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Speaker 1: with Matt Royason and he say, lovely, lovely, this is

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Speaker 1: rather lovely flensdays a little cooler than yesterday, but still

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Speaker 1: yesterday and went straight to eleven. Yeah yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure our last segment was as good as our first.

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Speaker 1: You know, our radio stamina for three hour hot day

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Speaker 1: mean even Gibbs Is Washington teams and Parcels Giants teams

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Speaker 1: and yeah, and I certainly remember the year or very well.

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Speaker 1: I was very in tuned with football when it was

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Speaker 1: Niners or as Cowboys. Presumably in every NFC championship game,

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Speaker 1: people said, well, that was the real super Bowl. And

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Speaker 1: they were pretty right. I mean, there wasn't. They weren't

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Speaker 1: too challenged after that. I mean they were the two

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Speaker 1: best teams in the league at that point and they

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Speaker 1: had a good rivalry. Yeah. So it's it's not easy

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Speaker 1: to win one. And it also depends on what else

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Speaker 1: is in your conference. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's career, for a long time throughout his career, the

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Speaker 1: only quarterbacks in the a f C to win Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls were Brady Manning think until Flacco and then he

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Speaker 1: won won one and that then it was just okay,

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Speaker 1: that was Roethlisberger, Brady Manning and Flacco then until my

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Speaker 1: homes Yeah right right, So I mean that's a long time.

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Speaker 1: That's a long time, right, his whole career, and I

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Speaker 1: think those those were the only quarterbacks to represent the

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Speaker 1: f C even went. Yeah, Brady, excuse some of these

445
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Speaker 1: things just because of his dominance. But it's still amazing

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Speaker 1: that about a twenty year stretch, four quarterbacks went to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and Flacco was only there once and

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Speaker 1: he won it. Do you go twice twice? They played

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Speaker 1: the Niners too? Okay, Yeah, but I mean even at that,

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Speaker 1: like I mean, it just goes to show you that

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Speaker 1: it's not easy to get there, it's even harder to

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Speaker 1: win it. So it is, and it was We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break. He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Ally.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm dale ally here with Matt Williamson, one

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Speaker 1: of the uh what do they call those balls, like

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Speaker 1: those exercise balls you'll see them in like yoga and yeah,

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Speaker 1: not my bag, but those people actually have one. I

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Speaker 1: had one when I was rehabbing my shoulder and I

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Speaker 1: had to do rolls like I got you rolled out

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Speaker 1: like pressure body up on it puts pressure on your

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Speaker 1: I know some people will sit on him instead of

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Speaker 1: like a desk chair so that they know their core

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Speaker 1: strength gets a little better and stuff like, you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of balance yourself on with your hands. It's

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Speaker 1: harder than it looks. Oh, it's definitely harder, but it's

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Speaker 1: rolling in the middle of the wind. The wind came

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Speaker 1: along and that's how kind of heavy the winds are

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Speaker 1: gusting every once in a while. Rolled the ball out

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Speaker 1: into the onto the field. Press this fielder like somebody

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Speaker 1: kicked it. We get off the air. I'll go get it,

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Speaker 1: U Mattah. We talked about the Bill Barnwell, Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other fifteen or sixteen came out today. The best ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the best one is the Steelers were on that list.

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Speaker 1: They were kind the middle of the road. Which isn't

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Speaker 1: the worst off season of the of the year, but no,

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Speaker 1: certainly not the best. And I disagree with Bill and

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Speaker 1: some of the things that he said, but not all

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Speaker 1: of it. If you look at who is ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Steelers now, I think they were taught. They were

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Speaker 1: that's kind of where he stopped, right. I think there

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Speaker 1: was a two part series he had like seventeen through

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Speaker 1: thirty two and then through sixteen came out today. So

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Speaker 1: the team's ahead of the Steelers are the Panthers. Panthers

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Speaker 1: had a better offseason than the Steelers. I like that

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Speaker 1: they did some things that are on line, But there's

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Speaker 1: a problem in Carolina right now that hasn't really been addressed.

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Speaker 1: Would kill for Mitch Robiski right now, right They might

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Speaker 1: kill for Mason Rudolph right now, right That might be

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Speaker 1: a decent trade to him. Yeah, I mean, do you

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Speaker 1: think mc corral is gonna be the answer? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I still think Baker has the chance to end up there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're going to get McCaffrey back, and that's nice,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, what else was so great? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I can make the argument that Kwan who was the

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Speaker 1: best player in the draft, though, I mean that had

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Speaker 1: to be that that pick itself was a home run

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Speaker 1: for them, But then they have a second they didn't

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Speaker 1: They didn't really get you know that much better. It's

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Speaker 1: seventeen than was the Vikings. I could see that Zadarius

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Speaker 1: Smith um you know, some corners and secondary help in

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Speaker 1: the draft. They'll get some guys back from injury, which

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Speaker 1: I think is big. They had a chance to draft

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Speaker 1: a premium player and draft and they kept trading back.

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Speaker 1: I mean sometimes analytics, right, I hear you, and all

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Speaker 1: the trade value charts say they lost those deals. It's sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Were the Bills von Miller. I like their first two picks,

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Speaker 1: although I think Cook might be a little bit of

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Speaker 1: more of a luxury than they need. And they kept

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Speaker 1: the gang together. Yeah, it's a big deal. That's a

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Speaker 1: big deal a lot of times when you get when

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Speaker 1: you have a couple of deep runs into playoffs and

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Speaker 1: you start poaching guys off your roster, and right, that

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Speaker 1: really didn't happen in in Buffalo, good example couple. They

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Speaker 1: stole von Miller from the Rams Steelers. The Steelers got

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Speaker 1: Levy Wallace and Mit Drobisky, but that I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and they weren't. Yeah, and they drafted a

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Speaker 1: first round corner and which was the backup there. So

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Speaker 1: now I'm on board with that. That's a good off season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If it's sixteen, I'll be there be

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Speaker 1: something we disagree with. I'm sure. I'm fifteen is the Browns,

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry we've talked a lot about the Browns lately,

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Speaker 1: but man, they could go a lot of different directions.

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Speaker 1: I would take the Steelers offseason over what Cleveland has done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: unless Watson's the Hall of Fame tenure starting quarterback, best

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and Auto Graham in Brown's history. You know. But

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Speaker 1: even at that, We've talked about this. We talked about

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Speaker 1: in the first segment there. They've they've ruined their salary

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Speaker 1: cap situation. That's brutal, and they don't have first round

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Speaker 1: draft picks the next couple of years. Now, Like Watson

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Speaker 1: has to be awesome. We had this conversation last year.

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Speaker 1: He has to play first, and he in playing is

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Speaker 1: not good enough. He needs to be a top five

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks for the next couple of years too, because the

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Speaker 1: but Tonio's and um, you know, maybe uh another lineman

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Speaker 1: or the ten million dollar guys will start fading away

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Speaker 1: to replace him within no cap space. Yeah again, Marty

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Speaker 1: Cooper is making thirty four million next year. He has

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Speaker 1: to be like the best receiver in the league this year.

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Speaker 1: They even come back at that price, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then what he got to My money's on him not

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Speaker 1: being right right receiver in uh at fourteen are the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I like what the Chiefs have done. I think that

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Speaker 1: they've just changed their outlook in terms of, let's sell

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Speaker 1: Hill before we can't. You know, we'll sell them at

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Speaker 1: a high point. We're gonna spread the football around in

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Speaker 1: a way. They became a little too predictable and easy

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Speaker 1: to play against all the you know, too high safety stuff.

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Speaker 1: They look easy to play as a stretch right, but

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Speaker 1: it's always going to Kelsey or Hill, you know. And

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Speaker 1: now I think it's gonna be a little more run oriented,

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Speaker 1: spread the ball around, heavy defensive draft. But third was

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Speaker 1: bad last year. No one seems to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um, you know, we'll see how that works

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Speaker 1: out for them, uh at. But it's their version of

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Speaker 1: a rebuild reshuffle. The big move for them. The Colts.

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Speaker 1: I think Ryan's an upgrade. See I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he is, because I think I think has got shorten.

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Speaker 1: The state has gotten really kind of he's the bad guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a villain, and it's a little unnecessary. Like the

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Speaker 1: other the rest of the team played those games too.

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Speaker 1: The defense, it's not good in those that game against

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. But I think Matt Ryan behind that line,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Indy two meis and be a lot

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Speaker 1: better than Matt Ryan in Atlanta. My question is, though,

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Speaker 1: or I like, once you could run to bring us

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Speaker 1: back to a Steeler type thing. You could do outside

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Speaker 1: stretch and things like that quarterback move and stuff. You're

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Speaker 1: not doing that in that Ryan, No, no, you're not,

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Speaker 1: you're not. I mean they're gonna have to kind of

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Speaker 1: change how they play a little bit. It'll be the rivers. Look,

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Speaker 1: you know, which is harder, you know, I mean, you

592
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Speaker 1: better be a great processor and those type of things,

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00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: and you gotta protect them. I don't love their weapons

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Speaker 1: about Like Pierce Pick, they did things like though and

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Speaker 1: traded for the joke or not a jokey, you know,

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Speaker 1: traded uh the corner for him like this is like

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Speaker 1: a six team. In the last three years, well, they've

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Speaker 1: all been with the Colts. Defensive coordinator Bradley, he just

599
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Speaker 1: keeps taking them with them everywhere. But him and Brandon

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Speaker 1: Cooks have been traded like a hundred times already and

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Speaker 1: they're both like twenty. It's really weird. People give good

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Speaker 1: stuff up for him. It's not like, here's a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick for these guys. You know people want them

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Speaker 1: at twelve? Is Jacksonville? I don't know, No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: even the first overall pick. Is he gonna be a star?

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Speaker 1: I mean they're better on paper, but you gotta equate

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Speaker 1: what you paid for these guys, and that matters too.

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Speaker 1: You don't just say, well, they had the first pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft, so they had a great offseason, right right,

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Speaker 1: right right, Like so you got you used to pick

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Speaker 1: one thirty three in a ton of cap space, and

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Speaker 1: this is what you got in return? You lost that trade? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you gave more than

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Speaker 1: you got back. Yeah. I don't see that at all

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Speaker 1: yet to see anybody that loves the pieces that they added. No, right,

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Speaker 1: and I like the linebackers, but they added three of them.

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Speaker 1: I mean Muma and the dude from Atlanta they gave

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Speaker 1: good money to and trade up for Lloyd Yeah yeah, Kirk,

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk's Jones and Evan Ingram that's your Well, we

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Speaker 1: really pumped up our passing game here. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: couldn't wait for Evan Ingram to get out of right?

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Speaker 1: I do think those receivers are better than what Lawrence

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Speaker 1: threw to as a rookie, but that's not saying anything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are some of the worst receivers in the league,

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Speaker 1: right right, I get it. So you got better there,

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Speaker 1: but you still got Cam Robinson playing left tackle. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think they're a better team, but that's not the

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Speaker 1: point here is what you paid for versus what you got. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, I wouldn't put that one that high.

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Speaker 1: The Christian Kurt is a terrible contract. I mean, say

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Speaker 1: Jones is making like ten million years. Yeah, they almost

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Speaker 1: had a New England type office. Guys at eleven are

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Speaker 1: the Bengals? Should the Bengals be that high on that?

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Speaker 1: I think they were okay, I mean they did what

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Speaker 1: they needed to do, But I think I threw it

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Speaker 1: out yesterday. Alex Kappa good guard. You know, he'll probably

637
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: have a fine tenure career, but you probably bought him

638
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: at his highest point coming off of you know, a

639
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: couple of years with Brady. You know he is not

640
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: going to be John Hannah or you know, I mean

641
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: a great player, and you gave him pretty good money.

642
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: But considering where that team's at and they've drafted pretty

643
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: well lately. I like that all the resources went to

644
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: O line in secondary. I'm cool with that. Yeah, yeah,

645
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: I think it's good. Ted Carriss doesn't move the needle

646
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 1: for He's like Kappa but worse. You know, like, Okay,

647
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: he's better than the bomb you had last year, but

648
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: he's not a long term top center. Like the only

649
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: real guy that you look at and say, okay, that's

650
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: a big upgrade is lay All Collins. But he's got

651
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: some volatility to injuries and need some offfield stuff and

652
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, right, right, right, But he's the one that

653
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: could hit. But the line is better, there's no question

654
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: about it. But you might be drafting the center to

655
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: hear something. How to uh at ten is the Dolphins,

656
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean Armstead and Hill alone is a lot.

657
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean those are two the Hills. They're also old.

658
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: I think Hill's heading into his decline here, and they're

659
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: both two of the best players with their respect to positions.

660
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: Way to get him right, And you also don't have

661
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: picks the beauty of the Dolphins zone. I don't know

662
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: if Bill factors is in. They do have two first

663
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: round picks next year, so they have a they have

664
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: an umbrella. They have a safety net if this thing explode,

665
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: unlike the Browns, like if this thing explodes on them,

666
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: well we'll ship out two of her fifth round pick.

667
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: You know, have two first round picks and go from

668
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: there and at least have something to some insurance. Yeah,

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00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I get, uh, you know, adding

670
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle raheem most now like ingold to your back

671
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: feet that doesn't move the needles, doesn't change. Even Edmunds

672
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: He's okay. But I mean they're just a bunch of dudes,

673
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: you know, right, Um So I we'll see, yeah, we'll see.

674
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: Some people love their roster. I mean I think it's okay.

675
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: This one I don't get at all. Number nine is

676
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: the Packers. I don't either. They should be in the bottom.

677
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: If you want to just talk defense, I think their

678
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: defense got awesome. Two first round picks added to it.

679
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: Already good defense. But what else does it do? I mean,

680
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: is it going to be a good defense? I mean,

681
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, you've they've let some guys walk. Randall Cobb

682
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: might be their best pass catchers or most reliable. Right now,

683
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: it's not good. No, it's not good. I don't understand

684
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: that one. Um, you know, yeah, you still that's not

685
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: an edition. He wasn't anywhere, right, right, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah,

686
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: I can't give him credit for keeping their own necessarily, right, Yeah,

687
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what they and Rogers wasn't a free agent, right,

688
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: and they gave him more money and gave more money

689
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: right dollars this year? Yeah, and no receivers. Uh. They

690
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: have a lot of stock in Kristen Watson. I think

691
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: that could go wrong. I think they could go wrong too.

692
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: It eight is the Rams? What they do so great?

693
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: I mean, swap out Beckham for Robinson. I know that

694
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: was hurt. You lose Von Miller, Eric Wow and Andrew

695
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: Whitworth both retired. I mean the draft yielded very little

696
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: as usual. We knew that was gonna be the case.

697
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: Not high picks. I don't know that. And say what

698
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: they do so great? I'm trying to strain in my

699
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: brain here, trying to figure out what do we love

700
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: from the Rams. I'm just looking at here and he

701
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: can't even mention. There's not much here that he mentions.

702
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: Everything that he mentions is somebody they lost, yeah, right,

703
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: right right, I mean they're the champs and all, and

704
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: I guess they retained most of that, but that can't

705
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: that would not be hind on my lips and not

706
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: at all steal them. The Steelers have proved more than

707
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: the Rams did season. Absolutely, it's not even close. It's

708
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: seven or the Jets. I thought they'd be like one

709
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: or two. Yeah, they've done a lot. Yeah, there's some

710
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: building an all star team and building a fantasy team

711
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: is different than building a true NFL team. And we'll

712
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: see how all these pieces all jell together. And Wilson

713
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: needs to be good, but that's what it all depends

714
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean that all depends on depends on the quarterback.

715
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 1: But to their credit, they've put him in a position

716
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: to succeed. Though, Yeah, you know that we don't know

717
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: this year yet and that's the key. Yeah. I like

718
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: their off season. I think he's a good GM. It's

719
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: six or the Giants. Some of it's the addition by

720
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 1: subtraction stuff though, just getting out from all the bad

721
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: stuff they inherited. I like their two first round picks.

722
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: I didn't love their draft after that though, I mean,

723
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: your two picks on the top six, you should do well. Yeah,

724
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: you know you Thibodeau and Neil Okay, fine, you know

725
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: that it wasn't hard to do. What else they do

726
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: was so special? I don't know. Yeah, I mean they

727
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: dumped some bad contracts. But yeah, there's always some New

728
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: York bias on these things, Yeah, a little bit. I

729
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: mean he didn't pick up Daniel Jones option at five

730
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: is the Ravens I see it. Marcus Williams is a

731
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: very nice addition to me. Yeah, and Morgan Moses is

732
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: at nice yet um, And it was to talk about

733
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: the draft, I mean the defensive line and wide receiver, right,

734
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: the pass rush didn't get better, record didn't get better. No,

735
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: I think I would have them closer to the middle

736
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: of the pack than I would at the top. Yeah,

737
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: I mean them and the Jets are the ones to

738
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: get all the post draft buzz because there's a ton

739
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: of brand names and early picks. And I get that,

740
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: and that makes you better, I'm sure. But the key

741
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: of the ball the more to me is why I

742
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: keep harping on them. They're getting their injured guys back,

743
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: but that's not that does That doesn't count. That doesn't count.

744
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: I'm more impressed with what's you know, what's coming back

745
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: from you're already roster than what you added. Yeah. For

746
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: as Tampa Bay, I guess you get to run it

747
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: back one more year. That's as easy as you count

748
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: Tom Brady returning because because he was already on the roster, right,

749
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: that was his decision. That's not a roster changer and

750
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: offseason move is convincing Tom to come back. Change a coach. Um,

751
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: it's hard to run the same team back three years

752
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: in a row. And they're basically going to do it.

753
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: But they're also max not their credit cards to do

754
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: it too, and they got a ring. I mean, I

755
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: get it as grown gonna come back. I guess picking

756
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: up a guy like Gauge is nice, you know, considering

757
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 1: considering the Brown situation. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, it

758
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be. The top three is the Chargers. I think

759
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: they had a good They would have been high for me,

760
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: very very good. Coli Mack and Jason Jackson. Yeah. Uh

761
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: two are the Eagles. Yeah. I heard somebody recently I

762
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: wish I had thought of this, that who was the

763
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: best player in the draft was a J. Brown? You

764
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean, if you look at it that way,

765
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: like who came away with the best haul after Day one,

766
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,439
Speaker 1: who's the Eagles? I mean, if not even including Jordan

767
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: David who got the best player in this draft I

768
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: think is a J Brown. I like where they're at.

769
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: That leaves one the Denver Broncos. Wilson, I guess carries

770
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: a ton of water. Yeah, I mean, okay, I mean

771
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: they're they're better than they were. I'm sure their win

772
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: projection went up three games from where they were, and

773
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: so I'll buy that. But and we talked about this.

774
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: I think off Eric, yesterday, you had Mike Munchack as

775
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: your offensive line kill. You come in as a new

776
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: head coach, and Munchak wants to like he's moved his family,

777
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: his families living. It sounds like you wanted to be there, right,

778
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: Why would you not keep Mike Munchack. Yeah, that makes

779
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: no sense to me at all. I mean, even if

780
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: your best friend is your line coach, you're the assistant,

781
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: or you can coach, you could be the offensive quality

782
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: control coach. Whatever. Maybe we'll make you go work at

783
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: college until Mike decided to hung it hang it up,

784
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: and then we'll hire you or whatever. But be the

785
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: d line coach, learn new trade or something yeah, um no,

786
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 1: I'm with you there. I'm trying to think what else

787
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: Denver did. Their draft was fine, but they didn't have

788
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: an early pick. You know, they gave up some players

789
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: in the Wilson deal too though, right, you know, I

790
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: mean not they're great players, but no a fan and

791
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: guys like that. I mean they're big Jones are there.

792
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: Big editions were Randy Gregory, d J. Jones, Kawan Williams.

793
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 1: And they're all fine, They're all play meaningful snaps. Yeah, yeah,

794
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: I mean the big editions will so that would put

795
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: them ahead of what the Chargers did. No, I wouldn't either. Yeah,

796
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers are one. Yeah, have Jet's pretty

797
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: high too. Yeah, it was gonna take a break against

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. This is a special

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Speaker 1: edition of The Drive from the U. P. M. C

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Speaker 1: Rooney Sports Complex here at Steeler O T A. S

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with more right after this. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. We're live

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Speaker 1: from this up mc roomy Sports Complex here on the

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Speaker 1: South Side for Steeler O T A sessions and Mattos

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00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: looking here at a story on the thirty third team

807
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: website about potential UH Comeback Player of the Year award

808
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: wins two and they mentioned Jamis Winston, Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey,

809
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Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson. First of all, I am not counting

810
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson in that list at all, because you're coming

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Speaker 1: back from sitting out on your own. I don't think

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00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: anybody's voting on voting, that's not going to happen. Uh,

813
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 1: So I get the other three candidates there, Winston, Henry,

814
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: and McCaffrey all wars. The Steelers have a number of

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00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: candidates on that list that should be on that list.

816
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: It should be on Like if Mitch Robiski comes back

817
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: this year. Let's say let's say he gets the Steelers

818
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: to the playoffs again, you know, his third time to

819
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: two of his four years with the Bears, he had

820
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. Yeah, right, right, he's done that. Yeah,

821
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: he's kind of the same situation if he has a

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00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: good season. Yeah, it's not a bad one at all.

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00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: I mean, perfect sense, right, it makes perfect sense. Um,

824
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: step on to it. I guess it would be another

825
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: if stef onto it returns this year and is the

826
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: step onto it when he was one of only three

827
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: players in the a f C to get the double

828
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: digits in sacks, and the Steelers defense goes from where

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00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: it was that last year middle of the pack to

830
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: being a top you know, five ten or five unit

831
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Speaker 1: again this year. I mean, not many d linemen win

832
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: that award, but your point is valid. I mean, like

833
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: Devin Bush could be on that. You know, like, who

834
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Speaker 1: do you want to be the Steelers come back player

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00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: of the Year. I mean if two of those three

836
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: are in the conversation, that'd be great, right, yeah. I

837
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: mean if if all three of them are, that means

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00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers probably had a pretty good year. I mean

839
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: that makes Yeah, there's some guys are counting in Tyson

840
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: Luu lu too. I mean, I know Tyson Lulu is

841
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: not going to the NFL, you know, comeback player of

842
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: the year and nose tackle plays twenty taps game. But

843
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: if he comes back in as a solid year, that's

844
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: something that was really missing last year. So that's one

845
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: thing when I when I look at this team and

846
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: people said, well, how do they how do they get better?

847
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: How does the run defense get better? This year? Well,

848
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: we just talked about three big pieces there. Yeah, that

849
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: are instrumental. Yeah, that you know, guys who have played

850
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: at a high level. Because no matter what people want

851
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: to say, I thought we had actually Devin Bush talk

852
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: today in the locker. He was playing his first twenty

853
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: one games. He was very effective, he was you look

854
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: at the look at the numbers on those first three seasons.

855
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: I just ran these year his first three seasons, first

856
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: twenty one games of his career, a hundred thirty five tackles,

857
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: two interceptions, nine tackles for a lost, two sacks, seven

858
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: past defenses and I believe in an interception in his

859
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: first twenty one games. Yeah, and every everyone's thinking of

860
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: him as the next great Steeler linebacker. And boy, what

861
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: a great trade moving up to get him. I mean,

862
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: the narrative was much different, you know. So he has

863
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: it in him, no doubt, And he said had last year.

864
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: I asked him point blank. I said, because he said

865
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: something about confidence, And I said, let's go back and

866
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: talk about what you just mentioned. Their confidence. Was your

867
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: confidence lacking at times last year? I bet? He says,

868
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: I bet it deep down he would say yes, And

869
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: he said at times early on at times, I wasn't

870
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: happy with my play. Of course, I wasn't happy with losing.

871
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: I went through some things personally. I feel like it

872
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: was all a learning process. But he also said he

873
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: feels like he'll come out on the other side of

874
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: this better because he's now been through that down period.

875
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: Things weren't easy for him. It's obviously a critical time

876
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: of his career. But one of the reasons they liked

877
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: him so much coming out of school was his mental toughness,

878
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: toughness and his work ethic. And if he realizes, boy,

879
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: this was harder than I thought, or I had to

880
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: deal with some things on and off the field that

881
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: I didn't expect. What do I do now to get better?

882
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: You know, so many players and so many people in

883
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: every walk of life have had a setback, you know,

884
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean, and part of it, I'm sure was his

885
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: knee as well. But you know, he there were some

886
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: circumstances in in his control and some of it not,

887
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,479
Speaker 1: you know, the the injury, the d line in front

888
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: of him, those things weren't his, you know, totally in

889
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: his control. But he had some mental errors and some

890
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 1: processing errors and some alignment errors and things like that too.

891
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: And you could tackle better, and you know some of

892
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: a lot of it's on him too. Yeah, there's no doubt.

893
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that did play into

894
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: the confidence being there. I think am I supposed to

895
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: be again? If you're not, if you're not completely confident

896
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 1: out there, you're you're processing just a half second late

897
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: special deposition. It's gonna look like happen quick. You're gonna

898
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,479
Speaker 1: look like you're lost. Yeah. And if I look lost

899
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: at times last year, if I can get two and

900
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: a half feet to the right to take this block

901
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: on better, but I hesitate just that little bit and

902
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: don't shuffle, and this guard has a better angle on me,

903
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: and now I'm getting pushed out and the running backs

904
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: right off his But you know, running that through a

905
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: big hole, and it's that it really is a game

906
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,439
Speaker 1: of inches that way. It's snowball rolling down the hill

907
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you've got And I don't

908
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: think you know a lot of times Chase Claypool talked

909
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: about this last week as well. Um, when you're in

910
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: the moment, when you're in the season, you don't have time,

911
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: you don't have time to to to fix some of

912
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: those things like Claypool talked about it, you know, going

913
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: back and looking at it, I left my feet too much.

914
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: I was I was jumping when I didn't need to jump.

915
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: And it's good he recognized, like, you know, so you're

916
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: sitting on my couch, I recognize that. But it's hard

917
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: when you're the player and you know right because you're

918
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: just you don't do that. You get out of a

919
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: game and you're getting ready for the next one. You

920
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time to say, Okay, I

921
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: need to do this better. I gotta work on this,

922
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: to work on that. No, you're healing your wounds, your

923
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: rest in your body. You're trying to figure out, you know,

924
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: the game plan for the upcoming week because you mentioned

925
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: you'd probably study in the opposite corner that he's gonna

926
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: play against a bond. That type of thing. Things happen

927
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: real quick. I mean, it's hard to get it's easy

928
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: to get into bad habits. Yeah, and then once you

929
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: get into those bad habits, it's hard to get out

930
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: of them. In the middle of a season season, you

931
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: just don't have enough time in the work week to

932
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: to get ready for the next game while also you know,

933
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: working on that and no offense at all to the

934
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: previous coaches. But I do think having Brian flora Is

935
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: here will be really good for Bush. Yeah, I mean

936
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: really good for Bush. Yeah. I've talked to a bunch

937
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: of different guys about, you know, what he brings to it,

938
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: and a lot of them say it's a very military

939
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: like structured so yeah, so you know, regimented and you

940
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: know direct, Yeah it's not this is what you need,

941
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: This is what you need to do to be successful,

942
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: you know. So, No, they do have some good bounce

943
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: back candidates to the original conversation, Bush to me is

944
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: the top of the list in terms of stuff that

945
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: he can control, you know, and and you know, just

946
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: the other two were not here. Bush was here and

947
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: just didn't play as well as you wanted. I guess

948
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: Clay Pols and then can be lumped in that a

949
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: little bit too. Yeah, but he, I mean he wasn't.

950
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: I think he gets a bum wrap too. His numbers

951
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: were exactly the same other than the touchdowns from his

952
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: rookie season. Like the fantasy community's hard on him because

953
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: boys fantasy points went down, like he really did the

954
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: same thing. That's very difficult to replicate. Yeah, No, I

955
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of worries about him. Leaving

956
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: his feet too much is something that it happened, but okay,

957
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, people get on him because he celebrated a

958
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: little bit too much instead of running the ball over

959
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: to the raffits, like come on, yeah, I mean it

960
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: doesn't always have to be a scapegoat, you know. Yeah,

961
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just lose because you lost. Sometimes you lose

962
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: because you lost, right, So yeah, I think I think

963
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: the Steelers will have some good candidates for that. Don't

964
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't mean that they'll win it. No. In fact,

965
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: if I but even just within the walls here, if

966
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: I had to put the odds on, let's say, if

967
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: I had to say which one of those Steeler players

968
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: could win it, I think I might bet on business

969
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: Trasky because he's court position. He plays too, right, it's

970
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: almost always a skill guy of some sort. If he

971
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: goes on the touchdown passes this year, and if he

972
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: starts seventeen games and the Steelers go to the playoffs, yeah,

973
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's and he used to be in the running.

974
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: Yeah oh yeah, votes all right, I mean that's what

975
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: the Saints one from Winston. If he can start every

976
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: game and they go to the the playoffs. That's all come

977
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 1: back type season and no doubt about it. Yeah, so

978
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: it'd be interesting. I can't vote for Watson. I can't

979
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: see anybody voting for watching. No, I don't think anybody

980
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: will know. I wouldn't even put him on the list, right,

981
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: he does cut out to me because he has he

982
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: has zero chants. Yeah, and you sat out and you

983
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: were at legal troubles and that's that doesn't count. Yeah,

984
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: you don't get my vote for that. No, No, he

985
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: wasn't suspended, but you still Anyways, that's that was interesting,

986
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: and I think the thirty third team website. We're gonna

987
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 1: take another break here at the top of the hour.

988
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: Matt and I will be back with our two right

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00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,400
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