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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Leiley. He is Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: this is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. Matt Um

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady making it official official this time. I guess, um,

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Speaker 1: February one, he retires. Uh, it looks like this was

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Speaker 1: gonna take. Yeah, I believe him, though, Yeah, I believe

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Speaker 1: him this time. I wasn't so sure that last year

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Speaker 1: was some of the stuff off the field that he

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Speaker 1: was going through. Um, But I do think that this

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Speaker 1: time around, Tom Brady is done playing football. I agree,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's the right move. Like he's still

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Speaker 1: a good player. I mean, it all comes out unbelievably quick.

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Speaker 1: He led the league again and getting it out of

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Speaker 1: his hands. But he's not a great player though. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing, is what I really noticed. And I paid

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Speaker 1: a lot of tension this last year because Ben was

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Speaker 1: right there with him in terms of you know, getting

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Speaker 1: it out of your hands. But unlike Ben's last year,

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Speaker 1: Brady's a dot was still really high. He had that

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Speaker 1: remarkable blend of going deep as well as getting it

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Speaker 1: out quick, which is you know, utterly impossible to do

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Speaker 1: almost and he was still able to do that last year.

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Speaker 1: This year didn't have that at all. I mean they

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Speaker 1: were like the bottom of the league and explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: They had the worst running game in the league. And

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Speaker 1: it became very apparent that Brady didn't want to hit

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Speaker 1: it anymore, you know. I mean that. Yeah, I can

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Speaker 1: still play, but I don't want to get hit anymore.

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Speaker 1: This isn't much fun as it used to be. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's when you have to hang it up

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Speaker 1: because I think next year could have been ugly or

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Speaker 1: unmemorable for him, you know. And so I think it's

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Speaker 1: the right move. Yeah, I do too, And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that it's going to have a trickle down

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Speaker 1: where the other quarterbacks lands. You know that that musical

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Speaker 1: those music chairs, there's one less person in line in

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Speaker 1: those musical chairs. Yeah. I didn't know we were having

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Speaker 1: this conversation, but a little you know, I do my

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Speaker 1: pet projects this time of year, and one thing I'm

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Speaker 1: doing from my podcast is my co host and I

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Speaker 1: are just gonna bet on every team's I'm not betting anything,

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Speaker 1: but who's every team starting quarterback going to be? Like?

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Speaker 1: We know, it's picking, it's my homes, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: Cousins isn't going anywhere. But what I started doing was,

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Speaker 1: you know, I projected a trade Lamar to Atlanta, you know,

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Speaker 1: things like that. And there's three or four maybe even

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Speaker 1: five musical chairs open that people aren't going to be

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Speaker 1: happy with, you know, like I have Jacoby Brissett as

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Speaker 1: it's Kyle Trash going to be the starter in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it gonna to be Ritter? I mean

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Speaker 1: bad answers right now at the quarterback position. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be definitely be interesting to see how that all

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Speaker 1: these guys get traded to. Um, if they get traded

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Speaker 1: is Carson wentz to in Washington for example? Did they

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Speaker 1: stick with him? What happens with Sam Donald in in Carolina?

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Speaker 1: And uh, well we know that Sean Payton is now

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Speaker 1: hours has been three big newsworthy items Senior Bowl aside,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned Wentz, you know, like again we're just

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Speaker 1: doing it for fun. I'm putting my reputation on the

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Speaker 1: line or anything. But I mean I have Jordan's Love

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Speaker 1: might a team preferred Trabinsky to all those, you know?

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Speaker 1: Mr Whisky I don't because, as we saw this year,

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Speaker 1: they needed two quarterbacks and you know, people look at

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Speaker 1: what Mr Robinsky is being paid for three or what

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Speaker 1: would then have to replace miss Drabinsky. And oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, still get a third guy, and you need

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Speaker 1: three quarterbacks and you're probably a four in camp. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have you right, So to me, he just

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Speaker 1: hold on to him and say, hey, Mitch, we we

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Speaker 1: quickly he's gonna you know, get into the offense and develop,

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Speaker 1: because again all your snaps for the most part are

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Speaker 1: going to Kenny Pickett. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'm

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Speaker 1: not dumping Drabinsky, certainly for salary cap reasons or for

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Speaker 1: I like Kenny Pickett. I'm optimistic about him, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not sold lock it up that he's a good quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he could take a big step

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Speaker 1: league's crazy. Yeah, I mean I lived through the Cordell

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Speaker 1: by the end of people just said you're nuts. You're

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Speaker 1: nuts right at the Star right right. So, I mean

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Speaker 1: the way that the Steelers UH schedule sets up next year,

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Speaker 1: that again we talked about this before. I think you

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm take another shot at this thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're just gonna totally rebuild. So there

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Speaker 1: Peyton and Wilson are gonna be glued together at least

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Speaker 1: draft picks again. Exactly, Yeah, exactly. It's great they have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of cap space. But um, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: but don't know, a lot change in the league super quick,

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Speaker 1: happening here around the league. UM. In terms of mobile

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Speaker 1: this week though, yeah, yeah, always always UM. In terms

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Speaker 1: we're just talking about all the quarterbacks that may change scenery.

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Speaker 1: I have a change of scenery. UM. But I think

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are set up nicely going into this offseason.

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Speaker 1: There are some teams that are really hurting. We haven't

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Speaker 1: Focus put this chart out where they there's three columns.

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Speaker 1: with this, and their resources are pretty abundant. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, matt Um watching the quarterbacks here at

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Speaker 1: You know what we forgot to do on Monday, Matt,

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Speaker 1: what's up? Mock draft Monday madness? Wow, we even know

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