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Speaker 1: Iheartradios Live coverage Job twenty twenty five Steelers Training Camp

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Station Radio, and welcome back to campus

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Speaker 2: Saint Vincent College here on another day where weather had

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Speaker 2: an effect on Steelers practice, but the Steelers getting out

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Speaker 2: ahead of it today, Matt, because we might have another

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Speaker 2: one of those pouring down rain situations here in the

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Speaker 2: next hour or two. If we do, you and I

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Speaker 2: will have a lovely view here at the Shucknel.

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Speaker 3: All two familiar view, all.

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Speaker 2: Two familiar view. But because of that word coming down

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Speaker 2: late last night that the Steelers had moved practice up

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Speaker 2: to ten AM, and I, as much as it throws off.

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Speaker 4: Hard, nobody like shows up late, like hope ever gets

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Speaker 4: the memo.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: That's a good point. Someone who's like not really active

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Speaker 2: on social media.

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Speaker 3: Right, I'm just gonna go.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get there at one thirty two o'clock. And

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Speaker 2: you're like, wait, is everybody leaving? Is everybody going a

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Speaker 2: lot of parking spots? Because late last night the Steelers

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Speaker 2: and I think rightfully, so, hey, they've already had one

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Speaker 2: practice entirely wiped out due to weather and two others

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Speaker 2: cut short, and they say, can't afford anymore, We're not

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Speaker 2: gonna risk it today. So practice is gonna be at

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Speaker 2: ten am. That way, we will be well and clear

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Speaker 2: of the fields before the weather is supposed to be

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Speaker 2: in the area about an hour from now. And again, selfishly,

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Speaker 2: for us, it's kind of a bummer because once again

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Speaker 2: there's nothing going on in front of us. But from

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Speaker 2: their standpoint makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And you know, like LABS was concerned that, hey,

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Speaker 4: they're not gonna miss any more practices, even for men

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Speaker 4: getting on buses and going back to the South Side.

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Speaker 3: That's happened before. What we want to do, that's brutal.

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Speaker 4: Nobody wants to do that, media included. But like you said,

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Speaker 4: they've missed too much valuable practice time and there's not

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Speaker 4: much to give. We've been a theme with you and I,

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Speaker 4: But we're predicting the weather is not easy around here.

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Speaker 4: But it sounds like after this storm coming this afternoon,

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Speaker 4: at least through the weekend when they get their day off,

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Speaker 4: it looks like it should be pretty good and back

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Speaker 4: to normal. But I urge you, guys, if you're playing

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Speaker 4: on coming or whatever, double check. I mean, he got

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Speaker 4: to apparently, because they're not going to miss a practice now.

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Speaker 2: No, they're not, nor as they should. Yeah right, they can't.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's it was one thing last week when you had

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Speaker 2: those two practices cut ten to fifteen minutes short. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's not ideal, but it's not the.

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Speaker 3: End of in the world, Okay, you know.

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Speaker 2: But then when you miss an entire day, when you

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Speaker 2: have a sunken day out here like they did on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: you cannot afford to have that happen again. So preemptively

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Speaker 2: moving practiced up to ten am this morning, that obviously

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Speaker 2: changed some things around for this schedule for everybody. Sure,

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Speaker 2: But with that, I guess Matt and I now have

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Speaker 2: all of our practice observations and thoughts in the bank already.

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Speaker 2: What'd you take away from today? Practice number seven for

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Speaker 2: the steelers. And by the way, they were just in

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Speaker 3: Know, so again, I mean just again, I like pulling

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Speaker 4: I mean I could pay more attention to little things

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Speaker 3: Than when you're on the That was one nice part.

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Speaker 3: It was nice thing about it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: So I got down here at ten, I had no responsibilities.

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Speaker 4: You and Rob scoot me up for about ten minutes

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Speaker 4: or whatever and pulled me on the air. But no

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Speaker 3: Of talk football and watch football.

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Speaker 4: And when practice started we both were like, ooh, yesterday

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Speaker 4: was pretty physical. You have Friday night lights tomorrow, no pads.

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Speaker 4: I bet they just go glorified walkthrough.

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Speaker 2: That's not what I saw it all all.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was a very little It might have

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Speaker 2: About two and a half hours. Yeah, which is the

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Speaker 2: max you're allowed under the CBA.

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Speaker 4: Either they pushed it right to the limit. They didn't

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Speaker 4: go over, but they pushed it right to the limit.

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Speaker 4: I guess there's a lot of things they wanted to

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Speaker 4: did a podcast after yesterday's practice saying, Hey, it's not

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Speaker 4: the end of the world, folks, but the defense is

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Speaker 4: kicking the crap out of the offense right now. And

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Speaker 4: that's not uncommon around the league. The offense takes longer

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Speaker 4: than the defense. And you can always look at these

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Speaker 4: things two ways. Is it time to worry about the.

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Speaker 3: Offense or might just be the best defensive league, you

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Speaker 4: Like, I can make a case for both. But I

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Speaker 4: thought the offense responded in a big way. And I

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Speaker 4: really thought that the coaches, the offensive leaders, I'm sure,

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Speaker 4: spoke up quite a bit in film sessions.

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Speaker 3: And team meetings.

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Speaker 4: In each position room, in the locker room, and Rogers

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Speaker 4: had a different look about him.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of fighting in terms of just physics.

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Speaker 2: However.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and man, it's a lot of the new guys.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of the attitude dudes they brought in,

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Speaker 4: Like Thornhill isn't known as a big time attitude tough guy,

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Speaker 4: but he's out there battling, and you know, nobody's taking

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Speaker 3: And I was happy.

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Speaker 4: While I still think the defense is a better unit

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Speaker 3: You know. They came out and had a really good practice,

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Speaker 3: So that's what you want.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, today was the first day that I thought the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was the only practice you watched, Like, oh,

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Speaker 4: that's a pretty competitive battle.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, two good units.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, the defense was making plays, the offense was

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Speaker 2: first time the offense had multiple splash moments, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: where it was a huge storyline today.

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Speaker 3: So I love their new guys too. Yeah. Absolutely, they're

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Speaker 2: And had Isaac Samalu back out there today for the

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Speaker 4: I didn't see him do a ton, didn't do a

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Speaker 2: So it was it was a day where it felt

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Speaker 2: like the offense finally, you know, got got some level footing,

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Speaker 2: did their part.

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Speaker 3: Made a little bit of a statement, made a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Of a statement. And how about how about some of

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Speaker 2: the some of the plays that we saw from Roman Wilson,

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Speaker 2: particularly that yeah one on one drill against Joey Porter Junior.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I'll be honest, I was watching so you

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Speaker 4: were that that was going on the left side of

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Speaker 2: I was over right. I was watching a little perfect

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Speaker 4: It makes sense because I was concentrating on bax vers

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Speaker 4: of course i'd look down here. Roman Wilson's one of

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Speaker 4: those guys, to no fault of his own. The ship's

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Speaker 4: moving pretty quick, and you're being counted on to help

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Speaker 4: a lot. And I've heard some buzz with some media

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Speaker 4: folks and people that the team seems to have really

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Speaker 4: high hopes for him, and I understand that, but I

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Speaker 4: also wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket either,

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Speaker 4: because they could break. But today was certainly a promising

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Speaker 2: That was uh was. I think one of the things

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Speaker 2: that I took away, you know, and I've talked about

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Speaker 2: waiting to see another wide receiver named DK Metcalf emerge,

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Speaker 2: and you know, Calvin Austin has had some times where

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Speaker 2: very interesting, like hey, Reruman Wilson, nice practice out there today.

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Speaker 2: Can you go do it again tomorrow night?

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow night?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Might we see him in two or receiver situations here

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Speaker 4: and there? Okay, I think it's the possibilities.

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Speaker 3: Is he clearly the three?

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Speaker 4: I mean when they're in eleven personnel, just you know,

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Speaker 4: assert yourself that way, because I mean Robert Woods made

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Speaker 3: A Rogers favorite.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not implying that he's gonna be on the

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Speaker 4: field all the time, but coaches a doorhum special teams

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Speaker 4: coaches a Doorham Scornic like. There's been several disconnects between

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Speaker 4: quarterback and receiver the last couple of days. Not uncommon,

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Speaker 4: but what I've noticed is often when it happens, you'll

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Speaker 3: You know, like, hey, you have to be here for Rogers.

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Speaker 4: You know, like there's not Rogers is not tolerant of

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Speaker 4: a lot of drifting, and every quarterback has their own requirements.

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Speaker 3: And at his age, that.

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Speaker 4: Old dog is not losing the new tricks of not

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Speaker 4: going to play in timing and rhythm and see and throw.

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Speaker 4: It is gonna come out to a spot where you're

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Speaker 4: supposed to be, and if you're not there, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: stop throwing at the football. Scronic's always there. I mean,

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Speaker 4: is he the most talented guy? Is he Randy Moss? No,

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Speaker 4: But there's a reason he's a sticking on teams and

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Speaker 4: you know, sticking on rosters and sticking on special teams,

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Speaker 4: and they gave him a legit contract to come back

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Speaker 4: like he's gonna make this team. So he stood out

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Speaker 4: to me of just always seems to be in the

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Speaker 2: He has been active, and he he has left practice temporary.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw that.

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Speaker 3: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: He left practice temporarily today. Looked like he might have

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Speaker 2: been limping a little bit and in some discomfort, but

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Speaker 2: maybe fifteen minutes and then was and then was right

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Speaker 4: So that's the standard. People can laugh older standards or

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Speaker 4: That's who they're building, you know, a roster to compete

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Speaker 2: The mouth and how you respond when you get yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: And obviously it's teammates versus teammates, offense versus defense, but

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Speaker 2: There's an embrace that suck. We're all in this together.

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Speaker 2: you on a quiet campus. His practice was moved up

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe forty hours until they stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now, they've got forty hours until the next practice route correct, Yeah,

440
00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,880
Speaker 2: maybe we'll see the sprinkler system get going here again

441
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,399
Speaker 2: at some point. But it was practice number seven in

442
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,200
Speaker 2: the books for the Steelers today, seven already, huh well,

443
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,399
Speaker 2: and that includes the day that they went into the account.

444
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:46,480
Speaker 2: Seven already, and today a productive one. Weather was warm,

445
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,000
Speaker 2: but not crazy hot, and you know, at ten o'clock

446
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,520
Speaker 2: in the morning, not like yesterday, and that led to

447
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,359
Speaker 2: a a very active practice for the course of about

448
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,679
Speaker 2: two and a half hours. Like Matt and I said,

449
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,960
Speaker 2: Mike Tom just about an hour or so ago. Speed

450
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,160
Speaker 2: thinking about today having to be light on your feet,

451
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 2: sometimes you got to adjust. You got to be ready

452
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,879
Speaker 2: for practice at ten am, even if it was supposed

453
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 2: to be at two pm. Here's what coach had to

454
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 2: say after practice number seven.

455
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 5: You know, we always try to have a hardcore plan,

456
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,120
Speaker 5: but be light on our feet. I just think that's

457
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 5: a component of football and particularly team development. We went

458
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,679
Speaker 5: early today to beat the weather. I like the energy

459
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,440
Speaker 5: and the preparedness that the guys showed even with the change.

460
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 5: Sometimes we get challenges man rain, delays and so forth,

461
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 5: and we still have to perform, and so that's some

462
00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,199
Speaker 5: of the messaging that went along with today's work. I

463
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 5: really appreciate the competitive spirit we have out here. Man.

464
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,199
Speaker 5: We got some guys that are learning what to do

465
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 5: and getting to know each other while at the same

466
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,040
Speaker 5: time being highly competitive. And you can't run away from

467
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 5: the competition in this game, particularly at this level. Got

468
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,280
Speaker 5: some guys working their way back to us, increasing their participation.

469
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,479
Speaker 5: Isaac Ciamolu, for example, was taking off the list and

470
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,280
Speaker 5: began the process of working and so all things pointed

471
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 5: in the right direction in that regard. Some other injuries

472
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 5: to report on Jacob Slate, it's got a knee injury

473
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 5: yesterday that's being evaluated. Dean Lowry, he's got a knee

474
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 5: injury from yesterday that's being evaluated. I have more information

475
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 5: on some of those guys than others a little bit later.

476
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 5: And the rest of this stuff is just things that

477
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 5: that manage to manage that comes along with this process.

478
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 2: I'll pause and open up for questions. Miro sub shiftiness

479
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 2: between Johnny and some good pusspects, how do you react

480
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 2: to that? And just that something with the patch off

481
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 2: that meeting you latency?

482
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 5: You know, I just prefer to keep some of that

483
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 5: stuff in house. I'd much rather say wee than sick them.

484
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 5: This is a football team we're putting together, but it's

485
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,159
Speaker 5: also an opportunity to learn how to compete and compete

486
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 5: the right way and be professional. But largely how I

487
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 5: handle those circumstances is our business.

488
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 6: Competition periods today too, despite their paths, how would you

489
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,719
Speaker 6: assess you know, the one on ones alongs there as well.

490
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 5: I love the energy and the competitive spirit on display.

491
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,439
Speaker 5: I think you can do both. I think you can

492
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 5: learn you can develop skin while competing and competing at

493
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 5: a high level at the same time. And I think

494
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 5: that was on display.

495
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: He said, your spigure for Roman. How have you seen

496
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 2: him respond to that? Playing outside inside Justine get through.

497
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 5: Seven practices, He's shown really good adaptability and position flex

498
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,919
Speaker 5: We're still very much early in the process, but I

499
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 5: like some of the things I seen for him.

500
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 2: Certainly, Aaron talked.

501
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 6: About yesterday about the mastering this offense and he's got

502
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 6: to put it down by the end of the route.

503
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 6: How did he assessed his broadness and that at the

504
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 6: same time too, and maybe him getting some assistance from

505
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 6: the guys. He could be drowne at all too playing

506
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 6: off the tea club.

507
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 5: You know, I agree with his sentiment regarding his progress.

508
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 5: I like it, but certainly we still push him forward

509
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 5: toward comfort every day. You got to remember the guy

510
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 5: what here in the spring, and so this is a

511
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 5: big process for him. Here he's doing a really good

512
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 5: job of communicating and dialogueing with his eligibles, the people

513
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 5: that he works with. But we'll just keep punching that

514
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 5: clock every day.

515
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,479
Speaker 2: You talk about pass catcher quarterback to gilling press. Obviously

516
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 2: reps are invaluable, but against side those trips, how would

517
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 2: you feel extort.

518
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 5: You said it is primarily built on reps and gaining

519
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,959
Speaker 5: and understanding and feel for one another. But that can

520
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 5: also happen in the classroom, and so you know, the

521
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 5: work that we do in the classroom is just as

522
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 5: important as the work that we do out here, and

523
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 5: particularly the peer to peer communication based on what we

524
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 5: see to gain that understanding, that level of understanding, to

525
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 5: get an understanding of what your partner is thinking under

526
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 5: certain circumstances is big.

527
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 3: Last one here.

528
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 6: Friday that likes tomorrow. Now, that's something you always get

529
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 6: excited about. You got a ton of new key guys

530
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 6: that get to experience that for the first time, as

531
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 6: well as your thoughts.

532
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 5: We just appreciate the welcome wagon that we get up

533
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 5: here in La Trobe, not only at Saint Vincent, but

534
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 5: in this community, and it's an opportunity for us to

535
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 5: show our appreciation to perform in that different environment at primetime.

536
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 5: It's also a really good component of the team development.

537
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 5: You like to change the variables and circumstances in which

538
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 5: we work, like we did today. We went early in

539
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 5: the morning. Tomorrow night, we'll work at primetime, but oftentimes

540
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 5: that mirror skeed and so forth. We played a variety

541
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 5: of times in the National Football League and regardless of

542
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 5: when it's time to go, it's time to go. And

543
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 5: so Friday night lights means a lot of things to us, man,

544
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 5: and we're really excited about getting to it.

545
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: As they should be tomorrow night. Like we've said a

546
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 2: few times throughout this course of camp, one of the

547
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: most anticipated, one of the highest energy, and certainly highest

548
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 2: attended practices throughout this entire sequence, that will not be

549
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: here on campus tomorrow night. Okay, that is at Latrobe

550
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 2: Memorial High School. Yeah, totally. But if you come here

551
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: to campus tomorrow night, not only will you be disappointed

552
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: that there's nothing going on, I actually don't think they'll

553
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 2: even let you out onto campus at that point. So, yeah,

554
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 2: that will be at Latrobe Memorial, which is not far

555
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 2: from here, you know, just ten minutes or so down

556
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: in the actual city downtown area of Lake Trobe. But

557
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 2: Mike Tollin' speaking there, Matt about being light on their feet,

558
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 2: about being the Pittsburgh Steelers, and you know, that's that's

559
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: one of those things that is always I don't know

560
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: if funny is the right word to use, but interesting

561
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 2: to me because Steelers fans like to think a lot

562
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 2: of times that the NFL has it out to get

563
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: them with the way some of the scheduling works, right.

564
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 3: And they do have it tougher than others at times,

565
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 3: you know, right.

566
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 2: When in reality, when in reality, that's because you are

567
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 2: in demand. It's the same reason that when we go

568
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 2: out to la in October or November, whenever that is,

569
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 2: it's gonna be seventy percent Steelers fans. It's by stadium.

570
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 3: It there's a reason organization would love that.

571
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: There's a reason that when we go to LA or

572
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 2: when we go to Vegas. Part of me, like we

573
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 2: have twice in the last three or four seasons, it's

574
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 2: sixty seventy eighty percent Steeler fans. And when the Steelers

575
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: go to Charlotte, and when the Steelers go to Houston,

576
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: you know, in all these different places. That's been the

577
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 2: biggest eye opener for me in the three years that

578
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 2: I've traveled with the team. Now, the Steelers only go

579
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: into a hostile environment a couple times a season because

580
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 2: out numbers right, when they go to Baltimore, you know

581
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: what I mean, or somewhere like Buffalo or Philly or

582
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: something like that.

583
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, the division games aren't well attended by a Steeler fans.

584
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: I mean, you can definitely see, but those are those

585
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: are football fan bases too, you know, like you're not

586
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 2: going up and taking over Buffalo Stadium. Those people are

587
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 2: football obsessed as well. Yeah, yeah, that's what happens when

588
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 2: you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, when you have that whole five

589
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 2: star matchup, because we're in it, You're gonna be in

590
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 2: a lot of primetime Monday night, Sunday night. Your schedule

591
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 2: is gonna be all over the place. It's not gonna

592
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 2: be You're not gonna be kicking off at one o'clock

593
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 2: every Sunday for seventeen.

594
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 4: And it's some crazy COVID games this past year, the

595
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 4: three and eleven games. I mean, like that's they're they've

596
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 4: been challenging. It's been tough for rest advantages, the rest disadvantages,

597
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 4: obviously a lot of different travel. Now that being said,

598
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 4: I appreciate on all coaches do this. I am not

599
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 4: picking on Tomlin that, hey, we need to be adaptable,

600
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 4: we need to be light on our feet with schedule,

601
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 4: and trust me, it blew me away when I started

602
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 4: to be involved with teams, how much creature of habit, players, coaches, organizations, are.

603
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 3: They do not like when you miss mess with their structure.

604
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: That being said, I still don't know.

605
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 4: That practicing at ten o'clock today on July thirtieth makes

606
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 4: you better coming out of a rain delay in November

607
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 4: or not.

608
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

609
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 4: If there's a lightning storm on Thursday night football in

610
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 4: week ten, I don't know that you're better at it

611
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 4: than the next team because you changed practice.

612
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 3: Times, you know what I mean?

613
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: No, I think you're right. It's more on the character

614
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: of the guys in that room and the attitude and

615
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: the culture and the coaching staff. And you're absolutely right.

616
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 3: It's still got a block and tackle and prep and

617
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 3: you know, right.

618
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: It's one of those things too, man. I mean, if

619
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: these guys who've all made it to this level of football.

620
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 3: They have been played on Sunday one every game either,

621
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 3: right they have?

622
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: You know, when they were in college, I guarantee they

623
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 2: had weather delays and and issues and travel propol games

624
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 2: and right right, right, bowl game where you're kicking off

625
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: at one o'clock on a Tuesday, you know, a couple

626
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: of days after Christmas or something like that.

627
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: High school state championship.

628
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 2: And right yeah, high school football which is primarily a

629
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: Friday night thing. And then you get to the state

630
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: championships and it's on a Saturday morning. You know, Yeah,

631
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: you're kicking off at a at ten am on a

632
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: Friday if you're the single age tam you know, because.

633
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 3: These are thirty year old men that have been you know, right,

634
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 3: I think they can figure it out.

635
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 2: But it's still important.

636
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 3: It is important, you know.

637
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 4: But I do chuckle that I think coaches across the

638
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 4: league put a little bit too much into that, you know,

639
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 4: like if.

640
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: There was a real science to it, everybody would do it.

641
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 3: Had we had a rain delay three years ago, so

642
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: we know what it's all about. Like that doesn't mean

643
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 3: that you're.

644
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 4: To come out and complete passes or make tackles or whatever,

645
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But that's just the coach's

646
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,239
Speaker 4: mentality of it all, you know, No, it is it's

647
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 4: the most you can out of every opportunity.

648
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And like we mentioned, the Steelers certainly did that today,

649
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: moving that practice up, leaving nothing to chance with mother

650
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 2: nature this afternoon. It was a good two and a

651
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: half hours of work. It was upbeat, it was energetic,

652
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: it really was. And again for not being in full pads,

653
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 2: very physical.

654
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 3: I expect to practice to end.

655
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh no, going to a special teams. That

656
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 4: means they're gonna have another period. I like, they're keep

657
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 4: going and going going.

658
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You and I were sitting there and I was like,

659
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Speaker 2: I might go to lunch here, I don't know, and

660
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 2: then we were like, wait a second, Yeah, they're going

661
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: to they got another team period. So I went down

662
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: there and I actually, for the first time all camp,

663
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: Matt watched about twenty thirty the last twenty thirty minutes

664
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Speaker 2: of practice down in the end zone actually, which don't

665
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: get me wrong, as we've said, I love the palatial,

666
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: air conditioned palace up here atop Chuck Nolefield in the

667
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: press box, but you do kind of miss some of

668
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 2: the nuance of hearing what the coaches are yelling, hearing

669
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 2: what the players are saying when you're when you're down

670
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 2: there on the field. And it was funny. I was

671
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: trying to get a video, but I couldn't get the

672
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: right angle of it. You know, you can hear the

673
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 2: music down there as well too, that they have playing

674
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: during portions of practice. At one point Aerosmith's Dreams. I

675
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: heard it and Aaron Rodgers was down here at probably

676
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 2: the ten yard line towards the end zone, just cranking

677
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 2: some air guitars. I tried to snap a video of

678
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: it real quickly, but I was at a bad angle.

679
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 2: You could only see his back and couldn't see anything.

680
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 3: The twenty year olds or jam in the dream ard

681
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: I was up in the box.

682
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. But Aaron

683
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: Rodgers was. He was loving it. And yes, it was

684
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 2: kind of cool for me just to go down there

685
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: for twenty thirty minutes as well too. Here's some pads

686
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: pop in. Here's some of the guys. Uh, all right,

687
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: you'll laugh at this one. Thornhill, as we said, was

688
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 2: kind of in the center of things today. Yeah, practice

689
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: a lot. Somebody when he was running off the field,

690
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 2: somebody was yelling at him thorn to be wow like

691
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 2: born to be wild, the song Thorn Hill, Thorn to

692
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: be wowd And he stopped. He stopped and was taking

693
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 2: a picture and signing some autographs with them. So that

694
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. That was cool to get back down

695
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 2: there on the field for just twenty thirty minutes and

696
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: get it, get a different perspective. But yeah, another Pice.

697
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Speaker 4: One thing I am looking forward to to Friday Night

698
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 4: Lights is when I watched practice at that event, I'm

699
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 4: from me to you and backs on backers and you know,

700
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 4: I'm on the field and you can there's a lot

701
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 4: more freedom than even the reporters have here. Yes, you know,

702
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 4: you can really get close to the thing h football,

703
00:30:59,120 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 4: hig School football sight.

704
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 5: Man.

705
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 4: It's not just like there's these lines you can't cross.

706
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 4: You just kind of have to be very respectful, but

707
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 4: you can get pretty close to the action.

708
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 3: Yeah right, and fou and you know it is.

709
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 2: And again for for things like backs on backers, for

710
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: things like you know, one on ones with the offense

711
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: and defense line, get real close the sidelines and yeah right,

712
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: there's a there's a certain perspective you can clean. And again,

713
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: we're very fortunate to have the view and kind of

714
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 2: the bird's eye that we do here that we can

715
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: see everything that's going on, but some of the more minutia,

716
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: like some of the details, it'll be nicer for you

717
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 2: to be able to do right and hear the pads popping.

718
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 4: And all the fam is ten thousand plus is gonna

719
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 4: be screaming at you and you're you're at the same

720
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 4: level and decibel level as the player.

721
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it'll be it'll be a lot of fun.

722
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,479
Speaker 3: A little over there. People check it out now.

723
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we know a lot of like I know, Matt,

724
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: a lot of Steelers fans, and it's a great idea,

725
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: Like they'll kind of plan a weekend of you know,

726
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 2: we could go to Friday Night lights Friday, quick turnaround

727
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: for practice Saturday afternoon. You can, you know, beat, you

728
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: could come out here for two days, spend one night somewhere.

729
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 3: Go golf Sunday if you want whatever, exactly right, I.

730
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: Know a lot of people like they'll they'll maybe come

731
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: up here for Friday Night Lights, then they'll go stay

732
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 2: in the city, go to like Kenny Wood on Saturday

733
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: or sand Castle or something, then come back out for

734
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Speaker 2: practice on Sunday.

735
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 4: So depending where you live too, you could even work

736
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 4: a majority of a full day Friday and so get time.

737
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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and so a lot of people will be

738
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: doing that. A lot of people will be making trips

739
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: from from near and far for Tomorrow night. It'll be

740
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: a big one.

741
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 5: Uh.

742
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: And we'll we'll talk a little bit more about Friday

743
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: Night Lights tomorrow when we get closer, uh as uh.

744
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 3: Will time slot.

745
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: I do not, I do not believe so in the

746
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: past we've always just done our normal shows here from campus,

747
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 2: even though it is a quiet day on campus. Certainly

748
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 2: is right now as well too with the practice this morning,

749
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: and Matt and I will not have a practice going

750
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 2: on during the show tomorrow as well too, But obviously

751
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: there will be plenty of us to get it, plenty

752
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 2: for us, part of me to get into. Uh, Matt,

753
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: we did get a few tweets today during practice and

754
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 2: early in the show, so maybe we'll get into some

755
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: of those as we roll along.

756
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 3: Listen, guy. Yeah, with it being a data devironment to

757
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 3: do that.

758
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: Again where there's not you know, direct things happening on

759
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: the field that we can describe and comment on for you.

760
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 2: We got a little more open ended show today, So

761
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Speaker 2: at Williamson NFL is where you could find Matt. I'm

762
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Speaker 2: at Wesleyuler on Twitter on X Like I said, I've

763
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 2: got a couple tweets already. We'll get to those when

764
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Speaker 2: we return here. Closed down the first hour of the program.

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Speaker 2: The sun is shining here on campus right now. Looks

777
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: like we might avoid that weather after all, but hey,

778
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: why leave it to risk. The Steelers did not today

779
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: Already too much sunk in time at camp with practices

780
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: ended early Tuesday's practice being a wash. It's literally and figuratively,

781
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Speaker 2: and so we.

782
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Speaker 3: Recruiting some new cedars in the meantime.

783
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: Talking When we were talking about the grounds crew a

784
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 2: few minutes ago, there were three people out there, I

785
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: believe there are now set multiply. That's what they were doing,

786
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 2: is they were planting more grounds crew popping up, popping

787
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 2: out of holes here as they get more.

788
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: I think it's like a combination of like sand and seed,

789
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 4: and it's not just like throw seed down hope and

790
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 4: it'll sprout tomorrow, you know.

791
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 2: Right absolutely, And it's like we mentioned, even though there

792
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 2: won't be anything happening on this field.

793
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: They're walking around with buckets.

794
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 2: It is, you know, we need to get one of

795
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: them up here.

796
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 3: I thought about that for years, Like, just tell me

797
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: a couple of things you're doing.

798
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: One of the guys over there looks like he's like

799
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: doing something to one of the sprinklers or trying to

800
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 2: something in the turf over there. And I know like

801
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 2: sometimes too, they'll like take cleaner patches of grass from

802
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 2: other areas of the fields if they need to like

803
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 2: replace little pieces of you know.

804
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: Like big chunks and divide.

805
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, almost like golf course style, if you will. So.

806
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, and one dude's got like a heavy thing to

807
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: like tamp it down. Yeah, he must be different to

808
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 4: everybody else.

809
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 2: They almost almost look like they're picking up golf balls. Yeah,

810
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: like like a little little metal contraption that'd be interested.

811
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 3: Just to walk around with those guys or have him

812
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 3: up here. One time.

813
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: I would say, well, maybe we'll have to see if

814
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: we could set that up the one guy who's walking

815
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 2: over there on the far side sideline with the gloves on.

816
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: His name Zach. I've talked to him a couple of

817
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: times up in the dorm room. He's a friendly kid.

818
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 2: So maybe I could maybe I could coer. Let's say,

819
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 2: you ever talked on radio or a podcast before? How

820
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 2: about how about doing ten minutes with me and Matt tomorrow?

821
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: Use what's in the bucket?

822
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's in the bucket?

823
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: Uh?

824
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 2: Some tweets that we have to get to.

825
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, so their building up?

826
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we got a couple more during break again.

827
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: If we'll take some tweets here now and throughout the

828
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: show today? Is it's a more open ended show at

829
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 2: Williamson NFL for Matt at Wesleyuler for myself. Uh, Scott

830
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,959
Speaker 2: leads us off here. Quick question. Is the rookie Derek

831
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: Harmon getting first team reps with the D line?

832
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely sure, a lot.

833
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 4: I think Carl Dunbar called him a starter at Mini

834
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 4: camp or OTA's. I forget who exactly did it and

835
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 4: when exactly it was, but they called him a starter.

836
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 4: It sounds correct now at that position. It's a little

837
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 4: different than it used to be, so when they're in

838
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 4: there three to four. Benton's been the nose, Hayward's been

839
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Speaker 4: an end, Benton's been or Harmon's been an end. And

840
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 4: then you have your two outside linebackers. If you're gonna

841
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 4: call it that now, I don't know which. That's only

842
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 4: about thirty three percent of their snaps with thirty five

843
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 4: percent of their snaps. Now when they go to Nickel,

844
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Speaker 4: if Hayward's full go with a four man front or

845
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 4: dime for that matter, is he a starter?

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Speaker 3: Then I think the answer is probably.

847
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 4: Know at the moment, I'm guessing it would be Benton

848
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 4: and Hayward and a foe man front right now in

849
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Speaker 4: an opening day.

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00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 3: But he's running with ones. So take that out how

851
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 3: you want, you know.

852
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, Carl Dunbar just wrote his electric bike

853
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: down there to the to the end zone.

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00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 3: Down perfect spot for having that thing too.

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00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 2: Oh it's I tell you what.

856
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 3: I My son has one. He hasn't touched it since

857
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 3: he got a driver's permit, but he has one.

858
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have uh because you know, my girls are

859
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 2: getting to the point where they're very mobile and they're

860
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: oh yeah there and they're biking and riding and all

861
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: that stuff, and so I think next summer I'm either

862
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 2: going to get an e bike or an electric scooter.

863
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: I just haven't decided which one yet.

864
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 3: O e bike my son loved his.

865
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Speaker 2: It flies.

866
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 3: I mean they go fast and they're a little dangerous.

867
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: When when we were down in Hilton Head last two

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00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 2: weeks ago for for our kind of last two of

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00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: the summer with the family, we rented two e bikes

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00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: while we were down there for the week. I hit

871
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: thirty two miles an hour on one of them one day,

872
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 2: going slightly downhill.

873
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 3: He went way over that.

874
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I hit I mean I hit thirty two

875
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Speaker 2: miles an hour, like the first time I've ever ridden

876
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 2: a knee bike, you know what I mean, Like, I.

877
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 3: Bet it feels like you're going one hundred.

878
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: Oh, it's awesome. We we took it. There's like an

879
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: oyster place like a mile down the street to where

880
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 2: we where we are in a minute. We me and

881
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 2: me and one of my cousins, Amelia. We we uh,

882
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 2: we took an e bikes there and had oysters for

883
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 2: lunch while one day while everybody was at the pool.

884
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Derek Harmon is absolutely he is absolute.

885
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 2: I don't think. I know, he's absolutely been getting a

886
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: lot of reps, absolutely with the with the first team

887
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 2: D line, but all been encouraging, all been encouraging. And however,

888
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: you want to classify starter.

889
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 3: Right right right right there.

890
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 4: And I do think even in that first game, assuming

891
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 4: everyone's healthy at that point, when you're in your four

892
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 4: man front, that's still a lot of snaps, and I

893
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 4: don't think you want Hayward playing every one of them,

894
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 4: or even venting for that matter, that he probably.

895
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 3: Will be in the mix.

896
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple snaps of game, you know, especially late

897
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 4: if your pass rush past rush past rush.

898
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: You know, somebody tweet me and tell me eat bike

899
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 2: or electric scooter?

900
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 3: All right, this is exactly an electric shooter like the

901
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 3: ones that.

902
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: You see, yes that you've seen me ride in India.

903
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 3: You enjoy them at India.

904
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: I know that those I certainly do. Those would be

905
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 2: convenient for like darting around to the pool and stuff

906
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood with my kids. Whereas an e bike

907
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 2: I feel like I would get more usage out of I.

908
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: Mean you could take it far, right, I mean you

909
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 3: could go thirty miles with it or whatever.

910
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: Sure, like you could strap little saddle bags on the

911
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: back and go to the grocery store type.

912
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 3: You really could, You absolutely could. So I guess one

913
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: of the things that I'd be interested in is is

914
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 3: that a lot of hilly terrain, you know, like.

915
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: Not super hilly, but it is western Pennsylvania.

916
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

917
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, That's why I ask, you know, like, if you're

918
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 4: doing a lot of uphills and things, I would probably

919
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 4: lean towards a bike.

920
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 2: What I need to decide, you know, am I ever

921
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: gonna leave the neighborhood with it? That's the real thing,

922
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: right They're only going to ride it around our neighborhood

923
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: with the girls and the pool and stuff. Scooter will

924
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: be fine, But if I ever want to take it

925
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: outside the neighborhood, I shoul probably get any bike.

926
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 4: I've often seen his hanging there collecting dust the last

927
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: couple of years, because again he is a But I

928
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: often think about taking it on a trail just by

929
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 4: myself and just flying around for hours, you.

930
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.

931
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 4: Awesome, you could definitely do that with that thing, big

932
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 4: giant tires on it, like coach don bars and.

933
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody, like I said, somebody tweet me and tell me,

934
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 2: all right, make Yeah, e bike or electric scooter? Uh Sense?

935
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 3: What's the price?

936
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 5: Like?

937
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 3: Are they similar?

938
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: I would think the e bikes are probably a little

939
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: more expensive, I would think, but again, more functionality, more

940
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 2: you can do, Yeah, more rugged. If I could get

941
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 2: you know what too now and think about if I

942
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: could get one that like folds up nicely, I could

943
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: bring it to places like this, take it to the

944
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: beach with me, you know type of thing. Sense tweets

945
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 2: us and says I think this team and a lot

946
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: of us got a wake up call in that playoff

947
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: game against Baltimore that they were the bullies of the

948
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 2: AFC North. It's nice to see the team making a

949
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: move to get back some of that nasty edge and

950
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 2: attitude that feels like that feels like it has been

951
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: missing it times recently.

952
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

953
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 4: I don't have much Dad, except I think you're one

954
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 4: hundred percent right. And I think this organization took notice

955
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 4: as well. And I know times change in the league

956
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 4: and talk about more finesse and analytics and blah blah

957
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 4: blah blah, but Ravens.

958
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 3: Steelers doesn't change much.

959
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 4: And especially with that team being the one taking the

960
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 4: fight to you in a physical manner. I'm sure from

961
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 4: ownership on down, that did not settle well and had

962
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 4: to be a major priority. I mean, like, do you

963
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 4: draft why you're black if it's not for the Ravens,

964
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

965
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: It's happened for years to have draft Jack Sawyer if

966
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 2: it's not for the right.

967
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 3: Exactly if you know a big edge defender that can

968
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: set the Yeah.

969
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 2: And as you pointed out too, like that's not an anomaly,

970
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 2: that's very normal. Teams want to who's the best in

971
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,959
Speaker 2: our division? How do we beat those guys?

972
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: How do we compete the easiest path to go in

973
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 3: the playoffs?

974
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 2: I know you've shared this story many times over the

975
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: years on many different you know, SNR programs and times

976
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: in the calendar. But like when you got to the

977
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns in the early two thous when you were

978
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 2: a scout for Cleveland, it was like, how do we

979
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 2: beat the Steelers?

980
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: Yeah?

981
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 5: Yeah.

982
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 4: We started every draft meeting. Phil Savage was the GM.

983
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 4: He would start with a prayer.

984
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 3: Good for him. I mean, that's he's in charge. You

985
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 3: do whatever he wants, and everyone's cool with that. Bow

986
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 3: your head.

987
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 4: I mean, these are big draft meetings, like twelve hour

988
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,479
Speaker 4: draft means We're just gonna figure out our safety board

989
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 4: for the whole day or whatever, and then how do

990
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 4: we beat Steelers? Because at that point, the Steelers were

991
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 4: the best team in the league. They were just fifteen

992
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 4: and one off Ben's rookie season, So we were one

993
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 4: of the basically the worst team the league. They were

994
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 4: basically the best team in the league. And you have

995
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 4: to start structuring things like, Okay, this is a good

996
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 4: team build, but that doesn't help us beat that specific team.

997
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, how do you compete in

998
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 4: this division?

999
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: And you see that same thing now, like, yeah, teams,

1000
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 2: you know, teams like the Chargers and Broncos are trying

1001
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 2: to play a style of football that they can counter

1002
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 2: the Chiefs.

1003
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 3: You know.

1004
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so many teams of the Ravens used to

1005
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 2: do the same that the Ravens for years were trying

1006
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: to build a bully on defense like the Steelers had

1007
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: in the early twenty first century. You know those those

1008
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: right Lewis and Suggs and teams.

1009
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 4: Like two examples in recent memory that didn't work. But

1010
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 4: I understand the logic is early in the Josh Allen

1011
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 4: era in Buffalo, they tried to be a high flying,

1012
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 4: how do we beat the Chiefs type of team, and

1013
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 4: we're gonna have speedy edge rushers. But I was often

1014
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 4: critical to time, like that's great, but you play in Buffalo.

1015
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 4: I don't need little running backs. I don't need speed.

1016
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: I need Drone Bettis, I need Mike Alstart. You play

1017
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 3: in Buffalo.

1018
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 4: And I know they're back right, right right, And I

1019
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 4: know they don't have huge backs now, but they're by

1020
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 4: far the highest team in the league in six offensive

1021
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 4: line sets, kind of like they've embraced their geography, you know,

1022
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 4: be yourself and steel Fans, remember I called it. It

1023
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 4: was way back when the summer of man coverage. It

1024
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 4: was on the Patriots at their at their height. The

1025
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 4: Steelers did everything possible to go. They drafted already Burns

1026
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 4: probably higher than they should have to deal with Welker

1027
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 4: and Moss and Brady and all these dudes, and they

1028
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 4: sacrifice some physicality for how do we beat this Brady

1029
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 4: Welker type Patriot team?

1030
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 3: And then the Jags came.

1031
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 4: In here that were just bully type guys, and I know,

1032
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 4: right right right, I mean, I know the Seriers had

1033
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 4: some injuries and they caught the Seers at the right time.

1034
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, you didn't have as much

1035
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 4: of a bully mentality. It was a how do we

1036
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 4: beat the patriot mentality?

1037
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 2: Can we score you know, thirty eight points a game

1038
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 2: with Ben and Bell and Brown?

1039
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 4: And that's always a juggling after these teams, you know, absolutely,

1040
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 4: how do we win our division and keep it going,

1041
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 4: especially when getting to the top like those guys you know,

1042
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 4: or man, there's a juggernaut in our conference or in

1043
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 4: this league.

1044
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 3: What do we do to beat those guys?

1045
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 2: You know?

1046
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 3: What you do is try and draft and on the field.

1047
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 2: It looks like we're gonna have a walk through here

1048
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: in front of us this afternoon, Matthew that we are

1049
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: not allowed to describe walk throughs, but if there's any

1050
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 2: like general things observations that we are just kind of

1051
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 2: an extensive You're not. This is the kind of mental

1052
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: side of things, right, lining up in the right place,

1053
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 2: having the right checks and audibles and all that stuff,

1054
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: and it's going on in the far fields.

1055
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 4: Like walking through in the ballroom of the hotel. Yes,

1056
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, You know like that, it's

1057
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 4: just a mental thing. Work on your steps. You have

1058
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 4: to be here at this point when I come to

1059
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and I make a check, I

1060
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 4: need you to go in motion, you know, just be

1061
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 4: a It's kind of almost an extension of the whiteboard.

1062
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. That's a great way to put it. It's

1063
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 2: a teaching session, y is what it is.

1064
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 3: And so no one's running, no job but a light jog.

1065
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1066
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: Uh.

1067
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: Plenty of more tweets to get to. They are rolling

1068
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: in right now, a lot of Steelers related, a couple

1069
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: of people chiming in on the scooter or eat bike

1070
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 2: debate too as well. So we've got anything in everything

1071
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: that you want to discuss here for the next two hours.

1072
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 2: I do also have some Aaron Rodgers audio that we're

1073
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 2: going to play for you as well too at some point.

1074
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 2: So plenty to get to as we are an hour

1075
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 2: of the books, two hours to go here on this

1076
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: special edition of the Drive from Saint Vincent College, West

1077
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 2: Shouler and Matt Williamson. It is all happening here on

1078
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.