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

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

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Speaker 2: and Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lollie.

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Speaker 3: He has met Williamson and uh well, it's a beautiful

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Speaker 3: Wednesday here in Pittsburgh and getting used to saying that

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Speaker 3: now at this point, like saying beautiful days here in Pittsburgh. Steelers,

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Speaker 3: Uh well, making some making some roster moves here, Matt.

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Speaker 3: We talked about, you know, them meeting with Kauant Alexander.

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Speaker 3: That has not gone anywhere at this point. I've been

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Speaker 3: asked about that a bunch of worse. What what's going

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Speaker 3: on with cot Alexander? Just because a guy comes in

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Speaker 3: to visit doesn't mean they're gonna sign him right right,

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Speaker 3: you could be just kicking the tires seeing how it goes.

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Speaker 1: How healthy is this guy too?

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Speaker 3: Right, especially for you know, a guy who's been around

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Speaker 3: the league for eight or nine years. But the Steelers

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Speaker 3: did make a couple moves announcing the signing of Mason

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Speaker 3: Rudolph to a one year contract. That's something that you

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Speaker 3: and I kicked around a couple of different times. Also,

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Speaker 3: Luke Barku cornerback and Hikeem Butler wide receiver. Both of

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Speaker 3: those guys had been in the XFL, but both have played,

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Speaker 3: but they've had more than a cup of coffee in

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Speaker 3: the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Butler, Well, let's start with Barko because he was

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Speaker 2: a name I didn't know until this morning, so I

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Speaker 2: did a little bit of thumbnail scouting on him. He's

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Speaker 2: six to one, he's one ninety five. He was an

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Speaker 2: All Pro for the XFL. He was one of the

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Speaker 2: best corners in that league. This past year. His head

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Speaker 2: coach is heinz Ward. Coincidentally, you know, and I saw

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Speaker 2: something and I can't verify this, but I'm regurgitating this

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Speaker 2: information that heinz Ward's defense played the most pressed man

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Speaker 2: coverage and the most single high safety in the entire XFL, Which, folks,

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Speaker 2: we say this all the time. Teams tell you what

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Speaker 2: they think how they want to play going forward. They're

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Speaker 2: getting pressman coverage corners and they're gonna play a lot

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Speaker 2: of single high I mean, that's what the Steelers do,

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Speaker 2: even though the league is going the opposite direction.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know you so fans might look at that, go, well,

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Speaker 3: if everybody else is doing this, Why are you doing that?

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Speaker 2: Because then you're harder to play again, You're not the norms.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two years ago and nobody was running the football,

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Speaker 3: but the you know, the the Browns and the raven Oh,

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Speaker 3: look look at how they run the football. Everybody else

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Speaker 3: is throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: You know when the Steelers were playing their three four defense,

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Speaker 3: you know, back in the day, and they were one

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Speaker 3: of like four teams doing it. Yeah, you know, it

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Speaker 3: made it so much easier for you in the draft

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Speaker 3: to go. You know, hey, you get Joey Porter in

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Speaker 3: the third round. He get you know, Jason Gilden the

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Speaker 3: third round. You don't got to take those guys, you know.

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Speaker 3: So you know, it's all about zigging when everybody else

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Speaker 3: is zagging just because well, hey, everybody's you know, everybody

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Speaker 3: offensively is doing what the Rams do.

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Speaker 1: Now, well they were and now they're not. Now they're not.

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Speaker 2: So let me extrapolate on that. I mean, the defense

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Speaker 2: that's sweeping the nation is the Vic Fangio too high

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Speaker 2: gap and a half up front, and that's great, and

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Speaker 2: nobody wants to give up the big play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's the theme here is don't allow big plays, make

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Speaker 2: them matriculate them all down the field. And the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: and Bengals are the best examples ever. You know, they

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Speaker 2: were big play teams, huge play teams, especially the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago, Tyreek Hill bombs away. Well, they took

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Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill out of the equation and Mahomes learned how

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Speaker 2: to dink and dunk, and Burrow did too in a

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Speaker 2: very Brady like manner, making great quarterbacks even greater. They

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Speaker 2: added another club to their bag. So of course the

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Speaker 2: Steelers also do that. You know, teams do both with folks.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like we just play man every snap,

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Speaker 2: we play zone every snap. I mean these are thirty

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Speaker 3: The difference, though, man is if you're a pressman cornerback,

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Speaker 3: yeah you can play zone coverage. If you are a

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Speaker 2: And say it's much harder to find man coverage corners.

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Speaker 2: I say this all the time. One of the first

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Speaker 2: of college man coverage for receivers and corners because there's

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Speaker 2: not many of them out there that do it, especially

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Speaker 2: at the college level. But this is why you pay

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Speaker 2: make if it's Patrick, because if you have Ed Reid,

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Speaker 2: you know. So if you have an elite single high safety,

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Speaker 2: let them play single high, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're paying again. It goes back to we got

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Speaker 3: red paint. We're gonna paint to barn red, right, all right.

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Speaker 2: We have a great player. He allows That's why his

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Speaker 2: contrast's good, because he allows the other eleven to do

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Speaker 2: talk about, like in that Tampa or that Seattle cover three,

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Speaker 2: Earl Thomas is really a hockey goalie. You know, if

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Speaker 2: you have a great hockey goalie, your defenseman can be

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Speaker 2: a little more aggressive offensively. You know, Paul Coffee can

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Speaker 2: that's Earl, that's ed you know, I mean, and that's

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Speaker 2: really valuable. And it's not like man coverage has gone away.

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Speaker 2: It's just more situational now. And the situations are the

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Speaker 2: high the highest downs, yeah, downs, red zone, you know,

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing is if you have a really

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Speaker 3: good pass rush, you can you can do it that

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Speaker 3: you can play more man, right and you know, because

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Speaker 3: your guys, the quarterback has to get rid of the

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Speaker 3: football quicker. Well, if you're playing nothing but zone coverage,

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Speaker 3: the quarterback's just gonna sit there and throw five yard

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Speaker 3: outs all day long, right right, screens like that, you're

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Speaker 3: you know, great, fantastic. But if I'm playing, if I'm

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Speaker 3: them from getting off a line of scrimmage or disrupt

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Speaker 3: their route timing, I'm gonna get to the quarterback a more.

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Speaker 1: And b I'm the quarterback isn't.

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Speaker 3: Gonna know where to go with football, Like we're gonna

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Speaker 3: get more interceptions, tip passes, things of that nature because

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Speaker 1: Wants to it, before anybody's open.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're disrupting the timing of routes. You're

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Speaker 2: so they're getting the ball out of their hands in two

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Speaker 2: point four seconds. Well, that's harder to do with a

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Speaker 2: least things compliment one another. That I also as the corner.

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Speaker 2: I can't even the great ones. I can't play man

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Speaker 2: coverage for three point five seconds, you know the past

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Speaker 3: Help me, you know well, And the rules are set

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Speaker 3: up against it being able to do that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the reality of it. You can't.

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Speaker 3: It's impossible in today's NFL, with the rules the way

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Speaker 1: You can't do it. You can't do it.

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Speaker 2: And you actually there's a shortage of man coverage corners.

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Speaker 3: The other part of the equation is, so if I

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Speaker 3: you know outside of Cincinnati, which has multi to very

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Speaker 3: good receivers. Yeah, who's the receiver. Who the receivers with

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Speaker 3: Kansas City that scare you Kelsey?

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Speaker 1: They got one. Who are the receivers with the Bills

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Speaker 1: that scare you? Digs? They got one.

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Speaker 3: But he's gonna be a rookie tight end. So if

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Speaker 3: I look around the Okay, the Dolphins have two good receivers.

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Speaker 1: They do.

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Speaker 3: But if I can match up, if I could take

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Speaker 3: if I could take Waddle out of the game with

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Speaker 3: vice versa. So if I can if I'm playing the

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Speaker 3: Bills and I can double, you know, I can give

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Speaker 3: give help over the top against Digs, but my other

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Speaker 1: That's a win for me.

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Speaker 3: Like and and so you know these press man cover

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Speaker 3: deep threat, that's what he is. He's not going to

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Speaker 3: catch eight passes for fifty eight yards against you.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna Nickel and Dimia Day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not gonna happen, you know, kind of the

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Speaker 1: And guys like that.

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Speaker 3: They're not going to catch six passes against you. You

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Speaker 3: just have to keep them in check until your pass

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Diggs will have eight for one twenty

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Speaker 2: you know, and hurts you time again, just a style

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Speaker 2: of receiver. So I know, we want to talk about

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Speaker 2: Rudolph and Butler too, because I think they're very noteworthy

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Speaker 2: additions as well as we often do we go down

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we started this off by talking about Luke Barkhu,

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Speaker 3: who's and to your point, Matt, I mean, if you

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Speaker 3: start looking at that cornerback room, they're all big guys

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Speaker 3: who are pressing in corner, all of them.

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Speaker 2: They're all big, right exactly, They're all length, they're all

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Speaker 2: of height. You know, why's my let gone?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: You look like the rest of them either, you know,

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Speaker 3: Probably i mean, the expense part of that was. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure there was some some money factor to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you could get you can pick up four million dollars

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Speaker 3: by letting him go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that might go to a linebacker, ed rusher

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Speaker 2: Rudolph or whomever. So that that's made sense all along.

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Speaker 2: It was a crowded room. But you added another guy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if Barku Barkoo to me is in the

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Speaker 2: throwaway camp body, I'm excited to see him. Maybe he

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Speaker 2: even makes a team. But he's six to one and

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Speaker 2: he plays tons of pressman coverage. That's where we were

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Speaker 3: You know, Oh, I guarantee you're going to see that

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Speaker 1: But yeah, when you when you bring in.

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Speaker 1: With those guys. Yeah, Okay, here here's our two pie

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know they now go against you know, chuks

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, I think that's there's definitely something Again,

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Speaker 2: And they're man heavy guys. You know, they're not off

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Speaker 2: very physical. His heights aras college tape was impressive. Again,

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Speaker 3: So he goes to the XFL catches fifty one passes

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Speaker 3: Certainly that's a step down in competition, right, but again,

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Speaker 1: Was officially over. Oh okay, which happened on Which happened

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Speaker 2: Okay, And you would think those guys are in football

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Speaker 2: you know. I mean, I'm sure Butler as a draft

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you take a job, and you know,

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Speaker 2: So Butler, I'm not saying he's chasing Cleaypool or Robinson,

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Speaker 3: So that brings us now to Mason Rudolph, and I

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Speaker 3: sure this is a veteran minimum deal. He's got experience,

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Speaker 3: he's got experience in your system. He's he's the most

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Speaker 2: Signed, and I'm sure, and I know we're gonna get

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Speaker 3: That's just that's just you know, you know you're not

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Speaker 1: But those backup roles, those things change all the time,

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Speaker 1: Those things happen, and they usually happen organically.

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Speaker 1: If things go well, we could resign you.

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Speaker 3: As is the number two next year, where if somebody

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Speaker 3: He probably gets a few more because again, you know,

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Speaker 3: you kind of know what Mason is. You know at

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Speaker 3: this point what Trubisky is. You're gonna give pick it

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Speaker 3: as many snaps as you can in camp this year.

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Speaker 1: M hm.

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Speaker 3: And maybe you know, you let Tanner Morgan go out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, But there's also ratifications. I mean there's also well,

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Speaker 2: if Kirk Cousins gets hurt or whoever sears, might get

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Speaker 2: some calls, you know, like you have assets there now,

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Speaker 2: you know, like yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know I've seen some stuff about that.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Steelers, you know, they could trade Mason or

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Speaker 3: they could trade Mitch Trubisky now since they've resigned Mason.

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Speaker 1: Real what you don't do it just to do it?

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Speaker 3: No, right, right, right, right, like no, you know, having

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Speaker 3: having this kind of quarterback depth is very.

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Speaker 1: Nice, very nice.

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Speaker 2: That's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: You don't just give it away.

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Speaker 2: Mitch is on the market now, he's got to go

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Speaker 2: get him out of here, you know, save the cap space.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that at all. I just think that

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Speaker 2: you'll be one of the first team's teams call whenever

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Speaker 2: their rookie doesn't look good or their starter goes down

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Speaker 2: or whatever. There's a lot of tape of Rudolph and Trubisky.

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Speaker 2: I would think Tribisky's more of the target if you're

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Speaker 2: that type of team. That's now all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Steelers might have said in the offseason, now you can

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Speaker 2: have Mitch for a fourth, but no one's biting. But

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Speaker 2: now it's like, wow, you can have for third.

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Speaker 3: You know what, We're not gonna We're not gonna give

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Speaker 3: him away, but you know, if you want him. And again,

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned previously, sixty nine starting quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 3: league last year. Yeah, you know, so let's let's talk

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Speaker 3: about that in the next segment here, Matt, let's let's

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Speaker 3: go over the quarterback depth charts around the league and

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Speaker 3: figure out where the Steelers room ranks in that in

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Speaker 3: that hierarchy. And when I say room, I mean the

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Speaker 3: entire room. I'm not just just judging the starter because

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Speaker 3: I think it's I think quarterback rooms especially go much

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Speaker 3: much deeper than that, because it's just such an important position.

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