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Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to the Drive. I am Dale LOLLI

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Speaker 2: he is the Matt Williamson's time for little Fantasy football.

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Speaker 3: Focus here before we get to the.

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Speaker 2: Listener questions, and looking here at the Jeff Ratcliffe's rankings

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Speaker 2: from FTN Fantasy.

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Speaker 3: He's starting to pump him out. I have noticed that

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Speaker 3: today that he has, like they have this whole fantasy

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Speaker 3: section and each day he's putting out a different rankings

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Speaker 3: or set up and the fd ND stuff's good and

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Speaker 3: he listens.

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Speaker 2: Guys. I like the way that he breaks us down

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Speaker 2: because he gives you the bye weeks, not necessarily that

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Speaker 2: he's wide receiver eighteen. I don't care about that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: give me the buys because the boys matter is Jamar

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Speaker 2: Chase as his number one player.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to argue coming off of triple crown, Jefferson's

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Speaker 3: a little more stable to me. But Burrow versus McCarthy,

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Speaker 3: I think Minnesota's run games better, Minnesota's defense is better.

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Speaker 3: They throw in the red zone a ton Cincinnati, So

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Speaker 3: I got no problem with that.

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Speaker 2: Jefferson is to Saquon Barkley three, Okay, Ceedee Lamb four.

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Speaker 3: I'm starting to really question if I had won one.

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Speaker 3: But I go, like, I think there's three top running backs, Bijon, Barkley, Gibbs.

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Speaker 3: Are you taking them ahead of the receivers just because

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Speaker 3: it's more of a shortage position? You just starting to

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Speaker 3: kick it around in my head. I would now I'm

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Speaker 3: a running back. I'm an old school Do you take

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Speaker 2: Because I'm looking here at these rankings and for example,

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Speaker 2: you can got receivers in the columns here. Yeah, Or

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Speaker 2: even if I go, okay, do I take ce D

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Speaker 2: Lamb at four? Or do I take Jean I'm just

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Speaker 2: gonna go down to thirty four. Who's a mixed I

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Speaker 2: can get Lad McConkie at thirty seven. Is that that

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Speaker 2: big of a Yeah, it's a difference, oh of course.

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Speaker 2: But then the running backs in that area, I'm looking

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Speaker 2: at Alvin Kamara and Joe Mixon like compared to Bijeon.

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Speaker 2: Compared to Bijeon, that's a bigger.

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Speaker 3: Massive gap. Let alone, then you got to get your

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Speaker 3: RB two. And I'm probably with one of those guys

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Speaker 3: in my RB two right, right, right. But if I'm

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Speaker 3: waiting that long because of the gap and my wide receiver, three,

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Speaker 3: isn't that hard to fill? Yeah, I'm gonna get pickings

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Speaker 2: You know, Pooka and the kup at five.

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Speaker 3: I don't trust it. I think Adams is a real force.

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Speaker 3: And I and the durability.

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Speaker 2: Thing Malik Neighbors at six, I.

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Speaker 3: Trust that more. I mean, he had like a forty

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Speaker 2: B Jeon Robinson seven, I don't.

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Speaker 3: Think he'd ever last a seven in a draft.

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Speaker 2: I'm in aman Ros Saint Brown at eight solid as

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Speaker 2: could be leadoff double Jamiir Gibbs at nine.

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Speaker 3: So I also sent you Evan Silva's top one hundred

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Speaker 3: and I was about ten minutes into the accompanying podcast.

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Speaker 3: He has Gibbs as like his number two overall player,

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Speaker 3: he said, and his logic was kind of interesting. He's like,

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Speaker 3: the Lions have a projected have a really tough schedule,

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Speaker 3: they lost coordinators. They might be in a lot more

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Speaker 3: close games or even playing from behind than just handed

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Speaker 3: to Montgomery in the fourth quarter. I was like, exist,

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Speaker 3: So if I'm taking a guy at two, he'd better

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Speaker 3: be the only game in town. There's no way I'm

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Speaker 3: taking him over bejonre Ly. Yeah, I mean those guys

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Speaker 2: I can't even I haven't found them out on a

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Speaker 2: list here. But he's easily an RB two.

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Speaker 3: He's an RB two. Yeah, he's the top twenty four

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Speaker 2: I can't take my I can't make my number one

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Speaker 2: like I'm going to do. Take Jamior, Gibbs and Montgomery,

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Speaker 3: That's a luxury. You don't want to.

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Speaker 3: trust the coordinator. I don't trust the quarterback. I do

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Speaker 3: more than you. We know that. But Hunter is going

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Speaker 2: I'm not taking him over Drake London.

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Speaker 3: I'm definitely not take him over Nico. I might take

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but London's such as a force and he's a

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Speaker 3: And Pitts isn't a threat Moon, He's not a threat.

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Speaker 2: For he's going to get nine ten targets a game.

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Speaker 3: Yes, not the Puka won't right, But you know London's

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Speaker 3: wasn't on board with Derrick Henry last year and I

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Speaker 2: Twelve is Bucky Irving.

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Speaker 3: He's legit. Yeah, like in the Dynasty world. He's like

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Speaker 3: the fifth running back. Now he's in his second year.

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Speaker 3: He's in a great situation. May not be a great player,

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Speaker 2: Thirteen is Brock Bowers. So if you're as attorney, you

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Speaker 2: get Bucky Irving and Brock Bowers.

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Speaker 3: Are you happy? No? That's a little too young, a

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Speaker 3: been around the block. But how many targets for games

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Speaker 3: Bowers in it gain double digits? I mean it might

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Speaker 3: be similar to Ceedee lamb Nico Collins at fourteen. That's

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Speaker 3: too late Ashton genty at fifteen. I think Gents's my

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Speaker 2: One of these is not like the other. Devin a

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Speaker 3: The thing about a Chan is I hope for the

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Speaker 3: dolphin's sake, he never gets another goal line carry. If

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Speaker 3: it was foolish.

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Speaker 2: It was like running your little brother in the wood

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Speaker 2: Brooky right right.

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Speaker 3: But his receipt the number.

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Speaker 2: A few times, hey run into that wall.

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Speaker 3: But I urge people to check out the games that

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Speaker 3: to have played. A Chan caught a million balls and

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Speaker 3: this is his PPR, you know. I mean Tua will

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Speaker 2: No, Drake London at seventeen, I would take him before that,

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Speaker 3: I would take him before that. They just gave him money.

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Speaker 3: They have no concern about him.

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Speaker 2: He has no competition Jackson Smith and Jigba at nineteen.

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Speaker 3: It's important this is PPR because he will get a

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Speaker 2: There aren't.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, every week is seven for eighty nine.

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Speaker 3: No touchdown, right, but every week. Part of that sentence

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Speaker 2: Trey McBride at twenty.

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Speaker 3: Clearly the tight end two. I bet there's a gap

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Speaker 2: T Higgins at twenty one.

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Speaker 3: I know that people have reservations because he's a second

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Speaker 3: on his team, but they're gonna they might lead the

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Speaker 2: Have to set yourself up. They're gonna be games where

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but their defense being so bad is great.

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Speaker 2: He'll go an entire half though without getting a target.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The other thing too, is I know even got

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Speaker 3: to him. But Burrows like the consensus quarterback five. He

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Speaker 3: doesn't run, and his durability behind a not grade O

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Speaker 3: line and a million pass attempts could be questionable. AJ

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Speaker 3: Brown at twenty two, great, but no volume. Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 2: Bet Oilson at twenty four.

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Speaker 3: You would think he's the only the only guy in town.

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Speaker 3: Great player.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, if you look at Pickens numbers

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Speaker 2: last year with Fields versus Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was night and day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh,

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Speaker 2: Pickens was averaging about three three and a half catches

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Speaker 3: Right right, with not usable fantasy stuff. Yeah, and the

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Speaker 3: weird number one on his team. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When Wilson came in, it got much better. Now, there

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Speaker 3: He was unlucky with some stuff too, right, But the

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Speaker 3: production was the production we talked about. Four. I think

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Speaker 3: the Jets are gonna run the ball like crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but Wilson's not fighting anyone for target, I get it.

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Speaker 3: But if I'm not consider him before like the third round.

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Speaker 2: Though, No, this is at twenty four. It's a little early.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's early, Okay, I know what number we're at.

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Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin at twenty five. I'd much rather of Terry McLaurin.

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Speaker 3: He had a great year and a great offense.

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Speaker 2: Bryce Hall at twenty six, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: He'll be a jetmen it's all said and done, but

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Speaker 3: I might buy him at that price.

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Speaker 2: He will be Devonte Adams at twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to support those two too. That's two Bengals

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Speaker 3: and two Rams. Josh Jacobs at twenty eight. It seems

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Speaker 3: a little disrespectful. I mean he's fighting Lloyd and I

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Speaker 3: mean he's not really battling anyone for touches. And he

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Speaker 3: was really good last year.

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Speaker 2: Now that have been many running backs ahead him.

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Speaker 3: I might take him over a chan. I might. I

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Speaker 3: don't think he's that much different than Henry. You gonna

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Speaker 3: score touchdowns, Yeah, he's gonna score touchdowns. DJ Moore at

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Speaker 3: twenty nine. I'm not there on him. I think that

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Speaker 3: burden pick is a direct shot to over the bow

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Speaker 2: Thirty is Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 3: I want to love him, but if Richardson's there, it's

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Speaker 3: bad for him. And if Jones there, he's still going

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Speaker 3: to run a ton too.

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Speaker 2: Kyron Williams at thirty one.

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Speaker 3: I never own him, but I would take him before that,

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Speaker 3: and they just extended him.

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Speaker 2: Chase Brown at thirty two. So three Bengals in a

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Speaker 2: top thirty two. It's none of witch er Borough.

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Speaker 3: None of witcher Borough. So I mentioned the podcast I

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Speaker 3: was listening with Evan he has Brown is like his

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Speaker 3: running back six and he's like, I don't even know

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Speaker 3: if he's good, but the way the Bengals handle their

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Speaker 3: and if they score thirty points a game, so he

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Speaker 3: need it doesn't matter if he's good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara at thirty three, I can't do that, No.

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Speaker 3: Bad team, too old. You want him to get traded

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Speaker 3: to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon at thirty four.

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Speaker 3: I doubted him last year and he played pretty well.

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Speaker 2: James Cook at thirty five.

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Speaker 3: James Cook at a million touchdowns and I'll never approach

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Speaker 3: I'm on board with that. His durability worries me. But

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Speaker 2: Thirty nine. Is Devonte Smith.

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Speaker 3: First quarterback. He would be my first quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson at forty two. Okay, interestingly enough, they're off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Xavier Worthy at forty three, I might rather have Rice.

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Speaker 2: Ted McMillan at forty seven. We've got two Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 2: Fifty one James Connor.

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Speaker 3: For underrated every year he produces on a per game

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Speaker 3: kind of baked into being fifty two. Fifty three is

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Speaker 3: Jerry Judy is a lave much different than Garrett Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Concussions aside concussions aside right now situation, I would say

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Speaker 2: Judy's at fifty three. Jleen Waddle at fifty four. My

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Speaker 3: I'm buying at that price. So I think he played

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Speaker 3: Hurt a lot. It wouldn't blow me away if he

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Speaker 3: has a better fantasy year than Tyreek. Fifty five is

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Speaker 3: George Kittle. That's a nice gap. I'm buying him at

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Speaker 2: Fifty six is Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a leap of faith. I adore him for Dynasty,

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Speaker 3: even even comfortable Week one. Putting him in your starting lineup, no,

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Speaker 3: I gotta see it a little bit. Fifty seven is

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Speaker 3: Jamison Williams is at this point, which is good. Fifty

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Speaker 3: eight is Jordan Addison fine. Jalen Hurts at fifty nine price,

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Speaker 3: he's that much behind Daniels. Usually those four are pretty

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Speaker 3: At I'll buy that at that price. That's a offense.

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Speaker 3: He scores a ton of touchdown. That's a great price here. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Then you get Khalil Shakir. He's a number one receiver.

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Speaker 2: Omari and Hampton at sixty two. Calvin Ridley at sixty

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Speaker 3: I bought him super cheap in Dynasty because he's old

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Speaker 3: He might have one hundred and fifty targets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, George Pickens comes in at sixty four.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be ups and downs.

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Speaker 3: I would have Hurts closer to Daniels than Hurts closer

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Speaker 2: There's one other wide receiver one out there that we

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Speaker 3: I'm a huge Piersoll guy.

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Speaker 2: Though I get he did nothing last year.

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Speaker 3: Nothing. The end wasn't bad shot.

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Speaker 2: You might want to go look at him a little bit.

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Speaker 2: He have one game. I think they they paid is good.

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Speaker 2: They paid Juwan Jennings. Ju One Jennings is going to produce.

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Speaker 3: Oh he'll produce. I just don't know he's the one.

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Speaker 3: That's where I'm fighting you, because Ayuk is going to play.

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Speaker 3: Might not be week one. Kittle's never going away, I think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think plays before week eight.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about that. And we'll see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he tours a CL and mcl right right,

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Speaker 3: He tore him both. Jennings had a lot of things

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Speaker 3: Ayuk's going to play. Debo's gone. But he was the

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Speaker 3: first round pick on Pearsall. It's not a bad I

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Speaker 3: just don't know he'll be the one when it's all

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Speaker 2: Ricky Pearsol last year finished with thirty one catches. He

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Speaker 3: Now I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be certainly better than that.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they got shot.

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Speaker 2: He got shot. I get it, chessed, I get it.

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Speaker 3: Right, but he's you know, no, I think he really

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Speaker 3: started to flash at the end. Now Jennings should be

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Speaker 2: I would, I would take I think Jennings is a

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Speaker 3: Just oh, I do too than Pearsaw. But I don't

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Speaker 2: And I would as soon as Jennings goes out it

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Speaker 2: in the first two weeks of the season and has

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Speaker 2: sixteen catches for two hundred and ten yards, I flip

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Speaker 2: him for something.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a good move. I like that too, and

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Speaker 3: say I was about the robot saying, yeah, but what's

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Speaker 2: Earlier, I think ago because at some point it's think

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Speaker 3: Pearsall is going to get his legs under him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a good offense.

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Speaker 2: Jennings is going to be the guy early and I.

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Speaker 3: I've been buying up niners in Dynasty and I think

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Speaker 2: Chris Goblin all the way down at seventy six.

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Speaker 3: I think that's all about Abuca. Oh he was a monster,

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Speaker 3: and by all accounts he's fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get Matthew Golden.

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Speaker 3: RJ.

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Speaker 2: Harvey's at seventy eight. Matthew Golden is at seventy nine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned number one is being Jennings. How about

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Speaker 3: Golden till just now. Goman is the first guy Reads,

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Speaker 3: that's even before Reid. I think I take Read ahead

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Speaker 2: I think I would too. I definitely take him before.

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Speaker 3: This, before this poor spot Raft.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Travon Henderson.

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Speaker 3: In eighty, taking him ahead of Stevenson, I head of

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Speaker 3: Quinn Shawd Jenkins James's PPR.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jayden Reed comes in at eighty three.

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Speaker 3: Read's not a huge target guy, but I don't know

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Speaker 2: The next Steeler on the list is Caleb Johnson at

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Speaker 3: I guess he should be the second one taking.

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Speaker 2: I think we're sleeping on Jalen Warren a little bit here.

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Speaker 2: Jay comes in ninety six.

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Speaker 3: Warren's at least a flex he'll probably all year, he'll

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care who the quarterback is the

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Speaker 3: I bet Johnson catches twenty to twenty five. Yeah, Warren

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking here now to see what other Steelers

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Speaker 3: You say, fire Moth is probably next, but he's way down.

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Speaker 3: They're not going back one one fifty five. Pat Fryarmouth,

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Speaker 2: Dalton Kincaid? Is it one fifty one?

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Speaker 3: Not a great reflection on Kinkaid considering what they expect.

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Speaker 2: That Colston Love is at one fifty eight, Tyler Warren's

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Speaker 3: They're all kind of high upside guys, though, and they're

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Speaker 3: all high draft picks, including Friarmouth. I wouldn't mind having

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Speaker 3: and hope one hits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Steelers defense comes in at one seventy one.

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Speaker 3: They'd be a top five defense for me, that.

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Speaker 2: Is behind the Chargers. Yeah, he has all the defenses

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they're all lumped together.

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Speaker 2: Well, is the Eagles. The Eagles are the first one.

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Speaker 2: I think I'd take Denver for at one thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: Don't make that mistake that he has the Ravens at

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Speaker 3: And then the Steelers right in that neighborhood. Then you get

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Speaker 3: to the Chargers at one sixty Okay, the Seahawks at

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Speaker 3: I'm just taking sacks.

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Speaker 2: Well, that was I thought that was the Ravens defense.

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Speaker 2: It was actually ramondre Stevenson. I said it was fooling

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Speaker 3: He can also really late for Stephens.

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Speaker 2: You get to the Steelers at one seventy one, just

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Speaker 3: Is he out of his mind? That's like the worst

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want the Panthers defense.

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Speaker 3: No, that's one you don't even consider drafting. Goodness, what's

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Speaker 3: it usually real close to up before the draft, there's

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Speaker 2: You know there are. This is no kidding one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 2: ten kickers on here he has before Chris Boswell.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, he'd like the best kicker year of anyone

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Speaker 3: of anyone If you take Dallas, dude, I get it,

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Speaker 2: But like those those are two days. His number one

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Speaker 2: guy is Cameron Dicker. Oh no, Aubrey's one eighteen though. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they want to be that don't do don't be that guy.

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Speaker 2: But then his second kicker, Kyle is Ky Fairburn. Oh no,

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Speaker 2: he is Dicker ahead of them. Took Dicker, Fairbairn should

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Speaker 2: be in the top five, Will Watts in Denver, Evan McPherson,

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Speaker 2: Jake Bates and Detroit, Harrison Butker, Jake Elliott, Matt Gay

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Speaker 2: in Washington, Yeah, cut Tyler Bass in Buffalo, Chase McLaughlin

448
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Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay. And then you finally get to Chris Boswell.

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Speaker 3: He scored one more points. He scored more ports.

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Speaker 2: Than any of those guys. And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: kicked a bunch of fifty yarders.

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Speaker 3: And long ones. Especially if your league gives you five

453
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Speaker 3: for the get you get extra credit from the long run. Absolutely. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Now he's top two or three, should be Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think SOD should be pretty high too. Yeah, so we'll see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have a lot of respect for Ratcliffe

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Speaker 2: and no, he does what he does. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: breaks his stuff down. But I gotta disagree with him

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Speaker 2: on that.

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Speaker 3: Stuff to his point nerve if I was it's middle

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Speaker 3: of May, maybe he didn't do a whole lot of

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Speaker 3: kicker research, you know, and just threw him on the list.

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Speaker 3: But he published something, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he put him out there right right right. So anyways,

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Speaker 2: let's get to a break. When we come back, it's

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Speaker 2: time to start getting to some listener questions. We will

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Speaker 2: do that when we return. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back with more

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Speaker 2: right after this.

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Speaker 3: At least.

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

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Speaker 1: Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on the Steelers Nation

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Speaker 2: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network and I just want

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Speaker 2: to remind everybody that Friday show will be our last

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Speaker 2: video on YouTube until training Camp. Once training camp kicks off,

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Speaker 2: we will be doing the every day we do a drive,

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Speaker 2: we will also be doing a video and basically when

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Speaker 2: the Steelers practice at training camp, we do a drive.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, right, all right, and w practicing next week,

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Speaker 3: we'll be down there three days next week.

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Speaker 2: We will be down there broadcasting during the Steeler OTA sessions.

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Speaker 2: We'll take you right through Mini camp, so we got

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Speaker 2: nine sessions down there. We'll be doing three days a week.

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Speaker 2: Then after that the Mini Camp OTA sessions are basically

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Speaker 2: Monday or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday each day and then we'll go.

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Speaker 3: Take it down there and people run around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyways, let's get to our listener questions here, and

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Speaker 2: the first one comes from Corey. He said, how is

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Speaker 2: it that the Steelers went from being able to magically

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Speaker 2: select amazing wide receivers in late rounds prior to twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen to now where they struggle to select good ones

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Speaker 2: and resorts to trading them. Did they lose a great evaluator?

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Speaker 2: Is that that? That's basically the questions. They've still drafted

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Speaker 2: good wide receivers.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've had different receiver coaches over the years

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Speaker 3: that contribute to the value. I'm thinking about the evaluators.

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Speaker 3: There's a new GM. I'm sure there's there are new

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Speaker 3: area scouts, you know, since the AB days. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: he's talking about and frankly, the AB thing is like Brady,

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Speaker 3: I mean like, yeah, I mean that's a once in

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Speaker 3: a lifetime pick. Yeah, but they Juju wasn't a bad pick.

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Speaker 3: That's just because they've gone elsewhere doesn't mean that they're

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Speaker 3: bad players. Right, looking back at Claypool, you got stuff

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Speaker 3: out of him. I mean he was your first pick

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Speaker 3: that year, but he was a second rounder. I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: say it was a great pick, but it wasn't bad.

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Speaker 3: Pickja was hit, it was a good hit. Juju was

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Speaker 3: a hit. Yeah, I mean Juju's rookie year was monster.

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Speaker 3: This next year, his first two years were us. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't say Pickens was a boss, No, it wasn't. Bust.

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Speaker 3: Is wrong for all those guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just because it didn't work out here in it

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Speaker 2: necessarily or you traded them away, doesn't mean that they

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Speaker 2: weren't good players. It just means that for whatever now

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Speaker 2: you can look at it and say, are they evaluating

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Speaker 2: these guys poorly in terms of the off field stuff?

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Speaker 3: Well? I think that, and I think that would be

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Speaker 3: a fair criticism Like that, I think is a conversation

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Speaker 3: they'll probably have within those walls.

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Speaker 2: Is hurt those guys anymore?

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Speaker 3: Do we take the first round talent in the second

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Speaker 3: or third round because we know we have to manage them? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You know, and that's a different question altogether. But you

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Speaker 3: got the first pick in the second round for Claypool

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Speaker 3: and you got a third rounder for Pickens too. You know,

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Speaker 3: like there aren't many receivers traded for first Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: like you got to be. I don't know that they're

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say they're bad at drafting receivers that If

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Speaker 3: it's a yes no question, Hey are they bad at

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Speaker 3: drafting rechievers? I would say no. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sixburgh as after reviewing off season acquisitions so far, do

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Speaker 2: the Steelers need Aaron Rodgers this year to be successful?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the That's where they're at. The quarterback,

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Speaker 2: that's where they're at right now. People are saying, well,

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Speaker 2: you've talked out of both sides of your mouth on

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Speaker 2: this things have changed. Like I've said all along, I said,

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Speaker 2: prior to this, I would have resigned Russell Wilson or

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Speaker 2: Justin Fields, one of those two guys when the.

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Speaker 3: Off season, yeah, stay one, right, or going into the

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Speaker 3: off season.

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Speaker 2: With the situation now, yeah, Aaron Rodgers is your best option.

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean I don't think you can have I

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Speaker 3: won't say it that way. I mean they need another.

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Speaker 2: Quarterback, they need another quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Rodgers's new draft proposal, the team that just misses the

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Speaker 2: playoffs should pick first, go into sending order from the

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Speaker 2: teams that missed the playoffs the worst record, then adding

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Speaker 2: the playoff teams in order to finish. That would prevent tanking.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't be rewarded for losing.

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Speaker 3: That's a horrible idea. Tanking.

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Speaker 2: Tanking in the NFL is so different from any other sport.

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Speaker 2: You can't it's really hard to do. Look at what

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Speaker 2: happened last year at the end of the year, in

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Speaker 2: the final three or four weeks of the season changed

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Speaker 2: the top or the team that had the number one

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Speaker 2: overall pick in the draft changed on a weekly basis.

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Speaker 3: New England had for a while, Giants had for a

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Speaker 3: while oh yeah, right right, you can't give the team

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Speaker 3: that just missed the playoffs the first overall pick. No, right, oh,

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Speaker 3: here's Miles Garrett. You know, to throw on a team

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Speaker 3: that already has a quarterback and is you know that

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Speaker 3: would have been that would have been a Bengal all

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Speaker 3: right here, Carter, right, yeah, that's too much of a

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Speaker 3: gift to a team that's good.

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Speaker 2: Something happened that caused you to just miss the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're not good enough yet, right, I mean

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Speaker 3: that was the Steelers a couple of years where they

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Speaker 3: were like the team that just missed they might have

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Speaker 3: got you get the best player in the draft to

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Speaker 3: add to those teams.

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Speaker 2: Right, rgs, what non division.

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Speaker 3: Lined up?

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Speaker 2: What non divisional game are you guys the most excited

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Speaker 2: for this year? That's an easy one.

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Speaker 3: Oh Overseas? Yeah yeah, Ireland not a question times a thousand,

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Speaker 3: Rich asks.

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Speaker 2: Pronasty. I should say, as you guys have undoubtedly noticed,

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Speaker 2: there seems to be a ridiculous amount of buzz among

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Speaker 2: some Steeler fans surrounding Will Howard. I've never really seen

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Speaker 2: anything like it. Do you attribute it to post bend desperation?

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Speaker 2: His prominent prominence of ASO issues championship quarterback or something else.

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Speaker 2: I think you hit the nail on the head, like

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Speaker 2: the United States stuff people both post Ben desperation and

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Speaker 2: the Ohio State stuff all this guy just like this

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Speaker 2: one national championship.

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Speaker 3: This Steeler have.

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Speaker 2: Drafted a national championship winning quarterback in the past. That

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Speaker 2: happened back when they took tem Martin, Okay, and they

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Speaker 2: didn't exactly have a great quarterback situation at that point.

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Speaker 3: When they took t Martin. People didn't get this excited

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Speaker 3: about tem Martin. No, I'm sure they didn't. And no,

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Speaker 3: there was no social media and things of that nation. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, to Howard's credit, Like there's this great interview

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Speaker 3: out there with Gruden, you know, the Ruden's quarterback camp,

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Speaker 3: and he was maybe the most impressive of anyone in

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Speaker 3: this class. And he probably shouldn't have lasted the sixth round,

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Speaker 3: but he's still a sixth round er. Yeah. And if

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Speaker 3: it was Oregon and not Ohio State, I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh people would have seen as much during the season.

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Speaker 3: You've just seen as much playoff stuff. Ohio State's on

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Speaker 3: a lot here, you know what I mean. And he

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Speaker 3: did really really well.

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Speaker 2: I think he's a fine prospect. Yeah, we drafted him

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Speaker 2: several times, Yeah, in mock drafts, but I'm not annointing

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Speaker 2: him the starter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these things well, and Howard inevitably would be the

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Speaker 3: start early. Whether six round pick in the league is

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Speaker 3: getting that kind of conversation.

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Speaker 2: Marco Romero and Navarros, What are the critical aspects of

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Speaker 2: Howard's play that he has to improve in order to

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Speaker 2: be a starter in the NFL? Also, which of Bobby

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Speaker 2: Bowden's book or any other author would you recommend the

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Speaker 2: young quarterback looking to improve his leadership skills. I haven't

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Speaker 2: read any of those.

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Speaker 3: I brought up the Bowden one a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: It's been twenty five years since I read coaches leadership's books.

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Speaker 3: But there's tons of them out there, and I can't

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Speaker 3: speak from what i'd tell my quarterback to read. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think in terms of leadership and stuff. It's my kids.

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Speaker 2: I understand why some people like to or would read

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Speaker 2: these self help books and things of that nature. I

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Speaker 2: can't say I've ever read one of them.

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Speaker 3: I won't read a lot like I know you read

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Speaker 3: a time. It was twenty five years ago. But I

631
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 3: was like new to the business. I was on a

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Speaker 3: summer kick where I read like ten or twelve of them.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure i've read a book since, and they're good.

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Speaker 3: And then some of them were x's and o's and

635
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 3: how your team build and it's not all like this

636
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: is how you become a better person. A lot of

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00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: it was very football stuff. I mean it was Bill

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00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 3: Walsh's book is like you can't even find it on

639
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: eBay now. They didn't print enough of them. Everybody wants them.

640
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Speaker 3: They're like they go for like three hundred bucks. And

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Speaker 3: he's talking about how to break down a practice and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. I learned a lot about the game,

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Speaker 3: you know that would have see I would have no

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Speaker 3: interest whatsoever. And oh god, I mean there's even one

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Speaker 3: there's a historic one that Bill Arnsbarger wrote as a

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Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. This is how you take on blocks and

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Speaker 3: this is the base four to three and that kind

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Speaker 3: of stuff. I read, you know, just to learn more

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Speaker 3: at the time. But I wouldn't suggest any quarterback go

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00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: hit the books. Howard. I think he's a little limited

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Speaker 3: physically and that's not going to change.

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Speaker 2: The arm strength is the arm strength, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Maybe gets a little better, but he's a good athlete,

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Speaker 3: not a great athlete. I just think his traits are backup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Now that doesn't mean he can't progress,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean it can't get better.

657
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Speaker 3: But I mean that was purty too. Yeah, I mean,

658
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong.

659
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: I think people see that since the whole Party thing, right,

660
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: and well he was the last pick in the draft,

661
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: and look he became a starting quarterback and now he

662
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: just got paid like maybe we got the next one.

663
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: And it was that way for years between after Brady

664
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: was picked. Well, he took this quarterback in the sixth round,

665
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: and you know, can he be the next It just

666
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 2: doesn't happen like that other time.

667
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, Party's one of the best seventh round

668
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 3: picks in the history of NFL football, and the second

669
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: he threw his second touchdown pass was probably the best

670
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 3: Mister Irrelevant ever. Yeah, I mean, like that's the ab pick,

671
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 3: that's the Brady pick, Like that's hitting the lottery and

672
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 3: he's not even Brady, of course, But you can't just

673
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 3: think that these quarterbacks go look at every quarterback draft

674
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: in the sixth round or later. A few of them

675
00:33:59,080 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: even make it.

676
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: Ye are even in the league two years right, right right?

677
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 3: No one was saying this about a Wolocon.

678
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know who is still in the league.

679
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 3: He still is league. I think Howard will last a

680
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 3: very long time.

681
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: I think you will see.

682
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure it's like Williams Nate Howard. No,

683
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 3: I'm pretty excited about him.

684
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 2: Codys has advanced analytics separated how quarterback in interceptions are

685
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 2: broken down. A hail Mary at halftime shouldn't count the

686
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 2: same as a bad throw or a wide receiver running

687
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 2: the wrong route.

688
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 3: He's one thousand percent right. All interceptions aren't even close

689
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 3: to being created equal. But I have not seen a

690
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 3: metric saying this interception that wasn't worse than this one,

691
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 3: or this one's worse than you know.

692
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: Because the thing is, so many times when the wide

693
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: receiver runs the wrong route, the only person that knows

694
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 2: that are the guys standing on the sideline people, the

695
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: coaching staff. Yeah, the quarterback and the wide receiver.

696
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 3: And even like we talked about the other day, Beanie

697
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 3: Bishop picked off Rogers twice, they're not the same.

698
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: No, straight off of right right, Garrett Wilson's chest, Yeah,

699
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 2: there was nothing wrong with the throw.

700
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: It was the execution of the throw. Now, I don't

701
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: know if they're good at it or not, but I

702
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 3: do respect Pro football focuses turnover worthy plays. Hail Mary

703
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 3: at the end of the half doesn't count, doesn't count

704
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: in that, the tipball doesn't count in that. I assume

705
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 3: I'm giving the evaluators credit. Who says turnover worthy or

706
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 3: not the benefit of the doubt, right, But that approach

707
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 3: to it is.

708
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: There are also other ones where you throw the ball

709
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: directly to the defender and they.

710
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: Always turnover worthy play, right. I remember one year Matt

711
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 3: Ryan had like five interceptions, but he had like twenty

712
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: turnover worthy plays. He just happened to have a very

713
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,479
Speaker 3: lucky year. When he threw a bad pass, it didn't

714
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: cost him.

715
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: Okay, Michael Odesso asks, can you guys remember what happened

716
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 2: with Rod Woodson and the Steelers when he left? It

717
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 2: still breaks my heart seeing him in a Ravens jersey

718
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 2: and working with the organization.

719
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 3: No, you would know better than I do. I don't

720
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 3: remember why he was no longer.

721
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: He was ten years in. He was coming off the

722
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 2: ACL injury, and he just they thought that he was

723
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 2: on the decline at that point.

724
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 3: So did he leave via free agency? They just didn't

725
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 3: pick up his contract when the time came went to

726
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers, didn't have a very good year. Yeah.

727
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 3: In San Francisco, reinvented himself as a safety.

728
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he moved on, you know, made the adjustment.

729
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: He came back the year after San Francisco. I believe

730
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 2: he went to the Raiders.

731
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 3: There was definitely a Raiders stint. I just don't know

732
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: those times.

733
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 2: He played some corner then they eventually shifted him to safety.

734
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: And I can remember we talked to Rod at the

735
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: at the Combine a couple of years ago. I don't

736
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: know if it was with you or me and Jerry,

737
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 2: I've never sat down with it, and we were talking

738
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 2: about this and Rod was a safety in college.

739
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know that that was his That's.

740
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 2: What he was big and they moved him, you know,

741
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 2: to cornerback because he was so fast, so good. But

742
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: by trade, he was a safety in college, so that

743
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 2: was just a natural progression for him.

744
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Charles Woodson Rod Woods and he was one

745
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 3: of the guys that made that easy. I assume he

746
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: made a big contract when he left too, I mean

747
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 3: he was still rod Woodson. Yeah, but okay, yeah, I

748
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 3: didn't know exactly the timeline. I know they didn't trade him.

749
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 2: Joe Marcusick says, what is your over under on if

750
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers signs by man mandatory mini camp? When is

751
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: that two weeks from now or two weeks from Tuesday?

752
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 3: Fifty fifty?

753
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 2: I think he's here for mandatory mini camp.

754
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems like a logical Yeah, deadline that's the

755
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 3: wrong word. But you know, over under point.

756
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: Michael Edwards asked, do you see the team regularly utilizing

757
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 2: a three safety package now that they have Meca Elliott

758
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 2: and Thornhill. If so, which safety do you believe will

759
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: play up in the slot? And what is your favorite

760
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: pizza place in Pittsburgh?

761
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I think you'll see more Big Nickel regularly

762
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 3: is a tough depends on you're playing. Yeah, When they

763
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 3: say regularly, I mean I don't know that it'll be

764
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: fifty percent of snaps or anything like that. I think

765
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 3: it'll be the percentage will go up much more so.

766
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 3: But I don't think you want to take Wilson off

767
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 3: the field or a slot corner, you know, like you

768
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 3: can of put eleven out there, right, you know, I mean,

769
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 3: so somebody has to come off. I think it'll be

770
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: a really useful package. And another wrinkle, I could see

771
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,959
Speaker 3: Minca playing more slot than he has, but not regularly.

772
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 2: But Thornhill can do that as well.

773
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 3: Yes, agreed, Fiori's Harry's or my two South Hills favorites.

774
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 2: I'd say I like a big fan of Grande.

775
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 3: There's one.

776
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: There's one in Cannonsburg on nineteen. There used to be

777
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 2: one in Washington as well. Anytime I'm up in that area,

778
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: get Grande.

779
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go go. Always opened ideas, but there's

780
00:38:59,040 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: not a ton by me.

781
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: Ted Webb ass During training camp do you and Matt

782
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 2: stay in the dorms or do you go home every day?

783
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: And if you stay, what are your must have in

784
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: your room? Well, we do stay. I've stayed in the dorms. Yeah,

785
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 2: basically I've had a room and the dorms out there

786
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: every year except maybe three now, there was there was

787
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: one year coming out of COVID. Well COVID we didn't.

788
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: We weren't at training camp. Uh, and then coming out

789
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: of COVID we stayed in the hotel. Yeah, they're doing

790
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: radio shows and early on when.

791
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 3: That's why there was COVID.

792
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 2: When I first started covering the team, I had a room,

793
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 2: but I always had to I was a low guy

794
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: in the totem pole. So even though I was covering

795
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 2: the Steelers, a lot of times they would schedule me

796
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 2: to cover the Steelers during the day and then come

797
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 2: in and work the office.

798
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 3: At night a lot.

799
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 2: Wow. So I'm leaving my house at like, you know,

800
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: ten or at nine o'clock in the morning, and I'm

801
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 2: working until one o block at night. Yeah, and then

802
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: getting up the next day to do it again.

803
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 3: So my version of this is I'll I'm in the

804
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: dorms except for NOVID, which is weird. The answer is

805
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 3: dorms that the dorm room is bare bones. I mean,

806
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 3: it's a laptop. I'll spend much time on my don't

807
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: spend much time. Pillows the most important thing, Yeah, shampoo

808
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 3: and whatnot.

809
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: I brought a TV before, but I end up not

810
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: watching it a whole lot. I might, I'll put it

811
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 2: on for background noise or I'm writing or something like that,

812
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 2: but it's not necessary.

813
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,479
Speaker 3: I have my iPad. If I'm going to watch a show,

814
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 3: I'll just go to but I'll.

815
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 2: Bring my speaker and you know, my m H and

816
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 2: just sit it up and play tunes on it or whatever.

817
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: But if you know, as you mentioned to start a segment,

818
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 3: we do the drive every day. There's a practice, but

819
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 3: they don't practice every day. So if tomorrow they don't

820
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 3: have a show, nine out of ten times, I'll sneak

821
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: home and at least see the fam and sleep in

822
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 3: my bed. You know.

823
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll be times. If that's the case and I've

824
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 2: got something big that i'm writing, m a lot of

825
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: times I'll just stay stay there and it's quiet.

826
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 3: It's very very quiet.

827
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get a lot more work done if I'm

828
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: just there.

829
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 3: And Sharky's are still open, and Sharky's is still That's

830
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 3: why we go because we don't blast all stuff in

831
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: our room.

832
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: There's no but it's not.

833
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: Hard to get home. I like to give them one

834
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 3: day a week at least.

835
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's it's from my house to to

836
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 2: La Trobe is a little bit over an hour.

837
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 3: Mine's about the same thing. I remember, Right, It's just

838
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: that drive on seventies. I just hate it. It's not

839
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 3: a fun drive, right, right, right.

840
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 2: One more here before we take a break. Andrew Kwakowski

841
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: has favorite Memorial Day party food, burgers, dogs, or something else.

842
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 2: Love the show for all the football talk, but also

843
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 2: love it when you guys get off topic and we

844
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: learn more about your personalities.

845
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 3: I would say, like fourth of July, Memorial Day, Red

846
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 3: White and Blue holidays, it's burgers and dogs.

847
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 2: Burgers and dogs, yeah right, yeah.

848
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 3: Any chicken could be there, or any dip or whatever.

849
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 3: I'll never say no to a steak, right, but burgers

850
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 3: and dogs are yeah, yeah, yeah, just burger dog, maybe

851
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 3: some chips and basic American. Yeah.

852
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 2: Grant my grandmother, my one grant.

853
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 3: My dad's salad.

854
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 2: Always did her meat loaf. You get a cold meat

855
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: loaf that she would have and her meat loaf. I've

856
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: never had anything like it.

857
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: That seems like Sunday dinner to me.

858
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: Not just make a meat loaf sandwich and you know,

859
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: and it was great meatloaf. I don't know what she

860
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: did do it. I couldn't get that for my wife,

861
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: you know that that recipe.

862
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 3: But fourth of July. I know they asked about Memorial Day,

863
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: but they always think of them together, the patriots to Red,

864
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 3: white and blue much of my life. We went to

865
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 3: the Brentwood Parade, which is kind of like going back

866
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 3: in time like the last time I was there. The

867
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 3: Shriners are still in their little cars, which is exactly

868
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 3: this thirty years ago. Nothing ever changed. It's now the

869
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 3: sons of the guys that did it right. Everything looks

870
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 3: exactly the same. We still have a keg sitting next

871
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 3: to the fire hall and my aunt comes around with

872
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 3: she would go if she had a basket this big

873
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: full of every kind of klondike you've ever seen, and

874
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Speaker 3: just getting the kids just crushed klondikes. And that was

875
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Speaker 3: Fourth of July. And then someone blows stuff up at night.

876
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it all goes right somewhere somewhere to watch fireworks.

877
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah. The Brentwood Parade was big for us. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, let's get to a break. We'll come back with

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Speaker 2: finish up the questions. Here he is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 2: Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive. You're on Steelers

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Speaker 2: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back right after this the least.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dale, Lolli. He is the Matt Williamson. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: get break back to the questions here on the show

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Speaker 2: and t MAC two five six says Dale, Matt and

890
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Speaker 2: the boys. So you guys get the I'm in on

891
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Speaker 2: this one as well. What's the loudest and more than

892
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: and we're the most excited you've ever seen Steelers Stadium

893
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: for a single play. I was there in only thirty

894
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 2: and only thirty two, but Troy's picked six in the

895
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Speaker 2: AFC Championship versus the Ravens is a moment I'll never

896
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Speaker 2: forget watching. Thanks love the show. That was a big one.

897
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Speaker 2: I can remember this, the whole stadium moving like.

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Speaker 3: You're always there. I'm not going to be very good

899
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Speaker 3: at this like you could.

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Speaker 2: You're sitting in the press box early on at Akroscher Stadium,

901
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: and there were moments like that where all of a

902
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 2: sudden you'd start feeling.

903
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: The whole yeah yeah thing move and it's like I mean,

904
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 3: as a kid, as a fan, there was times three

905
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 3: Rivers felt like that in the state, in the stadium

906
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 3: and in the stands. Yeah, I would have to think

907
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 3: the immaculate reception has.

908
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: To be I would think that one would have been

909
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 2: a big one.

910
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 3: But I wasn't on that movie.

911
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: I went there. I can say I was on the

912
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 2: field for the Harbaugh Hail Mary at the end of

913
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship game.

914
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 3: Okay, that almost was.

915
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 2: And you heard the krodgo from up here as loud

916
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 2: as they could be to Nobody said yeah until the

917
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: official came in and waved no catch.

918
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 3: That was really close. I'm sure Tyler could maybe not

919
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 3: give us moments, but he's on the feet. Yeah, Tyler

920
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 3: is on the field running the boom mic of extreme

921
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 3: volume and aggression and whatnot. H therego the Cleveland game. Yeah,

922
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Speaker 3: all right, I'm sure there's a million in history though. Yeah.

923
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 3: Uh may.

924
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 2: Jo Jonas says paying a legend feels good, but with

925
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 2: the rookie quarterback coming in twenty six, presumably is sinking

926
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Speaker 2: thirteen percent of the salary cap into a thirty one

927
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 2: year old edge rusher smart post thirty Mega deals rarely

928
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 2: pay off, and if you're betting on an outlier, why

929
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: not spend the cash, lock up rising talent, and keep

930
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 2: the roster anti fragile and flexible.

931
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Speaker 3: It's a good point. It's wealth out. Uh. He has

932
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Speaker 3: tested us a bunch and he's a very good contributor

933
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 3: to all my podcasts. Well, where are you putting it though?

934
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean, here's the thing, we don't

935
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 2: know what the number is at this point. The camp

936
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: is continuing to go up.

937
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna lose flexibility roster wise. The

938
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: one thing I was going to fight him on is

939
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 3: well thought out tweet. I love that you were talking

940
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 3: about percentage of cap not he's not worth forty million.

941
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 3: But it's not like it's what It's not like what

942
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: or Jamar Chase is going to get right? You know,

943
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: it's not Hendrick Center Chase. It's you pay water or not.

944
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Speaker 2: You know, I look at this year's free agents as

945
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 2: an example. Teams don't let their good players walk.

946
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 3: That's the thing. If he's good, they don't hit free agency.

947
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 3: You know. I mean, Milton Williams is a good player,

948
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 3: but he's on a special player load d line that

949
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 3: they drafted another one. You know, he was the highest

950
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 3: paid defensive player, and Watt would have so much more

951
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: in that if he hit the free agent market. So

952
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of apples apples, and I don't

953
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 3: think your roster and cap would become a problem. Again,

954
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 3: it's not like the Ben years when had to let

955
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Speaker 3: the hard graves go right, Not at.

956
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Speaker 2: All, Matt de cicco as how guys, I love to

957
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 2: show you are the commissioner and you can make one

958
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: rule change each What is it? Mine is the stupid

959
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 2: fumble out of the end zone touchback bs Either spot

960
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 2: where the runner was or make the offense get the

961
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: ball back at the twenty either no way, it should

962
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 2: be a turnover.

963
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 3: I'm really high on that one too. I hate how

964
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 3: it is now. I've just never heard what the answer

965
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 3: should be. I hate that a team can gain the

966
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 3: ball without ever gaining possession. Yeah. Yes, maybe it was

967
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 3: a good case that you lost it because you fumbled,

968
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 3: but the other team doesn't have a claim to me

969
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 3: that they earned possession. I just don't know what the

970
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 3: rule should be. Someone smarter than me has to come

971
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 3: up with the answer. But I don't like the rule

972
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 3: as it's constructed. Yeah I don't.

973
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 2: I don't love that it's a turnover either. Yeah, but

974
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: the rule's been in place where it there's a reason

975
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 2: why that's the rule. I'm not you know, somebody probably

976
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: tried to fumble into the end zone, so somebody.

977
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 3: Else could fall on oh fumble Rooskies, right, yeah, I know.

978
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. In terms of overall, you know, any other rules

979
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: that I would change, I can't think of anything off

980
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 2: the top of my I mean, that's yeah, that's a

981
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 2: big one. Maybe I would.

982
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 3: I don't have massive discrepancies. I've said a thousand times

983
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 3: over the last fifteen years on there that if I

984
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 3: was king of the world, I would love to have

985
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 3: a minor league system. We kind of got that now,

986
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 3: and it's more in place than ever.

987
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: Now you get guys playing in college football making more

988
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: money than they'll make his rookies in the nf.

989
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 3: And the practice squad is much bigger. Like I lobbied

990
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 3: like crazy pre COVID. That why the practice squads six

991
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 3: or seven guys only costs the owners five grand a

992
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 3: week or something. It's nothing, but that's one of the

993
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 3: best things came back COVID. Now you have a big

994
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: practice squad.

995
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 2: Now it might be one that I might change. I

996
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: think if you have a fifty three man roster, you

997
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 2: should be able to have fifty three guys active on

998
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: game day.

999
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you can move guys, like, because of the

1000
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 3: moves that you can make you have there, yeah right, Like,

1001
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 3: I don't see why there's any reason why if a

1002
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 3: guy practice practices with me all week long.

1003
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 2: I don't get as it is now, I think you

1004
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 2: get three or four moves before you have to put

1005
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 2: them on the active roster. Let's say I got five

1006
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 2: guys hurt that week, which is why they have the

1007
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 2: forty five right right, the seven in actives. Why should

1008
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,479
Speaker 2: be able to fill that roster out with the guys

1009
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 2: that are practicing. I got sixteen guys on a practice squad, right,

1010
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: so you practice with me all week long? Why can't

1011
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 2: I bring them all? You know, if I've got these

1012
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 2: many guys injured, they're on an injury list, I've declared

1013
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: them out.

1014
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 3: Why can't I go? I think this is true. On

1015
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 3: Wednesday during the week, there are sixty nine Pittsburgh Steelers.

1016
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 2: I believe that's the number.

1017
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty three and sixteen. I wasn't sure if it's

1018
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 3: sixteen or not. Why can't I have fifty three of

1019
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 3: them active every Sunday? Right? In some way, shape or form.

1020
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 2: They'll less you go to fifty five with the two

1021
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 2: activations off of, but then you still have to declare

1022
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 2: who you actives and inactives are, right. I understand why

1023
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 2: they're inactive, actually, because that kind of levels the playing field.

1024
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 3: For guys that are hurt and betting has something to do.

1025
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 2: Ye, But I think you should be able to carry

1026
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 2: a full fifty three. Yeah, I think that numbers should

1027
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 2: be higher because you've got sixteen guys who are practicing

1028
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 2: with you all week long. Why can't I why can't

1029
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 2: have them?

1030
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 3: Right? He may not even give Jersey dirty, but you

1031
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,720
Speaker 3: throw a dree archer out there that would never be active,

1032
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 3: but he for three plays, he plays for you, you

1033
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Or more active people on game day, Yeah,

1034
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 3: they could obviously afford it.

1035
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 2: May Joyner also asks, suppose they skip wide receiver two shopping,

1036
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: what creative high leverage way could the Steelers spend those

1037
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 2: resources instead? Supercharge the running game, overload the D line,

1038
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 2: or another outlier approach that cranks up matchup stress for

1039
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 2: the opponents.

1040
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 3: Well, mine's Janalen Ramsey. I mean it's the ultimate luxury thing.

1041
00:50:53,760 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 3: Make the defense, but lack anything resembling a hole. I

1042
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna happen. It's not gonna it's talking out.

1043
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 3: I mean, receiver is the obvious one. If that's theeeler

1044
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 3: is the obvious need. I just can't get past that.

1045
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 3: I mean, that's if I'm not allowed to do that.

1046
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 2: Like, who else are you signing or going to get

1047
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: on your defensive line? It's like, oh well, and it's

1048
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 2: may you just spent two draft picks on your defensive line.

1049
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 2: Anybody else that you bring into that situation now is

1050
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 2: going to maybe retard the progress of the two guys

1051
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 2: you drafted or you know, and again the one guy

1052
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 2: you drafted last year. You want to give those guys opportunities.

1053
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not. The answer is not grab Nick

1054
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 3: Chubb probably is inactive for you. I mean, who knows,

1055
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 3: you know, and the ship's kind of sailed on that one. Yeah,

1056
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: mister Danson, I would always keep my ears open for

1057
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 3: possibilities during camp, and you know, the opportunities will rise.

1058
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: Mister Dan asked the Steelers are seemingly notorious for small

1059
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 2: coaching staff. What areas outside of onfield talent would you

1060
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 2: like to see them invest improve the team? That's a misnomer.

1061
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 2: The whole coaching staff thing. They have all kinds of

1062
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: assistants on the coaching staff who aren't listed as coaches,

1063
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 2: who are actually coaches.

1064
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 3: They're actually or contributing to football stuff.

1065
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: I think some of the it's too well. You know,

1066
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 2: they only have eighteen coaches listed on their staff. They

1067
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 2: have more than that. I mean, for example, if you

1068
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 2: look at their website, Vince Williams and Ryan Shazier were

1069
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: here all last.

1070
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 3: Year, but they weren't called coach.

1071
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 2: But they weren't officially called coaches.

1072
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 3: They got a paigeeck, but they were on the coaching staff.

1073
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 2: They were at every game, they were there doing coaching stuff.

1074
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 3: Can you read the question again? I just wanted to

1075
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 3: see exactly how he structured it.

1076
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 2: So, what areas outside of on field talent would you

1077
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 2: like to see them invest in to improve the team?

1078
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, I thought that the answer was just invest

1079
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 3: more in And I was going to say on air

1080
00:52:55,840 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 3: radio personnelity. Okay, they should probably double their salaries. This

1081
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 3: would be smart for everybody.

1082
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 2: Uh Rodger said. The league confirmed that the Pirates home

1083
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 2: games impact scheduling Steelers home games in September. With that said,

1084
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 2: how are the Steelers going to be able to host

1085
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 2: the Draft when they apparently can't handle two sporting events

1086
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 2: on the same day.

1087
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 3: That's the league. I have no clue.

1088
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna, trust me, they'll be able to hand them.

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00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 2: In fact, you probably won't see the Pirates necessarily at

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00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 2: home that week.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that's certain. I mean that's set in stone right,

1092
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 3: and over the years they haven't had a whole lot

1093
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 3: of pirate playoff conflict. And if they are, so be it, like,

1094
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 3: just deal with it, right, I'm sure that's one of

1095
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 3: those things. It's like if Springsteen comes to town, you're

1096
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 3: away that week or whatever. You know, there are lots

1097
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 3: of in the Draft here. It's really a leftover from

1098
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 3: when they shared a stadium. Yeah.

1099
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, then you couldn't be at home. The Pirates were

1100
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,879
Speaker 2: at home, you couldn't be right now.

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00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 3: They both can't. Yeah, but they the Draft will be

1102
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 3: the only show in town when it's here for those

1103
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 3: three days. I'm certain of that. Uh.

1104
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: Patrick McCarthy says, love the show, guys listen every day

1105
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 2: and down in Arizona. Thank you for that.

1106
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 3: Dale.

1107
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 2: Last week, you said you didn't grow up a Steelers fan.

1108
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: What team did you grow up rooting for the Browns

1109
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 2: the same as Matt and he gets a little wink.

1110
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 2: I was a Detroit Lions fan when.

1111
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 3: I wassuy, Yeah, I was.

1112
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 2: I was a Pistons fan, and I was an Oakland

1113
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 2: A's fan. I picked my fandom when I was about

1114
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 2: you know, ten or so, based on the players that

1115
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: I really liked. Yeah, and I was a Billy Simms fan,

1116
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 2: so I then became a Lions fan. I was an

1117
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 2: Isaiah Thomas fan in Indiana. I then became a was

1118
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 2: it just so happened both of my both of those

1119
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 2: teams were they both ended up in Detroit, and I

1120
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 2: was a big Ricky Henderson fan. Therefore I became an

1121
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 2: A's fan.

1122
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 3: Gotcha and Conseko was fun and those guys the late

1123
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 3: eighties were great. Since they're winning championships, the A's are

1124
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 3: winning champ I feel like this is the best Lion

1125
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 3: is not so much so much interesting.

1126
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 2: Also, I know you got our golf guy will be

1127
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,439
Speaker 2: going to the US Open this summer at Oakmont new

1128
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 2: I'll watch it on TV, but I am not getting

1129
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: anywhere near that. If you've been to Oakmont, nothing against Oakmont.

1130
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 2: You want to talk about traffic problems.

1131
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 3: I was there once, Yeah, and it was a nightmare

1132
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 3: of that. Yeah, it's the only like golf event I've

1133
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 3: ever been to. It's cool, it'll be there.

1134
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 2: I've covered golf e not not to that level, but

1135
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: I've covered some Josiah Jones. We'll get a couple more here.

1136
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 2: Matt often says teams will tell you what they're thinking

1137
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 2: by the Moser make trading Pickens away tells me the

1138
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: Steelers don't think they can compete this year. I know

1139
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 2: you both disagree with tanking, but as the roster sits today,

1140
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: could that be going on here?

1141
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think that's We've addressed that a lot. Yeah,

1142
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 3: I mean I think that. I think that roster move

1143
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 3: tells you they won't playing on giving them a contract. Yeah,

1144
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 3: I think that's.

1145
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely what that r to his agent, and perhaps they

1146
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 2: thought that he was going to be a distraction in

1147
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 2: training camp and therefore they said, now we're gonna get

1148
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 2: rid of them again.

1149
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 3: I don't think they're done there.

1150
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 2: I don't think so either.

1151
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 3: We could we could re ask us again in two

1152
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 3: months if the wide receiver room looks like exactly the same,

1153
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 3: and maybe we'll change our tune.

1154
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 2: But Cody s how would how would a team have

1155
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 2: to be constructed to advance to a championship game with

1156
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:28,720
Speaker 2: a tier low, Tier two slash three QB three based

1157
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: on Mike Sando's rankings.

1158
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 3: I think we just I mean, it would have to

1159
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 3: be an Eagles roster.

1160
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 2: But think we just saw that with the Eagles.

1161
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Hurts is a little better than a little.

1162
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 2: Better than that, but not a great deal better than

1163
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:40,919
Speaker 2: a Tier two guy.

1164
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean we've seen the loaded roster great

1165
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 3: in the line of scrimmage. I think the Steelers are

1166
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 3: trying to mimic that. Yeah, I mean, it's still going

1167
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 3: to be an uphill battle, Still an uphill battle.

1168
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 2: That's why you keep taking swings to try to get

1169
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 2: the Tier one guy.

1170
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've brought this up before, and it's interesting to me,

1171
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 3: is if I took my home and added him to

1172
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 3: thirty one other teams, you think they're a Super Bowl contender,

1173
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 3: yes or no? About twenty five of them are, and

1174
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 3: I came up with like twenty one that are yeses.

1175
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 3: Faints are still a no, you know, but a lot

1176
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 3: of stealers are a raging yes.

1177
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 2: You know.

1178
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 3: Things like that, and then the opposite and said, how

1179
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 3: many quarterbacks would you put on the Eagles roster? And

1180
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 3: they're still a super Bowl contender? It's about the equal number,

1181
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, you can put roster. It's a really

1182
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 3: good roster, right, So why.

1183
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 2: You keep continuing to build even though you don't have

1184
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 2: the quarterback?

1185
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 3: It's this point. I mean, they're the favorite to win

1186
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 3: it all, but are they a super Bowl contender? Yeah,

1187
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 3: it's about an equal number. Last question here we can

1188
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 3: get to today. I'm sorry about the other ones we

1189
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,439
Speaker 3: didn't get to here, but hi, guys, Chris Maxwell says,

1190
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 3: I know he's an under undrafted free agent, but I

1191
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 3: have a strange feeling in a good way about Rock Taylor.

1192
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 2: What are the chances about him?

1193
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 3: A lot?

1194
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? What are the chances he's a good contributor this

1195
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: year from the offensive side of the ball.

1196
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 3: Slim slim obviously. Yeah, I've been asked by him so

1197
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 3: much though I'm next week I am going to go

1198
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 3: out of my way to watch Rock Taylor. Yeah, he's

1199
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 3: a big receiver.

1200
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 2: People like who the receiver out of Memphis?

1201
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 3: Right? I think so? Yeah, I don't know a lot

1202
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 3: about him. I haven't done a ton extra homework.

1203
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 2: But there's a reason why I went undrafted in.

1204
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 3: And maybe it's just the same person asked about him

1205
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,479
Speaker 3: all the time because he's his cousin. I had no idea,

1206
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 3: but I get asked about Rock Taylor a lot. But

1207
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 3: I will pay extra attention next week to Rock Taylor.

1208
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be able to tell you a little bit

1209
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 2: more about that then. But Matt, that's going to do it.

1210
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 3: I have seen any of the rookies in person, Yeah.

1211
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 2: I have, and it wasn't real exciting. They weren't even

1212
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 2: throwing the footnot let's get to a break or that

1213
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 2: we're not doing a break. We're going to wrap up

1214
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 2: the show for my partner some good questions day. Yeah,

1215
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 2: we're good for my partner, Matt Williamson, for Justin here

1216
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: on site keeping us on the air and running the

1217
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 2: Justin Miller hotline, and for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure our

1218
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 2: video gets out there on the YouTube. Give us a

1219
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 2: thumbs up there you can leave your comments. Just a reminder,

1220
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow is the last day we're going to do the

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00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 2: video until the start of training camp, So Tyler's going

1222
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Speaker 2: to take a little high here with that. I am

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Speaker 2: Dale Lollie. We thank you for listening to this edition

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