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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson and Matt.

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Speaker 1: As soon as the draft was over, the Steelers went

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Speaker 1: out and signed a safety. They another another finishing they

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Speaker 1: did in a drest Us in the in the draft,

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Speaker 1: and they go out and they signed the Monterey CAZy.

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Speaker 1: He played last year with Dallas, but really played the

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Speaker 1: first four seasons of his career with the of them

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Speaker 1: signing him before Eddy were interesting. It was interesting. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's more of a free than he is a strong.

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Speaker 1: I think he has some but he could play both.

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Speaker 1: Some slot capabilities too. I'm gonna do more homework on him.

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Speaker 1: But he has a corner background, got some ball skills.

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Speaker 1: The eight interceptions in his career. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna throw out Tyron Matthew as a calm but I

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Speaker 1: think he's more that style safety than he is true

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Speaker 1: near the line. He might be a better version or

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Speaker 1: a bigger version of Hilton. Yeah. So what they did was,

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Speaker 1: you know, they went out and filled a spot that

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Speaker 1: they hadn't filled in the draft. And Kevin Colbert said

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Speaker 1: this after like he was asked about the offensive line situation.

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Speaker 1: You didn't ad the offensive lineman. So well, we did

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Speaker 1: that in free agency first of year. Secondly, you can't

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Speaker 1: add You can't when you only have seven draft picks,

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Speaker 1: you can't add everything. Yeah, yeah, everybody wants everything, but

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Speaker 1: you can't get this. Well, you don't have so many picks.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've talked so much. I forget where you

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Speaker 1: even mentioned this. But you're a great point that that

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Speaker 1: offensive line room is pretty full already. The safety room

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Speaker 1: wasn't It was not. Casey's an NFL player that's gonna

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Speaker 1: play nickel dime, maybe start some games. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you know, if if Maka gets hurt, the world's not over.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, you've got a guy who's lined up

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the contract. I assume it's a very well.

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Speaker 1: If edman's got two point five million a year, I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing he got less. Yeah, it's in that neighborhood. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I hope we get to talk about this a lot

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Speaker 1: between now and camp. But there's will be some fun

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Speaker 1: signings that are cheap as can be for all teams.

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Speaker 1: That's where this So, if you were looking at the

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Speaker 1: Steelers roster as we sit here right now, where else

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Speaker 1: great name. I know you have some thoughts on this,

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Speaker 1: I'm not asking Gerald to come out of the offense.

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Speaker 1: Here's some running back names that are out there. David Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle. I would live with David Johnson, to come

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Speaker 1: to think of Yeah. I mean David Johnson his best

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Speaker 1: become the handcuff Tariko And and and Philip Lindsay are out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't but you look at their wide receiver room.

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Speaker 1: It's very crowded. Okay. So in the last in the

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Speaker 1: last week, they claim Miles Boykin off waivers, which doesn't

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Speaker 1: You're probably not gonna get him. You know, the Bears

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Speaker 1: to say you want to trade you for Anthony Miller back? Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's marketable though. You're not gonna move Johnson.

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Speaker 1: what the Ravens did, but sometimes need has to be considered. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the league, they draft not for need. I mean everyone

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Speaker 1: pretty good for them. So did you get how did

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Speaker 1: Of course they did, everyone did, but I thought they

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Speaker 1: oh man, they picked up briefs Hall for the fun

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Speaker 1: of it, things like that, because you have I mean,

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Speaker 1: what they ended up having was five fourth round picks

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Speaker 1: and went into it with four. Right and trade that again. Right,

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Speaker 1: I just thought they'd be much better, Like they could

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Speaker 1: have a job doesn't help them this year? Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: they could have been if they had taken if they

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Speaker 1: Like okay, that that's a right. That's a home run

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Speaker 1: putting it. You know, Jobo may pay off great down

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Speaker 1: the roster construction. I like where it's at too, you know,

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Speaker 1: like remaining whole are once not needs. Yeah, we just

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Speaker 1: we just went through them. There's nothing standing there. Gonna boy,

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Speaker 1: they have to do this. I do think they have

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Speaker 1: not hard. Yeah, you can do that any right, you

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Speaker 1: can do that the day before the season. So that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for today's show. So for my

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Speaker 1: partner Matt Williams, we're still three days a week and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep the same. We'll keep rolling you through here.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into a rookie minicamp, so t a s

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Speaker 1: training camp, mini camp itself, lots of good stuff coming here.

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Speaker 1: It all starts happening quickly. Now in the NFL, it

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Speaker 1: I mean, those rookies are on planes and people ask

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Speaker 1: me what I do in the off season. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what do you There is no off season. It's the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's like, that's the off season. I think I go

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Speaker 1: on vacation in July. That's what I do. So we

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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