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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt. We had another seismic shift yesterday

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Speaker 2: in the NFL landscape with Trevor Lawrence signing a five year,

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Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy five million dollar extension with one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty two million, two hundred million guaranteed overall

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Speaker 2: and one hundred and forty two fully guaranteed at signing.

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Speaker 2: That's fifty five million dollars a year. That matches Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrows contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals last offseason, and

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys cannot be happy about that particular deal,

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Speaker 2: nor the Dolphins. Right who else has a quarterback coming up?

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Speaker 3: Goff just signed that might be Oh Love loves.

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Speaker 2: To Love and you know in a couple of years

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Speaker 2: Stroud some of these other guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that group, who knows what will happen by then?

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Speaker 2: You know, the Cowboys are in a situation right now

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Speaker 2: where they they've got they've got to pay Ceedee Lamb

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Speaker 2: who wants probably thirty five ish million.

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Speaker 3: I think, and he'll get it somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Parsons, who's gonna want thirty five ish million?

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Speaker 3: That's We've been talking to the defensive contracts in a while,

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Speaker 3: but that Nick Bosa is number one. I think Parsons.

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Speaker 2: Parsons has said he wants to be the highest paid

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Speaker 2: non quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 3: He definitely will be the highest paid defensive player, and

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Speaker 3: competing with Jefferson, I would think to be the highest paid,

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Speaker 3: you know, non quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So if you're the Cowboys, can you afford a fifty

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Speaker 2: five to sixty million dollars a year contract for Dak

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Speaker 2: Prescott and another sixty five or so million for the

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Speaker 2: two of them, or even seventy million for the two

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Speaker 2: of them?

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Speaker 3: Probably not, I don't think so. A lot unpeel there. So,

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Speaker 3: first off, folks, the NFL was very healthy. Yeah. Times

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Speaker 3: are good in the league and certainly rebounded well from COVID.

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Speaker 3: They're throwing a lot of money around. It's a really

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Speaker 3: good time to be a quarterback or a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: But hey, guards are getting paid, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: everybody's getting money. You mentioned Parsons, I mean so they

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Speaker 3: are extending. There are big contracts lying around like crazy,

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Speaker 3: with more guaranteed money than we're used to And I

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Speaker 3: get it on Lawrence. We can talk about that in

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Speaker 3: a minute. But the Dak thing of the three, I

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Speaker 3: think Parsons is least likely to leave. Yeah, super young,

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Speaker 3: super impactful. Well, they all are, I mean.

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Speaker 2: They really are. They're gonna be the Cowboys are going

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Speaker 2: to be in a situation where they're going to look

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Speaker 2: at this and say, Okay, which of these guys can't

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Speaker 2: we can we not live without? I know.

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Speaker 3: And the more I think it through, for the buck

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Speaker 3: and the age and the way things have been handled,

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Speaker 3: I think Dak's the one that's most likely to hit

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Speaker 3: the open market.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's Parsons again. You know,

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Speaker 2: when we talk, one of the big questions surrounding the

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Speaker 2: Steelers right now is well, what do they do at

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Speaker 2: quarterback next season?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because both you know, Fields are up, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: Wilson and Fields are both.

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Speaker 3: Up after this season, and heck, Wilson conceivably could have

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Speaker 3: an awesome season two and be right presents of money

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Speaker 3: or whatever, you know, Right, but.

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Speaker 2: You're looking at this and going well, there's going to

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Speaker 2: be options.

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Speaker 3: The options, Yeah, I mean, I know that's where you're

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Speaker 3: going with Dak. Yeah, because what's different about dak and

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Speaker 3: than basically everybody else, including two and you know, do

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Speaker 3: he has a clause that they can't tag it, they

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Speaker 3: can't franchise that. I mean, he had if he wants

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Speaker 3: to become a free agent, he will become Why would

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Speaker 3: he not want to be a free agent?

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Speaker 2: Right? Right?

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Speaker 3: Unless they blow his doors off with the deal now

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Speaker 3: so he can get sixty five. He might get sixty

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Speaker 3: five a year, right, and he's really good. I mean,

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Speaker 3: imagine if Mahomes wanted to break the back or Allen

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Speaker 3: or who knows, they might get seventy five. What's so

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Dallas is weird? I mean, Jerry

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Speaker 3: Jones does things differently. Him and his son are basically

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Speaker 3: the GM's fine. They've drafted really, really well. But I

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Speaker 3: think a big flaw they have is giving too much

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Speaker 3: money to their own and they often do it a

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Speaker 2: But they didn't in this situation.

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Speaker 3: But in this case, it's the total opposite. You know,

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Speaker 3: they're they're watching the league go by receiver after receiver,

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Speaker 3: boom boom boom, you know, making tons of money that

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Speaker 3: they should have signed Dak two years ago, and that

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Speaker 3: could have been done so long ago at a fraction

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Speaker 3: of the cause. I mean, he would have been I

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Speaker 3: don't know, thirty something like that. And I'm sure there's

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Speaker 3: people out there that aren't fond of Dak Prescott and

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Speaker 3: I kind of get it, and I kind of don't.

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Speaker 2: And I also think there are some flaws in his game.

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Speaker 3: He's not perfect. I think he's a Tier two quarterback

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Speaker 3: and that's something I mean. I think he's a top

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Speaker 3: ten guy all days, a guy that you could win

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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl. I absolutely believe that. I mean, he's

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Speaker 3: incredibly smart. He's like a microprocessor at the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: That awful ankle injury. He had really admitted his running since,

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Speaker 3: but he's still capable. People think of him as this

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Speaker 3: running guy that came in the league. He isn't that anymore.

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Speaker 3: He's much more of a drop back, attack you type guy.

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Speaker 3: He was second in voting an MVP CAD last year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he had a phenomenal year, and I know

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Speaker 3: everyone's out there going well, he can't win a playoff game.

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Speaker 3: Steels don't win playoff games. Those two will never win

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Speaker 3: playoff games together. I'll try it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't mind.

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Speaker 3: I'll try it.

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Speaker 2: His cap number this year, his salary cap number is

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Speaker 2: fifty five million dollars. He's not taking less than that

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Speaker 3: He could have a Cousins like season where he plays well,

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Speaker 3: gets really hurt bad, and still make fifty five Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because he's even younger than Cousins. He's better than Cousins.

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Speaker 3: And there's gonna be Steeer's side. I'm sure we could

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Speaker 3: come up with five teams that could use Dak Prescott

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Speaker 3: on the open market. Yeah, Giants, what if Rogers retires

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Speaker 2: But those teams that you just mentioned don't have the

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Speaker 2: roster in place that the Steelers do. Oh.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a reason Russell Wilson's here too, because

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Speaker 3: this is a great landing spot. And what Wilson didn't

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Speaker 2: That's the great thing about what Omar Kahn and the

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Speaker 2: Steelers front office have done over the last two seasons.

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Speaker 2: They have stockpiled talent across the board and depth.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, without shelling out tons of guaranteed money, right,

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Speaker 3: you know, like Tennessee. I just did a podcast yesterday

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Speaker 3: they may have been the most active team in the

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Speaker 3: whole offseason. Yeah, because they were a spent of money.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a lot of guaranteed money for sneed

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Speaker 2: These and you know, we've seen teams like the Jaguars

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Speaker 2: do this. We've seen in Washington do it and it

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Speaker 2: can work two or three years later though they end

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Speaker 2: up cutting a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Those games, absolutely, and the Steelers aren't going to do that.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they would for one big ticket item Dak or

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Speaker 2: But one thing that I like about the way the

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Speaker 2: Steelers have attacked free agency. They haven't given out the

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Speaker 2: long long term deal. Now everything even at most you're

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Speaker 3: And even like a lot of deals last year, Patrick

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Speaker 3: Peterson was a two year deal. But you can easily

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Speaker 3: get out of it, you know what I mean, you

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Speaker 3: have a lot of flexibility, but if it works out,

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Speaker 3: you still have another piece in place where they're not

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Speaker 3: gonna be come free agent, you'll lose them. You know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of those type of deals too. I think

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Speaker 3: they've the least guaranteed money guaranteed to their players in

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Speaker 3: the future of the whole league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great. And that's and they have a good roster.

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Speaker 3: It's different if you're the Panthers and.

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Speaker 2: You have a bad roster and you're shelling out money

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Speaker 2: for you know, or not shelling out money. So you know,

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Speaker 2: if if they wanted to get into the Dak Prescott market,

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Speaker 2: they certainly could. Or if they want to resign Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 3: If they want to field awesome, Yeah, well we got them.

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Speaker 2: Who knows what happens with Tua. You know, I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't love Tua, not only Ei there, but he's

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Speaker 2: He's gonna make a lot of money and there'll be

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Speaker 2: that does that open up another quarterback?

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Speaker 3: You know? Spot? And who knows? I mean, there's I'm

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Speaker 3: sure we could come up with examples too of this

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Speaker 3: just gives you a ton of options. You're holding a

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Speaker 3: the favorite quarterback you like or whatever. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: just everything's on the table, right, everything is on the table.

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Speaker 3: You could sign t Higgins and Dak Prescott. I mean

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Speaker 3: you honestly have that money. I mean you could.

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Speaker 2: So they've they've set themselves up nicely A to potentially

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Speaker 2: win this year, yeah, and b to make a push

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Speaker 2: in future years.

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Speaker 3: Extremely well done, Extremely well done. You see Ohmar's cap

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Speaker 3: background in a big way in the way he team

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Speaker 3: builds and where the money is going and drafting tackles

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Speaker 3: the back years. Isn't an accident. And if they're both

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Speaker 3: right yeah, and you're not going to hit the open market.

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Speaker 3: And so I love where they the waters they fish

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Speaker 3: in and how they set themselves up that doesn't mean

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Speaker 3: the shark's going to eat the minnow, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you you still got to do it. You still need

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Speaker 3: some lucky and he still need to.

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Speaker 2: Mahomes is still out there, Alan is still out there.

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Speaker 3: And that's one this league you got to give yourself

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Speaker 3: every chance, and they are.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the things that I look at and

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Speaker 2: you know, people talk about, well, you know, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: haven't want to play, and the Steelers haven't won a

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Speaker 2: playoff games twenty six fact fact. But look at who

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Speaker 2: they've played too. In those games. You've played Mahomes, You've

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Speaker 2: played Allen, Yeah, like okay, you know, and that was

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Speaker 3: Lost has done it, Burrow did it, and Brady did it. Okay, right,

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Speaker 2: And quite frankly, if you're Russell Wilson. At this point

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Speaker 3: You don't, especially a super happy situation.

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Speaker 3: And I'll take ten percent cheaper to stay the hometown

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Speaker 3: The ten year, one year, one million. There are one

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Speaker 2: You could, I mean you could even do you know,

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly, he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt Steelers wrapping up their mini camp yesterday.

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Speaker 2: And well, not a lot going on right now, but

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Speaker 3: Might seem early and all that, but why not get

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Speaker 3: And of course he's can change the Baker came from nowhere,

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Speaker 3: He wasn't. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of examples

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Speaker 2: You could make a play to go up and get

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Speaker 2: I don't know, We just don't know. I mean, nobody

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Speaker 3: Of course. Of course, you know yours don't have anyone

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Speaker 2: Uh So the top names to know Carson Beck from Georgia.

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Speaker 2: He plays at Georgia. He's playing with great players. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah for college you know, right. I mean but I

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00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,959
Speaker 3: I am. The little I know about him is he

440
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,440
Speaker 3: is a very good process. Yeah, he's very good pre snap,

441
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 3: quick release, you know, crisp.

442
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's what that's what you want. Yeah,

443
00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,320
Speaker 2: you know this guy, these guys that are.

444
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,000
Speaker 3: Because there he doesn't even have to, right, he didn't

445
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 3: have to do that.

446
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,280
Speaker 2: He's just doing it because that's what he does.

447
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,760
Speaker 3: That's how he plays executing the offense crisply, you know, right, right.

448
00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,639
Speaker 2: That's that's very care about the touch passes, all that

449
00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,800
Speaker 2: stuff that better be there. Yeah yeah, yeah, because they're

450
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,240
Speaker 2: going to run the crap out of the football too.

451
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,000
Speaker 2: It's Georgia.

452
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

453
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 2: But throwing for almost four thousand yards and having two

454
00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,320
Speaker 2: point three eight second and time to release that that's

455
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:48,920
Speaker 2: really good.

456
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,800
Speaker 3: And I think you said just six picks too. Yeah,

457
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,880
Speaker 3: I mean, like he's efficient and the ball's coming out

458
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 3: and that's very promising.

459
00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

460
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 3: Uh.

461
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,679
Speaker 2: Shador Sanders of course, everybody knows him at Colorado.

462
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. Note on him though, dad's a lot more athletic

463
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 3: than he is. Yeah, I mean, like he's not a

464
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,480
Speaker 3: bad athlete, but people look at him like he's a

465
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,160
Speaker 3: vic or a Jayden Daniels.

466
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,200
Speaker 2: That's not who he is.

467
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,199
Speaker 3: That's not even close. No. I mean he's not like

468
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 3: his father in terms of speed and playmaker with the

469
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:15,600
Speaker 3: ball in his hands.

470
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 2: He had thirty two hundred passing yards last year, twenty

471
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,360
Speaker 2: seven touchdowns, just three interceptions.

472
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 3: Okay, but he took a lot of sacks, did he Yeah,

473
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 3: I mean I'm sure his blocking is not as good. Yeah,

474
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,360
Speaker 3: But again, I don't know a ton about him. He's

475
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,120
Speaker 3: the most well known, of course, I mean, it's Dion's kid,

476
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,920
Speaker 3: and you know, his story is interesting or you know, appealing.

477
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 3: I lean the little i've seen again, very subject to change.

478
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 3: I don't know that he'll be in the first overall mix,

479
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 3: you know, I don't.

480
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Like there was talk of him

481
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,400
Speaker 2: coming out this year. I think the reason he didn't

482
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 2: was because he wasn't going to be one of the

483
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 2: top top guys.

484
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 3: And of course this absolutely could change. But from what

485
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 3: I've seen of the draft class as a whole, it's

486
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 3: awesome at running back, which could be relicious seelers out

487
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 3: of contract. It's really good at defensive tackle, also helps

488
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 3: you know, couldn't deal with them. It's always good at receiver,

489
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 3: but there might not be surefire first round quarterbacks, which

490
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 3: which would be strange.

491
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 2: It's always it, there will, there will be, right and

492
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 2: and you know if you go back over the last.

493
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 3: It's not Caleb and May though, you know, but you

494
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 3: go over.

495
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 2: The last ten years at the quarterback position in the

496
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 2: draft and outside of a couple of years ago and

497
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 2: pick it on twentieth year. Yeah, everybody's gotten pushed up

498
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 2: the board.

499
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean Daniel Jones shouldn't have been the sixth

500
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 3: pick of the draft either, But you don't want to

501
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 3: be that team either.

502
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they were right. The next guy on here

503
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,959
Speaker 2: is Quinn Ewers at Texas.

504
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 3: And it was the recruit.

505
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah probably. He's six two hundred and ninety five pounds.

506
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 3: I know, I know, and he's got a big arm.

507
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 2: He's got tools, but and he had great targets last.

508
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: Year, unbelievable. His skill guys are all in the NFL, right,

509
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 3: if not earlier, and watching those guys, I wasn't impressed

510
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: with a quarterback play. Yeah, I really wasn't. I thought

511
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 3: the quarterback held worthy in Mitchell and those guys back

512
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: a little bit.

513
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 2: Yeah he had. He only had twenty two touchdown passes

514
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 2: last year. Throw throw those guys.

515
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, I mean he's an Ohio State transfer. He's

516
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,880
Speaker 3: was the guy coming out. I don't see special though.

517
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be interesting to see how he progresses this year.

518
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 3: He may Oh, of course, these guys have a lot

519
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 3: of a lot of time to change their you know

520
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 3: how things go.

521
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 2: The next guy on the list is one of my

522
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 2: favorite names in this draft, upcoming Jackson from Ole Miss. Yeah.

523
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 3: Throwing darts out there, and that's like, it's so perfect.

524
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: Right, decent size six, two twenty. He's a transfer from.

525
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 3: USC So okay, you know Williams was ahead of them, right,

526
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 3: makes some sense. Then I don't know. Again, I don't

527
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 3: know a ton about him except for the names. And

528
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 3: that's a good name.

529
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thirty three thirty three hundred passing yards last year,

530
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 2: twenty three touchdowns, five interceptions. He ranked third in the

531
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: country last year.

532
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 3: With excuse me, excuse you, sixty.

533
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 2: Three completions of twenty plus yards. Okay, so he was

534
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 2: going down the field.

535
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 3: And the old miss. I mean, it's not like they

536
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: had to Metcalf and aj Brown this year.

537
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: And he also ran for eight touchdowns, so I think

538
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: he's a pretty good athlete too. Yeah, so that's one

539
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on.

540
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a lot of playmaking there.

541
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, camera ward from Miami. He's a senior this year.

542
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 2: Transfer transfer transferred, Yeah from FCS. Incarnate word.

543
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 3: Oh really, Okay, so it's dominating there.

544
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 2: I also played at Washington State, so he's a fifty

545
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 2: year guy.

546
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 3: Third.

547
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

548
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: It doesn't either, But I don't love incarnate word being

549
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 3: the one in the middle.

550
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you go somewhere maybe you were under

551
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 2: recruited or whatever, and you show that you can play there,

552
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 2: and then you at least he's he didn't transfer sideways. True,

553
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 2: he has gone up the ladder every every day with

554
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 2: everything I was thinking.

555
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 3: He went incarnate word, no, no, no, middle.

556
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 2: He started started seasons to Washington State and now to Miami.

557
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 3: I thought he couldn't make it a Washington State when okay, okay,

558
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 3: well that's cool, that's fine. Then maybe just was under recruited.

559
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jaln Monroe at Alabama.

560
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a he's the household name because

561
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 3: he's Bama's quarterback. Of course, his accuracy is all over

562
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 3: the place, pretty it's but he's a great athlete. He's

563
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 3: got a big whip arm, you know. But I see

564
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 3: a very unrefined player from what I've seen.

565
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see him quite in the same market

566
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: as Jalen Hurts, for example.

567
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: I mean I think certainly not too as a passer.

568
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

569
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 3: You know.

570
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard at Notre Dame.

571
00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 3: He's the transfer from one of the ACC schools, right, duke, Yeah, yeah, okay,

572
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 3: yeah he was. He had a good career there and

573
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 3: now he's going to fill what's the face of shoes

574
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 3: at the apartments. More of a pocket passer, Yeah, I

575
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 3: think he's kind of a traditional Yeah, six.

576
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 2: Four to twelve, so he've got decent size there. He

577
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 2: can run a little bit.

578
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,239
Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, this would be a pivotal year

579
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 3: for him. Yeah. Obviously a different world being duke first

580
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. Yeah, he's gonna see some some different it's

581
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 3: different challenges and to be his team and all that, right,

582
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 3: and the pressure.

583
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 2: The best of the rest. These guys are listed alphabetical

584
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: League twelve guys here. The first I struggled with Drew

585
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: Aller at pensa.

586
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 3: Penn State kid is going to be on here, right.

587
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 2: He's six ' five, he's two hundred and forty three,

588
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 2: but he's big Ben size is. It's kind of Christian

589
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: Hackenberg like, because I can remember with Hackenberg people always say,

590
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 2: you just wait, he's going to be good. Oh yeah,

591
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 2: when's that going to happen? Yeah, I've heard it with

592
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 2: him too.

593
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 3: Levis was a little this way too, transferred from Penn State,

594
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 3: big strong, strapping dudes. From what I've seen from Aler,

595
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 3: his accuracy needs a lot of work too. I mean,

596
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 3: the East sprays balls all over the place.

597
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: Now, he did throw just two interceptions last year, but yeah,

598
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: fifty nine percent completion has been low, real low. And

599
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 2: it's not like they don't have athletes on the outside

600
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: of Penn.

601
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 3: Steam, No, I mean, nine out ten times they're the

602
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: best team in the field.

603
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that one, that one, I don't know. You

604
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: want to see more.

605
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 3: Be watching him on Saturday. Penn State Oil beyond of course,

606
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 3: and he'll keep an eye on him. Penn state's got

607
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 3: a lot of kids this year.

608
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: Max Brosmer from Minnesota.

609
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 3: Know nothing about Max other than just seen the name

610
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 3: on the list.

611
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 2: He was at New Hampshire before last year, okay, or

612
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: past five seasons at New Hampshire through four an FCS

613
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: best thirty four almost thirty five hundred yards, twenty nine

614
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: touchdowns last season, uh six two to seventeen. Uh So

615
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 2: he's one to keep an eye on this year.

616
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 3: We'll see big ten on, you know, on the networks

617
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 3: around here quite a bit. Yep.

618
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 2: Jalen Daniels at Kansas Okay, Jadendan.

619
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little confusing. Yeah, all these guys are transfers,

620
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 3: and that doesn't bother me at all. But I don't

621
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 3: know much about him either.

622
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: H only had seventy five passes last year, but completed

623
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: almost seventy five percent of them.

624
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 3: That's great. So only seventy five throws?

625
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: Yeah uh Noah. Feta Fafita at Arizona.

626
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 3: I've heard good things, but I don't know much about him.

627
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: He's the PAC twelve offensive Freshman of the Year last year.

628
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: There is no Pack twelve anymore, so.

629
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 3: They have a big receiver too coming out this year.

630
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

631
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh TJ. Finley at Western Kentucky. Western Kentucky has

632
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: become that program. Yeah, because they throw the ball like

633
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 2: crazy zappy.

634
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean they put up numbers and you

635
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 3: had the cipher the numbers.

636
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: Real. This guy, however, he's he's the exact opposite of

637
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 2: Bailly Zappi six seven, two hundred and fifty five pounds.

638
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 3: Wow.

639
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: He is a big dude.

640
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 3: Wow. Hopefully he can move well enough as my in

641
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 3: today's NFL, it's not eighty five anymore.

642
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, according to Reid here, he has some mobility despite

643
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: you know, being.

644
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 3: That big huge Yeah.

645
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: Thirty four hundred yards last year, twenty four touchdowns, eight interceptions.

646
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe he's the new big bench.

647
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

648
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 3: I mean that's a if he lights up that competition,

649
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 3: they will throw the football. He screamed senior ball to me. Yeah.

650
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: You know. Dylan Gabriel at Oregon obviously taken over to

651
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 2: next there's he's coming over from UCF and then Oklahoma.

652
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 3: I think they have a lot around him too. I

653
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 3: mean I think they have a giver that's more coveted

654
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 3: than Franklin. They got some lineman, so he should be

655
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 3: in a good spot to excel.

656
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty six hundred passing yards thirty touchdown passes last

657
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 2: year at Oklahoma, so keep an eye on him. Will

658
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: Howard at Ohio State again another big big six five

659
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: forty two.

660
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, I mean they were really down on the

661
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Speaker 3: quarterback last year to State.

662
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he struggled a little bit. He's coming over

663
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: from Howard and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's coming over

664
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Speaker 2: from k State names k State yea name is Howard?

665
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Speaker 3: What?

666
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: But KSE State was has been pretty competitive.

667
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, They've filled a good program, especially a

668
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 3: lot of Juco guys from there.

669
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Speaker 2: Uh. kJ Jefferson at UCF he was, you know, pretty

670
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: good last year and again another guy six three to seven.

671
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 2: The big quarterbacks starting to work their way back.

672
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: Into the game a little bit Herelus Yeah.

673
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: Garrett Nucemyer at LSU. He was Jade Daniels back up

674
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Yeah.

675
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: From what I understand, they have a bunch of alignemen,

676
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 3: like they have a tackle that could be the first

677
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: overall pick.

678
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. He threw against Wisconsin in the in their bowl game.

679
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 2: Because Daniels makes sense, threw for three hundred and ninety

680
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: five yards and three touchdowns.

681
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about that angle enough, but that's it's

682
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 3: a great spot for the next quarterback to show himself

683
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 3: as the bowl game that you know the stars now and.

684
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: LSU has been producing wide receivers at.

685
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 3: All behind y yeah.

686
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 2: R Donovan Smith at Houston Okay, another six five two

687
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 2: forty one.

688
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: Wow. All these dudes are big guys are Yeah?

689
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: Have we seen the resurgence of the pocket passer here?

690
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is just a trend this

691
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: year or what. I like it. I bet a lot

692
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,719
Speaker 3: of them can move too.

693
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. Yeah, they can they can move. Uh.

694
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: Dj Ula Guyle at Florida State six f fifty two.

695
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 3: He's he's another one. I think it was super highly

696
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: recruited and has been on the radar for a long time.

697
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 2: He played at Clemson.

698
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clemson.

699
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was supposed to be Trevor then Oregon State

700
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: and yeah, okay, so this.

701
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 3: Is his third school already, he say. I thought he

702
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 3: was a Clemson guy right out of high school. Was

703
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 3: like the recruit in the country, righty right?

704
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: Uh. Connor Wegman at Texas A.

705
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 3: And M this guy, I don't know a ton about it.

706
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 3: I'm not going. I know all these guys, but the

707
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 3: the the things I've heard about him, he's really appealing.

708
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 3: He's a great so, he's tough, he's got some thickness

709
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: to him. Some people I trust that have been ahead

710
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 3: of the game on these guys think he might be

711
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 3: that guy that sneaks to.

712
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: Them, comes out of the Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the

713
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: Texas A and M program has been one that, while

714
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: they're not on the level of the Alabama's in the

715
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: Georgia's right, they've been producing players. Oh yeah, pretty consistent,

716
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: clip man.

717
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 3: I mean when we visited there when I was a PID,

718
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 3: it was like, I understand why kids want to go here. Yeah,

719
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: and Texas is such great recruiting grounds. And we beat them.

720
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 3: Actually it was like Larry's you know, come out, come,

721
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 3: breakout game, and they're all like saluting you as a leave.

722
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 3: It's not like when you beat West. West Virginia's crazy place. Yeah,

723
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: Moon and thrown.

724
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: Uh. Some other guys to watch here, Hudson Card at Purdue,

725
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: Brady Cook at Missouri, Kirraen Drones at Virginia Tech, to

726
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: Kwan Finn at Baylor, Garrett Green at West Virginia. I

727
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: thought West Virginia at a guy, Yeah, Klubnick at Clemson,

728
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: Grayson McCall at NC State, Kyle McCord at Syracuse, Graham

729
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: Mertz at Florida, Cameron Rising at Utah, Will Rogers at Washington,

730
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: Curtis Rourke at Indiana, Caden Salter at Liberty, Tyler Schoff

731
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: at Louisville, Brock Vander Griffith Kentucky, and Tyler van Dijke

732
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: at Wisconsin.

733
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: Vandykes on the name, I really knew of that group. Yeah,

734
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 3: he's been around forever. He was on this list last

735
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 3: year from Miami. I mean he's a big.

736
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 2: Guy too, and his big quarterback questions. At this point,

737
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: which NFL team most needs to draft a quarterback to

738
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 2: build around the two teams listed here, I have two

739
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: off the top of my head, the Giants and the Cowboys.

740
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 3: I would say Giants and Raiders.

741
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 2: The Raiders definitely.

742
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but I mean we decide this whole conversation

743
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 3: if Dak isn't a round and frankly, even if you

744
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 3: sign him a third round pick wouldn't be a bad idea, right, Yeah,

745
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: and it doesn't it makes all sense in the world. Yeah,

746
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 3: I actually think Drew Locke my beat out Jones. I

747
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 3: don't know Drew lock, but the NFL seems to like

748
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: him more than I do. Like the Russell Wilson trade,

749
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 3: they had to get Drew Locke in the deal. Yeah,

750
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 3: and then as soon as he hits free agency day,

751
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: Ball grabs him immediately. You know, I'm not saying, yeah,

752
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 3: it was an early second round pick, but yeah, there's

753
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 3: there's needs some refinement.

754
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: You know, So how many teams are really going to

755
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 2: be in there in the market. We've seen a lot

756
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: of young quarterbacks coming into the league the last couple

757
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: of years.

758
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 3: Jets, Yeah, think they better draft somebody, right, They did

759
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 3: draft the Florida State kid Leary.

760
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: But they're in they're in it to win it now.

761
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

762
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 2: The problem that's their problem is that their quarterback's forty,

763
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 2: but so's a lot of their rosters is up an

764
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 2: agent and so let's say Rogers says, yeah, let's run

765
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: it back another year. You're like, we got to try

766
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: to add something that's going to help us win now or.

767
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: I wonder like if Rogers hangs it up, do they

768
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: just go try to put a band aid on it

769
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 3: with like a dock or a cousin's or something and

770
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 3: keep just staying old.

771
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

772
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: I don't know. I would draft somebody at some point.

773
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely Saints. Yeah, they're a team.

774
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad idea. I mean, they

775
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 3: took a South Carolina kid, this is your rattler. But

776
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 3: that doesn't that doesn't stop from taking another first round

777
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,959
Speaker 3: Last time they took a first round quarterback was Archie

778
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 3: Manning that before us board.

779
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: That's been a while. Hayton's retired. Eli. Yeah, there'll be

780
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: another Manning in the league maybe before. That's what That's

781
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 2: what they're waiting. They're waiting there, waiting on Archie. Yeah,

782
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 2: let's get to another break. He is the first round

783
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 2: picks I got only with one name, Yes, and only Manning's.

784
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

785
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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening

786
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Speaker 2: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We will

787
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Speaker 2: be back for more right after this.

788
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789
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790
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Speaker 2: Look if back, I'm Dale Lollie. He is the Matt

792
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Speaker 2: Williamson and you're listening to the Drive here on Steelers

793
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 2: Nation Radio and Matt Yesterday, Omar Khan did an interview

794
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 2: on ninety three to seven The Fan, and we talked

795
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: about something we've talked about with this when the Steelers

796
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: didn't pick up the option, the fifty year option on

797
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: Naji Harris. It's was not ever because like Nausei Harris.

798
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: I didn't know he did an interview, but yeah, I mean,

799
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 3: I know there's been much talk about that. Anytime you

800
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 3: mentioned nause they mustn't like him, they didn't pick up

801
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 3: the option. Like, I don't think that's why it is.

802
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, as to quote, he said, it was a business

803
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 2: decision we had to make. Just because we didn't pick

804
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: it up doesn't exclude us from doing something with nause

805
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 2: Could he be you know we've talked about, Hey, you

806
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 2: know Cam Hayward perhaps getting a contract in training camp.

807
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: We've talked about Pat Fryarmouth perhaps getting an extension in

808
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 2: training camp. Could the Steelers do something with Augie Harris

809
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 2: in training camp?

810
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 3: I think it's very possible. And to take a step further,

811
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 3: I did a podcast that came out this morning just

812
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 3: talking Steelers running games and comparing the two running backs

813
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 3: and Arthur Smith and all these things, and I threw

814
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 3: out the idea, why not throw a year on both

815
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 3: their contracts?

816
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a bad idea.

817
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 3: I mean, Warren's made nothing. I mean, you could get

818
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: Warren dirt cheap now, so they you don't want to

819
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 3: offend the other one though, you know.

820
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: I mean they essentially did that with Willie Parker. Yeah,

821
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 2: you remember, I mean undrafted running back. Yeah, I mean

822
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 2: you talking about buying low. You could get him a

823
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 2: five million a year or something like. That's phenomen whatever

824
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, I mean it's a huge rays for him. Yeah, right,

825
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 2: But I'd be interested in both. I would be too,

826
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 2: because I'm not one more year.

827
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: I'm not.

828
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not interested in breaking up that combination of

829
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: backs necessarily, No, because that takes a need off a table.

830
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 3: Yeah it does. So I alluded to this, but I

831
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 3: wouldn't put too much stock in it. It sounds like

832
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 3: it's a rare running back class. I mean like studs. Well,

833
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: that's a lot of them. That's great.

834
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 2: But but if I don't have to take one in

835
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: the second or third rounds, and I can wait until

836
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: a round six to grab one, or I can get

837
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: another undrafted guy like Warren. Yeah, that's fantastic.

838
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to take the bejon of the

839
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: class larily, but it does sound like, unlike this year,

840
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 3: there's a ton coming in, which is exciting. I don't

841
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 3: know if that factors into there thinking or not at

842
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 3: this point, but even if you put one year on

843
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 3: both of them, you still draft one.

844
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: And that may have that may have had That point

845
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: that you just made may have factored into why they

846
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: didn't pick up the option.

847
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: As I've done more draft research, I bet that did

848
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 3: factor in. Because they not pick up the option.

849
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: That affects the veteran running back market big time. This

850
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: year the year to be a free agent. This year,

851
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: all those all those veteran running backs went out and

852
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: got signed.

853
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Barkleys and Jacobs and I mean anyone that

854
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 3: was a name that signed and signed quickly because they

855
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 3: didn't want to go fishing in the draft market. Yeah,

856
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 3: next year is probably not a great year to be

857
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 3: a free agent running back, which then maybe they may

858
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 3: be anage he does hit free agency, no one signs

859
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 3: him after a week, and then the deal you had

860
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 3: on the table, he's like cool, Yeah, but I would

861
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: consider both of them extending them now. Yeah, and we

862
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 3: explained this a while back, but I think it's really

863
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 3: important with running backs is you have to make that decision. Now,

864
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 3: what if Harris has a bad injury at any point

865
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: in the next situation, right, especially if it's late in

866
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 3: the year then's he's on the hook for the year after.

867
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 3: You can still franchise them. Yeah, I mean, if he

868
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: has a dominant year, you can still franchise him. So

869
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 3: by no means would I say he's definitely not gonna

870
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 3: be a Steeler next year.

871
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 2: No, not at all. And I think some people that

872
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: are working under that assumption, and that's exactly what it

873
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 2: is, is an assumption.

874
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, And everyone knows we do a lot of fantasy

875
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: research and I get a lot of my information from

876
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 3: fantasy sites, and a huge misnomer on those sites is, man,

877
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd draft Najee Harrison fantasy, he is.

878
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 2: Going to pass him on the on the depth chart.

879
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, but even this regime doesn't like him because they

880
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: didn't pick up the options, Like, I don't think you're

881
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: seeing this clearly. Yeah, I think that's the logic behind it.

882
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need they need to listen to this show.

883
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it's not like picking up the option on

884
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 3: a quarterback either, Like there's a high chance any running

885
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 3: back in his fourth year is going to get injured, and.

886
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: Particularly when it hasn't been hurt. I mean, the way

887
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 2: he plays, it's the hidden figor issue. Know, it's you know,

888
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 2: at some point something is likely. I mean every and

889
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: that's not a knock on nausea here, that's just the

890
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 2: reality of any position really in the NFL.

891
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 3: When not yeah, yeah, I mean it's running back. I mean,

892
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: the fact that he's been as durable as he has

893
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 3: makes him extremely valuable and it's rare.

894
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just it really is. I mean,

895
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: but I'm not interested in breaking up that parent. The

896
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 2: only thing I do say about that duo, and I

897
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 2: don't know that people realize this is there the same age.

898
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're both a little older than you think too.

899
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 2: They both Again, when I wrote the story about Jaylen

900
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 2: Warren two years ago in the offseason or maybe it

901
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 2: was last year, whatever it was, or during the season

902
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 2: two years ago, they're in the same recruit They're in

903
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 2: the same recruiting class.

904
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 3: Who was the third guy?

905
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 2: Was a swift or swift that they were, they were,

906
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: and the Max Preps running backs, you know, those are

907
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 2: the three running backs that were on the first team

908
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 2: All All USA team. It was Naujie Harris, DeAndre Swift,

909
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 2: and Jalen Warren. Okay, and for some reason, Warren still

910
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 2: went underrecruited.

911
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 3: A little bit smaller. I don't know who knows why,

912
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 3: but I mean went to Oklahoma State. That's not too bad.

913
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: Well that's not where you want to coming on and started.

914
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't ski the one of them. And this

915
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 3: is more lean towards Warren would look at the contract

916
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 3: situation and be like, I don't want to sign extra

917
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 3: year here because I'm going to go be the man

918
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 3: somewhere else and get eighty percent of the touches Like

919
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: that probably isn't going to happen at your age, no

920
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: matter how good you are. Yeah, I mean, it's just

921
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 3: the way the league is. So this is a crazy

922
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 3: stat that I heard someone recite that if you go

923
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 3: over the last five years I think it was, and

924
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 3: you look at every team's rushing leader and you say,

925
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 3: what percentage of the rushing totals did that player end

926
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: up with at the end of the year. It's like

927
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 3: fifty three percent. Yeah, because no one lasts a whole year.

928
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks chip in like crazy all the time. So if

929
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 3: you're getting fifty percent of the workload, that's a lot. Yeah,

930
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 3: I mean it really is over the course of an

931
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 3: entire year, not one game, not one series, you know,

932
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 3: but I mean to be out there to handle team

933
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: total rushes, I got fifty percent of them.

934
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Speaker 2: That's a lot, it really is. And so we'll see

935
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 2: what happens with that steel runneck position. I thought it

936
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 2: was interesting, you know, it's very interesting when Arthur Smith

937
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 2: was talking earlier this week and said, I think I

938
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 2: mentioned just on Wednesday that you know, you're going to

939
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: run eleven hundred or so plays over the course of

940
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: the season, and five hundred and fifty of those, if

941
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 2: you're doing things right, five hundred and fifty of those

942
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: will be running plays. And it might not all be

943
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: your running backs. Some of it might be your quarterbacks

944
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 2: were non traditional as you said, non traditional.

945
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 3: Rushing Patterson picks up, but there'll be.

946
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 2: Plenty of carries for both of those guys.

947
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and Falcons and Steelers reach in history, if

948
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: it either one applies or both applies, they're gonna be

949
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 3: near the top of the league in rushing it, yeas,

950
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 3: and you're gonna need them real quick to finish it up.

951
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: I mean, I think both those guys are kind of

952
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 3: obvious extensions. If you could do one more year, even

953
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 3: if you had two, even two, I wouldn't be to

954
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 3: get out of it.

955
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 2: You know.

956
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 3: We opened the show with you know, being flexible with contracts.

957
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 3: You don't want to be on the hook too bad

958
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 3: with guaranteed money with those guys. But if you can

959
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 3: get out of it, great. Warren's made nothing. Yeah, they're

960
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 3: good players.

961
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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely. There are guys that are going they're gonna

962
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 2: lean on heavily this year.

963
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 3: They really are.

964
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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson. I'm dale Lallie. You're listening to

965
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Speaker 2: the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. That's going to

966
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967
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