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Speaker 2: Good evening Stealer Nation, how we do it? Well, that's
Speaker 2: good us too. Our number three the bonus hour of
Speaker 2: the drive here as we have a couple players matriculating
Speaker 2: back down onto the field for walkthrough portion in the evening.
Speaker 2: Matt still no sign of our little lime green rookie
Speaker 2: line painting robot yet, will he needed a much much
Speaker 2: neat the day in the film room, get himself right?
Speaker 2: And uh and only only veterans out here painting the
Speaker 2: lines today. But yeah, a couple of Steelers working their
Speaker 2: way down the hill here for what will be a
Speaker 2: little bit of the traditional evening walk through for the
Speaker 2: team at the end of another busy day here on campus.
Speaker 2: Matt it's always I know, there's a lot of active
Speaker 2: I know, there's a lot of things that you and
Speaker 2: I bring up every single year, and so if you're
Speaker 2: a listener of this, you hear us talk about some
Speaker 2: of these same things. You know, we talk about the
Speaker 2: mountains in the background, We talk about how a lot
Speaker 2: of the times the sky looks painted out here and
Speaker 2: some of that fun stuff. One thing that never ceases
Speaker 2: to amaze me, and it's really cool because we're here
Speaker 2: when practice starts. We're kind of here for the long
Speaker 2: haul until campus closes down. It is so cool just
Speaker 2: seeing the campus every day come to life. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and then crescendo back down to Silith.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean in a big way. You
Speaker 3: get here like an organize. It's like an organizer or
Speaker 3: or most didn't quite come out out right organism organism. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: You know, you're you're here in the morning, you're here,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it would have been fun. Sun's rising.
Speaker 2: It's real quiet. There's maybe a couple of grounds crew,
Speaker 2: grass cutters, whatever, maybe a couple of starting to wake
Speaker 2: up coaches and a little bit a little a little
Speaker 2: bit of morning.
Speaker 3: Dude out there.
Speaker 2: You know, you walk to breakfast, get your coffee, all
Speaker 2: that good stuff, and then the fans start rolling in,
Speaker 2: and then practice starts picking up, and it's just absolute
Speaker 2: chaos for five or six hours, and then you start
Speaker 2: to see it dissipate and everybody leaves and it gets
Speaker 2: quiet again. It is I love the kind of just
Speaker 2: the life form that the campus it. As you're looking
Speaker 2: down here in the corner at some of these grounds crews,
Speaker 2: what are you spying on down there?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 3: Looks like there's a section that's uh giving them problems
Speaker 3: again they're digging up there on the fifteen yard line,
Speaker 3: sixteen yard line.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure they will. They'll get it right as
Speaker 2: well as they always.
Speaker 3: Totally dig it out. And yeah, starting over with a
Speaker 3: couple of spots probably brought some saw it.
Speaker 2: Over Addyshack joke in there somewhere. Ian tweets and says, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: I got my face burn off today watching McAfee. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers again to Sun was out It sure was. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers again talked up Roman Wilson today It also looked
Speaker 2: like he lined up as wide receiver three during the
Speaker 2: two minute drill. I know it's early, but are you
Speaker 2: impressed with his camp so far? Excuse me? I burped there,
Speaker 2: Geez Luise.
Speaker 3: Cautious, extreme optimism, Well extreme might have been. I think
Speaker 3: he's very much in the mix as a number three.
Speaker 3: I think he's very different than Jeremy, so maybe they'll
Speaker 3: be sort of situational. Was the three? All buzz has
Speaker 3: been great going back to many camp et cetera. I've
Speaker 3: said many times I think Caleb and Roman are the
Speaker 3: two guys that are happiest about the coaching change, just
Speaker 3: to get a new set of eyes evaluating them. I
Speaker 3: think he's taking full advantage of the situation. But little
Speaker 3: fast receivers should look good in these environments, absolutely right, right,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: They alutely absolutely should. And that's the first start.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 2: If you can't do that, then.
Speaker 3: Uh right, if you're failing that test, then you're you're
Speaker 3: swimming up stream.
Speaker 2: Sudesh tweets and says missed last week because of family
Speaker 2: vacation to MAUI wondering if anybody has stood out to
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 3: On the internet in Maui.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what the heck podcasts in Maui.
Speaker 3: Right, that sounds like a lot of playing time.
Speaker 2: I've been to Hawaii before. I did radio hits from Hawaii.
Speaker 2: That was my own stupidity, though I should have just
Speaker 2: been enjoying myself. Also says I've been on an Apple
Speaker 2: TV kick, caught up on Monarch, and I'm working on
Speaker 2: Palm Royal. I need to get the I need to
Speaker 2: get the Apple TV subscription back because.
Speaker 3: Uh oh it's trong.
Speaker 2: It's it's real good, like we did ted Lasso and
Speaker 2: Severance and and all that. And there's some more.
Speaker 3: Good shoe Seas coming out. I just heard.
Speaker 2: I know my my wife's gonna make me get get
Speaker 2: the Apple TV back whenever that comes out.
Speaker 3: We're big on uh Shrinking is a very good show.
Speaker 2: I've been told that. Yeah, yeah, big. I'm a big
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford and Jason Siegeal fans, so I need to
Speaker 2: need to check that out.
Speaker 3: I just finished the The Cape Fear, the New Cape
Speaker 3: Fear last night. Yeah. Yeah, it's very different than the movie. Okay,
Speaker 3: but good.
Speaker 2: A lot of players heading down the hill now for
Speaker 2: walk through? Who stood out to us? I think MAXI.
Speaker 3: Today yeah, I think question.
Speaker 2: I think Dalen Everett and Jamel Dean as well. I would,
Speaker 2: I would, I.
Speaker 3: Would say a lot of good buzz about those guys.
Speaker 3: Santa Samuel got his hands on the ball again. It
Speaker 3: seems like that happens every practice. Why Black had some
Speaker 3: good reps too, maybe one.
Speaker 2: Ray, you know, because he's made a couple of he's
Speaker 2: made a couple of those Oh look there it is.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's definitely when you get kind of
Speaker 3: grumpy with him, like oh and then he's like, ah, yes,
Speaker 3: I don't golf, but a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: you golfers will be like yeah, and then but then
Speaker 3: I hit that one drive on the seventeenth hole and
Speaker 3: now I gotta come back.
Speaker 2: You know, no doubt that is a that's a very
Speaker 2: good golf analogy that you play like crap and then
Speaker 2: you hit that one shot that you're like, you know what.
Speaker 3: I got it in man, I can do this. I
Speaker 3: did that once. Why can't I do it forty three times?
Speaker 2: Or you know it's tough. Mister Steele City says, what's
Speaker 2: most likely A Mason Rudolph gets traded, b Will Howard
Speaker 2: or Drew Aller gets cut slash sent to the practice squad.
Speaker 2: See we keep four quarterbacks. Well, I'll tell you this
Speaker 2: right now, Drew Aler ain't getting cut.
Speaker 3: I say Aler's not getting cut. D could also be
Speaker 3: someone gets a hangnail and ends up on ir.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, I'm about to go do it. I might
Speaker 2: go with d if we could add that as ow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm about to go do a night show at
Speaker 3: Jerry Dulac. And I trust his insiderness with this team,
Speaker 3: and he thinks four is very possible, I'd understand it.
Speaker 3: I still think Rudolph getting traded it's possible. I think
Speaker 3: all are possible, except for Aler getting cut.
Speaker 2: I think I think pretty much everything is possible. But
Speaker 2: I will tell you that Aaron Rodgers and Drew Aller
Speaker 2: are making this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Whether it's yeah and Ali will be one, be
Speaker 3: one and want to be a three.
Speaker 2: Whether it's four exactly right, exactly right. So, whether it's
Speaker 2: trading Mason Rudolph, whether it's trying to stash one of
Speaker 2: those guys on the practice squad with an injury, whether
Speaker 2: it's keeping four, eight and sixteen are going to be
Speaker 2: a part of that equation.
Speaker 3: So watering whole conversation. We had a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 3: It may have been the night year of your anniversary.
Speaker 3: Some people thought, well, Howard would clear waivers, that if
Speaker 3: you cut him, he would clear waivers. But then he
Speaker 3: has to choose to pick your practice squad. That's a
Speaker 3: good point, and he might because you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's harder for a quarterback to say, I'll just go
Speaker 3: be a Carolina Panther and I don't know anything they do,
Speaker 3: but they also just cut you.
Speaker 2: Sure, So that means that three third round back a
Speaker 2: couple months ago.
Speaker 3: And I think a lot of that would depend on
Speaker 3: what his preseason tape looked like totally, because he doesn't
Speaker 3: put any tape out for the rest of the league
Speaker 3: since he's been drafted.
Speaker 2: Yes, that that to me is we I think we'll
Speaker 2: really start getting a clear picture of the legitimate possibilities
Speaker 2: with these quarterbacks once we get into a couple of
Speaker 2: preseason games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. And Howard to me, is the biggest
Speaker 3: wild card with those.
Speaker 2: I completely agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what Rudolf's going to do because.
Speaker 2: He out here he looks four out of fourth in
Speaker 2: terms of throwing the football. What you and I just
Speaker 2: discussed in the previous hour. If it was all about
Speaker 2: your arm strength and throwing the football, Will Levis would
Speaker 2: be a starting quarterback something. There's much more to it
Speaker 2: than that, and that's where he needs to get in
Speaker 2: stadium and really really show that stuff. Pittsburgh Conversation asks,
Speaker 2: did anybody really stand out today on the first day
Speaker 2: of pads? Any fringe guys or make or break guys
Speaker 2: like Roman Wilson, Caleb Johnson, Drew Aller, Will Howard, Rookies,
Speaker 2: et cetera. We've covered this. I liked what you laid
Speaker 2: down about max ihan Achure, how you thought he had
Speaker 2: a really good set of one on one some of
Speaker 2: those against t J. Watt. I thought there were some
Speaker 2: awesome battles between Fraser and y A Black, because that's like,
Speaker 2: that's like hul Cogan and Andre the giants, you know,
Speaker 2: like the like they they both below, but they do
Speaker 2: it a different way, you know. And and Zach's maybe
Speaker 2: the shortest or one of the shorter offensive lineman, which
Speaker 2: is fine for a center. Why a Blacks huge six
Speaker 2: six He's got his big gut hanging out over over
Speaker 2: you know, under his shirt there. And then yeah, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, I think you've seen, You've seen positivity from
Speaker 2: Roman Wilson, but grain of salt still to this point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then I think some of those other some of
Speaker 2: the guys like like the Daylan Everts that we mentioned,
Speaker 2: the Asante Samuel juniors that have gotten an opportunity with
Speaker 2: Ramsey and Joey Porter Junior not being a part of
Speaker 2: this process and have have really shown up. Well.
Speaker 3: Last thing, I meant to even bring this up, like
Speaker 3: in the very first segment. Again, small sample size, but
Speaker 3: it sure looks like Darnel Washington's average depth of target
Speaker 3: is getting further downfield.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh that's an interesting You know how.
Speaker 3: He's usually just like flares out and then he runs
Speaker 3: somebody over like he's catching the ball. Certainly today down
Speaker 3: the field more.
Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, yeah, I like to hear that
Speaker 2: a lot smooth. Dave says, is this the first Steelers
Speaker 2: training camp without a single bad character, diva type personality
Speaker 2: on the roster?
Speaker 3: I lean towards yes, But all these guys have more
Speaker 3: personality and volatility than you might guess.
Speaker 2: I I think it's the I think it's the first time,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure we could find another time. But I
Speaker 2: think it's the first time in a while that there
Speaker 2: hasn't been a massive personality ego and like clearly at
Speaker 2: the forth.
Speaker 3: That we're talking about and everybody's focused in on.
Speaker 2: But I remember when you would always say this about
Speaker 2: Antonio Brown, you would always say this about Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: when there were you know, some people that were like,
Speaker 2: I don't want him to be a Steeler, he's too weird.
Speaker 2: He'd be like guys probably walking around.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know any of.
Speaker 2: That right now. There's what ninety three or ninety seven
Speaker 2: guys out there, and they've all got different personalities and quirks.
Speaker 2: And they're not all choir boys either.
Speaker 3: I bet you don't agree with all their politics or
Speaker 3: way they viewed.
Speaker 2: Like religious views, anything like that, the way they raise
Speaker 2: their kids, any of that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there'd be some personality conflicts.
Speaker 2: There always is. That's part of what makes a locker
Speaker 2: room great, man, is you know you hear any tungch
Speaker 2: and Wolf, any of those guys, the seventies Steelers, anyone
Speaker 2: who's ever been part of success in any team sport,
Speaker 2: they'll tell you that's what That's what it takes, is
Speaker 2: getting the quiet guys to mesh with the loud guys,
Speaker 2: getting the guys from Pennsylvania to mess with the guys
Speaker 2: from Texas. Yeah, getting the super religious guys to mess
Speaker 2: with the the party or to mesh with the party boys.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 3: I hate when people compare sports to war, But like
Speaker 3: when my dad was drafted in Vietnam, they just bring
Speaker 3: you from all walks of life. You know, some people
Speaker 3: with money, some people didn't, some people could barely read.
Speaker 2: In the city somewhere from the country.
Speaker 3: Right right right, and we all got to get this
Speaker 3: platoon as strong as possible.
Speaker 2: You know that. It's that same kind of parallel. You're
Speaker 2: absolutely right. What can you do out on the field,
Speaker 2: How how quickly can you come together? And I think
Speaker 2: even a lot of times, Matt, those differences are what
Speaker 2: bond those guys together. That's what, Yeah, that's what That's
Speaker 2: what pools you together is you know, the differences that
Speaker 2: make you all great out here in these settings like this.
Speaker 2: That will do it for this segment, for that set
Speaker 2: of tweets, keep them rolling in. If you've got any
Speaker 2: more for us to get to. As we roll along here,
Speaker 2: we're gonna play you some exclusive comments from Pat McAfee
Speaker 2: him being out here, he caught up with Missy Matthews
Speaker 2: for a few minutes. We'll hear what Pat McAfee had
Speaker 2: to say. We'll continue to bring you all of our
Speaker 2: observations here as we come down the home stretch of
Speaker 2: our day five of practice coverage. Here on your twenty
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Speaker 2: It down the home stretch of another busy day here
Speaker 2: on campus. Yeuler and Williamson with you the bonus hour
Speaker 2: of the Drive on this Monday evening, and Matt, it
Speaker 2: was a busy kind of all eyes, all attention on
Speaker 2: campus today for a couple of reasons, one of course
Speaker 2: being that the pads went on, and two being for
Speaker 2: the second straight year, one of Pittsburgh's most famous suns plums,
Speaker 2: very own Pat McAfee, Yeah, doing his nationally televised ESPN
Speaker 2: show here from noon to two today.
Speaker 3: How cool is that?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: Pretty cool?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 3: It just is. I mean, it's a big national event
Speaker 3: that a lot of people are getting more eyeballs on
Speaker 3: this place and on this team and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: And listen, I understand, and I say, this is not
Speaker 2: only a fellow Pittsburgh like McAfee, but a fellow WVU guy.
Speaker 2: I understand. He's not everybody's cup of tea. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's a little outspoken, he's a rash he you know,
Speaker 2: stands on the college game day set on Saturdays with
Speaker 2: his shirt off and peers. I understand he's not for everybody,
Speaker 2: But it is pretty stink and cool that a guy
Speaker 2: who's yes, from here, but never played Here's he's a
Speaker 2: proud Indianapolis Coulton, a resident of Indy still, but that
Speaker 2: he has started to come here for training camp and
Speaker 2: make that a tradition and just really kind of on
Speaker 2: a national scale even more, how cool of a setting
Speaker 2: this is and how unique of a training camp to Steelers.
Speaker 3: I think it was you that said the only two
Speaker 3: camps he goes to are Indy and Pisswick.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: And so obviously we know this place means a lot
Speaker 2: to him. And what's pretty cool is Pat, of course
Speaker 2: a graduate of Plumb where he attended with our very
Speaker 2: owned Missy Matthews, who's awesome. I don't think like the
Speaker 2: same exact year, but I think they were only one
Speaker 2: or two years ago. They were in the building.
Speaker 3: They were in the.
Speaker 2: Building together and I think, like not great friends or anything,
Speaker 2: but knew each other, knew each other in high school.
Speaker 2: Well earlier today, Missy, along with our buddy Max Starks,
Speaker 2: had a chance to catch up with Pat McFee and
Speaker 2: ask him about everything that he's got going on and
Speaker 2: why he decided to bring his show back to Latrope.
Speaker 6: All right, we are pleased to be joined now by
Speaker 6: Pat McAfee, the p If you show back up here
Speaker 6: back to back years, I know you've got some Yunsers
Speaker 6: on your staff yourself included. What has the process been
Speaker 6: like coming here and seeing fellow yinsers and just the
Speaker 6: love for football, not just from the team and being
Speaker 6: at the sleep away camp, but the fans as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, you know, growing up here, you kind
Speaker 7: of get it that football is, you know life. It
Speaker 7: actually is like our neighborhood. And obviously we're from the
Speaker 7: same town of Plumb where the baller's ball and the
Speaker 7: players play. Of course, let's go Mustangs, we're gonna win
Speaker 7: this thing. But where I grew up and where we
Speaker 7: grew up, like if the Steelers won, everybody was happy,
Speaker 7: and if the Steelers lost, everybody was pissed. And it's
Speaker 7: like that is kind of what I expect in life.
Speaker 5: Whenever I moved elsewhere. It's not like that everywhere.
Speaker 7: So not only is it a football town, it's the
Speaker 7: football time and the fact that training camp still travels
Speaker 7: up here to Saint Vincent like it has forever, you know,
Speaker 7: with the legends have been up here. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 7: it's a nice pilgrimage for us to come back here
Speaker 7: and feel like kids again because I was here as
Speaker 7: a child. I think I took a picture of KG
Speaker 7: as a kid, and it's just, uh, it's cool. And
Speaker 7: then obviously getting to know the Steelers organization, which I
Speaker 7: assume for you is pretty crazy as well. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's like just getting to know everybody that owns it,
Speaker 7: runs it.
Speaker 5: Operates it.
Speaker 7: And then Mike McCarthy, I mean he was an employee
Speaker 7: of mine last year, so now he's the head coach
Speaker 7: of the Steelers is sweet.
Speaker 5: It's like, uh, dream come true. We feel like kids.
Speaker 7: And then obviously it's nice to showcase the city a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 5: Well, let's row.
Speaker 8: And I think that's the other thing, Pat, right when
Speaker 8: we think about this, Like you have a lot of
Speaker 8: guys on the staff and a lot of guys that
Speaker 8: you've come in contact with because of the show.
Speaker 5: Like what does that mean?
Speaker 8: Like you bring that pride to everywhere that you go,
Speaker 8: whether it's at WVU, whether it's up here in the
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh area, and when you go everywhere else at the
Speaker 8: show travels around these greater United States.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're lucky that we get to travel and experience
Speaker 7: a lot of sports, and I think sports are the
Speaker 7: greatest thing that have ever been created. I think obviously
Speaker 7: ball is the best, Football is the best sport that
Speaker 7: has ever been created. But sports as a whole, we
Speaker 7: are big fans of, so we just try to celebrate
Speaker 7: sports as much as possible. We know how much sports
Speaker 7: have done for us, We know how much sports have
Speaker 7: done for the city that we're from, so we love
Speaker 7: sports man and I like the fact that we got
Speaker 7: people saying gone, you know, and we got a lot
Speaker 7: of inser accents out there from a lot of different cities,
Speaker 7: and I think that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: But I think showcasing this city for what it is hard.
Speaker 7: Working, good people, love sports, love ball, will fight, you
Speaker 7: will drink like I think and have a good time,
Speaker 7: but it will also take care of you, give back.
Speaker 7: I think we just try to showcase that everywhere we go,
Speaker 7: and if Pittsburgh people are proud of what we're doing,
Speaker 7: I'm very, very grateful that I have an album coming
Speaker 7: out August fourteenth, and I have a song called Blue
Speaker 7: Collar Symphony, and it's about growing up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: So I think I showcased my.
Speaker 7: Love for where I'm from a lot, and I'm lucky
Speaker 7: to be from this area.
Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy showcases where he's from a lot.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: He was joking last week that he wants to make
Speaker 6: sure that all the four quarterbacks here through the headset
Speaker 6: so they get what he's saying. But he said, I
Speaker 6: feel like now in Pittsburgh don't have to hide my accent.
Speaker 6: I don't have to, you know, tone it down a
Speaker 6: little bit. What do you think he sounds like to
Speaker 6: the quarterbacks?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So Aaron has actually talked to us about this
Speaker 7: whenever he was at Green Bay, So I'm sure this
Speaker 7: has been talked about. But Mike McCarthy's office, I guess
Speaker 7: was Pittsburgh and Green Bay. He walked in and he
Speaker 7: had pictures of the city, he had I think he
Speaker 7: had street signs. I think he had everything. And obviously
Speaker 7: he had a lot of insurers on his staff. Then,
Speaker 7: so Aaron talks about being a young twenty three year
Speaker 7: old quarterback, twenty four year old quarterback and you got
Speaker 7: a dog a dice right, Donner left twenty one butt
Speaker 7: and he's like, Aaron was kind of like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 7: like I think he so he has always loved the
Speaker 7: insuror accent because it obviously affects him a little bit more.
Speaker 7: Two minutes drill, you've got a guy coming in there
Speaker 7: saying it's got Don Chip dropped up that entire thing.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I think Aaron's done it since he was young.
Speaker 7: I think anybody that's ever been around Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 7: had to deal with it. And I think everybody's falling
Speaker 7: in love with it. But yeah, he's his accent's thick.
Speaker 7: It is, I mean, his his accent.
Speaker 5: He's thick, and it's.
Speaker 8: A little garbly at the bottom too, So it's like
Speaker 8: you're sitting there, You're here in the thick accent, and
Speaker 8: then it's a little bit lower than you're expecting because
Speaker 8: everybody else has a little bit higher pitch too, So
Speaker 8: it's funny.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean his dad on the bar, I think so,
Speaker 5: Like the amount.
Speaker 7: Of ins is that he was raised by I couldn't
Speaker 7: even fathom in there. So yeah, he's always kept his accent,
Speaker 7: which I respect because once you get out of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 7: a lot of people try to take your accent away
Speaker 7: from you, and I think Mike McCarthy has always remained true.
Speaker 7: And I know there's a dream for him to be
Speaker 7: in the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach. I actually told him that
Speaker 7: we got a chance to catch up with him, and
Speaker 7: then on his way out, I'm like, hey, you're the
Speaker 7: head coach of Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 5: Dude. He was crazy, right, Yeah, he understands it, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's a cool thing. It feels special to be
Speaker 5: here again.
Speaker 8: Now, you guys seem to always make it to where
Speaker 8: you're here for the first day of PANS. It feels
Speaker 8: like every time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good coincidence.
Speaker 8: I mean, what are you looking forward to, like when
Speaker 8: you come to this prant and you guys will watch practice, like,
Speaker 8: what are you looking for? Are there any drills or
Speaker 8: any specific groupings that you like?
Speaker 7: More So, I think we got a two minute live
Speaker 7: happening today that I can't wait to watch, you know,
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy and Aaron back on the ones and twos
Speaker 7: for a two minute offense that should be sick. Obviously,
Speaker 7: defense has to do their thing as well. At the
Speaker 7: first day of PADS. It just feels like there's a.
Speaker 5: Little bit more anxiety, you know, a little bit more
Speaker 5: tension from everybody. That's why we're here. But I guess
Speaker 5: we're still on the ramp up here. Yeah yeah, so
Speaker 5: I just learned.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, it's a moving target.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 7: So maybe we should have been here on Thursday instead
Speaker 7: of today. But it's good to see him, and I
Speaker 7: like that Mike McCarthy pissed off every ins or whenever
Speaker 7: you say we're not tackling okay, and everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 7: this guy's soft. He's like, we will have a physical camp.
Speaker 7: We're trying to get people. We're not taking anybody to
Speaker 7: the ground. So I'm excited to feel like, you know,
Speaker 7: the juice of this year as opposed to maybe years past.
Speaker 6: All right, Pat, thanks for time. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Well, thanks thanks for moving all the way to this
Speaker 5: side of campus.
Speaker 2: Thank you for doing that, always making his presence felt.
Speaker 2: Pat McAfee sitting down there with Missy Matthews and Max Starks.
Speaker 2: It's funny, matt you know when I like, when I
Speaker 2: parked today and was walking up here, I'm like, what
Speaker 2: is that voice that's booming out all the way down
Speaker 2: the way down at the Rogers Center, I'm like, where
Speaker 2: is that coming from?
Speaker 9: Him?
Speaker 2: Like, do they have rob king on the PA system?
Speaker 2: It's just up to and then I got a little
Speaker 2: bit closer and it's McAfee and all his buddies and
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. I heard, jeez, listen, don't subject to national
Speaker 2: audience to Mark, come on, that's our buddy. But really
Speaker 2: cool stuff. Always a fun day when the McAfee show
Speaker 2: is here. And like I think, Matt, I think they
Speaker 2: just rockstarred this thing. Like I think they fly in
Speaker 2: privately from Indianapolis this morning, right into Arnold Palmer across
Speaker 2: the road here, and I maybe they're having dinner now,
Speaker 2: but I think they head.
Speaker 3: Back tonight on the jet.
Speaker 2: Hop right on the jet. That's probably an easy ninety
Speaker 2: minute two hour flight tops, I would imagine, probably not.
Speaker 3: Too bad going to Indy.
Speaker 2: I think both. Like I think they just do. I
Speaker 2: think they just day tripped this thing.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2: Think they flew out this morning. You know, Bert probably
Speaker 2: picks him up at ten am over there at the airport.
Speaker 2: And I think, I think, I know that's what they
Speaker 2: did last year, you know, you know what they say,
Speaker 2: you assume. But I'm thinking that's what they what they
Speaker 2: did again this year. But that's pretty cool. And listen,
Speaker 2: I think most most people know how special, how unique
Speaker 2: this setting is as a training camp the Steelers have
Speaker 2: here at Saint Vincent College. But anytime someone with that
Speaker 2: kind of platform can highlight that some more, that's always
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again, a very very cool experience. I hope it goes
Speaker 3: on for years and years.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Let's wrap up the show when we return. Maybe
Speaker 2: they'll have maybe they'll have you and I on that
Speaker 2: show sometimes, Matt. Before our day is done, let's wrap
Speaker 2: up the show here when we return. On the other side,
Speaker 2: we'll put a bow on the day's proceedings before campus
Speaker 2: goes quiet for the night. Yu'ler Williamson. It's the drive
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Speaker 2: Final second of the day here on the drive. A
Speaker 2: campus has gone quiet and a big day in the books.
Speaker 2: With a lot going on here around Saint Vincent College
Speaker 2: in Latrobe. Of course, first padded practice, which is always
Speaker 2: a big one, and we will kind of close down today.
Speaker 2: Hearing from the boss. Hearing from the new head coach,
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 10: Say, today's the first day of really evaluations in some ways. Definitely,
Speaker 10: I mean this is the first day padded work. But
Speaker 10: you know we're still in a restrict, restricted mode. It's
Speaker 10: one hundred and five minutes. You know, today's ramp up
Speaker 10: today Tomorrow will be limited time on the field, but
Speaker 10: definitely a chance to get into the pads, you know,
Speaker 10: get the padded individual work. You know, special teams work
Speaker 10: a little bit of combination. Then we'll you know, stay
Speaker 10: with them, you know team periods that we've been working.
Speaker 10: So you know, I just want to get as much
Speaker 10: done as I can today in in one hundred and
Speaker 10: five minutes. But yes, this is everybody looks forward to today.
Speaker 2: You guys had a very seawan Jenkins.
Speaker 4: What attracted you to him and how you envision him
Speaker 4: fitting in?
Speaker 10: Well, I think number one, a lot of respect for
Speaker 10: you know, what he's done in this league. And I
Speaker 10: think just you know, just like anything this time of year,
Speaker 10: you know, your roster, I mean, it's always ongoing, these
Speaker 10: these these discussions have been fluid just you know, frankly,
Speaker 10: his style play fits the way we want to play.
Speaker 10: And you know, Bett venteran addition this time of year.
Speaker 10: You're fortunate. You know, I've always looked at that way
Speaker 10: and you know, I'm anxious to see him out there.
Speaker 4: Backslone backers guy, Sorry, are you a back zone backers guy?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: At the same time, we've Darnell Savage. Why didn't things
Speaker 2: work out with him?
Speaker 10: Well, I just think you know, number one, uh, you know,
Speaker 10: he came fighting back, you know, from his injury and
Speaker 10: so forth. You know, and there's you know, different types
Speaker 10: of things that you look for, you know, as far
Speaker 10: as not only just in on the defense with special teams,
Speaker 10: you know, so you know, we get we gave him
Speaker 10: an opportunity, and you know, we just felt that this
Speaker 10: is it. It was, you know, we wanted to move
Speaker 10: forward and and give Jenkins an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Behind Deshaun Elliott and Jakwon Brisker. You guys have tried
Speaker 2: a number of different safeties and elevated roles dating back
Speaker 2: to Oka's what's been your evaluation of some of those
Speaker 2: other guys like Robert Speer, Jennings or Jack Henderson castro.
Speaker 10: Well number one. I think when you look at him,
Speaker 10: you look at the whole body of work, and they
Speaker 10: play all four dons specifically with with with special teams.
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm this is Jerry's already hit, this
Speaker 10: is this is the day you want to see. I
Speaker 10: think they they know they've done an outstanding job. Their energy,
Speaker 10: their understanding, so I know, I'm I'm excited about these guys,
Speaker 10: but I'm you know, this is these next two weeks
Speaker 10: are huge, you know, and then and you get that
Speaker 10: first preseason game under a belt. So but we're looking
Speaker 10: for you know, I'm looking for combinations. You know, we
Speaker 10: talked a little bit about this with the offensive line group.
Speaker 10: It's it's very evident. Also in the back end. You know,
Speaker 10: you don't just line up and play straight neck or
Speaker 10: you know, straight bass as much. You know, you have
Speaker 10: different matchup personnel groups and ability to have three safeties
Speaker 10: on the field versus you know, you know, four corners,
Speaker 10: all those things. So you want to have as much
Speaker 10: flexibility within your scheme, uh to utilize personnel because this
Speaker 10: game eventually comes down to matchup. Particularly today emphasis will
Speaker 10: illustrate that because today's emphasis is third down and fourth down. Uh,
Speaker 10: so you know you'll see I'll start working those situations.
Speaker 10: And you know, the tendency is really since the fourth
Speaker 10: down has become so prominent. Uh, you know, the trends
Speaker 10: of the league, you know, sub personnel groups, particularly combinations
Speaker 10: in those areas are you know, something that we need
Speaker 10: a lot of work on.
Speaker 4: Mike, I know you haven't seen Joey out there, but
Speaker 4: do you look at your cornerback group in general.
Speaker 11: You spoke the other day about Asante but with day
Speaker 11: and never, how's that group look?
Speaker 10: Yes, I mean it's looking good. You know, I think
Speaker 10: that the depth the young guys are the ones you're
Speaker 10: you're you know, you're really that's you know, Frankly there's
Speaker 10: a lot of reasons, not only just the quarterbacks. You know,
Speaker 10: I try to go and I've actually gone almost every
Speaker 10: one when we get to the two spot to be
Speaker 10: around the younger players. So but the corners, yes, I mean,
Speaker 10: you know you don't never you know my history training
Speaker 10: camp as a head coach. You know, tight ends, corners, receivers.
Speaker 10: I mean it's this, this training camp, regiment, this practice structure.
Speaker 10: You know that those groups are stressed, so the numbers
Speaker 10: that are important and so with that creates more opportunity.
Speaker 10: So I think all those young guys will have an opportunity.
Speaker 11: Mike, When you look at this safety guys humiliated and
Speaker 11: just the history of their playing in this league, a
Speaker 11: lot of them play like more traditional strong safety roles,
Speaker 11: lining up in the box and in the slot than
Speaker 11: necessarily the deep free safety roles. Is is that a
Speaker 11: concern for you, guys, or is that something that you
Speaker 11: think that they'd all be able to rotate between, be
Speaker 11: able to fill that deep safety role you call upon.
Speaker 10: I think you're making up some point. I think it's
Speaker 10: you know, clearly, some of the conversations we've been in
Speaker 10: as far as the range of our safeties and then
Speaker 10: also that carries over to you know, Danny Crossman and
Speaker 10: how we're gonna utilize those dbs on special teams. So yes, uh,
Speaker 10: the point is well made. It's it's definitely something that
Speaker 10: we're looking at make.
Speaker 11: Off a closs as Calm Poom Collasse.
Speaker 10: Sorry, So if you've come across as Calm Poom collective.
Speaker 3: Since they won when you arrived, has there been a
Speaker 3: moment yet where.
Speaker 10: You've kind of had a maybe a little fire into
Speaker 10: the team where they needed a little.
Speaker 3: Pet Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 10: I mean I think just like anything, you know, being
Speaker 10: being in tune with everything, just the way they practice,
Speaker 10: you know, I think our guys have hit the target.
Speaker 10: I think we checked every box, uh from an operation
Speaker 10: you know standpoint, the energy of practice. I think the
Speaker 10: I think their pace has been really good for us
Speaker 10: being in our first year together. So the tempo, you
Speaker 10: know that, you know, you see it on the clock.
Speaker 10: There's time periods. Uh, you know, there's and there's not
Speaker 10: just you know the fact you're trying to get done
Speaker 10: and within that time, it's it's how fast you're getting
Speaker 10: in out of the huddle all those things. So yeah,
Speaker 10: we we just so this would be a big day
Speaker 10: in that area too, because usually when it pass slow down,
Speaker 10: you know, there's a little more conversation, and we can't
Speaker 10: have any of that. We gotta we gotta keep going.
Speaker 10: We want to stress that neurological clock, the nervous systems
Speaker 10: and so forth. So but yeah, I mean that's trust me.
Speaker 10: I'm I'm I'm the guy that makes sure everything needs
Speaker 10: to look a certain way, and when it doesn't look
Speaker 10: a certain way, then then you know they'll be aware
Speaker 10: of it.
Speaker 2: Mike, how is this team handed the handle those stresses
Speaker 2: to this point?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 10: No, it's it's been good. So schedule help some you know,
Speaker 10: I think that you know, the one two mock game
Speaker 10: is and that that that formally has worked well for me.
Speaker 10: You know, we're getting the reps, you know, as far
Speaker 10: as the box we're trying to check. You know, we're
Speaker 10: getting the situations repped accordingly. You know, the biggest stress
Speaker 10: point of our of our training camp will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 10: you know, because Thursday will be Thursday and Friday will
Speaker 10: be the first time we really you know, get to
Speaker 10: have what I would call a true training camp practice,
Speaker 10: you know, two and a half hours and in pads
Speaker 10: and you know, be able to get you know through
Speaker 10: some of the one on one and call a little
Speaker 10: more combination drill work, you know, more run game work.
Speaker 10: And so so yeah, they're you know, it's a first
Speaker 10: day of pads, so we're doing okay.
Speaker 9: Like there's a lot of people out there early you
Speaker 9: from the pads on the pot Act show here. How
Speaker 9: do you kind of balance getting the right type of
Speaker 9: work in on this type of day without making it,
Speaker 9: you know, too much of a specta goal.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, we're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We played in
Speaker 10: front of big crowds. You know, we used to that
Speaker 10: that that environment. You know, I think frankly, I think
Speaker 10: this is really exciting for the young guys. I think
Speaker 10: the older guys enjoyed. You know, I think anytime you
Speaker 10: have energy around your workplace, it's it's it's it's definitely
Speaker 10: a positive thing. And uh and we're fortunate that you know,
Speaker 10: Saint Vincent in this environment with the fans is incredible.
Speaker 10: You know, McAfee's Almo this morning, he's locked and ready
Speaker 10: to go. So they're excited to be here. So you
Speaker 10: know that all adds to it. But frankly, be honest,
Speaker 10: you once you get between the white lines. So you know,
Speaker 10: we have work to do. You know, we want to
Speaker 10: play football, but we just you know, we want to
Speaker 10: go a hundred mind ire, you know, and just you know,
Speaker 10: at the end of the day, have the quality tape
Speaker 10: and and hit the targets.
Speaker 9: Sean Elliott been working on a little bit of a
Speaker 9: pitch count.
Speaker 2: And is he one hundred percent kind of.
Speaker 10: Comes to his health, Well, I mean until he goes
Speaker 10: through every you know, every every drill in every team period,
Speaker 10: I think it's you know, you probably put him in
Speaker 10: in that in that category one hundred percent. I mean,
Speaker 10: there's there's protocol, and there's protocol with these injuries. There's
Speaker 10: no reason, uh to push a guy, you know, any
Speaker 10: fact with the trainers and then and and he's part
Speaker 10: of it, you know, the players part of the conversation
Speaker 10: of return to play. Return and play is very important. Uh.
Speaker 10: And as far as the discipline of it, because the
Speaker 10: player normally wants to go, go, go, go go, and
Speaker 10: and I think, like you know, I've been doing this
Speaker 10: a long time. You have to protect them from themselves.
Speaker 10: Uh So, uh, we're just being smart. I mean, there's
Speaker 10: a lot of a lot of conversation that goes into
Speaker 10: that between the doctors, the trainers in and the player.
Speaker 10: So I think I would just say we're being diligent.
Speaker 2: Make what have you seen from Max Hansor so far?
Speaker 3: And what do you look at?
Speaker 2: What do you see from Max Hanchor so far?
Speaker 10: What are you looking forward to see from inland pass?
Speaker 10: Go on? Just frankly, impats, That's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 10: I want to I want to see his feet, I'm
Speaker 10: gonna I want to see the you know, I want
Speaker 10: to see the athletic ability come out, you know, his
Speaker 10: understanding what we're asking him to do. The speed of
Speaker 10: the game will be. That is a big hurdle for
Speaker 10: you know, for young guys. You know, when you get
Speaker 10: to this point, you know, you think you know the
Speaker 10: speed of the the the helmet practices is. You know,
Speaker 10: it's it's it's full speed more in the space and everything.
Speaker 10: But you know, let's let's see how it goes in
Speaker 10: the phone booth. So I just I just want to
Speaker 10: see see all of our young interior guys, you know,
Speaker 10: how they how they handle the speed in the physicality
Speaker 10: of the phone both like two more.
Speaker 4: Two more guys a thirty eight yard or on fourth
Speaker 4: down in a two minutes, okay on Saturday. Can take
Speaker 4: us through what he did on that player.
Speaker 10: I mean, isn't you know fourth and lawn and we
Speaker 10: had a you know, we had an underneath route there.
Speaker 10: You know, we're looking for a match up there with Eli.
Speaker 10: But he had he had a one on one runner
Speaker 10: and I thought he gave him a good ball, and
Speaker 10: you know, hit the back shore is obviously a huge.
Speaker 4: Play the deep well on my fourth and shorter, you know,
Speaker 4: instead of throwing at the sticks, you go for a
Speaker 4: big play or fourth down, you take that one.
Speaker 5: It's there.
Speaker 10: Well, I think like all these practices, you know, fourth
Speaker 10: and ten at that point. You know, if I was
Speaker 10: in the media, i'd be criticizing a guy calling the plazer.
Speaker 10: I don't know what the hell he was doing. But
Speaker 10: you know, but also there's an agenda here to you know,
Speaker 10: we're trying to practice. We're trying to hit you know,
Speaker 10: fourth and ten. You want to you know, you look
Speaker 10: for opportunities to practice. You don't ever hopefully you don't
Speaker 10: get those in games. So my outs, you know, my
Speaker 10: outwalk on those things. I'm trying to hit every position
Speaker 10: you know, every situation I possibly can. Uh so, but
Speaker 10: for me to come in here and dissect the quarterbacks
Speaker 10: decision and play selection and you know how it went down,
Speaker 10: don't get used to it, cause I'm not gonna We're
Speaker 10: not gonna do that. But I thought he did. I
Speaker 10: thought I thought he threw he a ball.
Speaker 2: Well, Mike Aaron said, you guys talk and you wanted
Speaker 2: to play in the two preseason games at home. How'd
Speaker 2: you kind of decide that?
Speaker 3: And how much do you really want to see.
Speaker 2: Your air out there?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean that's you know, those decisions are really
Speaker 10: gonna be made once we get up to I mean,
Speaker 10: trust me, I have a lot of ideas. I have
Speaker 10: a lot of I've talked about this, you know, I
Speaker 10: think in the beginning here we have plans, but you know,
Speaker 10: being a healthy system, let's let's see what happened. You know,
Speaker 10: what can happen between on and two. So, but yeah,
Speaker 10: he he'd like to play. I I would like to
Speaker 10: see and playing. So, but we won't make a decision
Speaker 10: until we get all the way up to it, because
Speaker 10: there's more that goes into that. Just you know, having
Speaker 10: one player plays, you know, it's it's the culmination of players.
Speaker 10: All right, thank you, Now.
Speaker 2: I'll do it for the day's proceedings. Matt, sounds like
Speaker 2: from Mike McCarthy's comments there we might get backs on
Speaker 2: backers yet here in Latrobe.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, I hadn't heard that until now. That's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. Maybe that's something they're saving for Saturday
Speaker 2: night lights. Who knows.
Speaker 3: And they do the field painted for I was to say,
Speaker 3: we were listening.
Speaker 2: When we were listening to that, you pointed that out
Speaker 2: to me that they do have the field painted for
Speaker 2: backs on backers over there. So hey, maybe, uh, maybe
Speaker 2: some of the things that we've come uh to expect
Speaker 2: to know out here in Latrobe. Yeah, there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of change, but still a lot of constant and uh,
Speaker 2: it's so always good. It's a it's a it's a
Speaker 2: lot of fun for us to do. You want to
Speaker 2: talk about feeling feeling their presence, man, you could feel
Speaker 2: that drill from no matter where you are on campus
Speaker 2: and hear it certainly too with the pads popping and
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. But that will do it for
Speaker 2: us for today's coverage, of course, uh sn R and everything.
Speaker 2: We'll return tomorrow. At nine am with Labs and Tom
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Speaker 2: and I will once again bring up the Caboose from
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