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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Adam Rank, who

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Speaker 1: works for NFL dot Com, put out his first mock

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Speaker 1: of the off season, his first first one look at things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah why not? So um? He does this on as

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Speaker 1: he says what every team should do in Round one

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Speaker 1: should okay, first looking at it a little more his

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Speaker 1: opinion then than what he's Yeah, absolutely his opinion. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of this is probably things that

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Speaker 1: you've seen elsewhere, but I just thought to take a

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Speaker 1: look at it. He has Aidan Hutchinson going one to

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Uh, Cavan Thibodeaux to the Lions too, kind of.

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Speaker 1: I think they're both gonna take pass preshus. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it'll be those two, but okay. At three,

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Speaker 1: he has Sauce Gardner going to the Texans. I think

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Speaker 1: you and I have him as the number one player

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Speaker 1: in this draft, right, yeah? Correct? If you get him

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Speaker 1: a three and your team that needs everything, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure you can argue with that or I mean to

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Speaker 1: me that that makes a lot of sense. Uh, Like,

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Speaker 1: I think the Jets would hate this, love to get Gardner. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If four he has a Jet taking Kyle Hamilton's instead, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so they're passing on Walker. Yeah, but fair enough. At

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Speaker 1: five he has the Giants taking a Kawana. I think

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Speaker 1: more and more this draft shapes up pretty well for

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Speaker 1: the second old alignment. I mean, it's probably gonna get

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Speaker 1: their pick of them. Yeah. At six, he has the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers taking Malik Willis. Yeah. I mean they're more

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Speaker 1: are linked to pick it. You and I like Willis better.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a second or third round pick. You

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Speaker 1: can't just go out there with Donald. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: what I would do in this case is I would

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Speaker 1: take Evan Nel in a heartbeat, and I'd either signed

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Speaker 1: Baker or at Jimmy and maybe win seven or eight

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Speaker 1: games and try to build something and worried about quarterback later. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, he's looking at the long term

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Speaker 1: prospects of Malik Willis there, and we both believe in that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the same reason why we like him. So

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Speaker 1: there is a misnomer though, and I'm reading his right

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Speaker 1: up here, and that he doesn't mention it, but many

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Speaker 1: people do. They say, well, the coach needs to save

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Speaker 1: his job, so he should draft a quarterback so you

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Speaker 1: can win three games to get fired. Like had that

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Speaker 1: work for the Bears last year or the Jags? Not? Usually,

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Speaker 1: when you're terrible and you take a good quarterback and

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Speaker 1: you remain terrible, you don't keep your job. You don't

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Speaker 1: get to see you don't get to see the quarterback. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's seven. He is a Giants taking trade on Walker.

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Speaker 1: Boy that works out for them. You get Ikey and Walker. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that would be that would be a hall you'd take it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At eight, he has the Falcons taking Jermaine Johnson. Do

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Speaker 1: we agree that we would not go quarterback if you're

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Speaker 1: the Falcons at least in round one, because they really

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Speaker 1: couldn't pick first overall next year they could. I don't

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Speaker 1: because you take Johnson. Because let's put it this way,

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith is going into year two. If Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 1: if they take a big step backwards this year, which

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Speaker 1: would they win seven games last year, right, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden year, yea, all of a sudden. Now you're

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Speaker 1: picking first like your seats hid. Yeah, that's a tough sell.

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Speaker 1: Would you take Johnson over any of the receivers if

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Speaker 1: not gonna get Jermaine Johnson in the second round. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's him or Ikey would be the dream

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Speaker 1: At eleven, he has Washington taking Derek Stingley, So I

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Speaker 1: just turning the card. Well, that's the interesting thing about

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Speaker 1: this draft thus far isn't no wide receivers have gone yet,

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Speaker 1: has the Vikings taking Trent McDuffie. That seems as solid

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Speaker 1: a Texas taking Garrett Wilson. That'd be cool. I mean

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Speaker 1: people don't look at Mills this way. But if you're

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Speaker 1: the problem with drafting DeVante Smith. Last year's you can't

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Speaker 1: Philly without question, You're probably gonna run the ball a lot.

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Speaker 1: you know something. Uh. At sixteen, he has a Saints

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Speaker 1: Saints take Davante Wyatt. I get it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Dax Hill. Oh wow, the first time outside of the

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Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna say, Mitch, gives you a chance

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Speaker 1: in instead go with Hill, who end up the defensive

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Speaker 1: Packers takes Johan Dotson. That's a heck of a wide

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Speaker 1: three the Cardinals steak boy a mafe. He looks more

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Speaker 1: Twenty four the Cowboys steake Trevor Penning. Boy, that would

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Speaker 1: work out over Booth over Booth, not booth, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: make sure that they get Booth, because that's really what

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Speaker 1: only thing you haven't done you haven't seen him run. Okay,

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Speaker 1: They would not be the twenty nights and thirty best

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Speaker 1: We're just talking the Steelers about right right right slotting

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Speaker 1: Though Mixon also does not play on true passing hounds

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Speaker 1: They could certainly, you know, trade off after next year.

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Speaker 1: of like this mock. The Charles cost things a little odd,

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Speaker 1: That's what's starting to happen here because all these receivers

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Steelers could pull it off.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's a little too much huper Sara. That's

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Speaker 1: what I pressed that. Somebody brought it. Yeah, somebody brought

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Speaker 1: trade Deonte Johnson. Why why would you trade de Aunte Johnson? Well,

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Speaker 1: They made me plan on winning. They drafted a receiver

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about allocating resources. But because the Steelers

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Speaker 1: much as they used to either. No, they don't. They

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Speaker 1: that's a beauty of We're gonna take a break. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lully. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. That was Adam

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Speaker 1: Ranks mock draft on a baby to ax Hill to

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. How about that. We're gonna do a mock

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Speaker 1: draft next. Maybe we'll have tax Hill going to the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come back. Right for this