson, NFL,

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Speaker 2: that's where you get involved. It is the Drive Steelers

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Speaker 2: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 12: What's up, NFL fans. The NFL Draft is finally here,

809
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Speaker 12: and while you might not know who your team is

810
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 12: drafting this year, you do know your watch parties. Number

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Speaker 12: one pick Bud Light, the clean, crisp taste that has

812
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Speaker 12: all the scouts talking. I guess that's why it's been

813
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Speaker 12: the group's go to draft beer season after season, be

814
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Speaker 12: sure to order around for the table before your teams

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Speaker 12: on the clock. Bud Light easy to drink, easy to enjoy,

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

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Speaker 2: Final segment of the Drive here on this Monday. You

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Speaker 2: know what that means. It's time to close it down

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Speaker 2: with your tweets. Let's roll through as many of these

822
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Speaker 2: as we can, Matt, because we continue to remain popular

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Speaker 2: with the audience on the ex Twitter.

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Speaker 4: Love it Joe Man a lot, but keep them coming

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Speaker 4: every day. Guys absolutely do our best.

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Speaker 2: And as I've said to you before, if we don't

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Speaker 2: get to him on that given day, bookmark them. We'll

828
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Speaker 2: get to you the next day. We keep a nice

829
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Speaker 2: orderly queue around here. Cody tweets us and says, Caleb

830
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Speaker 2: Banks is a worry to me. Played less than eight

831
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Speaker 2: hundred total snaps over five seasons. Was talking about his

832
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Speaker 2: shoes hurting him at the combine. I get the talent,

833
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Speaker 2: but does the passion for the game exist?

834
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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: He actually did have a broken foot at the combine.

836
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Speaker 4: So I think he broke his foot at the combine.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting one though I don't know what to

839
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Speaker 2: do with them.

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Speaker 4: I really don't, and I don't know what to do

841
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 4: with this D line class as a whole. I urge

842
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 4: everyone to rewind to the very first segment of today's show.

843
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 4: We talked about the Steelers have a type, you know,

844
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 4: and does that eliminate the shorter, squattier Corleone types or not.

845
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Speaker 4: I think it probably takes McDonald out of the mix,

846
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Speaker 4: especially as a first round player, which I'm fine with.

847
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 4: I think he's a run stuffer only and phenomenal at it,

848
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 4: but I need more from that. From where he's gonna go,

849
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Speaker 4: it's probably the top forty player. Banks is the one

850
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Speaker 4: that's like, Man, I'd love to get a hold of

851
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Speaker 4: this guy. If he's still sitting in the second round

852
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Speaker 4: because of the foot, sign me up for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But he's a tough event, it's and that's that's why

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Speaker 4: he might be there in the second round, because it's

856
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Speaker 4: it's tough to sell your owner on he's got broken.

857
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 4: He had a foot issue that limited him to what

858
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 4: two or three games now, he's another foot issue. And

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Speaker 4: his tape is hit or miss, you know, like there's

860
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Speaker 4: some bad tape. And he's a remarkably bad tackler, it is.

861
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Speaker 4: And you would think of the wingspan. He is the

862
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 4: longest wingspan at defensive tackle and combine history. He would

863
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Speaker 4: think tackle he gets, he disrupts things. It's kind of

864
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Speaker 4: like we've talked about like Queen and Shazier. He gets back,

865
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Speaker 4: you know it. Sometimes he gets to place his bro

866
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Speaker 4: others don't and makes them change. But he doesn't put

867
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 4: people on the ground very often. Now, I think you

868
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 4: can teach that. Sure, Yeah, right, right, that's not the worst.

869
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 2: That's all in the right, that's all in the balance

870
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 2: of the conversation.

871
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: Uh.

872
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: I forget.

873
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 4: There's not many guys in this de tackle class that

874
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 4: I'm like sign me up for.

875
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: They've all got their different concerns when it's health related,

876
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 2: whether it's body size. I do think it was. Was

877
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 2: it maybe Trevor Sikima at the comm because he's a

878
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: Florida guy, He's a Gator, so he's a little dialed

879
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: into that. Banks played three games for Florida this year,

880
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 2: and apparently they didn't even want him to play but

881
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:09,479
Speaker 2: he was like.

882
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 4: Oh he's he's like desires great.

883
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 2: He was like, I'm playing.

884
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 4: Should have set him down.

885
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 2: So he's an interesting EVL.

886
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great in the Sener Bowl, and I

887
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 4: mean he's got rare traits.

888
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 2: And maybe he does fall because a lot of these

889
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 2: you know, you always do a good job of paying

890
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 2: this picture, Matt. You have to think is those around

891
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 2: you think, yeah, if you're one of these coaching staffs

892
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: and organizations that if we don't win some games this year,

893
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: we're all gonna get fired, right, and it's not gonna

894
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: matter if this guy's great in twenty twenty seven or

895
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, because we're not going to be here.

896
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 2: They're like, I'm not taking that guy in the first round.

897
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 2: I need somebody that I know is going to help

898
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 2: me win games this year right away.

899
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 4: But then, like the Eagles might be like, oh, we'll

900
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 4: take the right yeah right, yeah, We'll develop that guy,

901
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 4: yeah sure, and put him next to Davis and Carter

902
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: or whatever.

903
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 3: You know.

904
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 4: Uh, the more I will do this de tackle class,

905
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 4: the less I like it, and which makes me like

906
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 4: this sign more because if they're done, I can handle it.

907
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 4: You know, maybe you throw a fifth round picking the max.

908
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of intriguing prospects in this

909
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: class for defensive lineman, there always is, but none that

910
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 2: I'm right now saying, Oh yeah, first round, sign me

911
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 2: up right. He's going to be a Cam Hayward type

912
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: for the next time.

913
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 4: This is the only one I think could be. But

914
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 4: what's that cost?

915
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 2: You agreed?

916
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

917
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: Sudesh tweets us and says, how would you grade the

918
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 2: Steelers free aightings free agent signings to this point? He says,

919
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 2: I'm sitting between a B plus and an A minus.

920
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 2: I think that's fair.

921
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 4: I'll be one hundred percent honest. If we were on

922
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 4: Bear's Nation Radio, I'd given the exact same grade. I'm

923
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 4: super impressed. I mean, I did a locked on NFL

924
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 4: show Friday and we picked I think our two or

925
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 4: three favorite off seasons, and mine was the Steelers, and

926
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 4: my national host that I was with was like, I'm

927
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 4: one hundred percent with you. I mean, they're just the

928
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 4: rosters much better than it was the last time we

929
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 4: saw him. And I think all these additions make sense.

930
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 4: You still have cap space, you have all this draft

931
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 4: capital still sitting there that you could turn into next

932
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 4: year stuff quarterback side. I'm tired of saying that, but

933
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 4: you know that's.

934
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 2: The only thing that holds me back from being like,

935
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 2: it's an A plus.

936
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say it's an A or A minus.

937
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 4: I think I did well.

938
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 2: That's that's where I'm at too.

939
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 4: I understand the vision, you know, and you know what

940
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 4: approach the take. Coming into free agency, we had some

941
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: educated opinions on it. She don't get me wrong, especially

942
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 4: if they it doesn't it's not a huge deal. But

943
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 4: in the next week if Botonio or Teller or somebody

944
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 4: like that happens to be in the mix, and then

945
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 4: they don't do anything until the draft, Hey, I get it.

946
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 2: T Mac tweets us and says, how many draft selections

947
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 2: do you think the Steelers should go into the draft

948
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: with this year? Should they trade any prior to the

949
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 2: draft or during the draft.

950
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 4: It's more of adoring the draft.

951
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's tough to trade picks. Yeah,

952
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 2: ahead of.

953
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 4: Time, and unless it's for a player.

954
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: Unless it's for a player, or I.

955
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 4: Can't believe it was a Dak Prescott and the Cowboys

956
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 4: have a big fight. Okay, now, whippen.

957
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 2: And sometimes you see, like the Eagles traded up multiple

958
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: times ahead of the draft to get to number two

959
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 2: to take Carson Wentz.

960
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 4: I can't imagine the Bills.

961
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 2: The Bills, but it's always for the quarterback that it's

962
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: always traded up multiple times ahead of the draft to

963
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 2: get Josh Allen.

964
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 4: I can't imagine Steelers being in that shoe.

965
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 2: Same. But I also don't think they should make twelve

966
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: picks in this draft.

967
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 4: No, maybe we could even do this tomorrow, but I

968
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 4: would do it real quick now, Like even if you

969
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 4: just look at how many available roster spots there are,

970
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 4: maybe there's one a quarterback, maybe there's one at.

971
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 2: Running to do that a little bit tomorrow, yeah.

972
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 4: I mean there's dollars one. A tight end could be two,

973
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 4: a oh line could be two. I mean I'm reaching

974
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 4: could be two at wide receiver. And that's like if

975
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 4: Caleb Johnson or Roman Wilson doesn't make the team. You know. So,

976
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 4: like I just rattled off like six on offense, and

977
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 4: maybe the seventh rounders wouldn't even make the team. But

978
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 4: it's really hard. It'd be really hard to get twelve

979
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 4: guys on here. I would I would be shocked if

980
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 4: in some capacity. The Steelers don't add a twenty twenty

981
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 4: seven pick by the time the two thous twenty sixth

982
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 4: draft is over, probably not a first rounder, but I

983
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 4: bet they add something for next year's draft, and they

984
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 4: probably take two fifths and trade into the fourth or

985
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 4: something once.

986
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: You know, at least that's they'll be movement. That's what

987
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: I'm thinking. Yeah, in one of those rounds, you move

988
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 2: up a few spots to get somebody that you really liked,

989
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 2: didn't think was gonna be there, and then maybe you

990
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: turn a you know, you turn a one of those

991
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: third round picks into a second.

992
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 4: That's the next favorite. That's yeah, that's like that, we

993
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 4: do that right now. I think both of you like

994
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 4: you take the Yeah. Now, I know it's a little

995
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 4: bit of cheat code when we do, like our mock

996
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 4: drafts and stuff. But I trade down a ton because

997
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 4: at twenty one there's always like five, six, seven players

998
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 4: that I'm comfortable with, and I know that's a little unrealistic,

999
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 4: but if you trade down, you're gonna get even more picks,

1000
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 4: like like you may end up after a first if

1001
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 4: you were happened to trade down in round one, you

1002
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 4: may end up with fourteen picks that that minute, and

1003
00:44:59,000 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 4: that's way too many.

1004
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 2: That's what right, right, it's certainly certainly a fun part

1005
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 2: of the process. That'll really be ramping up here.

1006
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 4: It's a really good problem to have, very good problems

1007
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 4: to have if you use every pick, so be it.

1008
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 4: We'd have a lot of fun camp talking about all

1009
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: the young guys run around.

1010
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 2: Yes, we would, But let's do let's look at that.

1011
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 2: How many more roster spots left do we think? And

1012
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 2: it's not it'll be a range.

1013
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, between ten and fifteen or something like that. Quarterbacks

1014
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 4: a weird one.

1015
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 2: Let's have in quarterbacks a weird part of that that

1016
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 2: that conversation. Let's have that conversation more in depth tomorrow.

1017
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good one.

1018
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: I Also, speaking of quarterbacks, we got a fun tweet

1019
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: from Nick I think it was about an idea for

1020
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 2: a quarterback conversation across the league. So maybe maybe we'll

1021
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 2: do some some Steelers roster spots left. We'll do some

1022
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 2: quarterback at large conversation across the NFL on the program tomorrow,

1023
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 2: and who knows, Matt, maybe we'll have another signing or

1024
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 2: some other significant news across the league by then as well.

1025
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe we'll find a guest this week too.

1026
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a couple come. Absolutely, absolutely we will do

1027
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: all of that and more is the week rolls along.

1028
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: But that will do it for us today. So thanks

1029
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: to Nate Dogg Nathan on the ones and two. He's

1030
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: fired up wearing his USA Baseball World Baseball Classic. Nathan's

1031
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: ready to go in the Championship? Is that Tuesday? Nathan?

1032
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 2: The Championship game? Is that right tomorrow night? Looking forward time? Yeah,

1033
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 2: it was pretty cool. Had had Paul Skeens on the

1034
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 2: mound and then David Bednar from Mars and the Kid

1035
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 2: Miller from Bethel Park. So pretty cool, cool Western Pennsylvania

1036
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 2: connections on the mound last night as USA took down

1037
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 2: Dominican Republic. Nathan's been Nate Dog's been buzzing all day

1038
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 2: night and a big shout out. As always, he's looking

1039
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 2: like Paul Skens with the mustache lately to mister TV

1040
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Speaker 2: Tyler v our video producer for Matt Williamson UNWS Shouler,

1041
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Speaker 2: Take care everybody, We will talk to you tomorrow. As always,

1042
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Speaker 2: you know where to find us. It's on your twenty

1043
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