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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive on Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a lovely Monday here in Pittsburgh. O t a weeks.

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Speaker 1: The third phase start this week. Steelers will be on

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Speaker 1: the field Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday this week, and um, I'll

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Speaker 1: be down there watching practice, see what goes on. It

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Speaker 1: should be interesting see how many guys show up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's don't expect you know, eleven on Levin's with Ben

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Speaker 1: and bad you know, like, yeah, it's gentle be getting

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Speaker 1: into things and we'll see who even is there. I

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Speaker 1: just wrote something about this on d K Pittsburgh Sports about, Um,

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Speaker 1: the NFL p a is is is told its members

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't like them to not show up. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's not realistic. No, I mean the young guys need

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Speaker 1: to show up. The bottom third or your roster needs

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Speaker 1: to show up for their own good about seventy five

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Speaker 1: guys on your roster need to show up? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: guess it's better as who really doesn't need to be there.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that Castro doesn't need to be there, Camoy

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Speaker 1: and cam Hey, these guys that are you're You're okay,

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Speaker 1: you're a starter. We got young guys we need to

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Speaker 1: work with. We want to get looks at. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: get many reps anyway, right, Mike, I'm sure, And Mike

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Speaker 1: toming you know what, if you show up, great, If

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Speaker 1: you don't show up, we're not gonna lose sleep about

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Speaker 1: it because we're getting these other guys reps. Yeah, we'd

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Speaker 1: love to see you, but you don't need to be here.

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Speaker 1: It would only be from a leadership sort of standpoint.

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Speaker 1: And that's fine. But um not to mention though I

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Speaker 1: said this last week. Even some of the veterans are

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Speaker 1: on the league, or a lot of the veterans around

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Speaker 1: the league, they only signed a one year deal. You

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Speaker 1: gotta be there. You better be there, especially if you're

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Speaker 1: with a new team. This is your opportunity to your deal.

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Speaker 1: You need to get acclimated because you've got to know

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Speaker 1: shop your services either to that team or another one.

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Speaker 1: There's one fewer preseason game for you this year to

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Speaker 1: that you know, and so I mean you're not going

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Speaker 1: to play in the fourth preseason game or the last

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Speaker 1: third preseason game now, I wonder how much pressure actually

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Speaker 1: comes from the the union. You know, like, if you're

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Speaker 1: a starter who's gonna make the team, but you're not great,

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Speaker 1: are you getting pressure from both sides saying, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we don't really want you to go. But he's sitting

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Speaker 1: there thinking it's probably better for my career if I go, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, And you know, it goes back to the

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Speaker 1: old Jerry Glenville thing. You know, this is the NFL

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Speaker 1: and not for long. Yeah, take advantage of the years

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Speaker 1: you have. If you've only got a five year career

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Speaker 1: and you're in year four, or you know, you're just

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Speaker 1: trying to hang on to that next contract like a

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Speaker 1: big time you better go, you better go, you better go.

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Speaker 1: You know, it just behooves you to do so. And

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Speaker 1: I can't really speak to this, but one of the

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Speaker 1: complaints that the unions have, and I think J. C.

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Speaker 1: Treader came out about it, was we're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: not doing much contact and I'm I'm sitting here in

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Speaker 1: you know, like it was getting a little too aggressive.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know, the players of yesteryear are

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Speaker 1: rolling their eyes a tounch of wolf are like, oh geez,

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Speaker 1: that's all. Well they never did these things though. Well,

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Speaker 1: the the O T A s are a relatively new

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Speaker 1: the invention and go back to I. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: when they first started having and it was sometime around

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Speaker 1: two thousand and I remember early on in the process,

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Speaker 1: but he let his coaches work with their guys with

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Speaker 1: an individual time and fundamentals and right right, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's what it was. Um. You know they've grown a

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Speaker 1: little bit more in recent years. Um, it's only three days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a three week period that leads

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Speaker 1: next six weeks essentially or at least month. Um. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what what has happened with this though, is

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Speaker 1: show us that you're you're working out that kind of stuff. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I just said to me, the union is kind of

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Speaker 1: had your chance to negotiate this out last year, right right.

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Speaker 1: I mean we were talking about remember the last time

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Speaker 1: and the big story that week was all the CBA

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Speaker 1: stuff and that's what we've we spent many, many hours

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Speaker 1: talking about that, and you know this is the different rumors.

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Speaker 1: But that immediately got forgotten because COVID hit. You know,

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Speaker 1: like people forgot that we just signed a ten year

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Speaker 1: extension on the c b A. That was the biggest

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Speaker 1: news in the sport until before and three days later

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Speaker 1: everything was shut down. It was shut down, So you know,

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Speaker 1: the players had their chance. And these aren't COVID related issues,

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Speaker 1: these are things that are in the contract. COVID put

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Speaker 1: a wrench in everything, of course, but I also feel

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Speaker 1: like the players too, to some degree, are going, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to risk being there. And like I

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Speaker 1: think that Ships said he just played a whole season

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Speaker 1: with whole season and right, I mean, what percentage are

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Speaker 1: does not best. It's not what's best for the majority

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Speaker 1: of their membership. For the individuals. Yeah, you know, for

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Speaker 1: you know, for fifent of your membership not showing up

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Speaker 1: at OTS fine, trum. Paul Amal who came to ot

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Speaker 1: They were fine with it, you know whatever, but not

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Speaker 1: you don't trust every guy to do that. No, by

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Speaker 1: the way, as we saw what you want, James, If

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Speaker 1: that's a glitch. That's a loophole. Yeah, I mean, especially

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Speaker 1: chose to opt out a year ago. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: two years, and now his career might be over, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't know what you could have been playing basketball into

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Speaker 1: seeing professional wrestling or something right now. I guess that's

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Speaker 1: is kind of strange. Yeah, I mean, you could do

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get some news. Unfortunately, someone will probably

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Speaker 1: get hurt this week in the league. You hope, you know,

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Speaker 1: non contact drills. Everybody's running around his shorts. They're basically

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Speaker 1: walk through That's the thing. Quous Golden injury, Right, this

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Speaker 1: He got He originally hurt his shoulder his rookie year

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Speaker 1: when he came back was when he did the foot yea. Um. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But one of the reasons they do have these things

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Speaker 1: or you know. Um. And also, I don't think they

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Speaker 1: want the players to have such a long break because

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Speaker 1: that's when all the headlines are everything. You're talking about

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Speaker 1: guys in football, players and really e sport who enjoy

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Speaker 1: the structure. When you have the structure, everything, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: gotta get down to the facility. Um. Creatures, Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: your creatures are hapy. That's what you do for for

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Speaker 1: seven months of the year. You your your work schedule

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Speaker 1: was pretty it's pretty set. Yeah, you're doing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You're just going into a different cities sometimes to do it. Um.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you get you get less off time, you know,

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Speaker 1: time off during the regular season. Think about if they

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Speaker 1: had this in nineteen eighty, what was it to Terry Bradshaw.

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Speaker 1: Does he get his elbow worked on in Louisiana? Uh?

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Speaker 1: they've got a new coaching staff and then they want

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Speaker 1: to win now. Yeah, so that that one I think

424
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting to follow. Atlanta can't say

425
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 1: noticed Renault and Jacksonville's No, that's as good as it's

426
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 1: gonna get. Um, you know, but that's the that's the

427
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 1: biggest topic in the league right now. Yeah, could somebody

428
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 1: else come, you know, could Buffalo or one of these

429
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 1: teams make it, make a move maybe, yeah, potentially, but

430
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 1: again it's gonna cost him a good player. I keep

431
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: here in San Francisco because they're so aggressive and they're

432
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: in it to win it right now, but then on

433
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: the first round picked the next two years, like you're

434
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 1: gonna have just destroy your draft capital for the next

435
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: couple year to give up deepo, Samuel want to know

436
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 1: when I don't want to get rid of their dudes.

437
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,159
Speaker 1: And as good as Julio is, there are the injury

438
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: injury concerns. I mean that question, that's real, without question,

439
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: his next one real quick. Baltimore to me too, they

440
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: have a lot of receivers, Like I know he's better

441
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,400
Speaker 1: than Boykin, but that of a sudden, they've got six

442
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: or seven that are rosterable players that you drafted in

443
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 1: the last two years, were signed Watkins or you know,

444
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: they're all two first round picks in the mix. I

445
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 1: don't know that that's the move. Yeah, I don't think

446
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: that happens. Um the Eagles trade zach Ertz too the

447
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:15,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That makes sense. The Eagles get seventh round

448
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: draft pick and tight end Tommy Sweeney, So basically they're

449
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: giving him nothing to get out there. But that's what

450
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 1: he's worth right now. I did my talk twenty five

451
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 1: tight ends and left him off and he was the

452
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: one I got the most heat for he was bad

453
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, could he help somebody maybe, Um,

454
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: but that's the kind of the compensation you're gonna get. Yeah,

455
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean he would be Dawson knox Is back up. Yeah.

456
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: Maybe teach him a thing or two and play some

457
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. I keep thinking Indie with him too,

458
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: to put them with Reich and Wentz. But I don't

459
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 1: know what they want him. I mean, is he better

460
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: than the guys they have? Uh Kawan short? Yeah, there's

461
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 1: some good defensive tackle still out there. The prediction is

462
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 1: that he signs a one year, three million deal, three

463
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: million dollar deal with Buffalo. I can see that. I

464
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: mean they've they've been attacking their defensive line. They want

465
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: to play in waves. They don't ask their defensive linemen

466
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: to play a lot of snaps. That's ideal for an

467
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 1: order dude. Yeah, there to win it. He is a

468
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: guy who has missed twenty seven games over the last

469
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: two years. He has not played a whole lot of football.

470
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: That team also has massive Carolina ties. Yeah, might even

471
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: draft him. Sheldon Richardson, Yeah, he was released by the Browns.

472
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: He has him signing a one year, six million dollar

473
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: deal with the Saints. It's kind of pricey, you know,

474
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: the Saints getting six million dollars. I don't see that. Yeah,

475
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: I see himself. He'll sign somewhere. Yeah, I don't know

476
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: if he'll get six million, but I bet he signed somewhere.

477
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: He doesn't really fit here, by the way, No, he

478
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: does not. Geno atkins m prediction is that he signs

479
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: a one year, two point five million dollar deal with

480
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings. I can see that. I mean, they have

481
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 1: some big nose tackle types. You know, they signed Tomlinson.

482
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: Pierce softed out last year, but they needed they need

483
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: a penetrator. He may not even play on first down

484
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: for them, but that's fine. Yeah, I mean, I think

485
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: he's better off if he only plays forty snaps a

486
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: game or thirty five snaps a game. The last couple

487
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: off seasons, this time of year, some of these former

488
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: star defensive tackles have been floating out there, you know,

489
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 1: McCoy and Sue and some of these guys. Maybe they're

490
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: just not anxious to go to camp and all these

491
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: things either. But it kind of find it odd that

492
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: you can get a brand name defensive tackle in May. Yeah,

493
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: I agree. Melvin Ingram he's visiting the Dolphins right now.

494
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: But okay, his prediction is that he signs a one year,

495
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: five point five million dollar deal with the Chargers. I

496
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: don't see him going back to the track. I think

497
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: that would have happened already. Yeah, I think that would

498
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 1: have happened. Now. They really don't have somebody opposite. That's

499
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: the that's the big problem for them. And Bosa, as

500
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 1: good as he is, has gotten Nick gotten without question.

501
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden, if you don't have

502
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: him and you don't have Ingram either, how you get problems.

503
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: But Ingram had no sacks in seven games last year.

504
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: I've mentioned him for the Steelers and I'd be very interested,

505
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: but he's a declining player. He's a declining player, and

506
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: he's not going to play special teams for you, and

507
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: he probably won't sign for cheap justin Houston, they're similar.

508
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: I'm sure who would rather have? Well, Houston has been

509
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: the more productive player. Uh he Barnwell has him signing

510
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: a one year, six million dollar deal with the Ravens.

511
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: I guess that fits. Would you consider giving him six

512
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: million if you're the Steelers? No, that's a lot because

513
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 1: he's a backup. That's a lot. I mean, you like

514
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: high Smith, you're not gonna say, Okay, Alex, we like you,

515
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: but we're gonna sign Justin Houston and play him ahead

516
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: of you. Oh. I wouldn't play him ahead of him.

517
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: I would just right. So you can't pay him. You

518
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: can't pay him six million dollars. He'd be my backup,

519
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: slash replacement, rotational guy. But that's a lot. That's why

520
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: when Steeler fans were talking about signing this guy or

521
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: that guy, you're not gonna upset the apple cart in

522
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: your in your salary structure by signing Justin Houston to

523
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: have him played twenty snaps a game. That's that's silly. Yeah,

524
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 1: it's too much. Um. Steven Nelson former Steelers cornerback. But

525
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: he signed soon signs a one year, four point five

526
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: million dollar deal with the Cardinals. Oh they need that's

527
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: a good fit. That's a good fit. I thought they

528
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: would address corner with one of the first two draft picks.

529
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: They didn't. They could. He would start right away for them.

530
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman another guy that that Steeler fans have talked

531
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: about it. He's talked about, you know, wanting to come

532
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: play with the Steelers. He doesn't fit folks, not so well.

533
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: He's basically entirely been a left corner if you're which

534
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: happens to be the same side that Joe Hayden pays,

535
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: and they don't. They don't switch sides. I mean, I'm

536
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: sure you could switch it. It's not like left tackle

537
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: going to right tack. But one of them would be uncomfortable,

538
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: and then Sutton wouldn't be a starter, would just be

539
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: your slot, and Sherman has largely been and he's at

540
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: his best when he's playing his own defense, not man

541
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: to man. He's never run real well, No, he hasn't

542
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: super smart, and I think it'd be good for the

543
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: locker room. People think he's because he's outspoken, really smart. Yeah,

544
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't bother me. But then your corners are both

545
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: what you get thirty three and thirty two year old cornerbacks.

546
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: That's not a good right way to like to do business. Uh.

547
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: One year, four million dollar deal to return to the

548
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: forty niners. They could use them. I mean again, they've

549
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: been very aggressive over there in it to win it. Uh.

550
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: kJ Wright still is not signed. Prediction is he signs

551
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: a one year two point five million dollar deal with

552
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: the Rams. Their linebackers are suspect and they're very familiar

553
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: with them, and they're always rotating lineback When you when

554
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: you have that Stars and Scrubs line up like they do,

555
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: they're always just kind of throwing whatever in the linebacker.

556
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Peyton Manning Colts. I mean,

557
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: they had all their money and weapons and edge rushers,

558
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: they just put fourth round picks the linebacker over and over.

559
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: Russell Kum No prediction for bar Wormwell is that he

560
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 1: signs a one year, six point five million dollar deal

561
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: with the Steelers. Interesting wed a good Morgan Moses conversation.

562
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that they can afford a six point

563
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: one year, one year, six point five million. That doesn't

564
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: really work under their salary structure because right now they

565
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,959
Speaker 1: have enough money to sign their rookies and then they

566
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: have about six point five million dollars remaining. Uh and

567
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: they like to go into the into the season with

568
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: that much money available. Uh. So you want to sign

569
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: him to a two year deal with that first year

570
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: being you know, counting two two and a half, and

571
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: then the next year being the you know where he

572
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: makes more money. That makes more sense, and you have

573
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: a lot more caps based next year, but he's missed

574
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: a lot of time to say you would hope he's

575
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: not your starter year from now too, and he might

576
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: not even start this year. Like you brought up Morgan

577
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: Moses last year, I had much rather have him. I

578
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: think he's the better player. He's younger, he's more reliable.

579
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: He's just he's just starting right tackle for the next

580
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: two years and the left side you have missed the games,

581
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: and he started every game since two thousan and fifteen.

582
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just a yeah, he's got an iron

583
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: Man streak. One, that's what you want to me. Okay,

584
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that he beats out bann or Choose.

585
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: I mean he might, he might, yeah, but again he

586
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: hasn't played much football the last two seasons. And I

587
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: guess in a nutshell, I would rather have a left

588
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: than a right if I'm gonna buy one on the

589
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: open market. But I'd rather just have the better player

590
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: that's younger and more reliable. Now you're now, you're okay

591
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: at four spots on your line. You let those two

592
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: guys compete at the left tackle spot. See where it's at.

593
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: Trey Turner signs a one year, four and a half

594
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: million dollar deal with Detroit. Wow, that's like one of

595
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: the only things they have good is their line. Yeah.

596
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: I guess it's their style to bring me more alignment now.

597
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: But Golden Tate signs a one year, one point one

598
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: million dollar deal with the Titans. Yeah. I said he

599
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: could go to Detroit too. I mean Detroit des receivers.

600
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee could add one more for sure. Julio has been

601
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: linked to Tennessee here and there. Todd Gurley signs a

602
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: one year, one point one million dollar deal with Kansas City.

603
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: If Todd Gurley only cost you one point one million dollars,

604
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: if I'm the Steelers, I look at that like, hey,

605
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: you want to come in and yeah, right, because that's

606
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: what you're gonna be. You're you're signing at one point

607
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: one million dollar deal. You're gonna be somebody's back up.

608
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: And he's gonna be a total spot player. Yeah, And

609
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: I mean his knees are shot basically, but he doesn't

610
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: look terrible at times. You can't overwork. They can still

611
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: catch the ball. He can still do some stuff for you.

612
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: If you had to spot. Start to me, bis better

613
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: better than Benny Snow. Yeah, I mean for the Chiefs,

614
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: he would probably play more than he would here. Um,

615
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: you know, they don't know much behind, you know, Clyde Edwards, Hilaire,

616
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: I can see that move for that, but I can

617
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: see I mean, you know, a guy like Gurley would

618
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: make sense. You're all of a sudden now you bring

619
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: him him in, Harris, Harris is gonna listen, listen, hey

620
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: VP one year? Right, Yeah, he's done a lot. No,

621
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, so

622
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: if you unless your doctors are just like easy for

623
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: us to say, but yeah, yeah, they could be like no, no, no, no,

624
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: I can't do that. But it's one year, I mean cheap,

625
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: he's in the league. Yeah, that's cheap. But that is

626
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: the Bill Barnwell predictions on what's going to happen here.

627
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: Some of the bigger names that are still available. Still

628
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there. There are still a

629
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: lot of guys out there. I'm I'm sure there's many

630
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: names and there'll be more and get some June first

631
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: cuts will probably be ten brand name guys that hit

632
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: the hit the market, and I'll be asked about every

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Speaker 1: one of them. Should he signed with the Steeler. Should

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Speaker 1: the Steelers sign this guy? Should Steeler sign Not everybody

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Speaker 1: who's a big name should be signed, folks, But I

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Speaker 1: bet they add somebody. But now in camp, Yeah, there's yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a market for sure for these teams. Absolutely, there's teams.

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Speaker 1: There's guys like Jamison Crowder that could be on the

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Speaker 1: move and you know, and then somebody signs him and

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Speaker 1: boom he that saw Morgan Moses guy could ye on

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Speaker 1: the open market. It's the domino effect, people say. I

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Speaker 1: was asked when I wrote about that, why do you

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Speaker 1: get cut in Washington? Well, he's making ten million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year and Leno fell on their lap. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that Leno is a better player than him,

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Speaker 1: but it's I don't wouldn't say it's not markedly And

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Speaker 1: they drafted caused me in the same round. But they

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Speaker 1: got then when they get cheaper, get yeah, get the

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Speaker 1: GPS based. Yeah, he's not gonna get ten millions next home, right,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he'll get a decent deal and

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Speaker 1: he'll be a starter somewhere, but he's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: a ten million player anymore. Yeah, I agree, so, but

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this segment. So for my

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Speaker 1: partner Matt Williamson, for Jacob Rick here on site keeping

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Speaker 1: us on the air, I'm Dale Lally. We thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening to this edition of the Drive on Steelers

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