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Speaker 2: And as we begin the bonus hour, the buses are
Speaker 2: rolling out of Saint Vincent and over to Latrow Memorial.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Good evening, Stealer Nation. How we do it? Well,
Speaker 2: that's good. It is the bonus hour of the drive here.
Speaker 2: I think it was nine, nine or ten buses matting
Speaker 2: and they just there's that would make ten. Okay, I
Speaker 2: think that's number ten right there, bringing up the kaboos
Speaker 2: here with a couple uh police cars obviously as well too,
Speaker 2: so if you are listening to Matt, and I live
Speaker 2: down there at Latro Memorial. In about five, six, seven
Speaker 2: minutes here, the buses will be rolling in, campus will
Speaker 2: be jumping getting I was surprised, but it took me
Speaker 2: about six minutes to get from there. You didn't police,
Speaker 2: I didn't have a police escort right now. I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's a little more traffic and a little more commotion
Speaker 2: down there now the way, but I would think, uh,
Speaker 2: in about about five minutes here or so, maybe again,
Speaker 2: maybe closer to ten. Because buses also, even with the
Speaker 2: police are they probably move a little slower than your
Speaker 2: boy does.
Speaker 3: But it will be super keep ten of them together.
Speaker 2: That that that as well too, that's the part that
Speaker 2: always uh, Like Matt, I've told you the stories, and
Speaker 2: some of them on are two. When we land for
Speaker 2: Steelers away games, the seven buses waiting.
Speaker 3: But they're also not these old school school bus.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, they're they're the coach busy. Yeah. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: was another thing that was drilled into my head for
Speaker 2: the very first my very first trip with the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Don't get on the seventh bus because that bus goes
Speaker 2: right to the stadium. It doesn't go to the hotel.
Speaker 2: It goes to the stadium equip the guys and the
Speaker 2: trainers and so they can get in there and get
Speaker 2: set up and all that stuff. So it was like,
Speaker 2: get on any butt. Well, don't get on the first
Speaker 2: bus because that's that's the Steelers brass bus. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's where that's where the mister Rooney sits and Mike
Speaker 2: Tomlin sits, and that's where the big timers sit. Don't
Speaker 2: get on the first bus Bus one. Don't get on
Speaker 2: bus seven because that's going on the stag.
Speaker 3: Guys, you didn't have a bus like your bus five.
Speaker 2: Well, we almost always go on bus six, like that's
Speaker 2: what we but it's just kind of first come, first serve.
Speaker 2: But don't go on bus one because that's for the
Speaker 2: heavy hitters. Don't go on bus seven because you'll end
Speaker 2: up at the stadium, not the hotel.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to I think how pit did it When
Speaker 3: we would travel during the regular season, Bus one was offensive, okay,
Speaker 3: because Wald Harris our head coach, and he was also
Speaker 3: an offensive guy. Bus to is defense and all of
Speaker 3: us out. Everyone else was on bus three, like Billy
Speaker 3: Hillgrove was on with me. Sure, you know, and a
Speaker 3: lot and some other football people. But it was like
Speaker 3: I just jump on the third.
Speaker 2: Bus, right, that's that's It's funny how.
Speaker 3: I couldn't go on bus one or two as a
Speaker 3: recruiting guy, but I'm going bus three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know this about me too, Like I just
Speaker 2: I want to I want to sit down, shut up,
Speaker 2: stay out of the way. Just you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I did, right, if they need me
Speaker 3: to help anything or you know Crystal Saler or director
Speaker 3: of football ops. I always watched him because he had
Speaker 3: to direct all that stuff. You're you know, a lot going.
Speaker 3: It's a lot when we land. He would like stress
Speaker 3: and go find the stuff, make sure the hotel's ready.
Speaker 3: He's on the phone all the time.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's a it's a heavy job. That's
Speaker 2: a lot of lifting, a lot of lifting.
Speaker 3: Certainly, the travel coordinator is a bigger job than anything.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Aiden who does that for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: He's a good dude.
Speaker 3: So I didn't last at Akron very long as the
Speaker 3: director ops or I would have done that on travel,
Speaker 3: but we didn't ever travel while I was there because
Speaker 3: it was the off season. But I did organize all
Speaker 3: the details of the trip two Penn State would was
Speaker 3: the first one. I hated that job.
Speaker 2: Hotels logistics.
Speaker 3: Do you want chicken or spaghetti or boathh blah blah bah.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I hate this.
Speaker 2: How many rooms do you need?
Speaker 3: Suits?
Speaker 2: Do you need how many?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, I didn't enjoy that part.
Speaker 2: One thing that always impresses me, though, Matt is so
Speaker 2: again the seventh buses with us, but kind of at
Speaker 2: some point will break off to go to the stadium.
Speaker 2: But keeping all six of those buses together, like when
Speaker 2: we're going through Chicago or between Yeah, and I mean
Speaker 2: this with all due respect to the good people of
Speaker 2: Buffalo and Green Bay, and when you go to those places, okay,
Speaker 2: you could keep six buses together and uh yeah, but
Speaker 2: when you're when you're going to when you're going through
Speaker 2: downtown Chicago, or you're going through LA or you're going
Speaker 2: through Dallas, some of these massive cities, it's always impressive
Speaker 2: to me how they can keep keep those six buses
Speaker 2: uh relatively tightened together and between police police escorts. But
Speaker 2: there is it all absolutely is It's like those cops
Speaker 2: they like have like their own language of like all right,
Speaker 2: when I get here, then you go around me, and
Speaker 2: then we get exit.
Speaker 4: I do this.
Speaker 3: Exits are weird.
Speaker 2: They're well trapped, they're well drilled. They're well drilled in this,
Speaker 2: just like the Steelers are. They got to be all
Speaker 2: work out your time ahead.
Speaker 3: And then now you go to the caboose and I
Speaker 3: haven't done that a while, but that is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. And like I said, especially when we're
Speaker 2: when we're going to these big cities where the stadium's
Speaker 2: right in the middle of the city and it's managed.
Speaker 3: The Dublin one was crazy because that was the only
Speaker 3: one I've done in a long time. Because you're going
Speaker 3: through these.
Speaker 2: Old schools, like kids are walking into the.
Speaker 3: Way to school and it's like this is I feel
Speaker 3: like we don't belong here at all.
Speaker 2: No, and we're still.
Speaker 3: Like the eighteen hundreds or something.
Speaker 2: Really did it was pretty cool. You're still in that
Speaker 2: kind of jaded overnight. I know what time it was,
Speaker 2: I know what time it is. Your clocks all going
Speaker 2: to school. It's like early in the morning there, but
Speaker 2: you're like wanting to go back to bed and kids
Speaker 2: are going to school and yet a little bit tighter
Speaker 2: on those on those Irish streets than some of the uh,
Speaker 2: the American cities that were built hundreds of years later.
Speaker 3: We were eighty miles an hour flying downe the highway.
Speaker 2: No, we were not, we were not. We were going
Speaker 2: tight turns. And make sure you don't hit any of
Speaker 2: those is we little lads walking themselves into school. Let's
Speaker 2: hit some of these tweets here as we like to
Speaker 2: do to start. Man, it is beautiful here in the
Speaker 2: last hour, the last hour or so it is.
Speaker 3: I hope this stays for Yeah, the whole.
Speaker 2: Practice, lovely evening for it, and hopefully right when the
Speaker 2: sun goes down and practice will be concluding and the
Speaker 2: fireworks will be flying off and it'll be a lovely
Speaker 2: Saturday evening here in Latrobe. Some tweets to get to
Speaker 2: you know where to get at us if you want
Speaker 2: to get involved, excuse me me tweets us and says
Speaker 2: doctor Westman and Professor Mount Matt First of all, shout
Speaker 2: out to adjunct Professor Motes getting some shout outs in
Speaker 2: the show this week. I have three questions for you guys.
Speaker 2: Number one, true or false lack of training camp coverage
Speaker 2: mentions of Michael Pittman Junior is alarming. It's funny we've
Speaker 2: got We've started to get this question a little bit.
Speaker 2: I would say false.
Speaker 3: I would say false, but if it goes to the
Speaker 3: whole camp, maybe true. I've watched him. I don't look
Speaker 3: at him and go Okay. So I was chatting with
Speaker 3: Chris Halleck last night and we were talking about this
Speaker 3: exact same thing, and I used the reference of it
Speaker 3: wasn't like when Alan Robinson showed up and you're like,
Speaker 3: I don't know if he can move anymore, you know,
Speaker 3: like Pittman was fine. Yes, I don't think he's like
Speaker 3: old all of a sudden, we'll washing it up or
Speaker 3: any of those things. It's just that they haven't. He
Speaker 3: hasn't had a signature play or a breakout moment. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's just because they trust him and he knows he's
Speaker 3: doing You know.
Speaker 2: I still too, And I know I mentioned this to
Speaker 2: you a few days ago, but I still think a
Speaker 2: lot of that lack of conversation around and I think
Speaker 2: DK metcalf too. It's not like people have been, you know,
Speaker 2: spending a bunch of time talking about him. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of that is one Everyone's eyes are on
Speaker 2: Roman Wilson and germ And and two, you don't have
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey or Joey Porter Junior out there lining up
Speaker 2: across from Michael Penman Jr. Dk Metcalf to have that
Speaker 2: kind of Oh look here comes Joe Hayden and Antonio Brown.
Speaker 2: This is much to watch every rep. You know, here
Speaker 2: comes uh Porter Junior.
Speaker 3: They're not doing corner versus receiver and the best corners
Speaker 3: aren't out there, so it's yeah, it'd be different if
Speaker 3: it's like man Pittman just destroyed Porter all day. Wow,
Speaker 3: that'd be something to talk about. Him getting open on
Speaker 3: seven on Seven's is not all that noteworthy exactly right,
Speaker 3: But he looks fine to me. It just physically and
Speaker 3: all that. I don't think, Oh he's done.
Speaker 2: Question two. Best wing sauce in Latrobe and from which restaurant?
Speaker 3: I'm so boring. I'm always buffalo dipped in blue cheek.
Speaker 2: He talked about this few days ago. Uh, these sweet
Speaker 2: heat from Dino's is unbelievable, you know what I've been told.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna well, not tonight, but soon rather than
Speaker 2: later here, maybe Monday, when we have an evening show there.
Speaker 2: I think we're at Sharky's. I've been told, have you
Speaker 2: ever heard of like like Alabama white sauce, like the
Speaker 2: southern southern white barbecue sauce.
Speaker 3: I would definitely try that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sharky's has a like an Alabama white, like a
Speaker 2: southern barbecue wing sauce that I've been told is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: We should just get a dozen and share them, and that's.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what we'll do on Yeah. H three from me,
Speaker 2: what is your favorite album cover of all time? It's
Speaker 2: a good question. Dark Side, Man, that's a really good one.
Speaker 2: That's one of those, like I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: something that just jumps right off the page at me,
Speaker 2: that's the one for Sergeant Pepper's the Beatles.
Speaker 3: It's cool. I think if you bought the original album
Speaker 3: the vinyl, I think there's a paper in there that
Speaker 3: tells you who everyone is on the cover it is,
Speaker 3: and it maybe evens in the CD right after you're
Speaker 3: talking for Pepers and Sergeant Pepper's, I mean they're all Yeah.
Speaker 3: First one just came to mind was dark dark Side
Speaker 3: is a great one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that is a great one. I'm sure this
Speaker 2: will be one of those things where it'll be you know,
Speaker 2: twenty minutes from now and we'll be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: there's this album cover and that album.
Speaker 3: Along those lines. The Wall is is maybe my favorite
Speaker 3: album of all time. And in my fraternity room, my
Speaker 3: sister drew the wall cover because we had like a
Speaker 3: brick wall, and she drew it exactly, but she did
Speaker 3: it with fraternity colors like thrown in. That's pretty mu,
Speaker 3: which is pretty Yeah, that was very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very cool. I like the Springsteen Born in
Speaker 2: the USA one with the blue jeans and the and
Speaker 2: the hat and the American flag and all that. It's
Speaker 2: a pretty good one.
Speaker 3: There's some good there's there's so many icons.
Speaker 2: So many gn R.
Speaker 3: Yeah, appetite, I mean, just because I don't love that
Speaker 3: as much as I love the album, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Like dark sides like whoa, yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's some obvious ones.
Speaker 2: There's definitely some obvious ones that that we're missing as
Speaker 2: we do and these puts you on the spot type
Speaker 2: Q and A sessions that we do here with our
Speaker 2: Twitter segments.
Speaker 3: Adam says for those about the rock, just the cannon
Speaker 3: pretty cool. Yeah, that's one of my favorite.
Speaker 2: That's a great one. Yeah, it's so good, so good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a c DC has some great, great album covers.
Speaker 3: This wasn't my bag. But in my day everyone had
Speaker 3: an Iron Maiden poster and I mean they were like
Speaker 3: iconic art. Oh yeah, and a lot everyone had like artwork.
Speaker 3: I mean that was art. And for an album.
Speaker 2: I like the The Terrapin Station Grateful Dead. It's the
Speaker 2: turtle playing the playing the guitar at the train station.
Speaker 3: I love Turtles, Turtles.
Speaker 2: He told me a funny story. I love Turtles with
Speaker 2: our buddy Dale Lawlly. Maybe we'll have to bust that
Speaker 2: one out before camp is over. Adams says, they put
Speaker 2: t O in, they can most certainly put a b in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've used that example too. And the thing about
Speaker 3: to is he went to so many different teams. It's
Speaker 3: such a short amount of time too. It's very comparable
Speaker 3: to me, although does to of any.
Speaker 2: I don't think he had the legal stuff quite like different.
Speaker 3: I mean it shouldn't be, but it's going back to
Speaker 3: the conversation. But I don't think THEO ever spent jail
Speaker 3: time or was arrested or anything.
Speaker 2: He was just the butt he Also, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: he wouldn't have because it was a different time period.
Speaker 2: But like right now, you can go on Antonio Brown's
Speaker 2: social media and almost every week he's putting something out
Speaker 2: that's inappropriate. Let's just say.
Speaker 3: I was told he sold that to somebody else, so
Speaker 3: he doesn't do it anymore. I can't confirm that's true.
Speaker 2: He should let people know that that's not him. That
Speaker 2: would help a lot.
Speaker 3: And because the crazy stuff, trust me, I've been aware.
Speaker 2: He takes some shots at some current and former NFL people,
Speaker 2: and that's what the kind of stuff the league doesn't
Speaker 2: want to see.
Speaker 3: There's some slurs, there's some slurs and whatnot.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of stuff the league doesn't want to see.
Speaker 3: I was told though he no longer operates that.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, one, I'd be glad to hear that,
Speaker 2: and two, I hope he makes that well known that
Speaker 2: it's not his anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm sure some of our listeners are like, Matt, you're
Speaker 3: totally wrong, or yeah, you know it, because somebody would
Speaker 3: know that better than me.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can look into that. Is that stuff public
Speaker 2: record transactions of social media accounts.
Speaker 3: I can make someone a great deal on Williams in NFL.
Speaker 3: It costs you two point six million.
Speaker 2: I'll sell I'll sell Wes Leuler much cheaper than that.
Speaker 2: But I don't have as many followers as Bat, so
Speaker 2: you have to pick where you want to invest your money.
Speaker 2: Two point six million, Negotia. I think you could retire.
Speaker 2: I never would. You could just start Williams in the
Speaker 2: NFL too, Yeah, Matt. Matt and I had that conversation
Speaker 2: about a year ago where like, Hey, what would happen
Speaker 2: if you if you hit the powerball or something like that,
Speaker 2: you know, and Matt was like, I'd still do SNR.
Speaker 2: He's like, I still want to talk about football.
Speaker 3: That might cut it down a little, a couple more
Speaker 3: vacations mixed in.
Speaker 2: But not do shows throughout the off season.
Speaker 3: I'd maybe do some for my helicopter or from my yacht,
Speaker 3: but I'd have a little studio probably set up for
Speaker 3: the off season. I'd cut some of my other things out.
Speaker 3: I would be on so many hours in a day.
Speaker 2: I'd be on a beach, and I'd be on a
Speaker 2: beach somewhere with a margarita in my hand. I'll talk
Speaker 2: about football to myself.
Speaker 3: Babe.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh conversation with a two part question here. First, if
Speaker 2: there was one Pittsburgh bar or establishment you would recommend
Speaker 2: for a lifelong Steeler fan who was going to Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: for the first time, what would it be? And also
Speaker 2: wish two Steelers would you like to see in a
Speaker 2: water chugging contest at Sharky's.
Speaker 3: Wow, the first one is totally you. I saw that
Speaker 3: tweet earlier. I'm not good at that stuff and I'm
Speaker 3: not a bar go and go unless.
Speaker 2: I mean I can give I can give you like ten.
Speaker 2: It's hard to pick one, fat heads, was always my answer.
Speaker 2: You had to pick one. But it's no longer there
Speaker 2: closed to I.
Speaker 3: Don't know who's good on game day because I'm never there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that actually is true because he said, uh,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh fan, So I guess he didn't specifically say game day,
Speaker 2: but he said going to Pittsburgh for the first time.
Speaker 2: If it is game day, just go to any of
Speaker 2: those ones down there on the North Shore that are
Speaker 2: close to the stadium. They all can't they get They
Speaker 2: all get rocking on even away games. Yes, But in
Speaker 2: terms of just like sports bars, man, I love Archies
Speaker 2: is a fantastic place to watch a game, and they
Speaker 2: have really good Wings Pittsburgh Conversation follow up with me
Speaker 2: a little bit on that one. Let me know some
Speaker 2: more specifics, like are you talking a sports bar to
Speaker 2: watch games? Are you talking a place to get food too?
Speaker 3: We know South Hills is way different than North Hills,
Speaker 3: way different. I mean that's over the wall.
Speaker 2: And there's also you know, places like Lawrenceville where I
Speaker 2: wouldn't necessarily call them bars, but there's a lot of
Speaker 2: breweries that are that are just fantastic. I know I've
Speaker 2: laid that out on the show before. Pittsburgh. Man, if
Speaker 2: you're a if you're a person who likes breweries and
Speaker 2: like craft beers per cap per capita, Pittsburgh has got
Speaker 2: to be the top of the list. We've got a
Speaker 2: dozen great breweries in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like us South Hild's folks think there's
Speaker 3: white walkers in the North Hills. I mean, like, that's
Speaker 3: that's on the other side of the wall.
Speaker 2: Dude, that is on the other side of the Buddy
Speaker 2: Crowley used to say that all the time. He'd be like,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, dude, come over from the WU game,
Speaker 2: and he'd be like, Oh, it's so full, and I'd
Speaker 2: be like, dude, it's twenty five you live twenty five
Speaker 2: minutes away from me. What do you mean it's so far?
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, I gotta go north of the wall.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Two Steelers in a water chugging contest. I can tell
Speaker 2: you this, Jennings Dunker would definitely be one of them.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, good call.
Speaker 2: And I'm just going purely off looks here and ribes
Speaker 2: Jennings Dunker would absolutely be one of them. Maybe why
Speaker 2: a black the other? I picked the two. I picked
Speaker 2: the two midwestern Iowa guys.
Speaker 3: Of course, anyone from WU.
Speaker 2: So you know what, It's funny, No, Zach's Zach's two
Speaker 2: by the book man like. I'm sure Zach likes to
Speaker 2: have cut loose and have a good time from time
Speaker 2: to time, but I also wouldn't describe him as a
Speaker 2: party boy. What about Mason McCormick o line, strong place start, big,
Speaker 2: strong place to start. I mean, our guy Max Starks
Speaker 2: would probably still be at the top of this conversation.
Speaker 2: Try to think.
Speaker 3: I mean in history, I bet there's a million.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt. The uh the next Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: quarterback for the Steelers might be on that list. In
Speaker 2: terms of in terms of history, Max has some good
Speaker 2: stories about how, uh, the Steelers used to kind of
Speaker 2: have a beer drinking council in the evenings after practice
Speaker 2: where it was like a veteran like they'd get a
Speaker 2: cooler and have nothing crazy, but they'd have a couple
Speaker 2: of pops after practice. Yeah, and it was all a
Speaker 2: veterans thing, correct, It was all a veterans thing, and
Speaker 2: you had to be invited.
Speaker 3: Yes, so if you're a rook.
Speaker 2: Doesn't doesn't matter if you're a first round but if
Speaker 2: you're if it's going on here, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: you're Maxie honachor like, you got to be invited. And
Speaker 2: Max was like, it was only a couple of practices
Speaker 2: until Ben got invited. It's like Ben was Ben was
Speaker 2: pretty quickly on the council as a rookie. He Max
Speaker 2: is like, it took me a little bit longer to
Speaker 2: earn my stripes, but U Ben was up there pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure Lambert and we could really go back,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure Wolf could tell some story.
Speaker 2: The wolf would have been in that conversation when Wolf
Speaker 2: in Tounch would have certainly been in that conversation at
Speaker 2: one point too. Keep the tweets rolling in. You know
Speaker 2: where to get at us if you want to get involved.
Speaker 2: We are less than an hour away from Saturday night lights.
Speaker 2: Uh and what is always a fun evening over at
Speaker 2: Latrow Memorial. If you're over there, make some noise, get loud,
Speaker 2: have some fun, and enjoy a beautiful Saturday evening here
Speaker 2: in Westmoreland County. We'll hear a little bit, talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about Patrick Graham and this defense. When we return.
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Speaker 2: The Steelers are at Latrow Memorial. There's sign and autographs
Speaker 2: right now. Practice about thirty five minutes away. Matt, we
Speaker 2: do have one of our loyal SNR listeners boots on
Speaker 2: the ground as always. Of course, CR Steeler Nation Chicago.
Speaker 2: He says, what's up, my Steeler brothers. Do you guys
Speaker 2: have anybody here who will be broadcasting during the practice?
Speaker 2: By the way, the buses just pulled in. Okay, business
Speaker 2: is picking up. Of course CR is there every single year.
Speaker 2: I think he hits one of his traditions, no broadcasts
Speaker 2: during the Friday or Saturday night lights.
Speaker 3: Go see it for yourself.
Speaker 2: Go see it. Go see it for yourself and take
Speaker 2: it in and be one of the tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of people that are there on the grounds of Latrow Memorial.
Speaker 2: Should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: It sounds like they've landed though.
Speaker 2: Oh they certainly have. There's videos all over the timeline
Speaker 2: of autographs and chaos and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: Matt one of the people who of course, is out
Speaker 2: there and taking it in for the first time. Steelers
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Patrick Graham he spoke today earlier today and
Speaker 2: talked about a lot of different things, a lot of
Speaker 2: questions about the defensive line, a lot of questions about
Speaker 2: the secondary as he starts to learn his personnel better
Speaker 2: and this thing starts to come together. Here's what PG
Speaker 2: had to say earlier today.
Speaker 5: We've seen the outside linebackers lineup not just on different sides,
Speaker 5: but also a lot more off ball looks like kind
Speaker 5: of a new traditional inside linebacker looks. What does that
Speaker 5: do for your defense or how do these guys adapt
Speaker 5: to that?
Speaker 4: So well as this like you're happy to move TJ, Alex.
Speaker 5: Sawyer, Nick all over all over your defensive formation up front.
Speaker 6: It starts with, you know, the buy in in terms
Speaker 6: of the scheme what we're trying to do. These guys
Speaker 6: have been great, you know, uh, TJ all, all the
Speaker 6: guys have been great in terms of buying.
Speaker 4: In and studying really hard.
Speaker 6: And CJ's done a good job their coach of get
Speaker 6: them in different places again, because we're gonna do as
Speaker 6: much as they can handle, you know, and we're gonna
Speaker 6: try to put them in places where spots where we
Speaker 6: believe it's gonna be beneficial for them to be productive
Speaker 6: and also for the scheme of the defense. But a
Speaker 6: lot of this buying and then you know there's some
Speaker 6: you know working, some trial and there stuff as we
Speaker 6: go to you know, like everything's not gonna make it
Speaker 6: to week one in terms of schematically as we're going
Speaker 6: through training camp.
Speaker 4: But I mean they've done a great job with that
Speaker 4: and the reason why we do it. We think it so.
Speaker 6: It's best for them to be productive and we think
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a good scheme for us.
Speaker 5: What you see in your skill in their skill sets,
Speaker 5: when you like study your roster and understand what these
Speaker 5: guys are say like this will be really a really
Speaker 5: good piece to ad because a lot of people look
Speaker 5: at you know, three four outside linebackers say just need them.
Speaker 4: Rush in the passer.
Speaker 6: Well one before you get the skill set, the production
Speaker 6: you know, the guys have been you know, they've produced
Speaker 6: you know, in terms of past so they have to
Speaker 6: be accounted for. So that's one of the positives there
Speaker 6: just schematically, when you look at the big picture, then
Speaker 6: skill set wise athletically, I.
Speaker 4: Mean they're they're.
Speaker 6: They got good traits in terms of length, uh size,
Speaker 6: the ability.
Speaker 4: Then they have good athletic ability. So it's a lot.
Speaker 6: I mean again, I'm happy for how they the organization,
Speaker 6: the club, Omar and his staff in terms of how
Speaker 6: they put together this roster in terms of you know,
Speaker 6: we got we got some options, we got some options
Speaker 6: you've had.
Speaker 7: I've spoken with a couple of different linebackers and said
Speaker 7: that they feel like in your system that they feel
Speaker 7: a little bit more free, like it's just like it's
Speaker 7: just play. Can you describe how you've designed that so
Speaker 7: that they can feel a little bit more free to
Speaker 7: just just play.
Speaker 6: So it's again, anything we do is never just me,
Speaker 6: you know. I know I'm responsible for it in terms
Speaker 6: of what goes out there, but it's it's really collectively myself,
Speaker 6: the coaches, and for me is getting input from players
Speaker 6: and so over my years of coaching and as the
Speaker 6: system has evolved, just trying to keep things in buckets
Speaker 6: for the players, you know, trying to I don't want
Speaker 6: to have them doing ten different things on any given
Speaker 6: play or thinking about ten different techniques. So for me,
Speaker 6: I'm always trying to minimize it, and I think It
Speaker 6: comes from my front background, you know, Like for me,
Speaker 6: I'm a D line slash linebacker coach background. So for me,
Speaker 6: it was always Okay, our immediate threats right in our face.
Speaker 6: We have to make quicker decisions then, say on the
Speaker 6: back end at times. And so for me, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: this is the same ass, this is the same ass.
Speaker 4: I think that's where.
Speaker 6: If we can eliminate variables, they able to play faster
Speaker 6: and just put them in right spots. So that's that's
Speaker 6: how the systems built. I try to keep everything in
Speaker 6: five buckets. And you know I'm jerry rigging that sometimes,
Speaker 6: but you know that's put that in that bucket. You
Speaker 6: know there's bucket A and a A or one A
Speaker 6: and one a B.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. But that's how we try
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 6: And you know, it's been successful for me in the
Speaker 6: past with the guys I've coached and so far, you know,
Speaker 6: they're they're buying into it.
Speaker 8: How is that an impacted by not having Jalen and
Speaker 8: Joey and Deshaun for periods of time?
Speaker 6: Is I mean, they've been so great in the classroom
Speaker 6: in terms of you know, you're talking about guys who
Speaker 6: have played a lot of football, So you know, you know,
Speaker 6: whether it's in the classroom just talking through it, but
Speaker 6: they're engaged. I'm engaged with them, the guys that are
Speaker 6: engaged with them, So you know we're gonna that's it
Speaker 6: really gets you ready for the season. That happens all
Speaker 6: the time when you're playing a collision sport. Some guy
Speaker 6: might not practice all week, but he's gonna be up
Speaker 6: for the game. So for me, in terms of the
Speaker 6: evaluation the defense, we're gonna evaluate the guys out there,
Speaker 6: but in terms of the defenses schematically, you know a
Speaker 6: lot of times it's gonna be next man up.
Speaker 4: Mentality evaluation.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that evaluation of Sanje, Sanuel Junior has gotten
Speaker 2: a lot of lucks with Joey out. What have you
Speaker 2: seen from him?
Speaker 9: What's kind of impressed you about what he's been doing, I.
Speaker 4: Mean what he's done throughout his career in the league.
Speaker 6: I mean, you see a guy again, let's start in
Speaker 6: the class Let's talk about the person great person I
Speaker 6: mean like just super cool person, like really smart, has
Speaker 6: a great personality and a joy to be around. Then
Speaker 6: you talk about the football player in the classroom. Real attentive,
Speaker 6: not afraid to speak up in the meetings again and
Speaker 6: just answer questions. I call them a lot because I
Speaker 6: want the guys to hear his voice. He's really smart
Speaker 6: and knows how to talk football with you.
Speaker 4: Or with the players.
Speaker 6: You see him talking to some of the other guys,
Speaker 6: and then on the field you see the foot quickness, you.
Speaker 4: See the speed and the burst.
Speaker 6: You see the willingness to get down a line of
Speaker 6: scrimmage and get hands on I know. I mean he's
Speaker 6: been doing a good job there. And then just the
Speaker 6: tackling in terms of again we're not doing live tackling,
Speaker 6: but for me, the whole live tackling thing is about
Speaker 6: to me, the tackling, getting our angles right, making sure
Speaker 6: we're closing the space.
Speaker 4: We know the run game in.
Speaker 6: The NFL is trying to get out to the corner.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's been real pleasure to watch him. And
Speaker 6: then he's getting to the ball. So, like you know,
Speaker 6: once we start getting to the ball and come away
Speaker 6: with turnovers, that's always a positive for us.
Speaker 9: We've seen you guys bring a lot of different types
Speaker 9: of pressure. I'm curious just how would you describe your
Speaker 9: philosophy when it comes to pressure.
Speaker 6: You know, some people like trying to go in put
Speaker 6: this way how I learned it. Like sometimes you're trying
Speaker 6: to free out. You have run pressure, you have pass pressure.
Speaker 6: So like on a run pressure, I might be trying
Speaker 6: to you know, it might more be involved with an
Speaker 6: edge pressure or just plug in the middle of the defense.
Speaker 6: So to me, however you do it in terms of
Speaker 6: run pressure, you're trying to get to five down spacing
Speaker 6: from off the ball.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense? All right?
Speaker 6: Once we get to pressures that are geared for the past,
Speaker 6: a lot of times you're either trying to be right,
Speaker 6: meaning you're scheming it up for a free runner or
Speaker 6: one on one like the design one on one, so
Speaker 6: you're trying to be right, moving the front around, running games,
Speaker 6: opposite things of that nature. So those are more pass calls.
Speaker 6: And then you have guys in terms of pass calls
Speaker 6: where you're just trying to create one on one matchup
Speaker 6: because we have a pretty good front.
Speaker 4: So for me, I fall in the run pressure that's
Speaker 4: everybody in the league.
Speaker 6: The pass pressures that really, okay, I'm gonna put overload
Speaker 6: here and try to get a free runner to me.
Speaker 6: I like our matchups one on one. So like to me,
Speaker 6: I'm not afraid if it creates a one on one
Speaker 6: matchup because how we talk here is you're expected.
Speaker 4: To win the one on one.
Speaker 6: So if all in those three buckets does that, that
Speaker 6: makes sense right there.
Speaker 5: With Mike McCarthy, listen is Steelers six mannerisms and disguises.
Speaker 3: Was one of them.
Speaker 5: How do you go about teaching, you know, being able
Speaker 5: to sell one look versus getting to and establishing you know,
Speaker 5: your role in that in what you're disguising.
Speaker 6: It starts off with a lot of listening. You know,
Speaker 6: you listen when coaches up there talking to the team.
Speaker 6: You know, getting to have such a resource like coach Aaron,
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean it's I think it's gives us
Speaker 6: an advantage, you know. So for me, it starts with Okay,
Speaker 6: as the quarterback under center and the gun, they understand
Speaker 6: the nature of the place, how you can disguise. If
Speaker 6: he's in the gun, he's looking directly at you, all right.
Speaker 6: If he's under center, you're anticipating most teams he's going
Speaker 6: to turn his back to you. So you're trying trying
Speaker 6: to talk to them about that. Then by formation, are
Speaker 6: they boasting is if if it's a formation in the boundary,
Speaker 6: how what we're trying to show.
Speaker 4: So it's really about listening to our offense.
Speaker 6: When we have time in the spring and now they're
Speaker 6: in training camp, and then it's recognizing formations and where
Speaker 6: the quarterbacks at and working from there.
Speaker 10: We've seen you use a lot of split safety. Look
Speaker 10: so far in training camp traditionally is a team that
Speaker 10: rant a lot of simple high middle clues. What true
Speaker 10: levy does that sought process there and where some of.
Speaker 6: The president come well, you know, you look at the
Speaker 6: numbers from what we've called, I would probably say we
Speaker 6: probably called more post.
Speaker 4: Safety in camp.
Speaker 6: I will say that, But for me, in terms of
Speaker 6: split safety postage, split safety just gives your ability to
Speaker 6: disguise some you get disguised from the post safety as well.
Speaker 6: But I would say today's quarterbacks, I mean it's split
Speaker 6: safety and you could disguise what the weak safety is
Speaker 6: doing because they've been trained since high school. The stare
Speaker 6: at that week safety and the nickel position. You know,
Speaker 6: it gives you a little bit more time to confuse
Speaker 6: the quarterback. That's my take, and then obviously from there
Speaker 6: playing the run. From there, you know, because everybody in
Speaker 6: their mind goes to, hey, you gotta get the single,
Speaker 6: hide and stop the run. You gotta remember how I
Speaker 6: was trained. You asked me my favorite call versus stop
Speaker 6: the run is cover too. But y'all know where I
Speaker 6: started at. I mean, so my answer for everything is
Speaker 6: covered too. But you know we don't do that all
Speaker 6: the time. But you know, you know I love me
Speaker 6: some cover too.
Speaker 8: Speaking a Drick, obviously, d line is something that's going
Speaker 8: to play a big part in stop in the run.
Speaker 8: How have you found that depth and specifically with why
Speaker 8: how do you think he's developing here?
Speaker 6: Is that death came from how Omar and their staff
Speaker 6: put together the roster.
Speaker 4: I mean, we have a lot of options.
Speaker 6: Again, how the profile they've established here and haven't really
Speaker 6: strayed from it. I mean again, I applaud them because
Speaker 6: I know myself when we started, oh it's a passing league.
Speaker 6: Past the league and we start getting smaller and smaller
Speaker 6: different places I've been. I love the fact fact that
Speaker 6: they stayed with the profile. It shows discipline of the organization.
Speaker 6: That's why they win all the time, you know, and
Speaker 6: that's what I'm happy to be here. But in terms
Speaker 6: of the depth. It starts there and now as they compete,
Speaker 6: you really see them bringing out the best in one another.
Speaker 6: And and it's and it's hard to compete in that
Speaker 6: room because you have you have quality guys who I
Speaker 6: mean again, I can't I don't want to give away
Speaker 6: a number, but I mean there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 6: of guys from that room that are.
Speaker 4: Gonna be playing a NFL football, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's it's really impressive how they put together the roster.
Speaker 4: I love how they compete.
Speaker 6: Uh, it's a pleasure to be in the meetings with
Speaker 6: them and how they talk to one another. Cam does
Speaker 6: a great job of being a good leader. But then
Speaker 6: the funny thing is Cam obviously with experienced.
Speaker 4: Being a leader.
Speaker 6: But you know, you hear you hear the other guys
Speaker 6: in the room talking. You know, you have Dean in there.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, Dean's played a lot of football.
Speaker 6: Sebastians played a lot of football Harmon, even though the
Speaker 6: second year he played a lot of football.
Speaker 4: It's fun to be in that room and hear them
Speaker 4: talk football.
Speaker 5: You were talking about your your safeties as far as
Speaker 5: like how they've played in their career between Kwan, you
Speaker 5: know ray Sean Deshan. A lot of them would played
Speaker 5: primarily just strong safety roles in defenses.
Speaker 3: Is where they lined up.
Speaker 5: Is the lack of NFL free safety experience something that
Speaker 5: you guys look at us as old thing that you
Speaker 5: have to disguise or work around or do you see
Speaker 5: your guys it's like, hey, that's something that they.
Speaker 4: Can do this hard job to put them in the
Speaker 4: best spots.
Speaker 6: And then for us when we're evaluating guys like so,
Speaker 6: whether it's a new staff like you know for the
Speaker 6: guys that were here or acquiring a player from free agency,
Speaker 6: we're looking for traits. So you could find if you
Speaker 6: search hard enough, you can find the traits, whether you
Speaker 6: know however the other teams use them or however they
Speaker 6: were used. So if you could find the traits, that's
Speaker 6: that's what we're looking for. And then I try again.
Speaker 6: I've known Joe Simo for a long time. I mean,
Speaker 6: I trust those guys more.
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't.
Speaker 6: I mean there's not too many people I could name
Speaker 6: in coaching I would trust more to get it right
Speaker 6: and coaching right. So I mean they do an excellent job.
Speaker 6: I mean, just look at their track record. They they
Speaker 6: know how to coach ball and all the coach DB's
Speaker 6: and they know I don't want to coach them joking.
Speaker 6: I want to spend time with the front.
Speaker 4: So how much you.
Speaker 3: Might change when Jalen returns.
Speaker 5: You guys talked about using him as the star dB
Speaker 5: and him being able to float all around and bring
Speaker 5: in guy like that back into your defense. Does that
Speaker 5: jumble up a lot of things that you guys are
Speaker 5: working on now we.
Speaker 6: We're I mean, this is what I want to make
Speaker 6: sure that just because guys aren't practiced, they're they're still
Speaker 6: part of it. But Jalen's part of it. I Jalen's
Speaker 6: in my thought process. They're all in my thought process,
Speaker 6: and it's all in the coaches thought process. So everything
Speaker 6: we do out there in their field that's collectively like
Speaker 6: it's not good. I mean again, certain players come out
Speaker 6: you might you know, highlight something a little bit different,
Speaker 6: but they're all in the process of how we're putting
Speaker 6: this thing together.
Speaker 9: Coach ranks, you know, you have the opportunity to work
Speaker 9: with a lot of well respected defensive minds. How has
Speaker 9: some of that shaped your philosophy and are the elements
Speaker 9: that you've borrowed or taken from them that you're now
Speaker 9: implementing this defense.
Speaker 4: I mean so many different I mean.
Speaker 6: The long winded here, but no, no, no, no, there's
Speaker 6: different things from each guy, you know. But at the
Speaker 6: really good ones, I've always said, they're really good listeners,
Speaker 6: really organized, and clear with the vision. You know, once
Speaker 6: you put in a place of leadership, I think you
Speaker 6: got to be clear with the vision. And that doesn't
Speaker 6: mean you have to micromanage that. That might, you know,
Speaker 6: you have to micro manage them. You just have to
Speaker 6: be clear with the vision and then let them bring
Speaker 6: it to life, you know, the assistant coaches, let them
Speaker 6: develop a language how they're talking to their players. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's what I learned from, you know, all the guys
Speaker 6: I worked for. And then schematically, it's all the funny thing.
Speaker 6: The guys I worked for that are really good. It's
Speaker 6: all rooted in the same principles, you know, in terms
Speaker 6: of knocking the line of scrimmage bag, playing with your
Speaker 6: hands set in the edge, you know, defending the DP ball,
Speaker 6: you know, just like tackling those guys. And it always
Speaker 6: comes back to that. So I always find myself what
Speaker 6: I learned from them is always come back to the core,
Speaker 6: your core values, and you know, my core six or
Speaker 6: their core six might be a little bit different or
Speaker 6: you know, turn you know, prioritized differently, but we're probably
Speaker 6: you know, I learned what to put in those core
Speaker 6: values from those men.
Speaker 2: All Right, Steelers defensive coordinator Patrick Graham fascinating guy, well spoken.
Speaker 2: Matt and I have talked about that before. You can
Speaker 2: hear the usful the Yale education in the in the
Speaker 2: background there and uh, Matt, a lot of intriguing, rightfully
Speaker 2: so around Mike McCarthy and the reunion with Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: and what this offense is going to look like. But
Speaker 2: man sneaky on that other side of the ball just
Speaker 2: about is intriguing with what Patrick Graham. A lot of
Speaker 2: familiar ingredients on that defense, but a brand new chef
Speaker 2: to put them all together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's gonna taste a little different, it's
Speaker 3: gonna look a little different. I like to Obviously a
Speaker 3: lot of attention to detail. Really wants to concentrate on
Speaker 3: the front. I'm really optimistic, man, what he got out
Speaker 3: of a Raiders team that really didn't have a fraction
Speaker 3: of the talent he's working with now. And we haven't
Speaker 3: talked about this a lot, but if you go through
Speaker 3: his history as a defensive coordinator, I bet he would
Speaker 3: tell you. And honestly, I mean, it's pretty clear this
Speaker 3: is the best group of players he's coached. Without he
Speaker 3: has not had great talent.
Speaker 2: It's like going from a from a mid level college
Speaker 2: football program to like a big time SEC or big time.
Speaker 3: But you're playing the same teams, You're playing the same schedule,
Speaker 3: right right right. The level of competition didn't go up.
Speaker 2: And like I said, I I understand most of the
Speaker 2: eyes have been on the offense and the quarterbacks, and
Speaker 2: I get all that without a doubt. But I think
Speaker 2: I think once they once they start hitting in preseason,
Speaker 2: not even as much as in preseason, but of course
Speaker 2: once we get to the regular season, I think quickly
Speaker 2: people will be very intrigued by what's going on with
Speaker 2: that defense. The Steelers have made a couple of waiver
Speaker 2: wire moves that will that will kind of get to
Speaker 2: you here before we get up out of here. In
Speaker 2: our last segment, We've also got a couple last tweets
Speaker 2: to hit in.
Speaker 3: Some final uh wrap this thing up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, leading up to the start of Saturday Night Lights.
Speaker 2: Of course, over at Latrow Memorial. We'll do all of
Speaker 2: that and more when we return for our final segment.
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Speaker 2: Final segment of the day here at Saint Vincent College
Speaker 2: a few miles away at Latrow Memorial. We are just
Speaker 2: minutes away from getting this Saturday Night Lights practice underway.
Speaker 2: Another massive crowd. You know, Matt, I always laugh, and
Speaker 2: I think I've joked about you with this before. Motes
Speaker 2: and I used to joke about this like every Tuesday
Speaker 2: in the past, Mike Tomlin would have his press conferences
Speaker 2: during the season at noon right ye clockwork, and Motes
Speaker 2: and I used to be sitting in the studio and
Speaker 2: we would laugh because you'd go through your Twitter feed
Speaker 2: and you would have thirty seven people tweet the same
Speaker 2: exact thing. Second department, right, There'd be Dale, and there'd
Speaker 2: be Pursuita, and there'd be Kebali, and there would be
Speaker 2: Jerry Dulac and Brian Bacco and Mike the Fabo and
Speaker 2: Brook Pryor and you know out them, Alan Saunders and
Speaker 2: Fairbaugh and strack Bean and Jim Wexel and the list
Speaker 2: goes on and on, and they're all tweeting out and
Speaker 2: Chris Carter and they're all tweeting out all the different
Speaker 2: the same exact quote seconds and seconds apart, and Motes
Speaker 2: that I used to laugh. We'd be like, all right,
Speaker 2: here comes, here comes the next fifteen minutes. You can't
Speaker 2: get on your Twitter feed because you'll see the same,
Speaker 2: the same exact quote fifty seven times right now, right now,
Speaker 2: Everyone on my Twitter feed are real, you know, intrepid
Speaker 2: journalistic and reporter friends are all tweeting out. I actually
Speaker 2: like this, different pictures and videos. Yah, it's not the
Speaker 2: same head coach quote thirty seven times, but I'm.
Speaker 3: Sure it's all getting off the bus and you.
Speaker 2: Know, autographs, crazy fans and uh and and just the
Speaker 2: scenes that we come to expect there at Latro Memorial
Speaker 2: Stadium and what is another man packed packed house. Doesn't
Speaker 2: look like there's an inch to move in that place
Speaker 2: and should be a lot of fun. This sevening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it's rocking. I'm kind of jealous we're
Speaker 3: not over there at the moment. But the Twitter thing's
Speaker 3: pretty funny because motes of every similar tonight we're done
Speaker 3: or in the Tuesdays, it's just exactly.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious like we would most and I would always
Speaker 2: have that joke like put your Twitter feed away for
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes because it's about to get clogged up with
Speaker 2: the same with the same.
Speaker 3: Quote just Red red one and I get to get
Speaker 3: the gist. I don't need thirty more.
Speaker 2: Matt, some some business by the Steelers. Yesterday we did
Speaker 2: mention part of this, but it's now been confirmed by
Speaker 2: the team. Nothing earth shattering, but always worth noting. Throughout
Speaker 2: this process. The Steelers claimed two players off of waivers yesterday,
Speaker 2: wide receiver Colton Dowell from San Francisco and the one
Speaker 2: that we mentioned before we got off air, tight end
Speaker 2: Lance Mason from Seattle, Okay, both off of waivers, both
Speaker 2: out of the NFC West. Oddly enough, Dowell was selected
Speaker 2: by the Tennessee Titans in the seventh round of the
Speaker 2: twenty three NFL Draft. He's spent time with the Titans,
Speaker 2: with the Ravens, and with the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2: Played his college ball at U T. Martin and then Mason,
Speaker 2: as we talked about a little bit on on yesterday's show,
Speaker 2: was an undrafted free agent of the Seahawks after this
Speaker 2: past draft out of Wisconsin. With that Matt, the team
Speaker 2: released wide receiver At Perry and one of the guys
Speaker 2: that we liked watching over the past year or two,
Speaker 2: tight end JJ Gallbreath.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and both those guys have been around a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I think they have a must must have a
Speaker 3: firm grasp of what they are and what they can
Speaker 3: or can't be. So turn page, you know, churning the
Speaker 3: bottom the roster. Maybe you find something. I don't know
Speaker 3: a ton about these news guys that have just been added,
Speaker 3: but we'll be getting eyeballs on them. I would imagine
Speaker 3: both have to be special team.
Speaker 2: Ye, absolutely absolutely. I think there's still we talked. We've
Speaker 2: talked about this a little bit over the last few days.
Speaker 2: Churnin looking for a viable tight end who they can
Speaker 2: trust on the field and contribute to special teams. Maybe
Speaker 2: the Connor Hayward type role, right, and then I think
Speaker 2: same church, different pew at safety as.
Speaker 3: Well, safety as well. Yeah, I don't know that the
Speaker 3: receiver they just signed has a clear path, but maybe
Speaker 3: get in the practice squad. I mean, remember the practice
Speaker 3: squads are large now since COVID, so yep, a lot
Speaker 3: of these dudes that I always find that interesting on
Speaker 3: cutdown day, like, oh man, we lost that guy. I like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but they signed thirteen dudes off practice squad. I mean
Speaker 3: probably gonna be back one.
Speaker 2: Or two more tweets here, Matt to hit before we
Speaker 2: get up out of here for this Saturday and for
Speaker 2: this week, A reminder, no practice tomorrow, so we will
Speaker 2: we'll have a Sunday off here. On SNR. But we'll
Speaker 2: be back Monday for a big week next week Monday, Tuesday, practice,
Speaker 2: day off Wednesday, and then that first preseason game at
Speaker 2: home Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers. Michael Edesso,
Speaker 2: one of our p ones, says, guys, am I crazy,
Speaker 2: but didn't you say earlier this week that Eli Heidenreich
Speaker 2: had a hammy and would be out for a week
Speaker 2: or so. I don't know if it was one of
Speaker 2: you guys or maybe Alan Saunders when you had him
Speaker 2: on and then actually just a minute or two ago,
Speaker 2: Alan actually ripond responded and said he has a hammy injury,
Speaker 2: not sure about eta for a return, but doesn't seem
Speaker 2: super severe.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I'm just glad we mentioned it because
Speaker 3: we had.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so so far, Matt. I think there's been
Speaker 2: a couple of those, you know, Maxie Haner, Brandon Eckles,
Speaker 2: all those guys. Looks like he's not in pads tonight.
Speaker 2: According to he's there, but not.
Speaker 3: In big sense for the day off tomorrow. I mean,
Speaker 3: anyone is questionable. I would not play tonight off tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I completely completely agree with you on that one.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to be on top of Monday attendance
Speaker 3: big time.
Speaker 2: It looks like Jakwan Brisker is not dressed for practice either,
Speaker 2: as well as Brandon Eckles, like we mentioned, no chance,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Max is not. I would I wouldn't think Max,
Speaker 2: because yesterday Mike McCarthy said they were hoping to see
Speaker 2: him again Monday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know Monday's target.
Speaker 2: It's a bummer for all of you who were down
Speaker 2: there and hoping to get your first look at these guys.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I think it's not uncommon.
Speaker 2: We all we all understand that, uh every year, but
Speaker 2: especially under new head coach Mike McCarthy. You got to
Speaker 2: make it to September to the starting line healthy and
Speaker 2: and that feels feels like a real part of this camp,
Speaker 2: certainly for the new head coach.
Speaker 3: Assumings injuries not as serious as originally thought. If he's
Speaker 3: back Monday or Tuesday or whatever, I still think he's
Speaker 3: got a pretty clear path to be in the week
Speaker 3: one starter.
Speaker 2: Same. You don't want to kick that can too far
Speaker 2: down the road, right.
Speaker 3: I don't want to waiting if he misses the preseason game.
Speaker 2: If he misses two practices, three practices not the end.
Speaker 3: Of the potato.
Speaker 2: If he misses two weeks then it becomes.
Speaker 3: A different the games, the ones I don't want to miss.
Speaker 2: Last one here goes to Mike. Do you guys think
Speaker 2: the lack of Michael Pittman junior flair at camp so
Speaker 2: far could be some gamesmanship by the Steelers not featuring
Speaker 2: him as much so other eyes can't see him before
Speaker 2: the season starts. Also two great album covers, Allman Brothers
Speaker 2: Live at the Fillmore East and any Molly Hatchet cover.
Speaker 3: I was never a huge Hatchet fan, but yeah, they're
Speaker 3: kind of known.
Speaker 2: For always flying under the radar. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: so as much with that stuff anymore. I just the
Speaker 2: book book is out on everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, but I've always I've even mentioned it, like
Speaker 3: it is there a reason Ramsey's not out here because
Speaker 3: we don't want to divulge to the world what we're
Speaker 3: our intentions are with him. No one's quite said what
Speaker 3: he's gonna do, especially when I'm tying four defensive backs
Speaker 3: on the field and Motes would be proud. I do
Speaker 3: think there's gonna be things, a lot of things that
Speaker 3: we're not gonna be privy to or be telling you
Speaker 3: guys about that when they get to the South side
Speaker 3: portion of TI. Yeah, will be more stuff they don't
Speaker 3: want anybody to see. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And I don't get me wrong, I don't want to
Speaker 2: downplay that. I know that that is real. Yes, I
Speaker 2: just don't know. Okay, it's a unique environment that any
Speaker 2: it could be a raven scout in the seat. There
Speaker 2: absolutely could. But even if you keep everything hidden and
Speaker 2: under wraps and secret and quiet, you don't think after
Speaker 2: the first two weeks against Atlanta and New England, by
Speaker 2: the time you go to Cincinnati September twenty seventh, they're
Speaker 2: gonna know what you're doing. I mean, right, you know,
Speaker 2: like I just.
Speaker 3: And they're gonna have their ideas too.
Speaker 2: Again right, The people that make these decisions are much
Speaker 2: more in tune to the football process and the league
Speaker 2: and how all that works than I am. But I
Speaker 2: do always kind of I think there's too much stock
Speaker 2: put into that stuff, because even if you are hiding
Speaker 2: some secrets up your sleeve with Jalen Ramsey, with Michael
Speaker 2: Pittman Jr. By the time you get to the end
Speaker 2: of September, all that stuff's gonna be on film and
Speaker 2: so maybe maybe you caught your first opponent or two
Speaker 2: a little unprepared. But in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's moving the needle all that much
Speaker 2: for your overall success.
Speaker 3: I just don't think they want us in the whole
Speaker 3: world talking about it like we know exactly what ram Oh,
Speaker 3: he's gonna be the free safety and ours four guys man,
Speaker 3: at least let people think about it.
Speaker 2: There's definitely some truth to that.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us today. That'll do it for
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