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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I am Dale Lally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt. It is a beautiful day here

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Speaker 1: at same phensycology would be helpful if Matt's uh, if

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Speaker 1: Matt were turned on here? Um no, I don't even

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Speaker 1: know which which one are you on here, Matt. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna start turning them all in here, Jacob, Matt's

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Speaker 1: Matt is sitting beside me here, but we can't hear him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that, but we'll

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Speaker 1: get that figured out here. But it is a beautiful

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Speaker 1: day here at St. Vincent College. Not a cloud in

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Speaker 1: the sky. Maybe just don't plug me. Come on, Jacob,

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Speaker 1: I'm back. There is maybe the nicest day weather wise,

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Speaker 1: entire camp going out with a bang here, unbelievably blue skies.

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Speaker 1: I love the mountains in the background. Well Blant just left.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get a fan boy moment with

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Speaker 1: mel Blanche did pretty high on my list of and

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Speaker 1: boy former Steelers for sure, And I'm actually kind of

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Speaker 1: proud of myself. One of the assignments they gave me

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Speaker 1: a three or four years ago. I put together a

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Speaker 1: video and did all the writing and um, narrating of

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Speaker 1: it of Mel Blunt as the second greatest Steeler that

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Speaker 1: ever lived. I mean, with seventy five, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: put a pretty good case together. You can find it

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. It's probably still are on Steelers dot com,

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Speaker 1: but pretty awesome, to be honest with you. Yeah, good

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Speaker 1: stuff there. Uh, Matt, the shoe has finally dropped. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the big story. Eleven games for Deshaun Watson, a

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Speaker 1: five million dollar fine. They really this was very calculated

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Speaker 1: by the NFL. Absolutely none of this. Maybe we should

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Speaker 1: have guessed this when the Texans were scheduled as Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: twelfth game of the season. This was the plan all

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Speaker 1: along at Houston at Houston. Yeah, his first game back

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Speaker 1: sure it'll be a really nice easy road for him. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: but the lead, after not playing for basically two years,

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Speaker 1: people are saying, well, that's not enough games for de

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Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Blah blah blah. It's the perfect number. It's

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Speaker 1: the perfect number if you want to stick it to

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Speaker 1: the Browns here and here's why. So to to have

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Speaker 1: your contract count for a season. You have to play

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Speaker 1: at least six games in an NFL season. They play

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Speaker 1: seventeen games. Now at eleven of them, he won't be there.

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Speaker 1: He won't be there for the first eleven. Eleven is

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Speaker 1: six an accident, not an accident. And also the Browns

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Speaker 1: cannot toll that contract. Therefore, he counts his entire contract

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Speaker 1: counts against their their cap this year, and then next

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Speaker 1: and so they can't do anything with that. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the Browns are thirty two million dollars

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Speaker 1: over next year's cap projected cap right exactly there. They

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Speaker 1: really set this thing up to win this year. I

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Speaker 1: mean to have all their chips in. Watson is going

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Speaker 1: to be this straw that takes him over. And they

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Speaker 1: had good enough supporting, cast better quarterback. We're gonna win

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Speaker 1: this whole thing. And you know this, this cap space situation,

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Speaker 1: which is nothing for a starting quarterback. Let it in

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Speaker 1: a star like him, and then the next three years

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Speaker 1: very bottom league. As you mentioned in cap space available

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Speaker 1: so they have all kinds of issues. Um. To your point,

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Speaker 1: way they did that. They don't have to pay hardly

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Speaker 1: any fine for when he's out. I have some ideas

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Speaker 1: but we can talk about. But I mean, what's next

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Speaker 1: What are they like? Three and eight? So I think

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Speaker 1: But if you look at it past Houston, it gets

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, at home, at Washington, at Pittsburgh. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a five win football team this year. See, I think,

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Speaker 1: now what do I do now? If I'm the g

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Speaker 1: It would help immensely. They probably, no matter what, after

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Speaker 1: I mean, I keep thinking about like Jack Conklin or

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Speaker 1: But when would Jimmy be ready? I mean, that wouldn't

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Speaker 1: can't give up a pick this year. You could pay Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: four point two million dollars Jimmy. So if the Browns

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Speaker 1: My ask is gonna be a two. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a little pie in the sky. I mean, what's Cleveland

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Speaker 1: do seven shots. Yeah, right, right right. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: my hunches either Tomlin decided that was two lacks or

427
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't put that in there. Let's go out with

428
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Speaker 1: a bang. I expect this to be a good practice

429
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Speaker 1: just from the you know, twenty minutes we've seen them

430
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Speaker 1: stretch and get ready. I mean they're in pads, there's

431
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: a little more pepping all their stuff, and that's good,

432
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sure they're excited to leave to

433
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Speaker 1: just like you know. Yeah, the race down the highway

434
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Speaker 1: will start tonight. I assume they're doing their walk through

435
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Speaker 1: tomorrow on the south side before they fly out. Yeah,

436
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Speaker 1: that makes sense. Probably do it in the morning as

437
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: opposed to doing it staying here another night and then

438
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Speaker 1: doing it. So I think this is definitely the last

439
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 1: night here. Um, yeah, I think that definitely good stuff today.

440
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: Definitely seeing some more pepping the step here and uh, well,

441
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 1: Calvin Austin out there again. He's looking a little more

442
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Speaker 1: mobile today than he had. I'm still not still not

443
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 1: ready to play yet, but not in the boot again.

444
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:46,919
Speaker 1: It seems like he's coming along well, I mean not

445
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Speaker 1: the word doctors. There's a heck of catch by Deante

446
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Speaker 1: by the Yeah, they're they're throwing bad balls here. Make

447
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: the guys go get them the wide receivers stuff before.

448
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: We just have to be be right next to the the receiver drills,

449
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: so that picking the guy makes plays and that Deonte

450
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: guy makes plays and yeah, yeah, they're gonna be okay,

451
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,360
Speaker 1: they'll be fine, They're gonna be okay. I actually talked

452
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Speaker 1: to Deante Johnson about that today, Matt and I asked him, okay,

453
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Speaker 1: so we just finally saw the five top five eligibles

454
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Speaker 1: on the team, or the top five that everybody presumes,

455
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Speaker 1: or the starting top five get on the field together

456
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Speaker 1: this week. First time in this training camp where you've

457
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Speaker 1: seen Johnson out there with Claypool and Pickens and Friar

458
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: Muth and Harris best five skool guys they got right,

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Speaker 1: And I asked Deonte said, okay, so if you're an

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Speaker 1: opposing defensive coordinator, who are you doubling? Somebody's probably gonna

461
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Speaker 1: get doubled. That's what he did say. Okay, he said, well,

462
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Speaker 1: they'll they'll double me. But then if they do that,

463
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Speaker 1: they're leaving They're leaving g P on the other side. Uh,

464
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Speaker 1: singled up. That's not gonna work well, right, Um, I

465
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Speaker 1: mean someone or two are gonna get favorable matchups, right,

466
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Speaker 1: I mean, not that you can doubling. I'm putting that

467
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Speaker 1: in air quotes. Isn't like doubling the dude in bast No.

468
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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta safety over the top or whatever.

469
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: Are you a linebacker takes away the slant or what

470
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: you know. There's a lot of scheme stuff, but you

471
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: can roll coverage or effect coverage for two guys reasonably well.

472
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Speaker 1: With with scheme and help out against two weapons in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Once you start getting the

474
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Speaker 1: three good quarterbacks are gonna find you know, the matchup

475
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Speaker 1: they like, I mean, let alone five. You know, there's

476
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Speaker 1: definitely some some matchup issues there when you look at

477
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Speaker 1: that group. I even talked to I talked to Anthony

478
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Speaker 1: Miller today or Anthony McFarland today as well, and I said,

479
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Speaker 1: you look like you've been much more decisive as a

480
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Speaker 1: running because, yeah, I finally you know, I figured out that, um,

481
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Speaker 1: a four yard run is a good is a good

482
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Speaker 1: run in this league. I was, I was, I was

483
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Speaker 1: looking for the home runs all the time in the past. Yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: it's funny. It shows so total coincidence. I was listening

485
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Speaker 1: to podcasts this morning. I preference preference for many of

486
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Speaker 1: my sentences with that, and Matt Waldboom was on kind

487
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Speaker 1: of a running back expert, and he has this little

488
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Speaker 1: theory of what what Frank Gore do? You know? And

489
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: he breaks down all these runs and he on his site,

490
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: he broke down an early career McFarland run, saying this

491
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Speaker 1: is where he left yards on the field, this is

492
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: where he danced too much. And then he showed the

493
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Speaker 1: exact same run with Frank Gore, even it's fifty three

494
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Speaker 1: years older or whatever he was at the end of

495
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Speaker 1: his career. Gore gets fifteen out of it. McFarland got one.

496
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Speaker 1: You know. It's just people don't think about being a

497
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Speaker 1: professional runner and knowing what you're blocking supposed to do

498
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Speaker 1: and how the defense is going to react. And you know,

499
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like, Wow, what an amazing run. He looks

500
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Speaker 1: like Marshall falk Er, Nadian Tomlins, and he was just

501
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: a professional runner that you know, allowed his teammates to

502
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Speaker 1: make them better. And that's why he's stuck in the

503
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Speaker 1: league for fifteen years exactly. And coaches love that stuff,

504
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: and I think McFarland is learning it and that's a

505
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: huge step. It absolutely is. And and for him, you know,

506
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: the big runs will come because he's typically if he's

507
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Speaker 1: not if he's not the fastest guy in the field

508
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Speaker 1: when he's out there, he's just second fastest. There may

509
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: be the defense is one guy who can run with

510
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: him speeds on a problem. Speed is certainly not not

511
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: a factor there. I also asked me, because so you

512
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Speaker 1: know you're playing a lot in the slot um in

513
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: those situations said, you get a linebacker on you, you you

514
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: gotta be you gotta be looking at that because I

515
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Speaker 1: I just won. Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's like, yeah, if

516
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Speaker 1: they put a linebacker on me the way I see it,

517
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Speaker 1: it's uh, I'm not sure what that was all about.

518
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Speaker 1: I don't know. One of the coaches I wasn't even

519
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: paying much attention was preaching to the crowd and now

520
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're all wound up. So if

521
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: energy is high here, that might have been Garrett Chemont

522
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Speaker 1: coming over. Yeah, I'm not sure what he told him,

523
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Speaker 1: but whatever it is, it's got a lit a fire

524
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Speaker 1: under this that maybe it's hey, this is our last

525
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: practice out here today. Let let them know you're here.

526
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Speaker 1: What it's sure it feels like and the energy is

527
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Speaker 1: high again, So this the that this uh you're right

528
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Speaker 1: about my farm? Yeah the way, And it really came

529
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Speaker 1: along way as a past receiver to this route that

530
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Speaker 1: they're practicing here today, and they practice it going back

531
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Speaker 1: the other way. It's like four steps off the line

532
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 1: and break back to the ball. They're practicing that that

533
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: little bubble screen yeah right right right, but it's not

534
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimment. You're trying to drive that

535
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: corner off a little, you know. So, Um again, I'm

536
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: sure we'll see those in practice. I'm sure you'll see

537
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: a couple of those routes on Saturday night. Yeah, they

538
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: practice these things, Jacob said. He came over and said,

539
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: create an away game environment. I don't know if you

540
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: can do that in this situation, but yeah, I don't

541
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Speaker 1: think you canna get that right or if crowd noise

542
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: is a problem, we can't get you get the play

543
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: calls in or out. Yeah, Derek, what back on the

544
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 1: field today. That's that's good to see. He hasn't been

545
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: he's been out for a while. Now. Um, we got

546
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Speaker 1: seven shots setting up here. It looks like it. Yeah,

547
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: here we go. I'm expecting good alright, so we'll give

548
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: you the run down here where we got going here.

549
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: Let we got ones versus ones as usual, and even

550
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Speaker 1: t J is out there, and it looks like Gentry

551
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Speaker 1: might be in the mix. He doesn't have a helmet

552
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: on yet, but he's yeah, he get the helmet on

553
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: now in there. Okay, so you get you get the

554
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: number one defense out there, and you got I can't

555
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: see who the back is. That's nag Nagy. Yeah, I

556
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: see Deante Johnson out there. Um, it's definitely Truebiskie in

557
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 1: the huddle with them, so he will take the got cam. Heyward,

558
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: you got what you got the top dog. There's still

559
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: national folks out there talking about this is if it's

560
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback battle. There, there's the crowd getting there. There

561
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: we go. Let go Okay, so we got we get

562
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: four spread out and back in the backfield. Naji Harris

563
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: to to the right to gentry motions from my left

564
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: to right. Priarmouth is not on the field. Trisky drops back. Oh,

565
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: somebody tipped out the line of scrimmage. Get tipped. It

566
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: looked like it and it tipped off of off of

567
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: Naji Harris's hands. Uh, somebody got a hand on that one. Up.

568
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: Harris was open for the touchdown. He was a little

569
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Speaker 1: piece of it. Yeah, tipped and then the wait what reacted?

570
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: Maybe it was him, but I thought it had been

571
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: an interior your guy. It was there for the taking

572
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: that it was it was. He was open. He made

573
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Speaker 1: a nice, nice route, Yeah, very much so. Having that

574
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: chance to watch Nazi run a lot of routes lately,

575
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: but it's really good at it. Yeah, absolutely, all right,

576
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: we're spread here again. Got two. I took a receiver

577
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: off Johnson and Claypool to the Yeah, Johnson and claypol

578
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: to the right. He's going taking a single match up

579
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Speaker 1: with Pickens. Almost came down almost hand catch, but in

580
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: a typical Pickens manner, almost makes a tremendous play on

581
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Speaker 1: the ball, and this time it didn't end up being

582
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. But I don't think they care who the

583
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: corner is. No, he's just won one on one matchup.

584
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Speaker 1: I mean he was going there the second the ball. Yeah,

585
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: that was was that Weatherspoon or Leavy Wallace over there

586
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: in coverage? I think it was Wallace. I think it

587
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: was Wallace as well. I think Wallace is almost always

588
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: gonna be the right corner. Or was it Sutton? Sutton's

589
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: lined up there now he might have been in the slot.

590
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: He may have been a slot. I got heavier for me.

591
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: We got a heavy formation with But that's open that

592
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren in the backfield. He goes in untouched the

593
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: skill guys in, Yeah, it was up. Somebody's down. It's

594
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: camp Heyward. Maybe that's why that hole opened up and

595
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: uh crowd got a lot quiet. Yeah, I hope this

596
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: isn't too bad. Yeah, they're checking him out to everybody's

597
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: standing around watching now, Yeah, not not a good that's

598
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: you don't need that. I don't need that. He's getting

599
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: up now, all right. He calls himself the Wolverine. He like,

600
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: he just says he's great healing powers. He's walking off

601
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: the taking taking the defensive line off now, like if

602
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: these guys, yeah, okay, word up, I'm walking off on

603
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: the slow. He's moving slow. I don't want to be

604
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: a doom and gloom here, but he's not moving very sprightly,

605
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: walking himself off. I would imagine that's the last you

606
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: see of him until week one something. He's ready. They

607
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: just told about of the game on Saturday. Just we

608
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: don't need to see that. And you know, alright, so

609
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: we got for risky here again. This is a shotgun

610
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: snap and that was Friar. Muth just took it away

611
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: from it, took it away from the cornerback. Yeah, that

612
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: was nicely done. And mostly the two's out there in

613
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: terms of skill guys, but Muth was probably the best player.

614
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Speaker 1: They went to him and he made a big play,

615
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: like a quick little slant there he was he on

616
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Speaker 1: the outside on that. I think I think he was

617
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Speaker 1: in the slot because there was another receiver underneath him

618
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: to the inside. All right, Now we got Kenny Pickett

619
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Speaker 1: with his chance here at this you're listening to ESPN

620
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: nine seven and Steelers Nation Radio and you hear the

621
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: sets under on their center and then shifts everybody out

622
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: and spreads everybody out here. Now he goes empty. There's

623
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Speaker 1: that little so there's that little screen that they were

624
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: running here got in I think pretty close. Yeah, I

625
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: think is that little wide receiver slip screen and that

626
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: was who is that over there? Twenty one? That's what's

627
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: his uh is? That's uh they changed that. That's the

628
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: numbers Blakestan Blake, Christian Blake. Yeah, Abriel almost made a

629
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Speaker 1: play there too, or now that was Scott and it

630
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: was Demons. Scott kind of came free and pick it.

631
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: It was pretty crafty about getting the ball out around

632
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: the rusher. See if he gets this one in as well,

633
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: that would be a win for the offense. Here and

634
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: there it is Miles Boykin. Yep, yep, touchdown the Miles

635
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Speaker 1: Boykin's quick hitting throws right inside the goal line. I've

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Speaker 1: been pretty successful on this mission. It looks like the

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Speaker 1: offense will eat well again tonight. They have now won

638
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Speaker 1: the drill. It's it's four to two now offense. And

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00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: now we see, yeah, see how Mason fairs here. He's

640
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: got Raider with him, he's got White, he's got Snell

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Speaker 1: on the backfield. Indications here Snell might not be the

642
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: second running back anymore. Yeah, I think j Warrens is

643
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: taking taking that over here looking. Uh. I thought he

644
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: was going to the outside receiver there, and yeah, I

645
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: did a nice job. HiT's a it's uh that is

646
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: uh Tyler Snead. Yeah, Uh just led him perfectly through

647
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: the kind of threw him open and the almost had

648
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Speaker 1: no choice for the catch and he put right on

649
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: him now. And what's funny, he's just from our angle

650
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: was a little bit of an optical illusion. But there

651
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: was a fade route going behind him, and that's where

652
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to the ball. But he

653
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: threw the nine thousand miles an hours like you're gonna

654
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: knock that guy over. But yeah, I thought it was

655
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: going to the outside receiver. I didn't see Tyler Snead

656
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Speaker 1: breaking out there right. Obviously, Mason Rudolph did and Tyler

657
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Speaker 1: Sneeed is not a big dude. That was that was

658
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: not that was well done. That was well done. That

659
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: was probably the best quarterback play off seven shots. Yeah,

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00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: one throw, but that was nicely done. Quarterbacks staid well

661
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Speaker 1: there picking that they did, Yeah, they did. They made

662
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Speaker 1: some nice throws there. We are overdue for a break.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Ally. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN

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Speaker 1: nine seventy. Offense wins seven shots, five to two, and

666
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Speaker 1: they're getting ready to do some some more drill work here.

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

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Speaker 1: live from Steelers training camp right after this. He's the

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Speaker 1: Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your home

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back, Iron,

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Speaker 1: Dale Well when he is Matt Williamson. This is the

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Speaker 1: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy. Once again.

673
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: That yeah, basically read zone offense here and we're seeing it.

674
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: We saw it once again. Jalen Warren used before. So

675
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: we're also talking off the air. A lot of nice

676
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: play designs, you know it just makes easy throws. Pick

677
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: up that that two yards you know, get get people

678
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: lean him one way and Hayward leaks out easy throws

679
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: six points. You know. I mean a lot of a

680
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: lot of it is play action based, oh so much

681
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: of it, right, Yeah, I'm not knocking Ben, but the

682
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: lack of play action these last four or five years

683
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: has almost been an anchor. I mean, like, I don't

684
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: think people realize in this town that's exclusively watched Steelers

685
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: how much it's used around the league, which is like

686
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: everyone listening of course, right, and you know what a

687
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: cheat code it can be. And I mean it's just

688
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: so hard on the defense. Put him in conflict, get

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Speaker 1: him leaning the direction and go the other way. Yeah,

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00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: we shouldn't also note that Kim Hayward is sitting on

691
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Speaker 1: the bench on the other side of the field or

692
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: they did not take him off on a card or

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Speaker 1: anything of that nature. So it looks like he's okay.

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Speaker 1: That's certainly promising, but just no his leadership and toughness,

695
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's just gutting it out. They thought

696
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: there was something seriously got him out of here. Um,

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00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: so that is one positive note. I mean I was

698
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: very worried, and he was down in the way he

699
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: walked off the field. Yeah, I've seen that like a

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00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: dozen times over the course of his career, and he

701
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: typically gets up. He's already he's standing over there with

702
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: the hat on. Now if he were his day is done, obviously. Yeah,

703
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: he's not gonna practice anymore today. But I think he's

704
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: just gonna he's not even like ice and anything or

705
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: getting any kind of treatment. He might have just got

706
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: banged on the knee, a helmeted the knee or something

707
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: like that. Very painful. Can you imagine that, Yeah, especially

708
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Speaker 1: with one of these big guys. Even even if somebody

709
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, kicked you in the knee, that would hurt

710
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: shin or you know. Right now, they're doing gold. I

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00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: guess you'd still call red zone because it's on the twenty.

712
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: But they're they're they moved everything back to the twenty um.

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00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: The offense is just offensive. Yeah, yeah, they offensive, Tom

714
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: and starting coming to their own I think ski team

715
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: is starting to match experience a little bit, and the

716
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are all way more comfortable than when we got here.

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00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a night and day, especially Pickett and Trabinsky.

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00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: I think you know, well, I wrote this last last

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Speaker 1: Saturday after the game we might almost met Canada and

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00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: apology after after this, I think it's very possible. And

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Speaker 1: I do think his scheme match as well with the

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Speaker 1: old line deficiencies. You know, part of me, deep down

723
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Speaker 1: to the NFL purists thinks, while this line could derail

724
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: all this optimism, but the way they scheme things up,

725
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: and this was your point between between segments, making a

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00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: heck of a lot easier on those guys. You know,

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00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: you don't need to be, you know, the killers out there.

728
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be Larry Allen and Walter Jones

729
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 1: paving the way for people if you can get better

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Speaker 1: blocking angles and get the you know, these guys in

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Speaker 1: conflict and move them off the ball a little bit

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Speaker 1: and manipulate them. And I do think these three quarterbacks again,

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Speaker 1: especially Trabisky and Pickett, really sell their fakes well too,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that goes a long way. Yeah, yeah,

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00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: I think you know, the sometimes the things like ball

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00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: hill handling management sometimes gets overlooked with quarterbacks. It's a

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Speaker 1: huge component. Remember boomer Sis and you know, right right

738
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Speaker 1: every just freeze everybody, you know, and sometimes a cameraman

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00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: didn't even know where the ball is at you right right?

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Speaker 1: Or Ben's pump fakes. You know how many how many

741
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: times he's changed you know, the a defender by doing

742
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: things like that. Those kind of intricacies are important. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've seen you mentioned a pump fakes. So see Mason

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00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: Rudolph used that a couple of times in this camp.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know where you see him kind of you know,

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00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: fake to throw and then and then zip it in somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if that's something he picked up off of

748
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Speaker 1: Ben all those years of watching Ben. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that was part of his game coming out of

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. I don't remember being a part of it,

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00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: nor do I m you know, there are those are

752
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: the things you can learn from watching, you know, a

753
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback like that. So maybe maybe maybe I'm sure

754
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: you robbed off on him, there's no question about that. Again,

755
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: offense is looking good, and now we've switched it to

756
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: the twenty six owned twenty six going long distance of

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00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: the field here from left or right. So yeah, we

758
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: got Kenny in there. Guy in a red beanie again

759
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: here with it's a lot of the guy in the

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00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: slot is wearing a beanie most of the time, So

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Speaker 1: who would that be with the Jaguars. I guess Kirk.

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00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: I guess he has He didn't play in Week one,

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Speaker 1: but I assume he'll play in this game. Um Za

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: Jones has slot experience. I doubt they're game planning for

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00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: Channault at this point in his career. I immediately thought

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00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: it might be a t N just because they moved

767
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: him all over the place. But I've never seen the

768
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 1: beanie line from the back of the Kirks this time.

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Speaker 1: This time he's on the outside because again, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen the red beanie guy line up as a running back.

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00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: So I tweeted out that jay Len Warren is running

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Speaker 1: with the twos and appears he has surpassed Benny Snell,

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00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: and one of the fantasy football guys out there tweeted out,

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00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: if you've been following me, you you knew this already.

775
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, if if you've been following me,

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00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: you knew this already. We've been talking about jay Len

777
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: Warren for three weeks out here, all right, this is

778
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: nothing new. I reported two weeks ago that he was

779
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: you're not here. We told you this a long time ago.

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00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: This was the path he's going on. Um, I guess

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00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: we don't know it for a fact, but my hunter,

782
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that people told me in

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00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: the organization that they feel like he's number Two's be

784
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: shocked if he didn't show fast enough. I I don't

785
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: know the Snells guaranteed a roster spot. I mean, I

786
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: don't think McFarland's getting cut. No, I don't think. Well,

787
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: they typically keep four backs, so Benny's value by attrition.

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00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: I mean, the other guys have all gotten hurt at

789
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: one time or another, not that Snow hasn't, but they

790
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: know what Snow is and they know if they Hey,

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00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: if we had to go into a game and Denny

792
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: Snow was our back, he could handle it. Oh yeah,

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00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: I give him more in a fifty percent chance of

794
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: making the team. But I think Warren's a lock and

795
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: I think McFarland's a lock. Where I wouldn't have said that,

796
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: but minicamp broke Yeah, right, you know they both those

797
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: guys have had good camps to be sure. Um, so

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00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: we'll see here little naked boot there. That's a big

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00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: thing they do with Lawrence too. By the way, Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of design movement. It's really really good

801
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: at and nice throw by pickt there on the naked boot.

802
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch Lawrence start to finish too. Yeah,

803
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: we'll see how much. First, I've got a couple of

804
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: guys in the beanies there. Well, they get the that's

805
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: the new running back that the Steelers just signed. Um yeah,

806
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: Borgiyet of Washington State. Mastertigue goes to the Uh he

807
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: was waved injured, so not good news for him. He's

808
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: in a boot. Yeah. Um, but uh, you know where

809
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: Miller is on I R. I mean he's still a Steeler. Yeah,

810
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: but the Max Borgie was with the Abroncos. That's him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's him with the ball. Okay, yeah, pretty well put

812
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: together guy. Yeah, he had a good career at Washington State.

813
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: Played in thirty nine games, starting seven eight yards thirty

814
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. That's that's not that he also caught a

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00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: gone hundred fifty six catches in his career. So yeah,

816
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: he catches the ball. Uh, I assume pretty well. Yeah,

817
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: sounds like get a shot here to see show what

818
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: he can do. Over the last couple of weeks of

819
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: training camp here. They never practice squad spot or another

820
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: injury opened up for him. You know, it's been a

821
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: lot stranger long shot stories than him that have made

822
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: You've seen it happen before. They signed a guy late

823
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: in camp like this, and you think, oh, that's just

824
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: another you just need a depth piece there, And next

825
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: thing you know, the guy ends up making the practice

826
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Speaker 1: squad and then becomes a point to Ali the Hand

827
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: or Villanueva. That's a pretty good one. Yeah, that they

828
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: signed late in training camp and you're thinking, okay, and

829
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: think about it if you're like in Borges mindset, like

830
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: I am going to run down on this kickoff and

831
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 1: destroy everything right right right, I get a short time.

832
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: This is uh the cannonball run time here exactly a

833
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 1: long way to go in a short time they get

834
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: to get there. So yeah, we'll see they're running stuff here. Yeah,

835
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. Um, so you know, picking these

836
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: guys look good doing it? Yeah, you know, I mean

837
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: that's gonna be part of the job. If you're not

838
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: the starter, you're not first your last little Ricky Bobby there,

839
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, first your last uh, and you better be

840
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: able to run some scout team stuff. So that's uh,

841
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: that's important as well. Um so, I you know, I

842
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: often look at that. People talk about, you know, different

843
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in practice, how's this guy, look, how's that guy

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Speaker 1: about the starter? And like, well, most of the time

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Speaker 1: when you see those guys out there, they're running scout

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Speaker 1: team stuff. It's not stuff that they're not doing their own.

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Speaker 1: They're not anything on their own right speak, you know,

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Speaker 1: doing what they're told and running the script of the

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Speaker 1: other team. So in those situations, like when a quarterback

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Speaker 1: throws an interception or something like that, I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to count that against him, Like the

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Speaker 1: receiver might have run the wrong route that he you know,

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Speaker 1: he I saw this on this on the flip card.

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Speaker 1: You saw that you ran an out. I threw an

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Speaker 1: in a slant and it looked really bad and it

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Speaker 1: got picked off. But that's not anyway, is because I'm

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Speaker 1: pretending like them the Jags, you know, that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: being told to do. I Mean, the only indicators sometimes

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Speaker 1: are if the coaches that are in charge of getting

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Speaker 1: the scout team lined up are yelling at you all

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Speaker 1: the time because you're screwing it up, Well that's not

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Speaker 1: a real good sign. No, You're probably not gonna be

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Speaker 1: around very lot. The hardest assignment in the world to

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Speaker 1: figure out where you are in the card and what

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. Absolutely not, Matt. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: another break. Here. We are through our one here of

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Speaker 1: our final training camp, broadcast here from St. Vincent College.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio in ESPN

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Speaker 1: nine seventy. We'll be back with our two right after

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