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Speaker 1: Everybody welcome inside the U p m. C Rooney Sports Complex.

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Speaker 1: I'm miss Matthews and we are gearing up for Rookie

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Speaker 1: Minicamp taking place Thursday. The rookies get here, Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and Sunday they are out on the field and I

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Speaker 1: am joined now by Brandon Hunt, the Steelers pro scouting coordinator.

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Speaker 1: So before we get a chance to see these guys,

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Speaker 1: Brandon out on the field and you know, go through

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Speaker 1: the rigors of Rookie Mini Caamp, of the coaches getting

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Speaker 1: to know them, I want to pick your brain about

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Speaker 1: what this draft was like for you guys going in

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Speaker 1: with ten picks only coming out with nine players. Of course,

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Speaker 1: one of those was to trade up ten spots to

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Speaker 1: get Devon Bush. So take me back to that Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: Round one of the two thousand and NFL Draft and

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Speaker 1: just what the vibe was in the room, what the

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Speaker 1: up getting Debon Bush. Yeah, it was really exciting. Um,

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Speaker 1: when you go into a draft and you put your

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Speaker 1: board together, everyone you know, all your buddies and friends

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Speaker 1: and who are we taking, who the steels taking? You

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Speaker 1: never really know what's gonna happen, because you never really

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen on draft day. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: when we when we went through the month of pretty

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Speaker 1: Devin was one of the guys we had way up there,

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Speaker 1: and it was one of those things that at twenty

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Speaker 1: there's probably no way we would be able to get him. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So it was really exciting to have had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to see a guy in our opinion who was potentially falling.

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Speaker 1: And when it got to a point where we thought

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Speaker 1: be able to still have a chance to get eight

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Speaker 1: more football players. We took advantage of that opportunity and

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Speaker 1: it was obviously really exciting in the room. We never

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Speaker 1: ever panicked in there. There's never any like ah moments,

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Speaker 1: energy kind of changes, but there's never any panic. And um,

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Speaker 1: when we had a chance to to get to ten.

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Speaker 1: I believe we traded with Denver. We moved into that spot,

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Speaker 1: we took the player. Was a lot of excitement and

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Speaker 1: high fiving, but then obviously quickly switched back to business

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Speaker 1: as usual. Is it Kevin Colbert who's on the phone

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Speaker 1: taking in all the calls or because you might be

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Speaker 1: getting so many that there's multiple people answering phones. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on the phones, it's myself, Kevin mr Art has a

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Speaker 1: trade calls. And then uh, Samir is who's in charge

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Speaker 1: of actually turning the trade into league via email. All right,

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Speaker 1: take me through. Um, you know, just the chances you

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Speaker 1: guys have had to interact with Devin Bush prior to

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Speaker 1: making him a Pittsburgh Steeler. When I had a chance

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Speaker 1: you guys drafted him, you know, he said, I I

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Speaker 1: He just said that he felt really good about where

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Speaker 1: All Right, you guys did not have a second round

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Speaker 1: He's a player that we have familiarity with because UM

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Speaker 1: UH Ulysses Gilbert the follow in the current theme we're

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Speaker 1: been trying to compile a roster to be able to

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Speaker 1: function in practice. But it's all gonna be these young

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Speaker 1: guys going together. And we'd love to sit out here

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Speaker 1: and all of famers, but that's one thing you're definitely

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Speaker 1: not gonna see this weekend. UM. The main thing we

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Speaker 1: want to see is we want to see we want

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Speaker 1: to see shape, we want to see competitiveness, we want

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Speaker 1: to see how they respond to new environment. We want

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Speaker 1: to see how they're gonna interact in adverse situations because

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be as clean as some of the

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Speaker 1: situations they're in college, and just see how they react

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Speaker 1: and respond to coaching. UM, who want to see who's

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Speaker 1: gonna step up, who's gonna potentially have the wide eye look.

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Speaker 1: And then this is just the first step that goes

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Speaker 1: to rookie Mini Camp and then they'll right away when

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Speaker 1: they get done on Monday, they'll be in Phased two

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Speaker 1: with thrown right in with our veterans and then the

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Speaker 1: all the week there O, T A. So we want

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Speaker 1: this is just their first first benchmark. They've been training

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Speaker 1: all these months for Combine in pro day work, and

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be exciting to see them switch, flip

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Speaker 1: the switch and get finally get back into football. So

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Speaker 1: it's real. Yeah, it's it's it's real. It's real, real

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Speaker 1: football time, all right, Brandon, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your time. No problem,