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Speaker 2: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 2: Gold in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly. He

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Speaker 3: is the Matt Williamson. It is a beautiful It really

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Speaker 3: is Thursday today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I am efforting to try to get down to a

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Speaker 4: CDC at ACTU. Sure, and I'm not sure I'm be

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Speaker 4: able to swing it, but a couple of my buds

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Speaker 4: last minute, Hey you want to go. I'm like, what

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Speaker 4: an awesome night that would be, you know, yeah, trying

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Speaker 4: to make that happen, right, had.

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Speaker 5: These things people who sell tickets.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm just I got a lot of balls

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Speaker 4: in the air and I'm not sure I can get

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Speaker 4: down there in time.

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Speaker 1: It was last minute.

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Speaker 4: We called an audible to the line of scrimmage, right, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying I'm doubtful, but I'm highly questionable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I know that's one of your bands, oh, top five

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Speaker 5: for sure, yep.

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Speaker 4: But we'd like to get down there. But I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 4: It's a Thursday, the Thursday, right, beautiful?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? What's shaking? Oh? Not much?

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Speaker 5: Are Matt Williamson's top five bands.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, number one is clearly Zeppelin, too, is Guns N' Roses,

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Speaker 4: threes Floyd. It's funny I actually thought about this recently.

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Speaker 4: Otherwise I would be this good at it. I would

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Speaker 4: say a CDC's four. Then I don't know how about sales.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the order. Let me kick some things

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Speaker 1: around here.

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Speaker 5: But I think I go through different phases. Right, You see,

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Speaker 5: mine are all pretty much the same genre, right.

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Speaker 3: I have a bunch of Like, I listened to a

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Speaker 3: lot of different stuff at different times, particularly in my life,

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Speaker 3: but right right, bands that I go back to all

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Speaker 3: the time, Pearl Jams one.

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Speaker 5: They wouldn't be my top five. If you're strong, they're

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Speaker 5: always there.

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Speaker 3: Joy Division Slash New Order, and they got jobbed in

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Speaker 3: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. They

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Speaker 3: should have been in those guys. If you go back

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Speaker 3: and listen to early Joy Division, early New Order, whether

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Speaker 3: you like quote unquote post punk new wave music or not,

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Speaker 3: they set the stage, set the stage for everything that

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Speaker 3: came after it in the eighties everything.

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Speaker 1: They were big time trendsetters, huge, huge, listen to that

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Speaker 1: all time. But they're definitely your top five, Oh without

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, if I had like five albums that I

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Speaker 3: had to go live on an island and I got

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Speaker 3: these five albums, there would be a there would be

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Speaker 3: a New Order definitely one of them.

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Speaker 4: The Wall would be my one. Well yeah, but I

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Speaker 4: also cheat and you get a double double, you.

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Speaker 1: Get a double.

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Speaker 3: I would take like Substance by New Order, which is

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Speaker 3: a double album that's not cheat of all their it's

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Speaker 3: a they don't call it the greatest Hits album and

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Speaker 3: like it came out in like eighty six, what kind

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Speaker 3: is Okay? They just remixed a bunch of their songs.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they do that a lot.

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Speaker 3: So you get the the double album greatest Hits. See

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Speaker 3: that's sort of to me.

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Speaker 4: That's not cheating because the plane's going down, your CD

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Speaker 4: collection is floating away, and you can only save one.

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Speaker 3: Right, I'm taking like I'm gonna have to swim to this,

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Speaker 3: swim to this island, right, holding this right CD or

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Speaker 3: tape or album the waters I swim.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you will grab the double, but that's it's not

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Speaker 4: any heavier to carry, you know, to swim to shore. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so you grab the wall and you're like, oh physical

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Speaker 4: Graffiti's right, there is a double two. But oh well,

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Speaker 4: I gotta pick between my kids.

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Speaker 3: You know, Zeppelin will be high on my Zeppelin will

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's that three?

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Speaker 5: Let me thinkly considering Van Halen is my fifth spot.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big Van Halen fan, particularly, I like the

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Speaker 3: early stuff better. But I mean that's I cut my

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Speaker 4: So I only had like fifteen tapes. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: Now they're Frisbees, Tom Petty and Heartbreakers. I was just saying, Petty,

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Speaker 1: You've you bring up a lot. Yeah, Like if I'm

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, fantastic, fantastic.

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Speaker 4: I mean like beetles and stones or it's almost like

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Speaker 4: cheating like that right right now. Yeah, but I think

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Speaker 1: They do. They're like I thought about.

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Speaker 3: The WHO classification of the who's very yeah, very popular,

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Speaker 3: very good. My fifth, I don't know my fifth would

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Speaker 3: probably caught. I'll bet you I had. I have spent

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Speaker 3: in my lifetime twenty five thousand dollars on music, which

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Speaker 3: are you out of your mind?

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Speaker 1: Twenty five thousand songs and ninety nine cents each.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I have albums I have. I have

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Speaker 3: a ton of tapes. Yeah, I've got two hundred CDs.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just I like music back to.

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Speaker 4: A CDC They would not have been in my top

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Speaker 4: been when I was like high school, you know, teenager

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Speaker 4: learning about them. But I kind of burned out on them.

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Speaker 4: And we actually had this conversation walking out of here

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Speaker 4: yesterday or the day before, because to pull back the curtain,

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Speaker 4: when you walk into here, DV is playing.

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Speaker 5: We always get DV, and nine times out of ten

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Speaker 5: it's and a.

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Speaker 1: CD is definitely the tune that I listened to most

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Speaker 5: My own long Time, Long Way to the Top.

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Speaker 3: The theme song of our show is one of the

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Speaker 3: To the Top because that's a Bond Scott song.

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Speaker 1: That then they do play Bond Scott tunes.

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Speaker 3: They do, but they don't do that one because that

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Speaker 3: bagpipes for that.

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Speaker 1: Song, gotcha, gotcha?

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Speaker 5: So they just they don't.

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Speaker 1: We used to have it. We have to wait until

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Speaker 3: There's a long it's a long way to get to

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Speaker 3: the start of the shows, A long way to the top.

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Speaker 3: You gotta wait for the bagpipe. Yeah, if you want

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Speaker 3: long time listeners of the show will know this, like

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Speaker 3: you had to wait for the bagpipes to start.

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Speaker 1: If you want to rock and roll, you gotta wait.

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Speaker 3: Fifth Man one, that's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: Ben Halen's making a strong case in the battle. Hmm.

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Speaker 3: I go through stretches where I really like you too,

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Speaker 3: I don't like you too, Yeah, back and forth with that.

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Speaker 4: I never owned a lot of Motley Crewe discs, but

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Speaker 4: there are ten best songs I appreciated Strong, real Strong.

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Speaker 1: You know you know who else I really like Bob

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Speaker 1: Seger Strong too. This never saw him catalog like Pursuit

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Speaker 1: turned eighty earlier. His name was in the news story recently.

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Speaker 3: And he said, you know, I wasn't a huge Seeger fan.

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Speaker 3: And then he went out and played for like two

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Speaker 1: Was a hit.

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Speaker 4: Every one of my buddies I saw him have said

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Speaker 4: the exact same thing, like, just go see him live

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Speaker 5: I forgot about that one, right, yeah, I forgot about

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Speaker 1: And you know every tune, Yeah, they've all been on

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Speaker 3: But I lived next door. So when I was a

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Speaker 1: Than me, okay, So we were always influences. So the

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Speaker 1: The album cover. Yeah, I never had that, they said.

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Speaker 4: That's a different world that these people still wouldn't understand.

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Speaker 4: And it was even a little older for me. But man,

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Speaker 4: seventh and eighth grade, when I got home from school,

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Speaker 4: I put in a Zeppelin or Doors tape every day

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Speaker 1: Probably odd on the doors there. They sound too much alike, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: But they were always listening like the Stones and the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the.

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Speaker 3: One my uncle Thius who's five years older than me,

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Speaker 3: was a huge Seeger fan, and so I was introduced

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Speaker 3: to you know, I'm ten years old listening to Seager.

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Speaker 3: It was like, you know, all the all of it,

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Speaker 3: you know, just stuck with that. And my older u

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Speaker 3: uncle Matthew was a huge Elton John, Guy Strong. There's

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Speaker 3: a big catalog, Garrett. But they also had a lot

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Speaker 3: of cross stuff that they listened to, like America and

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Speaker 3: No Yeah, yeah, just all the stuff from the seventies.

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Speaker 4: It was I mean, America's Greatest Hits, Kansas, Greatest Hits Kansas.

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Speaker 4: You had form in the cars still right, all right,

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Speaker 4: I mean there's a ton to pick fromm yeah, none

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Speaker 4: of those would be my top band.

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Speaker 1: Elton Strong, Elton's Government, Elton.

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Speaker 5: John is the first concert I ever saw. I went

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Speaker 5: with my uncle Matt.

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Speaker 5: We went to the Blossom Music Center in Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Boston. Boston was my first concert there, you go.

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Speaker 3: Well, not the whole town because you know, well, I

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Speaker 3: But my my, my two uncles were friends with a

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Speaker 1: Right, And you got a little bit of a hook. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Going to talk about Freiburg and a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 5: He called at six o'clock in the morning to the office.

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Speaker 5: Getting up He's Remember he's not a drinker.

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Speaker 1: I assumed he was a drinker. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I know he does outdoor stuff, but he hunts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you know you're getting up a six o'clock

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Speaker 3: But I worked with Bob Grove at the time, who

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Bob.

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Speaker 3: Bob is a big nudgent fan. He thought that was

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Speaker 1: Like, never delete it. That's the best. He probably still

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Speaker 1: has it. That's awesome, very cool. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: I don't either, but along those lines, I'm still blown

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Speaker 4: away that our buddy west Yueler rollerblades with uh James Taylor, Right,

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Speaker 1: Dad's a big deal. His dad is a big deal.

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Speaker 3: When you get off in Pittsburgh and you're walking through

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess James Taylor's workout was he'd go

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Speaker 5: Yeah, flying around town with j T. See fire and

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Speaker 1: A friend.

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Speaker 5: We'll get probably, we'll get back on track with football.

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Speaker 1: I guess my fifth one too. I'm gonna think about that.

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Speaker 5: They about to give that some thought here. Yeah, it

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Speaker 5: might just be the Beatles. I know that's boring. The

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Speaker 5: Stones better than the Beatles.

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Speaker 4: I sort of do too, but put an album on

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Speaker 1: Songs might made.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you put on any album, just hit

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Speaker 4: play like people used to do. One out of three

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Speaker 4: the Beatles. It's like whoa you put on Sergeant Peppers

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Speaker 5: Well, sorry, Prappers.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I mean that's a pretty strong case meet

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Speaker 4: I mean the early Beatles stuff is early Stones, though,

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Speaker 5: Like Painted Black is still one of the all time

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Speaker 4: Come on, oh yeah, sympathy. I mean, I mean they're again,

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Speaker 4: they're their catalog is awesome. But listening to every disc over,

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, anyways, We're gonna take a break. He is

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallistellers listening to the Drive

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Speaker 3: here on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: We will be back with more right after.

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Speaker 2: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 2: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and Matt I'm looking here

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Speaker 3: at a headline super quick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Metallica and Fleetwood Mac also should.

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Speaker 5: Have been Fleetwood Mac will be hid my list.

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Speaker 1: I think the older I get, the more I like

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Speaker 1: them too.

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Speaker 5: The catalog is strong.

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Speaker 4: Real strong, especially if you can include Stevie Nicks on

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Speaker 4: her own well. I mean that's half cheating.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of cheat.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of chee.

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Speaker 5: I even like some of the like the pre Nick Buckingham.

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Speaker 1: Stuff is that's a strong group.

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Speaker 5: I mean, oh well, at least he mentioned oh Well's

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Speaker 1: Rihanna's probably number one for me, like a bellth of

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Speaker 1: the night. Wouldn't you love the lower I actually kind

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Speaker 1: of like Sarah, But it's a lot to pick fromm Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's there's a lot yeah.

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Speaker 4: Anyways, that dawned on me when I was getting on coffee.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, at least got bring a Fleetwood Metallica is strong.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was kind of you know, my wife and

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Speaker 3: I went to Maui a few right, right, and I

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Maui. That's cool.

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Speaker 5: It burned down with it, yeah yeah, And she didn't

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Speaker 5: want to go, so we.

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Speaker 1: Didn't didn't go. Yeah, that's how that goes.

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Speaker 5: It would have been cool though, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Heck, yeah, I'm sure there's Fleetwood Max stuff up around. Imagine,

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Speaker 4: imagine it's not much of a gimmick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know it is. Amis a bar, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: when they're in a bar. He owns a bar right

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Speaker 1: A huge van. He could probably get himself a bar right.

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Speaker 5: Probably owned several bars. So I'm alright.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here at the headline.

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Speaker 3: Matt George Pickens traded the Cowboys. How Jerry Jones pulled

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Speaker 3: off a no lose move for the explosive wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: How is it a no lose move for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: There's no trade that's no lose, absolutely right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he could get hurt. He could. I mean anything, you

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Speaker 1: gave something up.

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Speaker 3: You gave something up. I understand they didn't give anything

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Speaker 3: up right now, right right right, but they got to

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Speaker 3: pay a salary. Sure, sure they got it. I mean

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Speaker 3: this isn't I know he could go in there.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's never been the second fiddle. He's going

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Speaker 4: to be the second fiddle he's That would be my concern. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, like when you mentioned this before, you know,

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Speaker 4: the other day. I mean, he's not going to probably

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Speaker 4: get the target share that he's used to. No, I mean,

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Speaker 4: Lamb's not going away, And how does George handle that?

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Speaker 4: You know that that could be combustible. I also, this

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Speaker 4: is nothing to do with that move. I hate when

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Speaker 4: I think it's a great move for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I really do.

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Speaker 4: I mean I don't know that it's a no lose move, right,

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Speaker 4: but I think it's a great move for where they're

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Speaker 4: at and if it doesn't work out or hit free

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Speaker 4: agency and they'll eventually get some kind of comp pick back,

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Speaker 4: assuming they don't spend.

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Speaker 3: Like so, people are looking at this and going, well,

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Speaker 3: the Steelers, they could have waited and got a third

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Speaker 3: round compensatory pick back next year. You don't know that.

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Speaker 1: They don't know that, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if he goes out this seaon, if he

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Speaker 3: you're not getting a third third round compensatory pickback them

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Speaker 4: I mean, first off, it's a waiting game. It's a

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Speaker 4: for this draft. And people, I love the comp game,

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Speaker 4: and I think the Steelers are very wary of it

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Speaker 4: now more than ever and are playing that on purpose.

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Speaker 4: And they're they're bringing in guys that get cut as

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Speaker 4: opposed to free agents. Right, they must listen to the show.

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Speaker 4: But you don't know what you're going to spend in

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Speaker 4: free agency. You don't know that's going to yield to three.

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Speaker 4: You may spend more than you let go, right, you know,

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Speaker 4: in the course of the equation. And Dallas might too.

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Speaker 4: They have been real active lately with outside the team.

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Speaker 5: But let's say they get to the end C championship

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Speaker 4: They're gonna go get a big piece, or there's a

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Speaker 4: free agent quarterback the Steelers want to sign, or you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean there's.

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Speaker 3: You don't know, you don't know until you know. And

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Speaker 3: Ravens played to the game. Deontay gets traded to Carolina, right,

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Speaker 3: the Ravens then trade for Deontay. Deontay decides, I'm not

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Speaker 5: If Pickens does something like.

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Speaker 3: That, it's just a no lose situ, right, Okay, they

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Speaker 3: cut him, Houston.

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Speaker 5: Picks him up, Deonta you're talking about right.

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Speaker 3: A couple of weeks later, Houston cuts him going into

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Speaker 3: stay home because we're gonna play the comp game. Here,

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Speaker 3: want you in the building, right, We don't want you

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Speaker 3: into building. We're gonna pay you, but we're gonna play

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Speaker 3: the comp game.

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Speaker 1: Which is a bit of a loophole, but so be it.

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Speaker 5: Didn't work out.

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Speaker 3: No, it didn't because he got signed to a vet

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Speaker 3: nobody was going to do them the a that favor

444
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,680
Speaker 3: be he wasn't getting that kind of contract nobody wanted to.

445
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 3: Based on what happened to him last year.

446
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 4: I mean, he's on four teams in a year and

447
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 4: now he's on his fifth. I mean that's all you

448
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:16,919
Speaker 4: need to know.

449
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,120
Speaker 1: Now, that's a strange situation, Like I don't think that's

450
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 1: the route.

451
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,920
Speaker 3: But if if you would have told me two years ago,

452
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,040
Speaker 3: Deontay Johnson is going to be a free agent.

453
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, and nobody's going to give him.

454
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:37,640
Speaker 4: Nobody wants anything more than a than a Brownson.

455
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 3: Better minimum, no signing bonus. That's that's a prove it deal. O,

456
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 3: that's a you're that's an deal.

457
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 4: Right right, Yeah, that's I don't know what percentage. I'd

458
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 4: say fifty to fifty chance to make the roster deal.

459
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,480
Speaker 4: I mean he doesn't play special teams either, right, I

460
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 4: mean in his situation, if.

461
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,680
Speaker 1: You're the fourth receiver, you better at least do something

462
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 1: on kickoffs.

463
00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 3: So don't tell me that, Hey, this is a no

464
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 3: lose situation for the Cowboys because they can lose.

465
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, anybody could lose on a trade.

466
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 4: Sure, sure they either team could look at it in

467
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 4: three years and be like we should have made that track. Yeah,

468
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 4: I mean and that.

469
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 3: I can't remember the exact so think about when the

470
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 3: Bears traded for Chase Claypool. Oh, we've solved our wide

471
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 3: receiver problem. Yeah, we've got a round pick, a second

472
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 3: round pick next year. Then they get the first overall picking,

473
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,399
Speaker 3: they get the first overall pick and draft they get

474
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 3: the first pick in the second round.

475
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 5: Now, all of a sudden, done, look quite so good.

476
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 4: I don't think it'll happen, But who the heck knows.

477
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 4: The Steelers might end up with the first pick in

478
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 4: the third round from Dallas.

479
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: That could happen.

480
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 3: Anything could happen, right right, Dallas could win the Super Bowl. Yeah,

481
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott and Michael Parsons could get hurt again and

482
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 3: they could win three games.

483
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, you don't know.

484
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 5: Rookie head coach, right right, right, No.

485
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,959
Speaker 4: And I think that's gonna be a lot for him

486
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 4: to take on, too, the rookie head coach, just dealing

487
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 4: with a lot of personalities, and everything's bigger in Texas,

488
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,919
Speaker 4: and there's always a microscope on Dallas and all those things.

489
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: But I like him. I like the move for them,

490
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 1: I mean, for where they're at.

491
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 4: I think it's not no risk, but it's not a

492
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 4: ton to give up, especially for now.

493
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: Makes all sense in the world. For the Steelers as well.

494
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,199
Speaker 1: You know, I get it.

495
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, but just.

496
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: To think any trade is no risk is crazy. Though.

497
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 3: The subhead on it is Jones opted not to draft

498
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 3: a receiver after missing out on Teed McMillan, then made

499
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 3: a great deal weeks later.

500
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,640
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, right.

501
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 3: Again, right now, it looks like a good deal six

502
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 3: months from now, might not?

503
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: Right?

504
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 5: Right, No, he's throwing his helmet on the sidelines again.

505
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 3: We're refusing to go into The Steelers got ripped for

506
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,360
Speaker 3: the Deontay Johnson trade. If you remember at the time too,

507
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 3: how could they give? How could they trade him away?

508
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: Well? Sometimes some tracks in his addition, you know, I mean.

509
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 3: They were a better overall team last year without Deontay

510
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 3: Johnson than they had been the previous year. And that

511
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 3: wasn't all Deontay Johnson. It's not the only reason, right.

512
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 5: But you.

513
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 3: And I don't even want to I I never saw Deontay.

514
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 3: He was always fine with me, let's just put it

515
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 3: that way.

516
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,880
Speaker 4: But I never saw a work ethic issue. I never

517
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 4: saw any of that guy on the field. And but

518
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 4: you know there were times when they were less than

519
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 4: happy with his effort on the field. Yeah, Oh, there's

520
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 4: some instances on tape that aren't great. Yeah, that's for sure.

521
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 4: It's odd because there's such a track record and they're

522
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 4: all different human beings in different stages of their life.

523
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 4: But it's amazing the receivers or with Steelers post Steelers,

524
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 4: it's like night and day. I mean, Johnson's like the

525
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 4: best example. But Juju ab Claypool. I mean, I'm not

526
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 4: saying Pickens is the same as them, but the history

527
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 4: of the of the organization says, we know when to

528
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 4: get rid of these guys, you know, and or maybe

529
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 4: they get the most out of big characters or you know,

530
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 4: and they're not all hard.

531
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: To deal with. I don't think Claypool was a problem. Yeah, yeah,

532
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: you know what I think about it.

533
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they sure seem to know when to hold

534
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 4: him and when to fold him on White House.

535
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 3: And so this is the the bigger question in some instances,

536
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 3: because they've taken these guys in the second or third rounds.

537
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 3: You've you've kind of taken it a little bit of

538
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 3: a chance on a guy on a character, right right right,

539
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 3: or they be first rounder, or they be first ris

540
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 3: Antonio Brown was a little bit different because he very

541
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 3: he was a six round draft pick, and you know,

542
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 3: it was what it was.

543
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 4: That being said, I think I don't remember it being

544
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 4: public because it was longer ago, it's a smaller school,

545
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 4: it was a much later pick. But I think there

546
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 4: was things on AB when he got drafted to I mean,

547
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 4: some concerns about his character and so he's a different cat.

548
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, you know, not the not the what

549
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 5: he became, right right, right.

550
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 3: Right, But yeah, I mean he was a six round

551
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 3: pick for a reason, and he didn't run a great

552
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 3: fear forty that kind of stuff.

553
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 5: I don't even know that he trained for the forty or.

554
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: Any kind of stuff.

555
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, if you look at the guys

556
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 3: that they have traded away, right.

557
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 4: I mean, even like Ab, they only got the sixty

558
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 4: six pick in the draft for him when he was

559
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 4: really really good. Yeah, but I'd rather have the sixty

560
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 4: sixth pick in the draft than post stealer AB.

561
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 3: That was another one. It turned out to be the first.

562
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 3: It's either the first or second pick in the third round.

563
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: It was an early one. Yeah yeah, yeah, like the

564
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: Claypool one.

565
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 5: But they all were way better here than there, yeah,

566
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 5: I mean by a thousand. Yeah, even juju.

567
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 4: I mean all those guys you know that for different reasons.

568
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean Pickings will never catch a ball.

569
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't mean he may go to Dallas and

570
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 3: be great. Good for him if he does, I I

571
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: for his sake, I hope he is.

572
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm bringing it up more for the Steeler perspective

573
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 4: of I know there's people that don't love the trade

574
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 4: that are listening and there's something that get it.

575
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: Their track records pretty darn good though, of when to

576
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: move on from those guys.

577
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't do it for just no reason, right, And.

578
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 4: It's not because he can't run anymore or he can't

579
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 4: catch anymore. It's well, he's kind of worn out as

580
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 4: welcome or we see a combustible situation.

581
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: Here, you know, it's better to get out of.

582
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick's known not always right, but known for I'm

583
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 4: always gonna get out on a player a year early

584
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 4: than too late, you know. Like I remember they trade

585
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 4: Richard Seymour to the Raiders. I'm like, this dude's awesome. Yeah,

586
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 4: and he was still good for the Raiders, but they

587
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 4: thought the end was coming and he wasn't great long

588
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 4: for the Raiders, you know, they still got a first

589
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 4: round pick out of the guy. You know, unless you're Brady,

590
00:26:59,200 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: he's gonna move on.

591
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: For I've seen the argument Steelers should have gotten more

592
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 3: for Pickens. Would you just mentioned ab Yeah, yeah, you

593
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 3: got a three and a five for Antonio Brown, who's a

594
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 3: way better player. You got a three and f five

595
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 3: for George Pickens.

596
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, frankly, the Claypool trade and

597
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 4: I thought this the time was a huge over was

598
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 4: a flee Yeah, I mean, I like, even if that

599
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 4: was the last pick in the second round, not knowing

600
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 4: the Bears are going to be terrible. But on the

601
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 4: day of the trade, on the drive, I'm sure we

602
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 4: were like, but they got a lot from that's an

603
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 4: overpaid right, I mean it's draft picks are really really

604
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 4: valuable in this league.

605
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there aren't many guys that go first or you.

606
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: Know, beyond quarterbacks. And this was my argument with the

607
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 3: whole Miles Garrett situation. You don't see non quarterbacks traded

608
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 3: for first round draft picks all that often in the NFL.

609
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 4: And it happened, It used to happen with a little

610
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 4: more regularity that there was like the Khalil Max and

611
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 4: Jamal Adams that were.

612
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 5: For two first Yeah, not in recent years.

613
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 4: And it hasn't worked out and the league learned its lesson.

614
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 4: It's really what happened. It's like you have to for

615
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 4: you to I always bring back to Sean Watson. But

616
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 4: I mean, like, and he's even a quarterback, Like for

617
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 4: the Watson trade to even be ye if he was

618
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 4: a stellar humanity, wow, yeah, to be worth what they

619
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 4: gave up, he had to be a top five quarterback.

620
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: I mean that's hard bar to top five I mean

621
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 4: pro bowler every year and be the face of the

622
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 4: organization and stellar human being and all those things. And

623
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 4: you already had to check against you when he made

624
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 4: the deal. Nobody's given up two first round picks for

625
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: Jamal Adams anymore.

626
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: Close.

627
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 3: That's kind of like a Miles Garrett mac was a

628
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 3: little bit longer ago. Yeah, But even at the time

629
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: the Adams deal panned that like are you kidding me?

630
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: Right?

631
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 4: That was dumb, right. I mean they're looking at him like, oh,

632
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: we got our next Cam Chancellor. Even if you do,

633
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 4: he's not worth two first round he's in safety. It's

634
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 4: an in the box guy. I mean, even if he

635
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 4: was everything cracked up to be. It's a bad deal.

636
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the last I don't know, three or four

637
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: years just haven't seen that. I think I think teams

638
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 3: have wisened up to norse right, we're not going to

639
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 3: do that.

640
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: We're not going to do that.

641
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 5: That's crazy talk.

642
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 4: There was a little stretch there and I think both

643
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 4: sides ended up being happy. Where Aj Brown, Tyreek Hill,

644
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs went for like a first. You know, Tyreek

645
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 4: was a little more and both teams, you know, Minnesota

646
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 4: moved on.

647
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: To Justin Jefferson. They lucked out.

648
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: That went well the Eagles because they took Reager instead

649
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 4: of Jefferson and kept messing on receiver.

650
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 5: Play it the other way.

651
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 4: I'd be like, we have to get a guy. We're

652
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: terrible at it going out and getting receivers, but we'll

653
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 4: give up the first for Aj Brown and that worked.

654
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 4: I think both sides are happy. And the Tyreek deal,

655
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 4: you know, the Chiefs are up against it. They were

656
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 4: awesome players coming off their first contract, and they were

657
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 4: like about to come off their first contract.

658
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: They were young and great.

659
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 5: You know, really, if you look at it, the only

660
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 5: guy the only.

661
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: Receive their level. Now they got traded.

662
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: I mean Santonio Holmes was traded, I believe for a fifth.

663
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Speaker 4: I think it was a fifth, right, which I thought

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Speaker 4: the time was extremely low. I wasn't working with the

665
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Speaker 4: Steelers at the time, but.

666
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Speaker 3: And he was okay with the Jets. He never had

667
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Speaker 3: a thousand yard season with the Jets. Yeah, it was okay,

668
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Speaker 3: fifty two for seven, forty six, fifty one for six,

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Speaker 3: fifty four, twenty for two, seventy two, twenty three for four,

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Speaker 3: seventy four to fifty six, and then done.

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Speaker 1: Been done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I kind of forgot about that one because

673
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: that was noticeably before the others. But there's five or

674
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 4: six of them, including that one, where pretty prominent receiver

675
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 4: that was in every fantasy league or starter and a

676
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 4: lot of success here. Didn't do I think at the

677
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 4: next spot, or did much less. Yeah, I mean Ab

678
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 4: was great when he got trade. He was even good

679
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Speaker 4: with the Bucks.

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Speaker 3: AB's last game in Pittsburgh, Yeah, yeah, it was that

681
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 3: the same game, that was the same stame. He was

682
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Speaker 3: the best player in the NFL that day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't care what position you were looking at,

685
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Speaker 3: I don't care. Yeah, he was the best player in

686
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Speaker 3: the league.

687
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Speaker 4: That day, and I would bet there were several days

688
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Speaker 4: of his life that he was about player in the league.

689
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 4: I mean, he was the best receiver in the league

690
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 4: for a long time, or right there with Oleo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't trade Mark Thavis Bryant, right, I.

692
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Speaker 5: Don't believe so. And he just got suspended and they

693
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Speaker 5: released him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was born a little too early. Yeah yeah, yeah. Anyways,

695
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Speaker 4: let's get to another break. He is the Matt Williamson.

696
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Speaker 4: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Driver. You're

697
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Speaker 4: on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt, and now I'll be

698
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Speaker 4: back with more right after this.

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Speaker 2: At least, he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 2: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome back.

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Speaker 5: I'm Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and Matt. Last weekend, it

705
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Speaker 3: was announced that Washington d C Will host twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: seven NFL Draft. There's going to be a press conference

707
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: on Monday on the north Shore Great Lawn to kind

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Speaker 3: of discuss some of the.

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Speaker 5: Particulars of the early particulars of the draft.

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Speaker 1: Here in Pittsburgh. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just got the I just got to release

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Speaker 5: about it today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what you said Next Monday, they're going to

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Speaker 1: do a press conference over.

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Speaker 3: There Monday five o'clock. You're going to have the Alleghany

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Speaker 3: County Executive. He's going to be there, the Mayor of

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh visit. Pittsburgh President and CEO will be there. Art

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Speaker 3: Rooney the second will be there. They're going to have

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Speaker 3: representatives from the twenty twenty six NFL Pittsburgh Host Committee there. Uh,

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Speaker 3: and then some local youth sports representatives. Cool, because this

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Speaker 3: is the draft. Isn't just the draft.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's become an event.

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Speaker 3: It's becoming it's becoming a city wide event and not

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Speaker 3: just a citywide event. But they come in and they build,

725
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Speaker 3: you know, they upgrade youth facilities.

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Speaker 1: The NFL puts money into the city, into the city.

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Speaker 1: It's not football, right right, right right?

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe they even do again, this is not

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Speaker 4: my area of expertise at all. Do they do some

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Speaker 4: construction that helps the city but also helps that Draft

731
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Speaker 4: day whatever?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I mean, it's not the

733
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's.

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Speaker 4: Sort of like that where it's a city wide The

735
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Speaker 4: next closest thing the Super Bowl is the Draft.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I assume they'll get a lot more people than went

738
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Speaker 4: to Green Bay, and green Bay had hundreds of thousands.

739
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Speaker 3: The record, I believe is seven hundred and twenty five

740
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Speaker 3: thousand people. That was in Detroit two years ago.

741
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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

742
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Speaker 3: I would expect Pittsburgh to surpass that they're expecting.

743
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Speaker 1: I remember Nashville was nuts too. He watched it on TV.

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Speaker 5: I think it was seven hundred thousand.

745
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Speaker 1: Ok.

746
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Speaker 3: They're estimating that they'll get over a million people in DC.

747
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Speaker 1: In DC like that will probably beat Pittsburgh too.

748
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Speaker 5: They have more rooms, they're gonna hold it on a

749
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Speaker 5: national lawn, and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously it's the capital of the country.

751
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Speaker 4: They can it's a little bit different situation.

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Speaker 1: Is there political problems with it though? I mean, like

753
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Speaker 1: and there's no issues with it being there in terms

754
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Speaker 1: of security or anything like that, or maybe it's even better.

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Speaker 5: Is there any more secure city than d C? I

756
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Speaker 5: don't think so.

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Speaker 1: That's probably a good thing for them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, do we know that it Yeah, when it's

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00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 4: here next year, it's going to be over by accuser somewhere.

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Speaker 5: Right, I know it's going to be right next to

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Speaker 5: Stage AE.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, set it up the open.

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Speaker 3: Area there from Stage AE over to those parking garages

764
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Speaker 3: and back.

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Speaker 4: Okay, back as far as we can go. Yeah, that's cool.

766
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Speaker 4: And I assume you can get a ton of people

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Speaker 4: crowded in there, no question.

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Speaker 3: More so than what so. I've been obviously the Green

769
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Speaker 3: Bay and I know exactly where they held it at

770
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Speaker 3: Green Bany and the parking lot in front of the stadium.

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Speaker 1: But that's kind of a neighborhood, right.

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Speaker 5: Which, yeah, that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: Right, it's a big parking lot there, but they had to,

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00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 3: like at one point on I believe Friday, they had

775
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Speaker 3: to shut it down, like we can't get any more

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Speaker 3: people in here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a limit.

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Speaker 3: There's a limit to what they could fit in there,

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Speaker 3: Whereas in Pittsburgh, I think you could have a little

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Speaker 3: bit more in and out with some of those areas there.

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Speaker 4: And obviously Pittsburgh is not the biggest city in the country,

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Speaker 4: but it could house a lot more people than Green

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Speaker 4: Bay can right there.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean there's no hotel right the Green Bay,

785
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Speaker 3: Wisconsin has about probably ten hotels, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And then they get full ten times a year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's about it. Right on the road, they don't.

788
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Speaker 3: I mean I can remember years the Steelers staying in Appleton, Wisconsin.

789
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Speaker 5: Yeah, which is a good half an hour away.

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Speaker 1: How far is Milwaukee?

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee is about between an hour and a half and

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Speaker 3: two hours ago.

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Speaker 1: I mean that would be I'm sure Milwaukee was packed

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Speaker 1: for Draft week.

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Speaker 3: Like we stayed the last time I went there. We

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Speaker 3: stayed in We've flew into Chicago. We stayed in Milwaukee,

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00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 3: Chicago to Milwaukee's for.

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Speaker 1: Minutes superclo right yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then drove up and it was maybe two hours,

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Speaker 3: give or take to get up to the game.

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Speaker 1: He's just driving meright along the lake. Can Pittsburgh handle

802
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: a million people coming in?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's going to be you know, the

804
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 3: the You're going to have the hotels all across the

805
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: area are going to be swamp Like I expect everything

806
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 3: in Washington County to be booked up.

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00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 4: Oh, I would think I would think anything within an hour. Yeah,

808
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: I mean maybe even in the WVU area, you know,

809
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 4: not Penn State, but maybe all the way to Johnstown.

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00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: For example, pitt when pitt would play at a lot

811
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Speaker 3: of teams when they go to WVU, we'll stay at

812
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 3: the Meadowlands.

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00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: Just to think where we stayed. We might have.

814
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember seeing that one day. I was driving

815
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: over by the Meadowlands and I see these guys. There's

816
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 3: like five guys in Clemson warm ups walking down this yeah,

817
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 3: walking down the highway to go to the there's some

818
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 3: restaurants and stuff. And I'm like, huh. And I was

819
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 3: talking with Hillgrove about it, and he's like, oh, yeah,

820
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 3: we always stay at the meadal Land.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I think we did back in the day too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a.

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00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 3: Big holiday in there. It's like halfway between Pittsburgh and Morgantown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's not a bad drive after that

826
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Speaker 4: at all. I mean there's sometimes you have to be

827
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Speaker 4: further out than that. Yeah, okay, so yeah, I mean

828
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 4: meadow Lands will be packed for the draft obviously, I

829
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 4: mean much further probably.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's gonna be interesting, it's going to be curious.

831
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Speaker 3: It's a regional event, it really is. Okay, it's going

832
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: to be a regional event, and I expect a ton

833
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 3: of people YEA to be coming. I would expect them

834
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: to get more than the seven to twenty five they

835
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 3: had in Detroit. I'm guessing that Pittsburgh's an easier city

836
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 3: to get to, not that Detroit's real hard in terms

837
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: of you know, if you want to get a flight

838
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: to Detroit and can get a flight to Detroit, but

839
00:37:53,840 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh drive wise, is probably driveable. I sat down figured

840
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 3: it out one time. It was like thirteen or fourteen

841
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 3: NFL cities you can drive. You're within like five or

842
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: six hours of We we started.

843
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 4: That with Indianapolis, like it's one of the best ones,

844
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 4: which is a huge reason the combine was there originally,

845
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 4: you know.

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00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right.

847
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 4: If you start looking at the everyone in division, the Eagles,

848
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 4: you know, Buffalo, you can get to ten super.

849
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Speaker 1: Quick, DC, Buffalo, Indy, Indy, Detroit.

850
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 3: Detroit, Charlotte is about a seven and a half hour drive,

851
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 3: give or take, depending on where you're coming from.

852
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 4: New York twice twice that that counts twice six the

853
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 4: whole division. Yeah, some of the obvious ones. Philly, you know, No,

854
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 4: you get to twelve or so pretty quick.

855
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 3: I did drive to New England one time. I don't

856
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 3: know that everyone recommended. No, that was that was a

857
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 3: full That was an all day event.

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00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was for a playoff game.

859
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: Though, I'm trying to think how far you even go,

860
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: Like Saint Louis is too far, I would think.

861
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 3: I know, I've known people that have driven that one.

862
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 3: I've driven to Nashville. It's like eight and a half,

863
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 3: somewhere in that range.

864
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 4: I think I've mentioned on the air before. But like

865
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: the rule or the guideline with the Browns with our

866
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 4: travel was if it's a six hour drive or less,

867
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Speaker 4: just drive it. Otherwise fly. I always made it eight,

868
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 4: like I would prefer to drive. You know, it's post

869
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 4: nine to eleven. It's just yeah, that was Yeah, it

870
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 4: was post nine eleven.

871
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 3: Yeah before that, I mean, you walk into the airport

872
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 3: five minutes before you're flighting, you're on.

873
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 4: It wasn't like they didn't mind paying for it, but

874
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 4: it was like most scouts were like six or less.

875
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 4: I would just drive, but I was always eight. You know,

876
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 4: I could stop or whatever, you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

877
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 4: that'd be cool. We learned some Chicago from Pittsburgh is

878
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 4: not Yeah that's not crazy crazy, Yeah that's not that bad.

879
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 3: So anyways, let's get to a break that's going to

880
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 3: do it for hour number one of the Drive here

881
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I'll be back

882
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 3: with hour number two right after this