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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation, how we do it? Well, that's

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Speaker 2: good us too. It is our number two of the

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Speaker 2: drive here on this Wednesday, as we continue to get

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Speaker 2: ready for the NFL Draft and everything else on the

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Speaker 2: horizon here in the upcoming NFL off season.

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Speaker 3: Matt.

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Speaker 2: Part of that a staple, something that we'll continue to

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Speaker 2: do all the way up until the end of April,

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Speaker 2: is our conversation, our list of prospects that we would

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Speaker 2: trade pick.

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Speaker 3: Twenty one for right now. Yeah, okay, this is a

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Speaker 3: fun exercise.

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Speaker 2: We've gotten some tweets in the last few days like

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Speaker 2: when are you guys gonna do that again?

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Speaker 3: Free agencies over now again? Not over? But the majority

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Speaker 3: of the.

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Speaker 4: Bunch knows what you're going to look like going into

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Speaker 4: the draft.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And could the Steelers still add a veteran offensive lineman? Sure,

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Speaker 2: could they still. But most of the tip the scales

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Speaker 2: type moves have happened.

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Speaker 3: That business is mostly done across the league.

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Speaker 4: And I think I don't remember my original list I

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Speaker 4: have it here? Was it pre combine?

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Speaker 3: Right after the combine? Was the last time we did it.

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Speaker 4: I bet it's different though for me because a couple

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Speaker 4: of reasons. I've had more time to work on prospects,

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Speaker 4: some of whom I like less than I did then.

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Speaker 4: I have a feeling, but Steelers needs have changed so

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Speaker 4: much that I might be more app just to say

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Speaker 4: I'll take the edge rusher even though we don't need it,

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Speaker 4: because he's the third best player in the draft, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean. Like I might just take a

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Speaker 4: true best available because they don't have as nearly as

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Speaker 4: many needs as when we had this life. It's I'm closed.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a very good way to frame it.

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Speaker 4: Like I might turn down receivers more than I would

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Speaker 4: have then because you epitment now.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So when we did this exercise to weeks ago, we

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Speaker 2: had yeses for one, two, three, four, eight different guys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we have two lists. We just had like the

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Speaker 4: drive list. Uh.

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Speaker 3: We both said yes about eight names, and I don't

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Speaker 3: want to run.

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Speaker 4: Through them because I don't influence my decision.

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Speaker 3: We both had eight yeses.

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Speaker 2: We had fennemonism maybe, and then I had a yes

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Speaker 2: for Jordan Tyson with the caveat of if I knew

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Speaker 2: his medical reports were clear. Okay, so that's where we

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Speaker 2: were at last time. So let's we could kind of

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Speaker 2: we could kind of compare again here and see if

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Speaker 2: we have more have less that type of.

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Speaker 4: Thing, best player available aside, you know, like r vel rees.

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Speaker 4: Youah sure, I'm leaning more and more and people that

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Speaker 4: have paid attention to me this time of year, I waffle, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I do. I like to look at things from every

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Speaker 4: different angle. Two weeks from now, I might think the opposite,

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Speaker 4: but I really think the first two picks are gonna

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Speaker 4: be O line and wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: Can I just say this?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And maybe this is just me saying this because it

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Speaker 2: takes one to no one. And I think I'm a

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Speaker 4: And I think it's a good way of doing it

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Speaker 4: because I don't want to not turn overturned and I

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Speaker 4: want to look at it. I'm gonna look under every

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Speaker 4: stone or whatever that's saying.

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Speaker 3: Overturn every stone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, leave no stone unturned, Rob King, I Matt

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Speaker 2: think that in this business, especially and more so year

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Speaker 2: sudden sound like the old get off my I am

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Speaker 2: in particular, and really now in the world in general.

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Speaker 2: It's like everything has to be black and white, and

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Speaker 2: I have to have such a hard line opinion on everything,

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Speaker 2: and everyone who disagrees with me as an idiot and wrong.

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Speaker 3: And I am just and I am correct and I

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Speaker 3: am true.

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Speaker 2: I think people who kind of go back and forth

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Speaker 2: and day by day new information presents itself, and because

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Speaker 2: think that's the real way to do it. I think

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Speaker 2: that's the way intelligent people do it. In football, life,

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Speaker 2: information changes in evolve.

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Speaker 4: Even if it's one hundred and eighty degrees. You know,

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Speaker 4: like I've gone back and forth. Should they draft a

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Speaker 4: quarterback in the mid rounds or not? I think there's

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Speaker 4: strong arguments for both. So let's sit this thing out

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Speaker 4: and be the jury and listen to both sides. You know,

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Speaker 4: before you make that decision. I don't have to make

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Speaker 4: that decision, and I don't make decision period. I don't

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Speaker 4: pull the trigger. But I don't have to come up

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Speaker 4: with kind of a final answer for another month. And

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Speaker 4: whereas going with this is I'm liking the first round

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Speaker 4: wide outs a little less and less, to be honest

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Speaker 4: with you. And if I think their first two picks

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Speaker 4: are going to be O line and wide receiver in

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Speaker 4: some order Saint Patti's Day week, I lean towards go

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Speaker 4: O line first and then taking the receiver as opposed

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Speaker 4: to the other way around.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm with you on that, particularly if a

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Speaker 2: certain guard from Penn State happens to be.

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Speaker 3: Available to pick twenty one.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yes, that being said.

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Speaker 2: That being said, I think I like that about you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: So keep waffling, don't you. Don't be don't be stephen

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Speaker 2: A Smith, you know, mel Kiper screaming into the microphone

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Speaker 2: about how correct you are and everybody else is a mortal.

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Speaker 4: This is the only way you can do it. Yes,

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Speaker 4: this is the only way you can approach this draft.

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Speaker 4: If you don't do it this way, you're wrong.

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Speaker 2: That's been that's been the popular thing over the last

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Speaker 3: I think it's time to put that to bed. And

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Speaker 3: every walk of life.

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Speaker 2: And it's actually more close debates yes, it totally does.

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Speaker 2: But I think people are starting to get away from

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Speaker 2: the clickbaky baty stuff too, and they want real analysis

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Speaker 2: and thoughtful opinions.

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Speaker 3: So let's get into this reminder.

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Speaker 2: Last time we had eight yes is one maybe in Finnemon,

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Speaker 2: and then I had a yes for Jordan Tyson medical

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Speaker 2: you know, notwithstanding if I could be privy to that information,

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Speaker 2: here we go two point zero prospects that Matt and

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Speaker 2: I would trade the Steelers pick twenty one to four

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Speaker 2: right now today Saint Patrick's Day Week, March eighteenth. Fernando Mendoza,

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Speaker 2: I think is.

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Speaker 3: A yes, yes, yes for me for sure. That's a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: QB one. You need a court. Even if you were

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Speaker 3: to sit behind Rogers for a year, that'd be fine.

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Speaker 3: That'd be fine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Rvel Reese is a yes for me. I think

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Speaker 4: he's got a chance to be special, so give me him.

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Speaker 2: It might be the best player in this draft. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Jeremiah Love, Yes, I'm saying yes too. It's an interesting

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Speaker 2: one just because it would throw off as we've discussed

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Speaker 2: kind of your board and your blueprint and your plans.

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Speaker 2: But he's on that short list of guys that could

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Speaker 2: be the best player in this draft.

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Speaker 4: And Rico Donald's a nice player, but he's not enough

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Speaker 4: for me to be like, I'm not taking that guy for.

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Speaker 2: Me to potentially pass on the next Saquon Barkley and great.

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Speaker 4: Plus he's such a good receiver in that part to me, Barkley, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean just and I love Warren, but how long's running?

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Speaker 4: Best do one long careers? You know he may hit

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Speaker 4: a wall here this season, season or whatever. The outle's

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Speaker 4: What I find funny, and of course this is all fiction,

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Speaker 4: is if we would if there was a genie out

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Speaker 4: like the folks down on the south side, namely Omar,

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Speaker 4: are they sitting there going say yes. I really hope

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Speaker 4: you say yes this one, or or like, boy, I

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Speaker 4: bet he's gonna say yes this one. It's gonna screw

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Speaker 4: up my entire draft plan. Like I would have never

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Speaker 4: dude in the first round. Right, Buddy's a good player,

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Speaker 4: and we like, okay, guys, I saw what you did

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Speaker 4: there for us, But now I can't get the guard

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Speaker 4: I wanted because you know.

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Speaker 2: This would be a fun exercise if we could give

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Speaker 2: Omar Khan and Andy Widel truth seerum and all right,

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Speaker 2: would you trade pick twenty one for this guy right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? This guy?

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Speaker 3: What about this guy? It would be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Not as much fun when two radio hosts are doing

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Speaker 2: it as you know the GM, but I still think

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Speaker 2: you'll enjoy the conversation.

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Speaker 3: Sunny styles yes, same, yes.

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Speaker 4: So good to say no to? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So so far are.

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Speaker 4: Four yeses? Right?

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Speaker 3: So far?

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Speaker 1: Four for four?

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Speaker 2: All four of those got so those four were part

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Speaker 4: Oh I assume to okay, they were all the best players.

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Speaker 3: Rubin Bain Junior No, same, No, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I that's not just because of the arms. It's a

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Speaker 4: position he plays too.

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Speaker 3: What about David Bailey.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't like him as much as other analysts

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Speaker 4: seem to. Okay, I see some holes in his game.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's good, but if he was one tier better,

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Speaker 4: I'd be like, yeah, he used to get the pass up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, he's an interesting one for me because

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Speaker 2: I agree with what you're saying there. I do think

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Speaker 2: he's a for sure top ten pick.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously this is not gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's bonafide can't miss prospect.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of years he's like the end

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Speaker 4: edge three.

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Speaker 2: Sure, you know, which is probably still better than you

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Speaker 2: could get it twenty one most years.

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Speaker 4: Of course, that guy doesn't make it the twenty one.

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Speaker 4: Hardly any year he would.

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Speaker 2: I know this is a little bit of a cop out.

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Speaker 2: He would kind of be a maybe for me at

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Speaker 2: this point. I totally understand He's the only edge rusher

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Speaker 2: I think I would consider, unless you count rfl rees.

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Speaker 3: He is a little bit of a unique cat.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I would not consider any other edges.

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Speaker 3: Same same Francis Mauigoa.

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Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, he's my left guard today.

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Speaker 3: He's my left guard.

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Speaker 4: And go from there and maybe maybe.

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Speaker 2: He's Zach Martin. Maybe we bump him out the left eventually. Yes,

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Speaker 2: hold on, sorry, I'm just trying to keep up with

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Speaker 2: my with my list here. Caleb Downs, Yes, yes, another

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Speaker 2: one of might be the best player.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. In this I mean, even after a brisker signing,

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Speaker 4: I can play three safeties on the field a lot.

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Speaker 4: Ramsey would definitely not play any safety at that point.

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Speaker 3: Now is when it starts to get a little bit interesting.

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Speaker 2: We have got six yeses so far, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: with a maybe for David Bailey.

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Speaker 3: I'm cheating.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: You have one maybe mansword de Layne Corner out of

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Speaker 4: U very worth it. But we kind of just had

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Speaker 4: like this might be one where Omar's like, take the

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Speaker 4: best corn in the draft. Dude, you know they're hard.

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Speaker 4: You're never gonna get that guy. But I'm gonna say no.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna say no to because he's a

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Speaker 2: he's a very good prospect. But yeah, it's that's similar

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Speaker 2: to the David Bailey conversation. For me, if he was

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Speaker 4: If he was Patrick Peterson coming out, It's like, I

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Speaker 4: don't care if I have Woodson to mel Blonde's my corners,

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Speaker 4: I'm still gonna take it. Right, he's just great, you know.

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Speaker 3: If he's Sauce Gardener coming.

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Speaker 4: Out, yeah, Stingley, you know Carnell Taate, Yes, yes, he's

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Speaker 4: my receiver. One pretty by a pretty wide margin more

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Speaker 4: than it was before.

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Speaker 3: So yes, Dylan Thinnemon, No, not his fault. I think

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say yes for Thinnemon.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I would rather just see again, go Fish. I'd

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Speaker 4: rather just see where the chips fell, because there's a

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Speaker 4: chance you know that you've you've hinted it. Like Vega,

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Speaker 4: I picked fin them in now and Vegas there twenty one. Well,

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Speaker 4: I don't get him.

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Speaker 3: Fair might not be there twenty one.

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Speaker 4: I'd rather just keep that door open.

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Speaker 3: Spencer Fanu, Yes, yes, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: If he was a no for me before, he.

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Speaker 3: Was a no for both of us before.

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Speaker 4: Because I think he's a guard that might also be

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Speaker 4: a tackle, and those guys interest me this year too,

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Speaker 4: because if he's gonna be a killer guard, I'm putting

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Speaker 4: I'm growing more and more fond of him for this.

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Speaker 4: I really like him because he might be your left

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Speaker 4: good at guard that you never even consider moving him,

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Speaker 4: you know, but I might like him more than Vega

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Speaker 4: even just because he might be a tackle two years

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Speaker 2: And you know what I like about him too, is

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Speaker 2: He's got a little bit of center experience too.

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Speaker 4: They've been flirting with it.

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Speaker 2: So say you got into a break glass in case

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Speaker 2: of emergency scenario on a game day, Yeah, on game day, right,

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Speaker 2: you could always in a pinch, throw him at center

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Speaker 4: I'm honestly him to play somewhere for someone for a while.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: I was a little up when I was earlier today,

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Speaker 2: when I was looking over this and going back through

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Speaker 2: the eight names that we said yes to two weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: I was a little disappointed in myself that I didn't

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Speaker 2: to now.

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Speaker 3: I would do Monroe freeling, dude. I've started to see.

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Speaker 2: Him mocked in the top ten a lot, I know,

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Speaker 2: like I've seen him to the Browns at six. That's

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Speaker 2: starting to become pretty popular, which, man, that would be

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Speaker 2: a heck of a meteoric rise.

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Speaker 4: For him now. And I think he could be first

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Speaker 4: offensive lineman off the board because he's the most left

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Speaker 4: tackle wish of all of them, which doesn't something yeah,

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Speaker 4: just in terms of skill set. And that's why I've

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Speaker 4: hesitation for the Steelers because I don't love putting his

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Speaker 4: big tall dude at left guard for this year? Agree,

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Speaker 4: And I don't think I want to ask Roderick or

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Speaker 4: feeling there. But Omar might be like.

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Speaker 3: The draft.

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Speaker 4: You always take him, and we might have a huge

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Speaker 4: need a year from now. Why would you not take him?

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Speaker 4: You know, and you could he can sit on the

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Speaker 4: bench all year or be your sixth offensive lineman. You

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Speaker 4: just take him. So that one's a maybe for if

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Speaker 4: I get one, maybe I'm gonna take one.

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Speaker 3: You got one, I love it, You're allowed one.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna say no, just because if I'm

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Speaker 2: going that route of giving up twenty one for an

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Speaker 2: offensive lineman right now, mm hmm, I I want a

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Speaker 2: guy that has the versatility.

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Speaker 3: To to se he might not play right right now.

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Speaker 3: A year from now, you could be like, man, what

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Speaker 3: an absolute steal he's in. But I like these.

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Speaker 2: I like this, Mawi Goa, this faun new this, this

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Speaker 2: versatility me too.

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Speaker 4: I lean more towards that guy.

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Speaker 3: I like him as your maybe though, I think that's fair.

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Speaker 4: Okay, if I got one, maybe that's it.

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Speaker 3: Kenyon Sadi. No, we're not taking it. We're not taking

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Speaker 3: a tight end to pick twenty one.

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Speaker 4: Be tough to get him on the field, and I

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Speaker 4: gotta take people off field.

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Speaker 3: I like makay Lemon no same.

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Speaker 4: I think he's only a slot.

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Speaker 2: He's a tough one to pin down. Yeah, because you

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Speaker 2: turn on the tape and there's so much to like.

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Speaker 4: There is a lot of good stuff.

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Speaker 3: But he's five eleven, one hundred and ninety pounds and.

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Speaker 4: I don't care that he doesn't have great forty times,

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Speaker 4: but he doesn't know. He's small and slow to some degree.

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Speaker 4: He plays hard.

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Speaker 3: He might fit nicely with Pittman and DK, but I'm gonna.

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Speaker 4: Say he will say no, but i'msa say no.

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Speaker 2: Here's one that we're definitely saying yes to. And Matt

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Speaker 2: I learned how to pronounce his name. Finally it's Venga

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Speaker 2: Yoana Yes.

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Speaker 4: And I would take him. And I think he's a

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Speaker 4: pure guard and I was fine.

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Speaker 2: Certainly a side of the obvious like Mendoza and Reese

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Speaker 2: in love and styles he might be.

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Speaker 3: He'd be very high on my yes list.

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Speaker 4: And even if they signed Botonio this minute, I would

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Speaker 4: still be fine because if they signed someone's gonna be old.

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Speaker 3: And you know, here's the guy for me that I would.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't trade pick twenty one from him, but man like,

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Speaker 2: in a perfect world, i'd love to trade pick fifty.

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Speaker 3: Three for him.

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Speaker 2: I know that that's not the exercise. Jermad McCoy. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 2: there's just too much, too much unknown, too much.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna take the lane. I'm i gonna take

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Speaker 4: mcare Yeah.

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Speaker 3: C j Allen No, Jordan Tyson. No, I'm changing my

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Speaker 3: answer now.

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Speaker 2: After I told you two weeks ago he was kind

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Speaker 2: of like we both had finnamon as a maybe, and

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Speaker 2: then he was kind of my medical exception. I think

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Speaker 2: I would even remove that now because I just the

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Speaker 2: wide receiver position right now, I think Tate is the

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Speaker 2: only one I would trade.

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Speaker 4: Pick yeah one for. He also short arms and kind

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Speaker 4: of plays that way a little bit.

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Speaker 3: The more you watch them, I do really let his

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Speaker 3: I do love his tape.

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Speaker 4: Man, there's some good stuff on there, for sure.

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Speaker 2: But I just as of now, with what the Steelers

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Speaker 2: were done with the wide receiver room and some of

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Speaker 2: the other priorities, I'm saying no agreed a Key Mesador No.

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Speaker 3: No, Emmanuel McNeil, Warren no, no, Keldric Falk No.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 3: Avion Terrell, No, No, Omar Koper Junior, Blake Miller.

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Speaker 4: I think Cooper could be the pick of twenty one,

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Speaker 4: but I'm not gonna concede it right now.

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Speaker 2: None of these other guys, right, Cassius how Kateen Pryor,

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Speaker 2: won Ty Simpson, Max Max e Nhure.

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Speaker 4: Yes, because I think he's a guard today while he

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Speaker 4: learns and might be your left tackle or never leaves

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Speaker 4: guard or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Let me put your hypothetical.

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Speaker 4: I think he's like the most talented alignment in the draft.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you your hypothetical then that you gave

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Speaker 2: me for Dylan Fennemon. You trained that twenty one for

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Speaker 2: e Nhure knowing that that Venga could be there at

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Speaker 2: twenty one.

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Speaker 4: M hm. I might even take him ahead of him.

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Speaker 2: Really, if they're both there at pick twenty one right now,

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Speaker 2: you would you would really consider e Nhure.

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Speaker 4: I think he's that red kiously talented. It might have

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Speaker 4: the highest ceiling of any I think he does have

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Speaker 4: the highest ceiling of any alignment in this class, and

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Speaker 4: I think he'll be one of four positions.

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Speaker 3: I really love it, Matt, I love it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Denzel Boston No, No, Caleb Banks, no, Peter Woods, no,

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Speaker 2: Colton Hood, no thanks.

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Speaker 4: We had a good conversation with then, and I still

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Speaker 4: got to lean towards no. I mean, he's a broken food.

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Speaker 3: I know again, I know this isn't the exercise a

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Speaker 3: manual pregn on. He's one.

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Speaker 2: I would try to pick fifty three for right now. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: get my guard at pick fifty three and leave twenty

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Speaker 2: one open. Caleb Lomo, no, Lee Hunter's I on Young

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Speaker 2: Brandon Sissy. So I guess Ty Simpson is probably the

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Speaker 2: last realistic one to discuss here, and.

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Speaker 4: He's a no for me.

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Speaker 3: For he's a no for me as well.

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Speaker 4: I'm just scanning the positions in my head. Is there anybody.

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Speaker 2: Hans, Chris Bell, Jacob Rodriguez, Jeremy Bernard, Keith Apney.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: No. I think that's it.

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Speaker 3: I think that's it, partner.

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Speaker 4: So here's what we had this year more this time,

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Speaker 4: I think yes.

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Speaker 2: Mendoza, Reese, Love Styles, Mauigoa, Downs, Tate Fanu Venga. Those

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Speaker 2: are the nine that we both said yes to. So

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Speaker 2: that's one more than last time. Last time we both

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Speaker 2: had maybe's on Thinnemon and I had a medical exception

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Speaker 2: for Tyson. This time, I go Bailey David Bailey as

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Speaker 2: my maybe, and I go yes for Thinnemon. You go

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Speaker 2: freeling as your maybe in yes for I hure. So

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Speaker 2: we both had ten yeses, nine that we agree on,

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Speaker 2: and then one extra and then we both had a maybe.

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Speaker 4: I think we already know this answer. But did we

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Speaker 4: mention McDonald? He's a no for me.

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Speaker 2: I think I briefly when I was running through all

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Speaker 2: those names, set him, but I think he's he's another

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Speaker 2: one pick fifty three.

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Speaker 3: I might trade for him right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but twenty one, No, there's not a defensive line

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Speaker 4: defensive lineman since then too.

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Speaker 2: If Caleb Banks had no health stuff, I would say

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Speaker 2: yes for him at twenty.

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Speaker 4: One when we talked about him, we didn't know we

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Speaker 4: had hell stuff, right, yeah, because we had just compete

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Speaker 4: in the combine and that was a tough conversation and

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Speaker 4: we've arrived at no.

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Speaker 3: Yes. But that's uh now, it's no. That was fun.

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Speaker 2: We have a couple more, which honestly, I thought it

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Speaker 2: would go the opposite way, but I can see why

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Speaker 2: it didn't because I think we we added more offensive linemen.

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Speaker 2: That was that's that's the real difference.

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Speaker 4: The line need didn't change if any you know, and.

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Speaker 2: All the other needs I think went down got better. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: totally all right, So I want to pick.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a chance one of our names is there.

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Speaker 4: I think Benga or o n Hure might be there.

447
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Speaker 3: I completely agree. I'd be surprised if both were gone.

448
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Speaker 4: I'd be surprised if both are gone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I think Fanu could slip a

450
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Speaker 2: little bit more than people think. Not not not into

451
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Speaker 2: the twenties.

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Speaker 4: Let me say one of those three is there, Yes.

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Speaker 2: And Fenmon maybe two of those four if you had

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Speaker 2: finnemen to the conversation, Yeah, that'd be an ideal place

455
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Speaker 2: to be. Matt, I want to piggyback off of this

456
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Speaker 2: exercise because this is something that we've referenced to times

457
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Speaker 2: but haven't discussed in this offseason. Let's put our chip

458
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Speaker 2: down on a prospect from this draft class to one

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Speaker 2: day go to Canton ooh and be in the NFL

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: I've got a few names that I want.

462
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Speaker 2: I've got a couple top tier candidates and then a

463
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Speaker 2: dark horse or two that I want to run past you. Okay,

464
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Speaker 2: and let's do that when we return on the other

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Speaker 2: side here in our number two West Schuler Matt Williamson

466
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Speaker 2: more draft talk. Which one of these guys has the

467
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Speaker 2: best chance to go to Canton and wear a gold

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Speaker 2: jacket one day? We will discuss Wes Schuler Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: already said that Department of redundancy department. It is the

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Speaker 5: What's up, NFL fans? The NFL Draft is finally here,

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Speaker 5: and while you might not know who your team is

473
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Speaker 5: drafting this year, you do know your watch party's number

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Speaker 5: one pick. Bud Light, the clean, crisp taste that has

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Speaker 5: all the scouts talking. Guess that's why it's been the

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Speaker 1: Your tuns about drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 3: Got the tweets rolling in.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to those here in about ten to fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: but before we do, Matt. It's a conversation we've teased

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Speaker 2: a couple times in the last month ish since the

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Speaker 2: NFL regular season concluded, and we've really started to focus

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Speaker 2: obviously on free agency and the draft. One prospect or

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Speaker 2: maybe more. I mean there's going to be more than

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Speaker 2: one name mentioned the conversation, but yeah, but the prospect

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Speaker 2: or prospects from this draft class that would most likely

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Speaker 2: go into Canton Gold jacket guys one day, fifteen twenty

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Speaker 2: years from now down the line. I've got three tiers

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Speaker 2: of this, Matt. I've got I've got two favorites, and

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Speaker 2: then I've got the next group of certainly I think

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Speaker 2: it's possible.

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Speaker 3: And then I have kind of a dark horse outsider

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Speaker 3: for you.

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Speaker 4: So you and I have not done this exercise before.

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Speaker 4: We have not, and I take a nerd out about it,

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Speaker 4: and I take it quite seriously, and I take it

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Speaker 4: to pretty far levels.

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Speaker 3: That's why I love your partner.

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Speaker 4: I'm wondering what percentages of draft classes actually have a

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Speaker 4: Hall of Famer. I would think most, but I don't

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Speaker 4: know that the answer to that. I'm sure there's been

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Speaker 4: some that have zero.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and I'm sure there's been some that have three

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Speaker 3: or four, and.

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt about that. I mean, it's definitely Eli Ben,

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean like there's gonna be a couple.

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Speaker 4: Did you find that out? Already?

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Speaker 2: Almost every draft class since nineteen thirty six has produced

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Speaker 2: at least one Pro Football Hall of Famer, the big

514
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Speaker 2: exceptions being nineteen sixty four when there were ten, in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three, when there were eight as of two

516
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Speaker 2: thousand and seven.

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Speaker 4: Hall of Famers in those classes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, holy cow, isn't that? Isn't that wild?

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Speaker 4: And the Steelers had four and one draft class?

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Speaker 3: Yes, correct, So it looks like it's pretty regularly.

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Speaker 4: At least one at least.

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Speaker 3: At least uh, at least you know, at least one.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of these classes in the sixties

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Speaker 2: and eighties and times like that, you know, produced a

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Speaker 2: produced a bunch a lot of classes from the sixties

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Speaker 2: in this top this top list, and in the early eighties,

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Speaker 2: and that makes sense the draft was much longer, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're not gonna get a ton of them

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Speaker 4: just because you add rounds to it, correct, you know,

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Speaker 4: in the fifteenth round.

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Speaker 3: Correct. So I'm trying to look curious here. Most recently.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the two thousand and seven draft play because

533
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Speaker 2: again you know, you have to go back pretty far,

534
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Speaker 2: because these guys have to play they five.

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Speaker 4: Retirement career to get there.

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Speaker 2: So most recently was the two thousand and seven class,

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Speaker 2: which got revs. Joe Thomas and Calvin Johnson.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty good, yea.

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Speaker 2: The second pick, the third Calvin two Thomas three Revis fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and six had none, two thousand and five

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Speaker 2: had DeMarcus Ware two thousand and four had none, two

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Speaker 2: thousand and three had Troy Polamalu. Two thousand and two

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Speaker 2: had Ed Reed. Two thousand and one had a trio

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Speaker 2: of guys as well, Ladanian Thominson, Richard Seymour, and Steve Hutchinson.

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Speaker 2: Two thousand had one.

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Speaker 4: Drew Brees in that class too.

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Speaker 3: He's about to go two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Brian Urlacker ninety nine had two guys, Champ Bailey and

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Speaker 2: Edrin James ninety eight.

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Speaker 4: Think Brady's in the Erlacker class.

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Speaker 2: And Brady is in the Erlacker class, yes, so some

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Speaker 2: of those will be added to Like big Ben.

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Speaker 4: Erlacker has been in the Hall of Fame for like

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Speaker 4: fifteen years and Brady isn't even in yet. In the

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Speaker 4: same class.

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Speaker 2: The two thousand and four class was Ben and Eli

557
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Speaker 2: and right, so that that they'll get they'll get more

558
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Speaker 2: than one, like I think.

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Speaker 4: But Ben's in the other two have to sweat it out.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so two thousand and four will be represented here.

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Speaker 4: M hmm.

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Speaker 2: Ninety eight had four guys Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson, Randy

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Speaker 2: Moss and Alan Fanica good lord wow, ninety seven Orlando Pace,

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Speaker 2: Walter Jones, Tony Gonzalez, ninety six Jonathan Ogden and Marvin

565
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Speaker 2: Harris and Ray Lewis Orlando Pace. So I mean you

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Speaker 2: get pretty consistently there's at least one, sometimes multiple. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: who wars A lots a lot, But that's happened on

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Speaker 2: ninety five, Tony Biselli, Warren Sap, Tie Law, Derek Brooks.

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Speaker 3: Oh good, okay, good lord.

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Speaker 4: So as you'd expect, almost all these guys are first

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Speaker 4: round picks.

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Speaker 3: Almost all these guys are first round picks.

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Speaker 4: I mean there are some Donnie Shells and things like that.

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Speaker 3: Tom Brady, Yeah, yeah, it will be a six rounder.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so basically almost every year there's one pretty

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Speaker 2: consistent way more often that you get a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 4: Than not nine close yeah, yeah or malt. It's more

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Speaker 4: it's probably more common to have multiple to have zero. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So I bet the average is like.

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Speaker 3: Two or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, right, all right, do you have you're

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Speaker 4: gonna take it away?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So my two, my two favorites by like tier one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if this was a roulette wheel in Vegas and

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Speaker 2: I had to put chips down, Caleb Downs and Jeremiah Love.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I think they are good ones, and they're definitely names.

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Speaker 4: I was going to.

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Speaker 2: Mention, I think they are with rvel Reese, the best

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Speaker 2: prospects in this class. But rvel Reese, there's some got

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Speaker 2: to figure out where exactly that guy fits. Ye.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna bring it up to where these.

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Speaker 2: Two it's clearly defined what they are, what they're going

593
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Speaker 2: to be, where they slide in and should be ready

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Speaker 2: to roll day one.

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Speaker 4: So if you only get one, the things I'd say

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Speaker 4: against Downs.

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Speaker 3: Are it's tough at safety.

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Speaker 4: It's tough at safety. It's there's some talk that he

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Speaker 4: might have a knee or something that some are people

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Speaker 4: are slightly worried about. I don't think I'm like spreading rumors.

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Speaker 2: But if that's true, If that's true, I wouldn't take

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Speaker 2: him with the first twenty picks.

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Speaker 3: I'd let him. I let them slide to twenty one.

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Speaker 4: But maybe he just doesn't have a long enough career.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm really nippicking because if you only get.

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Speaker 3: Plays at a high level, but for seven years.

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Speaker 4: Or love, I would say the same thing too, Like

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Speaker 4: running backs, tough running back just might not last, so

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Speaker 4: he might be really banged up after five really good years.

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Speaker 2: That was my knock against those two was they don't

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Speaker 2: play and I'm using air quotes here, Yeah, they don't

612
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Speaker 2: play premium positions.

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Speaker 3: They're quarterback or edge rusher or left tackle.

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Speaker 4: I think Greece is the best player in this draft,

615
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Speaker 4: but we're projecting a new position, so I think that

616
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Speaker 4: really works against him. In this conversation, gott to bring

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Speaker 4: up Mendoza. He's gonna first pick the draft.

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Speaker 2: So Mendoza was in my tier two because quarterback that's

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Speaker 2: probably the easiest position to make it as a Hall

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Speaker 2: of Famer.

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Speaker 4: I don't know the answer to that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the answer to that.

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Speaker 4: At least it's like the highest profile.

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Speaker 2: I think, and maybe I'm just Matt. I'm a I'm

625
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Speaker 2: a child of the Golden Age of quarterbacks. I mean,

626
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Speaker 2: my earliest childhood memories are you know, there were the

627
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Speaker 2: Montanas and the Lways and the Farms and the you know,

628
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Speaker 2: Aikman's and then that transition right into Manning and Brady

629
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Speaker 2: and Roethlisberger and Breeze and Rogers and now this era

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Speaker 2: of these new guys.

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Speaker 4: Like the seventies, it was Bradshaw.

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Speaker 3: That's a little bit of like ten of them.

633
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Speaker 2: In my lifetime, the quarterback position has been a rocket

634
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Speaker 2: ship to the moon in terms of greatness.

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Speaker 4: I just don't have Mendoza can get there like that

636
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Speaker 4: have been the most favorable to me or like Matt

637
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Speaker 4: Ryan to me's like a yes, he's a borderline that

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Speaker 4: I lean towards.

639
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Speaker 2: No, like Caleb Downs and Jared Maya Love have to

640
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Speaker 2: be the best player of their generation or maybe number

641
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Speaker 2: two to get into the Hall of Fame at their

642
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Speaker 2: position position pretty much, and last Mendoza could be the

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Speaker 2: fourth best quarterback of his generation, maybe even lower, and

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Speaker 2: maybe even.

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Speaker 3: Lower and still get in. So that was my only

646
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Speaker 3: kind of with him.

647
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Speaker 4: Stafford's awesome, but he's maybe the sixth best quarterback of

648
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Speaker 4: his generation. When you start factoring's.

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Speaker 3: Going Rogers, He's going to Canton.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's gonna go. I just don't have Mendoza's

651
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Speaker 4: ceilings high enough.

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Speaker 2: Who else So we've mentioned downs love Mendoza and Reese,

653
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Speaker 2: the I have Uh, I have ven Uh and Mauigoa

654
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Speaker 2: with the caveat of if he stays at guard and

655
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Speaker 2: is extremely elite there Zach Martin style. Yeah, I don't

656
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Speaker 2: think Mauigoa would be as a tackle, but I think

657
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Speaker 2: Mauigoa could be as a guard.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's crazy, and I don't think Vega's crazy. Yeah,

659
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Speaker 4: just because maybe he's a plug and play twelve.

660
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Speaker 3: Year guard Zach Martin. Quentin Nelson goes to eight Pro Bowls.

661
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Speaker 4: In four All pros and is on a good team,

662
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Speaker 4: and you see him the Super Bowl and you're like, okay,

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Speaker 4: and everyone knows who he is. He could have that career.

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Speaker 4: This is fresh on my mind. But my buddy Max

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Speaker 4: has more ability in those guys. Yeah, so I think

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Speaker 4: his ceiling. I don't think Freeling can be Ogden Viselli.

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Speaker 4: He could be a really good left tackle, but I

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Speaker 4: don't think he can be an all time great, multiple

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Speaker 4: times all pro Yeah. Where my man Max I think

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Speaker 4: could be him. I just say he's dripping with ability.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: If he hits big, it could be Hall of Fame big.

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Speaker 3: You go back and watch some max E NH or

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Speaker 3: tape tonight.

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Speaker 4: Such a puppy. So that's anybody else.

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Speaker 3: So there was one more name that I had as

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Speaker 3: my dark horse throughout One more was my dark horse.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't think of him. Actually, I'm thinking about Banks.

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Speaker 2: I think he's so talented as a tight end and

680
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Speaker 2: we've sele we've seen in this new era where if

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Speaker 2: you're the tight end that gets into the right system, right,

682
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Speaker 2: if he can have a I don't want to say

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Speaker 2: a Kelsey type Gronk type career because that's putting him

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Speaker 2: in the ultimate category.

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Speaker 4: But like Rock Bowers could be a Hall of Famer

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Speaker 4: Rock Bowers. I mean, if he does this for ten years,

687
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Speaker 4: McBride does this for ten years, they'll go past the

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Speaker 4: Wittons and Gates and you know, especially on the all

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Speaker 4: time list.

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Speaker 3: So he's my dark horse.

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Speaker 4: That might even be my pick, yeah, because I mean

692
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Speaker 4: in the tight end legacy world.

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Speaker 3: If you stand out super hard to move.

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Speaker 4: Up that list. Yeah, it's hard to get to, Like,

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Speaker 4: you're never gonna catch Emmett like on the rushing list,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Right, you might.

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Speaker 2: Pass Gates and Gonzales, Right.

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Speaker 4: I think I said all my guys. I mentioned Banks,

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Speaker 4: but I mean that's real fiction. I mean that would

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Speaker 4: be really tough. I mean you may not even go

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Speaker 4: in the first round. I mean he just has rare trade.

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Speaker 3: The sunny styles deserve a shout out in this conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he could have a ninety percent of Fred Warner's career.

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Speaker 4: He might be my pick. Yeah, yeah, I should have

705
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Speaker 4: brought him up earlier because I was thinking about him

706
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Speaker 4: at the break. He's gonna play right away.

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Speaker 2: It's a position right now that is not particularly strong

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Speaker 2: across the end. He's like a freak Quarner type. It

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Speaker 2: will really stand out.

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Speaker 4: He goes are a Pro Bowl in his first year

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Speaker 4: as like even an alternate Patrick Willis style, right, and

712
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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden Warner retires and you're the

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Speaker 4: best linebacker in the league in two seven years. You know,

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Speaker 4: it might be my pick.

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Speaker 3: It's a good one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the path's not that crazy to be the best

717
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Speaker 4: linebacker in the league. It's pretty hard to be us

718
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Speaker 4: quarterback in the league or notice me to mention any wide.

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Speaker 2: Outs, did not mention any wide outs, didn't mention any cornerbacks,

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Speaker 2: didn't mention any edge rushers.

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Speaker 3: RFL Reese.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, again, he's a different type McCoy man.

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Speaker 3: If I know he's the twenty twenty four version of himself, right.

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Speaker 4: And say that that version is probably a top five

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Speaker 4: picks still twenty years old, they at least needs to

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Speaker 4: be thrown out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I like this conversation it is.

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Speaker 4: It's a weird one.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe post.

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Speaker 2: Draft we can revisit this when we see where these

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Speaker 2: guys land and how they're going to be used and

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Speaker 2: all that.

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Speaker 3: One more segment to go. That means we'll close things down.

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Speaker 2: With your tweets, you know where to get at us

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Speaker 2: if you want to get involved.

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Speaker 3: Weshuuler Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 5: drafting this year, you do know your watch parties. Number

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Speaker 5: one pick Bud Light, the clean crisp taste that has

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Speaker 3: Final segment of the day. You know what that means.

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Speaker 2: It's time to close this thing down with your questions, comments, concerns,

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Speaker 2: and reactions on the x Twitter t Mac gonna lead

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Speaker 2: us off today. He asks a few different questions here,

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Speaker 2: says Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Guys, where would you rank

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Speaker 2: the Steelers roster versus the rest of the division as

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Speaker 2: we stand today? Who does your producer and Tyler V

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Speaker 2: predict the Steelers'll take it twenty one? And when you

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Speaker 2: can you guys start doing the drafting for the Steelers

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Speaker 2: all through the top twenty one. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: We haven't done that exercise yet.

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Speaker 4: That happens, you have to wait a little bit. That

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Speaker 4: actually takes I actually have to do homework on that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's a an hour or two project for me to

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Speaker 4: actually rank them one to twenty.

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Speaker 3: And it's probably like an hour of the show or

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Speaker 3: at least two segments. I would think.

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Speaker 4: Goes quicker than you think, But it's a lot harder

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Speaker 4: than you think.

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Speaker 2: Because there's primately again, there's some of those obvious names

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Speaker 2: that we mentioned in our Breviest exercises.

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Speaker 3: But then you get to that middle area where.

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Speaker 4: It's like, like, I don't put too much thought in would

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Speaker 4: I take Reese or Downs? You know, it's like I'm

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Speaker 4: never gonna make this one. But yeah, but still that's

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Speaker 4: more of a week before the draft thing.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you only want to do that once.

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Speaker 4: No, we'll definitely do twice. Okay, at least, but it's

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Speaker 4: a little early.

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Speaker 3: Okay, sounds good.

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Speaker 2: I'll keep I'll keep prodding them on that one t

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Speaker 2: Mac and we'll see when he says yes. Steelers roster

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00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: versus the division as of to this is so if

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Speaker 2: you take the quarterback out of the equation, I think

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Speaker 2: it's the best.

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Speaker 4: That's about to say the same thing if not. So,

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Speaker 4: here's one issue I have with the Steelers roster, and

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Speaker 4: people will take this the wrong way. It's a little

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Speaker 4: lacking in elite players. TJ definitely was and might be

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Speaker 4: elite again. But if you're talking about I mean he.

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Speaker 3: Had won All Pro last year, Cam Hayward, he won.

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Speaker 4: All Pro and Cam Hayward is one of the best

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Speaker 4: defensive tackles in the league. But I don't throw the

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Speaker 4: word elite around very much. I mean Aaron Donald's elite,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like like DK metcasts a

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Speaker 4: really nice player, he's not elite. Fraser might be someday,

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Speaker 4: not now.

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Speaker 3: Really player, right, I have a lot of really good players.

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Speaker 4: The division has Miles, Garrett, Burrow, Lamar Lamar Hamilton. I

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Speaker 4: would not have put Linderbaum there. But of the elite

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Speaker 4: players in the division, I think the Steelers are maybe

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Speaker 4: the lightest interesting.

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Speaker 3: I mean the Browns.

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Speaker 4: The Browns one, yeah, you know, but he's the best

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Speaker 4: defense player in the league. Sorry folks, but yeah he is.

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Speaker 3: I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying there.

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Speaker 4: That's just one knock. Like I mean, if we were

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Speaker 4: in Baltimore since you having this conversation and be like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 4: well there's where's are Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 3: I still think the Browns are clearly fourth in the division.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and their offenses, and.

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Speaker 2: I think until proven otherwise, I'd probably still have the

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Speaker 2: Bengals at three just because the defense. I know they

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Speaker 2: added some pieces and all that, but I need to

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Speaker 2: I need to see it to believe it.

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Speaker 4: A lot of times, how we do a lot of

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Speaker 4: these exercises is like if you had to rank the

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Speaker 4: eight units offense, defense, offense defense eight times Brown zero

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Speaker 4: is eight. Bengals defense is a close seventh. Steelers aren't Steeler.

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Speaker 3: Bengals offense would probably be one.

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Speaker 4: Bengals offense health at this moment, and everyone else's saw

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Speaker 4: probably somewhere in between. Yeah, you know. Yeah, So Ravens

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Speaker 4: and Steelers are like, well, we don't have any crappy ones.

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Speaker 4: You know. We might not have the well at least

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Speaker 4: have two in the top six.

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Speaker 2: We might not have a guy hitting fifty home runs

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Speaker 2: in the four hole, but our one through nine batting

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Speaker 2: order doesn't have any holes either, right.

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Speaker 4: However, I think the Ravens roster overall has a lot

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Speaker 4: more holes than the Steelers. Agreed, They're sides of the

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Speaker 4: ball are both above average, but they have a lot

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Speaker 4: more hole. They have a lot more needs as it

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Speaker 4: stands today, than the Steelers, but they will.

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Speaker 3: But they have Lamark with the Bengals exactly the right.

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Speaker 4: Quarterback aside, I think it's one.

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Speaker 2: Same quarterback in the conversation than I think it becomes

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Speaker 2: the take Baltimore maybe slightly, but.

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Speaker 4: I don't like.

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Speaker 5: Holes.

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Speaker 4: Rewind to the power ranks. I think they're overrated right now?

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Speaker 3: All right? Last one from t MAC TV. Who the

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Speaker 3: Steeler's taking at twenty one?

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Speaker 2: Shout it out quick, don't think about it too much, Venga,

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Speaker 2: Nate Dogg Who the Steelers taking at twenty one? Shout

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Speaker 2: it out, Venga? All right, the boys are staying. The

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Speaker 2: boys are staying in Pennsylvania. Here, let's see Michael Edesso

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Speaker 2: P one of the show. That means you are a

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Speaker 2: loyal listener for industry jargon, Michael tweets, what do you

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Speaker 2: guys think about the idea of trading a fourth round

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Speaker 2: pick for Marvin Mims? Seems like a comparable player to

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Speaker 2: Randall Cobb, and he's an all pro kickoff punt returner.

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Speaker 4: I think he could be on the move. I think

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Speaker 4: Franklin or Mimes will get traded from Denver because I

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Speaker 4: think they looked at waddle like we've been messing with

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Speaker 4: these kind of gadgety explosive dudes. I'm done messing. I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna go get the best one out there that's a

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Speaker 4: lot more well rounded and than those guys. Will it

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Speaker 4: washed away. Mems would be your pump returner. It's kind

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Speaker 4: of like the key on Coleman conversation too, But Mims

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Speaker 4: has been better. I pedigree that you get it at

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Speaker 4: discount early in his career. I do it for fifth Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna play a little hard to get here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll take the first off negotiations. Yeah, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't dislike that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's good with the ball in his hands. You

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Speaker 4: gotta manufacture some things for him.

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Speaker 2: But keep talking about the importance of those kickoff and

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Speaker 2: punt returns and that hidden yardage now in the in

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Speaker 2: the in the dynamic kickoff area.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you pardon me, and I still

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Speaker 4: probably the second round pick on a wide out Yeah yeah, yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: and you're really done there.

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Speaker 2: Sudesh tweets us and says, hey, guys, thanks for always

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Speaker 2: responding to my tweets. It's much appreciated. Thanks for tweeting

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Speaker 2: in all the time, Sudesh, We appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: A couple of regulars today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which wide receivers would you guys take in round one?

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Speaker 2: And are there other players positions that you would take

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Speaker 2: over wide receiver in round one? We kind of just

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Speaker 2: did that, kind of did just do that. But yes,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean I wouldn't take Lemon or Boston.

881
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: Depending on the board fell in the trade it today.

882
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: Yes, like right now, they're gonna both be in my

883
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: top twenty one. Yes, I mean, just you get there.

884
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 4: You're never gonna take twenty or twenty one on your board,

885
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But they'll definitely both be

886
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 4: in my top twenty one.

887
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: I wouldn't take offensive linemen over wide receiver in round

888
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 2: one in a perfect scenario right now.

889
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 4: Yes, when we do top twenty one, there'll be a

890
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 4: lot of o linemen over those names we just.

891
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 2: Mentioned, And I would take Carnell Tate in the first

892
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 2: I think Tit is a worthy first round pick obviously. Yeah,

893
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,439
Speaker 2: I think Lemon and Tyson are as well. I could

894
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 2: be convinced on Conceptcion CONCEPTCI Boston.

895
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 4: Boston as well.

896
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: I would say maybe Cooper three to six wide receivers.

897
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 2: I think you could. You could justify taking in the

898
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 2: first round.

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00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 5: Now.

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00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 4: I think that's also a reason the Bills made the

901
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 4: trade for more and the Bengal or the Broncos made

902
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 4: the trade for Waddle is because they think there's gonna

903
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 4: be five of them gone by the time they pick

904
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 4: at the end of the first round.

905
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: You know, Joe tweets and says, can either you or

906
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: met please explain why the whole fifty three man roster

907
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 2: can't be active on game day and how this all

908
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: came about. You would think in the name of player safety,

909
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 2: it makes sense to have as many healthy bodies available

910
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: as possible. Thanks and loved the show. Well, thanks Joe.

911
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 3: That's a great question.

912
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 4: It's bothered me for a long time because, like part

913
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 4: of me thinks it's really dumb that we're gonna pay

914
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 4: this young man to stand on the sideline in sweats,

915
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: the same as if we don't pay this young man. Now,

916
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 4: it's different if you're practice squad or not. But if

917
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 4: it's Joe blow that I just have to deactivate someone

918
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 4: who's getting paid. I think some of it and this

919
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 4: one I'm gonna defer to you comes back to hockey, Like,

920
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 4: I never quite understood healthy scratchy scratches. I think it's

921
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 4: just so if you've got injuries that you're not gonna

922
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 4: put on, that's want to make sure you don't have

923
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 4: your full roster because there's always gonna be injuries, right,

924
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna make sure that you know, both teams

925
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 4: kind of have it even on game.

926
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 2: Day especially, And I think it's different because, like if

927
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 2: you're a hockey team or a baseball team or an

928
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: NBA team, you go on the road for five straight

929
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: road games, and you take them with you, you take

930
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 2: guys with you, because what if in game three you

931
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: pick up two injuries. You know, yeah, you're in Utah,

932
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 2: a thousand miles away from home, and.

933
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 4: You're waiting to sid coming back tonight or tomorrow. You know,

934
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 4: like he's gonna go in the road triple right right yerea.

935
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 4: But I think I never quite understood healthy scratches, Like

936
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 4: if the Red Wings play the black Hawks, they don't

937
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 4: necessarily the same number of healthy scratches, right or do they?

938
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 3: It would?

939
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 2: It depends on how many guys on the roster active

940
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 2: roster are injured or healthy at the same time.

941
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 4: Okay, but there's no way that one team skating with

942
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 4: twenty and one is twenty one.

943
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, unless you're hit with such a rash

944
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 2: of injuries and dudes and you don't have enough dudes

945
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 2: in the timeline of calling guys up from the miners.

946
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, o kaind of No one got there in time.

947
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 4: So there might be a game, Yes, yes, but the

948
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 4: whole thing's a little flawed that I'm paying this guy

949
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 4: to stand there and sweat. Yes, I don't like that.

950
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 2: Maybe that's something we could revisit. Yeah, potential things that

951
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: we would change, rule changes and things like that.

952
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 4: There was a time like when Deuce Staley was still

953
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 4: a pretty darn good running back, but Jerome was in

954
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 4: his prime and they another one Induce didn't play special

955
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 4: teams and he'd be inactive.

956
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 3: It's like, like, that's crazy.

957
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 4: Mayby just put patters on this guy, give him five carries.

958
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 2: You know, here's a funny one speaking of outside of

959
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 2: the football and scratch his conversation, Angry Bike Lane tweets

960
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 2: and says, outside of the wheelhouse of the show, but

961
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 2: is it true that if you cut a hockey player's

962
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 2: head off they'll keep playing for six days until they

963
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 2: starved to death.

964
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 3: Oh, you guys are funny.

965
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 2: No, no, they'll just get like a three game suspension

966
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 2: from the Department of Player Safety and be right back

967
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: out there.

968
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 4: Ye.

969
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 2: Tyler tweets and says, with the three Omar drafts we

970
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 2: have in the book so far, have you guys noticed

971
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: any tendencies he has. I've noticed he's drafted a national

972
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 2: champion every year, and a lot of his late round

973
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 2: picks always.

974
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 3: Have high raz scores. Interesting pools there, Tyler.

975
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 4: The high rads scorers. He beat me to it.

976
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 3: Yep.

977
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 4: I think they're very, very conscious of that. I think

978
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 4: it's very clear that they stress early round linemen more

979
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 4: than they earn. Yeah, I would have to study it.

980
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 4: But I think more big schools. I mean, there used

981
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 4: to be a lot of mac Dude, right right right.

982
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 4: I think it's more big schools. And definitely this sounds

983
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 4: like I'm ripping on like Kevin Colbert, and I don't

984
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 4: mean to be at all, but like they would not

985
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 4: trade up for a linebacker. I don't think. I don't

986
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 4: think they'd take a strong safety in the first round.

987
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,479
Speaker 4: I don't think they'd take nausey in the first round.

988
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 4: He's a cap guy. I think he's gonna be more

989
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 4: conscious of scarce positions. Yeah, he's drafted tackles. Tackles are

990
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 4: the hardest thing to find, you know. Two of us

991
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 4: three drafts a tackle in the first round. Yeah, yeah,

992
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 4: they're they're the scarce ones.

993
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: It's you could see you could start to see his

994
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 2: type coming clearly into focus after a few years now

995
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 2: in the books.

996
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 4: The the lineman, all of long arms, I mean like

997
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 4: that much. It that's probably a Steelers thing more than

998
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 4: a Lamar thing. But yeah, that's gone on for years. Man.

999
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 2: We got a ton of tweets. Well, we'll get to

1000
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 2: some more tomorrow. Last one today goes to Matt and

1001
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 2: he says, can you guys play? Would you rather?

1002
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 3: Well, it is a it is a Wednesday, Matt.

1003
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: So yes, would you rather have the Steelers roster and

1004
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: the idea of a future quarterback as they are constructed

1005
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: right now? Or be any other team in the AFC

1006
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: North as it pertains to the future.

1007
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 3: I mean it's hard to.

1008
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 4: Just because I I don't know Lamar is going to

1009
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 4: have a long career. I might rather be the Bengals too,

1010
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 4: because even if you land as your favorite guy in

1011
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 4: next year's draft and trade three first round picks to

1012
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 4: get the fourth pick in the draft.

1013
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 3: He's got to be the dude and then he's got

1014
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 3: to take Yeah.

1015
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 4: I mean those guys are awesome. Yeah, that that's tough,

1016
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: it's real top.

1017
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 2: I would I would always go when it comes to

1018
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 2: the quarterback conversation though, I would always go with the

1019
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: bird in the hand. I would always go with the

1020
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 2: more known commodity.

1021
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 4: Yes, that carries a ton of weight.

1022
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 2: That carries a ton a ton of weight. And Lamar

1023
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: and Burrow are not perfect. They have their concerns too, sure,

1024
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: but they are they are a bird in the hand.

1025
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 4: Certainly that third and fourth pick in the quarterback draft yesterday.

1026
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 2: You know, yes, yes, great stuff on the tweets today,

1027
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: We got a bunch. Maybe tomorrow we have to do

1028
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: two Twitter segments to get through the you know, like

1029
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: the NFL did the centennial class of the Hall of

1030
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 2: Fame to get some of the log of candidates. No,

1031
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: we love it though, big thanks everyone. We've enjoyed every day.

1032
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Speaker 2: I'm skeptical, like will we get enough tweets? Will we

1033
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 2: get enough tweets? And we always get more than we

1034
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 2: have time for, so thank you for that. We do

1035
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 2: appreciate it.

1036
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Speaker 4: Oh, A couple of people like the whiskey lesson yesterday too.

1037
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 4: They sent me directly.

1038
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: They like they like the.

1039
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 2: Violin, and they like to exactly like the whiskey lesson.

1040
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: No rest for Matt Williamson in this world, maybe in

1041
00:46:59,080 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 2: the next.

1042
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 3: That's Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders guy.

1043
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 4: Yes, but it's been a while and I should have

1044
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 4: watched it with subtitles. I definitely miss some stuff.

1045
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 3: Good stuff today. We'll be back to do it again tomorrow.

1046
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: Thanks to Nate Doug on the ones and twos, mister TV,

1047
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 2: Tyler V on the video side of things, for the

1048
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: bourbon Expert, Matt Williamson, I'm a Shueler. Take care, everybody.

1049
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow. As always, you know

1050
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 2: where to find us. It's on your twenty four to

1051
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 2: seven home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio

1052
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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.