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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lollly here with Matt Williamson and uh Matt.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers not practicing today. Mike Tomlin gave the players

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Speaker 1: an extra day off this week to kind of heal

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Speaker 1: their bodies, get your mind straight, get your mind right,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I mean I also think

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Speaker 1: it scores points to you know what I mean? Those guys,

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Speaker 1: they work hard. Here's like every year during typically during

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Speaker 1: the bye week, what Tomlin will do is use the

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Speaker 1: bye week to play, to practice the guys who aren't

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Speaker 1: playing a lot. Yeah, this year he doesn't have that

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Speaker 1: issue because a lot of the young guys are playing.

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Speaker 1: Like you, you pick somebody's your your third round draft pick,

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Speaker 1: your second round draft picks, hasn't played many snaps, so

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Speaker 1: you get him some extra reps. That's not the cases

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Speaker 1: or even I mean you could do it with Haskins

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Speaker 1: and but they're getting plenty of plenty of right. Roethlisberger

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Speaker 1: doesn't practice on Wednesdays. That seems that's a bonu contention

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Speaker 1: with people too. I know, I don't get it. Nobody

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Speaker 1: binds that Julio Jones doesn't or look around the league

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Speaker 1: every week and see who who's not practicing on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday practice reports are full of names of guys sitting out,

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Speaker 1: not to mention in fact, it's not like he's sitting

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Speaker 1: these practices out because he's a hundred percent healthy. No,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's got the chest and hip injury that

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Speaker 1: he's always got something, right. I mean, it's just a

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Speaker 1: big dude that's had I bring this up all the time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's been sacked I think two or three

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Speaker 1: times fewer than Brady, and Brady's played like eighty more

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Speaker 1: games and Brady is the leader as you would imagine

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Speaker 1: most sack quarterback ever, but really per game it's been

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Speaker 1: times a million I think. I mean his body is

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Speaker 1: beat up. That shows you a couple of things. First

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Speaker 1: that that's the style of football that he played, especially

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Speaker 1: as Secondly, he's a really tough guy. He's a really

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Speaker 1: tough guy. Right, He's a big, physical, tough dude. I

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Speaker 1: know we joke about the injuries and he talks about that.

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Speaker 1: He really does have injuries, Like is injured. Anyone has

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Speaker 1: been to practice if you're there a million times more

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Speaker 1: than me. Every time I've gone, there's always a bag

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Speaker 1: ice on a knee or I mean they're like even

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Speaker 1: years ago. I mean, nobody gets out of this game healthy. No, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why I had a love of high school checks.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I keep getting older. They

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Speaker 1: say the same age. The same things true with defense man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I keep getting older, but they say the

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Speaker 1: same age. Yeah, it beats up on your body, beats

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Speaker 1: up on the Think about like Joe Namath retired at

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Speaker 1: thirty four, right, and couldn't walk. It couldn't walk like Ela,

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Speaker 1: and he walks like a cowboy, you know, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean this, this trend of of quarterbacks playing longer into

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Speaker 1: their careers is a recent one. It is, and the

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Speaker 1: NFL is helping because they're protecting him a little bit

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Speaker 1: more too. But people want to say, you know, why

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Speaker 1: does it getting ball? I was hand so quick? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean what he is at this point, right, he's trying,

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Speaker 1: he's trying to move the football and not get killed.

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Speaker 1: Him not practicing on Wednesdays, It doesn't mean he's not there.

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Speaker 1: That seems to be the I've gotten that question a lot.

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Speaker 1: Was Roethlisburg even there on the days he doesn't practice. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's there. Just because he's not practicing, doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: they have meetings before and after practice, right, taking the

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Speaker 1: kids of the pool or whatever. I mean, he's he's

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Speaker 1: a different kind of day off, right, he's just not

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Speaker 1: out there throwing the football, you know, Yeah, saving his body. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as as Mike Toma likes to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, a quarterback can take the mental reps. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know he's seeing Okay, we're gonna run this play.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it may help you just stand back and watch. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch him do this. I can watch the defense,

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Speaker 1: the entire defense, or I'm just gonna key on what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop back. Here's where here's my first three

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Speaker 1: day's my second red different. You don't you're not seeing

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Speaker 1: the whole of the whole thing, and you see it

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Speaker 1: through the eyes of a coach almost two you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I would have probably done it too,

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Speaker 1: but now I understand why. You know, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 1: it's a different way of looking at the game. And again,

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Speaker 1: all the game planning stuff is he's doing more than anybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're in a three by one set. They

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Speaker 1: You know, he's getting treatments and you know, like I had,

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Speaker 1: he's only working like three days a week. If he's

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Speaker 1: taken he's taking Wednesday's on Monday's a day off, and

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Speaker 1: Tuesday's a day off, and Wednesday's a day off. He

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Speaker 1: practices tunesday practices Wednesday. They're off on Saturday, and he

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Speaker 1: plays on Sunday. Like that's not the way the season

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Speaker 1: goes at all. They come in, they play a game

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Speaker 1: and meetings. Right they're watching tape, watching the game tape back,

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Speaker 1: going over there and their bodies are, I mean like bad.

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Speaker 1: bad you know, right, Tuesday is a day off. Tuesday

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Speaker 1: is really the only day off. Roethlisberger still comes in

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Speaker 1: on that day to to go over tape and does

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Speaker 1: mental stuff right right right started watching next week's about.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday is your first day of game planning or actual

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Speaker 1: the game plan to implement it for Wednesday. Typically Monday,

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Speaker 1: Monday night into Tuesday is when that and they were

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Speaker 1: countless hours then watching the opponent, because before you know what,

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Speaker 1: the week's over. Right, we always talk about this, weeks

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Speaker 1: are not as long as you think. Thursday's essentially the

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Speaker 1: same day as Wednesday. You come in, you have meetings

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Speaker 1: than you practice, and you have more meetings, and as

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Speaker 1: we often talk about with fantasy and things, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the day you want to see somebody practice, you know.

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Speaker 1: The Thursday practice is key, and then Friday's your final

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Speaker 1: game prep. Saturday is not a day off. Saturday's walk through,

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Speaker 1: and then you're either flying to the where you're playing,

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Speaker 1: a hotel and they're doing that. There's a team meeting

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Speaker 1: there and there's certain things to go over. The last

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger talked about it a couple of weeks ago. He

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Speaker 1: says Saturday is usually the day where he'll sit down

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Speaker 1: they'll go They'll they'll come up with the script, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. Here's the ten plays I like, or

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Speaker 1: I don't know about this. We wrapped this stuff all

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Speaker 1: week a long. Which ones did you feel work the best?

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Speaker 1: And they'll all have their their own favorites. They'll they'll throw,

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Speaker 1: you know, the forty or fifty plays into a hat,

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Speaker 1: not really into a hat, but they'll they'll come up, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we but three of us, we all like this play

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Speaker 1: that's in the that's in there somewhere. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday their defense sniffed that out in a

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Speaker 1: But no, you're right. I mean the way the week

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Speaker 1: it or the treatments you get. You know, like this

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Speaker 1: was not showing up for treatment. You know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you don't show up for treatment, well you're running

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Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned that. That's something that Darius Heyward

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Speaker 1: Bay told me one time. He said, you know, there

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Speaker 1: And then there's very few that I both. That's yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's an offensive lineman. Maybe one of them feel

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Speaker 1: don't know that it's gonna be. I could come up

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Speaker 1: with bigger team needs in the off season. The complaints

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Speaker 1: I was getting early in the season about the offensive

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Speaker 1: making a fitz Patrick doing? Why isn't he making plays?

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Speaker 1: Or the offensive lines just kind of got brushed aside

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Speaker 1: because they've been pretty good the last couple weeks and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna only get better. You know, I definitely could

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Speaker 1: see I'm not making fun of or you know, questioning

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Speaker 1: trade Turner, but maybe they decided not to bring him back.

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Speaker 1: He wants more than they want. And there's a big

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Speaker 1: think they'll be a hole. It won't be like just

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Speaker 1: I mean. I don't think you're just scrambling for bodies there,

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Speaker 1: but I think be like we could really use a

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Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting offseason, to

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Speaker 1: be sure, But these are things we talked about in

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Speaker 1: The one spot actually that was sure make Bush Manka,

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Speaker 1: but especially Bush. I think they might need a big

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Speaker 1: that's what you know. Keith Butler was us yesterday about

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, Devin Bush and actually the inside

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Speaker 1: linebackers as a whole, they didn't play that well unless game.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just them, you know, we didn't do much

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Speaker 1: to help him up front. Absolutely, It's just like the

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Speaker 1: conversation we had the first month of the season is

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Speaker 1: that the quarterback is at the running back the running game.

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Speaker 1: You know, the old line makes a lot problems go

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Speaker 1: the way. And I mean the game's still it's still

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Speaker 1: a big trenchant. Yeah, And I love l Lu Lulu,

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Speaker 1: I love Hayward to it. But they haven't used an

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Speaker 1: early pick on a big guy in a while. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's time. Yeah. I mean louder Milk is playing

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Speaker 1: increased snaps now I think you might get more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and if that turns out to be a hit as well.

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Speaker 1: But he's not gonna be a space eater. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's not going to free things up for Bush like

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Speaker 1: crazy you know, and I'm not saying they should go

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Speaker 1: draft Kesey Hampton. They also don't play things the way

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Speaker 1: they used to. You know. The defensive linemen are just

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Speaker 1: there too, gapping and taking taking two blockers at a

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Speaker 1: time when every snaps make the place. Then with those

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Speaker 1: defensive linemen getting up field. But you did mention I

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Speaker 1: remember we were talking. Made sense to me. Is Let's

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Speaker 1: say they are picking right in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: first round. You can get the Helodi Noda types the

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Speaker 1: are now as you mentioned, you know that are They're big,

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Speaker 1: big bodies, but they can run. They may not be

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Speaker 1: great pass rushers, but they don't go in the top

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Speaker 1: ten anymore, you know what I mean. You might even

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Speaker 1: get that guy in the second round, right right right,

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Speaker 1: There's got a lot of ability, but that needs to

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Speaker 1: be something they did look at, and getting younger there

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Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt for sure. Anyways, we're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. It's Wednesday. We'll

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Speaker 1: go around the league and see who's in who's out.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that Browns game. We'll talk about all

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Speaker 1: the other ones right after this