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Speaker 1: M h m hm. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt um. One of the things

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Speaker 1: I hear is a guy be guy who covers the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: is that, well, the Steelers are the only team they

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Speaker 1: have all this drama, and there's all this all these

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Speaker 1: kinds of crazy stories out there right now. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about distractions? Yeah, been heavy. What's going

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Speaker 1: on in Green Bay right now? You want your star

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Speaker 1: wide receiver and your star quarterback are both going, well,

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Speaker 1: we may not be here after this year, Like and

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Speaker 1: I'm only here because this is gonna be my last year.

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Speaker 1: It's you want to talk you wanna talk about distractions.

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Speaker 1: That's a distraction. Yeah. And in the end, Rogers are

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Speaker 1: gonna play this year out. I mean that they've come

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Speaker 1: to a conclusion. But that's been the biggest story since

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Speaker 1: Broncos he leaving quickly followed by the Deshaun Watson one.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, what people don't realize is with

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Speaker 1: this new collective bargaining, these teams have a lot more

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Speaker 1: power than they lead on or people realize. You find

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Speaker 1: What used to happen guys would hold out and they

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Speaker 1: Now you can't. It's illegal to do that. Right, So

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's in Houston, whether he likes it or not,

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Speaker 1: is opposed to paying fifty grand a day, and Xavian

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Speaker 1: Howard's you know right, no one's gonna hold out. This

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Speaker 1: is the thing you know again your your star corner

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Speaker 1: by Xavian Howard. We talked off the air when when

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Speaker 1: were saying, well, the steelership trade for Xavian Howard first

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Speaker 1: of all, could afford it. Yes, it's funny. You can

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Speaker 1: see a list of twelve teams that could get him

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Speaker 1: under the cap. Same with Chandler Jones. You know, doesn't

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Speaker 1: he's fine with the team, in the role and all that.

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Speaker 1: He just wants more money. He wants more money. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. It's the same thing with the Shawn Watson.

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Speaker 1: You signed a contract. Howard signed His was two years ago.

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Speaker 1: He became the highest paid corner Elite correct number one.

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Speaker 1: Now he's saying, two years later, I'm not being respected enough.

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Speaker 1: I want a new contract. You signed a deal. Nobody

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this, but he even

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Speaker 1: He even went so far to say, when I signed

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Speaker 1: and I had regrets. Shut up, Like, they gave you

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Speaker 1: seventy or eight million dollars and you had regrets and

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Speaker 1: you have regrets. Right, That's insane. If only I could

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Speaker 1: good for you. But well, this is where I'm going

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Speaker 1: with it. The agent wants a new contract. The agent

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Speaker 1: didn't get any of that last year. He This isn't

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Speaker 1: in Howard Jeer saying you signed it bad, you attend,

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Speaker 1: back if you remember a few years ago when Steeler

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Speaker 1: the Roger situation. One of Rogers, Aaron Rodgers biggest issues

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's asking for veto power on anything,

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Speaker 1: I think that's why Cobb is back. I had a

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Speaker 1: We have every intention of extending you and you're our guys.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson and Matt.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that Mike Tomlin talked about yesterday

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Speaker 1: is he trying to push me outside for the inside

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Speaker 1: run or the opposite. Otherwise it's too easy. You just

425
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Speaker 1: you know, you get the advantage right away. And sometimes

426
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Speaker 1: you'll see that too with how flying drills where the

427
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 1: tackle and tight end will double team watt and in

428
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Speaker 1: one of them, I still get to the next level,

429
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like a guard center situation. So

430
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Speaker 1: now those drills are valuable, and you know, so that's

431
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Speaker 1: the one I think Tomlin wants to see his tight

432
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Speaker 1: ends do well. And because again you're not gonna ask

433
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Speaker 1: your tight end. You're not gonna ask Pat Farm with

434
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Speaker 1: the block t J. Watt one on one. Now, that's

435
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: a that's a loss every time. It's a loss every time.

436
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Speaker 1: But if they can help the run game on the

437
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Speaker 1: perimeter and not lose, and I just don't lose, Just

438
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: don't lose. Just don't lose. I mean, you can't get

439
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: tossed the side and he tackles the running back in

440
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Speaker 1: the back from right. It might be ugly as could be,

441
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: but just staying engaged as long as you possibly can

442
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: against great edge of defenders because you're gonna lose. That

443
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: matter more often not to put at least a shoulder

444
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Speaker 1: in the chase Young in that situation, and that situation

445
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 1: is so glaring but popular to contrary to popular belief,

446
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 1: tight ends don't line up on the line of scrimmage

447
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 1: kick slide like Anthony Moon goes with with their hands

448
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: in perfect placement. Is you know these great edge guys

449
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: come from both those come flying off the edge at you.

450
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: That's that's losing football. They do some other interesting drills

451
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Speaker 1: as well that I'm looking forward to seeing. I know

452
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Speaker 1: one Tomlin has has added in recent years. UM is

453
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Speaker 1: the one where he'll give the He'll put some cones

454
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Speaker 1: up and you use the sideline and the running back

455
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Speaker 1: has that it's about a ten to fifteen yard area

456
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Speaker 1: and he's coming up with the ball and there's an

457
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Speaker 1: inside linebacker there and your inside linebackers have to get

458
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Speaker 1: that guy, tackle him or get him in you know,

459
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Speaker 1: getting him on the ground, or run him out of

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Speaker 1: bounds without getting the leverage. You get to play with

461
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Speaker 1: the right leverage and not get you know, juked out

462
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Speaker 1: of your out of your shorts, or get beaten to

463
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Speaker 1: the edge, those kind of things. There's going a little

464
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: tangent here. But in my flag football coaching career, I

465
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: came up with this drill. I quickly realized coaching young

466
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Speaker 1: flag football players that no one can tackle the tackling

467
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Speaker 1: so hard. So I devise these tackling rolls where I

468
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: put four cones and I would put our best running

469
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Speaker 1: back with the ball and he just had to stay

470
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Speaker 1: alive as long as possible. And the taught to kids

471
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Speaker 1: how to like play with leverage and your angles, use

472
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: the angles and I can push this dude out of

473
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Speaker 1: bounds if I don't let them get my outside shoulder.

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Speaker 1: And obviously this is way different. I mean this bush

475
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Speaker 1: of nausey here Johnny and Freddie from Upper Sinclair second grade.

476
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Speaker 1: But you know that's the same concept of this is

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Speaker 1: the speed of the game at this level. You're gonna

478
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Speaker 1: be one on one. What angles you need to take

479
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Speaker 1: without losing your leverage? Don't go don't overstep it and

480
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Speaker 1: allow the cutback, or do you have corner help on

481
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Speaker 1: this play, who's got the edge? Or you know your

482
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Speaker 1: support players are coming from here, you've got a safety

483
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Speaker 1: coming into the mix. You got to know those things too.

484
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Speaker 1: So that's a good drill. Yeah, they're They're all drills

485
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Speaker 1: designed to kind of emulate or simulate what you're going

486
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Speaker 1: to see in the game. Um, just that you know

487
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Speaker 1: you can rep plays and do all this stuff, and

488
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Speaker 1: this is how it supposed to be. Just football still

489
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Speaker 1: comes down to one on one matchups a lot of

490
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Speaker 1: the time. It's one of the great things about it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here thinking about that drill, like I

492
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Speaker 1: would think Benny Snell never looks good in that drill,

493
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Speaker 1: But I would hope Anthony McFarland looks good this year

494
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Speaker 1: in NATRO. You know, like beat some guys to the

495
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Speaker 1: edge and right, you know, turn on the burst and

496
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, a quick little juke and yeah, you're right.

497
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: Get a guy leaning and you know you get past him.

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Speaker 1: That would be something to look for, you know, a

499
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Speaker 1: guy like him maybe shining there. But you know, getting

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Speaker 1: back to the tight ends. That that's one thing that

501
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Speaker 1: Mike toml and you know we're gonna you know he said.

502
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Speaker 1: He specifically said, I I don't expect the tight ends

503
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Speaker 1: to win the backs on backers. That's more for the

504
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Speaker 1: edge rushers. Like again, getting us either, we're gonna put

505
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Speaker 1: you on a tight end here, you better win. And

506
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Speaker 1: I'm sure some coaches let's go to the media and

507
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: be like, well, yeah, he should win. He's a football player,

508
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,719
Speaker 1: that's his assignment. That's what we're here to do. Come on,

509
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, like you gotta be a little more realistic.

510
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Speaker 1: I give Tom the credit for being honest, Like they're

511
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Speaker 1: the hugest vantage. I mean, no tight in the league's

512
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Speaker 1: walking t J. Watt right, I mean with it, that's

513
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Speaker 1: what we're looking to create. We want our edge rushers

514
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: to beat those guys. If you do, you try to

515
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: line up with a tight end to block Alex Highsmith. Yeah,

516
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: he better win that. He better win that. Brochet better

517
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: win that, you know. I mean, like because that means

518
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: the other guys are all getting five. They're getting Lineman,

519
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: you get five guys. You know, if you're rushing four,

520
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: that means two guys are getting doubled, or they fanned

521
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: their protections where you're getting the backside with the tight end.

522
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: You better win that that line or he comes free

523
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: on a stunt or you know whatever. But by the

524
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: other token, the Steelers also recognize at times it's gonna

525
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: have tight ends are gonna get stuck one on one too.

526
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Speaker 1: You know, like this is unfortunately the defense is gonna

527
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: win once in a while, you know, scheme wise overloading

528
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Um, but I think Tomlin really

529
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: wants to see his tight ends, in particular, win those

530
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Speaker 1: edges in the run game. They have to. They have to.

531
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, at least draft people, how could

532
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: you not take Creed Humphrey with that second pick? How

533
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: could you ignore Lineman to your two rounds in a row? Man?

534
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: If I keep going back to this last year when

535
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 1: they were in eleven personnel so often with Ibron as

536
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: the tight end and three receivers and a running back

537
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: that wasn't that good, and you're trying to block eleven men.

538
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: Ben's up blocking anybody. Deonte is not blocking anybody. Ebron,

539
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: Claypool and Juju are about the same when it's all

540
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: said and done. And so even if you're five lineman pancake,

541
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: five dudes, there's three rushers. Probably it's you know, it

542
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,719
Speaker 1: goes back to the you know, storming the castle theory,

543
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: you know, or coming across the beach at Normandy, you

544
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: throw so many numbers at it that somebody's gonna get through.

545
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: That's the whole idea of of of war. You know,

546
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: bacrified some dudes, but um, you know, so it's kind

547
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: of like it's like playing when you play chess. You know,

548
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: you'll sacrifice some ponds to get your queen free and

549
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, go get the king. Yeah, and I expect

550
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: Friar Muth to be mark runner. But if he's more

551
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: consistent with getting a two pounds safety linebacker type that

552
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: are so common in the league now blocked or sealed,

553
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: that could go a long way. We're just cracking down

554
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: on the on the defensive end to seal that edge

555
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: and anything that that block somebody, block somebody. Yeah, I

556
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: think that'll be very helpful, especially in the run game. Yeah,

557
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see. We heard Hebroun earlier this

558
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: week talk about how the the tight end room has

559
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,479
Speaker 1: given itself the name of of ass kickers. The ass kickers.

560
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: It's great, we'll see that didn't happen yesterday. We'll see.

561
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: I I believe in these next two days we'll see

562
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: typically when they do the in years past, when they've

563
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: done the backs on backers one day, they do the

564
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: tight end in the passing game against the insideline, because

565
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: the next we might see that change this year because

566
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: they're they're putting such an emphasis on those tight ends

567
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: blocking they know they can get the ball. Yeah, you

568
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: know you can catch the ball. That's also though you're

569
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: you're working on your you want your inside backers to

570
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: be able to cover. Um. I mean, I don't know

571
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: if that tight end room is gonna be a bunch

572
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: of ass kickers, but I like that they're at least

573
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: taking that as the goal as opposed to run after

574
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: catch guys or you know, spectacular catch room or you

575
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: know something finesssh Obviously that's coming from the top, and

576
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean the the goal pretty is pretty obvious what

577
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: the offense is trying to accomplish this offseason. The owner

578
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: said it, the draft, reiterated it, and now we're seeing

579
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: it in practice. That's That's one of the things that

580
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: Hebron said when he was asked about that. Did you

581
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: see where our first round draft pick was Alright, we're

582
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna run the football? Yeah, we better be we better

583
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: be better here. Yeah, we better be uh factor with

584
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: that too. And then know, by the way, the next

585
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: two picks were alignment. Yeah, you know this is they're

586
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: they're telling me exactly what they want and what they think.

587
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: Teams often do that hard to hide it with the

588
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: offensive line. Um, I get the feeling the Steelers feel

589
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: better about it anyone else did anyone else because of

590
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: the moves that they've made or didn't make. I hesitate

591
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: to say this on these airwaves, but I bet they

592
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: thought some of those older guys were a year past

593
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: expiration more than they would ever ever tell us. You

594
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, but you can't make that movie.

595
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: You can't can't make that you can't bench, you know,

596
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: villing the wave of house. I mean, they have too

597
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: much value as human beings, as leaders experience. But I

598
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: bet when they review the tape, you say, we gotta

599
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: get new guys. Yeah, you know what I mean, I

600
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: can't do what the inspiration dates. And that happens to everybody.

601
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: I mean, no one, No, we're very few get to

602
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: decide when they leave the team or when they leave

603
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: the game. It's just the wake up. I'll bet they

604
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: weren't all that upset when filling the wave a sign

605
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: with the Raves. It's about my next words actually right,

606
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: and the fact that they not they pushed the Castro out,

607
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: but maybe really have that cat money then thinking you

608
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: know they were, they would have been perfectly happy to

609
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,479
Speaker 1: have the Castro back if he's healthy, if he's back right.

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00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: At the same time, you know, when we talked to

611
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert the other day, they don't sign Melvin Ingram

612
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: if they don't if the Castro is still on the

613
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: team and have a little bit more excess cap spaces

614
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: as we speak, I mean, in the way it played out,

615
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: I'd rather have turned or an Ingram. Yeah, we'll see.

616
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean again, we don't know what the castro might

617
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: have been. You know, if he's healthy, it's one thing.

618
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: If he's back and he looks like the guy from

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00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, he may never play football again.

620
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: There's that possible. There's that possibility. So we'll see. I think,

621
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: you know again, they want to establish that mentality. Will

622
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: start to see that take shape here over the next

623
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: few days as they continue to practice in paths. My

624
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: biggest worry, not worry, but personnel complaint or concerned with

625
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the line is I'm not sure I see a star there.

626
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: Next year's first round pick might be a Pro Bowl

627
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: type guy, but they may not even need a lie

628
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: in next year. I mean, yeah, we'll see, because they're

629
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: gonna find out a lot this year about their linement.

630
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. A one hole or two

631
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: holes or none or you know right, Um, yeah, that's

632
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Speaker 1: gonna do it for this segment. So for uh, we're

633
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Speaker 1: Matt and I will be back to do the Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football focus. We'll do that right after this. You're listening

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Speaker 1: Drive on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, I'm dale ally here with Matt Williamson. It's

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Speaker 1: time for the fantasy football focus, and as we've continued

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Speaker 1: to do here for the last couple of weeks, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a Fantasy pros dot Com Draft Wizard Draft.

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Speaker 1: We've got the tenth pick today. I like that neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: The teams ahead of us are the money pits. Number one,

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Speaker 1: the two he keep calm and carry on carry on

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Speaker 1: is an easy one to the three is Jake from

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Speaker 1: State Farms. Uh four is acre is gonna fake poor Acres? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh five is a Yuka the Storm. We've had that

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Speaker 1: one before. Six is Chinalt Number five. That's an easy one.

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Speaker 1: Uh seven is the Murray up offense. Eight is have

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Speaker 1: Amari Christmas. Uh nine is Lamb and Shepherds. I think

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Speaker 1: we had that one yesterday. Actually, eleven is the again

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Speaker 1: the Fresh Prince of Hillaire. We've had that one before,

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Speaker 1: and then UH twelve is Oh my Gronkowski. I don't

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Speaker 1: get and I don't get the Gronk like Gronk is

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Speaker 1: a tough one unless you grow a tough one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski doesn't rhyme with much. Yeah, it doesn't work for much.

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Speaker 1: But anyways, so we're ten our top choices, you know,

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Speaker 1: the picks ahead of us for McCaffrey, Cook, Henry Barkley, Taylor,

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Kamara, Chub, Elliott, Chabo thinks literally for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's he wanted eight, Elliott and Kamara one later than usual. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here right now. Aaron Jones is the top

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Speaker 1: recommended pick for us the Aaron Rodgers News. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: is where he belongs. That's yeah, Now, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that makes a lot more sense. If you were able

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Speaker 1: to draft him in your bestball league in the mid

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Speaker 1: second round a week ago, you're pretty happy. You're happy. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: we could do the Kelsey experiment. We could do that.

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Speaker 1: We were talking off the air though. I Mean, my

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Speaker 1: problem with Kelsey is not that I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. And I thought he was the league

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Speaker 1: MVP last year for Fantasy and he's a massive mismatch advantage.

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Speaker 1: But for that to pick the payoff, he has to

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Speaker 1: be the tight end one has to be. It has

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Speaker 1: to be like head and shoulders above the other tight end, right,

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Speaker 1: and then it's worth it, and then you probably win

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Speaker 1: the league. I just don't know. I'll take the field

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Speaker 1: against Kelsey to be tight end one and so there's

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Speaker 1: bound to be a regression. Yeah, and he's not young.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's awesome. If he was George Kittle coming

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Speaker 1: off of that year, yeah, I'd feel a little different

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Speaker 1: about it. I Mean, what's remarkable about Kelsey we don't

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Speaker 1: talk about is he's been like tight end one, two

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Speaker 1: or three for five years in a row. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you probably will be again. But if he's if he's

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Speaker 1: tight end three this year, then you lost Then you

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Speaker 1: lost him taking on the first round. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 1: know there's a couple of good receivers. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: definitely backs that are appealing to me. Ecclora versus Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones is a conversation for me to Jones a touchdown score, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's I do think Dylan is going

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Speaker 1: to be a factor there. Um, but just gave Jones

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. He catches a ton of passes.

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Speaker 1: The beauty of it is Jamal Williams is gone because

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Speaker 1: everyone in the world loves Jamal Williams in protection and

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Speaker 1: crucial downs. Jones is gonna catch every ball in the backfield. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the key. I think you

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Speaker 1: have to take Aaron Jones here. Here's a question for you.

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Speaker 1: Would rather Aaron Jones or Kamara? They're kind of the same,

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Speaker 1: except Green Bay's offense is way better. Yeah, I trust there.

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Speaker 1: I trust what they got offensively a lot more, a

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Speaker 1: lot more right now, so he might be really belonging

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Speaker 1: that neighborhood. Aaron Jones is to pick. All right, Let's

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Speaker 1: see who we get around here. In case the pis

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Speaker 1: rate after us, We're Davante Adams, Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: at to one, Joe mixing it too too. Oh, but

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Speaker 1: that guy did my favorite move. He took the Kelsey

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Speaker 1: Mahomes matchup guy, and I league has has done that

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Speaker 1: the last two years, and they're the worst team ever

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Speaker 1: to play against. I don't know, I ever the stones

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Speaker 1: to make my first two picks. Kelsey my home, but boy,

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Speaker 1: it's terrible to play against that. Yeah, you're they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be some weeks where they just tear you up every week.

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Speaker 1: Every any week Kelsey scores. I mean, really, all they

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Speaker 1: need is their running backs and receivers not to stink them.

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Speaker 1: You know, here's the this is where it gets interesting,

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Speaker 1: interesting for us. I think stuff. Stefan Diggs is my

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Speaker 1: number one receivers. He's still available. Yeah, you know me,

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Speaker 1: I like to differ my I like the different things

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Speaker 1: because I can we do this every day and I

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Speaker 1: can get monotonous with running back running back. They won't

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Speaker 1: deal with it. I would take Ekeler, and I would

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Speaker 1: have considered Ekeler at ten. I think he's tremendous. I

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Speaker 1: would I would consider nausea um. But let's take Diggs.

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Speaker 1: He's our one one receiver. Rarely do we do this

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Speaker 1: receiver running back receiver move. We've got two guys that

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Speaker 1: are valued to us ahead of their drafts a lot. Alright, Stefan,

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Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's a nice start. We get Jones

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Speaker 1: and Diggs. I mean he's a great offense. He led

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Speaker 1: the league in targets. He's not a fluke, he's not old.

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Speaker 1: You know. Okay, we're back up again here. Let's see

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Speaker 1: if that hurt us with the running backs. The guys available,

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Speaker 1: Chris Carson, David Montgomery, Josh Jacobs, Miles Sanders. Heard us

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Speaker 1: with Darrell Henderson. I was gonna ask about Henderson. Who

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Speaker 1: are the other Ones, Jacobs, Montgomery, Carson, Sanders, Gaskin. I

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Speaker 1: think you take Henderson. Henderson better than all those guys.

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Speaker 1: This is where he belongs to. If they trade for

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Speaker 1: we lose. But I'm going off what the team looks

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Speaker 1: like right now. You know we're drafting pick that way.

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Speaker 1: I like that. Then we're back up again here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we got that's the thing. If you're gonna go,

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Speaker 1: if you go wide receiver, wide receiver or wide receiver

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Speaker 1: running back, that third pick almost has to be running back.

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Speaker 1: That's a big reason I don't like doing it because

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Speaker 1: I don't like making myself have to go a direction

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Speaker 1: and pick from a shallow pool. So now our top

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Speaker 1: suggested player, Julio Jones, not bad Amari Cooper, Mark Andrews, Kyler,

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Speaker 1: Murray m hmm. Give you a couple of other names,

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb mhmm, Chris Godwin. I would take Lamb over

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Speaker 1: Cooper absolutely, Lamb verse Julio is interesting to me. I

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Speaker 1: think Julio plays ten or twelve games. I trust Ceedee

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Speaker 1: Lamb the to be. I think I take Lamb the

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Speaker 1: tight ends or Hawkins and Andrew's pits. It's appealing because

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna get another one. Now it's now or never. Well, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like that. I mean, I like that

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Speaker 1: explosiveness that Lamb is gonna bring. You know, the quarterback

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Speaker 1: position again, if you're not gonna you got Murray, Prescott, Wilson, Herbert.

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Speaker 1: There's a chance Murray to me, stands out on those guys.

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Speaker 1: But I think I take Lamb. Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 1: take Lamb here as well. Now we've got a nice

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Speaker 1: you've got the two too. Yeah, you got the solid foundation. Um,

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Speaker 1: now we're back up here at five ten. Probably a

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Speaker 1: good thing that we did take Lamb there because now

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Speaker 1: the top receiving option is Brandon ayou Can. I don't

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Speaker 1: trust that San Francisco pass game. Beam guy. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: it's a tight end. That was hard, Dallas Goddard tight end. Okay, quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at de Deak, Prescott and Aaron Rogers stand

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Speaker 1: out to me there, I at Dac more than than Rogers.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I wonder how much Dak runs this year

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Speaker 1: after that injury and a huge gund he just had

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Speaker 1: the information he's got a little strain in his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna miss probably a couple of weeks of practice

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Speaker 1: here that they're gonna take it easy with him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I knew you wouldn't. But like the Steelers there, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about it. If it was weak one,

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Speaker 1: he probably plays with the shoulders Prescott. Yeah, and now

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Speaker 1: you get the Ceedee Lamb Prescott hooks nice. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: could be the best offense in the league. Yeah. All right,

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Speaker 1: So now we're back up again here the top suggested

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Speaker 1: pick for us as T Higgins. That's fine. Miles Gaskin,

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis, Damien Harris are at the top or the

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Speaker 1: top four. Davis isn't horrible as our flex Travis A

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Speaker 1: t N also available and we had that discussion earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week ends. Tight ends are Goddard, fant Higbye,

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Speaker 1: Tanyan Tanya and all of a sudden, now it gets

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Speaker 1: a bump. You like him more than I do? Catch

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Speaker 1: just touchdowns one one year? He did? I trust Hey,

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Speaker 1: what did Aaron Rodgers say yesterday? He wants the guys

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Speaker 1: that he likes. Who does he like? He definitely, he

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Speaker 1: definitely likes Robert. They're best buds. I get it. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think he's in this neighborhood like much. Rather,

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking him here, but I'm just saying he's

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Speaker 1: still available there. Still get it? Like, do you spend now,

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Speaker 1: do you spend a sixth round pick on Dallas Goddard

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Speaker 1: or do you wait two or three rounds and take

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Speaker 1: other guy? Yeah, Logan Thomas who they just gave money by,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee are one of these guys that in that neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: I don't know there's bigon Goddard, but I wish it was.

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Speaker 1: Don't trust I don't trust Hurts. I don't trust Hurts either.

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Speaker 1: I think they run the ball a lot and are bad. Um. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we're seeing a Higgins, Claypool, d J Chuck, Robby Anderson.

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Speaker 1: I think i'd go Davis or at N. I think

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Speaker 1: it's your last chance to get it back that you

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Speaker 1: can start. Yeah, and I could be. We had this

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Speaker 1: conversation before. I think they're very similar in terms of value.

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Speaker 1: Davis is safer. Davis is the solid double off all

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Speaker 1: that that you know, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Right,

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Speaker 1: Miles Davis or Mike Davis is the pick now with

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Speaker 1: three backs, very little competition. Now we're good at we're

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say we're complete. We're done in with

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Speaker 1: the running backs, but we still need a third receiver.

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Speaker 1: We still need a tight end. Damian Harris still available,

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Speaker 1: by the way, interesting raheem most Melvin Gordon, Chase Edmonds

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Speaker 1: are the running backs. Uh, we'd never take Chase Edmonds,

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Speaker 1: but I think this site has them too low because

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Speaker 1: he always is in this neighborhood. Everybody's afraid of James

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Speaker 1: Conner for two weeks. Yeah. The receivers are Jerry, Judy, Brandon, Cook's,

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, Robbie Anderson. Judy and Judy and Cook stand

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Speaker 1: out at the starters. The tight ends are still It's

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Speaker 1: no a fan Higbee, Gisicky Logan, Thomas Sitanium went went good.

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Speaker 1: He beat you last year. I still like Logan Thomas Sair,

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Speaker 1: but I think we can get him in the bend

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Speaker 1: in Higbee. I like them both. We have two picks

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Speaker 1: close here right to start, first of two, I would

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Speaker 1: grab one of those two receivers. I'd grab Judy or

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Speaker 1: Cooks and we end up with both those guys a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's a starter for us. The question which quarterback situation

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Speaker 1: do you trust more neither one of them, but the

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Speaker 1: Cooks will have a larger target. He'll have he's the

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Speaker 1: the guy. Yes, alright, Cooks is to pick. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna run this by you too. If we were to

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Speaker 1: take Judy, would that prohibit you from taking Fat with

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Speaker 1: your next pick? Probably? I don't want two guys to

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Speaker 1: Broncos fast game. We got Judy still available. That's a

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Speaker 1: fourth receiver for us now, I mean, that's fine, But

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Speaker 1: I think I'll grab one of the tight ends, so

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Speaker 1: you get Fat, Higbie, Logan Thomas, Mike Gisicky. I would

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Speaker 1: go Fant Thomas, and then the other ones are a

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Speaker 1: distance like you like you like Fan more than I do.

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Speaker 1: I know. I've noticed that too. I don't trust that.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust part and there's too many miles defeating

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Speaker 1: that offense. I hear you. I just think he's a

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Speaker 1: ascending player. I like him a lot more now than

842
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Speaker 1: I did when he came out of Iowa. I thought

843
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: he was a real straight line guy. But they get

844
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: him on crossers and hit him on the run, and

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Speaker 1: I think he's an ascending player. But I like the

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Speaker 1: fact that Washington just gave Logan Thomas a three year

847
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Speaker 1: deal because I thought he's the number two receiver in

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Speaker 1: that offense. I thought he might fade away with Samuel

849
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: and all these other guys, and you know they love him.

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Speaker 1: He's in a set. I mean he's only been in

851
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Speaker 1: the league for what five years? Four years? Five years? Uh,

852
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: he came out the Odo Beckham year. The two basically

853
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: met tight end. But yeah, he was a quarterback. He

854
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Speaker 1: was a quarterback. Now I'm fine with Thomas. Let's take him.

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Speaker 1: He's a good athlete. We could double down on that, Yeah,

856
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Speaker 1: we could. We've done that a lot, the tight end

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Speaker 1: camp battle. Alright, we're down here to round nine and

858
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Speaker 1: we're back up again, and no, a fan is still available.

859
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Speaker 1: You want to take him here? Then we have Fanton Thomas. Yeah,

860
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: it would be still there. A number two tight end.

861
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: I don't put a lot of value, And if there's

862
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Speaker 1: an intriguing running back I would definitely do that over

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Speaker 1: a tight end that I think is equal to our starter.

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Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, A J. Gillen, we can handle. Yeah, Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary Lettavius Murray. Let's say nuf Dylan would take Dylan.

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00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: I think Dylan is Kareem Hunt is startable. Week one

867
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Speaker 1: they Yeah. I mean, if you look back at what

868
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: they've done with Jamal Williams in the pasty, they love

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Speaker 1: they find enough carry in the second round. Yeah, you

870
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: know their coordinator came from Tennessee with Henry uh the

871
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Oh, this isn't Antonio Brown here. I

872
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Speaker 1: have maybe on a lot of my teams, I would

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00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: take Dylan Ord. Yeah, then I'd go a B with

874
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: us pick. Although there might be some other receivers that

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00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,439
Speaker 1: are equally he's the top guy that to do it. Yeah,

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00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: that's the pick. We've probably done it both those, we're

877
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: probably done it. Yeah, we're done it both spots. We

878
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: got four receivers, four running backs. How many more picks

879
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: we were in around an Maybe we'll get another one

880
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: of those. Um, we don't have to take a backup

881
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: tight end or quarterback. We can't, though, because Matthew Stafford

882
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 1: still available. Yeah, let's let's take him. Dax injury worries

883
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: me one per cent, but it's still out there. Stafford

884
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: is your two quarterbacks. That's pretty good. Yeah, I mean

885
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: what if now, I mean somebody's somebody's number one quarterback

886
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: gets hurt, you might be able to get Stafford and

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Speaker 1: trade him to somebody. Around twelve, we're back up again here.

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Speaker 1: Um yet Darnell Mooney, Nelson Aguilar and Mike Kasicky Terry

889
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: Tariko into the top suggestions were running out of time

890
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Speaker 1: here um tight end position. We we took a second

891
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: tight end to me, No, we haven't. Higgbye still there.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. Er Smith Jr. Johnny Smith, Mike Sicky. I

893
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Speaker 1: would probably go Higbee, but I'm a John new and

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00:46:54,120 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: IRV guy. Yeah, we took Stafford. Let's double down that time. Yeah, okay,

895
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Speaker 1: our answer to Kelsey mahomes Hey could work out really well.

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00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: Higbie has a kind of seat, you know, he's got

897
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: you got a little you see a lot of plenty time.

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00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: We're in around thirteen here, so now we can take

899
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: just the best available player here that give me a hand.

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00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: Russell Gage, Jamison Crowder, Christian Kirk, James White are the

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00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: top suggestions, uh the receiver position. You also have Sterling

902
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: Shepard there. I don't like any of those. James White,

903
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: Marlon mack Kenneth, game Alsonny Michelle, top suggestions at running back.

904
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Speaker 1: Giovanni Bernard still there. Take overall those. It will take Geo.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, and now we gotta take our defense and

906
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: our kicker. We're back up here, and the defense is

907
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: the top defense available is Colts, forty Niners, Bills, Patriots.

908
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Speaker 1: I know you want to take the Patriots. That's the pick.

909
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about sack production for them.

910
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: But and finally our kicker, bringing on home with a kicker,

911
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: We're not going to spend a lot of times. We'll

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Speaker 1: just take whoever they Their top suggestion is here and

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Speaker 1: it is again Rodrigo Blanket Ship. So we came out

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Speaker 1: of this. We gotta see seventy. I like the team though,

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Speaker 1: Scott Aaron Jones, Darrell Henderson, Stefon, dig Ceedee, Lamb, Brandon Cooks,

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Speaker 1: tight End, Logan Thomas, the Patriots defense, Rodrigo blanket Ship.

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Speaker 1: We got Mike Davis, A J. Dillon, Antonio Brown, Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, and Giovanni Bernard on the bench. I like it.

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Speaker 1: I don't love it, not a lot of There's not

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00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: a lot of upside there we didn't like. We usually

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Speaker 1: take some that are where the great strength of the

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Speaker 1: team is. But I know we got to wrap it up.

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Speaker 1: But I thought it solid. I'd probably give us a

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Speaker 1: C plus two. Yeah, that's what we deserved. YEA interesting

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Speaker 1: but maybe not the way we'd usually go, but that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for this show. So form a partner

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson for Kellen Girski here on site keeping us

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Speaker 1: on the air. I'm Dale Lally. We appreciate you listening

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Speaker 1: to this edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio

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