1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: At least. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 3 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. You 4 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: were listening to the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And 5 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of stuff happening here over the 6 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: last few days. A lot of trades over the weekend. Yeah, 7 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: I mean some of them for from strange trades to 8 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: you know kind of like we're not real thrilled with 9 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: our guy. You're not real thrilled with your guy. Let's 10 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: swap fifth round picks and send you here, or you know, 11 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: Marcus Cannon goes to Houston. Was all the two of them. 12 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: You pick up Marcus Cannon for kind of nothing because 13 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: they just you know, got to Trent Brown and you 14 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: know those types. But I heard some information about that. 15 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: Apparently Marcus Kennon they had a bunch of guys opt 16 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: out last year. So they had all those guys that 17 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: opted out come in for physicals. Hey, we haven't seen 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: you in a year. Cannon didn't come in for his really, Yeah, 19 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: and then then they traded for Dred Brown and then 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: they traded Yeah, they so they traded for Trent Brown 21 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: because hey, we're gonna get rid of Marcus Cannon, so 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: you'd make the trade for Trent Brown and then you 23 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: shame away for nothing. Yeah, and then he makes some money. 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna dump salary too. But there are 25 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: some odd little moves like that floating around the league. Yeah. Uh, 26 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: Texans also got the Bernard McKinney or they sent Bernard 27 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: McKinney to Miami for Shack losson Lawson. They just here's 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: a perfect example of Miami just spent big money on 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: Shack Loss. Miami spending. They went out and signed all 30 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: the they were very active in free agency area, and 31 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: now they're getting rid of all those guys. Yeah, in 32 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: Vanoy and Lawson. There's the two edge guys. They signed 33 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: for way too much money. Boom, they're gone again. It's 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: spending on day one isn't always the best move, especially 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: for you know, B level guys and you give them 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: a level of money like Watson is not a great player. 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: He wasn't. I'm sure Buffalo didn't even MISSI right. Yeah. 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: A couple other things that happened COVID related. Uh, the 39 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: NFL gave teams the Okay to have people in their 40 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: war rooms. Okay, you can they last year they waited, 41 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: they had to do everything virtually. Yeah, and today the 42 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: state of Pennsylvania at announced that the school you allow 43 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: capacity in indoor stadiums, and I guess it's fiften games 44 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: will be yeah, let me let me get the exact 45 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: numbers on that, and I wonder obviously the Pirates are ahead. 46 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: I would say it's fifty percent for outdoor percent for indoor. 47 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: That's still a step up. So that's a big step 48 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: up if you're an outdoor to see outdoor right, Huge 49 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: for the Steelers, Huge for the Steelers. Yeah. So I 50 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: think the Pens were at like two thousand and what's 51 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: that place? Old sixteen can get four in there, so 52 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: they're doubling. Yeah, buckos the Pirates that anybody will notice 53 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: maybe for opening day, maybe for opening day or yeah, 54 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: maybe they're a great team this year. But for the Steelers, 55 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: that's that's great, and you're like, Okay, we're moving in 56 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: the right direction here. Maybe thirty thousand fans in there 57 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: an opening day, I mean that's a ton different things. Again, 58 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: you got five more months before you have to actually 59 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: do it right. Maybe right, I mean even just preseason games. 60 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: If they're at thirty five thousand in there, that's awesome. 61 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: You know. I was thinking about my son and it 62 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: took him to a Penn game last week and he's like, 63 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: I haven't seen a live event and forever, and you 64 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: know he's now old enough at fourteen that he wants 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: to do those things. Taking a preseason game, that's great. Yeah, 66 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: I mean I've seen obviously, I've seen live events. Um, 67 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: the last non working live event that I went to 68 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: was last year around this time when my son was 69 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: in the tough Man Contest and in West Virginia and 70 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: that place was packed packed. Okay, so but they'd be 71 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: back to now right, Well, they're in West Virginia, West Virginia. 72 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: They completely opened up again. But I wonder like high 73 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: school hockey and things like that that are going on, 74 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: or basketball, the basketball, Yeah, I mean the basketball playoffs 75 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: are starting the state playoffs this week, so that'll be 76 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: good news for them. Absolutely. I mean, I can't imagine 77 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: if your kid was in his senior year, you can't 78 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: go into you know, you can't come watch. My kids 79 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: aren't that age yet. But your son was a very 80 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: successful pitcher. But if you couldn't go watch, you'd lost 81 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: your behind, right I mean I I would drive me nuts. 82 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: And now your whole family get that back. You don't 83 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: get that back, right absolutely, I mean let alone. I 84 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: mean we're a football podcast or a football you know show. 85 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 1: You didn't play what eight games a year or whatever 86 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: in high school and you got to see none of them, 87 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: or only one person for your family could go, and 88 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: your brother can't go, or your grandma's the thing where uh? 89 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: I think it was a girls basketball player. Somebody posted 90 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: on Twitter that they're they had to sit in the 91 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: parking lot their daughter got hurt in the game and 92 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: they couldn't go, they couldn't go into building. But I 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: didn't even think of that. I mean, your kid gets hurt, 94 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: not just a bumper of bruise, gets injured in the game, 95 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: and you see the the ambulance going in or something. 96 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: You maybe you're listening on the radio, if you're fortunate 97 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: enough to someone in there's texting about it or whatever. Yeah, wow, 98 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: that'd be terrible. Yeah, So moving in the right track, 99 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: in the right right. I wish would harp on the 100 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: good news. I mean, it looks like things are trending 101 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: in the right way and people are getting vaccinated left 102 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: and right. So good the Pro day schedule. We're gonna 103 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: head into week two of the heavy pro days. Last 104 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: week we saw a lot of people were at the 105 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: Pro Days. Yeah. Now NFL teams are limited to three. Yeah, 106 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: but that's a pretty good crowd. It's Climpson in all 107 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: these places. So this week we've got Kansas today or no, 108 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking throng with today's March fifteen. Let 109 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: me at this right. Vanderbilt today Today is Vanderbilt, Kent State, 110 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee and Army. Not a huge Vanderbilt has got 111 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: a couple of guys. Kent State's got one or two. 112 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: Army is always interesting. Yeah, they're typically pretty good though 113 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: they're pretty disciplined. They're very disciplined. I mean they're I 114 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: don't know how to You don't see many Army dudes drafted, obviously, 115 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: but I would sure love to. I mean, if there 116 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: was somebody close, throw them on the team. That's where 117 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: all vell in the wave came from, you know that, 118 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: you get that kind of Are they twenty four ish 119 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 1: when they come out of the academy. I don't know 120 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: if they're that old. Maybe not not that old, Okay, 121 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: I mean they most went right out of high school 122 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: and and you know right and played like you're thinking, 123 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: if they have to they have, if they have to 124 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: serve their two years, and I don't think that. I 125 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: don't think they have to do that in Navy and 126 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: had to serve or whatever, or b y U on 127 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: a mission or any of those type of things. Um, 128 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: tomorrow is Georgia Tech and Temple. Georgia Tech has always 129 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: been a tough one for me. He's won such a 130 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: weird scheme. Yeah, but the thing is the thing about 131 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: they run that that that option scheme and a triple option, 132 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. For a long time, they were 133 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: getting really good wide receivers which didn't make any sense. 134 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: Yeah to Marius Thomas, to Marus Thomas, and they catched 135 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: like ten balls. Yeah, like and they're easy first round 136 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: picks and they're you know, we were like them big 137 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: so they can block you. Scott Johnson, you might want 138 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: to throw on the ball four or five times a game. 139 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: We don't talk about him is like maybe the best 140 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: receiver prospect we've ever seen come out of school. He 141 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: wasn't even run the forty and he found a pair 142 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: of shoes and ran like a four three at two 143 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: or thirty five pounds, and he's like style pits. Yeah, 144 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: just that. That's always been a really tough assessment of 145 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: their offensive players. And then the thing you don't think 146 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: about is their offensive lineman don't pass block Like Jack 147 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: Mason went there and has been really good run blockers, 148 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: turned into a good player, but he was a fourth 149 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: round pick because he never passed. That's hard. Uh. Temple 150 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: is also tomorrow March seventeenth. Big one around here. You 151 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: got Georgia, Yeah, Illinois, Pitt, Arizona, and San Jose State. 152 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: Pitt's got some dudes. Pit's got like six or seven guys. Yeah, 153 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: I think they had six or seven that we're gonna 154 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: be brought in by Combine. I think they have like 155 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: twelve guys working out tomorrow. Wow. That's great. So that 156 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: that's gonna be a big one scouts in town. George 157 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: obviously has a bunch of guys, whist guys. Green is 158 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: interested in the Steelers, and I bet he tests well. 159 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: San Jose State's got the wide receiver. Um yeah, I 160 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: forget his name too, but he'll be get drafted and 161 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: in Arizona's. You know, we've seen a couple of good 162 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: big pro days already to Oklahoma and some of these 163 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: other ones. I'm about this schedule on Thursday Auburn. Have 164 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: you even talked too much about the Auburn receivers. That 165 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: one dude is a world class track dude, right, He's 166 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: could have I mean, super ridiculous times. He could run 167 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: four too flat and then they have the big kind 168 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: of plot or they're very opposites. But there that's interesting. 169 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: And they have a linebacker you like to so that 170 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: that'd be a good one. Stanford, Stanford is a good one. 171 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: West Virginia. Yeah, you get some guys, got louis and 172 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: a tech Buffalo. Buffalo has got a couple of instricts 173 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: interesting players in this draft. Louisiana, Monroe, Troy, and Central Arkansas. 174 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: It's still stunning to me that eight schools are all 175 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: on the same day, But I guess you're Central Arkansas. 176 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: You just take whatever you can get handful, but ye, 177 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,119 Speaker 1: handful of people show up and record it all. Yeah. 178 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: Then Friday is Memphis TCU in Ohio. There's some guys 179 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: with you get some guys to safeties that are interesting 180 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: with that's coming up soon as our Triple Take gun safeties, 181 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: and I'm digging too those tonight. It's an odd position. 182 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: They couldn't and they're there. You start, you talked about 183 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: the Auburn guys couldn't be more different, the two the 184 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: TCU safety couldn't be more different more rig six two 185 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: and the other guys got the guys five eight, both 186 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: really productive and probably the best pair of safeties in 187 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: the league I would imagine are in college. Yeah, that 188 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: was a tough the safety position. To me, what might 189 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: have been the toughest assessment. I'm all looking forward to it. 190 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: I was gonna do it yesterday and I did it 191 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: over the weekend for Triple Take, and I'm like, it's 192 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: not a bad class. They're guys there, but figuring out 193 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: what order you wanted to rank them in, and it's 194 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: just everybody has more or number one. But really, when 195 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: you look at the safety, Taylor, you know, right, But 196 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: when you look at the safety position, they're two different positions. 197 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: You're you're asked to do two entirely different skill sets. 198 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,599 Speaker 1: It's like inside and outside linebacker, right, I mean, in 199 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: the Steeler scheme, those should not have the same We 200 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: both should not be called. Now you've got some of 201 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: some of the guys in this draft play they played free, 202 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: they played strong, they played in this you know, slot corner. 203 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: I I if a guy did that, I gave him 204 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: a little more. I bumped him up. And if he 205 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: has that scheme versatility, that's that. You know that that 206 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. The more I think about 207 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: the safety position, they could almost be lumped in three categories. 208 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: You know, the traditional strong, who's gonna be a nickel 209 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: linebacker a high percentage of snaps in this league. You know, 210 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: the traditional free, that's the the deep middle guy. And 211 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: now there's these Buddha, Baker, Matthews, even Malcolm Jenkins. A 212 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: lot of them have corner backgrounds. They play slots. Some 213 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: of them play slots against the the Edelman's of the world. 214 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: Some of them even play slots against you know, the 215 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: big slot receiver Ebron's of the world. And what I 216 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: mean what the Steelers try to do with Sean Davis. 217 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: He had some corn, had some corner ability. You could 218 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: play him at strong, you could play him at free, 219 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 1: and they tried him at slot corner. You know that 220 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: that has value. If the guy can do it. Yeah, 221 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: that that's a rarity. You know, like the Chiefs have 222 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: gotten a lot of that out of their safeties that 223 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: they give. You have them do a lot of different things. 224 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker, I think is the highest paid safety in 225 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: the league. Now. I think the kid from TCU A 226 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: Darius Washington. He's five eight hundred and seventy nine pounds, 227 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: but I think he could be that kind of guy. Yes, 228 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: he's got ball, he's got he's got playmaking skills. He 229 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: makes breaks on the football, does all the he's all 230 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: over the field, makes just makes plays. He's just tiny. 231 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: I mean, Bob Sanders was a great safety prospect and 232 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: if he could stay on the field, couldn't stay in 233 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 1: the field, and he played so hard. I mean he's 234 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: taken on Jerome Bettis in the hole. You know, like 235 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: that's not gonna go well for somebody mentioned Malick. You know, 236 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: why don't the Steelers sign Malik Hooker. He can't stay healthy. 237 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: You can't stay healthy either, right, I mean I would 238 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: consider like that and the super cheap if I'm looking, 239 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: would I rather have to because they said, well they 240 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: may not be able to have signed resigned Tarrell Edmonds 241 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: Next year, or they may choose not to pick up 242 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: his option. I'd rather have Tarrell Edmonds. I know he's 243 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: gonna play, I know he's right, he's putting a lot 244 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,839 Speaker 1: of snaps in. He's reliable, and you don't have to 245 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: worry about edmonds replacement for a little while, right, and 246 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 1: that doesn't have to be high priority. But yeah, this 247 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: safety class they were. You know, even if you look 248 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: at anybody that like any of the rankings that are 249 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: out there, they're all over the place. You got obviously, 250 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: you know you got you got mowering up top, but 251 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: then there's a whole bunch of guys between like fifty 252 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: and one fifty. There's like thirty safeties between there. Like, 253 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: it just depends on what you're looking for. You Right 254 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: when I started doing my linebacker one and I was like, man, 255 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a really hard time there against the five, 256 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: and there's gonna be eight or ten that I really like. Yeah, 257 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: I think the linebacker classes, this is what you're finding 258 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: now in college football. A lot of these guys who 259 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: are six one six to fifteen pounds or two six 260 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: one to fifteen they used to be running backs. That's 261 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: their path now they're just playing they're playing safety, they're 262 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,719 Speaker 1: playing linebacker, because you need to be fast at those 263 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,119 Speaker 1: two positions to keep up with all the spread offenses. 264 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: And they'd be smarter to even do more of it. 265 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: Like there's so many receivers that come out every year, 266 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: and I know everyone wants to catch the ball, but 267 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: if you can play defense and have some ball skills 268 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: and you're six one to ten and can play corner, 269 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: that's a better career. It's really it's really tough to 270 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: to kind of stand out. Yeah, that's the thing what 271 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: separates you from the other guys. It's funny, Like one 272 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: of the first ones I remember doing that to your 273 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: point was Williams, the linebacker with the U. I forget 274 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: his first name. He played next to Vilmah. He was 275 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: the first round pick, but he was a stud running back, 276 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: four or five star recruit out of California. Chose to 277 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: switch the linebacker and was like the most athletic kuy 278 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: of field as the first round pick. Um, you know, 279 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: that was a big thing we did a pit is. 280 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: We would bring in five or six running backs, all 281 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: shapes and sizes. Some of them are two hundred pounds 282 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: and they turned a corner or a kick returner or 283 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: wide receiver. Three of them are two thirty ish or 284 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: to twenty years. They were all the best athlete on 285 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: their high school right, and they're running back because they've 286 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: got the ball all the time. People didn't throw as 287 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: much back then two of them turn into linebackers. I 288 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: mean it was a great system. Yeah, And I think 289 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing here. I mean, if you look 290 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: at some of the sizes, I mean the nasal deane 291 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: at a Florida State six. Yeah, you know, ten years ago, 292 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, you just tell him, hey, put on 293 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: the put on twenty pounds or fifteen pounds your linebacker. Yeah. 294 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: The whole tweener world is much different now too. He 295 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: used to be a bad thing. Used to be a 296 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: bad thing. Now now teams are like, yeah, we'll take 297 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: a tweeter and we'll you know, we'll just play him 298 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: in our sub package. And the kid last year from 299 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: Clemson went in the first round. What is he? I 300 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: don't know, he's he's a football player. We'll just take 301 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: him and put him somewhere. And people thought Baron was 302 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: a bus because he wasn't a safety. But him and 303 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: Buchanan and some of those guys were the first to 304 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: kind of go down that road. But the first, the 305 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: first guy that I really remember doing that, and it's 306 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: not just because I covered the Steelers, but the first 307 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: guy I remember making that kind of transition was Cardinal 308 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: But I don't know if everyone remembers how freaky he was. 309 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: And he was a college linebacker that moved to safety 310 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: and then played corner in the NFL for a little bit, 311 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: and this day and age, it's always the other way around. Yeah, 312 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: people get closer to the line of scri but he 313 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: was the first guy that I remember like, Okay, he's 314 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: he's that tweener size. Uh, what do you do with him? 315 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: And they said, well, would just put him in safety. 316 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: There have been some other guys over the years that 317 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: that have done that. If he sees some you know guys, 318 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: well he was a college nose tackle, but we're gonna 319 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: move him to linebacker. There was a guy that Patriots 320 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: like Teddy Bruski did some of that, and some of 321 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: those There's been some of those guys like that, you're 322 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: you're right, um, he used to be that. He used 323 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: to be the worst thing if somebody called you a 324 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: tweener in the draft. You were screwed, you were doomed. 325 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: Roosevelt Nixt goes from nose tackle to fullback and things 326 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: like that. There are more transitions nowadays. Trying to remember 327 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: late though. I mean I was a little young and 328 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: I didn't cover the team. He wasn't a liability in 329 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: the deep path. It was a liability anyway. The only 330 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: his only issue is that he didn't catch the ball. Well, 331 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of takeaways. Yeah, but was he 332 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: the Paul Mall who rolled before Troy he was the 333 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: strong Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I don't remember him. 334 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: They always said, they always said somebody with that was 335 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: the deep guy, whether it was Darren Perry or those guys. 336 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: But he was down in the back and you know 337 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: a lot of yeah, right, Well, he'd be a great pro. 338 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: Now he's probably a linebacker now probably. Yeah, he just 339 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: kept him in line. He might have been a college 340 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: safety and moved to linebacker. They they had a flip flopped. 341 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: Doesn't need him in the line of scrimmage and do everything. 342 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: He'd have a lot of value. Yeah, I was. I said, 343 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: if he if he caught, if he caught the ball, 344 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: better he'd be in the Hall of Fame and say, 345 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: he's not far from a Hall of fame type of guy, right, 346 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: I mean, if he's if he's I think he has 347 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: like twenty career interceptions, if he had thirty five or forty, 348 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: he'd be in that conversation. Yeah, he's one of those 349 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: many many forgotten awesome defenders and Steeler history, that's would 350 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: be one of the better ones. And a lot of 351 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: teams history. Yeah, you know, just so many. But yeah, 352 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: that's I thought that safety position was interesting, you know, 353 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: was so just so many. I hadn't really looked at 354 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: it that hard because it was at a pressing need 355 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: for the Steelers until this weekend and I started watching table, 356 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: Like that guy makes good breaks in the ball. I mean, 357 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys they want to have been 358 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: least favorable, least excited to dig into. I'd rather look 359 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: at guards from this class. I can't. I mean, maybe 360 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: they take a safety late. Sure, I mean you could 361 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: always add one for depth special teams, you know, but 362 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: they just took one last year. There're two there's two 363 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: starters are both in you know, entering year four. Like 364 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: it's just not a person need they're all in their 365 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: prime right now. That's where you want your position to be. 366 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: And again, it's just not you know, if there were 367 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: three or four of them that were, you know, top 368 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: forty type guys, you go, Okay, I gotta look at 369 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: this position. But not so much. Not so much. It's 370 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: an odd year for the position, even though I think 371 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: the importance of the position is going up in the world. 372 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: I think it is. Yeah, I think it is. I 373 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: think you want to be stronger that you know you 374 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: you can't get beat over the top in this league, 375 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: and you can because so many teams are using bigger 376 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: guys in the slot. You have to have the ability 377 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: to match up with those guys. And people are, okay, 378 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna use Travis Kelsey just you know 379 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 1: in the slot. You're not putting a corner on him. 380 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna dominate to those guys up And 381 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: again you mentioned Isaiah Simmons last year. You had a 382 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: rough rookie year, and I think you have to have 383 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: a better plan of what you're gonna do with those 384 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: guys like Simmons and moles Jack come to mind, as 385 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: they can do everything. Miles Jack played slot corner, but 386 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: he's not gonna go to the cornerback room. On Wednesday afternoon, 387 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: he also played running back. That doesn't mean you want 388 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: him to do that, right, You can only do so 389 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: many things. And during the week to prepare for Sunday, 390 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna go to one position. Coach, you gotta figure 391 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: out who that is. Does that kind of worries me. 392 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: Slash excites me about uh Cormoa. Oh wass Cormoa? Guys 393 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: like that. He's a planning I almost wanted to put 394 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: him with my safety rankings just because of this. Yeah, 395 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: I put him at linebacker, but he could have been 396 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: easy just as easily. There were safeties in this rapt 397 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: that are bigger than him, right right, I mean he's 398 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: an overhang guy. I bet he's not to twenty. People 399 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: said he played a little over two hundred. I mean, 400 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: he maybe to twenty his pro day. But is he 401 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: gonna be you know what's he gonna be whenever he 402 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: really plays. And he's perfect for doing a lot of 403 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: things with blitz him and all those things, but that's 404 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: he's still a rookie like everybody else. Is he gonna 405 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: You're not gonna give him carte blanchees, do whatever you want. Yeah, 406 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: he's just he's a he's a chess piece. He's a 407 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: chess piece, and you can move him around. But the 408 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: problem with those chess pieces, Um, that's easy for me 409 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: and you to say, it's right, easy for the defense 410 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: coordinator or where are you on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon? 411 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: And he's you know, it's if the chess pieces in 412 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: year four, Okay, now he understands the concept and he 413 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: knows what we're doing here, but the chess piece in 414 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: year one doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Makes 415 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: the wrong read r in the wrong direction really fast 416 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: and looks good doing it, but he's run the wrong 417 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: There's a reason why it took Troy Paula Malu a 418 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: year to get it, you know, because he wanted to 419 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: understand the entire defense. That guy who if he's going 420 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: to be that kind of player, really needs to be 421 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: able to do that. He needs to understand the entire defense. 422 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: He needs to understand, Okay, what's the what's the linebacker's 423 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: responsibility here, what's the safety? What are the corners doing 424 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: on this? The offense trying to manipulate? Yeah, I mean, 425 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: it's kind of the opposite of the quarterback argument. You 426 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: know that you can be the mac Joe Owns Brady 427 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: pocket passer, but it takes you a lot of time 428 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: where these guys there, they don't get by with athleticism 429 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: in the first year on defense because you get manipulated. 430 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: I mean, even the Devin Bushes and Devin Whites, the 431 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: worlds that are true linebackers, their rookie year is gonna 432 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: be tough. Yeah, you're fighting on play action and all 433 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: this motion, and people are gonna attack you in the 434 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: middle field, let alone if you're a little bit position list. 435 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: So you gotta fight through a year or two. Even 436 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: like Hassan Reddick is a good example. I mean, he 437 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: lit up the senior boys. First round pick. Took him 438 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: a while before they realized, took him four years and 439 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: now he's gonna get paid. But I mean, if if 440 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have had the breakout year, now, nobody would 441 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: care about him, right, I agree. So it's always interesting. 442 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: Brandon Graham resunning with the Philadelphia one year close to 443 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars over the first Is he a free 444 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: agent though? Uh, they just extended They just extended him. 445 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: And pushed more money in the next year. Uh, they 446 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: need to cap space. Yeah, I thought that was kind 447 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: of a cab move. But yeah, kids, I mean he's 448 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: not young though. Kicking the can down the road. That's 449 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: kicking the can down the road. The other one is 450 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: Jason Varette signed with the Niners. Resigned. Resigned, Yeah good. 451 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: They were really lighted at the cornerback position. He's a 452 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: guy to root for. He's had so many injuries. He 453 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: was good for him last year though. Yeah, let's take 454 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly. You've 455 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Um, 456 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: as usual, we uh like if you want to follow 457 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: us on Twitter or like or follow, I should say 458 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: on well, you can follow us on Twitter too, but 459 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: we'd also like it if you subscribe to the networked 460 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 1: show shows that we have on here. 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