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Speaker 1: At least. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your home of the Black and Gold Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly with Matt Williams

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Speaker 1: that we are alive from Steelers training camp here at St.

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Speaker 1: Vincent College and the Stealers getting ready here to run

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Speaker 1: what I believe will be the final period here of

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Speaker 1: team competition here and I get a first and ten here.

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Speaker 1: So how about this though? We got Pickens Deonte Claypool,

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Speaker 1: Friar Muth and Nausey Harris the field to get with

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Speaker 1: Mitch Drobiskie in number one on boom hits, Friar mu

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Speaker 1: over the middle. Well done. I can't remember hurry up

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Speaker 1: here this hurry up yeah. I can't remember many reps

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Speaker 1: when you had those five on the field altogether, and

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Speaker 1: it's exciting to see its first down there. Whoop? That

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Speaker 1: did jump starter. I don't know if a false start

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Speaker 1: or I think so. I'm not sure if I was

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Speaker 1: It looks like they are in another dime a little

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Speaker 1: dime here too. That was on the offense, Little dime,

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Speaker 1: dime dime dime excites me. That's a nice strow right

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Speaker 1: down to two in a row, right to firemouth in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. How many of those happened

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Speaker 1: last year? Not many, especially hitting him on the run,

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Speaker 1: lighting him on the run fifteen yards down field, two

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Speaker 1: plays in a row. That the thirty eight given. It

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Speaker 1: took a shot on the outside there. One on one

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Speaker 1: pickings not the best round ball, to be honest with

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Speaker 1: you now, trying to lead him a little bit. That

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Speaker 1: looks like a predetermined read. So I was getting one

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Speaker 1: on one and it wasn't a great throw. Probably you

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Speaker 1: put a little more air under it. Fourteen, Go be big.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of kicking himself. Fourteen, go be big,

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Speaker 1: Go be big, and go be the best guy out

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Speaker 1: there and pluck it over his head. Yeah. I do

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Speaker 1: like seeing with used back to back plays that loved him.

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Speaker 1: He's now out and Hayward's in. Okay, Hayward plays a lot.

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Speaker 1: Get the Harris split all the way down here at

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Speaker 1: the bottom with Deante Johnson to the inside. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if anyone on this team has more catches in

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Speaker 1: out of his brakes, and uh, you wonder so hard.

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Speaker 1: I mean, not knowing the calls and the all the adjustments.

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Speaker 1: If that's on the rookie or yeah, it was Hayward

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Speaker 1: supposed to sit that one down because he he threw

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Speaker 1: it as if he was just gonna sit down. Boom

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Speaker 1: him and the numbers. But hey, we're broken outside and

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Speaker 1: I'm I've heard some things about that in the game too,

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Speaker 1: where there was that near interception that looked like a

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Speaker 1: terrible decision, but we don't quite know. I mean, did

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Speaker 1: the the youngster not realize it was zone when it

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Speaker 1: was man or you know, vice versa. The deep ball

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Speaker 1: there overthrew them again, you had a one on one

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Speaker 1: that was gunner versus the corner there twenty something might

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Speaker 1: have been so witherspoon. Yeah, we got a fourth down here,

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Speaker 1: there we go. So let's run us through here. It says,

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Speaker 1: uh Rabisky has him in the in the huddle. Here

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of offensive substitutions. You've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of different guys, and now we get a bunch

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Speaker 1: And this is the one Zoe. You got the same

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Speaker 1: five that I mentioned that you had played the most

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Speaker 1: snaps ten Yeah, eleven personnel looking looking Friarmouth. Okay, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get that. I think you would have got that.

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Speaker 1: He caught that about two or three yards short of

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Speaker 1: was super quick to turn up field. There's no one

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Speaker 1: around him. Trubisky put it on his his upfield shoulder

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Speaker 1: Then they clock it. Uh, we don't have the we

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Speaker 1: but they can't. They can't done too much time. But

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Speaker 1: obviously they're unning a two minute drill. Yeah, they're down

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Speaker 1: It's one thing we missed being up here. Whisky breaks

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Speaker 1: And then one thing I was about to say was

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Speaker 1: but they're getting five guys in the route, and those

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Speaker 1: That one was kind of the opposite where they're keeping

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Speaker 1: Nausey in for a second. But I was on purpose

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Speaker 1: because they were running the screen. They just read it

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Speaker 1: he was in line that was actually actually eighty three

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Speaker 1: gets about three yards there. I assume that was the

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Speaker 1: and then he just kind of ran underneath it all.

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Speaker 1: Is that twenty nine? That? Yeah? So Witherspoon breaks that

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Speaker 1: interesting Hayward play in these situations. Uh. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: But he's gonna play snaps. I keep talking about him.

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Speaker 1: all right? Pick it takes a shotgun, snap drops back,

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Speaker 1: like he's mixing it up a little something there, some words,

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Speaker 1: it looks like all's well there. I thought Deante had

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Speaker 1: So it looks like this one is going to be

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Speaker 1: pick It running this one. Okay, So the number situations

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Speaker 1: so some there's some out there, Yeah, some out there,

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Speaker 1: good pass rush off the edge? It was who was

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Speaker 1: I guess McFarland could get involved in this taking de

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Speaker 1: out to Pickett, has it? We had a second and

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Speaker 1: give him five on that way, and boy can it

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Speaker 1: looks like pick a drop back to past looking looking

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Speaker 1: gunshofsky again down to the third. Yeah, drove up the field,

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, nice play there by there. It's thirty five,

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Speaker 1: well done, Pick. I tried to drive it in there

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Speaker 1: Let's stock has gone up to me, I thought dramatically

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Speaker 1: in the last one play where he that he didn't

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Speaker 1: But his run defense a run. He's tough. I mean

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Speaker 1: their version and I think Hilton's the guy one thinks

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Speaker 1: of of a smaller, undersized slot that might not have

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Speaker 1: the best forty time or the best height and weight

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Speaker 1: their body around, they have some short area quickness, they're

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Speaker 1: really physical. They're blitzers. Molet's the new version. And I

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Speaker 1: he's a pure slot that does exactly what I said,

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Speaker 1: And again I every time I watched him in this

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Speaker 1: and and UH said little. I mean he's hunter pounds

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Speaker 1: last season. He's rotating as the Lion's third cornerback. Not

425
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Speaker 1: what you want. I got another top five pick. Like

426
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: we've mentioned with Wilson that they're counting on to be

427
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: a long term guy. You wonder, you know, is he

428
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 1: gonna end up like uh, the Jags, dude Henderson that

429
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 1: they traded the Carolina for a third round pick and

430
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,919
Speaker 1: now he's fighting for playing time. You've brought up a

431
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 1: lot corners, A lot of them have a better stay

432
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: with their second team than their first. Yeah, I mean

433
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: it's becoming a trend more and more in this league,

434
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Speaker 1: and who knows. I mean, could we even be in

435
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Speaker 1: the conversation six months from now saying Steelers are picking

436
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Speaker 1: twentieth overall. So there's a lot of corners. This a

437
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Speaker 1: good year to go all the way in on a

438
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: corner maybe, But I think a lot of those guys

439
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: get overdrafted because there's a shortage and then therefore, don't

440
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: you know, hit the ground running. Yeah, it's tough. It's

441
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 1: a tough position. It is because you're gonna be tested.

442
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: You're gonna be tested a lot and a lot of

443
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Speaker 1: times at the NFL level. Um teams are projecting what

444
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: that cornerback. Okay, we're gonna play a lot of man here. Well,

445
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: he played a lot of zone in in college and

446
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: nobody threw at him. Threw at him. They don't get tested,

447
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 1: They get a reputation they're the best athlete on the field.

448
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: And to your point, I think you also draft athletes there.

449
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: You know that you draft the six foot kid that

450
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: runs the four three and we'll teach them how to

451
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: play football, maybe till year four, until we learned how

452
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: to play football, or you know. The Steelers have had

453
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: good success grabbing corners from other teams you know, Witherspoon,

454
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Speaker 1: Nelson Hayden. You know, let's let someone else do the

455
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: hard work with them. Then they draft them high and

456
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: you know, grab the the athlete that has already learned

457
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: a thing or two that just maybe the way to

458
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: go at that position. I'm thinking that more and more.

459
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Speaker 1: By the way, did you see Already Burns list is

460
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: number one on the Seahawks death chart. So there were

461
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Speaker 1: many that were quick to point out, well, the Seahawks

462
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Speaker 1: of you know that five of their defensive starters or

463
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: even six didn't play well. Were you were the same

464
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: ones that were thrilled with Already Burns being here because

465
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Speaker 1: he was one of the six. He's one of the

466
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Speaker 1: six guys that you're counting there. Yeah, and so, I

467
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: mean I realized some of them are Jamala Anderson and

468
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: Quandrie Digs and Brooks their young impressive linebacker. But it's

469
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: not like that. Teams the eighty five Bears and five

470
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: or six of their starters are great, great players. Yeah,

471
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Speaker 1: the Packers activated offensive lineman Lteen Jenkins. Yeah, there's a

472
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Speaker 1: lot of activations, Christian Watson, tight end Robert Tonyan. So

473
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Speaker 1: I guess that's good news and it's kind of like

474
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Speaker 1: the Dobbins thing. Okay, we're activating you, doesn't mean you're

475
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Speaker 1: gonna be there in week one. Oh. Also in the

476
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Speaker 1: Dobbins news, no news, no good news on Gus Edwards either. No,

477
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: he's still he looks like quite a way way so

478
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 1: Mike Davis. He's the two right now. To Davis's credit,

479
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: one year ago, we didn't think he's stunk. You know,

480
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 1: he had a really bad year with Atlanta. No one

481
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: thought he was a second coming to Jim Brown or anything.

482
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: But he's had an okay career. But still, I mean,

483
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: that's not what you were counting on if you were

484
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I wonder with their wealth of draft pick

485
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: here comes the rain, here comes the rain. Yeah, I

486
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: wonder with the Ravens wealth of draft picks that everybody praised,

487
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: you know, you had five fourth round picks or whatever

488
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Speaker 1: it was, maybe you should have taken a back in

489
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: the receiver earlier offense does still matter, just continuing other

490
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: than tight ends, take a bunch of tight endsnch ofight

491
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: ends right and upon her. And I know they took

492
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: a back in the sixth round, but maybe you should

493
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Speaker 1: have used the mid round pick on those two spots. Yeah. Um,

494
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: how about this one? Former pit player Quadre Olison was

495
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: first up for the Falcons and they're running back rotation.

496
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: Really that surprises me a little bit. I mean that's

497
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: over our's year. I wonder if Cordill Patterson's actually going

498
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: to be more receiver again. Might be. Ye, they're short there.

499
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Speaker 1: They like big physical receivers. Um who five He had

500
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: five carries for thirty three yards though, so it wasn't

501
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: it wasn't awful. No, I mean he's a downhill pounder.

502
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 1: I mean he's not Derrick Henry, but they look for

503
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry types. You know, they want big physical guys

504
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: and he fits that mold. Yeah. Um, I'm just reading

505
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: through some stuff here on on the NFL dot com

506
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: with takeaways from some of the games. Here, there's this

507
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: is one Steelers first round quarterback Kenny Pickett turned down

508
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: the volume and all those negative practice reports with an

509
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: inspired first showing a bit extreme after Mitch Trobiski and

510
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph helped serve with their position of positive outings too.

511
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: Uh okay, I mean I guess what they're saying is

512
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: all three places they all played well that's exactly what

513
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: we're saying. Yeah, I mean, I guess there were some negative,

514
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: you know, reports about their picket and not of late,

515
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: not as many of late. Yeah, I think the reports

516
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: were more of he's not Joe Montana yet, folks. I mean,

517
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: he looks like a rookie, and he looked very much

518
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: like a rookie early in camp. As we suspected. The

519
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: Jets have moved at George fan over to right tackle

520
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: after signing Dwayne Brown. He'll be the left tackle at thirty.

521
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: Should work out well enough, I suppose seven, and they

522
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: gave a two year deal. These left tackles are now

523
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: just starting to hang around forever. The wit worse and

524
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, they're smart and tough, goes a

525
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: long way. It was a long way when the tricks

526
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: of the trade. Uh, looks like Beckton will ever play

527
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: for them again. Yeah, I don't know. I mean a

528
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: question of Browns on a two year deal and Beckton's

529
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: kind of expensive, and there was not great news before that,

530
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: and who knows. It looks like the forty center position

531
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: speaking of that, or speaking of the center position, looks

532
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be Jake Brendel because Daniel Brunskill, who

533
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 1: was fight battling with him for a starting job, has

534
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. That's another one that, like their interior

535
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: offensive line is a problem is a underreported disaster or

536
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: right now. And they have a lot of mid round

537
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: picks and banks. There was their second round pick out

538
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: of Notre Dame last year, which made no sense to

539
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: me because he's like a three or fifty pound masher.

540
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: He's not a shanty type player at all. Um the

541
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: podcast I host with Brian Peacock, he does the Niners

542
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: and he hates the idea, but he thinks that they're

543
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: looking for more power, Like I don't know why you

544
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: miss messed with the best running game. And yeah, interior

545
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: line for the Niners is a problem area. So who's

546
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: the starting center? Now? Uh? What did I say? His name?

547
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: Was here? Somebody I've never heard, somebody who's never been

548
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: in my kitchen, Jake Brendle. Wasn't he the fly or whatever?

549
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Might have been the same guy. Did you see justin

550
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: watching former South Fayette football star Justin Watson five catches,

551
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: including a twenty two yard touchdown for the Chiefs on Sunday,

552
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: looks looks like he's gonna make uh make that team

553
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: this interesting because Tampa Bay Buccaneers Ross the Clemson kid

554
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: is out for the year. Unfortunately, there's a spot to

555
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: we have there. And Okay, yeah, good guy Justin Watson,

556
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: so good for him for Yeah, there you go. Um,

557
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: Albert oh played a lot in the rotation with the

558
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: other Broncos tight ends. It looked a little at the

559
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: Broncos usage report. He's the only one of their offense

560
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: ive played at all. I mean, the guys you think,

561
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: like the top two receivers, top two running backs, none

562
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: of those guys draft a great Dolsits who we liked

563
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: in the draft in the third round. Uh, everybody's saying

564
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: that Alberto is gonna be this fantasy sleeper and all

565
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: this stuff that I don't know guaranteed yet. Now I

566
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: think it's guaranteed. Um, with Patrick's injury, I would think

567
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: you'll see less receiver three receiver sets than originally planned.

568
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: Maybe that opens the door for both of them a

569
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, Zack Moss had a good preseason starts

570
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: against the U for the Bills. Against the Colts, Um Cook,

571
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: the rookie did very Yeah, I got some work with

572
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: you challenge, so that those thoughts that we had of

573
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: a go go talk to the Bills about Zack Moss.

574
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: That's probably not gonna happen. I think, as we said earlier,

575
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are pretty happy right now with

576
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: they're running backs, right. I mean I thought I threw

577
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: a trace Sermon's name Moss. You know guys that were young, cheap, physical,

578
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be in that market at all. Out of

579
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: the Steelers now happening? What you got? Um? Apparently the

580
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: uh we saw Travis a t M with ten touches

581
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: in one quarter with the Jaguar starters and put your

582
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: pace for forty. I'm no mathematician, right, that's a lot.

583
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: That's the Steelers are playing, of course. Yeah, I would

584
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: think you'll see a lot of a t N. Robinson

585
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: still out of the equation. I think they are holding

586
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Speaker 1: out hopes that he'll be around for week one. Um,

587
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: a t M supposedly looks one back. All the camp

588
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: reports have been glowing Rember. Yeah, his quarterback in college

589
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: is now his quarterback in Jacksonville. I think he can

590
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: throw the ball. Yeah, my fantasy teams, I can promise

591
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: you that I'll bet this guy won't be, even though

592
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: last week you said that, well, he might be Daniel Jones.

593
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: Did you see his took three big hits in one quarter?

594
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: He just got it. It was not not good. No,

595
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: they even played Barkley a little bit early, and you

596
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: know this, Yeah, Jones struggled. Um. I don't know what

597
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: to think of that group. There's so much inconsistency around him.

598
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: Would it would it make sense to go get Jimmy

599
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: and sign him to a two year deal and just

600
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: have him there for Jones or the next guy. I mean,

601
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: that could be a Jimmy Landing squat. Reporters in Buffalo

602
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: have not seen Bill's cornerback for Davious White since an

603
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: workout early in training camp. They're guessing that he could

604
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: start the season on the pub list. That's a big

605
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: that's a big problem. The first I read that, I

606
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: heard that it would be Kier Elam and Christian Bentford

607
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: the tight battle for snaps opposite him, and now Elam's

608
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: got a little bit more. I know very little about

609
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: Benford except that people have raved about him in camp

610
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: as a camp darling rookie. He's a rookie, non pedigree guy.

611
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: He's certainly not your Davis White. Yeah, that's a that's

612
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: a big deal. Uh. Dolphins lost uh cornerback Trill Williams

613
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: uh to a torn a c l against the Bucks.

614
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: It looked like he was they picked him up from

615
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: the Saints. It looked like he was going to be

616
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: the back, top corner back on the outside and that, well,

617
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Now. They play a ton of

618
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: dime and corners on islands. Corners are important for them. Yeah. Absolutely.

619
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Speaker 1: We just think of Malik Willis's performance on he makes plays,

620
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, yeah, I didn't think he was bad. Um,

621
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Speaker 1: H'm intrigued. I mean, by all accounts, he has a

622
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: lot of learning to do, and um, we'll see. I'm intrigued.

623
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him. I liked him a lot coming

624
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: out of school. I thought he'd gone earlier than he did.

625
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: I think some people think he's a year away from

626
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: being a year away. You know which you want to

627
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, everyone thought would be a year away, But

628
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: I think he's two years away in general. But that offense,

629
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't count on Tannehill, Henry Hooper, Woods Burkes and

630
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: a bad old line for much so Therefore, does Willis

631
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: get a package early on just to create some offense.

632
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,959
Speaker 1: It might be he might get in a little earlier

633
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: playing time than you think. Yeah, we could happen there. Um,

634
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: it looks like our guy Carson is strong. The Eagles

635
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Speaker 1: gave him the highest guaranteed salary of any undrafted free

636
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Speaker 1: agency and it looks like a long shot to make

637
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: the roster for the Eagles. Yeah, nothing's been good since

638
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: any I mean, his tape is good, but everything since

639
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: has been bad news. Yeah, he didn't have It doesn't

640
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: fit their offense at all, No, not one bit, right, right, Like,

641
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Speaker 1: I don't know why he would even sign there than

642
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: the highest guaranteed sound right. I Mean it made me

643
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: think that a lot of times when those guys happen,

644
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: it's a medical We want you, but we're not going

645
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: to spend pick on you, so we'll give you a bump.

646
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: We like your tape and if you can overcome the

647
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: medical stuff, great. But they weren't running quarterbacks. I don't

648
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: understand why that is a strange one. As a strange

649
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: one he is Matt Williamson, I am Dale, Lolly. You're

650
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation. Radio. We're

651
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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We are live from Steelers training

652
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: camp here at same fens of College. Looking down there,

653
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: Chooke's a quarter for holding holding court down there below us,

654
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: Uh signing a bunch of autographs. Um. I know it's

655
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: him because I can see the head sticking up. Because

656
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: he is six ft six. He stands out that crowd

657
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: for sure. He had a pretty good game. Yeah, did

658
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: you see he had just flattened the Uh, just a

659
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: complete pancake blocking them on the fifty two. You'll see

660
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: it when you re watch. I did remember it. I

661
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: don't remember who fifty two is, but yeah, But anyway,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna take another break. Here. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: our live coverage here from training camp on ESPN nine

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Speaker 1: seventy and Steelers Nation Radio. He's Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this to finish up the show.

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Speaker 1: This is The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio.

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00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is Matt Williamson

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: and Matt Uh. This is our on going coverage from

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00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: Steelers training game like here on ESPN Night seven and

671
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Matt and I are the drive on

672
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: the Steelers Nation Radio. You can hear us year round

673
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: from four to six during the season. We are on

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00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: bringing all kinds of good stuff five days a week.

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00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: I can also hear us both on the pregame shows

676
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. Um Man, I thought it

677
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: was a big day from Matt Canada. As we mentioned

678
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, Uh kind of unleashing that offense

679
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: a little bit every all three quarterbacks looking good as

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00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: a testament to him. The running game was a testament

681
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: to him. It takes me to New England. So apparently

682
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: this has come out now that New England let Matt

683
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: Patricia called plays for Brian Hoyer. Well, Joe Judge called

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00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: plays for rookie Bailey Zappy. I have heard that what

685
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: on God's Green Earth are they doing up there? Right?

686
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: And neither one was Mac Jones the starter. So it's

687
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: the very old backup in the very like you break

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00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 1: a cold pol que in half and send the guys

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Speaker 1: into the room and say this is tryouts. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: one of you is gonna be the coordinator. And I

691
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: don't know if you're familiar with Greg Bdard. Yes, I

692
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: know Greg well, I thought you did, okay, and I

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00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: you may know better than I do. I think he

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Speaker 1: has a site similar to Decay in the New England area.

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00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: And Greg's background is exclusively football for many many years now.

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00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: You know he's been doing as long as you and

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Speaker 1: I have basically, and I'm certain I didn't read it

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Speaker 1: from my own eyeballs that he's come out many times

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00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: and has said in my whole history of doing this,

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Speaker 1: I've never seen worst training camp offense than what is

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Speaker 1: going on with the Patriots right now. And he's getting

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Speaker 1: his heward right now in New England for saying that.

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00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: He's just being honest, being honest every practice he's not

704
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: watching from afar. He's very dialed in. He knows his

705
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Speaker 1: stuff and looks at their offense and thinks it's the

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Speaker 1: worst one he's ever seen, you know, in training camp.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to think of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I I understand that you never can be critical of

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00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: Belichick and he's earned all of that. But what they've

710
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: done lately coaching and roster wise, and by that I

711
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: mean like the last two years is curious or crazy

712
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: or both. It's somewhere between curious and bonkers, and it

713
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: might be leading more towards the bonkers. I mean, all

714
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: good things come to an end. Was Chuck Noles great

715
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: a coach his final season as he was in eight?

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00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: Probably not? Was Landry? Was Shula? Probably not? You know,

717
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: in is Pete Carroll the guy he was a couple

718
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: of years ago? Is there a reason Sean Payton walked

719
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: away from the game this year? You know, I just

720
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: think that I'm not sure what Bill is doing lately.

721
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: I don't know if Bill knows what he's doing right now,

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00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: because it's it's a strange situation. Offensive coordinators are important.

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Speaker 1: Coordinators do matter, and and you know you don't call

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00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: it right. You know there's always a secret up there.

725
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: Who's calling the defense? Right? Well, it's Bill Belichick's defense? Okay, okay,

726
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: who's doing it? Is it his son? Now calls your

727
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: offensive place? This is in nineteen seventy two. Or the

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Speaker 1: quarterback goes out there and calls his own right, unless

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00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks a second year quarterback. It was weird in

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Speaker 1: Miami that they had co coordinators, and they quickly changed

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Speaker 1: that with this new coaching staff. That's not gonna fly

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Speaker 1: a you're gonna have a coach now in New England

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Speaker 1: depending on who the quarterback is. And I know I'm

734
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: in distanced them, right and or is neither one the

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00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 1: guy or you know, there's no one taking that job

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Speaker 1: and taking it by control and judging Patricia. Former NFL

737
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 1: head coaches unsuccessful ones, but they were NFL head coaches.

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Speaker 1: One a special teams guy went a defensive guy like

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00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: this is bizarre behavior and it sounds like practices are

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Speaker 1: a disaster. If this were any other coach than Belichick,

741
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Speaker 1: That's kind of where I'm going with, right. I mean,

742
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: maybe three or four guys in the league and including

743
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: the one here in Baltimore, probably get away with it

744
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: for a while. But if they're the thirty second ranked

745
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Speaker 1: offense in the league at Halloween, they're not getting Nobody

746
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: gets away with those, you know what I mean? Like,

747
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: who do you fire? Well, we gotta get rid the

748
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Speaker 1: office cordinator. Who is it, right? I mean, do you

749
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: start pushing Bill out or yeah? I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to make of all that. I just think

751
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: it's it's very strange, very strange. Indeed, uh as I

752
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: mentioned Matt, I thought Matt Canada had a nice day

753
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: at the office. Yeah, And you know, I was is

754
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: vociferous a critic of him as anyone last year, and

755
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: I audit that, hey, you're working with with an eighteen

756
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: year veteran quarterback. You're gonna do what he wants to do,

757
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: what he what he is capable of doing. But I

758
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: thought that they could have been a little more creative

759
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: with some of that stuff. Um, but I thought that that,

760
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: you know, you're starting to see some of the things

761
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: that he wants to do, Canada wants to do with

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Speaker 1: this offense. And I know a lot of listeners were

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00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: shocked that Canada was returned this year, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I get that the offense was hard to watch. Generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: if you would just watch that tape and not know

766
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Speaker 1: any of the circumstances, most offensive coordinators on thirty two

767
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: teams probably would not have been retained. I get that,

768
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying he should have been or shouldn't

769
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Speaker 1: have been, But I think that now we know his plan,

770
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: how it's going to be implemented with the style of quarterback,

771
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: I think Pickett and Robinsky have a lot of similar

772
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: traits that are obviously very important for this scheme and

773
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work this year, well he probably won't

774
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: be back. But this will be the true test of

775
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: what man Matt Canada is and what his vision is.

776
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: And we'll see and test number one, which is a

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00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: much smaller test than the ones that happened in the

778
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: regular season, was a raging success for me. Yeah, I

779
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: mean the thing that I really liked to you know,

780
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: you saw some some runs open up. Well, yeah, you

781
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: saw some some past some of the passes that were

782
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: thrown were schemed up, things of that nature. Throws that

783
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: you see that just didn't happen last year that you

784
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: see across the league of play action. Here's a cross

785
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: or over the middle of boom, you get them out there,

786
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: pick up twelve. You know, like nothing came easy last year. No,

787
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: it's it certainly didn't. It was almost like the Steelers

788
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: were fighting themselves half the time. On offense, They're swimming

789
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: up stream from the start. And I'll mention again they

790
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: had seventeen They scored seventeen points in the first half

791
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: of that game. And I understand it's a preseason game,

792
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: but I watched seventeen eighteen Steeler football games and in

793
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: twenty four or twenty two. I'm sorry if you count

794
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: the preseason games, and then they had seventeen points in

795
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: a first to have one slash year once um, so

796
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: that to me was was encouraging. There's results, and they

797
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: were moving the football pretty consistently. There were there weren't

798
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: the three announce that we saw so much of last

799
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: year that just put your defense at too much, too

800
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: much at risk. Yeah, and again it was just a

801
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: lot easier, more efficient moving of the football that you

802
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: often see in the league now. A lot of the rules,

803
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: a lot of the scheme's favor offense. That's what they

804
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: want the league to be, and you know you weren't

805
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: able to capitalize on that. Again, I'm gonna watch more

806
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: O line, but I don't think you need the O

807
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: line to be killers, especially with the skill guys. They

808
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,959
Speaker 1: have to have efficient offense, and I'm not talking about

809
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: being the best offense in the league, but taking what's

810
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: given to you, get the ball out quick, use some

811
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: advantages like play action, and get some high quality weapons,

812
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: which I think the seam now has high quality skill

813
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: guys on office, you know, and depth and and let

814
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: those guys be the stars. Yeah, I mean I I

815
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: watched a bunch of other games over the weekend and

816
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: snippets here and there, and honestly, you know, I'll I'll

817
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: look at the Steelers. When I look at the Steelers

818
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: skill position, guys there in the top third, if not

819
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: the topah, right, I think it's a really good group.

820
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: And if you get especially if Pickens is truly a star, yeah,

821
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: I mean I think we all know now he's gonna

822
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: be a good player, right, he might be a star.

823
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: He may be better than any skill guy here, right,

824
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's on the horizon very soon.

825
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: And that changes the balance. If you know Deante is

826
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: your second best receiver, changes everything. James fire Mouse your

827
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: number three target. You know, like people or right now,

828
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: you don't have to ride you know, people were worried

829
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: about the Steelers riding Naji into the ground. I don't

830
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: think you have to worry about that quite as much.

831
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: If you know, again, if you're preparing for the Steelers,

832
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: and boy, this rookie special that's gonna be our big goals,

833
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: we gotta roll coverage to him time and time again.

834
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: So I didn't like the touchdown pass that went the

835
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: gunner Olszewski, Okay, Olschewski's out there pickings to two corners,

836
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: went with Pickens on that and left Olshefsky by himself. Yeah,

837
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: right right, right like that, he's already getting that. Okay,

838
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: this guy's big, we're gonna have trouble with him, and

839
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a completely blown coverage. It was coincidental

840
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: the two guys went with with Pickens, but I think

841
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: you're going to see more of that. You're probably on

842
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: top of this with you and I just haven't talked

843
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: since the game. Really, his interviews really remind me of

844
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: Nausey in that he just has extreme athletic arrogance in

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Speaker 1: terms of not being an a hole about it. Just wow,

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Speaker 1: that was really good. He's like, that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: I do, what I have my whole life, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know I'm good at this stuff. And

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Speaker 1: I guess one of you guys that interviewed him, he

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Speaker 1: did a lot of homework on the opponents, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think the team did that or scheme did. I

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Speaker 1: think he did that on his own, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of I'm going to prepare and do the extra work,

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Speaker 1: and he likes blocking to you know, it's not just

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Speaker 1: the diva. I want to TikTok and do you know

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Speaker 1: all these kinds of things. He's a complete player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow this guy up in front of me

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Speaker 1: and embarrass him. And I know I'm good football. He

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Speaker 1: wants to embarrass the guy across from Yeah. Right, and again,

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Speaker 1: him and Nausea are much different. Yeah, personality types, but

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Speaker 1: they both know they're good and they've been good forever.

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Speaker 1: This isn't news to them. Yeah, you know, the rest

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Speaker 1: of us are just kind of gett included on this now,

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Speaker 1: right right right, I've been good forever. That was good

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Speaker 1: at Georgia, was good at Bama. I was the top

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Speaker 1: recruiting the country. I mean, I'm used to this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I do. This is what

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Speaker 1: I do, This is what we do. What we do,

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Speaker 1: but we will not be doing it anymore today because

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for today's show. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: for my partner Matt Williamson, for Zach Beck at the studio,

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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air. For Jacob Brect you're keeping

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Speaker 1: us on the site. Not getting wet today, Jacob, you

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Speaker 1: did a good job of it. Just a little wet,

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Speaker 1: just a little wet for Jacob Today, I'm Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for listening to this edition of the

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