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

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly, he is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and well we are here. It's a Tuesday, um the

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Speaker 1: aftermath of the Steelers not making the playoffs. Lots to

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Speaker 1: get to today. First up, Matt, I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: talk about the contract. Uh, Roquan Smith has agreed to

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Speaker 1: terms in general on a new contract with the Baltimore Ravens,

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Speaker 1: five years onion dollars forty five million, fully guaranteed. Did

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Speaker 1: you notice that he negotiated that himself. Oh? I didn't

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Speaker 1: catch any of that. Yeah, he I just wonder how

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Speaker 1: that works in season. I often bring it up in

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Speaker 1: the Lamar discussions, which happened to be Raven related to

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize he did it himself. That makes no

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Speaker 1: sense to me. I don't believe he signed anything yet.

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Speaker 1: They've just agreed in terms like okay, and now you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have somebody go, you know, across the tease and

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Speaker 1: got the eyes. There's some legal advisor of some sort there.

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Speaker 1: But it's just weird to me that you do that

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Speaker 1: on the Tuesday, right before the playoffs started, and the

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Speaker 1: player negotiated his own contract. That's very I didn't know

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Speaker 1: any of that until just now. I mean, that's super bizarro.

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Speaker 1: How long have this been going on? Did they start

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Speaker 1: this talks like when he got traded, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: if we're gonna trade for you, would like to extend you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm in this neighborhood or in this neighborhood, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, or has this been agreed to for

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Speaker 1: a while and they're finally just telling us because there's

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Speaker 1: a little break in the action here. I I don't

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Speaker 1: get that. I think it's a really intriguing contract though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, it sets the market for the inside

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Speaker 1: linebacker market. I think it heavily influences what the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: you know, could be doing. And he was the top

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Speaker 1: of the market off the ball linebacker clearly, and he's

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Speaker 1: a very very good player. And frankly, I I'm sure

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Speaker 1: when they made the trade it wasn't let's just rent

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Speaker 1: him and send him on his way. They probably had

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Speaker 1: this planned all along. But there's two layers to it

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Speaker 1: I think are really interesting, which I'm sure this is

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Speaker 1: where you're going is there, there's five or six off

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Speaker 1: the ball linebackers and free agency that I would be

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Speaker 1: very interested in if I were the Steelers, and he

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Speaker 1: would have been number one, but also the most expensive.

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Speaker 1: And I think phase two of this and not looking

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Speaker 1: into it, hopefully too much with tinfoil hat. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure Lamar Jackson ever throws another pass with the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have a ton of money. They

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Speaker 1: just gave a ton to their defensive leader or whomever.

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Speaker 1: I don't like Jackson plays this week. And I've been

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Speaker 1: told by birdies for several weeks now that Jack's don't

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Speaker 1: be surprised when Lamar Jackson ends up in the NFC South.

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Speaker 1: That's so strange to me though, I mean, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna bring in Tom Brady. I mean, I mean receiver

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Speaker 1: like you gotta redo everything to move on from him. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at so. Pro Football Focus has put

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Speaker 1: out a list of their top fifty. Yeah. I saw it,

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Speaker 1: and I like their listed. It was pretty good except

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Speaker 1: for the fact that they had I had to laugh

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Speaker 1: at this one. They have at number eight overall. That's

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Speaker 1: why the best best free ages available this year. Jacoby Myers.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, like, he's not a bad player,

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Speaker 1: but he's not. He's not making twenty million. If he's

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Speaker 1: the eighth best player on the open market, he's getting

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. And that's what happened. He's the epitome off.

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Speaker 1: Someone's gonna get overpaid and he'll be on. He'll be

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Speaker 1: overpaid at twelve million and they probably will get eight team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so real quick, I'm bringing an arc about this now too.

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of people want the Steelers to go

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Speaker 1: it's a terrible year for receivers and you're gonna overspend

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Speaker 1: for him. So we can talk receivers another time. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I would not do that. I would not.

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Speaker 1: There's not a guy out there that I like. I

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Speaker 1: contrary to how I often would spend my money, I

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Speaker 1: I think are really attractive for Pittsburgh. So looking at that,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to go with the here's what

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Speaker 1: Lavante David is available, right, I thought about and you

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Speaker 1: you draft one early and you play him next to

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Speaker 1: Lavante David for a year or two. He mentors that

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Speaker 1: guy and then you turn things over to him. That's

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Speaker 1: swell or even Mark Robinson would learn tons from Absolutely

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Speaker 1: it would be great for many levels. I wonder what

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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner deal, which I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was insane. It wasn't it wasn't crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yet Wagner played very well this year for the Rams,

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Speaker 1: and it's easy to forget that because the Rams were terrible.

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Speaker 1: I thought about that because the first time I saw

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Speaker 1: his name of a free age, I'm like, got too old.

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Speaker 1: But what would he had done on this defense this year?

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Speaker 1: He would have been extremely valuable and extremely valuable. I

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Speaker 1: mean there's guys I would give more money than him

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Speaker 1: just because of the age differences. But him with a youngster, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that would make a lot of sense. If if the

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Speaker 1: Steelers made that signing, I wouldn't blink at it. I

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Speaker 1: mean he's a media team leader and all those things

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Speaker 1: that you like, high character, still very productive and of

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Speaker 1: course you want linebackers that can run like the wind.

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Speaker 1: But at his age, he knows every trick of the

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Speaker 1: trade and never takes a false step. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he's James Ferrier at the end of his career. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, Okay, maybe I'm not what I once was,

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Speaker 1: but I can play above I could play above the

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is the oldest starting quarterback in the a f

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Speaker 1: like that who knows all the tricks to the trade, yes, um,

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Speaker 1: months ago. Too old dad, You know, they want this

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Speaker 1: But I would think it's an attractive landing spot for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You know, man, if you look at this the way

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Speaker 1: next segment. Uh. You know, you look at this team,

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Speaker 1: they'll soon realize that when they start doing their homework.

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Speaker 1: You know, boy, they go, hey, that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: good defense again. You know, you know what people want

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Speaker 1: to play for Tom one. Right, So no, that's not

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Speaker 1: the worst thing. Very well could be an attractive spot. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this earlier that my linebacker approach isn't the draft one high.

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Speaker 1: But if you were to do a David move, maybe

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Speaker 1: him in to help Mark Robinson r R. Right, who

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Speaker 1: we like, but we you know, he needs to get

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Speaker 1: great athlete. He's a great athlete running around out there,

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Speaker 1: Lavonte David covered up a lot for him, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: be chanting, you know, yell call He's immediately the day

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Speaker 1: he signs, is calling your defense exactly, no doubt about it,

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Speaker 1: even when he loses the step. Uh, David Long, that's

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Speaker 1: the Titans. I've really had a good year, really had

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Speaker 1: a good year. I'm sure people are like, who the

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Speaker 1: heck is David Long. I'm sure there's some West Virg

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Speaker 1: they hoped Devin Bush would turn into. Yes, very much so.

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Speaker 1: night and day. When he missed time this year, he

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Speaker 1: everybody's mentioned Tremaine Edmonds. Obviously there's some obvious ties there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean both the brothers are free agents this year,

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Speaker 1: and he'd be very high on my list. And with

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Speaker 1: Alan's contract in Buffalo and frankly Milano is more important

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Speaker 1: think Edmonds will hit the open market, so why not

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Speaker 1: reunite the two who will still be twenty five all

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Speaker 1: of next season? Tremaine or Trurell. Tremayne's younger. I thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: they came out the same draft class, but the Bill's

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Speaker 1: all of next season. That that fits the Steelers free

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Speaker 1: example too of let someone else teach him the growing

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Speaker 1: pains of playing line backer. You know, like his first

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Speaker 1: couple of years he was a run and hit guy,

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Speaker 1: but he made some mistakes to when he benefited from Milano.

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Speaker 1: And now at this stage years old, with his best

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Speaker 1: Edwards with the Eagles. Yeah, he's another one people don't

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Speaker 1: know well. Former undrafted guy. Yeah, kind of like long

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Speaker 1: I'm watching him on film and I'm like, how do

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Speaker 1: I've been preaching now it's a big picket thing. Is

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Speaker 1: many trolls would you have with an Emmons out there too?

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Speaker 1: And Mink has been known to pick off a tip

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Speaker 1: blueprint today for the offensive side of the ball. Next week,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do defense. They're they're polar opposite to me,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm not spending a lot of money on offense

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Speaker 1: outside the organization I'm excited about or that are becoming

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Speaker 1: free agents. And it's all doable. That's what's fun about it, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not like, oh I want the roles and

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Speaker 1: I want to you know, you get nothing like it.

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