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Speaker 3: Matt, I tell you what that Caleb Johnson can scoot. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's quick. He's certainly as quick as we've got a

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Speaker 3: we got a team period going on in front of us.

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Speaker 3: I gotta think this will probably be the conclusion I

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Speaker 3: would think of practice.

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Speaker 4: As uh tho's some tired players out there, So.

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Speaker 3: There is there is. I mean in hey, as we

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Speaker 3: shared with you, if you missed it, heat index down

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Speaker 3: on the field over one hundred degrees today and it.

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Speaker 5: Is ema knock them over there and shade. But they

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Speaker 5: haven't done football football stuff for a long time. That's

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Speaker 5: different than whatever workout they've been doing on their own.

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Speaker 3: Different than workouts on their own. OTA's Mini camp. The

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Speaker 3: first few days of practice as Mason Rudolph now in

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Speaker 3: the shotgun. He's got Trey Sermon to his left, trips

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Speaker 3: to his right. He'll get the snap. He's looking back,

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Speaker 3: he pumps, he throws in a nice gain for the

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Speaker 3: offense there. Kasehawn Williams able to find some space underneath

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Speaker 3: as we see some more over the middle stuff here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, crossers and tackle between the numbers and the right

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Speaker 5: tackle might have jumped there.

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Speaker 4: A little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but an health they can get here so far

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Speaker 3: as Yeah, looks like that. Okay, for a second there,

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Speaker 3: I thought that they were they were switching something up,

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Speaker 3: but just Will Howard checking in for the offense.

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Speaker 4: Now we got the depth guys here on on defense too.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Chuck Clark's out there, Corey Trice, Pierre Beanie Bishop,

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Speaker 3: and Miles Killerbrew in the secondary. Cole Holcom at linebacker

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Speaker 3: along with Malik Harrison. As Will Howard will start in

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Speaker 3: shotgun here.

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Speaker 4: Showing blitz.

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Speaker 3: Single high and they will bring pressure. Howard gets rid

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Speaker 3: of it quickly, nicely done into the flat for a

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Speaker 3: short gain too. I'm not sure who that was closed

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Speaker 3: there by, Chuck Clark, Pat Friar Muth giving him giving

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Speaker 3: him some props.

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Speaker 4: He's had a couple of spots where you can he

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Speaker 4: seen him move and break on the ball and right.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the things I think, Matt that I'm

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Speaker 3: a little I'm a little I'm definitely more positively optimistic

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Speaker 3: about the secondary yea than I was before. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 3: they added Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay, but.

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Speaker 4: Of course Miko will be missed. I mean, there's no

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Speaker 3: A lot of questions and kind of some depth and

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Speaker 3: some things like that as well too. But I think

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Speaker 3: there's been a lot of guys who have been emerging

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Speaker 3: and making plays, and they're gonna have some options. They're

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Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna end up cutting somebody you know pretty

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Speaker 3: good in the secondary.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, frankly, they've been a little lean, to

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Speaker 5: say the least a corner for three, four or five years.

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Speaker 5: I don't think they've loved that room. Kind of got

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Speaker 5: by with what they had with the exception of Porter.

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Speaker 5: I mean, obviously Porter's best success story, sure, but now

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Speaker 5: it's one of the strongest cornerback rooms in the league.

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Speaker 5: I think, so one of the strongest positions on the team.

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Speaker 5: It just has a ripple effect in the secondary too,

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Speaker 5: like with Ramsey's ability to play so many different coverages

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Speaker 5: and so much different alignment, and they could play with

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Speaker 4: If he can do that.

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Speaker 5: And now you had Clark out there, who's a professional

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Speaker 5: and looks like he belongs right away. He doesn't look

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Speaker 5: older over the hill to me just watching movement stuff.

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Speaker 5: Elliott's a guy they extended that they have all the

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Speaker 5: faith in the world, and he shows up time.

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Speaker 4: And time day.

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Speaker 3: He's so reliable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and an underrated pick up was Thornhill.

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Speaker 3: I mean you think so too. He's a guy we

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Speaker 5: It, never bring him up, but in a way that's good.

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Speaker 5: I mean they got him on the cheap. He's got

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Speaker 5: position versatilities. Not coming off his best year, but a

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Speaker 5: lot of things went wrong for that team last year

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Speaker 5: too that he was on the Brownies, And I think

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Speaker 5: it's one of the best secondaries in the league, especially

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers was you know we mentioned in the first

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Speaker 3: hour of the program Pat McAfee show here on campus,

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Speaker 3: a lot of chaos, a lot of blitz, a lot

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Speaker 3: of blitz here. Yeah. Absolutely, And Aaron Rodgers was one

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Speaker 3: of the guests on the McAfee show, of course, and

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Speaker 3: different things. Gave Zach Frasier a lot of praise, you know,

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin in this setting here at Saint Vincent a

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Speaker 3: lot of praise. But one of the things that he

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Speaker 3: was really getting going with Green Bay and when they

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Speaker 3: of course won that Super Bowl forty five against the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: He talked a lot about how he kind of sees

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Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey being that that dominant piece in the secondary,

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Speaker 3: like Charles Woodson was, like, he talked a lot about it.

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Speaker 3: We moved Charles Woodson around a lot. He could do

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Speaker 3: a lot of different things. An incredible obviously incredible game

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Speaker 3: brain to get everybody on the same page and make

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Speaker 4: That quite the track record and the versatility.

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Speaker 3: And as you meant, if you can go from a

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Speaker 3: now suddenly make it a strength.

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Speaker 5: It opens up so many play play calling possibilities and

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Speaker 5: game planning week to week and boy, okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 5: trust these guys to play some man and we're gonna

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Speaker 5: bring blitz. You know, we saw a lot of blitz

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Speaker 5: in that period. Yeah, it's this is not Blitzburg anymore,

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Speaker 5: you know, And and it hasn't had to be.

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Speaker 4: But I want to have that option, you know that

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Speaker 4: we could.

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Speaker 5: Let's heat things up, Let's make sure that the quarterback

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Speaker 5: throws the ball quick, and we trust your corners.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a really reassuring feeling as a defensive play caller.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it as we've discussed plenty too. It it

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Speaker 3: kind of opens up the playbook for you. It allows

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Speaker 3: it allows you to do different things. You can play chess,

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Speaker 3: not checkers to you know, to to use an analogy

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Speaker 4: So than being a dominant safety group.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, completely agree.

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Speaker 4: It's just nature.

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Speaker 3: It's just the nature of the position.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a huge reason that trade happened is

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Speaker 4: rather be strong a corner than safety. Yes, and especially

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Speaker 5: If my best secondary player is the one playing furthest

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Speaker 5: fast that they're not even attacking at the third level. Well,

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Speaker 5: then they're kind of neutralizing one of our strengths. So right,

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Speaker 5: Ramsey's gonna be close to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: Oh man practice over here. And speaking of Ramsey, look

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Speaker 3: he's the first one jogging down to get on the jugs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's pretty consistent about that.

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Speaker 3: He is much routine. Much like you said with Aaron

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Speaker 3: Rodgers in the in the first hour of the show,

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Speaker 3: I think it was you watch him out here at

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Speaker 3: all points. It's it's like he's intently doing.

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Speaker 5: Some calculated, calculated done it. So I've had it's contributed

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Speaker 5: to a wonderful career, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, like you're saying the same from Jayalen Ramsey.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I hesitate to talk about baseball. I don't

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Speaker 5: really know, but you know, talking to you guys at night.

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Speaker 5: And I saw a couple of clips recently about how

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Speaker 5: Paul Skeins.

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Speaker 4: Prepares for his starts.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's like, again, our listeners know more about this

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Speaker 5: than me, but it is a ridiculous routine that he

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Speaker 5: goes through. I don't know if it's every day or

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Speaker 4: Whi's exactly.

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Speaker 5: I do this and then I do this, and I

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Speaker 5: do this for forty five minutes, and then I do

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Speaker 5: this and then I go the hot tubber whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what his routine is.

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Speaker 3: Have the same sandwich, but yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: But it's like, this is what's worked exactly for my body.

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Speaker 5: I've found my routine. I'm going to keep doing it

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Speaker 5: and refining it. And then it reminds me of Ramsey

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Speaker 3: One of my favorite things that Arthur Motz says all

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Speaker 3: the time is success leaves clues.

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Speaker 6: Okay, you know, like nobody is successful out of all

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Speaker 6: right by just doing things willy nilly, just trying this

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Speaker 4: And Ramsey's doing the exact same stuff with his steps.

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Speaker 5: Would be in the drugs machine and he does three

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Speaker 4: Is right, you know, then right down right down the right,

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: He must do this after every practice. It's fun getting

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Speaker 5: to learn the new players. It is like what their routines.

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Speaker 3: Are, the little quirks and little quirks.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, when he dropped one and he's not happy

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Speaker 4: and Matt.

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Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with what's going on in

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Speaker 3: terms of the Steelers right now in the field. But

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Speaker 3: if you look down here at the thirty yard line, yes,

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Speaker 3: father Paul talking to Max Starks, you want to talk

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Speaker 3: about being hot out there, He's got his full black

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Speaker 3: robe on, right, God bless them, Oh my.

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Speaker 4: Good goodness, sweaty stars.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and given given friar muth a handshake. Now as

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Speaker 3: the offensive line continuing, like a lot of guys are

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Speaker 3: breaking down here and doing different things. Offensive line, they

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Speaker 3: still got their pads on, working on some stuff here.

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Speaker 5: I was thinking the same thing. Despite the heat, people

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Speaker 5: are doing a lot of work. I mean, even on

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Speaker 5: the second field, they're they're at tackling, tackling dummy. The

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Speaker 5: big o' linement are usually the ones to get their

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Speaker 5: pads off first. I have a feeling they're not real

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Speaker 5: thrilled with their performance today. So they're doing more frasiers,

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Speaker 5: even working on snaps, you know, like he's.

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Speaker 3: Got he's got McCallum. He's working on snaps with McCallum,

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Speaker 3: and McCollum is like tapping him on the head and

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Speaker 3: jumping around, screaming in his ears, doing anything he can

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Speaker 5: And he's doing at the end of practice after he's fatigued,

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Speaker 3: Cool and this is this is, this is what we're

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Speaker 3: looking for. Cam Heyward's getting some extra work in over

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Speaker 3: there now walking across the field. But you're right, a

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Speaker 3: is Yeah, DK continues to work on the drugs machine.

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Speaker 3: Back on campus here has Practice has concluded Practice number five,

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Speaker 3: although I don't know are we counting yesterday as has

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Speaker 4: Whether you get it in or not, that's your only opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Scottie Miller's kids making tackling them at the forty

438
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Speaker 5: five yard line right.

439
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Speaker 3: Now to the wife has taking a lot of picture love,

440
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,959
Speaker 3: a big hit on, a big hit on dad at

441
00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 3: the forty yard line. Baby, Oh, could you imagine? Like

442
00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:11,000
Speaker 3: being the.

443
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Speaker 5: Little kids here is one of my favorite things here ever,

444
00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,600
Speaker 5: Like this age like fur and.

445
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,680
Speaker 3: Under yeah, running around right living.

446
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 4: I think this is like perfectly normal.

447
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,679
Speaker 3: It's like I've told this to you before, Like a

448
00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,480
Speaker 3: lot of the stuff with my dad being a musician, growing.

449
00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,399
Speaker 7: Up behind the scenes, getting a roller blade with James

450
00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 7: Taylor during the summers and things like that that when

451
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Speaker 7: I was a kid, you have no idea how cool

452
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,360
Speaker 7: that stuff is. But you'll look normal, right, You'll look

453
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,080
Speaker 7: back on the pictures in the videos one day and

454
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,080
Speaker 7: be like that was awesome that I that I got

455
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:35,520
Speaker 7: to do that.

456
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,160
Speaker 4: And then those pictures are like Joey Porter junior at

457
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:43,639
Speaker 4: that age, Miller or fifteen years from now is the

458
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,440
Speaker 4: second round pick.

459
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,360
Speaker 3: The flash those pictures up on on on ESPN when

460
00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,399
Speaker 3: he gets drafted. Yeah, that's a great point, absolutely, that is.

461
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 3: It's really cool, all right, Matt. Some time to go

462
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,359
Speaker 3: around the league here for us as well too, as

463
00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 3: we'll continue. If anything interesting is happening on the field,

464
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 3: we'll let you know. But sure we're starting to wine

465
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Speaker 3: down here.

466
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Speaker 4: There's not gonna be a lot of activity on the field.

467
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 4: I mean football stuff.

468
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 3: Correct, Correct, it looks like McAfee's shooting some video. I

469
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,639
Speaker 3: mean you look at that over there. They got five different,

470
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,280
Speaker 3: six different members of the Steelers video crew down their

471
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,879
Speaker 3: shop shooting some stuff with maffee.

472
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Speaker 4: He's going to Canton tomorrow for the Hall of Fame.

473
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,480
Speaker 3: I think he's. I think he's like going right to

474
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 3: right to Arnold Palmer Airport and getting on a private

475
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 3: plane to Canton because of course all the Hall of

476
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,240
Speaker 3: Fame game tomorrow and then Hall of Fame weekend and

477
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 3: they'll be doing their show there from the or four,

478
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,480
Speaker 3: I should say, the rest of the week, I believe, Matt.

479
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Speaker 3: Let's start in the division here with some notables we

480
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 3: talked about last week. Isaiah likely the injury that he

481
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:44,240
Speaker 3: picked up. Now after evaluations, he will need foot surgery

482
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Speaker 3: and is going to be out for an estimated six weeks,

483
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Speaker 3: so that in the end of the first week or

484
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Speaker 3: two of the season.

485
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's bad news.

486
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Speaker 5: So we know the Steelers are a heavy twelve personnel team,

487
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,120
Speaker 5: multiple tight end team, but the Ravens are number one

488
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 5: in twelve. You know, they want Likely and Andrews to

489
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 5: be on the field a very high percentage of the time.

490
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 5: And as is a case with a lot of talented

491
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 5: tight ends, takes two three years until some of these

492
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 5: guys start to really hit their stride. And I think

493
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 5: Likely is just banging on the door as a breakout

494
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 5: candidate as a field stretcher. He's a really good athlete

495
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 5: that came out of a small school. Mishurts them. I mean,

496
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,119
Speaker 5: there's no way around it. I mean, maybe you get

497
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 5: more ricard out there. Maybe I shot Sure Andrews a

498
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,160
Speaker 5: little more like. It's not going to derail their season,

499
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 5: but he's a key piece that they're.

500
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Speaker 4: Not going to have early.

501
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you know how those things work too. Six

502
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 3: week recovery yeah, okay, but that doesn't mean that in

503
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,719
Speaker 3: the seventh week all of a sudden, he's gonna be

504
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 3: ready to go. I mean he'll he'll need some rehabit,

505
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 3: he'll need some conditioning, you know, those things. Just because

506
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 3: it's six weeks, sometimes it ends up being more like

507
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 3: seven or eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not an ideal start

508
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 3: for him or the Ravens. Trey Hendrickson reporting to Bengals

509
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,679
Speaker 3: camp said the contract extensions remain the same, but he

510
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 3: is reporting to avoid distractions.

511
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I see as two ways.

512
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 5: I think it's not only is he reporting to, you know,

513
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 5: avoid distractions, he's reporting to avoid a fifty thousand dollars

514
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 5: five per day, which isn't even a Bengal thing. That's

515
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 5: just an NFL rule at this point. If you're away

516
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,959
Speaker 5: from camp, you are getting fined fifty thousand dollars and

517
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 5: you are going to pay it. They can't waive them

518
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 5: when the contract comes around. So I'm sure missus Hendrickson

519
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 5: was probably like, well, don't you at least show up dude,

520
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,959
Speaker 5: you know, but who knows. But I also think it

521
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 5: is a an olive branch. I mean, it's a sign

522
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 5: of good faith from Hendrickson. Hey, I do want to

523
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 5: be a Bengal. I do want to get this thing

524
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 5: worked through. I wonder if TJ's contract had any ripple

525
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 5: effect on it whatsoever, you know. I mean, I don't

526
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 5: think he'll get quite the same money, you know, but

527
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 5: it's still.

528
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Speaker 3: Now maybe the market's fully set.

529
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 4: Right right right, there's more contracts to go off of.

530
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Speaker 5: Maybe he could say give me eighty five percent of

531
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Speaker 5: TJ's and they're like, okay, you know, at least you're

532
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 5: in there. He's not going to do practicing, He's gonna

533
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 5: hold in. But it's a good first step. And I

534
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 5: know no one's rooting for the Ravens or Bengals. You know,

535
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 5: we're starting with these division things. But my hunch is,

536
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 5: just because we've seen these things so many times, by

537
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 5: week five and Hendrickson has three sacks, no one's going

538
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 5: to be talking about again, you know, right, probably it'll

539
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 5: just be water under the bridge.

540
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 3: NFL one hundred has been rolling out, Matt. You know,

541
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 3: that's kind of the final crown jewel of list season. Yeah, exactly.

542
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 3: Is that a good way to put it? And this

543
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 3: is not media people, this is not NFL network people.

544
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: Those voted on by the players, Cam Hayward coming in

545
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 3: at number eighty three, really after being he was like

546
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 3: ninety seven or ninety eight, the year went up, so

547
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 3: he should have went up. I just wonder if.

548
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 5: I remember one year ago, he's coming off of not

549
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 5: his normal and it.

550
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 3: Was injured in all those things, and I think, you

551
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 3: know him, he's still got that kind of respect. Vote

552
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 3: to be at the back end of the list. This year,

553
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 3: eighty three feels like it might be a little bit low. Yeah,

554
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm you know, I'm pulling hairs here, but

555
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 3: sure off of the performance we saw him have last season.

556
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 5: So I talk about this all the time when the

557
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 5: top one hundred comes out. This is the top six

558
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 5: percent of rosters for fifty three times thirty two divided

559
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 5: by one hundreds.

560
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 3: If you're on there, you're pretty stinking yeah.

561
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 5: I mean you're in the top six percent here. So

562
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,239
Speaker 5: this is like the ninety fourth percentile or better just

563
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 5: to make the list. So again, you're if that was class,

564
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 5: you're getting an A.

565
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 4: All day long. It's not even an A minus. You're

566
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 4: a top notch player.

567
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 3: You might not be the valedictorian, you might graduating with honors.

568
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 4: But right, and so you know, again we're criticizing the

569
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Speaker 4: ugliest girl at at the PAD year, you know what

570
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 4: I mean.

571
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 5: So that's not fair. But I still think he's the

572
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 5: top twenty five defensive player and top four to five

573
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 5: defensive tackle, which to me probably translates more to fiftieth

574
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 5: overall or you know, five or whatever, you know. And

575
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 5: that's just off the top of my head.

576
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that that makes sense as well too. One

577
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 3: that so they're they're through the top fifty or fifty

578
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 3: one at this count down count to fifty five. So sorry,

579
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 3: so they are they are through? Uh, they are through

580
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 3: one hundred to fifty five so far. Okay, so they

581
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: release you know, like like nine or ten.

582
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

583
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 3: One that I wanted to pick your brain on is

584
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: he the only Steeler so far? He's the only Steeler

585
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 3: so far. O.

586
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 4: Yes, I know what will be coming.

587
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 3: I would imagine, so probably that's it. That might be it.

588
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 3: I didn't look and see if mincas on Minca might

589
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 3: be on this list. I'd have to go and look,

590
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: but I didn't look and see if MINC's on this list,

591
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 3: but I.

592
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 4: Would Metcalf had a chance, right. Yeah.

593
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 3: One that was interesting to me though, that I saw

594
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 3: this morning was they they rolled out like sixty through

595
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 3: fifty five or something like that. Half morning yeah or

596
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 3: last night Cooper dejene at number.

597
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 4: Sixty, Wow, I immediate respect.

598
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 3: They had a great season. But the seat to see

599
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 3: a rookie coming at number sixty like and not like

600
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 3: a Sauce Gardner type rookie season, right, that seems that

601
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: seems pretty rich.

602
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 5: So a couple of takeaways on that was boy. He

603
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 5: helped complete the defense, no doubt, along with.

604
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 3: Quin and they're set for a while.

605
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 5: And to their credit, they went back to back corners

606
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 5: slash defensive backs or they're different types and it paid

607
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 5: off huge and it's a great investment. And he's really

608
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 5: really smart, he's really really versatile, he's tough. I mean,

609
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 5: he's a modern day slot that can do more. Brian Branch,

610
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 5: I mean a lot of these type of guys, I

611
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 5: think you on these lists rightfully, So it's earned. If

612
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 5: you would in the super Bowl, you probably get a few.

613
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 3: And he had a pick six of Mahomes in that

614
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and that's a moment that everyone remembers, right.

615
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:56,719
Speaker 5: And again, these are players voting. So if you're someone

616
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 5: in the AFC West, you never gained and for Cooper,

617
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 5: but you did watch the Super Bowl in the playoffs

618
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 5: from your couch or whatever. Now that doesn't mean he's

619
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 5: less of a player, but still I do. And this

620
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 5: is a Ramsey Steeler correlation. The league and players and

621
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 5: people in the know and guys that have money and

622
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 5: resources suspend are quickly realizing that these slot corners, with

623
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 5: size and versatility.

624
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 4: They complete the room, you know. I mean, they're the perfect.

625
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly right, exactly, And I think that's the big

626
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 5: reason the Steelers made the Ramsey trade. I think you'll

627
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 5: see more and more teams. Hardly anyone invests a first

628
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 5: round pick in a big slot. But now it's like,

629
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 5: let's get one in the fifth. No, No, I'm gonna

630
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 5: go get the best one in the early second. You know,

631
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 5: branches like that as well, Santa Shrill from the Commanders.

632
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's an accident.

633
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 5: Some of the best teams in the league have some

634
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 5: of the best slot corners. There was a stretch there,

635
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 5: like the best teams in the league had the best

636
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 5: tight ends. It was like Kiddle and Kelsey in the

637
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 5: Super Bowl again, and you know like now all of a.

638
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: Sudden, it's like swinging the other direction.

639
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the Lions, the Eagles, the Commanders. I mean,

640
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 5: these were all teams that had a lot of success

641
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 5: of some of the best slot corners in the league.

642
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 5: And they're not little guys. They're not my Hilton types.

643
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 5: And I'm not picking on Hilton, but there's also not

644
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 5: many Welkers in the world anymore either.

645
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 3: Right, you got mar Chase lining up?

646
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

647
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 5: The tiny slot receiver, whether it's a tight end or receiver,

648
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 5: is quickly going by the wayside as is the tiny

649
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 5: slot corner.

650
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 3: Yes it is. Yeah, yes they are.

651
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 4: And the Gene's a perfect example.

652
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: And to speak to that. Two years ago, Philly had

653
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: the thirty first ranked secondary and missed the playoffs. Okay,

654
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: last year they had the number one ranked secondary and

655
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Speaker 3: won the Super Bowl. Yeah, after investing two first round

656
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Speaker 3: draft picks in that group.

657
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 5: And no one would dispute the Phillies a model organization.

658
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 4: They absolutely are.

659
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 5: But up until this past year, they really ignored off

660
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Speaker 5: the ball.

661
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: Linebackers. Oh, they really ignored safety.

662
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 3: They haven't drafted a linebacker in the first round since

663
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Speaker 3: the seventies forever, Like Jack Ham and Jack Lambert were

664
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Speaker 3: still playing for the Steelers. The last time the Eagles

665
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Speaker 3: drafted a linebacker in the first.

666
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Speaker 5: Round, absolutely, and they really ignored running back well this

667
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 5: past offseason they went, well, if you're gonna give me

668
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley signed the exact same contract that Gabe Davis

669
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Speaker 5: signed with the Jeffers side, it brings right, I mean,

670
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 5: eventually this running back doesn't matter. Things says when I

671
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 5: round to play against Gabe Davis.

672
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 3: Or or Derek Henry, and I'm gonna pick on Gab Davis.

673
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 4: It might be a Steeler next week, you know, but

674
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 4: in the game it's night and day.

675
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: Whould you rather have Christian Kirk or Derreck Henry?

676
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 4: Right?

677
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 5: And they picked up Zach Bond and they hit a

678
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 5: home run with him at linebacker. But they didn't know

679
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 5: how good he was gonna be when they signed him.

680
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 5: I mean they I'm sure they were intrigued with him.

681
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 3: I'm sure they thought we could get this guy to

682
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 3: be a good off ball linebacker using him wrong, right,

683
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 3: They didn't think he was going to be a Defensive

684
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Speaker 3: Player of the Year candidate.

685
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Speaker 5: But when they did, then they gave made him one

686
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 5: the high paid linebackers ever The year after that and

687
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 5: then use their first round pick on Jahad Campbell thirty

688
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 5: second overall, but another off the ball linebacker.

689
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Speaker 3: First since seventy eight.

690
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's not like running backs don't matter. Off

691
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 5: the ball linebackers don't matter. But there's a price point

692
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 5: where you say, if the league's gonna give me a

693
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 5: great football player for free, sign me up, you know,

694
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 5: and slot corners and is part of it too?

695
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 3: Certainly? Is? It certainly is? And it's it is. It's

696
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 3: just funny to watch that evolution of like, yeah, now

697
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 3: it feels like everybody wants that stud running back again?

698
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 3: Is trying to right?

699
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 4: If you're Josh Jacobs, Henry and Barkley are all gonna

700
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 4: change teams a year ago, and you're gonna give me two.

701
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go get your Gibs. I'm gonna go

702
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go get Ashton gent.

703
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Speaker 5: Right right, if you're gonna give me the two the

704
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 5: months seventy cents on the dollar for the same price

705
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 5: of a Gabe Davis or a you know, a number

706
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 5: four receiver who has more impact on the game. Basic

707
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 5: how many how many games did the Packers, Ravens and

708
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 5: Eagles win last year?

709
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Speaker 3: Who lunch? I don't have the exact number on my head.

710
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: But they were all in the postseason and they all

711
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: won a whole bunch of games. Last thing for you, Matt,

712
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 3: that surprised me. And I know you know you and

713
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 3: Dale do fantasy stuff throughout the course of the season.

714
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 3: NFL dot com just posted their top ten fantasy football

715
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 3: quarterbacks for this season. Aaron Rodgers number ten on the list.

716
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 4: That's the highest I've ever seen him, to be honest

717
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 4: with you.

718
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: Yes, that's not what surprised me, though. What surprised me

719
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Speaker 3: is who's number one on the list. Caleb Williams. What

720
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you, Caleb Williams as their number one

721
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: fantasy football quarterback in twenty five. This risk list was

722
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 3: written by if I can find it, it's not Marcus Horan.

723
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 4: Comeback players or anything weird like that.

724
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: Sorry, hold on our top ten fantasy values at quarterbacks.

725
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: Part of me, Sorry, that's on me. That's on me.

726
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: Read that wrong, Read that wrong for where they're for

727
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: where they're projected.

728
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 4: To be to be drafted, because this guy can't.

729
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 3: Be and he's saying you could probably get him in

730
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: the ninth or tenth round, you know, with with Ben Johnson,

731
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 3: he's going to become the first four thousand yard passer

732
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 3: in the history of the franchise. Yeah, that makes more sense.

733
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 4: Plus sackstone hurt him. We've had some Caleb Williams sack

734
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 4: talk here before he takes a whole bunch.

735
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,719
Speaker 3: I mean, that's gotta be number one job number one

736
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 3: for Ben Johnson, right, is just getting that out of

737
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 3: his game.

738
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Speaker 5: Get that, Yeah, get that bad habit out of there.

739
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 5: But they invested in an entirely new entire interior line,

740
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 5: two new guards in a center, first round tight end,

741
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 5: first or second round wide receiver, the best offensive minded

742
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 5: head coach available. Yeah, I mean, it's it's crazy howas

743
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 5: league works. I mean, you're the first overall pick, you

744
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 5: had a miserable year, But it's almost put up a

745
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 5: shut up time for him.

746
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 4: You know, Bryce Young went through the same thing.

747
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 3: Right, I don't think it helped his case either. How

748
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: solid of a rookie season Jade and Daniels, Drake May

749
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 3: and bow Nicks all had.

750
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Speaker 4: Of course, of course, if none.

751
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 3: Of those guys have had had the years that they had,

752
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: maybe the pressure on Caleb Williams wouldn't be as great, Right,

753
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 3: But it's like, look, at all, these other rookie quarterbacks

754
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 3: that are taken off, where are you at?

755
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: And what I find is hilarious in hindsight is the

756
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 5: day Caleb Williams was drafted. Remember they had like DJ

757
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 5: Moore and Keathan Allen and drafted to doonsay a little

758
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 5: bit after that, and so many analysts and you know, saying, boy,

759
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 5: I don't know that a first overall quarterbacks go on

760
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 5: to a better situation than this. Six months later, we're like, man,

761
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 5: that situation was a disaster. They couldn't even get plays in.

762
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 5: They didn't block anybody. He's taking sacks left and right.

763
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 5: You know, like, I don't know, you know what I mean,

764
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 5: It's gonna be drastically different. We're not at all happy

765
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 5: with that situation after the fact.

766
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 3: Very quickly in this league. Life changes very very rapidly,

767
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 3: very quickly in this league. As uh, it's starting to

768
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 3: quiet down here on camp.

769
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 4: Yes, Matt McAfee's still rolling, but that's about it.

770
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I give him credit. He is

771
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 3: been taking pictures and signing autographs with everybody.

772
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Speaker 4: I don't know him at all.

773
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Speaker 5: I don't know if he does this at every stop

774
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 5: and or what He seems like a great guy, but

775
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 5: he is a Pittsburgh dude, and he's gonna sitting there

776
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 5: with the stewn Look, there's a Steeler shirt if he's

777
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 5: in Brown's training camp, right, you know Brown's uniform.

778
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 3: Just as long as he doesn't wear a Browns one.

779
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 3: If he's a Browns training camp, that's yeah, that's that's

780
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 3: all that matters. But yeah, he has been taking I

781
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Speaker 3: mean this entire hour almost that we've been on air,

782
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: he's been down there a bunch of different people taking

783
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 3: pictures and autographs. And I was laughing with you off

784
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 3: like Danny Smith was was the star of the show

785
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 3: over there too. He was. He had he had a

786
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 3: couple dozen people screaming at him, asking for asking for selfies,

787
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 3: and hey, that's uh, that's part of this this fun

788
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 3: and what brings everybody out here. But yeah, pretty much

789
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 3: quiet now. I mean McAfee and a couple people left

790
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: on the field taking pictures and signing autographs. That most

791
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 3: of the fans have cleared out, there's a few that

792
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 3: are still waiting around. It looks like Calvin Anderson is

793
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 3: down here in the end zone signing some autographs. Yeah,

794
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 3: for some kids, but.

795
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 5: Now, but these players, the coaches deserve a little air

796
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 5: conditioning and a shower, and they worked.

797
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 3: Hard, boy do they ever? As things are getting quiet

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Speaker 3: here now, we will have our final segment when we

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Speaker 3: return on the other side, kind of put a bow

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Speaker 3: on this first day of padded practice before before Matt

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Speaker 3: and I take off to our evening show and podcasts

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Speaker 3: of the drive coming up when we return on the

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Speaker 3: Final segment here today from campus as we put a

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Speaker 3: bow on practice number six for your Pittsburgh Steelers. The

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Speaker 3: first in pads. It was a great day. It was

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Speaker 3: it was happening. We finally had some like real tangible

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Speaker 3: stuff on the.

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Speaker 4: Field going on. Yeah yeah, real football.

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Speaker 3: And not that there's not on the first four days.

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00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 3: But this is obviously a little bit different, certainly as

823
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 3: everybody can understand, because Matt, last time I checked, football

824
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 3: is a very physical game and tackling is a blocking

825
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 3: and tackling pretty big part of a.

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Speaker 5: Pretty big part, you know, going back to Chuck no

827
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 5: Ole teaching here, you know, I mean, that's the fundamentals

828
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Speaker 5: of it all. And we got teased the little yesterday.

829
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 5: We got teas a lot yesterday, geared up and rug

830
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 5: pulled out from under you. But oh well, so good stuff.

831
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Speaker 5: And man, we're starting to get into the dog days

832
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 5: of camp here too.

833
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 3: And again kind of like you were just saying it,

834
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 3: it turns very quickly for Caleb Williams where it's like

835
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 3: your expectations are now, you better figure it out. It's

836
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 3: like the same thing with camp, like it it gets

837
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 3: it gets thick, it gets real, Likelin would say, very quick,

838
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 3: you get into those dog days very quick, as you

839
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Speaker 3: and I said, those guys have to be beat up

840
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 3: and tired after today's practice.

841
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, even the best condition of the mall or

842
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 5: is gonna feel today. I mean this is first real,

843
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 5: you know, taking on blocks and the weather stuff and

844
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 5: the weather absolutely wearing pads and all that stuff, right, yep.

845
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: And tomorrow doesn't look as bad from a heat element.

846
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 3: But there's a little bit of light rain expected in

847
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 3: the afternoon, so maybe a different kind of of challenge.

848
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 4: I'm seeing a light rain practice.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't either, yeah, yeah, absolutely, Now, yesterday was not

850
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 3: the day to do it, because it was it was

851
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 3: cats and dogs rain yesterday.

852
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 5: Destroy the field pool muscles. You know, there was nothing

853
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 5: to be gained here.

854
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: Outside exactly right. But hopefully, like you said, a nice

855
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 3: light rain practice tomorrow wouldn't be too bad. And then

856
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 3: you got I mean we are, Matt. We're just a

857
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 3: little over forty eight hours away from Friday night lights

858
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 3: already as well.

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00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's a blast too, if you're considering it's

860
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 4: a big one.

861
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, ye, it's it's physical. It's seven o'clock at night,

862
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 3: so it's not one hundred and one degrees like it.

863
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 4: Was back and it's gonna be fine.

864
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 3: It's a cool atmosphere, cool energy as the last person

865
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Speaker 3: to leave the field. Pat McAfee, fine credit, take pictures

866
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: and autographs with security guys, anybody. Uh and now looks

867
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,720
Speaker 3: like he's going to be schlept into a uh, into

868
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: a golf cart and probably taken over.

869
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: Give him, give him a water or something.

870
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Speaker 3: Give him give him a water and uh and some shade,

871
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 3: I think, certainly. But yeah, so first pad of practice

872
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 3: in the books, and they got the I think this

873
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: is the first time I've seen the sprinkler system. They

874
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: certainly did not need it yesterday.

875
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 5: It makes me wonder do they know it or do

876
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 5: they suspect it won't rain tomorrow.

877
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 3: They're getting something interesting or maybe just it was so

878
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 3: hot today that they've got to get something.

879
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 4: Something makes the grass.

880
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so, although they've only got the

881
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: sprinklers on like half the field, but maybe that's like

882
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 3: a half and half at a time.

883
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 5: The scout and he always tries to figure out the

884
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 5: grounds keeping game plan, and I feel like I never

885
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 5: get it right.

886
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's tough. I it is funny. I can't remember.

887
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 3: You can tell me if I'm wrong. I can't remember

888
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: ever seeing the sprinklers on like this. Early, like right

889
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 3: after a practice in the afternoon.

890
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 4: Made me wonder, why is it's because of the extreme heat.

891
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 5: I'm totally guessing somebody out there knows way where I

892
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 5: do that has a nice line and does.

893
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 4: It's only half a field.

894
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 3: It's only half the field. Yeah. Interesting. I wonder if

895
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 3: maybe when this is done, they'll turn on the other half.

896
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll say that in the next five or six

897
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 3: minutes before we get out of here, but.

898
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 4: Let do it on the field two. I mean, I

899
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 4: don't know how this works, but I'm always intrigued by

900
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 4: the grounds folks at.

901
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 3: Totally it's a sign. I mean, it's a literal science.

902
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 3: Oh it is. You can go to college for this thing,

903
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 3: to work at golf courses or stadiums and.

904
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 4: Yeah in caddy shack.

905
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 3: Young Cinderella boy on a sprinkler system. Uh. Final, just

906
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: kind of thoughts. Observations. Who stood out to you today?

907
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 3: What are you looking for more of tomorrow? Yeah?

908
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 5: My observations are I bet now that they're inside the

909
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 5: walls and they've cooled down and they showered, and they'll

910
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 5: probably get something to eat and next and then after

911
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 5: all that, you know, after they exhale as human beings.

912
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 5: They're gonna start breaking down the tape, and the coaches

913
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 5: are probably already deep into the tape and preparing for

914
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 5: some sort of meeting tonight, whether their position meeting or

915
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 5: offense defense. And I bet there's some harsh words in

916
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 5: those offensive rooms, you know. I mean, I'm curious, does

917
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers step up and be like, this isn't how

918
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 5: we do things? And I'm the first to blame. He

919
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 5: looked very unhappy with himself, and I think he should be.

920
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 5: It's always hard to tell who's to blame on every

921
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 5: specific play, but it was not a great showing by him.

922
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 5: It was a bad showing by the line. I looked

923
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 5: at the wide receivers. I still had the tight ends

924
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 5: play pretty well, and I h Rudolph played pretty well.

925
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, collectively.

926
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 5: But I looked at the wide receivers not named Metcalf

927
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 5: and kind of thought, who scares me here?

928
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 4: You know who's getting open?

929
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 5: I thought Caleb Johnson had some splashes, you know that

930
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 5: that was kind of exciting.

931
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 4: I'm just focusing on the offense.

932
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: He can scoot. He looks like he can scoot.

933
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 5: You know, people that are obsessed with forty times would

934
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 5: tell you he's not really a speed guy.

935
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 4: You're wrong. I mean he breaks a lot of runs

936
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 4: at Iowa.

937
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 3: He was one of like, like I think you could

938
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 3: count him on one hand the amount of guys last

939
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 3: year in college football that hit twenty two miles an hour. Yeah,

940
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 3: and and and like the next you know, the how

941
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: are they track that type of thing? He was like

942
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 3: one of like four or five guys in the entire

943
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 3: college football that hit that speed.

944
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 5: Even his forty time in Indie, it was only like

945
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 5: a four or five seven, which isn't great, but it's

946
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 5: not horrible, you know, but he still reached a very

947
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 5: high miles per hour on that run. It was just

948
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 5: at the thirty forty yard part of his right. His

949
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 5: start wasn't great. Well, running backs don't start in a and it'll.

950
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 3: Start like they don't start like Usain Bolt does.

951
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 5: Absolutely right right right right now. They're going to the

952
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 5: other side the field, so it must be not gonna

953
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 5: be there.

954
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 3: They go, Wow, sprinklers all over on this side of

955
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 3: the field. That's interesting. I did not know that they

956
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 3: had those installed down on the field. They're popping out

957
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: like a.

958
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 5: And it's amazing how the technology must be to make

959
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 5: sure no one sprains an ankle or steps on a hole.

960
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 3: You know.

961
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 4: The interesting these are right down the middle of field.

962
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 3: That's the very interesting part to me. Like you see

963
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: that a lot in sports like rugby and soccer, and yeah,

964
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 3: you know, like they a lot of times like if

965
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: you if you turn on rugby during the Olympics or

966
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: something like that, like during halftime, they PLoP up and

967
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 3: they're sprinklers out on the field during halftime, you know,

968
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: because like they won a slightly wet surface because it

969
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 3: makes it easier because their fault, like they you don't

970
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: want to be falling on hard ground, like you wanted

971
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 3: to have a little cushing, a little bit of given

972
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 3: move to it. So yeah, I've always wondered how that

973
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 3: works too. But obviously they would not have those out

974
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 3: there if they did not feel that they were that

975
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 3: they were supremely safe right as now.

976
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 5: You'll often see like you know, a guy bring drag

977
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 5: a big hose out there and do it by right.

978
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 3: And that's some of the stuff that they had been

979
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 3: doing well prior to the to the big rain yesterday.

980
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 3: But that will that'll do it. That will conclude our

981
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: Day six coverage. Man Let's do it again tomorrow, another

982
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 3: padded practice, another big day here, a big week on

983
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 3: campus and around La Trobe. But that will do it

984
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 3: for us for today. Big thanks to our guy justin

985
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: back of the ranch for producing it all for us.

986
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Speaker 3: As always, for Matt Williamson, I'm west Shuler. Take care everybody.

987
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,359
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988
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989
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990
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