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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lally

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Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson. It is a sticky Thursday here

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Speaker 1: at St. Fencent College. A rainstorm just came rolling through here.

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Speaker 1: Now the sun is coming back out and uh, you

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Speaker 1: feel like the steam is just coming off. I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: by the end of practice you're not gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to see the mountains in the distance. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: good call. It does. That's exactly how things work here.

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Speaker 1: It's a very cool view. By the way, it is

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Speaker 1: a very cool view. Um, if you can still see

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Speaker 1: the mountains. If fan see the mountains, you're in trouble

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Speaker 1: because that means that the stickiness has just reached a

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Speaker 1: new level here, and I expect that to happen today.

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Speaker 1: I thought yesterday was the hottest day of camp. But

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Speaker 1: it's in contention. This is like this is yeah, like

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Speaker 1: my I have not stopped weddings whatever. But Steelers making

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Speaker 1: some more news today signing Deonte Johnson to a two

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Speaker 1: year extension. UH makes him. It puts him intop twenty

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Speaker 1: in terms of wide receiver pay. It's also the biggest

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Speaker 1: UH in terms of average per year, the biggest wide

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Speaker 1: receiver contract giving out in team history. I didn't realize that,

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Speaker 1: but that makes perfect bit more than what a b

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Speaker 1: got ago was a while ago, as five years ago.

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Speaker 1: Lots of inflation between now and then, a lot of

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Speaker 1: inflation Tyree Hills averaging thirty million dollars a year, So

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Speaker 1: Deante Johnson at eighteen and change, Yeah, isn't bad. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a tremendous team friendly deal, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you. I mean, I think it was just yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the day before, we were kind of kicking around numbers.

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Speaker 1: You know, where do you expect this thing to come in?

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Speaker 1: And I think we kind of settled at twenty, you know,

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Speaker 1: was about as high as you go over. That seemed

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Speaker 1: a little excessive, but understandable. It's eighteen, it seems very reasonable.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if I'm Johnson, I just got a

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Speaker 1: massive raise, of course, and actually by a bunch of

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Speaker 1: new money. I haven't made a whole lot by NFL standards.

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Speaker 1: And two years from now he might be very marketable still,

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Speaker 1: you know, so he may score twice on FAE days. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: These two and three year deals are becoming the norm

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and I love it. I like it too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's very there. You know, the player doesn't

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Speaker 1: just rest on his laurels. I signed my last deal,

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Speaker 1: you know I'm done. But at his age, you know

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Speaker 1: he has a lot to still prove to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the league because he's gonna be up and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot out of him. You're paying him

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Speaker 1: for his prime years. I don't see how either side

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Speaker 1: would be disappointed with this. And he'll still be twenty

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Speaker 1: nine years old when he comes out of that deal,

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Speaker 1: and he can he can potentially sign another big deal. UM,

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Speaker 1: so it works out well for both sides of Steelers. UM,

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Speaker 1: get the player for three more years including this one,

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Speaker 1: this one and two more, this one and two more. UM,

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Speaker 1: not an outrageous price. And as we talked about, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna match up perfectly when when George Pickens is gonna

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Speaker 1: be looking for a new deal. So you'll be able

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Speaker 1: to decide if you're the Steelers, Okay, we want to

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Speaker 1: keep Pickings here. We want to make him now the

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Speaker 1: number one wide receiver. Give him that money. It's a

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Speaker 1: good gap there between. It's a nice gap there, right.

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Speaker 1: What's just Newford Chase Claypool though, Yeah, who knows I

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Speaker 1: mean I've thought about that since figuring about the deal,

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Speaker 1: and with all respect to Chase, I think he's a

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Speaker 1: very talent player. I expect him to bounce back a

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Speaker 1: little bit this year. I don't think he bounced down

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Speaker 1: as much as people. People ugh on him last year.

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Speaker 1: But it's just a good problem to have. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he still has a couple of years. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to do anything with him for a while.

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Speaker 1: He's as motivated as ever. Um he's got. I think

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Speaker 1: Pickings will be nipping on his heels. Johnson is going

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Speaker 1: to be the clear one. Money shows that as well

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Speaker 1: as play on the field. And if Claypool doesn't work

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Speaker 1: out or busts or get hurt or whatever, I think

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Speaker 1: you're okay. You know, it's a good contingency plan. It

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Speaker 1: absolutely is. And uh you know, so we'll see Deonte

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Speaker 1: Johnson practice for the first time today in team. It's

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Speaker 1: just good, that's what you want. Yeah, he's done there,

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Speaker 1: he's in full pads. You got the hoodie up there. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine we're in a hoodie today. I couldn't imagine.

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Speaker 1: Good lord, I mean, I understand what the keep the

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Speaker 1: sun off your head right, But but this is this

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Speaker 1: is the kind of day where the Steelers and their

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Speaker 1: fans probably with the defense wears gold out here, the

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Speaker 1: offense wears white. So it's not so bad for those guys.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins always in black and the total the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff always they're all in black. The fans out here

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Speaker 1: all in the you know, black jerseys. It is a

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Speaker 1: hot day to be wearing all that. Black jerseys are

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Speaker 1: heavy too, especially wear something underneath it. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: for fans, not players. Um turn out a little sparse,

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Speaker 1: but we just had a crazy just a big storm

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Speaker 1: coming to storm a little bit ago, so maybe people

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Speaker 1: were hanging home waiting for the storm to pass, which

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Speaker 1: I think it has and then I'll be heading out

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Speaker 1: here because we get some late bloomers here, you know,

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Speaker 1: or some later rivals. But it's a really good scene

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Speaker 1: as usual. Yeah, the Steelers will be back in pads

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Speaker 1: obviously today as they are here in front of us,

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Speaker 1: so they'll be hitting again today. I spoke to our

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Speaker 1: boy Jalen Warren today and UH said about that, as

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Speaker 1: I said, Hey, you gotta love getting in pas. It's

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Speaker 1: for a guy like you. He's a physical runner, right,

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Speaker 1: bowling ball built. I mean he is load of the

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Speaker 1: ground but rocked up. I see what you're up to here, Lawley,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting in on the bottom floor on a

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Speaker 1: guy that not a lot of people know about. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about, you know, practice after practice making the

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Speaker 1: name for himself. He's very impressive, and I think he's

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Speaker 1: due to be more impressive, as you said, once the

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Speaker 1: physicality happens. And I mean I think he might be

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Speaker 1: the star of the preseason for I'm thinking he's going

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Speaker 1: to be. I know a lot of people were are

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Speaker 1: are are high on Matteo Durant. I get it. But

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Speaker 1: Jayleen Moore and I looked up his NFL profile today,

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Speaker 1: right up from NFL dot com and uh they had

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Speaker 1: a uh sixth round the priority free agent? Is this

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Speaker 1: great on himancer lines right up from NFL dot Com

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Speaker 1: with all the combine stuff and all that good stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're very good. So if you look at what he

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Speaker 1: did at the comb I ran a four five five,

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Speaker 1: which is plenty fast enough for what what was his

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Speaker 1: height and weight exactly? He was nine He was five

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Speaker 1: rocked up for five eight Steelers listening two fifteen. I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing he dropped down a few pounds for the to run.

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Speaker 1: You know, his dimensions is what you're looking for. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I you know, we're talking about him catching

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Speaker 1: people didn't know I could. If I could do that

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Speaker 1: or not. When I came out of high school, he said,

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Speaker 1: we ran a win TEA makes it hard to get recruitive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he was MR. He was Utaws MR Football. Though

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Speaker 1: he had three thousand ninety nine yards in thirty eight

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Speaker 1: high school. Then I went to UH he was the

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Speaker 1: Junior College Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore

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Speaker 1: played three games before opting out for COVID and deciding

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Speaker 1: them to transfer to Oklahoma State. How about this one

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Speaker 1: year at Oklahoma State, his teammates voted on the team

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Speaker 1: captain the first year the show up and you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have been there for three

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Speaker 1: four years and you still get the nod over them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: over twelve hundred rushing yards last year at Oklahoma State,

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Speaker 1: also had twenty five catches last year. Was the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve Conference offensive Newcomer of the Year. I mean there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of talent, checks off a lot of boxes. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and not know even knowing his background, I mean he

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Speaker 1: don't see more of it, and it doesn't mean he's

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say you're a small back. You're just

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Speaker 1: a shorter back. But you put together and sometimes linebackers

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Speaker 1: be like, yeah, well over to thirty and big and

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Speaker 1: rocked up right right. He said, he spends at the

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Speaker 1: time in the in the weight room obviously, and and

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time running to get ready for

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Speaker 1: this camp. And that was one thing that Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: said about him after Tuesday's practice when all the other

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Speaker 1: Will had gone down and he kept getting carry after carry,

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Speaker 1: and Mike Thomas said, hey, he showed up. He's he's

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Speaker 1: well conditioned. He shows up and and uh, very important. Yeah. Absolutely. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know the key for that forgot like him

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Speaker 1: is can you play special teams? Can you contribute some

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Speaker 1: he's he's not the not gonna be the starter. He's

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Speaker 1: not the starter. Ideally, you'd love him to be a

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Speaker 1: Benny Snell or better special teamer, you know, in terms

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Speaker 1: of his value. But if he's the second best running

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Speaker 1: It'd be great if he could be on special teams

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Speaker 1: and be the better be a combination of third running

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Speaker 1: implying that he's ahead of Snell right now, but I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the craziest thing I ever heard either.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can go ahead of them. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. That's a little tune. Are kind of reminded

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna be in the ballpark, but more than

424
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,000
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, but more than more than Hunter Renfrog because

425
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 1: he's a better players, better than those two. Right. You

426
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't trade him straight up for those kinds. Absolutely not

427
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,479
Speaker 1: a chance. And they're similar ages and and you know,

428
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 1: Bobs deserves some respect to you. You're not working on

429
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 1: This isn't free agency. When things open and you're working

430
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: on four contracts and wise, you know you have how

431
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 1: they do this. Boss has been here a long time.

432
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,159
Speaker 1: He deserves a big payday. They knocked that out, and

433
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 1: then I'm sure they back to Deonte right away and said, Okay,

434
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: we got a lot of things to work off since

435
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,280
Speaker 1: we talked last Let's go well, there were some signs

436
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 1: that this was gonna get done. The first was Johnson's agent,

437
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 1: Bradley Sequila, came into into Latrobe on Tuesday. Always always

438
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 1: always a good sign because they hadn't really I'm sure

439
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: they told him, hey, look, we're not gonna get serious

440
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 1: about signing Deontarea. We'll have our initial conversations, but we're

441
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: not gonna get serious about it until we get the

442
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 1: boss signed. Yeah, order, we gotta get him done first.

443
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 1: And how could Johnson have any problem with that? Right? Anyway? Okay, sure,

444
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: he's a valuable player. It's important. Uh. And then the

445
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 1: next sign was that yesterday Deonte was at least put

446
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 1: his shoulder pads on. You mentioned it was out running

447
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: on Like, Okay, I gotta start carrying the pads and

448
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: get used to get heat acclamated myself, even though I'm

449
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,439
Speaker 1: not gonna practice so beat reporter Lolly picked up on

450
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 1: a couple of the clues there, like he's not wearing

451
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: the same cleats he had on before. He's got pads on,

452
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: and he looks a little more anxious to me. And yeah,

453
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure the deal was close. A little things that

454
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: you've noticed there, I know, the report reports, Uh, you know,

455
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, after Remarkhan spoke, well they're they're not close

456
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 1: on this then, but they just started talking. They probably weren't.

457
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: Then probus down, you know, then you start shot you know,

458
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: handing numbers back and forth, and and it's you know,

459
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: it gets done. Yeah, we're in the same neighborhood here,

460
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 1: you know. I mean it's different if you come to

461
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 1: the table and the players gonna aim high, the team's

462
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 1: would hang. Oh, I mean that's what negotiations the game

463
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: and then but deep down you have a number, and

464
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: I think that both the team and the player said, well,

465
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 1: our numbers are about to say, and let's do it.

466
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, it wasn't a lot of fighting

467
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 1: back and forth. We got a little friend here, ste here.

468
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 1: He is about popping on the scene stuff. Okay, there

469
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: we go. Stilly doesn't talk much. He's not good for

470
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,719
Speaker 1: talk much. I wouldn't trade jobs with you today, Steely.

471
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah a little toasty. Yeah, Steely's gonna

472
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: need a shower after this one. He's working harder than

473
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: anybody here. Yeah. That see, dude, that is not a

474
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: fun job. I am sure in a daylight fun Well,

475
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: but it's a little toasty, a little toasty. I don't

476
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,479
Speaker 1: know that they have any air conditioning in that, Steely

477
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: McCay quest him, No, no air conditioning here for us either.

478
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: But at least you've got some shade, which is more

479
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: than the fans are is out and the sun is

480
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: out and it's salt tree suns out. MAT's got his

481
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 1: guns out. Its yeah, pull the red ryder, BB, don't

482
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: shoot your eyes out. Uh yeah. So the humid it

483
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: is really humid today. This is this is what Mike

484
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: Tomlin is want. Yeah, I say, this is exactly what

485
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: wants in pads humid. Let's bang around a lot and

486
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: really wear each other out. And would you surprise you

487
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: at this point in this camp, and when I mentioned

488
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: we're eight days into this, if we have a couple

489
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: of guys maybe go down with some heat related stuff. Um,

490
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I guess maybe a little I mean hesitated

491
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: comment on that, because there's so much more precautionary on

492
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: that than that ten years ago, five years ago. So

493
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 1: if somebody does, it's not like, oh my gosh, you know. Yeah,

494
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: And so maybe it's a little ill maybe, you know,

495
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: dealing with the hydration of some sort, right, I mean,

496
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: I guess it certainly in the cards across camps all

497
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: over the league right now. But I'll bet you they're

498
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 1: they're really watching it today. I know they keep they

499
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: keep a heat tracker down on the sidelines. It's usually

500
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: in the end zone that John Norwood keeps him and

501
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: it tells you, okay, it's it's eighty eight today, but

502
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: it feels like, yeah, I don't know what it would

503
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: be today, but I'll bet you it's it feels like

504
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: it's approaching a hundred. I'll bet you it's just so

505
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: wet and so humid, right right. And I can imbes

506
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: would be nice to what it's like down on the

507
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: field with with the wet field that just got rained

508
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: on that you know that the water is coming up

509
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: out of it, of all the vapors just coming up

510
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: off you know, going up and right through these guys

511
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: coming up off the lake is like bristers. As you said,

512
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: I Colon's eating this up. Oh yeah, I'll take this

513
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: every day. And man, he wears that Aim outfit every day,

514
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: long sleeve shirt, long pants are are they're all black? Yeah,

515
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: he just doesn't waver in that And and Uh, I

516
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: have great respect for it, you know, stick with your

517
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: convictions makes him stand out. He's the head guy here.

518
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: I don't know if I said this on the air,

519
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: but I always chuckle like wh when he was in Minnesota?

520
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: Was he head to toe purple? Did he be gold?

521
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: Do you look like Grimace you with the bucks? Was

522
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: he like head to toe orange and pewter? I mean, uh,

523
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: someday I'm gonna ask him at if you were the

524
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: head coach of the bikes, would you be head to

525
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: toe purple or you black? No matter what? It might

526
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: be gold, it could be gold, could be gold, I

527
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: guess right, But yeah, I mean he is out there

528
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: like that every day. And you know, again, as you mentioned,

529
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: I'm wavering with the team and unwavering with this message.

530
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: You see him right right walking around to a lot

531
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: of different position units and and preaching the message for

532
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: that day. Whatever I've talked about you and motivated, you know,

533
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: finding what what little needle pokes each player, good, bad, ugly.

534
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 1: Everyone's motivated by different things. And he's a master of

535
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: either get under your skin or patting on the back,

536
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: kicking in the butt, or whatever it is that makes

537
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: you tick. You know, I think that's one of his

538
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: greatest strengths. Yeah, and he knows, you know, he'll have

539
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: a little nicknames for every guy and and uh, you

540
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: know it's just a little little things that you mentioned

541
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: that that he can kind of poker or you know,

542
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: get your attention. Yeah. I remember him doing that early

543
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: on with with Mike Hilton when Mike Hilton was an

544
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: undrafted guy. Like you know, it could be an interesting

545
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: one because small, too small, and it's too small to

546
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: do this. You can't, you can't do that. But he's

547
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: wasting his time thinking about you and talking about you

548
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: because you're pretty good. Yeah, that's why, my h maybe

549
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: he's talking to thirty that way. My dad always told me,

550
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, when I got back from like my first

551
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: high school basketball practice and coach was just all over me. Today.

552
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: You guys, well, if he's yelling at you, that means

553
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: he likes you. If he stops yelling at you, you're

554
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: in trouble. It's one of the first things that you

555
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: would bring in five you know, new UH scholarship athletes

556
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: basically every year a pit and in that first meeting initiation,

557
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: welcome to the pain answers. You know, we're not recruiting

558
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: you anymore. We don't have to be your best, but

559
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: you know that type of thing. This is what's expected.

560
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: But that's one of the major messages, was not all

561
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: of you getting yelled at. It's not so bad. That

562
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: means we care. That's why we don't have these These

563
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: position coaches don't have a lot of time in the day,

564
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: and if they're gonna waste an extra minute on you,

565
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a count. They're very, very efficient with

566
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: their time. And when people stop yelling at you, or

567
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: stop commending you, or stop paying attention to you, that's

568
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: when you should really really worry. You know, bringing five

569
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: running backs and that fifth one is just not getting attention.

570
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: On the wall right right right, he's at I P

571
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: and that year, um Jacob breckt here looks like he's

572
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: he's got he's in full Jim Bibbie Moode here Jimi

573
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: in the eighth inning of of a complete game and

574
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 1: seventy nine just like just just looks like he's. Oh

575
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: that dude, yeah, that dude down there is pretty soaked too.

576
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: You just you took a jog down the steps, Jacob,

577
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: and you came back up your base is completely red,

578
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: your hair is soaked. You look like you just took it,

579
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: came out of the shower, and you're a fine tune athlete.

580
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: You were much younger than Matt, and I like, I

581
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: can't imagine doing that. Yeah, I can't stop sweating and

582
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: sitting here chat with you. We might we might get

583
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: for us to stop complaining about the heat, though, and

584
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: get down to business. No more excuses. Let's go. What

585
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: are the the quarterbacks working on today, Matt, Yesterday was

586
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: a back shoulder throw, as you've seeing anything like that today. Um,

587
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: there there was some more ball movements type stuff, you know,

588
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of rollouts. I I wasn't studying them

589
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: as much as usual, to be very honest with you.

590
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: We got running backs or receivers running go routes down

591
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: the sideline here, and we did some of these drills yesterday.

592
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks aren't throwing them though. The position coaches are real

593
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: just warm up stuff here. I mean this is a

594
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: real preliminary I don't see real specific um ideas of

595
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: what they're working on. You know, this thing today because

596
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: a lot of the pre practice off has been Okay,

597
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna do thirty rollouts one after another after I

598
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: guess we'll see here when they get together with the water.

599
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: Your next step is a little a little more telling,

600
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, see what what they focus on here at

601
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in the middlefield, the wide receivers getting a

602
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: little drink here before they go out and run some

603
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: routes with the quarterbacks. We'll we'll let you know here

604
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: what they do here in a second. Um, looking around here,

605
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: you get the offensive lineman all down here to our left.

606
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: We got the refs getting a drink here too, gatorade

607
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: pal there for ice. Here we go take care of

608
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: those guys too. So here we go. Quarterback, got a

609
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: shell offense here, no line, you know, just routes first air.

610
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: It looks like they'll have both quarterbacks throw probably each

611
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: to a side. Ye, and it's not Rudolf, it's Trabinsky.

612
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: And pick it from what it looks like to me,

613
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe maybe, uh pick it showed enough yesterday that

614
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: no Rudolf is that's Rudolf. It looks like he's gonna

615
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: be back to today. Um, And this is a drill

616
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,479
Speaker 1: they often do. They pretend to have two centers. One

617
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: guy throws the one half field goal and throws the

618
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: other a little in and out. What's that route called

619
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: a little flag rout there? You got Miller down here,

620
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: there's Deonte you look sharp, quick feet, quick feet. Yeah,

621
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: that's the first thing that just stood out about him,

622
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: like the first time I saw him, Like, oh, that

623
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: guy gets it in out of his break. Yeah, right right.

624
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: It's a little different, which is rare because he's a

625
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: little bit high cut. You know what I mean by

626
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: that is his weight. He's a little bit long legged.

627
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: He's got kind of a high waist, justin Jefferson has

628
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: that has a really strange wide receiver build where he's

629
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: really angular and lanky, and a lot of those guys

630
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: can't sink their hips and come out of breaks as much.

631
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: You know, they can be long striders and eat a field,

632
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: but it's harder to break down. And when you find

633
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: guys that can, when you give me a team million

634
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: bucks and they make a Pro Bowls and All Pros

635
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: and return guy and they catch a whole lot of passes, Yeah,

636
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: that's hard to defend. It's also a weirder look for

637
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: the corner. Yeah, he's I mean, the clear number one

638
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: on this to anybody was arguing that he wasn't number one.

639
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: Oh he's not a real number one receiver. Like, come on, man,

640
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: I mean the targets and the production told you different,

641
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,719
Speaker 1: much different differently. Hey, I'm I'm super excited for Pickens.

642
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: I can't stop raving about him. Could he become a one? Absolutely?

643
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: But that doesn't that's not a knock on Johnson. Yeah,

644
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: he has number one traits, but he hasn't proven anything yet.

645
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: They both are out there at the same time catching

646
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: balls about God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get like to

647
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: see that the the now, in the future, yeah, right

648
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: right together and hopefully the present. You know what you're saying.

649
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: I saw I saw something last night on TV. I

650
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: made note of it to you, Like, who wasn't Adam

651
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: Rank had his top five rookie receivers. George Pickens wasn't

652
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,239
Speaker 1: on there. And this was for fantasy. I mean, it's

653
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: a good class, but he should be on there. I

654
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: get it. But yeah, Jamison Williams third. I love Jamison Williams.

655
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: He was my favorite. But he's not gonna play right

656
00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: right right, Like, how can you have him through? Like

657
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: Orge Picket is going to contribute right away? Uh, this

658
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: isn't hyperbole. You're trying to get a rise out of people,

659
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: but often quote Great Cosell, he this was his favorite

660
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: receiver in the entire draft. I think if you just

661
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: look at talent and traits, nobody's ahead of him, you know,

662
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Williams is faster, and I mean there's some

663
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: guys are different, You're better at certain things. There was

664
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: a little out of sight, out of mind with him, Um,

665
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: you know, only playing the last few games. Not super

666
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: productive in those games. No, but I don't think it

667
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: was either. No, I don't think so either. But in

668
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: Georgia just doesn't throw the ball that much. They also

669
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: went in by a time in their defense is destroying

670
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: people and right. But the catch that he had in

671
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: the National Championship game, I mean Kevin Corport was raving

672
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: about that after they drafted him, like would he only

673
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: have one catch? But it was you know, down the

674
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: seam forty yards down the field. Yeah, I guess uh,

675
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: a cornerback would probably be a first round there here

676
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: at some point in the future. Like it was just

677
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, and he extends and and and had the

678
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: wherewithal on the extension too, then pull the ball into

679
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: his body and tuck it as he went to the ground, like, yeah,

680
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: it's a play that you know, Kevin Kolbers bet on

681
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: the block and so much, you know, and if he

682
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: keeps harping on that, what he's really telling you is

683
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: not many guys in the world can do that, you know,

684
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: Like it's a rare ability to combine all the aspects

685
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: you just mentioned all into one play. And you know

686
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: you watch his highlight table, go wow, his highlight tape

687
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: is Chrystal Lave couldn't have that highlight tape. You know.

688
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: Maybe he's more consistent, maybe a better route runner. You know,

689
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,479
Speaker 1: he had a better career. I get all those things.

690
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's better, but he couldn't have done that,

691
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: you know, like pickings can, which of course your receiver

692
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: coach goes. If you if you're able to do those things,

693
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: there's no ceiling here. You know. We can just keep going,

694
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: going and going and going and keep coaching them up. Yeah. Um,

695
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Steelers have an obvious they

696
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: have obvious traits that they look for in one she

697
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: was in fact, Omar Calm was asked about that on Tuesday.

698
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 1: You know, can you keep this up? Can you you know?

699
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: He said, well, we have some obvious things that we

700
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: look for in wide receivers. I can't tell you what

701
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: they are, No, why would you, But I think if

702
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: you know what you're watching out here, you can see

703
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: what they like. They like guys who are quick in

704
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: and out of their cuts. Um a lot of them.

705
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean Claypool and Pickings aren't great examples. And recently,

706
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: but just since the A B Era and all the

707
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: receivers they've taken, a lot of them have punt return,

708
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, high end punt return. And why you go

709
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: for guys like that there? They're good at the ball

710
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: in their hands in space, they have vision, they have elusiveness,

711
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: and they're tough. There's not many wimpy pump returners out there,

712
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: you know. They might bet I bet they had a

713
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: very high grade on Anthony Miller. I bet they did

714
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: that draft. I bet they did, because he has some

715
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: of those trades too, and his feistiness and his body type.

716
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: And again Claypool doesn't quite fit this mold. But a

717
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: lot of route runners right right right now. I mean

718
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: he was you know six five guy that ran a

719
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: fourth three or whatever too, you know, so, and they

720
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: got in the second round and they were also looking

721
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: for a little bit diverse city too. You know, whatever

722
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: receiver to look the same. That's a civil warship, right,

723
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: the diversity. I wouldn't know that one. That the Ron

724
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: Burgundy line of christ and he isn't at an old

725
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: civil warship. Um and the fun group receivers to watch

726
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: the running around it really is. It's a different group,

727
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: but it's deep and there's some star power too, there was.

728
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: That's one thing that I just saw from pickings again.

729
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: He double catches a lot of balls. Worries you. It

730
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: worries me a little bit. Gonna get broken up. No, yeah,

731
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: double catching it is terrible. You need to plug it

732
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: over with your fingertips away from your frame. And I'll

733
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: always reference, you know, my time with Larry Fitzgerald that

734
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: bal didn't make a noise one of his fingers. Yeah,

735
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: you know, it was just a suction, you know. And

736
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: George needs to work on the double catches. It looks

737
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: like they're getting ready for seven shots here, so I

738
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: guess we will take a break. Perfect. He is Matt Williamson.

739
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: I am dale Ally. You're listening to the drive here

740
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. We're live, Uh here at Steelers

741
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: training camp practice number eight. We will be back with

742
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: more on the drive here on Steelers Nation rad. You

743
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: right after this, he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and

744
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers

745
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly here with

746
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, and uh well, the defense just won seven

747
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: shots four to three, but hotly contested it again. There

748
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: there was that was pretty even bad, really nice throw

749
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: by Picking or Picket there that last I finished it

750
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: off their back pylon throw. We believe that was to

751
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: a Miles Boykin, not sure exactly. And now we had

752
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: some people stepping in front of us, are pretty crowded

753
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: and pretty crowded there, couldn't tell real nice road touch

754
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: throw though the back of the answer. Just throwing it

755
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: to the pylon and letting him run under it showed

756
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: nice touch on that. We saw, Um, Mitch Robiskie hit

757
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: George Pickens on a slant on the first the first play,

758
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: powerful route. You know, it came out of his break.

759
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: Uh then we saw pressure pressure on Trisky. He had

760
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: to step to his right to kind of avoid a

761
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: sack there and kind of threw it away out of

762
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone. I thought that was

763
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: a good decision. Decision making has been one of the

764
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: knocks on Trobisky, you know, his career, but lived to

765
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: fight another day on that one, throwing the seats. Yeah,

766
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: then they had a pitch to to uh Benny Snell

767
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: to the left. It was kind of a student body

768
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: left kind of run and uh it just came up

769
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: short of the end zone on that one. Yeah, so

770
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: gained about a yard and a half. Yeah again you mention,

771
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: you made the note of boy, they had the whole

772
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: old line pooling on that one. I mean getting out

773
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: there on that wide zone. But we got here. We

774
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: got one on ones down the right at Johnson. Welcome

775
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: back to Aunte Johnson. That's a eight five yard touchdown. Yeah,

776
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 1: who do you? Who do you get there? It looks

777
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: like is that weatherspoon? I think just by body type

778
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: and you can't see the number, so I'm guessing there.

779
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: He sort of stands out with his Trabisky's final past

780
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: then in the seven shots a bad one. He kind

781
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: of lady kind of predetermined where he was going with

782
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: it there and laid it out in the flatten camp.

783
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: Sutton very nearly intercepted it. Yeah, that could have been

784
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: a pick six. Yeah, I really could have. Sutton was

785
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: kicking himself on that one. Yeah, absolutely. Then Mason give

786
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: the defense little credit to Yeah, they they're good to

787
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: get paid. Uh. Mason Rudolph took the next two. He

788
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: threw a fade incomplete to Miles Boyck into a good

789
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: coverage there by by James Pierre. Um he Uh so,

790
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: a nice job by him. Nice work by five there, Yeah,

791
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: working against a linebacker. Good job ming out and up

792
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: went up and plucked that ball. I think that was

793
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: Jay Sternberger and uh Robert Splaine. I think Mason was

794
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I believe Mason was the quarterback there. Uh.

795
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: Then the next one for Mason Rudolph was a blown coverage. Uh.

796
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: Generol Schefski was all by himself in the back corner. Yeah,

797
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: they had a later drought and the two guys bit

798
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: up on the short one and he just tossed it

799
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: right over completely easy could read, you know, was smart

800
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. And then finally you saw the backup

801
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: pylon throw there by h Kenny Pickett getting it out

802
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: to uh who we believe was Myles Boykin in the

803
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: back corner of the end zone for a touchdown. That

804
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: was their third touchdown. So not bad work, not bad work.

805
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: There's a nice rose some Chris Froze, you know, some

806
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: receivers making plays. Um. Yeah again, defense look good on

807
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: that run, but for Snell stopping that and uh Sutting

808
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: almost had a pick six. Yeah, student, it's a good

809
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: droll we got going here, though. You got a lot

810
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: of one on one one on one zero ULYSSI is Gilbert.

811
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: He lost his uh piece of equipment with Anthony McFarland.

812
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: The the cap, the sculled the guardian. The guardian cap

813
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: came off of he's mid route. Um, kind of not

814
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: used to overcoming that. Yeah, that's a new one. We

815
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: got an outside matchup where we got here. Boy if

816
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: kept going there, Yeah, I say, I think he had

817
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: him beating. I'm even I'm leaving and he had him beat.

818
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: That was of course you'd have a safety over the top.

819
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: It's not one on one, but these are one on ones.

820
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, not bad job recovering there on the underneath

821
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: route by Justin Lane there. But no, that was that

822
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: was They got slot guys going one on one. They

823
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: got tight ends going one on one backs, you know,

824
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: outside receivers, so Calvin Austin there and Tyler Vaughans and

825
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: trip three on four type deal that was Rudolph reading.

826
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that was an option route. Yeah, it looked

827
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: like somebody went the wrong jun you went in and

828
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: uh and out based on leverage, defensive leverage. But you

829
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: can take a lot away from this period. Yeah. Actually

830
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: these defensive guys playing in space by one on one

831
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: that they're a major disadvantage there. Absolutely got Jernard Avery

832
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: out there right now, you got three. That's Mark Robinson.

833
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: You know for any other side there that is Devin

834
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: Bush running with Heyward. Hayward just overthrown a little bit.

835
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying, just watching the route and coverage, I wouldn't

836
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: say either player won. That have to be a really

837
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: nice throw, which is this league that they make all

838
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: the time. But you know that Hayward can run. Bush

839
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: was a step behind him, but I mean he was

840
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: in a good trip Heyward. Heyward knows where he's going

841
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: or Bush right as you said, step behind his control linebackers,

842
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Speaker 1: the touring arm or safeties or anything changes to catch

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00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: on the on the flat there with Gerard Avery on

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Speaker 1: the coverage. Yeah, and Avery will drop into cover something. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All know he's an upfield player, but he's done plenty

846
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Speaker 1: of coverage both at the line of scrimmage and off

847
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 1: the ball. And we get an outside just that Deonte

848
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: out there with looks like Cam Sutton maybe on the

849
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: outside there, I thought, so I just never see Sutton

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Speaker 1: on the left. Boom he smoked him. Yeah, that was

851
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: a very nice rush. That's Anthony Miller. That was Miller. Yeah, yeah,

852
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: beating and you can see a little while you get

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Speaker 1: them confused, just their their um. Yeah, that's a sharp

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00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: brow Lyndon Stevens there, So he smoked Linden. Are you

855
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Speaker 1: gonna be another buncher? As Billy hill Grove likes to

856
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: call it? Nice nice catch gentry being big. Yeah, he's

857
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: got a safety on him and shields them. Nice row

858
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: to the outside, leads him a little bit, extend those

859
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: long arms, grab it hauling in. That's Carlin. Carlin's platel there,

860
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: and that's that's not fair for him. I mean, he's

861
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: got asking a lot. He's giving up of, you know,

862
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: fifty pounds or sixty, probably seventy pounds, and over the

863
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: course of five snaps in the game you end up

864
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: with the I mean, these offensive coordinators get you in

865
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: predicaments like that. Absolutely, it doesn't mean you're gonna win them,

866
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: but you know, it was good to see Gentry take

867
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Speaker 1: advantage of that. Though that's a guy there third is

868
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: nice job getting separation there, unless he is Gilbert uh

869
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: and just go out. And that's the one thing you know,

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin talked about yesterday. He was talking with the

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Speaker 1: officials that are here today about you know what the

872
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: what's gonna draw you an offensive past interference? And he said,

873
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: if you get the arm up and it's above the waist,

874
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: extended above the waist, you're gonna get a call on that. See,

875
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: you use your shoulder to create that separation. So I've

876
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: probably told the story on the air, and I referenced

877
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: Larry all the time. They were very, you know, fun

878
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: years with Larry Fitzgerald a pit and I used to

879
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: I used to bust him a little bit him and

880
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: he was an eighteen year old kid, and I'm like,

881
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: did you push off on every play? You know? And

882
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: we're in my little I'm in my khakis and we're

883
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: in my g a room and he's like, that's not

884
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: a push off. And I'm like, you push off all

885
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: the time. What are you talking about. He's like, I

886
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: never extend my arm all the way. Chris Carter taught me,

887
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: you know, And he gives me this forearm shiver. It's

888
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: like a six inch shiver, and I go flying into

889
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: the VHS tapes, you know, like feating the air almost,

890
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, just a short little six inch you know,

891
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: and running down. It's amazing the power these guys derived

892
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: from that and how strong these corners are to handle

893
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: that while running full speed and it's perfectly beat deep

894
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: ball down the right sideline. White, they're getting free down

895
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: the sideline. Yeah, he's got a root for it. Trabisky.

896
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: I didn't you know a lot of times you want

897
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: to put more air under that. He kind of threw

898
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: that more in a line because I mean you could

899
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: think there's probably a safety running over. If you put

900
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: more air on it was a better chance he's gonna

901
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: knock it down. Absolutely dropped it right in there, the

902
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: perfectly him and stripe perfect harder to throw that on

903
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: the line. Yeah, that little arm bar something I I

904
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: you know we were taught to use in that. Yeah,

905
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: Um definitely taught to use that in basketball, and it's effective.

906
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: You redirect guys as they're trying to go something exactly,

907
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: especial if their in motion or you know, a little

908
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: top heavy. I wasn't expecting that. I went flying, you know,

909
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: thirty Show had to pick there and nights play and

910
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: breaking on the ball. But it was a little bit

911
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: of questionable throat. Yeah, yeah, it was open early. It

912
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: was a second late. Yeah, but it's just a second way.

913
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Speaker 1: Who I didn't see the quarterback. I didn't either, I

914
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: was thinking about our little stories. Yeah, we get the

915
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: ball from before up up. Nice job. Nice job by

916
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Speaker 1: Anthony McFarland catching that one. That was nice recovery though, too,

917
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: Miles Jack was he got beat on the break and

918
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: then he recovered pretty well. Yeah. He can run. He

919
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: can run, Yeah, he can run. That was an out

920
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: and up by that by a running back. That brottle

921
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: up by running backs necessarily. I think the Farland's route

922
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: runnings improved. Yeah, he looks good doing it, look sharper

923
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: with receiver type routes. And then he came back and

924
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: caught the ball basically over over Jack's head a little

925
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: on the throne. Yeah, and the the quick slant there two

926
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: miles boy can again just a big bodied guy and

927
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: slanting in the middle of the field. You were listening

928
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Speaker 1: to our live on going coverage here from Steelers training campus.

929
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: Is Steelers Nation Radio in the drive. Yeah, we're starting

930
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,919
Speaker 1: to get into this year. We'll get into a team

931
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Speaker 1: portion of practice here in a in a in a minute,

932
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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, very nice stroke by Mason Rudolph right

933
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: on the numbers there to Kevin Raider a little bit

934
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: on the outside shoulder right where it needs to be tough,

935
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: tough to defend. That perfect route and throw are just

936
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: so hard to defend this league, and you know, you

937
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: see it a lot in these drills. Absolutely, no matter

938
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Speaker 1: who the quarterback is. It looks like they're pretty much

939
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: done with that one, moving on to the next drills

940
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: or so we'll see they're gonna go special teams. Chare

941
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: that we're setting up another one here on the outside.

942
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Speaker 1: I mean, offense had advantage in that drill. They did,

943
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Speaker 1: They did well, absolutely, and Dean Tapia out there kind

944
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: of helped too. Yeah, Hayward, And it looks like against

945
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: his Eddie Ulysses Gilbert, is it I see a four,

946
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: But it's more like a d back than nice. That's

947
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: twenty four's to monte Casey. Good coverage. That's a good

948
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: battle there. Yeah, outside he had outside, he had inside

949
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: leverage and throw us to the outside Hayward twisting his

950
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: body and going back making a nice adjustment to go

951
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: catch the football there. I'm a little guilty of this too.

952
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: But when they drafted Hayward, I'm like, this is if

953
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: his last name was Williams. But they really picked this,

954
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And the more I watch him here,

955
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: and more so than even his Michigan State tape, I

956
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: did just see a lot of uses for him. You know.

957
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: He catches passes at all levels. He's a blocker. You

958
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: can hand them the football. He can line up in

959
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: the backfield, he can line up in the slot. He

960
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: can line up a tight end. He might not be

961
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Speaker 1: good enough to do any of them, but he can

962
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Speaker 1: do all these things. Yeah, when you break the huddle,

963
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: the defense has to wonder, Okay, what what is he right?

964
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: What end? But he's lining up with the tight end. Yeah,

965
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: so you just don't know who somebody somebody blew a

966
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: coverage here right up the middle of the defense, and

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00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: heways gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We're bringing you our live coverage here from

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Speaker 1: Steelers training camp practice, the only station where you can

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00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,720
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