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

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

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

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Speaker 1: It's a lovely Monday here in Pittsburgh, and well the

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Speaker 1: Drive is back after multiple weeks at O t as

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Speaker 1: a mini camp, and we're ready to go for the season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what everybody else's you know, yeah, heckic

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Speaker 1: of time off, you know, we're raring to go, but yes,

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Speaker 1: but I'm taking time off. So we're gonna record, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little unorthodox week here and then I'll be back

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Speaker 1: from family bak after O t s and mini camps,

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Speaker 1: which were a blast, and that was very enjoyable. You know,

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Speaker 1: you and I were parked out back there right next

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Speaker 1: to the fields three days a week for three three

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Speaker 1: weeks straight. Gathered some information, saw some familiar faces, actually

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Speaker 1: saw some football. So you're right. I mean, it's summer,

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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful weather outside that my kids and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure everyone listening kids are home from school and it's

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Speaker 1: vacation season for us and the league. So just when

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Speaker 1: we were getting warmed up, we gotta kind of put

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Speaker 1: it neutral here for a couple of weeks. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: ready for training camp. Let's roll. Yeah, that's what. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you're the same way. We didn't have this conversation.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to be sure we needed to. But O P. A.

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Speaker 1: S in Mini camp made me want to go to latrope. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You know, I'd like to be

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Speaker 1: able to talk about what we're seeing and and do

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Speaker 1: all that stuff and see more of what we're seeing

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Speaker 1: and you know, kind of get some momentum going here,

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Speaker 1: but we get all the fringe benefits of being at St.

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Speaker 1: Vincent's fun and seeing everybody, and you know obviously, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: let's let's get down to it here, Matt. Because Bucky

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Speaker 1: Brooks did his scouts notebook on nfl dot Com him

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Speaker 1: and he ranked the top fifteen players from what he

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Speaker 1: calls the loaded twenty nineteen NFL Draft class. He says

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Speaker 1: pass pass catchers and pass rushers galore in that class,

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Speaker 1: and I can't argue with that. So let's let's run

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Speaker 1: through his list here. He didn't look at it on purpose.

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Speaker 1: I'm just pulling up the draft. It's his top fifteen. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the guys he said just missed the list our

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Speaker 1: Marquise Brown, Okay, c J. Gardner, Johnson. But this is

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Speaker 1: a good class I'm looking at it. Yeah, Drake, Dre

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Speaker 1: Green law He's been a good player, not a household name,

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Speaker 1: but a quality player. Deonte Johnson misses the list for him, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I can understand that on first blush, just

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Speaker 1: because the names I'm looking at here, I just want

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Speaker 1: to see who else he puts in there. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: because I mean he's a just about any draft class.

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Speaker 1: Deonte's gonna be a top fifteen player after two years,

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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, Dexter Lawrence, Okay, another quality player. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure Giants fans are raised and eyebrow that Eric McCoy quality. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I put the ante over him though. Ed Oliver, I've

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Speaker 1: been in Ed Oliver skeptic. I mean, he's very small,

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Speaker 1: he's like to seventy five issues. Do you remember him

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Speaker 1: coming out of Houston? He ran like a linebacker and

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Speaker 1: his agility drills are like that. And they've had such

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Speaker 1: a rotation on the D line that he's kind of

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Speaker 1: been forgotten. But I went back and paid some attention

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Speaker 1: to him this past year. He's starting to come on

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Speaker 1: for the Bills. So all these d line investments in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: all the high picks von Miller might start to really

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Speaker 1: pay off the stuff coming year. Montes Sweat just missed

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Speaker 1: the list. Good player too, Christian Wilkins just missed the list.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I might struggle with that. It's a really

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Speaker 1: good player. And Quinnin, Quinn and Williams misses the list.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's that's a pretty good list, right there, guys.

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Speaker 1: I was just saying a minute, just thinking Christian Wilkins,

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Speaker 1: Quinnin Williams, Dexter Lawrence, and Ed Oliver for defensive tackles

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Speaker 1: that any team would kill for. This, lets me be

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Speaker 1: it must be pretty good. And just looking at the

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Speaker 1: guys in the draft, I have a feeling I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to fight him too much because this is a

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Speaker 1: really good class. Well, let's let's go ahead and look

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Speaker 1: into it. Here he says, those were tough cuts. It's

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Speaker 1: just such a loaded group. All right, Let's get to

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Speaker 1: the good stuff. And so he goes from fifteen down

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Speaker 1: with this real quick though, just so Pete our Steeler

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Speaker 1: But he ate better than Deante Johnson. Yeah, that that's

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Speaker 1: interesting because I've never thought of those two even the

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Speaker 1: that he's better than Marquis Brown, who was on the

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about a lot of receivers to the way

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Speaker 1: this class structured. But I was on stand show on Friday,

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Speaker 1: much as Renfro And I immediately thought, well, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: bigger renfro guy as anyone too, like of these classic

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Speaker 1: right exactly. That's my problem with that. Like he's just

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Speaker 1: a slot receiver. Now, he's a really really good slot receiver.

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Speaker 1: But he ever's ten yards a catch last year exactly,

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Speaker 1: that's his ceiling. I mean, I think I'm pretty much

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Speaker 1: nailing this. But if the Raiders had Deonte and Waller,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he trade for Adams, right, you know

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Speaker 1: I mean you got to throw in a second round pick, yeah,

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Speaker 1: something something good. And he's a very very good player.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm a I'm as big. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: started him a dozen times last year in our fantasy team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he said fantasy teams too, because because he was consistently undervalued.

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Speaker 1: But he was consistently undervalued for a reason. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: is easier than Deonte's. Yes, yes. Number fourteen is Josh

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Speaker 1: More people would understand that value. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: you could fight Deonte verse um Alan. He's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a lot of receivers on this list. I could fight.

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Speaker 1: I could fight Alan versus A bunch of guys who

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Speaker 1: he's got Christian Wilkins or Quentin Williams to me, are

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Speaker 1: clearly a better players. Yeah they are. He's got he's

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Speaker 1: I means good, but he I don't know that puts

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Speaker 1: him in this top fifteen. And then the Jags used

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Speaker 1: the first overall pick on an edge rusher. Correct, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean good player, but special player. Now at thirteen

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Speaker 1: wonder if Bucky overlooked him because he's, you know, not

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Speaker 1: him going forward. You know, from this point on, I

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Speaker 1: good player. Yeah. Number twelve was Rashaan Gary. He came

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Speaker 1: you and I didn't love him coming out of school

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Speaker 1: you tell me which, okay you get, you get your

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Speaker 1: one of those big guys. I think I probably would too,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sure we'll talk. We keep talking

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Speaker 1: about Deante, but the quinnin, Wilkins, Deonte that pretty much

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Speaker 1: trajectory of being a star, but again he's climbing. Number

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Speaker 1: eleven is Terry McLaurin. Um some news on him today

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Speaker 1: and who knows. I mean, this could come from an

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Speaker 1: agent that's posturing or whatever, but it affects Theante a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Was the quote was the Commanders and McLaurin

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Speaker 1: McLaurin as maybe the two guys that have been helped

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Speaker 1: trying to find it, but it doesn't matter. But they

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Speaker 1: listed every quarterback that McLaurin has caught a pass from

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Speaker 1: like it's bad. Well, here's the here's the thing that

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Speaker 1: was Duck Hodges and Mason Rudolph. Yeah right, good point.

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Speaker 1: funny you mentioned that because sitting here complaining about mclaurin's

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and late career Ben wasn't exactly Joe Montane either, right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: and ended up being a lot of production for Deante.

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Speaker 1: But Duck and Rudolph the end of career, Ben isn't

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback and you're gonna get yeah right at

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Speaker 1: and he has Brian Burns. I really like Brian Burns.

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Speaker 1: Get I get that he would probably be tend for

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Speaker 1: me to long Lean Bender. Yeah, really good player. Uh

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Speaker 1: nine is Elkton Jenkins? Okay, I mean certainly not real

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Speaker 1: flashy And some of these names that we've brought up

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Speaker 1: he is the beauty of Jenkins. Is I mean he

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Speaker 1: in free agency and then there's another injury and they

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Speaker 1: just move him around. He feels the whole and every

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Speaker 1: O line coach would love to have this guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Eight is Devin White. I have a problem with that.

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Speaker 1: I do too, because this is an awesome list. I

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Speaker 1: mean most draft classes. If you said Devin White was

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Speaker 1: highlight tape is awesome. But he makes a lot of

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Speaker 1: mistakes too, And I would rather have White than Bush,

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