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

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

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lilly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: This is the number one rated morning show on the

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio at least in Households and Upper

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Speaker 1: St Clair in Washington. P A, Um, Matt, Big weekend

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers Saturday. Of course, this is leading up

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Speaker 1: to a big week this week. It's Happy August, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Happy August, you amazing August. August means we're

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Speaker 1: gonna start playing some football here. Uh, summer left, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of summer left. Kids will be heading back

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Speaker 1: to school here. Um. But we'll see a Steeler game

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. They'll play the Cowboys in the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame game. On Saturday and Sunday there'll be a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: including five people who are involved with the Steelers. And

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Speaker 1: last Saturday we saw the Hall of Honor class. Ye

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Speaker 1: were announced. Um, before you get there, let's just give

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Speaker 1: everyone a kind of a programming note because we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing our show today obviously tomorrow and then you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna hear from us in this slot for a

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Speaker 1: little while because Wednesday's off because the Steelers travel. Thursday

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Speaker 1: is the game and obviously that takes care of itself.

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Speaker 1: I'll be doing the postgame show with Adam Crawley, which

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Speaker 1: you guys can call in and give us a buzz,

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Speaker 1: and you know after on the pre pregame show and

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Speaker 1: the pregame shows it as it were. And then Friday

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Speaker 1: we won't do a show because there's no practice, and

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Speaker 1: then you and I will do shows Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 1: from three to six at the Hall of Fame, which

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Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. So and then we'll get back

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Speaker 1: to normal schedual out next week. Yeah, um yeah, we'll

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Speaker 1: be back on next Monday today. But that Hall of

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Speaker 1: Honor class this year includes Tonkin, John Colb, Cardinal Lake,

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Speaker 1: and Lewis Lips more of a recent this year. Usually

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Speaker 1: they try to pick a guy from every era. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're all kind of the same group. We order you know, well,

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Speaker 1: you know you're looking at three guys who at least

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Speaker 1: played in four rings. Four rings, four guys who played

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Speaker 1: in the eighties. Um, well, if you if you can,

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Speaker 1: our buddy till he just drafted in sixty nine, but

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Speaker 1: he played into the eighties, so more of an eighties,

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Speaker 1: more of an eight him, right. I mean, our buddy

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Speaker 1: Wolf is gonna be taking your seat here at ten

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Speaker 1: as usual, and I'm I am very excited to have

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Speaker 1: that conversation with him, to be honest with you, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: his connection with Tonch is extremely well known. Um, we

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Speaker 1: that's a good friend of Wolves that he played with.

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Speaker 1: He had to played. He played with Lips and Lakes

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Speaker 1: like the new guy that he played with. He played

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Speaker 1: with Lake too. I guess they would have overlapped time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: late eighties, huh. I keep thinking Lakes a little younger

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Speaker 1: whole heck of a lot. They were the kind of

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Speaker 1: that makes sense to the nineties. And first of all,

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Speaker 1: I was thrilled to hear touch of game. I didn't

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Speaker 1: if anyone listened. Last week, we did a whole segment

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Speaker 1: on John Colb, and Bob Labriola had a really good

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Speaker 1: guess someone asked him about Colb and he went into

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Speaker 1: detail about those four Super Bowls. The defensive ends that

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Speaker 1: he played against were like Fred Fred Dryer, Jim Marshall,

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Speaker 1: mean those type of things. Lake was always a favorite

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Speaker 1: of mine. Fred Dryer. People remember Fred Dryer from The

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Speaker 1: Hunter Teeth right, but he was part of a great

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Speaker 1: deal a hundred career sacks. All three of those guys

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Speaker 1: the national eye. And there was a lot of other

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Speaker 1: Actually I think Carnell was the first safety to get

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Speaker 1: a great player. Yeah, so interesting that that they got that, uh,

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Speaker 1: when they played the Lions this year. They'll also honored

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Speaker 1: there were no you know, you know, you weren't going

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Speaker 1: like call of famous coming to get eight guys going in. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. That'll be a big, a big one um

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Of course the fence Dealers. They should do

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Speaker 1: So I guess you've covered all those guys, all four

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Speaker 1: big weekend for Steelers. I'm curious how Steeler Nation represents themselves.

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Speaker 1: I'm imagining it'll be pretty strong. I can admit it.

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Speaker 1: don't think the Steeler has been inducted, so I haven't

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Speaker 1: broad casted from up there when a Steeler has been inducted.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Um, and the facilities up there, although they've

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Speaker 1: I mean, he certainly has more juice than Snell. Yeah,

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00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean, can he return? He was a kick returner

425
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: last year. Do you think working is a punt returner

426
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: a little bit in his camp. We'll see if that.

427
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 1: You know, they give him also a returner in the past.

428
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: Do you think McFarland's pretty set as a kick returner. Yeah,

429
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: because I think they like his speed there. I would

430
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: say that's a great spot for him. Yeah, that's perfect.

431
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: And he said he's he's put on five pounds. That

432
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 1: puts him, you know, around right around two hundred pounds. Um. Still,

433
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: it looks like he has the juice. Has a returner

434
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: that's more of a running back. Tighten has some wiggle

435
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: in the open field, right, Yeah, break those arm tackles

436
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 1: after he's got a little bit ahead of team. Yeah.

437
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I think Snell, you know, Snell play

438
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: special teams. He's a covers guy. It's a key thing

439
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: for Yeah. I don't know what blage is special team's value.

440
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: Blage maybe the guy who's inactive on game days and

441
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: if Harris is hurt, then he comes up and maybe

442
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 1: makes sense splits carries with Snell. Okay, that makes sense.

443
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:49,919
Speaker 1: But I think you would keep your eyes open for

444
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: somebody falls in your lap for free. You might grab

445
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: it back. Yeah, wide receiver, I'm keeping six. I'm intrigued,

446
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson, Sure, Chase Claypool, Juju Smith, Schuster, James Washington.

447
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Ray Ray McCleod. And let I can tell

448
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: by your tone you're not thrilled about it, and I

449
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be there. I think McFarland. McFarland shows that he's

450
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 1: a better punt returner. McLeod's then in trouble and then

451
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: maybe they only keep five, and I think he cuts

452
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: into McLeod's offensive rule a little. Oh, there's no doubt

453
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 1: he flat out is better. I'd much rather have him

454
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: on the field on first you know. Yeah, the jet sweeps,

455
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: the quick screens, those kind of things can also has

456
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: hand them the ball as a traditional running back. I mean,

457
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: I don't know you can do anything traditional with McLeod.

458
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna run an out. I mean, well,

459
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: you know the sixth guy that I have right now

460
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: is Tyler Simmons. Um. I put Tyler Simmons on their

461
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: over Rico Bussey and Matthew Sexton. Um because Friday night

462
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: Tomlan mentioned that, you know, he was he was asked

463
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: about the young receivers and he says, I was really

464
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: impressed with Simmons Gunner work tonight. That's what you want

465
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 1: to hear. Yeah, So I mean this is that's what

466
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: that one's going to be. In a state of flux,

467
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: there's gonna be that you'd love to keep the guy,

468
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: that guy, that six guy has to be a special

469
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: team and that, but that gets him a hat on

470
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: game day. That's different than like a large situation we

471
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: just talked, right, Um, I always say this this time

472
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: of year, but it's very true. Listeners really pay attention

473
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: to who's running with the first team punt team during

474
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: the preseason, even the Hall of Fame game. If these

475
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: guys are you know, the gunners with the first couple

476
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: of units or the first couple of reps of the

477
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: punt team, they got a pretty good chance to make

478
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: the team. Or those guys that Danny Smith is gonna

479
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: stand up on the table. I need this guy, I

480
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: need it, or at least they're auditioning. I mean it's

481
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: the first one. But it's the thing. They still have

482
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: Lane and they still have Pierre, who were pretty good

483
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: gunners you know, over their careers. So they've got some

484
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 1: guys there who have done that. What you'd like to

485
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,959
Speaker 1: have some extra guys in the mix. What happens if

486
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: one of the you know, what what happens if Joe

487
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: Hayden gets goes down. Do you want James Pierre out

488
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 1: there running downcovering kicks. No, no, Well, because the other

489
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: thing too is you run down you cover kick, or

490
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: even harder, you run down as a gun and running

491
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: a punt and then you got a guard J J. Jones, right,

492
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: and you're a little gassed already. That's that's tough on

493
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: a defense. Yeah. So that's the thing about special teams.

494
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: I think that gets overlooked sometimes. You know, people, these

495
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: are human beings. Something happening, guys, you know, something happens

496
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: on special teams, and everybody's killing the special special teams.

497
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: Coach stinks he may go into it. Okay, here are

498
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: my top eleven guys. He may not get all the

499
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,959
Speaker 1: top of those those eleven guys. You know, he may

500
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: get six of them. Well, he can't have this guy

501
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: and that guy and these three guys. We need guys

502
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: at other these guys at other positions. So that guy's

503
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: down today. I love having this conversation because no one

504
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: thinks about it that way. Because what if you gave

505
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: Matt Canada, Hey, Matt, I can assure you you have

506
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: five starters on opening kickoff, or we I'll give you

507
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: five guys that I can count on all year that

508
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: you'll have and then you can mix and match your

509
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: other six starters as the year goes on. That I'll

510
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: give if you get pick you know, if you're five,

511
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: and I'll probably give you four of them because we

512
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 1: will disagree on someone, I'll cut the other one and

513
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: you can you can just mix and match your starters

514
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: week the week from there, see how it goes. That's

515
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: kind of what happens. And you say you're getting instead

516
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: of getting eleven guys ready, and it's eleven guys on

517
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: like five different and different things, right, it's I'm getting

518
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: twenty guys ready, and I'm gonna have a you know,

519
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have eleven of these guys and maybe somebody

520
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 1: else gets tossed in there late. You know. It's just

521
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: it's yeah, And I know, even like the field goal

522
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: team and extra point team, they're not asked to do

523
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot. But it's but if

524
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: they don't block it and it gets, they don't block

525
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: it and it gets and a kick gets blocked. Special

526
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: teams coach stinks. But you gotta have eight guys that

527
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: are like two four to year bigger, you know, And

528
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: is it gonna be cam? Is it gonna be too it.

529
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: I mean like they're because they have to be. There's

530
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: not that many guys active. Um. Yeah, so I think

531
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: you know Rico Buss, he has been a guy that

532
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: has Matthew Sexton has some juice as a as a

533
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: return guy. Maybe he beats out Raybray mcleoud. I don't

534
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: know the Clouds guaranteed anything. Yeah, which it's kind of

535
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: like the running back situation, those last two spots. Maybe

536
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: if someone around the league is out there, you'd consider it.

537
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: This time last year, Raybay McLoud wasn't on this roster.

538
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: He gets signed late in you know, midway through camp.

539
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: He was still out on in the free agent market.

540
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: So that those guys are available and one of those

541
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: names you mentioned that are lesser known, they're gonna make

542
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: some catches in the preseason or more importantly, make a

543
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: couple of special teams tackles a tight end. I'm keeping

544
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron, Pat Fiarmouth, Zack Gentry. I guess it was

545
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: Wolf telling me that Gentry is shown up pretty well.

546
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: It looks like he maybe is take in the step forward.

547
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: He looks bigger, stronger. He doesn't look like a converted

548
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: quarterback anymore. Which is what he wasn't called tall skinny guy.

549
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: He's put on some weight, uh, some strength. Uh. They

550
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: did the one on one blocking drills with the with

551
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: the outside linebackers on Saturday, and I thought he doesn't

552
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: get embarrassed there, that's good. I thought he was the

553
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: best of the group. Firemouth. Firemouth did get tossed around

554
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: early he was going against high Smith, and then he

555
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: kind of picked it up a little bit and you know,

556
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: not necessarily held his own there, but at least didn't

557
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: get embarrassed, didn't get embarrassed, didn't get tossed around. He's

558
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: he sealed the edge a couple of times against that

559
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: group of outside linebackers. If Gentry, Ebron and Friarmouth or

560
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: not getting embarrassed, that's a plus. Yeah, Ebron is still

561
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: sitting out practice. He had an elbow injury from the

562
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: first dampads. But and I want to hear Highsmith's embarrassing

563
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: tight ends. Yeah. Um, Kevin Raiders. I think the other

564
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: guy there that you look at, he's not been as

565
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: good as Gentry in this camp. He's had some drops.

566
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I just stick on the practice squad, But yeah,

567
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: you keep around just just because of that gentry is promising, though.

568
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be honest. When they made the pick,

569
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: I kind of was like, it feels like they're just

570
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: taking a tight end to take a tight end, because

571
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: I remember we were broadcasting there and there was a

572
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: handful of tight ends we liked that year, and they

573
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: all went a little earlier than we thought. There wasn't

574
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: time to grab one. But that's why you take a

575
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: project in the first four. In the fifth round might

576
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: take to three years, but that's what projects are had

577
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: the size that they you know, he wasn't one of

578
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: these guys. It was six three. You know, he's six right,

579
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: right right, I mean he's slow, he's there's there's something

580
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: there on the offensive line. This is where this was

581
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,239
Speaker 1: the toughest cut on offense because they got got they

582
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: got a lot. Well, we haven't seen the biggest thing

583
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: that they have here thus far, as we haven't seen

584
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: the starting group out there together, at least to presume

585
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: starting group. But that's chooks, a core for Kevin Dotson,

586
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: Kendrick Green, Trey Turner, Zack Banner left or right, you

587
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: have to right. I also I kept there y nine.

588
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: That's a little light, huh, Yeah, it's fine. They they've

589
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: kept eight in the past, they've kept ten. One year,

590
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: I think they kept eleven, which is gonna It's tough.

591
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: It's hard. Um. I'd like the flood the practice squad

592
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: with him, but I kept b J. Fenny. I think

593
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: he's pretty save. I kept Joe Haig, Yeah, I kept

594
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: Dan Moore. Yes, in my ninth guy, I'm keeping J. C. Coward. Huh.

595
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: My reasoning for that is I've got a rookie center

596
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: m hm, and so I want to keep two guys

597
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: who can snap the football behind the rookie center. But

598
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: Finney and hass and Hour both can play guard as well.

599
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: Hassing Hours like gentry bigger and he looks he looks

600
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger this year than he did. Um. You know.

601
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: And I think because you have a rookie center there,

602
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt to have two guys who have done

603
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: it in his in his ear. And I'm sitting there

604
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: thinking if how does that depth chart work? If those

605
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: are the guys I have to work with, And I'm

606
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: especially thinking what if I lose a guard or two? Well,

607
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: Haig can play guard. Even if you would hope that

608
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: Finny and Hoss and now are both play guards, So

609
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna have one of those. In particular, it seems

610
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: more like, so you're you're actives on game day. I

611
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: think are are Finney Hagen Hassin hour. Now you've got

612
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: two guys that play some more, doesn't You got two

613
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: guys to play center, three to play guard, and one

614
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: that plays tackle. You get more than that to play guard,

615
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: all three of them playing the backups. You're saying, yeah, no,

616
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: that's that's true. I guess there's some logic behind that.

617
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: And Moore is probably inactive on game days regardless, and

618
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: you're not gonna You're not gonna try to sneak him

619
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: one of the practice squad, but I think you can

620
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: get the other guys. I don't think anybody picks up

621
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: Hoss if you would try to sneak him on you

622
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: never know because we I mean, he does have NFL snaps. Yeah,

623
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: he started games in the league. So that's why to

624
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: say the coward might be someone might grab coward. But

625
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: he's only a guard. Yeah, I mean that's what it's

626
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: hurting him in in your eyes here, Yeah, right, he

627
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have that flexibility that the other guys do. I

628
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: might consider keeping him though over that sixth wide receiver eight. No,

629
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: I think he can get him on the practice squad,

630
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: and if somebody signs him away, so be it, so

631
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: be it. But I have I have the guys that

632
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: I I also considered. The were Anthony Coyle, another guy

633
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Speaker 1: who plays some center and has tackle and guard capability.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Coward and in Avante Collins. Okay, I'm interested

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Speaker 1: to watch Coil and Collins. Yeah, Collins, I think can

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Speaker 1: play some guard for you too. He's a tackle guard combo.

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Speaker 1: And you probably get most of them on the practice squard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean teams are gonna usually they always lean towards

639
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Speaker 1: our own. Yeah, you have to really shine. Yeah, Kevin

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Speaker 1: Coward was a was a free agent this year and

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00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: Steelers signed him. I mean, with all respect, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think, oh, line is not the position people are

643
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: trying to sneak, you know, snag stealers from. I wouldn't think,

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00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we say that. And Gerald Hawkins

645
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Speaker 1: got signed by the Patriots last week. There's another offensive

646
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: lineman that's the center. I'm trying to think Patrick. I

647
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: can't think of his last name now, but he gets

648
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: signed by the Titans. He was the center. Uh, he

649
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: was on their practice squad for a couple of years,

650
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: So it happens. But I just think that's a spot

651
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Speaker 1: where those those nine guys I think are all NFL players.

652
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Harson Howard, you know him. I wasn't sure about that.

653
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: I think they like him better than a lot of people.

654
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: As you often say, we're allowed to get better. So

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Speaker 1: if Gentry and Hoss are one step further than when

656
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Speaker 1: I saw them last a year ago, now I'm interested.

657
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: You know, I've kind of wrote them both off, but

658
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Speaker 1: you don't do that in the real world. No, not

659
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Speaker 1: for sure. But let's take a break before we talk

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Speaker 1: about the defense. But that's the offense. There. He is

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on Dale Lawy. You're listening to the Drive

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Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back right after

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Speaker 1: this your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Alley

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Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson. We're trimming the Steelers roster, at

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Speaker 1: least looking at my effort to do so. I cut

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Speaker 1: down to the fifty three man roster on d K

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Sports dot Com. We're reading through who I went with, interesting, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're doing the defense now in the defensive line, real quick,

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Speaker 1: a couple of one little takeaway. I ran to get coffee.

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00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the offense while I was gone.

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00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: The bottom of the roster offense could use a little

673
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: work in terms of I don't love the bottom um

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Speaker 1: running backs and receivers. And it doesn't mean I won't

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Speaker 1: love them a month from now, but I mean as

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Speaker 1: it sits right now. And I haven't been watching practice either,

677
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: so I don't know how good these dudes look. It's

678
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: not like, man, I want to keep all three of

679
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: them and I can't keep any It's more like, hopefully

680
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: you think you'll be a little surprised at receiver good.

681
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: Not to mention a fact. Their top four guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna be them. They don't need anybody to play. They

683
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: don't need anybody to play. Uh, the defensive line, it

684
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: was okay, I keep interrupting. Would you consider keeping four

685
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: tight ends? No, they're not four tight ends worth keeping. Okay,

686
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: you'll see I'm cutting good defensive players. This is not

687
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: this is that. This is not easy. Okay, especially you're

688
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: gonna see it here in the defensive line. Okay, yeah,

689
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: defensive lines, I'm keeping six, which they usually do. Heyward

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Speaker 1: lall to it, Louder Milk, Henry Man do yeah, Isaiah Bugs.

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Speaker 1: So you think it's a Davis Bugs battle. Maybe Man

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Speaker 1: do battle. I think Davis Bugs Mandu warmly, I mean jam.

693
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Speaker 1: But they keep seven. When it's all said and done,

694
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: you say that, but then wait until you see the

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Speaker 1: rest of the defense and you tell me who you'd

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Speaker 1: keep over, who you'd cut over some of these guys

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00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: because five receivers as as we're thinking now, Well, but

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00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: the guys play special teams special teams. That's the problem.

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00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: It's one of the Steelers small problems with the way

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Speaker 1: they do defensive lineman is it's hard to have since

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00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: they're all like plus, you only have six of them,

702
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: so only one guy kind of has a direct backup

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00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: and one is not active on game days. There's only

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Speaker 1: one of these guys who when their work. When Danny

705
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: Smith has as the group out there working on special teams,

706
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: he's out there on the cover, like running down to

707
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: cover kicks and that's he's out there blocking on the

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00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: kick returns, things like that. And he's been around, and

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00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: he's been around, and he's been running second team. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I think he's got a better chance than Davis. I

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Speaker 1: mean I'm not just disrupting them or disputing the mon

712
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Speaker 1: you should make the theme or is very much in

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00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: the mix. I don't want to get rid of both

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00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: those dudes. Well, again, you get to expand a practice

715
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Speaker 1: squad if somebody, somebody signs those guys away, like, oh

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00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: my god, they lost the seventh round picking you know,

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00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: Carlos Davis. I mean they didn't get Warmly a huge

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00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: bonus or anything right now. Yeah, uh so, and again

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Speaker 1: maybe you slide him onto the practice squads. Both impossible.

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00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: I think it's I just haven't seen anything from him

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00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: as his boy. They gotta keep him. I don't even

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00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: know exactly where he fits, Like, he's not a nose

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00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: at all, and I don't think he's a traditional end

724
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: for them. I hope Louderman makes Warmly go away. Yeah so, yeah,

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00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a tough cut though, because

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00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: you get Davis. You got Warmly there that you're not

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00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: gonna be keeping. But no, I hear where you're going

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00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: with that. Just that's that's where I'm at right now. Well,

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00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: that could change. I think that last spot between the

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Speaker 1: thing is between Bugs Wormley and Davis for ones for

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Speaker 1: one spot. Yeah, because I think louder Milk and one

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00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: do are making this problem this roster right right right.

733
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: The special team is saying that Mondu has going for

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Speaker 1: him is big, and he's played in the fair amount

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Speaker 1: and he played well last year. He's not bad. Right

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker, I'm only keeping four. I would do the same.

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Speaker 1: I think it's t J. Watt, Alex Highsmith, Melvin Ingram

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Speaker 1: and Jamir Jones, WHOA Okay, I have to learn more

739
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Speaker 1: about Jamira apparently five. He showed up in the backs

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Speaker 1: one backers. He showed up when they've done uh team stuff,

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00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: he showed up. He's a big, strong dude defensive end

742
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. Was with the Texans last year in

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Speaker 1: training camp, and I think I think Quincy Rochet it's

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00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: I think that's a tough that's a tough cut um.

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00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: But he's a six round draft pick and fell to

746
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Speaker 1: the sixth round for some reason. I don't know why,

747
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: but he did, and you try to slide him onto

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. I think Jamir Jones is the better

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00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: better He's a better player right now. If he's a

750
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: better player, then that's a easy enough situation. Again, I

751
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: know where in the numbers crunch should be nice to

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00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: keep a fifth you would keep I guess here's my question.

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00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 1: You'd keep from what you know right now? Rochet beats

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Speaker 1: out Marsh. Yeah, Marsh isn't even a consideration. Wowkay? I

755
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: mean Ingram kind of dug the grave from Marsha. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: fair enough. I'm keeping four inside linebackers, so we're keeping

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00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: eight backers. Devin Bush, Robert Splain, Ulysses, Gilbert, Buddy Johnson. Yeah,

758
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: the Marcus Allen experiment is over, and I'm fine with that.

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00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: Be Harry Evince was still around, it would be really

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Speaker 1: Harry Evince was still around, and then you're looking at

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00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe that's what Vince was looking at,

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00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: like maybe he would have been fifth. They realized it. Yeah,

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00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, if if he's if Gilbert's healthy

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Speaker 1: and he's running a four or five around the field,

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00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: and you know realize, as the writings on the wall,

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Speaker 1: you need an injury to make the team, and probably

767
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: better to go out and say I'm retired and everyone

768
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: pat you on the back. He was a great step

769
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: talking about how great you were and then then go

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00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: through camp and get cut right, So maybe the writing

771
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: was on the wall. Buddy looked. I'm excited Aboutuddy. He

772
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: runs around like a madman. You see him show up

773
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: on some stuff. You know, that's his college tape. He

774
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: just needs some refinement. But I think he'll be great

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00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: on special teams. Yeah, I think I think Gilbert Gilbert

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Speaker 1: right now? Is there three? So that's promising. Yeah. Uh,

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00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: And the addition of Miles killer Brew makes uh makes

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00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen redundant and Killerber is a better playing cornerback.

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Speaker 1: I'm keeping six, and I can understand that today's NFL

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00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: you need six quarterbacks. Joe Hayden, Cam Sutton, James Pierre,

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Speaker 1: Antoine Brooks, Justin Lane, Arthur Millette. Yeah. I don't know

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00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: how you get rid of any of those guys. Yeah, okay,

783
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that. I mean, I think

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00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a fair amount of dime with four

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00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: corners and those last four guys Pierre Brooks, Lane, Milette

786
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: or potentially some of your better special teams guys as well.

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00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: Do you think five would be active on game day?

788
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: More than likely? Yeah? So does that come down to

789
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: Lane verse Pierre, maybe Milette, maybe Lane versus Millette. Which

790
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: one is your better special teams guy that week? But

791
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: then the only I mean that your slot guy. Then

792
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: Sutton would have to go to the slot if Brooks

793
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Speaker 1: were to get injured. Let's not that's the one option

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00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: that you have there if something if one of your

795
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: if one of your outside corners goes down, um, and

796
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: and you only have three of those guys active. Now

797
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: you it's a little different, donaut of Sutton. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean in Hayden Stiff, I think six corners is

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Speaker 1: what you want to hear of. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get rid of any of these today's today's NFL, you

801
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: have to have six corner Brooks in your roster. You

802
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 1: just have to. The Bengals play through receivers like every snap,

803
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see some four receiver stuff. Yeah. I

804
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: into Bills in Week one Little league with four receiver sets. Uh, safeties,

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Speaker 1: I'm keeping four, okay, make it. Fitzpatrick, Terrell, Edmonds, Miles

806
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: Killerbru Trey Norwood good. That's a that's a nice no

807
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: assessment of Norwood. I think nor has been playing free

808
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: safety he's been backing up Fitzpatrick. He's made some plays

809
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: like the two with free Yeah, okay, yeah, and that

810
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: looks like his kind of role there. He can also

811
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: gives you the opportunity to at least line up a

812
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: cornerback once he learns that free safety position looking or so,

813
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: at least he gives you some options there as well.

814
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: Decent athletes. I me, there's something there to work with.

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Speaker 1: Cool who was your hardest cut there? It's safety. I

816
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 1: don't know that I really have one. Yeah, there's nobody

817
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: really jump jumping out there, and maybe you know, he

818
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: could say Alan Millette can play there though Brooks is

819
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: safety has safety safety. I mean, they have guys that

820
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: are dual capabilities there. Yeah, you can get out of

821
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: games with some of those dudes. Even Killer Brew could

822
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: go in and place them inside line backer potentially would

823
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: be like your dime linebacker. If something happens that you know,

824
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: if something happens with the cornerback position, Okay, we gotta

825
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: do this. Sutton has to stay on the outside, so

826
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: kill a bruise your dime linemaner instead. Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's been times they've kept four inside or five inside backers.

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00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: But killer brew gives them a nice fall body, right,

829
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Speaker 1: the specialists, I'm keeping Boswell, Yes, Pressley Harvin is the punter,

830
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: and Cameron Candidate is a long snapper. A real Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that adds up to fifty three. Now, you tell me

832
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: where you're you're you're stealing a spot somewhere else to

833
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: keep a tenth lineman or you know those kind of thing.

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00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: It's just the seventh defensive lineman. There's there's not much

835
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: there to that you can fudge the guys you cut

836
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: the ones. I'd be most interested in keeping our Rochet

837
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: Coward or one of the two defensive linemen. But besides Rochet,

838
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: you don't get much special team's value out of those dudes.

839
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Speaker 1: And the only spot I'd consider, you know, losing a

840
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Speaker 1: guy from yours is the sixth receiver. Yeah, I mean

841
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: to me that that's the that's the only spot. That's

842
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: the only spot you can't kind of running back. I mean,

843
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: there's nowhere else. There's no give anywhere else unless you

844
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: keep two quarterbacks. But I don't want to flush there

845
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: were a three quarterback team that they were three quarterbacks.

846
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: They believe in that they're not going to go with

847
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. Even with a huge practice squad doesn't matter,

848
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: and they're not ones. You have to expose that guy

849
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: to Waivers and be Haskins, and I don't want someone

850
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: to pick him up. I mean, if you're the Texans,

851
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: why wouldn't pick up taskets? Absolutely right right now, the

852
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: Colts right now. I mean a ton of teams really,

853
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: so yeah, I don't want to expose unless he's terrible, right,

854
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: there's lots of them, so yeah, I mean I got

855
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: no qualms. I mean, if I were building it, my

856
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: only consideration where I keep five receivers or six, because

857
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: as you said that six receivers never gonna see the offense.

858
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: And really, Ray Ray might be the six guy in

859
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: my mind as opposed to the young special team or

860
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: the tackles people, because Ray Way does tackle anybody. The

861
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: only the only thing that Ray Ray is your punt

862
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: return guy. If McFarland shows that he can be your

863
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: punt return guy, then he's then Ray Rays in trouble. Yeah,

864
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 1: there anyone else that can do it. I mean Sutton has,

865
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: but Sutton and Minca have. You know, I don't want that.

866
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,280
Speaker 1: That's not happened. That's not happened. None of the receivers

867
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: are really built to do it, you know what Claypool

868
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: to do. I mean there's some kick returners, but yeah,

869
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: I guess that's Ray Rays. He's holding onto. Yeah, that's

870
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: his nitch right now. And if if McFarland shows that

871
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: he can do it and do it in the games,

872
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on in the in

873
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: these preseason games because they'll gi him a chance. Now.

874
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 1: I bet he's catching points, you know, in games for sure.

875
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: That's interesting. So yeah, what about I'm sorry that this

876
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: some of those six receivers that you considered that weren't

877
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: Ray Ray. Can any of them return punts? Yeah? I

878
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: mean they're not just gunner types. No, they're not just

879
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: gunner types. And Sexton is the guy to keep an

880
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: eye on there for that. Um really fast, um, a

881
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 1: little bit bigger than Ray Ray. Um, you know there's

882
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: some potential there for that. They'd be nice if that

883
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: fifth guy could do all the above, right, I'm not

884
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: sure because Ray Ray can't know. He's just too small.

885
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: He's too small. And every time, like I've watched him,

886
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: they tried to use him in some four receiver sets.

887
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: Is a blocker that doesn't work any play that calls

888
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: for him to do that as a mistake. And when

889
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: he's on the field sometime you're gonna run the football

890
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: and he's gonna help you. I might as well be

891
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: standing there, right. He might be better off I take

892
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: it more space, but at least they have to run

893
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: around you. Now, that's a good group and subject to change,

894
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: of course. Unfortunately, two of those guys will get hurt.

895
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: That's sixth receiver spot, as I said when we went

896
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: through it in the previous segment, is the one that

897
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: you know I'm just guessing there, right, Yeah, but tom

898
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: on talking about Tyler Simmons is a gunner again. We

899
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: when we talked about the cornerback position. Well, if you

900
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: don't want Lane and Pierre as your gunners, or if

901
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: both aren't active on that, somebody's gotta be the gunner,

902
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, which brings us back to the coach Smith's dilemma. Well,

903
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you this guy this week and then

904
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: this week. I mean, the gunners are important position, and

905
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: if somebody shows that they're really good at it, he

906
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: has to he's got to be active. You gotta give

907
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: the special team's coach that at least from that phone,

908
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: but then you're short somewhere else. Yeah. Interesting, But if

909
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: it was not, it's not as easy as I thought

910
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: it might be. I bet not. Offensive line was tough.

911
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: Defensive line was really tough. M I bet a difficult exercise.

912
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 1: And it's too early in camp to even consider it.

913
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: Filling out that practice squad might not be sixteen guys.

914
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: I can get sixteen guys pretty right, But it's you're

915
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: excited about sixteen guys. You never I'm never excited. I

916
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: don't get excited about the practice squad. I think people

917
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: getting way too over practice. People got way too excited

918
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: about the practice. People you get too excited about. They

919
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: do it in the practice so that they can have practice.

920
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: So I can you know, I can tell you what

921
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: the numbers are going to be. There's gonna be a

922
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: receiver and gonna be you off an extra offensive line

923
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. So they have enough to

924
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,280
Speaker 1: fill out two groups of these type of bodies, probably

925
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: too offensive line, and of those, what two or three

926
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: of them will go into a NFL career. Yeah, you know,

927
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: it's really that's the way it's the way it is.

928
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: You're not developing a lot of guys and may that

929
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: kind of guarantee them they'll come to camp next year

930
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: and then they'll get cut. We're gonna take another break here.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for the first hour here of

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Speaker 1: the drive. He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lali.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this