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

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

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson. We are

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Speaker 1: live from Steelers training camp here at St. Vincent College,

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Speaker 1: the only place where you can hear live coverage of

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Speaker 1: Steelers training camp. And of course we have our wall

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Speaker 1: to wall coverage of camp here, these very air waves

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Speaker 1: shows all day long, but this is the only one

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Speaker 1: that's live during practice, right we're talking about practice. Was

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Speaker 1: that Robinson made that tackle? Yeah that Yeah, got to

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Speaker 1: the outside there with Mastertigue. They got that. That was

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Speaker 1: the first run drill um. They've got the that looks

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Speaker 1: like the third team out there on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the football here. He can run though, he moves very well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when he shoots a gap and he decides to go

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Speaker 1: and he you know, he hits it, he gets it,

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Speaker 1: he hits a quick that's kind of cheating there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they will play action, will play action. Yeah, get get

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Speaker 1: ten yards. I always think inside runs kind of cheating

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Speaker 1: for the defense too. Well, Yeah, they know that's the

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Speaker 1: thing you're playing run like of what you're doing is

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Speaker 1: playing The only guy is not playing run necessarily. Are

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Speaker 1: the corners even the safeties are biting up on that stuff, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean the name of the drills inside run team

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Speaker 1: run drill. You need to get upright stop the run.

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Speaker 1: I think Robinson's destined for the practice squad, but he's interesting, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's tools there to work with, just raw

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Speaker 1: ability at this Yeah. I mean some people have mentioned

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Speaker 1: that they like them. You know, they're pretty happy with

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Speaker 1: where he's at right now. Yeah, he's out there with

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Speaker 1: Buddy Johnson. Now on the script. Buddy Johnson just attacked

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Speaker 1: a lot of scrimmage there. There's a nice play by seven. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Buddy Johnson. I think I think he was in on

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Speaker 1: the tackle there with that. He just kind of went

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Speaker 1: to the I'm gonna sift through the junk here and

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Speaker 1: get right to the line of scrimmage and go get

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Speaker 1: the ball carrier. And they could really use him stepping

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Speaker 1: up and having a having two big preseason games to

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Speaker 1: finish things out. Yeah, I mean that was that was

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Speaker 1: pretty nice play there by both guys. So they got

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Speaker 1: they got some guys here that we'll see. Yeah, see

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Speaker 1: there's somebody a linebacker and besides Miles, Jack needs to

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Speaker 1: reach this step up step off there some candidates. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: when I saw Devin bushing the in the backs on

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Speaker 1: backers or that was that was good. That was promising.

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Speaker 1: That was good physicality that I'm not writing them off

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Speaker 1: like he's got no chance. No, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have just trade him, cut him. Now, come on people, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, now the first team offensive line coming out

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Speaker 1: on the field. Here comes what here comes? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would imagine this won't be nearly as physical. Probably that's

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Speaker 1: what they kind of did yesterday, Like the third group

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Speaker 1: was out there. The young guys were out there and

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Speaker 1: they were getting physical with This will be much less. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's out there with you know, basically the starting offensive

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Speaker 1: line looks like Anthony Farlins to back though. That's interesting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they want I think they're pretty be

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Speaker 1: with him too. I think there should be happy with him. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he's had a good camp too. He had

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Speaker 1: a good camp. Yeh. He was carrying a football around

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Speaker 1: today because of the fumble. Yeah, I had it tuck

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Speaker 1: tucked high. He was doing giving some interviews over there,

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Speaker 1: but he came walking up the steps at the football

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Speaker 1: tucks high and kept it there throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the interviews that he was doing. That's that's the problem

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Speaker 1: you know for young guys all run to don't run

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Speaker 1: hard like that. Yeah, you know, they don't understand that.

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Speaker 1: At the NFL level, guys will hold you up while

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Speaker 1: somebody else comes in and tries to strip the ball up.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sometimes you gotta no one to fold him to.

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta get something, you know, you want

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Speaker 1: to try to fight for that extra yard might might

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Speaker 1: cost you a fumble here. I found it interesting that

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Speaker 1: when they asked tom One after the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: what he told you guys was basically, well fumbled, okay,

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Speaker 1: not not, that's not what we're really happy with him. Like,

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Speaker 1: don't get ahead of yourself, youngster, you know, like, don't

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Speaker 1: go giving him any pats on the back quite yet.

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Speaker 1: But he's intrigued. He he's to put to be part

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Speaker 1: of the mix. Yeah, there's Nagy. They're not gonna tackle Nagy,

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Speaker 1: just kind of picking his spots and dancing through the

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Speaker 1: midd up the middle, picking up a few is he

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Speaker 1: wearing the neck the neck pad at the back of

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Speaker 1: his pads or something there either that just because that's

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Speaker 1: But it makes it look like it's he's got he's

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Speaker 1: wearing one of the old old style neckpads. Be means

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Speaker 1: he's as big as natro means. I don't think he

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Speaker 1: that anything's gone on his head right now. I think

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Speaker 1: he could be really, really have a big year this year.

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Speaker 1: If this offensive line continues to run block the way

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Speaker 1: they did yeah the other day, create some seams for him.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna hit those when he gets into the into

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Speaker 1: the second level. I'd love to see him, you know,

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Speaker 1: get to the second and third level a little more

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Speaker 1: and see what kind of punishment he can afflict on

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Speaker 1: defensive backs and we know what kind of burst he

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Speaker 1: can he can show, because it wasn't a lot of

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Speaker 1: those opportunities in the rookie year. As our as our

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Speaker 1: Calliteague bub black Berry Roll always used to say about

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Speaker 1: Jerome Bettis in the fourth quarter, nobody wants to tackle

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Speaker 1: the fat kid anymore. It's an entiresome, right, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tackle this guy again. If that's why Bill Cower was

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Speaker 1: so good, you know, in closing those games out like that,

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Speaker 1: because you had a guy like Jerome Bettis who just

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Speaker 1: hurt people in the fourth course. Yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 1: team coach running back all meshed extremely well. And I

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Speaker 1: think this team wants to take a similar approach, you

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Speaker 1: know that. I think that they're pretty confident. The defense

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Speaker 1: is gonna be good, the old lines gonna be a

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Speaker 1: work in progress. Quarterback many days won't be better than

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Speaker 1: the opponent's quarterback, you know, or at least will be

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Speaker 1: a work in progress. So you're gonna have to punish

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Speaker 1: teams and you know, win in the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 1: where teams down. And I think they're equipped to do so.

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Speaker 1: do think scheme and the players around the line should

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Speaker 1: help their situation quite a bit. And the scheme is

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Speaker 1: that scheme is such a big part of it. How

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Speaker 1: do you how do your scheme things up? And that's

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Speaker 1: what one of the biggest problems was last year. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't do any of that scheme stuff because everybody knew

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Speaker 1: it was coming. Yeah, a new style player and there's

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Speaker 1: a nice hole there. But for McFarland, the outline did

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Speaker 1: his job there. I'll tell you what. He's looked good

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Speaker 1: he plays like an NFL running back Now. Before I

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Speaker 1: used to like in him looking like the Tasmanian devil.

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Speaker 1: Was he arms and legs flying everywhere, but he wasn't

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Speaker 1: if you looked at him verse a year or two

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Speaker 1: pitch like that that yeah, um, you know they played

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Speaker 1: one and strung it out and really took away the cutbacks.

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Speaker 1: But when you can get him out on the edge

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Speaker 1: or get him in space, yeah, I mean he's he

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Speaker 1: haven't brought this up in a while. Lee's matched up

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Speaker 1: on a linebacker, it's over. It's over. There's not a

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Speaker 1: linebacker in the league you can run with him. No,

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Speaker 1: a little flair paths dump offs. He's running routes that

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Speaker 1: and he adjusted the football well you know so, um No,

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Speaker 1: I think McFarland has a role and he's going to

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Speaker 1: be a spark plug. Yeah he's he's not you know

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Speaker 1: again people but they see a smaller guy and they

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Speaker 1: automatically think of some you know, three Archer or something

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Speaker 1: like that, yathing. McFarland is about a hundred pound running back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: three Archer was a hundred seventy pounds, I mean said,

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Speaker 1: McFarland ever, would be the every down back and Harris

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Speaker 1: And he his you know, his lower body and waiste

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Speaker 1: a little guy. No, yeah, he's just just a little

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Speaker 1: the random sorry just Beenny snow in the backfields like

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Speaker 1: snack there now too not bad run, yes, decisive run

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Speaker 1: one read it well, stuck his footing the ground, got

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Speaker 1: out of town too, like they decided they don't like somebody. Well,

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Speaker 1: you just gotta cut him, get rid of this other guy.

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Speaker 1: Guy who's never played in the football game before. He's

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Speaker 1: got to be better than that guy. Rudolph Bush. Yeah, Snell,

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Speaker 1: they gotta go. Yeah. Um, I think if I was Snell,

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Speaker 1: think you know that's why we may see him back

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Speaker 1: back out of this quick normally? I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that for certain. Was it a coincidence that

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Speaker 1: Claypool comes back after Pickings lights him up? You know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he said today's he's had two separate

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Speaker 1: shoulder injuries. Yeah, So it's not been just one thing

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Speaker 1: that that's been nagging him. It's been that's out what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about so now we get a special teams period.

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Speaker 1: No means what I say, And you know he's just

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Speaker 1: taking he's being softer or anything. It often isn't a

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Speaker 1: coincidence that the guy you're directly fighting with has a

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Speaker 1: really good day that the dudes that were out showback up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how it goes. All right, get

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Speaker 1: a little punt return here and gunneral Schofsky the only

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Speaker 1: guy back there. They're going to actually punt the football here,

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Speaker 1: it looks like it, I think then we are. It's

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Speaker 1: like we're going to try to punt it and down

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Speaker 1: it inside the inside of twenty. Here they're having two gunners.

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Speaker 1: Find gunners aren't releasing from the line of scrimmage. They're

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Speaker 1: releasing twelve yards past the line of scrimmage, and they're

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Speaker 1: telling them when to go. The coach yelled at them go.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure why they're not starting at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, but maybe this is concern Well, there's nobody.

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Speaker 1: because a lot of the same guys are would be

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Speaker 1: that they want the gunners to find the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: noise coming off his foot. Yeah, he's but he's got

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Speaker 1: camp at St. Vincent College. Um, we are here until

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Speaker 1: at St. Vincent College. The team going a little eleven

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Speaker 1: job at Tyler snee But that catch decisive, Yeah, got

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Speaker 1: least try him. He's got to prove that. Because that

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Speaker 1: Buddy Johnson had got him on that one, it must

425
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Speaker 1: have been Yeah, I think it was certain, but I

426
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,000
Speaker 1: thought that's who want to see Buddy Johnson, right, both

427
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 1: inside backers? Nice j Yeah, get it out quick White.

428
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: It's a tough one. Just makes it all. He doesn't

429
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: make play. I know, I wish he was more talented,

430
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, makes it hard to cut.

431
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 1: He does everything, as you know. He's a good special teamer,

432
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 1: unbelievable work ethic. I mean, I would love to stash

433
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Speaker 1: him on the practice squad, and if two guys get hurt,

434
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: you could use them one game day. That's coming to

435
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: the ceiling with them though. Yeah, I mean, nobody's gonna

436
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 1: even if you release him and try to get them

437
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 1: get him onto your practice squad, nobody's gonna pick him off.

438
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 1: Probably not. There'll be some some tape on him. But

439
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 1: he's not special enough to go out of your way

440
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: and grab him. I mean, the people are gonna like

441
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 1: him best are the ones that are working with him

442
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: all the time. Not to mention, his dad works in

443
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: the scouting department now, so he probably wants to stay. Yeah.

444
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: I bet that's a nice conversation. Nice job. By ninety three,

445
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 1: they're blowing up that really. Yeah, screen took a little

446
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 1: while to develop. It did and then he did you

447
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: know they did suck in the entire defensive line they did. Yeah,

448
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: good job by him. That was well done, McFarland and

449
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 1: no shot, but not his fault. Now they're gonna do

450
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 1: it at the other end. Yeah, change your field position,

451
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: don't do as much wear and tear on the field itself.

452
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 1: But the hasn't been a bad practice. Yesterday I thought

453
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: it was an exceptional practice. This has not been a

454
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 1: bad one. Um. I meant to say this earlier, dawned

455
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: on me at the at the break last time back

456
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 1: to Harvard, but he just did there was pretty amazing.

457
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just killing. The football fans here

458
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 1: actually clapped when he got that. That's where I go

459
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: with this. It's funny because we both mentioned that after

460
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: a punter got done, and we're not in Europe, right right.

461
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 1: I've seen that before in Europe. I remember when the

462
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: Steelers went to a Barcelona in ninety three to practice

463
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: against the forty niners. Those soccer folks appreciated, and so

464
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: on that field you had Rod Woodson, you got Jerry Race,

465
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 1: Steve Young, I mean just hall of famers all over

466
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Speaker 1: the place. DERMONTI Dawson is there, and the fans there

467
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: were watching the kickers kick and cheering every time. Wow,

468
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: look how cool that is. Look at that far he

469
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,400
Speaker 1: kicked up. I'm sure they've never seen such a thing.

470
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: You know, they don't realize what Jerry Rice was doing

471
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: was probably more impressive. But hey, you know, a little rarer. Anyway,

472
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Speaker 1: back to Harvard, you kind of stole the words out

473
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Speaker 1: of my mouth. Was one of us said, you know

474
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Speaker 1: he's in the doghouse, Steel Nations down on him, YadA YadA. Well,

475
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: I can tell you a couple of thousand new fans

476
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,880
Speaker 1: he have that running around here right now right, aren't

477
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna be down? Yeah, just tremendous. I mean that one

478
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 1: ball again did the ball traveled eight yards in the

479
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: eight yards in the air and rolled into the other

480
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 1: end zone from the back end zone line they kicked

481
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: it from one step and one step boom gone. You know, yeah,

482
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: I mean that was that might be the most impressive

483
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 1: punting display like I've ever seen, because there was one

484
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,360
Speaker 1: after another too. That's the highlight, and that's a rare.

485
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: That's a Randall Cunningham ninety yard or with a roll

486
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: type deal. But you know, for him to do over

487
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: and over, and I wonder if you asked Danny or

488
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, some of the special Teams gurus, they might

489
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: have been like, yeah, but you didn't. You didn't realize

490
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 1: how impressive the five second hang time was. On the way,

491
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: were nice job covering near by Fremouth? Yeah? Really nice? Yeah,

492
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: keep harping on this. When I see those patterns, I mean,

493
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: that's a tight end right between the numbers and the

494
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: hash twenty yards on field fifteen. I mean that's what

495
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 1: tight ends do. We didn't see that happened last I mean,

496
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: that's why he averaged eight and a half yards of

497
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: catch last year. He sprinkles a few of those in

498
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: this year. That exactly, you know, I think, I just

499
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: think everything's going to be deeper this year. That depth

500
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: of the depth of the catches is gonna be deeper.

501
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: That's right when I say the in the middle. Yeah,

502
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson might not catch you know, a hundred and

503
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: seven passes this year, but he still might have eleven

504
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: receiving yards, right, you know, it might be eighty five catches,

505
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: but he's you know, yards deeper patterns and more over

506
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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. I mean, a guy like

507
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: Friarmouth can make a living there. We haven't seen Deontay

508
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: be real active here. I mean he's he's active. He

509
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: hasn't stood out yet today Maybe this will be the play.

510
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: He's down here on the outside with Claypool to the

511
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: inside in the slot, uh Robiski and the shotgun here

512
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: looking that way there it is called it and just

513
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: a simple slant. Yeah, Claypool, you know takes some deep

514
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: clears it out a little bit, he goes right behind

515
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: him right off his hip there on that slant in

516
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: Trabisky puts them on immediately. There's someone after the catch

517
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: possibilities you know, well designed, well repped play a ten

518
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: yard completion over the middle, over the middle, over the middle,

519
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: and I just don't think that's the Steelers attack that

520
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: that part of the field nearly enough last two years.

521
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: I mean, like he probably would have ran a similar

522
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: route a year ago, but two step shallower, yeah, I mean,

523
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: or the ball wouldn't have been thrown. That's the thing

524
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,719
Speaker 1: you didn't you know people, you know, I got asked that, well,

525
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: why why didn't the Steelers do that more last year?

526
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: But they ran they had get guys running patterns in

527
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Quarterbacks gotta throw it, and

528
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: you know, I think sometimes, um, you know, Roethlisberger was

529
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: very want to get out. That's where the traffics at. Yeah, yeah,

530
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, and when you're playing against Ben Roethlisberger in

531
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: those situations, you know said of the thousand times, like

532
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 1: the opponents knew the ball was coming out quick. So

533
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Speaker 1: at the snap of the football, you had ten guys

534
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: within five yards of the last scrimming, right. Yeah, we

535
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Speaker 1: had a really good conversation I guess last week the

536
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Speaker 1: week before about some of these advanced analytics sites which

537
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Speaker 1: I really respect, didn't have the dealers as super loaded

538
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: boxes and that just does ridiculous to me. No, it

539
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: didn't pass the eye test. Yeah, it didn't pass it

540
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: at all. And maybe they they don't against Steelers. I mean,

541
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure that that their methods say that. But again,

542
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,719
Speaker 1: like you said, when the ball was snapped, everyone's going

543
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: in the same area, which was in the box they made.

544
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: They made it start at eight yards back, but when

545
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: the ball snapped, they're coming for everybody's coming forward. Everyone's

546
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: coming forward and playing him much differently, you know, trust me,

547
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: they weren't playing the Chiefs the same way. If if

548
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: they had the same amount of load of boxes, and

549
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: they showed by Devin bush on that that was it

550
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: covers from ground, covered some ground and they get through

551
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: the ball out to the flat and he would have

552
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 1: had a tackle for a loss there, I think. So, yeah,

553
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: he hasn't. I know, he's in the doghouse, and frankly,

554
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: he has me worried. I mean, there's no there's no

555
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: question about that. But I wouldn't say this camp has

556
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: been a negative for him. I think it's been He

557
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: just has a mediocre and it hasn't shown up huge.

558
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: We haven't seen the splash. Yeah, and we saw a

559
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: splash from him his rookie year. Yeah, splain to me

560
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: is shown up negatively. Yes, the other signers haven't made

561
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: as much splash good or bad as I would have liked,

562
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: namely Buddy Johnson. He's kind of a ghost, but not

563
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: necessarily like he's getting exposed with Blaine is getting exposed.

564
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: Jack's been really good. That's probably a sack of course,

565
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: but you know good still good pocket movement if I

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00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 1: pick it. Even on that play, I just I just

567
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: focused on Bush and it looked to me like he

568
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: was he was blitzing, but he kind of was had

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00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: also had his eyes on the quarterback, So maybe he

570
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: was spying a little bit in that situation. Um, And

571
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: that's something that teams might have to do against the

572
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: Steelers a little bit this year. And that's probably true.

573
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: And I was thinking from the other perspective is if

574
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna play Deshaun Watson, especially Lamar, Jack's better be

575
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: britty to spy and you better be ready to spy.

576
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: And Bush would be a logical candidate for that. It's

577
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: a it's not a difficult assignment. He can run with anybody.

578
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a flashy assignment, though, you know,

579
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: it's not. You can't get you can't take the cheese.

580
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: You gotta be patient and you know. But there again,

581
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: Roberts Blaine is not You're not spying r Jackson with

582
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: no Robert. I mean, he can get him on the ground,

583
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: but if it turns into a foot race, he's gonna lose.

584
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna lose in a bad way, in a bad way. Absolutely,

585
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I I'm not ready to to

586
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: throw the baby out with the bathwater with Devin Bush. No,

587
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: I kind of him with Splain though, yeah, I mean

588
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: an elite special teamer, which I just think there's a

589
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: lot of special team options here. I'd rather roll the

590
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: dice with Buddy or Robinson or somebody the young guys. Now,

591
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, but as Robinson told me the other day

592
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: when he was asked about that after the game, you know,

593
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: she said, Danny Smiths tough to please. He is, Yeah,

594
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: even doing this a long time you're making mistakes out

595
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 1: there on special teams. You're not gonna be out there

596
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: on special team, right. And you guys think, I mean,

597
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: he's a running back turn linebacker, you know, Like, I

598
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: don't know how much experience he has in that face.

599
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: He's out there now with Buddy Johnson. Let's see what

600
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: this looks like. These two to step up. I'm kind

601
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: of bummed about Ulysses Gilbert. I thought he had a

602
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: chance to really be an impact guy this year. I

603
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: wonder if Blaine got hurt today. We haven't seen a

604
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: lot of much of the stuff. Maybe he got hurt

605
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: on the pass rush stuff. I don't see him on

606
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: the other side. I'm looking for him on the sidelines.

607
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: He's not jumping out because they haven't seen him out

608
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: there in the defense at all now, and usually war

609
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: is he injured. That could be the case. I don't

610
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: see him over there with the defensive guys. It doesn't

611
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: mean he isn't. I just like, yeah, we just don't

612
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: see him. Kind of interesting. That's something no examine there. Yeah, um,

613
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: but that's who Kenny does here. Yeah, pick it in

614
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: the shotgun. Got Benny Snell to his right down here

615
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: in the bottom. He got Cody White, I believe down

616
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: in the bottoms making some strides. Yeah, Gunnerolschowski in the

617
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: slot looks like Tyler Vaughan on the upside out there

618
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Speaker 1: on the outside man. Not a great passer. Kind of

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Speaker 1: a crowded neighborhood. Yeah, you don't want to throw into

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Speaker 1: that neighborhood necessarily. We're gonna take another break. Matt. He

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

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Speaker 1: The Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine

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Speaker 1: seventy are live ongoing coverage from Steelers training camp here

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Speaker 1: at St. Vincent College. We will be back with more

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Speaker 1: right after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on you home of the Black and Gold,

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williams from here live from Steelers training camp here

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Speaker 1: at St. Vincent College, bringing you all the action as

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Speaker 1: it happens here. And uh, Matt, just a little bit ago,

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Speaker 1: Mastertigue carted off and during that team drill session there,

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Speaker 1: Uh looks like you took a hit. And uh remember

633
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: the day they signed him. I kind of thought, Yeah,

634
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's been. He've a bounced around a

635
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: little bit, kind of a montone athlete. He's banger, but

636
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: nothing great. He was a lot better than that when

637
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: he was here. I mean, I thought he played pretty

638
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: well in the Steeler uniform. Um, who knows. Hopefully it's

639
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: not too severe, but I wanted to give him a

640
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: little credit for what he's done since he's been here. Yeah, yeah,

641
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: he's been. He's been pretty good from Uh, that's a shame.

642
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: You know. It's again that so often is the case

643
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: in this game. Um, getting through a training camp healthy,

644
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: No man, he says. You know, it's just as important,

645
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: especially if you're a guy trying to establish yourself. You

646
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: may have all the talent in the world. Then you

647
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: get hurt. Yeah, I mean, and everybody forgets and then boom,

648
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: you're gone. Especially at that position. There's always be running

649
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: backs coming in the league that are cheap and young

650
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: and fresh legs, and you know, you can get forgotten

651
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: pretty quick. Um, they were just doing a drill. I

652
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: just want to kind of, you know, spell it out

653
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: for people. They were working on punt block and they

654
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,959
Speaker 1: were doing singular but it wasn't what what what Danny's

655
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: trying to teach them is get you. They hit the

656
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: ball as it's coming off the foot. You know, you're

657
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: not diving, you're not in the air. That they want

658
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: you to take the football right off off his foot. Yeah,

659
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: exactly what happens if you leave your feet on that play?

660
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: What you see a lot of guys do. If you

661
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: missed a football, it's probably it's gonna be a flag. Yeah, yeah,

662
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: and you have no real control. If you are able

663
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: to take it right off his foot, there's a real

664
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: good chance you're gonna take it the other house too,

665
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: And the ball is going to right the you know,

666
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: the direction towards your goal line and one no accident.

667
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: The Steelers are pretty good at that. Yeah, right, right,

668
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: right right. And it's not as easy as it looks

669
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: because it's hard to get your body moving full speed

670
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: with two hands about two feet off the ground together,

671
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: you know, like that. That's an awkward position. And I

672
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: guess to know shock. But the guy that looked the

673
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: best doing it was Killer Brew. I mean, he has

674
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: the most experience, but I don't think of him as

675
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: a natural bender get low being able to accelerate. But

676
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 1: he looked really smooth doing it, and he blocked upon

677
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: her two in his career. I have a feeling, yeah, yeah,

678
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: for sure, I've been looking everywhere for Robert's plain. I

679
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: just don't see he would be out there for this stuff.

680
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: And yeah, he certainly be on the field for special

681
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: team stuff here. Haven't seen him since back on backs

682
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: on backers. It was that the last time. I know.

683
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: I know, you have a couple of reps there against

684
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris and backs on backers and don't recall seeing

685
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: him since. No, So another one to keep an eye on.

686
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: Getting kind of thin and inside linebacker. I said a

687
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: lot of great things about Spillane lately, but I mean still,

688
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: these guys have played a lot of snaps here. Yeah,

689
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: so we'll have to find out about that as well. Um,

690
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: what's going on. And that's it with that situation. But

691
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: that's the way it goes here. I mean, it's a

692
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: battle of attrition here at training camp. It's good to

693
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: keep your eyes off of these things. You know. I'm

694
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: sure we'll hear about it down the road or you know,

695
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: press conference tonight or whatever or some kind of statement.

696
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,479
Speaker 1: But see how Tigue and Spillane are. I did get

697
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: a lot of guys back lately. You know, some of

698
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: the star guys are out there. It's good, nice to see.

699
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: We want a lot of camp without Deonte, Claypool, Friar,

700
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: Move Naugy, those guys guys as you expect to be

701
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: the core of the offense. But they're starting to get

702
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: more and more revved up. And I think firem Moo's

703
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: had a good practice um nausey look in the backs

704
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: on backer drills of course. Yeah, yeah, Um, it's a

705
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: good group of skill guys they have. It really is.

706
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know that it's certainly I

707
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's number one in the league in terms

708
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: of that grouping. I also don't see a weakness of

709
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: your Yeah, it's it's in the top tennis, right, like

710
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people look at the Bengals

711
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: is number one, which I mean I probably wouldn't fight John,

712
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 1: but they're tight end wouldn't play here, you know, he

713
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in the top five, you know, I mean,

714
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: boy just a good player. He's not great. Um. You

715
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: know they have a special combination of receivers, but it's mixings,

716
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, mixings the top. Yeah, he's a really good

717
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: player six or seven back in the league. Yeah. Yeah,

718
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: but they're five. Isn't star to star, you know, I

719
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: mean there's some weaknesses there. Yeah, this this this group

720
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: when you look at it, um, especially if Claypool is

721
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: what he's capable of. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

722
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: want to have the most questions about it those five.

723
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: Like you know, if teams treat Deonte Johnson as the

724
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: number one receiver this year, which they did last year, right,

725
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: I mean history will show that that's how everyone treats him.

726
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you watch any game film last year. Everyone

727
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: treats him as the number one. At some point you

728
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: would you would think that that's going to shift. Um,

729
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: I just like picking chances if he gets a lot

730
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: of one on one and then if if Deante Johnson

731
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: starts getting one on ones, you know that that's going

732
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: to change things dramatically as well. And in their different

733
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: style receiver and Claypool gives you some matchup issues and

734
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: Firemouth gives you matchup issues, and absolutely, it's a it's

735
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: a it's an interesting grouping Nazi is no slouch in

736
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: the passing game either, No, absolutely, so they're gonna be

737
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: a difficult team to defend. And then you know, even

738
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: if you take let's say you take Nagy Harris off

739
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: the field and you bring Anthony me Farland in as

740
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: a receiver, and again now you've created more. Yeah, yeah,

741
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: you go empty. And you know, right, they didn't go

742
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: empty with Nagy two, of course, but no, I like

743
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: their options. And you know, if friar Muth develops a

744
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: little more as a blocker, um, if Claypool becomes a

745
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: more willing blocker out of the I think you'll get

746
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: better peripheral skill position blocking than they got last year.

747
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: You almost it's gonna block, is gonna block, because I

748
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: was going with that. You know, you kind of knew

749
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: Ray Ray wasn't right, you know, I mean it kind

750
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: of nowhere to go, but up he tried. But yeah,

751
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: yeah it's a seth. He's little, and it was gonna

752
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: anybody right right right, And Juju was good at it,

753
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: but he was on the field of Ton, you know. Yeah.

754
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: So it's it's an interesting group this year and and uh,

755
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to yeah, I'm exactly how but he's gonna

756
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: be out. They're intrigued by what this the possibilities with

757
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: this offense, I don't Again, I don't know that you

758
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: need elite high level quarterback play with that grouping. I'm

759
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: not that worried about the quarterback, to be very honest

760
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: with you. I mean I have high hopes for pick

761
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: it big pictures football. To Risky is a good enough

762
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: player with it's only getting better. What could the rail it?

763
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: To me though? Is the other line? Yeah? I mean,

764
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: if if we're sitting here, you know, after the season,

765
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: going man, this was a bottom six or seven offense,

766
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna say, well, they wanted to have

767
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: longer developing routes but couldn't protect or you know, like

768
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: but again, I think so much of that because of

769
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback mobility that they have. Oh, they've ways of

770
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: making their life easier, you know, the ability to roll

771
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: things out and it flood his own you know, to

772
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: the right or the left, with with different at all

773
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: three levels, with you know, receivers who who are going

774
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: to be a matchup problem. You know, somebody's going to

775
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: have a much smaller man against it. Oh yeah, a

776
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: much slower guy one of the two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

777
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: I just think that if the the old line can't

778
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: be adequate, all that's nothing, you know, and there's a

779
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: lot of ways around it, and they've done great things

780
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: to make that life easier, including an athletic quarterback scheme,

781
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: you know, making it more difficult to cover their five dudes.

782
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: But if I mean, I'm thinking workst case scenario, if

783
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: James Daniels is a bust, which is I'm not predicting that.

784
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: He just hasn't been good yet. Mason Cole's just a

785
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: guy in the middle, Kendrick Green can't handle power, and

786
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: the tackles are just okay. You know, we're gonna look

787
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: at this thing and be like, man, but what if

788
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: they add two more starters on the old line in

789
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: the off season, you know, like, even if the thing

790
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: that I just laid out is true and it's a

791
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: bad group, it might not. I mean a year from now,

792
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: it might be totally different. They have so many resources.

793
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: You get you have a first round pick, a third

794
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: round pick, and too free agents if you had to,

795
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: and they could easily swing that, you know. So I mean,

796
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: we're not talking about two thousand twenty three. That's not

797
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: what I'm here to do. But the old line, if

798
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: it's a problem, you could easily plug in one guy

799
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: to guy if you had too next year, but then

800
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes this year. To me more,

801
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: you know what you just laid out, I think is

802
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why you signed Deante Johnson to

803
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: the Yeah, right, right right, you're just killing needs. Yeah,

804
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: you don't. You now don't have an absolute need at

805
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: wide receiver going in the next season. No, absolutely not,

806
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: especially if Austin plays pretty well, you know, and even

807
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: the Miller could be coming back. You know, guys like

808
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: that that you don't get anything from this year, so

809
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: you don't have to spend a second or third round

810
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: pick next year on a wide receiver. And I said, well,

811
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 1: you just use a second round pick every year in

812
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. Sounds great in theory, but that means

813
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: you're not That means you're not getting something else in

814
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: a pre win a premium draft spot. I mean, this

815
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: is probably a way too optimistical way of looking at it,

816
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: but I mean they're not They don't have a ton

817
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: of free agents after the year. I don't see a

818
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: ton of massive team needs. I mean, like, I can

819
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: live with these corners. I mean, you can bring Ogan

820
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: Job back. I think louder Milk is gonna develop that.

821
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: I think they're in a really good, you know, situation

822
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: to whatever their needs are. I'm guessing they won't be

823
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: a lot of them. They might bee be two big

824
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: ones that they can go deal with it. Yeah, absolutely,

825
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: And so I think set themselves up well that way.

826
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: If now I see Robert's Pulaine out there, Oh good, Okay,

827
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: so he is still I don't worry. Was that? Yeah?

828
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the good party. So we got a skeleton

829
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: drill here, we got a seven on seven basically just

830
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: no lineman. Yeah, that's a pretty full group of defenders

831
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: out there. Play the slot, clap, going download to get it.

832
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: Seeing a lot of the claypolet of the slot stuff,

833
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: almost like they listened to the show or we have

834
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: a clue we're talking for that last year exactly right. Um.

835
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times you've been asked, but

836
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: I had asked a ton. You know, boy, they've got

837
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: three good receivers, but none of them are slots. How

838
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: is that gonna line up? I'm like, claypol is gonna

839
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: be a slot? Yeah, I mean it's it's different than

840
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: what people think of receivers. You think, well, the little

841
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be in the slot. Well, that's not the

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Speaker 1: way football is played today, not as much. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's still a place for them, but they're getting phased

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Speaker 1: out more and more. Of the Welkers of the world.

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Speaker 1: They're just because they're little, you know, yeah, do you

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Speaker 1: want to You know, those guys can win over the

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Speaker 1: middle like that. And the league's all about big plays.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk to any coach, they'll talk about explosives.

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Speaker 1: We gotta create explosives, we gotta eliminate explosives. Well, if

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Speaker 1: you have a a big, long, striding deep threat in

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Speaker 1: the in the slot, that's another way to create explosives.

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Speaker 1: Get him. Most of the defensive backs he's gonna work

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Speaker 1: against in the slot are gonna be five tenors or

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Speaker 1: short right. I mean, with all respect to Hilton and

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Speaker 1: Milette and guys we really like, I don't want them.

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Speaker 1: Guarden Claypool want to go round, you know, right, And

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Speaker 1: if he can block, and if he doesn't do the

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Speaker 1: dirty work in there, he'll he'll his his career will

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Speaker 1: take a spike. Absolutely. I think I think he can

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Speaker 1: be You get some cheap throws there too, you know.

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Speaker 1: I just think this offense could be pretty special in

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Speaker 1: terms of taking a big jump this year from what

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Speaker 1: it was. I do think it'll be better at last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean I would put took a shot there on

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Speaker 1: the outside, didn't quite gack, but had the one on

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Speaker 1: one killer Weatherspoon going, Hey, he's pushing off. Can't push

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Speaker 1: off like that. Pickens a little physical physical, Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: is not bashal. I wonder how you know if that's

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Speaker 1: going to be an issue for him during the season one.

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Speaker 1: I hope he doesn't get a reputation and you know,

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Speaker 1: ref star calling that stuff because he's he's a little

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Speaker 1: borderline with him. He is. He is Matt Williamson. I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy. We are live

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Speaker 1: from St. Vincent College here in beautiful later Ope, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: It is beautiful today. It's a great it's fantastic out here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Say they've cleared the fans from the from the field.

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Speaker 1: This is conclusion. This is the penultimate drill here again,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how Mike Tomlin closes out. Yeah. Really yeah,

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Speaker 1: stuck that one right in between about three defenders to

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Speaker 1: George Pickens pickings for a touchdown that was a nice row.

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Speaker 1: We will take a break. We'll be back with more

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Speaker 1: right after this