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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale LOLLI he

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Speaker 1: is the Matt Williamson and Matt Steelers continuing with their

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Speaker 1: prospect visits.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Three more guys in today. That would be Kansas

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Speaker 1: State running back DJ Giddensky interesting player, Texas A and

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Speaker 3: Don't know a lot about him.

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Speaker 1: He's in Miami transfer who was one of the guys

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Speaker 1: Got the prerequisite size, like six thirty three inch armed,

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Speaker 1: all that, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he fits the bill.

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Speaker 1: Yeah later on pick later on guy, Yeah go go

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Speaker 1: ahod the idea that they're bringing in Stewart, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the first round guys in Stuart's one of those. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think the first round type prospects that they have

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Speaker 1: it got me to thinking today, I'm like, there's no

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Speaker 1: way that they're interested in all of these guys no, right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that somebody else won't be And

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Speaker 1: so you put that out there, you bring the guy

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Speaker 1: said the colonel out there that hey, maybe we'll take

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Speaker 1: into that spot at twenty one. Who really wants this guy?

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Speaker 3: It's really funny he brought that up, because I was

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Speaker 3: thinking the same thing of the last twenty four hours,

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Speaker 3: but only through the quarterback lens. They if they aren't

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Speaker 3: going to take a quarterback at twenty one, they want

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Speaker 3: every quarterback they can can to fall in the top twenty. Right,

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Speaker 3: So if the Giants or Brown Brown's want Darter Sanders,

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Speaker 3: you want them to trade ahead of you to take, yeah,

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Speaker 3: because so that they fall so and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 3: to dude, due diligence on a quarterback, and maybe they

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Speaker 3: do love one of them.

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Speaker 1: Stuart kind of feels the same way. Yeah, I wonder

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Speaker 1: He's an outside Linebacker's how he was described.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They've essentially now outside of of cam Ward, have

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Speaker 3: At the pro day of They've showed a pretty blatant

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Speaker 3: You can't do it at twenty five, Cleveland, you better

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Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lollie, You're listening to

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Speaker 2: At least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: And we are back Guy and Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and we forgot to do the Twitter questions.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they've been rolling the ex.

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Speaker 3: I still call it Twitter?

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Speaker 1: So we got some questions here. Let's roll through some

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Speaker 1: I think they know. I think they know what's going

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Speaker 3: I don't put too much into that.

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Speaker 3: Of course, But I do think you have to watch

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Speaker 3: like that. But you definitely have to factor it is.

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00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,920
Speaker 3: You look at it, right, and there's no question. Yeah,

438
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 3: it's definitely a factor. Those guys have edge dudes that

439
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,960
Speaker 3: the backs are helping or you.

440
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 1: Know, so here's a question. Steelers thirty visits are often,

441
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 1: but not always, indicators of the team's interest in a place. Yeah, yes,

442
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 1: can you break down all confirm players by position if

443
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: you think the player is a good fit and if so,

444
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,679
Speaker 1: roughly what round would the Steelers would target them? Well,

445
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that now because they've still

446
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 1: got more visits. Yeah yeah, I mean they're only like

447
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 1: twenty three.

448
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,400
Speaker 3: Now and we've brought up a bunch of them.

449
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, as they've as they've come through, and we.

450
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 3: Also kind of addressed this in the first segment that

451
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,959
Speaker 3: I think a lot of these first rounders are not

452
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 3: going to be considered it twenty one.

453
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so either.

454
00:20:58,680 --> 00:20:59,120
Speaker 3: Have been in.

455
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: Steelers are doing a lot of homework on quarterbacks. Have you, gentlemen,

456
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 1: tried a mock draft that prioritizes selecting quarterbacks in round

457
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 1: one and two, assuming a slight trade down in round one.

458
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 1: We've done it a lot, we have, but we haven't. Moment.

459
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 3: You and I don't jump on Dart at twenty one.

460
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,399
Speaker 1: No, no, because we just don't. We don't like that

461
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 1: player at that spot.

462
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that pick. Yeah, I mean we

463
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 3: could try it one time, force ourselves to take Dart

464
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:25,360
Speaker 3: at twenty one.

465
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 1: Pretty.

466
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 3: The rest won't be nice.

467
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: The rest is not pretty. Yeah, they really won't. I mean,

468
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: we've done this basically the same thing by taking a

469
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 1: running back at times in the first round, and it's

470
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: not It just doesn't work out as well, it doesn't.

471
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 3: I mean, the path of least resistance or best results

472
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 3: always starts to tackle.

473
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: If the team trades back or somehow gets another Day

474
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: two pick, is there a position to look at or

475
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 1: just best available? Well, I think if you're trading to

476
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 1: get another Day two pick. I think you like one

477
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 1: of those running backs, or there's a defensive lineman there

478
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 1: that you got to have, or you want to get

479
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback.

480
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean where they have six picks as we speak,

481
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 3: they probably at most will get the seven. I mean,

482
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to get eight or nine

483
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 3: and one or two of those late rounders. I'm not

484
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 3: going to prioritize for a specific spot. No, so you

485
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,160
Speaker 3: probably end up with four or five picks where you're

486
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 3: looking at it, of these are where they're going to go.

487
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 3: At least one's going to be D line, at least

488
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 3: one's going to be running back. A second D line

489
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 3: I think is absolutely possible. An no linement of some sort.

490
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: We've taken cornerbacks, Yeah, I say a corner or receiver

491
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,399
Speaker 1: is a maybe you know, and then I don't see receiver.

492
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 3: You don't think they'd pick one period? I don't think so, Yeah, surprise.

493
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 1: Me not high. Any updates on Cameron Johnston's rehab. Will

494
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: there be a battle at the punter position or is

495
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: it his to lose if he's healthy? Well, I've seen

496
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: Cameron Johnston a lot around the facility. H he is healthy.

497
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin was asked about that at the at the

498
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: meetings two weeks ago now and said he's healthy as well.

499
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: It's Cameron Johnston's job.

500
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's phenomenal. Yeah, and Weightman did really well. It

501
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 3: was nicer than you could expect. But Johnston's better. Yeah,

502
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 3: he's under contract. He was signed for a reason. He

503
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 3: looked great before the injury. He was super impressive at camp.

504
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: I think he upgraded a punter too. I mean, we

505
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: often talked about last year's rookie class coming in even

506
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 3: get anything out of Well, you also have a semi

507
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 3: close to a Pro Bowl punter coming back, you know, right?

508
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah? R J. Porio says, not a question. But I

509
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: love the show. Haven't missed the show in legitimately two years.

510
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for all the great insight and honest opinions on

511
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: the team here. That's awesome.

512
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

513
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciated that. Me exclamation point. Are Ian's comfortable

514
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: with Mason being quarterback? One with a vet like Flacco

515
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: or Wentz? Is the backup? Both of those guys are signed,

516
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: are they not? Now?

517
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about Wentz?

518
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: Black signed today? Uh?

519
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, No for me.

520
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 1: No, I'm not comfortable with that at all. We have

521
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: enough talent to have a top five offensive line this year.

522
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: Top five is pretty lofty, I would say lofty. Probably

523
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: not if you can get into the top twelve, you know,

524
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: ten to twelve okay yeah yeah yeah. And finally, best

525
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: Sheets mto item.

526
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 3: I don't hit there enough.

527
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: I stop at Sheets every day because they just built

528
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: one down the road from my house on my way here.

529
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 3: But you're not getting Sammy so not.

530
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,239
Speaker 1: Usually if if I get something in the morning on

531
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 1: my way to the facility, I'll get like a cream

532
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: cheeste bagel.

533
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 3: I mean bit Johnstown that we'd run the sheets. Yeah,

534
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 3: that was a late night thing, very good campus, a

535
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 3: ton of stuff to pick from either.

536
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't like it is now.

537
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 3: Right, and that was like revolutionary for the day. Yeah,

538
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 3: I remember. There's a guy that I'm open to suggestions though,

539
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 3: if anyone wants to say, try this at sheets, I'll try.

540
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 1: Guy that I worked with in Washington, Mark Lazarus. I

541
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: think he works for the Chicago Sun Times now covers

542
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: the Blackhawks, and he moved here from New York to

543
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: come work at the Observer Reporter and I kept telling

544
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: him like, look, you got to stop at sheets and

545
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: get the mt O. I can't. It's gas station food.

546
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not gas station food. And then after

547
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: about four or five months, when me telling it kept

548
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: telling him that he had to stop at chet, he

549
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: finally stopped at the sheets. Now when he comes back

550
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh to visit, he goes to Sheets specifically every

551
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: single time.

552
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,719
Speaker 3: We're a commercial here for Sheets fan, I like all

553
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 3: those you know, now you travel more than I do.

554
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, gas station food has come along.

555
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: With you're not gas station hitting the button and then

556
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 1: opening the door, right Sam, which has been in there.

557
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 3: For four the US. Right now there's actual good cold cuts,

558
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 3: et cetera. Open tell me your favorite Sheets orders.

559
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: I'll give a shot, Dan asked, since it gets mentioned

560
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: frequently per p PFF. The most likely trade down partners

561
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: of the Packers twenty three and eighty seven, the Texans

562
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: twenty five and seventy nine, the Bills at thirty and

563
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: fifty six, the Chiefs at thirty one, sixty three, and

564
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: sixty six at twenty one. One of the better wide

565
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: receivers or ots might be enticing enough, are your marks better?

566
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: When the Steelers trade down a so freaking lootly almost

567
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: always every time.

568
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because of the extra pick, but you

569
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 3: often get your dude in a trade down too that

570
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 3: you would have taken. However, I'm leaning towards I like

571
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 3: all three of those defensive tackles, there's no question. But

572
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 3: I think just in the last forty eight hours or so,

573
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 3: I think Grants might clear third, just because I think

574
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 3: the Bill doesn't go quite as well. And I know

575
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 3: he's not a true nose, but I like him a lot.

576
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: Those other guys just influenced the passing game more now,

577
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 3: you know, as a situational pass rusher in twenty twenty

578
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 3: five contribution, I think ideally, and it would worry me

579
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 3: if Nolan has already gone.

580
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: A city is an interesting one, and I mentioned yesterday

581
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: the Chiefs potentially taking a tight end in the first

582
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: round and taking the third tight end the yeah yah round.

583
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 3: But what if they can get Loveland.

584
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, what if Colston Loveland is there and they've got

585
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: those two they got to pick sixty three and sixty

586
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: six and they say, you know what, we want to

587
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: get in before the Chargers get them, keep them out

588
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: of the division. That would add up, we're going trade

589
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: up with the Steelers, get Colston Loveland. Yeah.

590
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: Away from the Chargers, you move back ten spots, You

591
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 3: move back ten, get the second if not more.

592
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: You're getting in one of those second round but draft picks.

593
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: Whether it's sixty three or sixty six, I don't care

594
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: which one. And I'm still going to get potentially who

595
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to get at twenty one, and I get

596
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: that second round draft pick.

597
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: I throw one other team at you too, because no

598
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 3: one's really talking about the Lions. We always just kind

599
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 3: of brush over their pick when we do a mock draft.

600
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: That's usually on edge. Sometimes it's a guard or whatever.

601
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: But they're a really aggressive organization. They have quite the

602
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: history of trading up with this regime. And if the

603
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 3: edge rushers start going and there's one they love, or

604
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 3: maybe it's a Connerly or I keep thinking about Simmons.

605
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 3: The Ohio State.

606
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: Tak is a wild card in this STrenD.

607
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, because Decker's up in age he did and you

608
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 3: get a franchise left tackle.

609
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: Simmons did position workouts at the Ohio State Pro.

610
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: Date, so he's back doing stuff.

611
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a question of is he going to

612
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: be ready for the regular season or will he be

613
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: ready for training camp?

614
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, because I'm sure the Lions the way they're

615
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: built in their philosophy is they want to keep a

616
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 3: strength of strength on the O line. And maybe that's

617
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: just not sitting there waiting at the end of the

618
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 3: first round.

619
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: But the Chiefs to me or the want to make

620
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: it great chiefs are one. Because they have those two

621
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: second round picks. Could they move thirty one and say

622
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: sixty six knowing that they still have sixty three or

623
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: vice versa, Yeah, or something, say hey, we're still going

624
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: to have a second round draft pick. We're going to

625
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: go get the guy that we want, guy that we need. Yeah,

626
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: we really the big time dude. Yeah, that's a great one.

627
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 3: Some other trade downs or Minnesota and Atlanta though they

628
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 3: need picks. Yeah, they're the ones that need pick.

629
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. During the Josiah Jones asked during the Aaron Rodgers visit,

630
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: does anybody know if he tried to super Steelers soon?

631
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: I saw that one. I haven't been told he's crazy

632
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: not to.

633
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: On Tuesday and they had the beef Barley, which is

634
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: my personal face. That's your number one, Huh. It's good.

635
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: They make a great beef barley soup. Tyler, do you

636
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: have a favorite?

637
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 3: The Steeler soup, Super Steel soup, Oh, the super legendary.

638
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: You're missing it.

639
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 3: You may not have been around, but I went on

640
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 3: my Supersteero super rant. It's gonna they're gonna sell it

641
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 3: all over and supply they.

642
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: Do a lot of good soups, right, you know. And

643
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: then Mike Pursuit they also had the stuffed pepper, and

644
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: Pursued is a huge fan of that, so he had

645
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: the stuffed pepper and as I was eating, they're.

646
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 3: High on both of your lists. I didn't. I didn't

647
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: sup it up.

648
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: This to the wedding. Great clam chowders great, All the

649
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: chowders are the bisks, all that stuff. The bisc is unbelievable.

650
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: It's like being in a five star restaurant with their soups.

651
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: So my answer to the question is he must not

652
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: have or he would have signed by now that's true.

653
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: Or maybe he's not a soup guy. I don't know.

654
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 3: Maybe super Steero Soup, the Supersteeos eat, the Benefiting Pittsburgh

655
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 3: Suit Kitchen, make it happen to you.

656
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: Oh, Michael Odessos, if when Rogers assigned, who's going to

657
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: be his short yardage slash underneath? Guy love DK and Pickens.

658
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: But it's not their strength, Nor is Calvin. Nor is

659
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: it Calvin Austin's seems like a lot of trust put

660
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: on Roman Wilson. Is there a free agent to bring

661
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: in or maybe a wide receiver like Estrepo? How much

662
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: tight ends?

663
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 3: I say, I'm screaming for Friarmoth.

664
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: Friar mooth, and I think that's the kind of receiver

665
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: that Wilson is.

666
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. I also, especially once Rogers signs in the draft goes,

667
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 3: I might just call keenan Allen, maybe, what do you

668
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 3: want on a one year deal? You know, you're a

669
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 3: lot different than the dus we have, You're a veteran,

670
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 3: Come play with Rogers.

671
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: Guys are both cow guys, even though at the same time,

672
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't think it'd be expensive. He doesn't play a

673
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: ton of snaps, so not in three receiver sets a lot,

674
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: but dude runs routes. Yeah, we'll get to one more

675
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: here before we get to the break. What's your guys

676
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: draft coverage schedule look like for the actual draft? Well,

677
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: we're at the Steelers facility we're over at the up

678
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: MC Sports Complex, and largely we are on the radio

679
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: the entire time. I am on, although I have to

680
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: I have some writing duties that I got to do

681
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: in things of that nature. How these guys fit with

682
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: the team that will go up on Steelers dot Com.

683
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: But we'll be on there. Mike Pursudo will be on there.

684
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: Jerry Duleck will be on there. Rank Rob Kings on

685
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: the schedule for this year.

686
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 3: I don't know the schedule like the back of my hand,

687
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: and I don't know the hours we start. Yeah, but

688
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: if there's coverage, I will be on the air.

689
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: West Rulers uh there with us. Tom Offerman's coming down

690
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: for some for some stuff.

691
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: Now we'll have it covered.

692
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: Max Starks is going to be in Green Bay. Oh

693
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: is it going stuff for I believe ESPN. I wonder

694
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: if he'll remotely join us here and there.

695
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 3: Probably not.

696
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: If he's going to be on the air the entire time,

697
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't. Oh, okay, he's not part of our coverage.

698
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: But agree, I got you, I don't. We were talking

699
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: about that at the when we were at the meetings,

700
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks ago, and I'm like Max,

701
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't envy you having to go to Green Bay

702
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: for the draft for this weekend, right like that, the

703
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: population of Green Bay is going to swell by three times.

704
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, people renting out their kids bed there are not

705
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: enough rooms, the tents and pop up trailers and stuff

706
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 3: like that.

707
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: People are going to be staying all over the place. Yeah,

708
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: it's going to be nuts.

709
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, we will have you guys covered like crazy.

710
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I'm tuned into the usually don't miss

711
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: a minute. You can either listen through Steelers Nation Radio.

712
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: You can listen on the app. You can also listen

713
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: on the you know through iHeart on the nine to

714
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: seventy Fox Sports Pittsburgh as well. But we have wald

715
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: to wall draft coverage, talk about every pick, make our

716
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: picks as they're coming up, who we would take in

717
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: those situations. So, yeah, break it all down, break it

718
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: all down. We even get we get players who come in,

719
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: we get coaches that, you know, after they make the pick,

720
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: they come and sit down with us.

721
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 3: With us or you know, even coordinators or coach Donlin

722
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 3: or whoever. We've had mister Rooney on during the draft.

723
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: We've had Joey Porter the day after he got picks

724
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: comes in joy at.

725
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: A lot of the players come in and sit down

726
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: with where they'll call in immediately after making a pick,

727
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: which did lead to some like when they took Bud

728
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: Dupree in the first round back in twenty fifteen. I

729
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: think it was twenty fifteen. They'll run together now, but maybe, yeah,

730
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I think it was. And I was talking about how

731
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: I didn't like the pick because I didn't like his

732
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: instincts at the Thomas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is not

733
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: a day. Remember this is going to help you right away.

734
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: This he's a developmental player in the first round.

735
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 3: It took him a while.

736
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: We get to think, oh, he's on the phone right now,

737
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: and I'm.

738
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 3: Like, okay, you know, but welcome.

739
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably listening to me going this diet tribe values.

740
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 3: And that's not the great pick it turned out.

741
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean, not that it wasn't a good pick, but

742
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: I said it was going to take time for him

743
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: to develop into what they needed him to be in

744
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: that project. That turned out to be the case. It

745
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: was absolutely which kind of like Samar Stewart to be honest.

746
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some similarities there too. Yeah, I mean Stewart

747
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 3: doesn't make many plays in the run game, right, I mean,

748
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: it's not like this sack. Only his run stuff so

749
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 3: questionable too.

750
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's get to a break. We'll get back

751
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: to more questions when we return. He is Matt Williamson.

752
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: I am Dale LOLLI. You're listening to the Drive here

753
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: on the Steelers Audio Network.

754
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 2: Least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

755
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

756
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 2: and Gold car Steelers Nation Radio.

757
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly here with the

758
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and we're rolling through some of my questions

759
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 1: here on the next Twitter and Dakota Smith asked, would

760
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: you trade into the top ten to draft Sanders? If so,

761
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: what would that cost? And I would not do that.

762
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 3: I wouldn't think you can consider.

763
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: It largely, not just because I don't think he's a

764
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: top ten player. If you identify him as the quarterback,

765
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: that's fine, But to move into the top ten from

766
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: where they're at now, from twenty one and you don't

767
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: have a second round pick already, right right, you're trading

768
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: future picks, probably your future one.

769
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: I'd say, probably a future one, or a bevy of

770
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 3: you know your three this year, two.

771
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: Next year.

772
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 3: Right, I absolutely would not. Now, I am a huge believer.

773
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 3: If there's one you adore, it doesn't matter what the

774
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 3: cost is, right, No one cared what the Chiefs paid

775
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 3: to get my homes, you know, I mean, or the

776
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 3: Buffalo traded up to get Alan. I just don't see

777
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 3: that in this draft.

778
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see that kind of Yeah talent there.

779
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 3: I mean, I have a hard enough time taking them.

780
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: At twenty one, Joe Marcusik asks, you guys are my

781
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: favorite Steelers podcast? Well, thank you for that. Nice What

782
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: do you think of TJ wats Instagram post of him

783
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: in a Steelers uniform holding up two fingers like he's

784
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: saying peace. I think has more much to do about nothing.

785
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: But what say you? Well, I covered that in today's

786
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: five for Furday. At the end of the season, he

787
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: said he wants to retire, he wants to be part

788
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: of the solution here with the Steelers, wants a new

789
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: you know, he wants to be here. Just two weeks

790
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 1: ago at the owners meetings, both Mike Tomlin and Omar conson, Yeah,

791
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: no question. So I do think it's much Nobody knows.

792
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: There were no there were no words there with the

793
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: instagram no, Right, it could have been any number of

794
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: things that he just put an Instagram post about. Right,

795
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: people try to read into things you.

796
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 3: Know better than me. But I think he's a man

797
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 3: of few words. Yeah, I mean to say the least.

798
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 3: And I heard some people say speculating they have a

799
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: second child on the way.

800
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean it could be any number

801
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: of things, right, Yeah, you just don't know. And speculation

802
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: about well he wants a new contract, and it sparked

803
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Is he worth forty million dollars? You're

804
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you.

805
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a going rate.

806
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: The cap is going rate going up like crazy, right,

807
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: and it's not your money that you know. Would you

808
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: pay TJ wat forty million dollars? That's a silly question

809
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: because how many people out there that you're asking that

810
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: question to have forty million dollars? Right? It really just

811
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: comes down to what percentage of the.

812
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: Cap do you think he's worth?

813
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: That's the big thing, right, what percentage I bet is

814
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: his next contract will be a smaller percentage of the

815
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: cap than this one, right, because the CAP's going up

816
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: so cap has gone up incredibly. It's annie asked. If

817
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: Rogers decides not to sign or is still undecided, is

818
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: there any impact on the Steelers drafting a quarterback this year? Also,

819
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: if they give me an eight carret diamond ring and

820
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: a prenup, giving me everything, please let the Steelers know

821
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: that I am all in. She was listening yesterday, good stuff,

822
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: and we appreciate that. I think that they know what

823
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is going to do, and I don't think

824
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: it impacts necessarily what the Steelers do at quarterback this

825
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: year in terms of the draft. They're going to probably

826
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: draft one at some point because they're going to have

827
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: a fourth quarterback in camp, you know. I just think

828
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: that they know what's going to go on with Rogers

829
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: here and they have a pretty good idea.

830
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 3: That's my hunch as well. And I don't think that

831
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 3: decision should change the way. I mean, you're great.

832
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: Still, you still view these guys right right.

833
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 3: It shouldn't change at all, whether no Ben walks through

834
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 3: those doors or mahomes or you have nothing, you know,

835
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still the grades of grade and are

836
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: they worth it?

837
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: Yeah? Scotty p says, which of these two options. Do

838
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: you like better Jaln Milroe in the first round or

839
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: will Howard in the third round? Both are rich to me? Yeah,

840
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: I mean to me, Milroe might be the answer.

841
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: Howard to me is very Rudolph asked, a little bit

842
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: better Athleteward.

843
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: I have less of a problem with Howard in the

844
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: third round. I guess I don't love either because I

845
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: think you're only giving you know, you're you're talking about

846
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 1: the difference between you know, two mid round draft picks.

847
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: As oppose Jalen Milroe in the first round it picked

848
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: twenty one, right.

849
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 3: I think both are too rich. Yeah, and Howard doesn't

850
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 3: really blow my scart up either. To be honest with you,

851
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 3: I think he's a good player in the right system,

852
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 3: a facilitator, really good from the neck up. But I

853
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: think he's a Rudolph Lake.

854
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: I think he's a better athlete, better butter player.

855
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 3: But I bet that's his career path.

856
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: You know, Heshian says. With the Brown signing Flacco, and

857
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: my guess is drafting Milrow either at thirty three or

858
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: moving up a little. Kenny Pickett's head explode on the

859
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: thought of actually having to compete again.

860
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I mean the league. The league's telling us

861
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 3: what you think of Picket. I mean that they think

862
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 3: he's a two or you know, I would imagine Flacco's

863
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 3: the leader in the clubhouse to start over.

864
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: Him, thank you point, you know, I mean he started

865
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: games for them in the past, and they were.

866
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 3: Kenny frankly doesn't Mike most quarterbacks doesn't have any right

867
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 3: to complain. He's competing for a job, right, You're just.

868
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: Trying to at this point hold on, you know. Andrew

869
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: Quakowski asks, can you see TJ watch extension coming in

870
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: or above forty million dollars a year? Seems to be

871
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: the talk around the media, But don't know if that's

872
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: just agents speak, what speculation based on what Miles Garrett got,

873
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: ye and what Micah Parsons is going to get.

874
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 3: Parcels will get more than both, Yes, based on age.

875
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: I mean he's worth.

876
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: More, right, but that's you know, the going rate is

877
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: to go.

878
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just the cost of doing business. It'll

879
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 3: be in that neighborhood, I'm sure.

880
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be above

881
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year, but.

882
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: That was in that raunch. I would be in that range.

883
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 3: He's about the same age as Garrett. He's, you know,

884
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 3: the same level player.

885
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: That came out in the same draft, in the same draft.

886
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, So maybe it's structured different. You know,

887
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: where the money kicks in and where the bonus is

888
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: and all that. You know, yeah, there are bonuses that

889
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: push things different ways.

890
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 3: Where's the guaranteed money and all that, but it should

891
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 3: be in that neighborhood. He's one of the best players.

892
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: Like steel Warrior fifty five asked question to both, what's

893
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: your favorite Steeler's memory or moment. I'm gonna do us

894
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: a long time. M hmm, what's my favorite moment of

895
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: the last thirty three years?

896
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: Like mine is I was very young. I was like

897
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 3: seven or eight years old, and we were going to

898
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 3: Disneyland and for whatever reason, the Steelers were in the

899
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 3: terminal on their way to San Francisco and that was the.

900
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: Year that they were the only feet the Niners.

901
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 3: Yeh, yeah, this is like early early eighties, whatever sounds

902
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 3: about right. I've been ten or eleven in that neighborhood

903
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 3: and Jack Lambert was on crutches with his turf toe,

904
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 3: and I went up to him and asked him, we're

905
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 3: an autograph, and he said say please, and almost foot

906
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 3: myself and then he signed it and then he went

907
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 3: on a one. So that I'll go with that For

908
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 3: my favorite memory.

909
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with this one. So

910
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: it's my first training camp in ninety three and we're

911
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: standing out in front of the old dorms and at

912
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: that point, all the media, everybody, we all stayed in

913
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: that same dorm. So Mike Persuda, who was at that

914
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: time probably twenty six twenty seven years old, he was,

915
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: he's a few years older than me. Uh. The Steelers

916
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: had drafted three Michigan State guys Jim Miller and Pursuita

917
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: pulls up into in his Toyota Celica. It was a

918
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: nice Yeah, it was a convertible Toyota Celica, but it

919
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: was a Toyota Celica. Yeah, pulls up in front of

920
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: it in the front of the dorms to unload his stuff.

921
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: At that point, it was it was reporting day. He

922
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: starts unloading his stuff and his Pursuita will do He's

923
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: wearing all of his Michigan State gear, sure, which he does.

924
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 3: And one of the photographers was a long time ago,

925
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 3: A long time ago. Yeah, it's important note for the story.

926
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: One of the photographers who was there shooting for somebody

927
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: I don't even know, who might have been the Latrobe

928
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: bulletin or something like that, who doesn't cover the team

929
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, runs out and starts shooting pictures

930
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: of pursuita unloading his stomach of his car because he

931
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: thought he was.

932
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: Jim Mller right, the next quarterback, right, And we.

933
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: Were all just chuckling about it, this pursuit of which

934
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: I had known Mike from before before I started covering

935
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: the team. We had a mutual friend and so we

936
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: had we'd had beers a couple of times before that.

937
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 3: But yeah, and I can't stress enough that this is

938
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 3: a long time ago to make the believability of this.

939
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: Back in the days when I was still mistaken for

940
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: a player, when I was walking Dound campus, you know,

941
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: they just people saw a young, somewhat fit you, right, yeah,

942
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: bigger kind of guy, and they said, you know, and

943
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: I know sometimes you know, take the photos of me

944
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: next to you and Max for example, that two weeks ago,

945
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: people well they al must be a little guy. No,

946
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm six one and one hundred and ninety five. Everybody

947
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: looks small, Max, but that that's one of my favorites.

948
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah, first one that you know.

949
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: I can also remember interviewing Jerome Bettis in front of

950
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: the same dorms and he's up against the wall with

951
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: his with looking out over the fields and the Blue

952
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: Angels came over. That's cool, and you couldn't hear them.

953
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: You saw them before you heard them, because they're they're moving.

954
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 3: It soon, you know, because they're moving so fast.

955
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: And they were doing a show at the La Trobe

956
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: at the Yeah, at the air. Yeah, they're coming in

957
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: information upside down, I believe, right at us like this.

958
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: You couldn't hear him, and all of a sudden, Jerome's

959
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: eyes went boom because they're coming right at us.

960
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 3: That's a pretty cool memory.

961
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: And then you heard them as they went over. It's

962
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: like whoa.

963
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some Sharky's memories. I probably won't throw.

964
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: A few of those. Two. Yeah, that I'm not going

965
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: to mention on here. Carmstrong ass. Let me start by saying,

966
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: I love the show and the insights you both offer.

967
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: You're both very knowledgeable and I don't miss a show. Well,

968
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: we appreciate that. With that said, can you please stop

969
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,439
Speaker 1: interrupting Matt? I dare you to listen to your shows

970
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: and count the number of times you interrupt him. I

971
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: think I interrupt you. It's funny because a lot of

972
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: people complain about both of us interrupting each other.

973
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 3: I've had a million co hosts, and you're still my

974
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 3: favorite of my podcasting radio career. And I always think

975
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 3: one of my bigness weaknesses I interrupt my my co

976
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 3: host too often.

977
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: We both I think it's just being excited. We do

978
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: so many shows together. It's just you know, and we

979
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: talk off the air and text each other just I

980
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of the same thoughts and me.

981
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 3: Just spit them out whenever we're ready.

982
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: I always try to make this and have done it

983
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: since the show started. Conversational. Yeah, Like Matt and I

984
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: are sitting at the bar talking. That's that's what we

985
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: do with the show. Ye.

986
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: So you know, I've got a lot of feedback along

987
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 3: those lines too. It's like you guys are just kind

988
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 3: of hanging out at Charky's.

989
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: You know, that's what the show is supposed to be about. Yeah. Yeah,

990
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: A lot of times we don't. I don't script anything out.

991
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: We just we just oh and talk like we would have,

992
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,240
Speaker 1: like we're having a normal conversation. Hi, guys, says Chris Maxwell.

993
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: If you had to rank the Steelers OC's starting from

994
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: Todd Haley until present, how would you rank them? In

995
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: my opinion, Haley is clearly number one, and it's not

996
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: even close. Arthur Smith is next to last, with him

997
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: barely ranking above Canada. Well, I disagree with that.

998
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 3: Canada would be last.

999
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: I mean there's only.

1000
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 3: Been Fourner, Canada, Smith, Haley. Yeah, okay, I would probably

1001
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 3: go Haley, Smithner Canada.

1002
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: I think I would go the same way we have.

1003
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 3: One year of Judge Smith, they.

1004
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: Averaged almost five points a game more than what they are.

1005
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: I guess you could throw Eddie Faulkner and you know

1006
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: that as well, but they averaged almost five points more

1007
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: per game this past season than they had the previous season.

1008
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 3: I'd be a heck a lot better coordinator with Ben

1009
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 3: in his prime. Then that helps a lot too, with

1010
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 3: Duck Hodges too. Ab right, Yeah, a young Juju and

1011
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 3: Vi on Bell And I'm not avoiding the subject just

1012
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 3: to like be PC, but judging any assistant coach is

1013
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 3: really hard from even where we sit. Yeah, I mean,

1014
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 3: so much happens behind the walls.

1015
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: Matt to say the psycho a Cicco, I should say,

1016
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: asks excluding Rogers, as there one current free agent out

1017
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: there that each of you guys could think would still

1018
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: be a good signing for the Steelers. I think you've

1019
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: mentioned it with Keenan Allen.

1020
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, something I'd be interested in certainly be one that

1021
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 3: would be I've brought up JK. Dobbins a few times, Chubb.

1022
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a corner or a tight end or

1023
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,720
Speaker 3: somebody that's super cheap that's going to be hanging around

1024
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 3: that you might want to throw in a camp or

1025
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 3: maybe another offensive lineman.

1026
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: You know. He also says, keep up the great work

1027
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: into the trolls. Maybe you can challenge them to a

1028
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: spelling beat spelling contest. But you know, I get to

1029
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: what you're saying there. Matt Short Junior says, favorite thing

1030
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: about working together and least favorite thing about working together.

1031
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of it.

1032
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we enjoy it. I mean Matt and I,

1033
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: even though we went to our same college, Matt and

1034
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: I did not know each other no before we started

1035
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: doing the show together, and I consider Matt one of

1036
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: my good friends. Now, yeah, you know, we work together

1037
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: every day, and maybe that's the thing that's that's the

1038
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: least favorite thing about doing this, is it we do

1039
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: this every day. There's a lot and there are some

1040
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: times of the year where it gets a little different.

1041
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: We see each other and it's not like I'm unhappy

1042
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: to see you, but all right, let's go see Sean

1043
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: Fagus says, all the quarterback talk has become tiresome. If

1044
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: Rogers throws a curve and ends up retiring, how much

1045
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: does that change the Steelers draft strategy after.

1046
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 3: They first round? Y?

1047
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, over that? How different? Ask Gasper Echos? How different

1048
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: is this year's quarterback? This year's pre draft quarterback chatter

1049
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty two and pundits were discussing Milik will

1050
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: Willis and Desmond Ritter's first round picks. Is it possible

1051
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: that only one quarterback will be drafted in the first round.

1052
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: It's possible, It's possible, But I think this class is

1053
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 3: noticeably better than that one.

1054
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think if you look back, and I.

1055
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 3: Mean no one's going one, I mean that makes it

1056
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 3: different already.

1057
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: If you look back at that draft as well in

1058
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. There were fewer teams at that point

1059
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: that had a real true need quarterbacks, so they were

1060
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if there had been five or six teams

1061
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: that needed quarterback, that had to have a quarterback that year,

1062
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: maybe those guys would have gone higher.

1063
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 3: And it's not because they flopped, but I'll take Milroe

1064
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 3: or Shuck over that version of Ritter or Willis or

1065
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 3: certainly Corral And I think it was lost about that

1066
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 3: class is Everyone's like it was only for one first

1067
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 3: round quarterback and it was all the way at twenty

1068
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 3: there was no second round quarterbacks, right zero. Yeah, I

1069
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 3: mean you even have a hard time convincing me that if

1070
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 3: Milroe is still around the second round, he doesn't go.

1071
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: And most of those guys all started off as backups,

1072
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: all of them, None of them started from day one

1073
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 1: because nobody really needed, right, they weren't high petted, you guys,

1074
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: and that that's a bad class. Yeah.

1075
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 3: Uh.

1076
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: Nas Costco asked what is the most shocking pick you

1077
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 1: can remember remember from the Steelers in the last fifteen years? Shocking?

1078
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 3: Edmunds took me a back.

1079
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: I had heard some buzz about him in the days,

1080
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: in the days leading maybe even the hours.

1081
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 3: Yeah to the draft that this am so focused, include

1082
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 3: myself on vander ash and Roque one. That was the

1083
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 3: linebacker draft and they all went, say yeah, they all went,

1084
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 3: they were all gone.

1085
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: Who are other ones? I think Ziggi Hoobe was kind

1086
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: of a surprise to me just because he didn't that's

1087
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: that was close eight. That's that's the timeframe. Maybe nine. Yeah,

1088
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: oh eight was men that Hall, which was kind of

1089
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: a surprise as well.

1090
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a stupid one, but like a Wolokon,

1091
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 3: I didn't see them taking a second quarterback.

1092
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: By the seventh. Then I packed through it.

1093
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 3: And I mean there's some of those. I'm sure you're

1094
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 3: talking about early pick.

1095
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. We got two questions left here. This is another

1096
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: one from nas Costco. If shuck falls around four, main

1097
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: because of age, do you sprint to turn the card

1098
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: in Yeah, yeah, yeah, unless you've already taken one, but

1099
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: at that point you may have already taken shock. I

1100
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: would sprint it in round three. Yeah. And then finally,

1101
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: Joey Baggadnut says, if they draft a wide receiver this year,

1102
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: would that mean they have no faith in Roman Wilson

1103
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: being a contributor anytime soon.

1104
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 3: Depends where they take him, And I don't know it's

1105
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: a direct reflection on nothing. No matter what they do.

1106
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 3: I mean, even if they would end up with Betch

1107
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 3: or Ilumina or or someone like that, that's a lot

1108
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 3: different style. Yeah, Yon day two. That doesn't mean they

1109
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 3: think Wilson's a boster can't play.

1110
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think they'll take a receiver that

1111
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: looks like him though. No, they're not going to take

1112
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: another one that's it's in the same mold as Austin

1113
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: and Wilson. Right, you're not taking its pure slot.

1114
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 3: Right, Like I don't think Noel was that. I think

1115
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 3: he's more.

1116
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: Austin can play outside too, right, He's shown that. But

1117
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if Wilson can play outside because I

1118
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. He did in college.

1119
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 3: There's nothing they could do in the draft that would

1120
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 3: make me think, oh, they think Roman Wilson stinks. No,

1121
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Yeah, unless they drafted three

1122
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 3: of them or something that would signal that. But anyways,

1123
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 3: that's some good questions on there.

1124
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: Once again, we appreciate those keep trying to do that

1125
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: here as the year goes on if I remember to

1126
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: send it out on Thursdays.

1127
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: Uh.

1128
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: But let's get to another break. He is the Matt Williamson.

1129
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly. That's going to do it for our

1130
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: number one of the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

1131
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: Matt and I'll be back with our number two right

1132
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: after this