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Speaker 1: Live from Indianapolis, he sees the twenty twenty three NFL

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Speaker 1: Combine on Steelers Nation Radio. Well, we just concluded the

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Speaker 1: fastest speed drill of the combine and involved the technicians

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Speaker 1: They have and we are back with you live Jerry Dolect,

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Speaker 1: Dale Lawley, and Max Starks. I am with you up

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Speaker 1: Dale and Matt Williamson. So we'll take you from two

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Speaker 1: the NFL Scouting Combine got to enjoy a little lunch

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Speaker 1: and during this break, which was nice. I got to

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Speaker 1: get a little work done in between. Listen. We were

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Speaker 1: very efficient with our time off, Yes we were. It

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Speaker 1: was unplanned, but we took well at a good advantage

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Speaker 1: of it. Yes, we are all just at the well

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Speaker 1: the mercy of the internet. Gods, that's exactly right. When

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Speaker 1: there was nothing we can do about it. But everybody

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Speaker 1: was scrambling. The whole all Radio Row for the most part,

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Speaker 1: went quiet. Nobody was talking, nobody was pontificating, nobody was analyzing.

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Speaker 1: But we do that as well as anybody. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we you know, and we kept the rhythm. It was

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Speaker 1: light in here. I think you saw a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys who had a little bit of exhilaration on their face.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say what teams it came from,

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Speaker 1: but they were over across from us that I saw

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Speaker 1: a lot of smiles and laughs going on. I saw

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Speaker 1: a lot of celebrities in that men's room when I

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Speaker 1: went into because everybody had a break. Yeah, absolute Max.

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Speaker 1: When you what are you eager to see at discombine

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Speaker 1: do you? I mean we've talked earlier about what the

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Speaker 1: importance is. We know, you know, the medical obviously, the

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Speaker 1: interviews of course are very important. Even that's different this year.

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Speaker 1: What are you eager to see or watch? You know?

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Speaker 1: When it comes to on the field. I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: about this defensive back class because I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of great talent um this year. So it's just

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Speaker 1: gonna see who who's the guy that's the freak this year, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a bunch of them, Like every one

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Speaker 1: of these guys Max when you look at them, they're

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Speaker 1: all like over six foot some of them are six

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys there at that position that are

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Speaker 1: very intriguing. And so you know, to get an opportunity

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Speaker 1: here to see these guys do the on field drills

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Speaker 1: next to each other is really going to be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how what the pecking order comes out. And

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Speaker 1: I like Christian Gonzalez. I think he's gonna out of Oregon.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna start at this, But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean some of these other guys aren't going to put

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Speaker 1: up some freakish stuff too. Yeah, And you know, and

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, as a highest and a former teammate,

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Speaker 1: I want to see how Joey's son does, right, I

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Speaker 1: want to see how son does because it's funny when

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Speaker 1: you grew up with the kid being the little kid

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Speaker 1: the combine, and then of course I'll have probably have

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna always be intrigued by, you know, a

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Speaker 1: that I did not know about, Um, that's gonna come

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Speaker 1: that I can go do some deeper dive research later

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Speaker 1: before we get to the draft shows. But you know,

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Speaker 1: leads us to now go do deeper research as the

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Speaker 1: analysts right in this process. He mentioned the the cornerbacks,

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Speaker 1: freakish numbers in this. In this Will Anderson as a linebacker.

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Speaker 1: also put him out in space. They put Michael Parsons everywhere. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he actually is as a better as a professional, more impactful,

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Speaker 1: is crazy to say that, right, because he was crazy productive.

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Speaker 1: But Will Anderson, I mean, if you're not rushing him,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen him like, well, you guys like that,

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Speaker 1: gonna be the freakiest? Yeah, you know one of them

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Speaker 1: can't believe that guy just did that. Yeah, Max, we

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Speaker 1: Stevens who have always believed and wanted their cornerbacks to

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Speaker 1: bigger priority should be cornerbacks who can cover, who can

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Speaker 1: And to me, that should be the way they evaluate

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Speaker 1: a cornerback. That's me as opposed to deciding can't they

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Speaker 1: So you want to get guys on the edge who

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Speaker 1: need cover guys, but I also need guys who can

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Speaker 1: take that ball away. I want you, I want you

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Speaker 1: to cover, but I want you to I also want

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Speaker 1: you to intercept it because turnovers was also something that

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Speaker 1: I mean, how many times do we talk about camp

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Speaker 1: Sudden the ball hitting his hands and it's not an interception.

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Speaker 1: And the difference of that Miami game, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: have nat ball hawking instincts as well at the cornerback.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got one with Minka for sure. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: know he can catch four you think, Yeah, just Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace showed some ability to catch the football, even Akello

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Speaker 1: at time. Yeah, oh absolutely absolutely, Well, but you need

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Speaker 1: that young guy. That's just that's just gonna have the instincts.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what they're missing at the cornerback position. Guys.

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Speaker 1: Cam Suton. Anybody wants yeah, anybody wants to talk, Well,

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Speaker 1: what's a number one cornerback? He's a guy when you're

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Speaker 1: when you're playing Jamar Chase. You got Jamar Chase, Yes,

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Speaker 1: all over the field today. I don't care. We'll deal

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Speaker 1: with te Higgins with the rest of everybody else. But

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Speaker 1: you got you got him. You're glue. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Shut down corners are hard to find. But if you

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Speaker 1: got one, boy, you take away half the field and

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Speaker 1: you could do a lot of other things defensively. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do for me. Fellas Dale. I know you're coming

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Speaker 1: back here for two more hours with Matt Williamson. Max.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow, my friend. I'm always good being

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Speaker 1: with you. Two more hours of good Steeler talk coming

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