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Speaker 2: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and this is the start of our number

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Speaker 2: two here and on the Drive and a couple of

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Speaker 2: things here. Now with the schedule release that yeah, Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Focus has put out, the first one here I

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Speaker 2: wanted to get to is four players to target for

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Speaker 2: fantasy playoffs after the twenty twenty five NFL schedule release.

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Speaker 2: Playoffs right, playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I always hesitate on some of these, but there are

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Speaker 3: some that are like, man, they face a really easy

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Speaker 3: stretch of passing defenses, but you don't know if it's

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Speaker 3: going to don't know, but at least it's a tiebreaker,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: So the first person on, the first guy on here

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Speaker 2: is Malik Neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they faced like the hardest schedule ever, but.

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Speaker 2: Here's what they got in the fantasy playoffs. Week fifteen,

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Speaker 2: they play the Commanders.

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Speaker 3: Their defense could be bad this year.

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen, they play the Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it was a good defense, but it's not super talented.

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Speaker 2: Week seventeen, they play, which would be championship week the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Nice. Okay, those are pretty weak secondaries. Yeah, okay, so

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Speaker 3: that might be worth it. I mean, if you're sitting

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Speaker 3: there in the not the two second round, you're not

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Speaker 3: going to shy away or you're to play them anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Milik Neighbors is mylak Neighbors. But if you're torn between

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Speaker 3: him and Pooka Akua in the first round, maybe that's

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Speaker 3: that's the way you look at it, right.

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Speaker 2: We're maybe you maybeay through the season, you pay a

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Speaker 2: little bit extra to get Milik Neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Offer the Neighbors guys, somebody that's not thinking twice about it.

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Speaker 2: The second guy in here is Nico Collins.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Week fifteen the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Raiders are a target. Yeah, especially the back.

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Speaker 2: Seven Week seven team the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: Okay, doesn't sound super easy, but I see where they're

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Speaker 2: The next guy in here is Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 3: He's always good in the fantasy playoffs. Anyways.

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Speaker 2: Week fifteen the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I would definitely pay attention to Bengals schedule.

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen is the Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think the defense will be better, but that's

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Speaker 3: not I'm sure Henry will do just fine.

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Speaker 2: And Week seventeen in Championship Week is the Packers.

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Speaker 3: Okay, do we think that's a bad defense.

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Speaker 2: The Packers finished twenty fourth in PFF run grade last

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Speaker 2: year and we're consistently gashed for big games, giving up

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Speaker 2: twelve hundred and twenty nine yards after contact last year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, that's certainly a Henry something to.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind when they play the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good point, good point if they got that corrected

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy miss tackles last year by the Packers defense.

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Speaker 3: First round picks everywhere on that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The final guy on here, this would be a guy

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Speaker 2: that you wouldn't necessarily think of. And this might be

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Speaker 2: a stretch, Chris Olava. M. Here's what they got.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully he's healthy and you know, decent quarterback play.

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Speaker 2: Week fifteen is the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's still a defensive target.

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen is the Jets. I don't know if I

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Speaker 3: Well, Sauce doesn't travel, but still he's out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right right now, Maybe you could scheme it up

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Speaker 2: where he lave is away from him a lot. But

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Speaker 2: I don't love the quarterback situation.

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Speaker 3: No, right, right.

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Speaker 2: And Week seventeen, Championship Week is Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think the Titans are going to be a

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Speaker 3: defense we target in fantasy too.

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Speaker 2: And that's something to keep in mind when you're drafting

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Speaker 2: some of these guys. I want to look at that

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Speaker 2: schedule and see, Okay, who's got who? Well, they got

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Speaker 2: a bunch of games against some really bad defenses. Pay

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Speaker 3: Oh, you definitely pay attention to that. And I've noticed

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Speaker 3: I've been paying attention to Warren Sharps feed heavily because

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Speaker 3: he's going to eventually put out that rest thing we've

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Speaker 3: been talking about out. But he has put a lot

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Speaker 3: of things out against past defenses. Boy, they play a

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Speaker 2: Down't necessarily know that you know that right now. I

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Speaker 2: know think past defense is so it fluctuates so much, right.

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Speaker 3: But I am with you in that, Like, I bet

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Speaker 3: we could come up with six to eight defenses that

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Speaker 3: I hope my team plays a lot this week. I

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Speaker 3: mean this year since he's definitely one of them. See

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Speaker 2: Yeahs, And to me, it's more about are they a

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Speaker 2: good run defense or not because that doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Change not as much. It doesn't fluctuate as much.

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Speaker 2: Your guys up front of your guys, and they didn't

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Speaker 2: get suddenly get figure out. Oh I know how to

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Speaker 2: get off of tack, you know, of off a block now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, WHI they're physical or not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I do think there's something too. I do

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Speaker 3: it early in the year sometimes, you know, like on

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Speaker 3: going into the fantasy draft, what's the first month looked like?

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Speaker 3: Because I at least feel like I've a pretty good

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Speaker 3: feel for that. And you're wrong a lot, don't get

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Speaker 3: me wrong, but it's it breaks ties. I don't move

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Speaker 3: guys up like a whole tier just because it looks

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Speaker 3: like they have an easy scatcher.

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Speaker 2: No, no, uh here was The second article was six

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Speaker 2: rookies prime to break out with their new team in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. The first one is Ashton genty with

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Speaker 2: the Raiders. Sure, pretty fruit there, Yeah, it would be

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Speaker 2: a should should be a first round pick.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I think he's a first rounder in fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a matter of where in the first round.

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Speaker 3: Which backs You're taking them over pretty high.

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Speaker 2: The second guy is Travis Hunter, and I think he

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Speaker 2: is going to be a full time wide receiver that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the defensive stuff will be second here. Teed McMillan,

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Speaker 2: the highly drafted he's right slam dunks the first three.

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Speaker 2: Omarion Hampton. We think a Marion Hampton is going to

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Speaker 2: be clearly the lead back.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm starting him week one. I

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Speaker 3: bet I'm starting them by week ten.

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Speaker 2: I want to see how they use him in the preseason, Like,

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Are they saving him? Are they saving him?

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Speaker 2: You know, is he played? Is he on the field?

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Speaker 2: If Justin Herbert plays twenty five snaps in the preseason,

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Speaker 2: how many of them are how many of them are

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Speaker 2: out there with with the Marian Hampton.

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Speaker 3: Glad you brought that up and there are people to

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Speaker 3: chart that stuff. Is That's a really good way to

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Speaker 3: figure out who's really going to be used. Who's out

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Speaker 2: If they're running Naujy Harrison in the third quarter of

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Speaker 3: But a problem for Hampton is nause he's really good

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Speaker 3: in protection and he's an adequate receiver at least. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, so it's not like he's just a banger

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Speaker 3: that isn't great in protection either. Protection and fumbles will

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Speaker 2: Harvey is the next guy on the list.

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Speaker 3: I'm a believer for fantasy. Yeah, I think the situation

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Speaker 2: Good, and I think you're going to see him get

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Speaker 3: and camp or something. Yeah, yeah, he might fall on

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Speaker 2: Somebody behind him. That's the thing that we don't know

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Speaker 2: about r J. Harvey is maybe he's not good in protection.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's just a two down back, in which case,

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Speaker 2: if you take him in the let's say you take

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Speaker 2: overdrafting him a little bit probably.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he needs to get two thirds of snaps

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Speaker 2: If he's not going to catch the ball at all,

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Speaker 2: Like he'll catch the ball someone first and second down,

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Speaker 2: but I need to see him be that every down. Back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it would be nice to know going into

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Speaker 3: your fancy draft. For sure.

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Speaker 2: The next guy on here is Trey Harris with the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: We sold that Trey Harris is going to be a starter.

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Speaker 3: I think he's fighting Mike Williams for a starter gig

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Speaker 3: at the moment. I mean, mconkey's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's fighting anybody right now for anything. I think mconky's

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Speaker 2: Williams last year's he's audio. Yeah, he's gonna be in that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know right right, maybe another year removed from

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not super high on Harris for

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Speaker 2: He he's okay. I didn't love him as a prospect.

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Speaker 3: I didn't love him as a prospect either, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not big on Johnston. I got my concerns about Williams,

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Speaker 3: but he's a lot like those guys too. Mconkey to

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Speaker 3: me is gonna he's the he might get more targets

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Speaker 2: Right, that's the thing. And they're not a team that

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Speaker 2: wants to throw the ball whole lot. No, No, I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't have Amari and Hampton on this list and

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Speaker 2: then also have Trey Harris on the list. They're kind

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Speaker 2: of fighting against each other to a degree.

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Speaker 3: Neither situations great, right, I mean just because they're the

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Speaker 3: first round picking the second round pick, but they are

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Speaker 3: fighting against each other a little bit for fantasy. And

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Speaker 3: neither ones got a slam dunk path the playing time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just Harvey's got a better path than Hampton. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Charger, the Chargers don't want to throw the ball

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Speaker 2: a lot. No, Right, they just don't. That is that

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Speaker 2: is Harbaugh's DNA.

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Speaker 3: Sure you signed McKay beck dion for that reason and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they want to They want to go out there

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Speaker 2: and bang and just run the ball and go in

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Speaker 2: twenty to seventeen and I think you know, at the

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty times or five hundred times, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty of them are going to mconkey.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and tight ends will get their share.

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Speaker 2: The backs will get their share. It doesn't leave a

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Speaker 2: lot for the ancillary receivers.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm sitting here thinking, well, will Harris get the

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Speaker 3: five hundred yards and his rookie year.

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Speaker 3: Assuming he We're assuming he plays eighteen games.

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Speaker 2: If he plays, if he just does, if he takes

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Speaker 3: That makes the most sense of your best three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Jack Besh is interesting. That's another one. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think Besh could be a factor as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so much of it depends on where

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Speaker 2: I can't I can't believe Golden is not on here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Golden really is getting slept on or underappreciated this

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Speaker 3: throw the football. Yeah, I mean, what if Dobbs doesn't

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Speaker 2: And I mean Jayden reads the one, probably, but who's

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Speaker 2: Then that organization in the first round to not use him.

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Speaker 2: They haven't taken a first round receiver in forever.

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Speaker 3: And some people's lifetimes that are listing, you know. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. And I think I think Golden's

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Speaker 2: then that'll develop.

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Speaker 3: Over Yeah, yeah, we'll get a better feel. But I

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Speaker 2: Man, I'll get it. I don't get it. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I had him as my number one receiver. I haven't

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Speaker 3: No, Right, he didn't get worse all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: I mean if he would have been in if he'd

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Speaker 2: he'd be the clear cut number one.

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Speaker 3: Or even if like Dallas takes him and doesn't trade

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Speaker 3: I mocked that at one point. You know, it would

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Speaker 2: Not gonna get Watson's Watson's not gonna play. He's not

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Speaker 3: Have good tight ends. But still I just want to.

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Speaker 2: Call up their stats here. Last year, Jayden Reed got

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Speaker 3: Really did they both play every game?

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Speaker 2: Dobbs missed four games.

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Speaker 3: Did he say I thought he would have a higher

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Speaker 2: those are out the window. Nobody's gonna get those fIF

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Speaker 3: I think they'll throw the ball a little more. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 3: it's not bad.

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Speaker 2: Lantics mean, Dontavian Wicks had seventy six targets. Dontavian Wicks

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Speaker 3: Did Reid play every game? Yeah? Say the read Stuff's

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Speaker 3: never really was a one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not a clear one. I think he's their

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Speaker 3: But made me keep thinking like, well, could the Steelers

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Speaker 3: make him a yeah, could he move? It's weird that

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Speaker 3: if he's still is that is like it doesn't ever happen.

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Speaker 3: They don't know him.

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Speaker 2: That the thing. They've got a bunch of guys and

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Speaker 2: it was something that I can't remember who brought it

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think he did say something along those lines, right.

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Speaker 2: Because they've got a bunch of guys who were twos

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Speaker 2: think he would be better served being a two chase. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's not. He's not a true number one guy. They

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Speaker 2: hoped that Watson was going to be that. I mean

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's always in the field.

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Speaker 2: He just can't say he doesn't stay healthy.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, I don't know that we'll see much of

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Speaker 2: So, I mean that's that's you know, could could Golden

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's I think pretty easily, right. I mean those

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Speaker 2: He got four guys that had seventy plus targets.

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Speaker 3: Could he get to ninety? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And then Watson had fifty three, Like somebody's.

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Speaker 3: Gotta well, whips get that same amount. I he didn't

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Speaker 2: He talked a lot of nothing. He had on seventy

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Speaker 2: six targets. He had thirty nine catches. Well he's a slot, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that should those should be easy hitching catches. So he

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, Golden, to me, the more we talk through

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Speaker 3: it is definitely being valued too low. Yeah, good player

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he would be one that I would

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Speaker 3: And oh yeah, yeah he's going late in rookie draft.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said, fifteenth rookie off the board. I

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Speaker 3: doesn't make any those tight ends go ahead of him

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Speaker 3: every time, Like I think I take Golden over those dudes.

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Speaker 3: He goes right around like Burden and Higgins.

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Speaker 3: They won some of them.

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Speaker 2: But right now, that's when Love was out there. In

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Speaker 3: I mean he started the season banged up.

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Speaker 2: One mean, my championship last year, that's all that mattered.

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Speaker 2: is if Rogers doesn't end up signing, do you see

442
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,399
Speaker 2: Rudolph as a clear starter? Where do you think Howard

443
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 2: has a legitimate shot at winning the job? I personally

444
00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,040
Speaker 2: prefer either to bringing in a different vet like cousins.

445
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 2: I don't think Howard can win the job.

446
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,560
Speaker 3: I get asked this question a lot and I think

447
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 3: people are super excited about Howard. There's a lot of

448
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,160
Speaker 3: Ohio State fans in this neck of the woods, let

449
00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 3: alone them being on TV all the time, and win

450
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 3: the NASH title.

451
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet on that though, right he was a

452
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 2: six round pick.

453
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 3: I mean I've heard several people, Oh, you know, he's

454
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,240
Speaker 3: gonna come in and compete right away, like.

455
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,280
Speaker 2: Six round pick, six round rarely, rarely, rarely happens.

456
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:18,720
Speaker 3: And I don't prefer Rudolph and Howard to a cousin situation,

457
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 3: depending what he costs, right, Yeah, but I would go

458
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,120
Speaker 3: another veteran route.

459
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would too. And again, it's not

460
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,199
Speaker 2: a knock on Mason. Rudolph's a knock on Howard. I

461
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,040
Speaker 2: like both guys.

462
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 3: I think the quarterback rooms, I think, yeah, but I

463
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 3: like those guys.

464
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 2: You saw last year you needed two m You saw

465
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,119
Speaker 2: the year before that you ended up playing multiple. He

466
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,639
Speaker 2: played three quarterbacks a year before.

467
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,760
Speaker 3: I mean the chances of Rudolph playing sometimes to quote

468
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 3: of season, pretty high, pretty high.

469
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that would mean are you then comfortable with

470
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 2: Howard being your number two? That one heart beat away

471
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 2: from being the To me, that's.

472
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 3: A success for Howard. You know, as if you leave

473
00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 3: the preseason going, I'm talking about there's an injury, That's

474
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 3: what I mean. And and and there's he has to

475
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 3: be the number two, right, that's what even at that

476
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 3: they ended up playing the third.

477
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 2: Quarterback last year. Oh yeah, I mean it was still

478
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: he has still to come onto the field. It's not

479
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 2: uncommon for a team to go three deep over the

480
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 2: course of the season.

481
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 3: Yeah. My point on Howard is, don't aim for competing

482
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 3: for the starting spot.

483
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 2: If he wins the number two job, that's fantastic, But

484
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,439
Speaker 2: I don't think even winning it. I just think what

485
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 2: it looks like he's capable. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

486
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 3: If the preseason ends, he plays a lot of snaps

487
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,119
Speaker 3: and go and I think he can be a pretty

488
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 3: good two. That's a win.

489
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 2: That's a win. Yeah, but it's it's not gonna happen

490
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,639
Speaker 2: this year. Mason Rudolph is going to be right.

491
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 3: Right, right for two years. Scenari, I think we're agreeing

492
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 3: with each other. If it's Week ten and Rogers is hurt,

493
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 3: and like, I'm okay with Howard being the two.

494
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is the most next question, which is the

495
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 2: most likely way do you see us adding a wide

496
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 2: receiver to the wide receiver room through free agent of trade.

497
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 2: Give us a few names you consider for in each case.

498
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 2: Greetings from Mexico, Mexico. Love the show. That's from Alex Reyes.

499
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about that. I think the number

500
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 2: one free agent guy to me is still Amari Cooper.

501
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 3: That's kind of the only one at this point for me.

502
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 3: You know that it would be a reasonable answer to

503
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 3: say you're done. I think I think one of these

504
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 3: draft picks will go to another team at some point

505
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 3: for a receiver. Yeah, they got tons of them. We

506
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 3: could go over the names, and we've brought them up

507
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,919
Speaker 3: a lot, but there's probably more names than we even know.

508
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 3: And I think some of that stuff is even going

509
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 3: to get sorted out more once we.

510
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 2: Get I think once you get through many can teams

511
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,479
Speaker 2: get their eyes on them. Yeah what they have, Some

512
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 2: of those guys will become available, more available and even

513
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: into training camp.

514
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

515
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it may be a situation like they look, this

516
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 2: rookie is tearing it up. Example of that. I mean,

517
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: they gave them a seventh round pick for He's.

518
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 3: The most obvious name to me, you know, especially after

519
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 3: two day two draft picks of receiver we like that

520
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,479
Speaker 3: are rookies and they still even have like a Mechi.

521
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 3: I mean, if Mesi's you're four, you're fighting, you know

522
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,360
Speaker 3: what I mean, you're in great shape. So I would

523
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 3: say Christian Kirk is maybe the most logical. Maybe one

524
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 3: of those packers. Maybe one of those packers. Yeah, yeah,

525
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 3: I think those are.

526
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 2: If it's a situation where they're all just this guy's

527
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: coming into my office this week, that guy's coming into

528
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 2: my office next week, then they're all wing, Hey, you've

529
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 2: got too many.

530
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 3: You've got too many, right, you know, and you could

531
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 3: get something for them. Yeah, I'd give you a decent

532
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 3: pick for any of those guys.

533
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: Brad asked, what would the Steelers need to see from

534
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 2: Howard to not draft a quarterback in Round one in

535
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.

536
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 3: I don't know even I know this is nobody asked,

537
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 3: but like, we don't think the Saints are going to

538
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 3: be good, we don't think the Giants are going to

539
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 3: be good. What would the Giants or Saints or what

540
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 3: would Shuck or Dart who were picked way way higher.

541
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 3: I mean, one of them's first round pick they trade

542
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 3: up for. One was an early two would they have

543
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 3: to do to prohibit their team to not take one high.

544
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 3: It's almost impossible, right, I mean, it really is. He

545
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 3: would have to be Rookie of the Year candidate, yeah,

546
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 3: at least at least And could Howard ever get to

547
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: that point or ever have the opportunity to show that.

548
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: There wouldn't have to be multiple injuries at the position

549
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 2: for him to even get the opportunity to do right.

550
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 3: And then if that even happens, how many games does

551
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 3: he give you to judge? You know? I mean, could

552
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 3: he come to camp and be the best quarterback we've

553
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 3: ever seen? Yeah, but it probably won't happen, you know,

554
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 3: like no one thought Russell Wilson is a rookie after

555
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 3: they signed Flynn was going to be the open start

556
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 3: round pick.

557
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 2: He was a third round pick, and he beat out Flynn.

558
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 3: I mean it was fun.

559
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott won that job as a fourth

560
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 2: round pick because the starter got hurt.

561
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 3: Romo.

562
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 2: Romo got hurt, and all of a sudden, he gets

563
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 2: all these opportunities like, oh, that's not bad.

564
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that could happen to Howard. You hope it doesn't,

565
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 3: but I don't want Rudolph and get hurt.

566
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, both of those guys would need to get hurt

567
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 2: right potentially to happen.

568
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know that he'll ever get the opportunity,

569
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 3: and I hope he doesn't to make you say, man,

570
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 3: this really good player in round one is not for us. Yeah.

571
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 3: I don't know how that could happen if Roger had

572
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 3: a party type of ye.

573
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a situation where he was the

574
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: last man standing.

575
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even if Howard had Purdy's rookie year and

576
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 3: nuss Meyer's still available, you probably go for the rook

577
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 3: you know, probably trade you know.

578
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, if Rogers doesn't sign by mandatory mini camp, would

579
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: the Steelers really trade for Cousins or would they just

580
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 2: start Rudolph. Feels like the fan base would rather see

581
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 2: Rudolph start and save the draft picks for twenty twenty six.

582
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 2: Here's the thing about the draft picks. Well, we talk

583
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 2: a lot about Well, they've got twelve picks for next year,

584
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: which is wonderful, which is fantastic.

585
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, mock drafts are gonna be a blast.

586
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: You're still if you're moving up in the first round,

587
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 2: those extra six aren't going to get you anywhere. They

588
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 2: don't get any you're going to have to trade at

589
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: the very least this year's that first round pick next

590
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: year and a two the following season or a one.

591
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: You know, even if you gave them all three of

592
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: your threes, that.

593
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: Doesn't get it.

594
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 2: It doesn't. It doesn't get you. That doesn't get you.

595
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 3: Up five spots. Yeah, it might get you from twenty

596
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 3: one to seventeen, right, give you three threes. Yeah, that doesn't.

597
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 3: That's not much.

598
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 2: It's just not enough to do it. So the idea that.

599
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 3: What nice about all those extra pixars.

600
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 2: Okay, if we're not gonna if you have to do that,

601
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: now you've got now we can get to fill our

602
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 2: needs in the draft.

603
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 3: Safety in the third round. I can get the Caleb

604
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 3: Johnson in the third round, or developmental tackle.

605
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 2: In what looks like a deep trag.

606
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 3: Yeah right right right, My first second and next year's

607
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 3: first went to quarterback acts.

608
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 2: Or I can trade some of those picks next year

609
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 2: for picks in the FI If I have to trade

610
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 2: away my first in twenty twenty seven to okay, okay,

611
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 2: I'll give you two thirds for a two next year. Yeah,

612
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: something along.

613
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 3: I know I won't get my first back, but I

614
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 3: have two seconds in twenty twenty seven. Yeah, that makes

615
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 3: all sense of the world too. I mean they're liquid,

616
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 3: but I say this all the time. It's not like

617
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 3: you're collecting pennies and they eventually equal a dollar. You know, Like, yeah,

618
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 3: you could offer thirty two seventh round picks and no

619
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: one's gonna give you their first round pick for that

620
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 3: doesn't work in right, even if they're.

621
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: The trade value chart eventually gets you there, it doesn't.

622
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, right.

623
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 2: Uh. J Mars asked, other than wide receiver, what position

624
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 2: do you think we should we can add somewhat a

625
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 2: somewhat big name in. I'm hoping maybe outside cornerback or

626
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 2: offensive line, well, quarterbacks still pretty good.

627
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 3: Quarterball, Yeah, all those spots. I would have my eyes open.

628
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: But a somewhat big name.

629
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 3: I'm not saying, like trade a second round pick.

630
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm not seeing a big name.

631
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no o lineman that fit that bill. No,

632
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 3: I mean I'm thinking, like Jedrick Wills, is that a

633
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: Cedric Big? Is that a somewhat big name? He wouldn't

634
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 3: even be a starter, right, You throw him on a

635
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 3: one year deal and if he's healthy, maybe you get

636
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 3: something out.

637
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's probably at this point just waiting

638
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: for somebody to get hurt, and.

639
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's healthy.

640
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a weird Michael everrasks. Do you see

641
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: more rest slash limited snaps being planned for what this year?

642
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: It seems like his production is trailed off toward the

643
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 2: end of the season over the last few years. Well

644
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: that's not.

645
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 3: True, not true, But I would like to see him

646
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 3: take ten percent.

647
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 2: Lest Yeah, last year his production tailed off, but everybody's

648
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 2: production tailed off at the end, because again three games

649
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 2: in eleven days and he got banged up in one

650
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: of those.

651
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 3: But I would I think some of the defensive coaches

652
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 3: at the draft mentioned they would like TJ to play, Yeah,

653
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 3: a little more sparingly.

654
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he doesn't need to be out there

655
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: eighty five percent of the snash, that's my point. I'd

656
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: like him to be available.

657
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: He plays seventy eight percent instead eighty five, Right, I

658
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: mean he's not going to be resting all the time.

659
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: But yes, I think with four assuming Sawyer is one

660
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: of those capable outside linebackers, yeah, lighting his load a little, yeah,

661
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 3: a little.

662
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Speaker 2: The idea though, that what has tailed off the last

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Speaker 2: couple of years at the end of the year. I

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Speaker 2: don't know about that, right, I'm just looking here. So

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Speaker 2: his final game in twenty twenty four, he had two

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Speaker 2: sacks against the Ravens, two sacks, eight tackles and three

667
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: tackles for a losses. He had five sacks in the

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Speaker 2: last four games. Is that tailing off? I don't know

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Speaker 2: where this narrative started at. Yeah, yeah, I don't, but

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Speaker 2: I've heard it a lot. I've heard it too, he's

671
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Speaker 2: really tailed off. The year before that, he had a

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Speaker 2: half sack in the last game. He had a sack

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Speaker 2: in the next to the last game. So in the

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Speaker 2: last five games he had four sacks.

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Speaker 3: Pretty good, Pretty good.

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Speaker 2: That's not tailing off at the end.

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Speaker 3: Of the daily off right now. I never saw that.

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Speaker 2: Was coming off the injury. The year before that in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Yeah, twenty twenty two, when he won

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Speaker 2: the Defensive Player of the Year award, he had in

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Speaker 2: the last four games he had five, six and a

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Speaker 2: half sacks. So this whole narrative that his play has

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Speaker 2: tailed off at the end of the year is complete

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Speaker 2: horse hockey.

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Speaker 3: The sack production sure hasn't.

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Speaker 2: He has been a very effective player.

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Speaker 3: I've been asked that too, and I don't quite know

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Speaker 3: where it comes.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where it started. I'm sure it started

690
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Speaker 2: on probably you know, the other radio station in town

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Speaker 2: that they Maybe people just take it as gospel because

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Speaker 2: somebody says it on the air. It's not true.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's just because he's the best player and their

694
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Speaker 3: success hasn't been there in the playoffs and stuff. He

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Speaker 3: must be tailing off. You know, there's Lebron falling apart

696
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Speaker 3: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean not true, right, But yes, they do

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Speaker 2: want him to play fewer. Maybe maybe it's seventy five

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Speaker 2: percent of the snaps instead of eighty five.

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Speaker 3: That'd be great.

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Speaker 2: Great. He also asked, would you agree the Steelers play

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Speaker 2: systematically the same on defense from the beginning of the

703
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Speaker 2: year to the end, with little vary answering game plan

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Speaker 2: from team to team. Do you think that contributes to

705
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Speaker 2: poor playoff results because good teams know what to expect

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Speaker 2: from d I don't agree with that at all.

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Speaker 3: I think they'll have more varied coverages going forward. I

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Speaker 3: think they'll have more and I'd like to see even

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Speaker 3: though I'd like to see more blitz from slots and

710
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Speaker 3: especially off the ball linebacker. They just couldn't do it

711
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: last year. Yeah, and they didn't do a lot of it.

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Speaker 3: I see what they're saying. I mean the more variety.

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Speaker 2: So last year in the playoffs, the thing that the

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Speaker 2: thing that I that I was critical of is they

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Speaker 2: changed the way that they played defense against the Ravens

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Speaker 2: in the playoff games.

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Speaker 3: Example, so they didn't.

718
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Speaker 2: Play the Ravens like they had always played the Raves.

719
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Speaker 2: They didn't do what had worked time and time again

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Speaker 2: against Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 3: I know that, you know that I'm going.

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Speaker 2: To They zigged and the Ravens picked up on it

723
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: quickly and and diced it up, you know. So, yeah,

724
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Speaker 2: they changed things up. The fact of the matter is

725
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Speaker 2: the last three playoff games that they've lost, they've lost

726
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Speaker 2: to Patrick Mahomes, Josh and Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's the crux of the problem. Now,

728
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Speaker 3: I do think the blitz percentage will go up. I

729
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 3: think they'll see more. You can play more man more man.

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Speaker 3: I think you'll see more off the ball linebacker blitz.

731
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Speaker 3: Is The Thornhills signing makes me think that you'll see

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Speaker 3: more big Nickel. You know, you might see more three

733
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Speaker 3: safeties out there than you have. But yeah, I mean,

734
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Speaker 3: I don't really know how to answer that.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't I think people get into this

736
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Speaker 2: this idea that well, they just do the same thing

737
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Speaker 2: all the time, because well, Julian Edelman said that about

738
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Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen team right right right now, as Julian

739
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 2: Edelman's watching every Steeler game and every breaking down, every tape,

740
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: he can tell you exactly what's going on now with

741
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Speaker 2: the Steelers.

742
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Speaker 3: It wouldn't shock me if you see Minca in deep

743
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 3: middle less you know, someone else gets that job or

744
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 3: slight more cover too. I mean, I don't think there's

745
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 3: any sweeping changes. No, I think, you know, they could

746
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Speaker 3: like to play more man.

747
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: Max yours is the team interested in resetting to Sean

748
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: Elliott and or Calvin Austin this offseason, this offseason or

749
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Speaker 2: the next offseason.

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Speaker 3: Elliott's up after the year, right, Elliott.

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Speaker 2: Both of them are both he and Elliott and Austin

752
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: are both up after the year.

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Speaker 3: I think I don't think I'd do anything with Austin

754
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Speaker 3: until maybe after the seasons.

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Speaker 2: There's no reason to it and I don't Elliott. Maybe

756
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: they could add on. They can add another year on

757
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: that second. That wouldn't be that big of a deal.

758
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: You might get him at a little bit of a discount.

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Speaker 2: So I think he's proven himself. It's not priority one, No,

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Speaker 2: But in camp, if you threw an extra year on

761
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Speaker 2: his deal, sure, yeah, I'll probably problem with that.

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Speaker 3: I think that makes sense. I know that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Nathan Skinner asked what part of the schedule do

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Speaker 2: you think will be the toughest. Well, I think it's

765
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Speaker 2: the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's.

766
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Speaker 3: Playing Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson back to back.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't look it doesn't look great, right, right, right, but

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Speaker 2: it is what it is. Let's take one more here

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Speaker 2: before we get to a break. Derek Manton says, love

770
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Speaker 2: the show. What is your underrated key game that you

771
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Speaker 2: think will be a huge for the Steelers to make

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Speaker 2: the playoff? Mine is the Chargers on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 3: About the Chargers, Okay, I didn't read the question, but

774
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Speaker 3: I'm sitting and thinking maybe they're fighting for a wild card.

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Speaker 3: That could be.

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Speaker 2: That could be a big one because you know, if

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Speaker 2: you win that game, not only do you win the

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Speaker 2: game which you beat one of the teams that maybe

779
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Speaker 2: you're quite.

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Speaker 3: My thoughts too, I think the Chargers have a better

781
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Speaker 3: chance of fighting for the Steelers for a playoff spot

782
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Speaker 3: than like the Colts. Yeah, you know so, Yeah, Chargers

783
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 3: are a really good call. You know, the Dolphins.

784
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: Would fit into that same again there because their AFC

785
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 2: wins right right.

786
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Speaker 3: You know, you wouldn't want to make a division game

787
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 3: that's too low hanging.

788
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 2: But then you know a couple of the other toss

789
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 2: up games would be Minnesota and Green Bay, but they're

790
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 2: not conference games.

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Speaker 3: So I would I would agree, I think the best call.

792
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Speaker 3: Yeahh I think that's you'd love them give them a loss. Yeah,

793
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 3: same with the Bengals. You'd like to if you could

794
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 3: sweep the Bengals, that'd be awesome. That'd be great because

795
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 3: I don't know the Bengals are gonna be a twelve thirty.

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Speaker 2: Win t I don't think any of them, not with

797
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Speaker 2: that defense. Yeah, let's get to a break, we'll come back.

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Speaker 2: We'll finish up our Twitter questions here and he Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: I am Dale, Lolly. This is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network, at.

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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he is the Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and we're going through our ex Twitter Thursday questions

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Speaker 2: here and Matt DeCicco says, love the show. I think

807
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 2: all the regular listeners appreciate the no hot take or

808
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: BS rumor mongering. Others in the area of partake in

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Speaker 2: for engagement, no question this week. Just wanted to acknowledge

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Speaker 2: it and never miss a show. What we appreciate us cool,

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't read some of these ahead of

812
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Speaker 2: time here, I try to sneak something in on me.

813
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Speaker 2: Bob and Tennessee asked when I did the draft on simulators,

814
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 2: they always seem to have at least three trade offers

815
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: in the first round. It seem you guys had the same.

816
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 2: Is that close to reality or is it just something

817
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 2: to make the app more fun.

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Speaker 3: I think it's mostly to make the app more fun. Yeah,

819
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 3: I mean, it's no question.

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00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 2: If you're gonna because what they want to do is

821
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: engage you to keep you coming back. Yeah, yeah, and

822
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 2: do more and more. So, if it's just I'm gonna

823
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 2: take I got picked twenty one. I'm gonna pick twenty

824
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 2: one again here. I never get any trade offers. You

825
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 2: end up taking the same guy all the time.

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Speaker 3: And what's different, obviously in real life, is Omar and

827
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 3: company have talked to all these teams and well this

828
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 3: isn't gonna work out, or you want too much to

829
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 3: come up, or up your player's gone, you know, like

830
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: it's a lot longer process. Yeah, there's a lot of variables,

831
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Speaker 3: right right, right, Like I we could give the Packers

832
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 3: a call here it worked out like we thought, and okay,

833
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: it's a match.

834
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Speaker 2: And I do believe the Steelers had offers to move

835
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Speaker 2: back this year, probably, but they weren't going to trade

836
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: away from Harmon.

837
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Speaker 3: That's the thing I thought after Nolan and Grant went too,

838
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 3: It's like trading back seems real unlikely.

839
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, parabolic ass. If the Steelers don't sign Rogers,

840
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 2: is there a higher chance of them not signing TJ

841
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 2: or are they unrelated? I think they're unrelated.

842
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 3: I think they're unrelated. I think think they won't want

843
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: to retires this deal.

844
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Speaker 2: They want him he's a Hall of Fame player. They

845
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 2: want him to be play his career here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe next year there's a first round quarterback

847
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: that's real happy that TJ's leading the defense, you know.

848
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Speaker 2: Andrew Kwaikowski asked, do you think Rogers avoided signing until

849
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: after the schedule was made so they didn't add a

850
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: bunch of primetime games like that? I think Mike Florio

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00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: and Pro Football talk through that out there. I'd say

852
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 2: somebody mentioned that I think it's just throwing stuff against

853
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: the wall. I think that the process is the process.

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Speaker 2: One thing I have heard that makes a lot of

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00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: sense is that Aaron Rodgers hates OTAs, especially the early

856
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 2: OTA So I've heard that too, that he doesn't want

857
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Speaker 2: to have to come in and and you don't have to,

858
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: but he's the quarterback, right and so you know, you do.

859
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: You are expected to show up.

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Speaker 3: And I think he enjoys his free time. Yeah, and

861
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: he's earned that at his age. You know, he has

862
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 3: money and he has some power.

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00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: And there's a thing, right, Ben Roethlisberger didn't show up

864
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 2: at a lot of those OTA sessions either. No, older

865
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Speaker 2: players don't love the T set like the what I'm

866
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: talking about OTA sessions, the early portions of it, those

867
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 2: are weightlifting and it's integrating and running and all that, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're quarterback, right, I don't need you in there lifting

869
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: six hundred pounds.

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Speaker 3: Right right now. I first off, I don't know how.

871
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 2: And by the way, you've got enough money that you

872
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 2: probably have a really nice gym at your house and

873
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Speaker 2: personal nutritionist and everything too. I don't know if Tom

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Speaker 2: Brady showed up at OTA session.

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Speaker 3: I have no clue.

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Speaker 2: I have no clue. Nobody knows because they're not reported

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Speaker 2: on it.

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Speaker 3: It's not that big a deal, right, Yeah, I'd love

879
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 3: to have him signed by OTAs, but again, I don't

880
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 3: think he likes them either, and I don't know that

881
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 3: I would.

882
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 2: On the field, ones are different than the than what's

883
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: going on now.

884
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that too. It'd be nice

885
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 3: to see him throwing the metcalf or whatever and getting

886
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: you know, involved. But he's super smart. He's going to

887
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 3: figure out the offense.

888
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: And no time, you know, Michael Edessa says they might

889
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 2: already be working on the offense. Yeah, he may have

890
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: the playbook. Michael Desert asks Dale. Since you've been to

891
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: every stadium in every city in the NFL, are there

892
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: any you prefer going to. I guess press press box

893
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 2: more than stadium. Who has the worst press box, Matt

894
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: besides Cleveland? Obviously. Have you ever been to another NFL

895
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: stadium as a fan or in general.

896
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 3: I've been like four or five, and most of them

897
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 3: are as a Brown Scout preseason every week, you know,

898
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 3: somewhere or two. But I mean it was business trip.

899
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there taking notes the whole time. I mean,

900
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: I'm a tailgating and party and.

901
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing that you know people all the time.

902
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 2: I get, Oh, you go to every stadium, you must

903
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: have a good, good time on game day. I'm like, no,

904
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: game day is like a fourteen hour, sixteen hour workday. Yeah,

905
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not stopping a tailgates stream down in Beers

906
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 2: on the right.

907
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 3: Stadium, right, And I missed that part. I would love

908
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 3: to do that. But even as a fan, I was

909
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 3: just a fan probably as long as my life as

910
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 3: I was in the media, I don't remember going to

911
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 3: any Steeler road games for my first thirty years or so,

912
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 3: twenty five years.

913
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: I have to think about which cities do I prefer

914
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 2: to go to in terms of the press box and

915
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 2: stadium I do like the new Atlanta Stadium. We've been

916
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: there a couple of times. There's nice sight lines. It's

917
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: an indoor. One thing I like about the indoor facilities

918
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: or some of the indoor facilities, is that they're enclosed. Yeah,

919
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: because the problem, the problem becomes if you were in

920
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: an in an indoor stadium that is not enclosed or

921
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: has an enclosed press box. They all have announcers telling you,

922
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: you know, what the play was or you know, you're

923
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 2: hearing what the official says in the field. And then

924
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 2: some of the indoor stadiums that aren't enclosed don't have

925
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: an enclosed press box. You can't hear anything. Nice, I

926
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: know hearing you can't hear anything. And so you're I'm

927
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: watching on my on my laptop to see what the

928
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: call was. Things like that that you know, I'm at

929
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: the game. I should people wonder, like live tweet during

930
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: the game. You're at the game. How could you not

931
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: know that? I'm like, you have no idea? What television again?

932
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: Here right now?

933
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, television is pretty beneficial. Yeah, here the replay, here's

934
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 3: what they said. You know, I'll clarify for you. That's

935
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 3: why they're getting paid to be color Man, right.

936
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 2: Right, So I do like to like to site lines

937
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. I think they did that and well.

938
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: On our show last night, Mike was talking about good destinations, Like,

939
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 3: I know he really liked LA Stadium.

940
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 2: You know, it's a nice stadium. It's I don't like

941
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: the the way, like after the game they put fencing

942
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 2: up around that sucker. I guess so people don't just

943
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: wander in and out of it because it is an

944
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 2: open out It's an outdoor stadium with a roof on it.

945
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: Like you've described it as like a pavilion.

946
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 2: It's like a pavilion. So people they didn't put the

947
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: fence up. People could just wander in and out of

948
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 2: their their own leisure.

949
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 3: The homeless person might just find somewhere to live for

950
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 3: a week to run around the stadium.

951
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 2: And so to Like the last time we were there,

952
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: I was getting I had an uber ordered to take

953
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: me back to my hotel. I had to walk like

954
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 2: a mile to get to the uber stand because you

955
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: had to go around the stadium to find a way

956
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: out of the fencing. Joe Rudder and I from the trip,

957
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: we're like we're walking around the indoor the door of

958
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: the fencing because the where the media entrance opened up

959
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: at it was all already fenced in. I'm like, how

960
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 2: do we get out of here?

961
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: Oh?

962
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to walk all the way around and

963
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: then come out and then walk all the way out

964
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: to the cabs or not the cabs do in, but

965
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: the somewhere to get an uber. Yeah.

966
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you've mentioned this a thousand times. Mike

967
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 3: brought it up last night, like New England's really hard

968
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 3: to get to.

969
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: Yah, England's ridiculously hard to get to. And the thing

970
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: about that one is if you're doing radio pregame, you

971
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 2: actually have to leave the press box, go down, go

972
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 2: out into the stands because the press boxes in the

973
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 2: end zone and the media or radio booth is is

974
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: at midfield.

975
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so you have to in the end zone.

976
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

977
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 3: Is it really hard to see the opposite end zone.

978
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 2: There's a lot of those now, And yeah, you have

979
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: to a lot of times end up with the binoculars.

980
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: I would think you always think about the press box

981
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 3: being like the fifty yard line, or at.

982
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 2: Least that is that is going away at a lot

983
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 2: of places, like Baltimore just changed their press boots. Baltimore

984
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 2: used to have maybe the closest press box to the

985
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 2: field anywhere. It was like second or like between the

986
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: second and third levels. Like you didn't even have to

987
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 2: get your binoculars out.

988
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could read every number.

989
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 2: And you know right now. They they moved it last

990
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 2: year up Not only did they move it to the

991
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 2: end zone, they moved it way upstairs in the end

992
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 2: and yeah, so it's much more difficult to see there,

993
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 2: and uh, not as much fun. But the radio brought

994
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 2: the radio booth, I believe if I remember correctly, it's

995
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: still back over where the radio boots far So again

996
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: you have you have to leave and go down and

997
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: do all that stuff down there.

998
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: But needless to say, folks, I mean, every one of

999
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 3: these stadiums has their own personalities and works and yeah, yeah.

1000
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: And there's some cities, you know, cities that you go

1001
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 2: to more often. You're you're just more you know where

1002
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 2: everything's at.

1003
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just you know, more comfortable. And yeah, I

1004
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 3: like this part in restaurant the night before blah blah blah.

1005
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 2: Right, Heshan asked, what do you know about Sebastian Castro

1006
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 2: the undrafted safety out of Iowa Camp body or wait

1007
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 2: and see thanks. I love Sebastian Castro. I can't believe

1008
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: I wasn't drafted.

1009
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 3: Another nugget with him is There was a big Iowa

1010
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 3: fan that was tweeting me about Caleb Johnson and his

1011
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 3: We've addressed this his speed issues. I think we talked

1012
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 3: about yesterday the day before. Yeah, but the people that

1013
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 3: also chart speed on the field. Castros was like Johnson

1014
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 3: where it was really really good, but in time grade.

1015
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy that when he sees it,

1016
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 2: he closes quickly, closes quickly.

1017
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 3: Yeah. I kind of expect him to make the team.

1018
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: I do too, especially unfortunately, you know.

1019
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 2: I think it'd be a great special teams play.

1020
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: Great special teams are and fourth safety. Yeah, and unfortunately

1021
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 3: the Watt situation opens things up for him too. At safety.

1022
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 2: Chris g Underscore Steelers asked, do you see DJ Thomas

1023
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 2: Jones legitimately threatening Connor Hayward for a roster spot. That's

1024
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: the that's the full back full back. He's got to

1025
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 2: show you can play special teams.

1026
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: That's the whole key. You know, like they had they

1027
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 3: had a legit fullback in last year and he wasn't

1028
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 3: quite good enough on special teams you got to be

1029
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 3: one of the best five or six on the team. Yeah,

1030
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 3: then he got a shot. Then you have a shot.

1031
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 3: And Connor is one of those guys. Yes, it doesn't

1032
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 3: mean he has to cut cut one or the other.

1033
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 3: But I think they would like to incorporate a fullback,

1034
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 3: but not at the expense of not being great on

1035
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 3: special right. Yeah, you just don't have the roster spots

1036
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 3: available too. But we'll we I mean pay attention to

1037
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 3: us to training camp. Well, we watched that guy a lot. Yeah,

1038
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 3: because he's us a little bit different anybody else.

1039
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 2: Match Yari says, what are some trade who are some

1040
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 2: trade targets for? The Steelers have their eyes on seeing

1041
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff about a Lava Ayuk Dobbs. Is

1042
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 2: there any truth that it's all speculation?

1043
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: That's all speculation.

1044
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 2: Ayuk is not They're not trading for Brandon Ayuk. And

1045
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: I don't think twenty nine ers would take on like

1046
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 2: a fifty million dollar cap.

1047
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,720
Speaker 3: It doesn't make much sense for them. It really doesn't

1048
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 3: after signing him last and he's not going to play

1049
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 3: until mid season. That being said, if I could get

1050
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 3: him cheap, I don't care. He doesn't play it on midseason.

1051
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't see the forty.

1052
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 3: I don't know why the Niners.

1053
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 2: I don't know why they would move on. It would

1054
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 2: cost them money against the cap to move on from it.

1055
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. You don't sign them to a big contract

1056
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 3: and then trade in the next year. This rarely, rarely happens.

1057
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 3: I'd love that Brandon. I'd wait six weeks to play him.

1058
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 3: I don't care.

1059
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 2: Steele Warrior asked if you both could do anything else,

1060
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: what would it be. I'd be a multi millionaire playboy's.

1061
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not bad. I like Theonaire. One of my

1062
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: favorite quotes ever is Andy Vance like, if you could

1063
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 3: be anybody other than yourself, who would you pick? Andy?

1064
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 3: And he said, my wife, because she's married to me.

1065
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 3: I'd hate to be my wife's shoes, that'd be. That

1066
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 3: would not be my pick. I'm a lot luckier than

1067
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 3: she is. I don't know something not as well as this.

1068
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 3: I think I found my niche in life, and whatever

1069
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 3: else I would do, I wouldn't do it as well

1070
00:46:59,680 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 3: as this.

1071
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. Uh. And he also asked, what's

1072
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: your favorite Steelers player of all time?

1073
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 3: I don't have a favorite Steeler we'll amuse my old

1074
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 3: time favorite athlete. Yeah, you know, but I don't know

1075
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 3: that I have a Steeler that's my old time covery

1076
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: one that I'm as a kid.

1077
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 2: I cover the team, you know, I pulling back to curtain.

1078
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 2: I didn't grow up a Steelers fan even I just

1079
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: you know, it is what it is.

1080
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 3: I did. And I had like a Lambert poster and

1081
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 3: I remember when he had the turf toe. I saw

1082
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 3: him in there when they went to the Niners and

1083
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 3: ruined their undefeated season, and I thought that was super cool,

1084
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 3: you know, like mister Lambert and I have an autograph.

1085
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 3: He said, say please. I was like, yeah, I was

1086
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: like ten years old or whatever. Maybe it's Lambert, but

1087
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 3: I mean it would be someone from that era.

1088
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matthew asked, other than one word the one word answer,

1089
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: don't what advice would you give to somebody that wanted

1090
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 2: to get in go into the sports show slash podcast world.

1091
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 2: I think it's a lot harder now than it was then. Yeah,

1092
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 2: there's just so many of them.

1093
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Speaker 3: There's so many and you're not gonna make a lot

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Speaker 3: of money for a while. But it's treated me well,

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00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like I'm happy I made

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Speaker 3: that decision, So I wouldn't say don't. I just say,

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Speaker 3: proceeded with caution.

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Speaker 2: You have to get your reps in. You can't. You

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00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 2: can't jump into it and expect to you know.

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Speaker 3: And I would certainly say, what makes you different than

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00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: the one hundred others that want to do it? You know?

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00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 3: Why would I pick you right? You know? Or why

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00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 3: would somebody the pay is going to give you the

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00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 3: money I'm not paying any money, would would pick you

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00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 3: over the thousands else that want to do it.

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00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's tough, you know, it's it's difficult. Just

1107
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 2: even just breaking in the media period is difficult.

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00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure. And so many people grow up.

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00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 3: I'm a sports fan. I'm gonna do this. You might

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Speaker 3: be really good at it.

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00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 2: But I've had lots of young guys you know, tell

1112
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 2: me that, or young people, yeah, men and women, and

1113
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, this is not for the fan.

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00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 2: You're not going to make a lot of money starting out.

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00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 2: I mean ninety cents an hour a pit my first

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00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: full time job.

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00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 3: Got some free meals in there and some gear.

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00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, my first full time job in the newspaper business,

1119
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 2: I made twelve thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: I made twelve grand years of GA and.

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Speaker 2: I was I was doing news during the day, and

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00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 2: because I wanted to be a sportswriter, I was working

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Speaker 2: sports at night. So I was essentially working like ten

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Speaker 2: or eleven in the morning until one o'clock in the

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Speaker 2: morning at night, five days a week, sometimes six, just

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Speaker 2: to because this is what I wanted to do. Like,

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00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: you're not going to make a lot of money, especially

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Speaker 2: starting out.

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Speaker 3: I remember being in the GA room and we all

1130
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 3: figured out about how many hours a year do we

1131
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 3: put in? How much money do we bring back? Like

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Speaker 3: I think we make like between eighty nine and ninety

1133
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 3: one cents an hour, So great, not so great. Yeah,

1134
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Speaker 3: I did have.

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Speaker 2: Kids then, and you know my wife had a good

1136
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: job and you know, eat a lot of ramen.

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Speaker 3: Well, we had free food a lot. I didn't get

1138
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 3: that big.

1139
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, working in the news, I didn't have there.

1140
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 3: Were some perks with that. Well during the season, we

1141
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 3: never paid for food. But yeah, during the off season

1142
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 3: to figure something out.

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Speaker 2: Right, So I mean, you got to you gotta put

1144
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 2: the work in though. You gotta If you want to

1145
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 2: be a writer, you got to write. You want to

1146
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 2: be you want to work in this medium, you gotta talk.

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Speaker 3: I mean I said it's harder now than my day,

1148
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 3: and I definitely think that's true. But I didn't have

1149
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 3: the ability just to start my own podcast then, yeah,

1150
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 3: you know, like that kind of stuff that exists, or

1151
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 3: your own YouTube page. I mean, you could do something

1152
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 3: on your own without ESPN backing you like they rid

1153
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: for me, you know, Like, so that's one perk, but

1154
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Speaker 3: I think you gotta get eyes on it.

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Speaker 2: The key I think to me, And it was one

1156
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Speaker 2: of the earlier questions or one of the earlier replies,

1157
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 2: don't be the hot take artist. Yeah, that might get

1158
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 2: you some you might get and you get some attention,

1159
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 2: but you lose all credibility.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as I say, that's like a powerful drug, you know,

1161
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Speaker 3: like first time it's.

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Speaker 2: Great, Hey, look there's my name on something.

1163
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Speaker 3: Right, but then eventually it beats up your body and

1164
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 3: you're not as good as what you should do, you know. Yeah.

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00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 2: I would speak yourself and give honest opinions and work that.

1166
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Speaker 3: Way, and if you can come at a different angle

1167
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 3: than most, that separates you. I remember that guy, he's

1168
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 3: the one that does this, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyways, that's going to do it for the

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Speaker 2: Twitter questions today. All right, yeah we got We're back

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Speaker 2: again tomorrow. Can't wait for that. But that is going

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Speaker 2: to do some good questions again today. Every time we

1173
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Speaker 2: send out the bat signal like that, we.

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Speaker 3: Get a lot of good questions immediately too.

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Speaker 2: That's great stuff. But for my partner Matt Williamson, for

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Speaker 2: Justin Miller here on site running the soundboard and the

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Speaker 2: Justin Miller hotline, and for Tyler Vittmeyer soon to be

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Speaker 2: new father, Tyler Vittmeyer, check out the video there on

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Speaker 2: YouTube and give us the thumbs up there. It helps

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Speaker 2: you on Tyler out. Uh. I am Dale Lally. We

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Speaker 2: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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Speaker 2: on this Steelers Audio Network.