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Speaker 2: Good evening, Stealer Nation, How we do it? Well, that's
Speaker 2: good us too. It is the Bonus our our number
Speaker 2: three here as well. Along on campus, a quiet campus
Speaker 2: right now, still no signs of an evening walk through.
Speaker 2: Matt and I am seeing a bunch of buses across
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: I was wondering, what's up with that. Usually that's a
Speaker 3: Friday night light thing, but.
Speaker 2: I was wondering, this is total hunch here. Total guests.
Speaker 2: Although and am I crazy? Or do they have some
Speaker 2: kind of uniforms on and there's some Yeah, So my
Speaker 2: first thought was maybe they skipped evening walk through in
Speaker 2: lieu of a team bonding activity. Right, Maybe they're going bowling,
Speaker 2: Maybe they're going well, they actually did that already did that.
Speaker 2: Little little inside information for you, little inside information for you.
Speaker 2: The boys did rent out a movie theater not too
Speaker 2: far from here a couple of days ago on one
Speaker 2: of the off days, and they all went and saw
Speaker 2: The Odyssey. I heard it was rip roaring with a
Speaker 2: bunch of food and and and and fun flying around.
Speaker 3: How that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to do that once they're going somewhere,
Speaker 2: I was. I was telling this story to h to
Speaker 2: Reagan and Nate uh who obviously do work on the
Speaker 2: Steelers side. When I was like fourteen, I think was
Speaker 2: when the movie Miracle came out, of course, the Miracle
Speaker 2: on Ice movie, and our hockey coach at the time
Speaker 2: rented out in an entire showing for our hockey team
Speaker 2: to go out so well, and same thing. We took
Speaker 2: a bunch of pizzas in and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. I can't tell if
Speaker 2: they're where. If they're wearing like, you know, just their
Speaker 2: their jerseys, not full uniforms, I think they might be,
Speaker 2: so who knows.
Speaker 3: Maybe nothing. We're in gold on top and black on
Speaker 3: the bass.
Speaker 2: So maybe maybe they're going over to Latrobe Memorial for
Speaker 2: an evening walk through type thing just to get the
Speaker 2: you know, the setting and used to it over there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it didn't look like they were just in
Speaker 2: street clothes.
Speaker 3: Now. I don't think they're going to like Dave and
Speaker 3: Busters or I.
Speaker 2: Don't yes, or to the Bowling Alley or something like that.
Speaker 2: But interesting, looks like we've got a little bit of
Speaker 2: a different of an evening for the Steelers out here.
Speaker 2: Maybe Matt and I will do some research later time.
Speaker 3: I bet we'll find out tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, figure out exactly what was going on. But the
Speaker 2: grounds crew guy's still working out here. No signs again
Speaker 2: of the of the line painting robot. But we will
Speaker 2: obviously keep you posted if there's anything interesting moving and
Speaker 2: shaking in front of us. Matt, let's at the tweets
Speaker 2: here as we like to do to start the Bonus hour, smooth,
Speaker 2: Dave says with Aaron Donald potentially unretiring. Are you surprised
Speaker 2: or disappointed that the Steelers were never able to pull
Speaker 2: off recruiting JJ Watt or Aaron Donald to play for US.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Donald worked out at the facility. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's donated a lot of time back, but I don't
Speaker 3: think the Rams were ever just giving up his rights,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean where it's I did. I
Speaker 3: used to throw it out there when JJ had just
Speaker 3: retired that because coincidentally, right about when he retired is
Speaker 3: when the Steelers started swatting passes at the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage like it was their job. They became the best
Speaker 3: team of league, and he was the best I've ever
Speaker 3: seen do it. I'm like, did he teach Cam Hayward
Speaker 3: the secret sauce for batting down passes or did he
Speaker 3: teach brother who taught Cam. I thought maybe you could
Speaker 3: pry him away for one year, kind of like they
Speaker 3: did with Donald in terms of like JJ just played
Speaker 3: twenty five snaps a game, you know, keep you fresh.
Speaker 3: But I think he wasn't interested in playing anymore. He
Speaker 3: had some injuries late and there.
Speaker 2: Was a time period where I thought that JJ Watt
Speaker 2: was going to be a Steeler. Now it was well
Speaker 2: past his bell curve of dominant JJ Watt Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but there was a time when Derek was here still too,
Speaker 2: that I thought when.
Speaker 3: Derek was here exactly, I forgot it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I thought, oh, you could could complete the
Speaker 2: complete the trio. Yeah, there's a lot of commercials and
Speaker 2: endorsements that could have come from Matt. What we really
Speaker 2: need from JJ Watt and Matt and I have discussed
Speaker 2: this briefly in the past on air, but it's always
Speaker 2: worth another mention. What we really need from JJ and
Speaker 2: TJ and Derek is for them to open a culverse
Speaker 2: somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh region.
Speaker 3: I would like to invest in it. It will do well.
Speaker 2: That would be the best thing that they could do
Speaker 2: for Matt and I personally, other than potentially winning a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl here in the next couple of years. Troy says,
Speaker 2: if there is a quarterback to be traded, do you
Speaker 2: think it would be Mason Rudolph? Yes, yes, traded, absolutely, sure, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I also think you'll get much for Howard and Rudolph
Speaker 3: could be attracted to someone looking for a backup.
Speaker 2: It's funny at we were just kind of talking about
Speaker 2: this in the previous segment, Annie tweets and says, not
Speaker 2: hearing a lot about Michael Pittman Junior. I know it's
Speaker 2: early days, but how is the chemistry between him and
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers so far?
Speaker 3: Again, there's not a ton of team drills compared to
Speaker 3: other years. I'm not even a comment on him like
Speaker 3: routes versus air and things like that. I mean he's
Speaker 3: moving well, he's huge. I don't see any issues to
Speaker 3: be the slaves bit concerned, but we did kind of
Speaker 3: bring this up. I have not seen like a signature
Speaker 3: moment or yeah, boyd you see the catch that Pittman
Speaker 3: made or you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah that I don't think he has been poor
Speaker 2: in any reasons, but I don't. Yeah, he hasn't done
Speaker 2: the circus one handed catch type thing either. But still
Speaker 2: a lot of meat on the bone in terms of
Speaker 2: what they what they could be doing. Okay, Matt quick
Speaker 2: possibility here. I wonder if they're going over to the
Speaker 2: new indoor facility the rec center for tonight's walk through.
Speaker 3: Do you really need a bus to get there?
Speaker 2: Though? No, it's not far, but it's across campus. You know,
Speaker 2: you gotta watch your staff I wonder if we were
Speaker 2: supposed to get any rain here in the next No,
Speaker 2: but maybe they just they haven't used it yet. Maybe
Speaker 2: they wanted an opportunity to get in there and check
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's weird that they'd make a right here
Speaker 3: that they're gonna go to a dead end bus.
Speaker 2: Looks like it's good we're getting our journalism hating.
Speaker 3: You know what. I think you're right because there was
Speaker 3: a player on like a motorized scooter that went flying
Speaker 3: down the hill that he probably just drove himself.
Speaker 2: You think they could let me borrow that scooter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see you on it. I'm gonna that's
Speaker 3: pretty lame to take a bus from here to there.
Speaker 2: Well, it is, I mean, it is, it is. Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna watch.
Speaker 3: The entire bus trip from where we're sitting. I don't
Speaker 3: think you need the bus.
Speaker 2: There, Listen, I'm with you, But this is, you know,
Speaker 2: this is This would have been a perfect Could you
Speaker 2: imagine if Punch and Wolf were sitting here with us
Speaker 2: while this was right they gotta take a bus across
Speaker 2: campus to practice. You know, back in my day, we'd
Speaker 2: have to walk up hill both ways six times a day.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've seen it a million times. I have
Speaker 3: a tiny, tiny bit of a problem, but I totally
Speaker 3: understand it. When they golf cart the dudes to the
Speaker 3: calf it's really not I mean, these guys are in
Speaker 3: better shape than me. I mean they should.
Speaker 2: Here comes an empty bus around the backside of campus.
Speaker 2: That's got to be it. They've got to be doing.
Speaker 2: That's what they're doing at the new indoor recreation facility.
Speaker 3: And they drove there.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you could get a ride, get a ride.
Speaker 2: I guess a lot of steps, you know, I would
Speaker 2: have if.
Speaker 3: Somebody would golf cart me to my car right now,
Speaker 3: I would take the ride.
Speaker 2: I would love love to see tounch of Wolf's reaction
Speaker 2: to what we just to what we just witnessed taking
Speaker 2: a bus across campus to the endoor facility.
Speaker 3: I know they're not hurting for money, but they had
Speaker 3: to pay a bus driver to do this too.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do some more digging and find out.
Speaker 3: They really this was really like walking.
Speaker 2: It's a it's probably a ten minute walk, no way, dude,
Speaker 2: full way down the length of three football fields here.
Speaker 2: Then then then they make a right, okay, seven or
Speaker 2: eight minute walk five six. Now, you and I do
Speaker 2: walk pretty briskly.
Speaker 3: I will say, well, maybe they're wearing cleats and they
Speaker 3: don't want to. I'm sure that's a big part of it. Okay, cleats,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. You don't, I mean, you don't want
Speaker 3: to we walking on cement and you don't. Now it
Speaker 3: all adds up if you have cleats on that's the reason.
Speaker 3: That's the reason.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, with doing some real journalistic work here,
Speaker 2: all right, Matt says, do you see Max eventually getting
Speaker 2: the starting nod over Dylan Cook prior to the start
Speaker 2: of the season. Also, which conniment or topping has to
Speaker 2: be on your burger for it to be good grilled onions?
Speaker 3: I would say yes to Max.
Speaker 2: I think so. I think that's only a matter of time.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's definitely gonna be a starter soon. When
Speaker 3: they said before the season starts and gave me the
Speaker 3: slightest bit of pause, and I hope that he's injury as.
Speaker 2: Saying now, that obviously could be a factor.
Speaker 3: But for some reason he doesn't play in the preseason
Speaker 3: because of it, then that could slow things. Burgers are
Speaker 3: so versatile. I mean, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 3: ways to make a burger, But.
Speaker 2: What's the best thing. What's the one thing that's got
Speaker 2: to go on there for you for it to be good.
Speaker 2: I think for me it would be grilled onions.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of to be good, but I think
Speaker 3: I think kosher Dell pickles or yeah, like of lassic
Speaker 3: dill too. It goes with everything. Like can we do
Speaker 3: burgers at home? I either make mustard and toppings or
Speaker 3: barbecue sauce in toppings. Okay, and like pickles, onions go
Speaker 3: with either. I've been barbecue. Does it go with mustard?
Speaker 2: Ever since I got a Blackstone a couple of summers ago,
Speaker 2: we do. We do smash burgers like every other week, dude.
Speaker 2: Just some good just some good cheese, just some grilled onion. Well,
Speaker 2: good news for you. You are going to Sharky's here
Speaker 2: in a little bit for for a late show, so
Speaker 2: you'll be giving you some good food over there. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: grilled onions would probably be number one for me, followed
Speaker 2: shortly by mayonnaise and ketchup.
Speaker 3: I assume you do them on the Blackstone too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, get them nice and thin and a little
Speaker 2: bit of butter. These a little bit of butter, you
Speaker 2: want to know a secret that I discovered. I forget
Speaker 2: who told me this, But when you're doing like a.
Speaker 3: Good cook griller, I am, yeah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty versatile. I'm pretty versaal. I grew up in
Speaker 2: a family that like refused to ever go out to eat,
Speaker 2: So we did. We did a lot, and we did
Speaker 2: a lot of cooking at the house. When you're doing
Speaker 2: the smash burgers on the flat tops, yeah, like before
Speaker 2: you flip them for the so you get the good
Speaker 2: char on them, right, okay, and then you flip them,
Speaker 2: put some put some mustard before you flip it right
Speaker 2: on the mustard and the mustard kind of grills into
Speaker 2: the burger. It gives it a nice crust and everything
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're just teasing me.
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta have you over at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah the station.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they'd still be they'd still be good, but
Speaker 2: it's not quite the same. Uh, mister Steele City says, well,
Speaker 2: the team wait to install more in depth schemes until
Speaker 2: after cut down day. Also does Mason Rudolph getting praised
Speaker 2: by Mike McCarthy have to do with them trying to
Speaker 2: up his trade?
Speaker 3: Value.
Speaker 2: A lot of questions about Mason's trade value today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how to comment on the second one.
Speaker 3: I think the only reason you'd consider trading him is,
Speaker 3: like we've talked about all off season, is you think
Speaker 3: Howard can be the two and maybe that's getting to
Speaker 3: that point where they're really comfortable with him and Rudolph's
Speaker 3: going to be the guy that is on the outside
Speaker 3: looking in, assuming they only keep three, because you know
Speaker 3: two of the four making the team. So maybe what's
Speaker 3: step one of that? With the question?
Speaker 2: Shoot, now i'm john a blank all about installing more
Speaker 2: complex schemes after cutdown day.
Speaker 3: No one's told me this, but I've been thinking this
Speaker 3: for a couple of days. You're like part of me
Speaker 3: thinks again, Tinfoil hat why Ramsey isn't out there because
Speaker 3: they don't want the world to know what they're doing
Speaker 3: with them. I've very seen I've seen very little Noahkowski today.
Speaker 3: I think was the first time I've seen him like
Speaker 3: with the ones as a fullback. I don't know what
Speaker 3: they want the world to know about that either, you know, Like,
Speaker 3: as your boy Motz always says, there's a lot more
Speaker 3: training camp left after this and the whole public in
Speaker 3: the world isn't going to see it. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: first preseason game they are not going to open up
Speaker 3: the bag of tricks. And I think they do all
Speaker 3: coaches do, but this this coaching staff seems so attention
Speaker 3: to detail. I think they want to make sure you've
Speaker 3: passed second grade and now we can go to third
Speaker 3: and these things are probably tenth grade stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: Sudesh says, Bijon is absolutely one of the best players
Speaker 2: on the planet right now. Remember how running backs are
Speaker 2: being slandered just a few years ago.
Speaker 3: You know, we we mentioned that second batch of buses
Speaker 3: going in case you missed the first one.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could get on there and get a ride
Speaker 2: back to the car and save yourself some steps. Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Conversation says random, fun question. I want to know your
Speaker 2: Steelers Mount Rushmore of linebackers and your Steelers Mount Rushmore
Speaker 2: of running backs. All right, we got like a minute
Speaker 2: or two.
Speaker 3: But running backs are Franco Bell, Bettis Foster, The Rushmore
Speaker 3: is often always have to.
Speaker 2: Be four Rocky Blier. I mean, if you're going by
Speaker 2: the Rushmore thing, I'll go Foster. Yeah. The three three
Speaker 2: are very easy to pick three or super easy. You're
Speaker 2: very easy to pick linebackers. Lambert Ham.
Speaker 3: I'm only going off the ball.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing like yes, Lambert Ham. Kirkland Kirkland Ferrier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he'd be Bell.
Speaker 2: I think so too, and man I Shazier would have
Speaker 2: been on that list if he would have had a
Speaker 2: coffee career.
Speaker 3: But people will tell you Andy Russell.
Speaker 2: Andy Russell is a good one. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: I never saw him play once, so I mean it's
Speaker 3: a little tough for me. But there's a pretty good
Speaker 3: rush wars.
Speaker 2: Those are pretty good rush wars. Last one of the
Speaker 2: day goes to well for this segment at least goes
Speaker 2: to Nate. I need to know. The best non Steelers
Speaker 2: game environment you guys have ever been to was yours
Speaker 2: Kyle Field down at Texas A and M.
Speaker 3: Probably I haven't time.
Speaker 2: There's some good one. That's a tough that's a that's
Speaker 2: a tough question. Nate, the World Cup game that I
Speaker 2: went to back in June would be on the list.
Speaker 3: I assumed he was talking football, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt, Penguin's playoff games at the Civic Arena. Yeah,
Speaker 2: back when that place used to be rocking.
Speaker 3: I mean that that was phenomenal, phenomenal.
Speaker 2: I mean, as much as I hate giving them credit,
Speaker 2: I've been to a couple of Penn State games out
Speaker 2: at Beaver Stadium and their atmosphere is incredibly electric. Some
Speaker 2: of the WV you know, the backyard I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: I was about to not get you going, but I
Speaker 3: would say the brawls when I was on pit staff
Speaker 3: were pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And even the w U Virginia Tech back in that
Speaker 2: era when it was when it was the VIC Brothers,
Speaker 2: and that was.
Speaker 3: You know, we had a lot of success against v
Speaker 3: Tech and they were the better team than us every
Speaker 3: We were a dog every time he played him, and
Speaker 3: I think we beat him two or three times, so
Speaker 3: that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yep, those ones are all really good.
Speaker 3: Getting crushed by the U wasn't always that fun.
Speaker 2: I would imagine that was not I would imagine that
Speaker 2: was not so much fun.
Speaker 3: It was fun to like the scouting, you know, future
Speaker 3: scouting me looking at the players on the U, going, WHOA,
Speaker 3: We're in for a long day. You know what.
Speaker 2: You know, man, that's a first round pick. That's a
Speaker 2: first round pick.
Speaker 3: That's a first round pick, and that guy game on
Speaker 3: the field and he's a first round pick.
Speaker 2: One that deserves to mention, Matt was that twenty thirteen
Speaker 2: blackout wild Card Pirates game to win against Cincinnati. Unbelievable,
Speaker 2: unbelievable that that deserves credit. Generations fans waiting for a
Speaker 2: playoff game.
Speaker 3: I was on the I was on the sidelines with
Speaker 3: Pitt for the first ever game in what was then Hide.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. And then very shortly after we came
Speaker 3: back after an off week from nine to eleven, and
Speaker 3: that was pretty emotional building. Heck game, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, getting back on the field after nine
Speaker 3: to eleven, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: I could. I could only imagine. I could. I could
Speaker 2: only imagine. And I tell you what, as much as
Speaker 2: again I hate giving them credit. That twenty eighteen NFC
Speaker 2: Championship game between the Eagles and the Vikings where Philly
Speaker 2: just absolutely decimated Minnesota to go on to the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and beat the Patriots and win their first Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That atmosphere was incredible because at the time the Eagles
Speaker 2: had never won a Super Bowl. I mean, imagine, imagine
Speaker 2: Steelers fans if we had never.
Speaker 3: Won a Super Bowl, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: You're hosting an AFC championship game.
Speaker 3: I mean a good franchise for a lot of years too.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like they were garbage.
Speaker 2: And I forget who it was for the Eagles. It
Speaker 2: wasn't one of their bigger name guys. But someone in
Speaker 2: like the third I think it was early third quarter
Speaker 2: had to pick six for the Eagles of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: Uh no case Keenum was a quarterback for the Vikings
Speaker 2: at that point. Someone on the Eagles had to pick six.
Speaker 2: That really blew that game open, you know, made it
Speaker 2: like thirty five to seven and it was over and
Speaker 2: that stadium I thought was gonna collapse. I mean it
Speaker 2: was real. It was just out of couse. It reminded
Speaker 2: me of I wasn't there for the Troy Polamalu picked
Speaker 2: six in the two thousand and eight AFC Championship game
Speaker 2: against Flacco and the Ravens that put that one on ice.
Speaker 2: But you hear the stories about how the building was
Speaker 2: moving and swaying and shaking that two thousand Again. As
Speaker 2: much as I hate to give them credit, that twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen NFC Championship game that I was working for the
Speaker 2: Eagles was absolutely insane. That's cool, and they obviously smoked
Speaker 2: the Vikings and went on to win their first Super
Speaker 2: Bowl in franchise history, which we all liked because it
Speaker 2: was against Tom Brady and those sticking Patriots. Matt, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for this segment. We are way overdue for
Speaker 2: a break here, but we'll see if we can hit
Speaker 2: some more tweets before the end of the show. Keep
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Speaker 2: Rolling along here down the home stretch of today's show,
Speaker 2: practice number seven in the books for the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 2: and Matt you know. Funny enough, there's two newcomers that
Speaker 2: I don't think we've discussed much, and we've still got
Speaker 2: plenty of time to do so. But on offense Michael
Speaker 2: Pittman Junr. On defense about Joseph Day, and I think
Speaker 2: it's understandable in a sense there's been so much new
Speaker 2: standard operating procedure out here. We've really been covering run.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then I think everyone's always so interested in the rookies,
Speaker 2: right who were kind of hitting their first crack at
Speaker 2: NFL football. But we definitely need to talk to some
Speaker 2: more Michael Pittman Junior as we roll along, and Sebastian
Speaker 2: Joseph Day as well. I know you really liked that edition,
Speaker 2: and I think he could be flying under the radar
Speaker 2: as a key addition for this defense real quick.
Speaker 3: On Pittman, I have no worries about him. He looks great,
Speaker 3: out here, he says, had like a signature moment, you know. Okay.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: As for Joseph Day, I really like it because he
Speaker 3: can play all across the line. I think he'll mostly
Speaker 3: play some nose. But I always look at guys like
Speaker 3: remember Chris Warmly, you know, like he was like the
Speaker 3: fourth or fifth guy, like the second guy off the bench.
Speaker 3: If that's Joseph Day, You're way better off than you
Speaker 3: were in those days, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna be really valuable. He's basically a starter,
Speaker 3: and I think he's caliber player.
Speaker 2: Basically a start caliber player. He's versatile. What that's going
Speaker 2: to allow for guys like y A Black, for Keanu Benton.
Speaker 3: Those are the two I think are the ones that
Speaker 3: really benefit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, maybe even someone like Derek Harmon as well. Since
Speaker 2: we haven't discussed Sebastian Joseph Day very much, he actually
Speaker 2: spoke after practice his obviously first training camp out here
Speaker 2: on the campus of Saint Vincent College with the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Here's what the new defensive lineman had to say.
Speaker 5: It's passionate because it is it good to be annoyed
Speaker 5: on here like the son of that Oh yeah, I
Speaker 5: think it's annoyed. That means, you know, we're making each
Speaker 5: other better, and you know, shout out to Troy and
Speaker 5: shout out to the Mace. You know those guys are
Speaker 5: you know they're doing. They're very talented young players, and
Speaker 5: you know, I see why while they're starting at what
Speaker 5: year two? Rightther both of your two players or your three? Yeah,
Speaker 5: so actually why you know they they do a really
Speaker 5: good job. They're really good, fundamentally sound, and you know
Speaker 5: they do oligneman, do help each other out or if
Speaker 5: they are supposed to. So, yeah, they do a really
Speaker 5: good job. Shot to them, though a little more.
Speaker 4: Aggress today baseball for yesterday, Did you guys react to
Speaker 4: yester year's practice today time?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna yesterday we had a solid day. We had
Speaker 5: a real solid day, and I think, you know, I
Speaker 5: don't I can't say if we had a better day
Speaker 5: or not. I felt like, you know, a lot of
Speaker 5: guys had had passed orsewise, he had a lot of sacks.
Speaker 4: For some solis.
Speaker 5: But but I don't know, I don't, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 5: I gotta kind of watch the tape. I can't say,
Speaker 5: you know, I really can't say it was a good
Speaker 5: back and forth. I felt like today, you know, to
Speaker 5: be honest, I don't really want to talk about that.
Speaker 5: I'll let kind of you know the DC handle that
Speaker 5: you know, I think that's his, that's you know. I
Speaker 5: don't want to you know, you see what you see
Speaker 5: and you know you can say what you want to
Speaker 5: say about that. But it's fun. That's all I gonna say.
Speaker 5: But I want I want to let him inser that
Speaker 5: you said.
Speaker 3: That's something that you notice.
Speaker 6: I wanted to be a stay dad want.
Speaker 3: A pactice today?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, you know, I feel like, you know, I
Speaker 5: felt like again, it was very back and forth practice.
Speaker 5: It was very lively. Guys were getting after it. I think,
Speaker 5: you know, the with the compete period that started off.
Speaker 5: Then we did inside run that you know that he
Speaker 5: kept like building. It was really good. It was really
Speaker 5: competitive day. It was a lot of great work, you know,
Speaker 5: and it was very back and forth. You know, I
Speaker 5: had a lot of I had some really good reps
Speaker 5: and have some reps you know that I feel like
Speaker 5: my technique could be a little better. I think that's
Speaker 5: what kam sall about is about. Fine Town is Sharper
Speaker 5: and Sharper in the tools and you know, iron sharper,
Speaker 5: iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I think how do you simulate how
Speaker 2: do you.
Speaker 5: Assimilate the tackling. That's such a great question. That's a
Speaker 5: great question.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: I just feel like it really comes down to mental strain,
Speaker 5: you know, like when you are getting those positions to
Speaker 5: like when you can you know, te off on the
Speaker 5: running back or if you can making sure you know,
Speaker 5: eyes are low in a blood football position and the
Speaker 5: legs are bent, you know, face mask up, you know,
Speaker 5: and uh, just really focusing on tagging off or like
Speaker 5: studding you know, and uh and you know, once it
Speaker 5: goes live in wanst Be then you can actually put
Speaker 5: that all together and actually you know, come through through
Speaker 5: your hips and stuff like that. So I feel like
Speaker 5: it's a real it's a real mental thing that you
Speaker 5: have to focus.
Speaker 2: On making its Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: I think that's real fun. It makes it super competitive.
Speaker 5: I think it's also because the juice is going. You know,
Speaker 5: it's because the juice is going, and I think it
Speaker 5: makes it It makes it unexpected. That's what football is, right,
Speaker 5: Like you don't know, like obviously you prepare, you work
Speaker 5: your butt off, you feel good, you know, the plan
Speaker 5: looks good, everything looks good, but sometimes the offense comes
Speaker 5: out and does something completely opposite, right, and how do
Speaker 5: you respond? How do you respond as a defense? And
Speaker 5: I think that period is awesome because that's why it simulates.
Speaker 5: It simulates, you know, a real game, you know, down
Speaker 5: down fourteen zero.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do? Right?
Speaker 5: A sudden change? Sudden change and now you're on you're
Speaker 5: on your five yard line. You gotta get a stop?
Speaker 8: What do you do?
Speaker 5: And I feel like, though, that is really gonna help
Speaker 5: us prepare for those moments. Like, to be completely honest
Speaker 5: with you, I was, I was so locked in on India.
Speaker 5: I was, we were so locked in on our India.
Speaker 5: Then we heard the music, were like huh like oh,
Speaker 5: you're like, yeah, let's go. You know, it's just like
Speaker 5: it's just like it is like a pop quiz, but
Speaker 5: it's fun.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 5: It makes it fun. It brings the juices. You know,
Speaker 5: you gotta lock in. You know, you gotta tap into
Speaker 5: something deeper and bigger than yourself. You know, try to
Speaker 5: get a stop because thirty Oh, they're doing such a
Speaker 5: great job. Man, those guys. You know one thing, I
Speaker 5: really they remind me so much of myself, like when
Speaker 5: I was coming up like the Rams, like my first year,
Speaker 5: starting my first second year and third year, like how
Speaker 5: bad they want it, Like they're always like trying to
Speaker 5: be first in line. They're always like you know, they're sponges.
Speaker 5: Like then they're and and they work their asses off man.
Speaker 5: And again I have, you know, nothing but just praise
Speaker 5: for those guys. Y a man or black man calling
Speaker 5: big black callin why a big black black man, buddy
Speaker 5: is a freaking wall. You can't move that guy, and
Speaker 5: it's so impressive. And again, all those guys are doing
Speaker 5: such a gret job.
Speaker 3: Did you see that.
Speaker 4: Plays when you see that.
Speaker 2: Really press.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I just think, you know, this guy's
Speaker 5: a limit for him, long, tall, athletic. You know you
Speaker 5: can see he's really he's really trying to work that edge, edges.
Speaker 5: He's doing a really good job. You know, again, this
Speaker 5: guy's a limit for all those guys. And knew, you
Speaker 5: know new he's so quick, you know, plays with a
Speaker 5: real low center of gravity, good hands, strong hands, always
Speaker 5: on the steering wheel. He never we rarely see his
Speaker 5: hands outside honestly, like it's so cool because he I
Speaker 5: was when I was at the Rams. I was an
Speaker 5: undersized nose too, you know. And seeing him play, it's
Speaker 5: so good to see it because everyone thinks he gotta
Speaker 5: be like this three hundred and like sixty manmoth of
Speaker 5: a man to play that position. But no, it really
Speaker 5: it's really just skill set and the skill set and
Speaker 5: just technique and like being a technician. And I feel
Speaker 5: like he does such a great job. Also, he was
Speaker 5: rush ahead. He does a great job rushing on edges.
Speaker 5: So and like I said, why he's a wallman. Black
Speaker 5: Man's boy, Blag is just a wall I mean, you're
Speaker 5: not moving him. You're not moving him. And he does
Speaker 5: such a good job. Man comes to work every day.
Speaker 5: These guys. Again, I'm excited, y'all should be excited because
Speaker 5: I'm a old man, you know, hopefully I'm here for
Speaker 5: a while. But the future is right for y'all for
Speaker 5: a very long time with those three.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Sebastian Joseph Day one of the newest members
Speaker 2: of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. There after practice, excited to
Speaker 2: see what that guy is gonna bring to the defensive
Speaker 2: line and both sides of the trenches. Now, Matt, I
Speaker 2: think We're very confident that they're in as good places
Speaker 2: as they've been in a while with the higher end
Speaker 2: talent and with some real depth options on both sides
Speaker 2: of the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, improven commodities too. I mean, I really like this pickup.
Speaker 2: I do as well. We're gonna get to our final
Speaker 2: break here, last segment to go. On the other side,
Speaker 2: we'll hear a little bit from Mike McCarthy and we
Speaker 2: will wrap up the day's proceedings here on campus of course,
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Speaker 2: of big days ahead here for the Steelers, and of
Speaker 2: course Saturday night lights on the Horizon this weekend. A
Speaker 2: couple questions to just surrounding the health and status of
Speaker 2: a couple of the Pittsburgh Steelers that we discussed at
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Speaker 2: all the information, all the need to know from head
Speaker 2: coach like McCarthy.
Speaker 4: It was our mock game format and then recharge program
Speaker 4: for the players just to you know, try to give
Speaker 4: a chance to get their bodies you know, uh, you
Speaker 4: know recovered and all the things that go into that.
Speaker 4: But yes, uh, you know what is what Monday Tuesday
Speaker 4: was installed three and three, three and four, so we
Speaker 4: reviewed everything yesterday. So it was a good review day.
Speaker 4: You know, just keep ponding away, you know, conceptionally and
Speaker 4: hitting all the situations these next to the you know,
Speaker 4: this next three days uh segments huge for us. You know,
Speaker 4: this is a I've always looked at it as kind
Speaker 4: of the hump week hump part of the training camp,
Speaker 4: you know, a chance to get up to two and
Speaker 4: a half hours of practice. So we'll do that today,
Speaker 4: you know, use the use it the whole time. And
Speaker 4: we'll do install five today, six tomorrow, and we review
Speaker 4: with down town. They're in Latrobe Saturday night. So this
Speaker 4: is a big three day segment for him. And you know,
Speaker 4: and this is hard on the young guys, you know,
Speaker 4: because they're getting a new game plan every day that
Speaker 4: they got to you know, be ready for study and
Speaker 4: then go exercise it, you know, in a competitive environment.
Speaker 4: So we're making progress.
Speaker 9: Like when you signed Jim Mail, Dean, what did you
Speaker 9: like about it?
Speaker 4: I like, I just you know, obviously you look at
Speaker 4: his physical rates, his length. You know, I played a
Speaker 4: few games against him down there in Tampa. I remember
Speaker 4: playing against them early in his career, and well, I
Speaker 4: just think his his experience and you know, his play
Speaker 4: style fits us, smart player and I think this. You know,
Speaker 4: once you see him and once you've seen him out there,
Speaker 4: you know, once he got back from the injury. You know,
Speaker 4: he's he's definitely what I thought he was.
Speaker 3: Well, why is added some size?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 4: What do you think about his potential? And notice how
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to he. I mean, obviously you know the
Speaker 4: ability to anchor. You know, he definitely moves better than
Speaker 4: I was aware of, you know, before I got here.
Speaker 4: So you know, there's a lot there to work with.
Speaker 4: So you know, we are a three four defense and
Speaker 4: that's our starting point. And you know, the ability to
Speaker 4: stop the run is always at the forefront of how
Speaker 4: you want to play and definitely play in our division,
Speaker 4: so you know, but obviously, uh, you know, if you
Speaker 4: look at the number sub sub defense is important. So
Speaker 4: the ability to play in the four main lines is
Speaker 4: is where he needs to continue to grow.
Speaker 9: Is there is there any other examples of guys you mentioned,
Speaker 9: like Hya where when you got here you looked at
Speaker 9: the film or whatever you did the review last year
Speaker 9: and now you see him and you go a little
Speaker 9: better and.
Speaker 4: You though, either hand, oh, definitely, and that's that's normal,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, Mason would be the first one.
Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph just I can't I can't tell you how
Speaker 4: pleased I am with him. You know, I just think,
Speaker 4: you know, quarterbacks play a while in this league, you know,
Speaker 4: so the experience that he's gained, I think is incredible,
Speaker 4: incredibly valuable to us. But you know, the footwork's different.
Speaker 4: So now now that anytime you ask to know an
Speaker 4: experienced player to change you know, footwork or things like that,
Speaker 4: and it's fundamentals, and he's he's doing a really nice job.
Speaker 4: So throws are better than I knew, you know, just
Speaker 4: and I think, just like anything in the quarterback room,
Speaker 4: you really don't know to you stand next to him,
Speaker 4: you're out there on the field, that really how each
Speaker 4: guy throws the ball. So but yeah, there's there's always examples.
Speaker 4: Mason was kind of the first one for me, having
Speaker 4: a chance to work with those guys in a quarter school.
Speaker 4: At one point, your third Saturday is a scrimmage? Is
Speaker 4: that the Saturday night lights? It's a normal practice for us.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I'm I'm you know, we are in you know,
Speaker 4: concept installed mode. You know, this will this will get
Speaker 4: us through six you know, six outy eight. You know,
Speaker 4: we we have eight installs that we that we use
Speaker 4: offense and defense and special teams where we feel like
Speaker 4: everything's in you know, it's uh. So we'll complete five
Speaker 4: and six uh this week and then we'll we'll get
Speaker 4: seven in there on Monday and then uh move on
Speaker 4: to Green Bay and get ready for the first game.
Speaker 4: But you know, we we won't complete the you know,
Speaker 4: the eighth installed til you know, prior to the Jets game.
Speaker 5: So, Mike, you guys had.
Speaker 2: Your first I think mojo moment on Tuesday with the
Speaker 2: Monday Night jingle playing guys running down and doing those
Speaker 2: goal lights snaps. How did you come up with that?
Speaker 3: And what's the origin.
Speaker 4: Behind the name. Well, it's new and improved, so it's
Speaker 4: the Franco moment actually, So uh, Mojo's an old term,
Speaker 4: you know after Austin powers. You know, when you lose
Speaker 4: your mojo, you getta jump back in there and sudden
Speaker 4: sudden change, you know, situation awareness and know exactly where
Speaker 4: you are. So you throw it on the players. They
Speaker 4: don't they don't know what's coming. So but uh, in
Speaker 4: honor Franco Harrison and really recognizing the greatest playing NFL
Speaker 4: history in the maclu reception, it is now the the
Speaker 4: Franco Franco moment. So we'll do it every time. I
Speaker 4: just was waiting until we got to a point with
Speaker 4: the padded practices where we can, you know, because because
Speaker 4: you want it to be as competitive as you possibly can.
Speaker 4: So we'll have it. We'll have it at some point
Speaker 4: today early in practice.
Speaker 2: Why do you evaluate how they did in their first
Speaker 2: Franco moment?
Speaker 4: Definitely, No, they did a good job. I mean it's
Speaker 4: you know, it's four dons. You know, you got to
Speaker 4: have it at the end of the game to win
Speaker 4: the game. So we have to, you know, sometimes take it,
Speaker 4: take it to video because there's a lot of debate
Speaker 4: on if the offensive defense of one I think on
Speaker 4: two of the place. So uh so that's what we do,
Speaker 4: and we'll keep track.
Speaker 10: Mike, your first step short, you have been most of
Speaker 10: his defensive end. Is that a fluid situation or is
Speaker 10: that the position? I wouldn't put a lot of value
Speaker 10: into the depth chart. You know, I told you how
Speaker 10: it felt about Bird earlier and our start here with
Speaker 10: these press conferences. I was severely criticized for my language.
Speaker 10: I apologize, but now you see why I say what
Speaker 10: I said about him. So that's Bert's depth chart.
Speaker 7: Mike with with with Jalen and Joe not on the field.
Speaker 7: How impressed if you've been with the Sante throughout the
Speaker 7: first week.
Speaker 4: A great point. I think every time his name comes up,
Speaker 4: it's just a huge first impression with me starting back
Speaker 4: in the spring, he's obviously there, you know, every day,
Speaker 4: great energy, you know, all the way through the off
Speaker 4: season program. You know, love his ball skills, his instincts
Speaker 4: and his awareness. I think he's had I think he's
Speaker 4: had a great off season. I think he's having a
Speaker 4: better training camp, so it's been really good for him.
Speaker 4: But you know, position flex so I think he's having
Speaker 4: a great camp.
Speaker 7: I see somebody that you would have worked both on
Speaker 7: the outside and nickel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's definitely a position flexibility player, clearly.
Speaker 3: I guess do you players know what a Franco moment
Speaker 3: is or did you have to do a little bit
Speaker 3: of tea?
Speaker 4: No, it was easy, you know, but it was kind
Speaker 4: of cool. Now I showed them that showed them the
Speaker 4: uh you know, the history and told them about the
Speaker 4: history and the plague. It was kind of cool to
Speaker 4: see it in the color because I remember watching it
Speaker 4: black and white, you know, when it happened live. So
Speaker 4: but no, yeah, definitely told them the history of it.
Speaker 4: But it's it's it's just really, you know, what you're
Speaker 4: trying to do as a coach, You're trying to create
Speaker 4: as many situations as possible where you know, because things
Speaker 4: change in the game. Do you haven't flow of the
Speaker 4: football game? It's an education, you know, and you get it,
Speaker 4: you know, at its peak in real games, and and
Speaker 4: that's what we try to do. We try to simulate
Speaker 4: those those situations the best we can in practice.
Speaker 6: Is there any update or timetable for for the pup
Speaker 6: guys or even Sean Ellie you're getting.
Speaker 4: At the full speed or you know, we had a
Speaker 4: meeting shoot, you know, Monday afternoon, so you know, everybody's
Speaker 4: making progress. So there's there's no high concern for any
Speaker 4: any of the guys right.
Speaker 11: Now anywhere else. Mike, you have some good competition at
Speaker 11: right guarding and right tackle. We see some of these
Speaker 11: guys flashing certain drills in practice. What are you looking
Speaker 11: for in those competitions that are you're gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 11: this guy's going to be my starter.
Speaker 4: I mean really everything. I mean I talked about the
Speaker 4: concepts where we're in we're trying to install so I
Speaker 4: think James Camping and his group do an incredible job.
Speaker 4: Is not only you know, the intensity of the fundamentals
Speaker 4: the techniques were using, but the volume. You know, that's
Speaker 4: why we're doing you know some of those drills were
Speaker 4: too spot in it, just to get it on video,
Speaker 4: capturing as much as we can because that, you know,
Speaker 4: that's what camp is. You have the time, you know,
Speaker 4: you're away from home, just to really dive in there.
Speaker 4: And I've always said this training camp video in my
Speaker 4: in my time in the league is the best video
Speaker 4: because you know it's we get to go against a
Speaker 4: number you know, top notch defense, and you know there's
Speaker 4: competitions against common players, so which is which is tough?
Speaker 4: So just to be but get get those snaps on
Speaker 4: video and then continue to particularly with the young guys,
Speaker 4: just to continue to teach and learn and then you
Speaker 4: know and obviously their ability to capture all their video
Speaker 4: and also learn off the older guys too. So this
Speaker 4: is just a great time of year for.
Speaker 7: That Mike from what you saw in minihand for Mass
Speaker 7: how different of a player once the pads came on?
Speaker 4: Are you not great point? You want that you want
Speaker 4: to see everybody wants to see what the rookie is doing.
Speaker 4: They put on pads and he definitely passed that test.
Speaker 3: Mike, He's anything.
Speaker 4: Cut your eye with Peyton Wilson since you can do yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean his motor, I mean just I mean number one,
Speaker 4: I don't know how you don't notice that. You know,
Speaker 4: he's you know you can see in the spring. But
Speaker 4: it's it even goes up in pads, which which I
Speaker 4: love that about Peyton. So, but you know, the communication
Speaker 4: of that group is critical. You know, all your all
Speaker 4: your decision makers, communicators on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 4: you know, whether it's the quarterbacks, the safeties and the
Speaker 4: you know, the green dots. You know, so him him
Speaker 4: have an ability to do both. So but very pleas Peyton, like, what.
Speaker 8: Are some of the things you look for, uh, set
Speaker 8: in this setting to see you feel good about a
Speaker 8: team's of your offensive ability to run the football? Well,
Speaker 8: of the things that happened in practice make you say, Okay,
Speaker 8: this is a this is something that's tangible that we're
Speaker 8: gonna see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this is this is the only chance
Speaker 4: to get to practice it. So that's why we do
Speaker 4: it every day. You know, we We obviously have a
Speaker 4: first and second doult period that will do every single day.
Speaker 4: But then we have a you know, we call it
Speaker 4: phone booth, you know, running pass. So it's uh, you
Speaker 4: know the nine on seven year old from the pass
Speaker 4: is that you know, it's it's usually tweaked one way
Speaker 4: or the other. So the ability to line up every
Speaker 4: single day and run the ball when everybody stadium knows
Speaker 4: you're gonna run, and stop to run when everybody stadium
Speaker 4: knows you gotta do that every day. So being able
Speaker 4: to highlight that is definitely important for us, Like.
Speaker 6: You two eleven to eleven periods going once. It's it's
Speaker 6: so simple, and you know it's funtle. I guess, is
Speaker 6: that something you've always done? Is that just the way
Speaker 6: to maximize reps that you can you know you video, you.
Speaker 4: Can watch it. Yeah, I wouldn't say I've always done it.
Speaker 4: I think, just like anything, been blessed to be a
Speaker 4: head coach a long time. I mean that you know,
Speaker 4: the CBA in twenty eleven and then second one in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, it makes you makes you take a step back.
Speaker 4: I think I talked about the three thousand plays a year.
Speaker 4: You know, where my history and my personal standard of
Speaker 4: how I feel you need to train a football team
Speaker 4: comes from. So you know, I'm just you know, making
Speaker 4: sure I hit that target.
Speaker 7: Mike, you talked about your oppression of Mason uh in
Speaker 7: terms of Drew. Obviously it's only been a few months,
Speaker 7: but what can you say about his progression from rookie
Speaker 7: camp up until now.
Speaker 4: He's doing what you want from your from your young player,
Speaker 4: especially your rookies. You know, it's these are these are
Speaker 4: tough practices because you're not just repeating concepts. You know,
Speaker 4: you're not out there getting totally. I mean, you're there's
Speaker 4: there's calming out. You know, it's there's common things that
Speaker 4: they're doing, but it's you know, you're not locked in
Speaker 4: where you know he can get you know, rep after
Speaker 4: rep and you know, see the same thing over and
Speaker 4: over again. You know, get four defenses to one one
Speaker 4: pass concept. So I think here's not there has not
Speaker 4: been a day where he hasn't made a throw. Did
Speaker 4: you see? Okay? You know that's that's a young man
Speaker 4: taking a step.
Speaker 11: You're asked about Peyton Wilson a littent ago.
Speaker 2: You know, he's talked in the past about trying to
Speaker 2: become a three down linebacker and carved out his niche
Speaker 2: at first sub packages, he's.
Speaker 9: In his coverage.
Speaker 6: What we need to do to prove to you that
Speaker 6: he can be that three down player.
Speaker 4: Trust, well, he definitely has a skill set. I don't
Speaker 4: have any doubt about that. And I think, you know,
Speaker 4: there's an excellent competition there and and I think also
Speaker 4: you know, not only just him and the linebackers, but
Speaker 4: he's also competing against some of our defensive backs. So
Speaker 4: we want to we definitely want to be multiple in
Speaker 4: our sub packages. You know, that's where high percentage of
Speaker 4: the game is played. Matchups are critical week in and
Speaker 4: week out, and really how our opponents play and and
Speaker 4: and how we have to match up. When it we
Speaker 4: will really dictate some of those things will go. So
Speaker 4: you can't you know, you can only project so but
Speaker 4: the most important thing for us is to have Peyton
Speaker 4: and all those guys ready to go.
Speaker 2: There's the boss, Mike McCarthy putting a bo on the
Speaker 2: day's proceedings for us here on Steelers Nation Radio. Matt
Speaker 2: another good day, yes, and looking forward to practice tomorrow,
Speaker 2: leading into what's always a high energy, highly attended a
Speaker 2: couple of days here for the Steelers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a fun couple of days. Today
Speaker 3: was great again, good weather, good atmosphere, pre psych Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Maybe we'll see a little more physicality tomorrow too.
Speaker 2: Still waiting for backs on backers. Maybe we'll have to
Speaker 2: wait until Saturday night for that, but we shall see.
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