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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I am Dale Lolli. He is

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Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and uh well Matt. We haven't done

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Speaker 1: a show since Monday.

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Speaker 2: Which seems like an eternity in free agent years.

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Speaker 1: You know, probably should do shows every day this week.

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Speaker 2: We probably should. There's so much around the league that

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Speaker 2: we haven't even touched on yet. Yea, even around the

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Speaker 2: division we haven't touched on that. You know. Obviously a

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Speaker 2: two day stretch, there's a lot of Steeler news first

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Speaker 2: and foremost.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, but that's not our call. We just do

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Speaker 1: what we're told.

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Speaker 2: There we go.

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Speaker 1: So after Monday show, Yes, on Tuesday, we get the

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Speaker 1: word that these Steelers have maybe there's reports out there

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Speaker 1: that they have signed Patrick Queen.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, happy happy, happy new leg here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should be blowing the ball. Yeah, there you go, kiss,

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Speaker 2: kiss your your spouse, ball drop, do a dance and

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Speaker 2: have some champagne. We should have brought about a champagne.

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Speaker 2: We should have brought new league your four o'clock. There

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Speaker 2: we go, usual die cook here, you take a coffee.

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Speaker 2: It's about to say not the same, but yeah, things

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Speaker 2: are official soon, you know, like all these teams will

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Speaker 2: give us official word in the coming hours. I would say,

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Speaker 2: right exactly how that works.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they got to start filing paperwork at

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Speaker 1: this point. And this is why Mike Williams was released

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Speaker 1: earlier today. Everybody has to be under the salary cap.

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Speaker 1: They were as of four o'clock today.

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Speaker 2: Chargers were a disaster. I mean there was a couple

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Speaker 2: like the Ravens were like half a million under. They

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Speaker 2: just restructured Stanley and Boom, they're fine. They were twenty

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Speaker 2: five million under this morning.

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Speaker 1: So the Chargers still they've made some agreements. They've come

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Speaker 1: to agreements with some players. Yes, the Mike Williams deal

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Speaker 1: only got them to the cap level. Oh yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: still actually signing the guys that they've agreed to terms with.

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Speaker 1: They're going to have to make additional moves.

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Speaker 2: Right, Like Bosa and Alan are not out of the

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Speaker 2: woods yet. I guess they restructured Mac apparently in a

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Speaker 2: just sees restructures at this point, but you can look

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Speaker 2: into it, you know, coming up here. So No, Mike

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Speaker 2: Williams looks like he's on the part of the free

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Speaker 2: agent parade here too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Steelers have reportedly signed Patrick Queen. They have,

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Speaker 1: and then last night traded yeah, reportedly, you know, Deontae

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Speaker 1: to the Carolina Panthers for Dante Jackson, cornerback and a

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Speaker 1: sixth round twenty twenty four draft pick.

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Speaker 2: First off, I got probably twelve tweets going, that's a

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Speaker 2: Matt and Dale move in the mock draft. Dump that

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Speaker 2: seventh rounder and get up there and better radio. And

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, it is seventy picks that they picked,

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Speaker 2: a big jump.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's basically two they moved up two rounds essentially.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Panthers picks terrible. And that's not nothing,

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Speaker 2: very few juniors that declared that that seventh round pick

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Speaker 2: So that's not nothing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they've created a hole at wide receiver. If

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Speaker 1: you look at what they finished the season with at

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Speaker 1: That's its five, the five that you basically played most

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Speaker 2: Right exactly. And some teams keep six, and you know,

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Speaker 2: which I don't know what it is, but I have

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Speaker 2: They did pick up a little bit of cap space

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Speaker 2: in the move, as well, and I think they can

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Speaker 2: I don't think they eliminate their done at corner though,

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Speaker 1: Like no, no, they still have Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I felt like the hole they created on paper

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Speaker 1: But there are more moves.

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Speaker 2: They're not done. They're not done at all, right, right,

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Speaker 2: so there's gonna be. They have a lot of cap space.

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Speaker 2: And I think what this comes down to to me

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Speaker 2: it's a good corner draft, and I think the Steelers

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Speaker 2: will still draft one. I don't think they will spend

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Speaker 2: any more money on a corner and who because that's

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Speaker 1: Camp or yeah, one of the groups coming in Jalen Johnson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he knew he was never made, never made it, lugarious sneak.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna cost you a jillion dollars in draft picks, right,

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Kendall Fuller is still out there, but still.

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Speaker 2: Out there, but he's older, and I don't think he's special,

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Speaker 1: A Woozy as already signed. Stefan Gilmour again thirty three

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Speaker 2: He kind of just did that last year with Peterson

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Speaker 2: he's older. None of those names.

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Speaker 1: I like, he's number six on them. This is looking

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Speaker 2: And that's before free is even opened.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Moore I would be interested in, but he's a

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Speaker 2: I mean there's ten receivers that I would take over

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Speaker 1: You've got no interest whatsoever. And Odell Beckham, I agree

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Speaker 2: But again, there's ten receivers out there that'll be starters

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Speaker 2: this just draft is ridiculously deep in some of those guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, I still think they'll draft a receiver and

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Speaker 2: a corner. Yeah, both pretty high probably.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a matter of how you how those dominoes fall. Now,

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Speaker 2: One centers got scooped up really quick and guards got

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Speaker 1: I would argue that the centers did too.

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Speaker 2: I agree, yeah, agree, I was going to love them

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Speaker 2: together as this interior line outkicked their coverage in terms

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Speaker 2: I think the league is telling us running games still

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Speaker 2: everyone talks about what a geniu Sean McVay is. I

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Speaker 2: really good young guard and Steve Avilia, who they're going

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Speaker 1: You know. Wait, I heard some some bozos out there,

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Speaker 1: and I'm na call them bozos in the Pittsburgh media

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Speaker 1: saying you you you know you're the Steelers are are

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Speaker 1: setting themselves up to play football like it's it's two

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Speaker 1: You know they they they're you know they're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to lean on their running game. This isn't two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two, Yeah it is. This is what the league

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Speaker 1: to throw the football if you have Patrick Mahomes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of zigging and zagging

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Speaker 2: throughout the league all through history. If everyone's taking away

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Speaker 2: the big play and playing nickel and dime, well, then

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Speaker 2: the ball. And also to your point, if you're gonna

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Speaker 2: start sixty nine quarterbacks a year, I need to make

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Speaker 2: life easier on quarterback number sixty through sixty nine alone.

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Speaker 2: You know twenty through sixty.

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Speaker 1: Nine well, and you know, if you have big play receivers,

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Speaker 1: which the two receivers that the Steelers still have on

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Speaker 1: their roster, oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a throwball out field.

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Speaker 1: We qualify as big play receivers, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: And their their quarterbacks are very deep, very good depasser.

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Speaker 1: If you can run the football, you make you make

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Speaker 1: defenses make a choice. Are you gonna let them run

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Speaker 1: the football? Are you gonna you're gonna give up the

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Speaker 1: deep play to George Pickens?

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Speaker 2: And I don't know who you're referring to, Nor do

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Speaker 2: I care, but signing an off the ball linebacker to

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Speaker 2: big money is anything but a nineteen eighty five move.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they do, they cover, They're hard to find.

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Speaker 2: There's a shortage of them every down. Guys that cover space,

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Speaker 2: that do all the things the Queen does. There aren't

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Speaker 2: many of them on the planet. I mean it's that

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Speaker 2: they've been looking for that guy since his.

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Speaker 1: Ear Now, to be fair, I mean he did get

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Speaker 1: better last year after they made the trade.

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Speaker 2: Year and a half now, yeah, they trade for him

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Speaker 2: midway through to the two thousand.

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Speaker 1: Also, so I looked this up again. He's twenty four

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Speaker 2: He's not even twenty five.

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Speaker 1: He's the same age that Ryan like. So, Ryan Shazier

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Speaker 1: Patrick Queen is a twenty four year old made his

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Speaker 1: second team All Pro. Yeah, they're both six to one,

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Speaker 1: Third year he makes that light goes on. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: So maybe it's just so common at that position.

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Speaker 2: mean he's like Tremaine Edmunds young. The same thing happened

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Speaker 1: By the way, Edmunds got eighteen million.

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Speaker 2: Got eighteen and that's what I thought. I was certain

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Speaker 2: Queen would be entertain. That's why we brushed it all.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I can't going to afford that.

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Speaker 2: No, and at this price is a totally different conversation then,

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Speaker 2: So there's two ways of looking at that. To me,

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Speaker 2: But he shows up in his prime and they pay

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Speaker 2: him great. It's a good move for the Ravens. And

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Speaker 2: that he played with Roquan became a second team Pro

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Speaker 2: From what I understand, Queen will not be the green

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Speaker 2: He didn't say, hey, Patrick, you cover him, you know,

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Speaker 2: like he's a two year old. But he took that

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Speaker 2: Minka can do that. So I don't really that doesn't

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Speaker 2: Watts on the other side getting double teams all the time.

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Speaker 2: So high Smith's going to get fewer. Yeah, they're out

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Speaker 1: Not according to the double team stats on.

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Speaker 2: Which are so bizarre. It's not Alvin Harper to Michael Erviw,

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Speaker 2: not like Rokwan's taking on double teams every time.

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Speaker 1: No. One of the things that we both would have

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Speaker 1: agreed on that the Steelers needed to do defensively going

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Speaker 1: The two they've gotten faster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. Back seven, speed would been a problem,

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Speaker 2: without question. Jackson, he's a track guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thought he could do it.

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Speaker 1: And he ran a four to three to one at

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Speaker 1: LSU's pro day. Okay, there were two head coaches there

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Speaker 2: Of them, Tomlan was one of the Okay, gotcha adds up. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know they've had interested in him for some time

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Speaker 2: and speed is not a problem. People ding him for durability.

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Speaker 2: He he had a achilles and missed all or most

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Speaker 1: He played I think nine games.

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Speaker 1: He's had multiple interceptions every season except for last year.

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Speaker 2: Other than that, he's missed like two games of his career.

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Speaker 1: Because nobody threw the ball against them last year. They

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Speaker 1: last year, Carolina, because you were so bad, Because they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. So he's an interesting player

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Speaker 2: because he's smaller. He's Originally I thought maybe he's a slot.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's one eighty. I remember him coming out

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Speaker 2: kne about him. Ground pick, but he's like one hundred

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Speaker 2: the slot. But they're a left right, cover three type

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Speaker 2: of team, heavy zone team. Now he's gonna have to

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Speaker 2: And he's had about nine thousand systems in Carolina too,

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Speaker 2: you know, which is important. Early in his career, I

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Speaker 2: He's not a great tackler. He'll bounce off some people

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Speaker 2: not bashful about it at all, or bashful about attacking

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Speaker 2: he's going to be, you know, in the mix without question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know it gives you a starter opposite

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Speaker 2: Now you you still maybe Trice and rush blow him

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Speaker 1: You know they could have so good. Yeah, but they

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Speaker 1: could happen, and that's what's fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to start one of those guys.

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Speaker 2: No, No, it's a typical. You can line up and

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Speaker 2: play with him as your number two corner today, you know, right,

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Speaker 2: that adds up one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: So what they they still need is a slot. They

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Speaker 1: have two safeties that they could line up with if

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Speaker 1: they had to. But you'd like to another d another

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Speaker 1: defensive back somewhere. You know, you probably you probably have

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Speaker 1: one more safety that you're going to add in a

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Speaker 1: slot cornerback that you're gonna add in some way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form, and then you you know you've drafted. Ideally,

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Speaker 1: the slot that they get is somebody that they draft

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Speaker 1: and they can ease him and you just say, hey, kid,

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Speaker 1: you learned to play the slot, and then eventually we're

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Speaker 2: And I guess one of my next projects, and I

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Speaker 2: think you're ahead of me on this is there's some

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Speaker 2: serious of those two fourth rounds picks. Now they have

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Speaker 2: what two fifths.

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Speaker 1: Essentially, yeah, it's a six, but it's like the first

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Speaker 2: But anyway, I really concentrated the two fourths. There's a

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Speaker 2: handful of true slots that we haven't always jumped on

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Speaker 2: in our mocks. That are you know, the Florida State kid,

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Speaker 2: Penn State's got a dude that are a little undersized,

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Speaker 2: that are feisty.

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Speaker 1: To Georgia safeties or something like that. Yeah, yeah, are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was gonna say that too, is the

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Speaker 2: safety you signed might be your big slot. And you

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Speaker 2: draft your little slot, you know, Like that's what the

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Speaker 2: Ravens is. Last year, Mallett was their smaller slot in

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Speaker 2: some packages. Hamilton was their big slot in some packages.

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Speaker 2: It's a good, good situation to be in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know those guys get to your point.

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Speaker 1: That's where you get those fourth, fifth round guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're dynamite on special teams from their gunner

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Speaker 2: from day one. If they're tough and feisty one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty pounds five nine run four four eight that

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Speaker 2: it'll mix it up in the run game. There's five

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Speaker 2: or six of them in that neighborhood that aren't super responsible.

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Speaker 2: You'll get one of them, Yeah, especially if you upgraded

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Speaker 2: safety too, you know, if you spend money on a

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Speaker 2: safety amaton. But hey, Justin Simmons would be great. But

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm even a black man's out there. Guys

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Speaker 2: like that quality safeties in your secondary rounds in the

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Speaker 2: show out. I don't understand that either safeties have not

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Speaker 2: been a good player up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they all just wanted too much money, and

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Speaker 1: that's happened. As this goes on, You're like, oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going.

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Speaker 2: To get that kind of money, right, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: first wave is basically over. I mean it's almost bargain

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Speaker 2: been time, not bargain beIN time. But things are starting

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Speaker 2: to go on safe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the first markdown has come.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. You know, unless you're you could get a

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Speaker 2: blackman or somebody similar. Now yeah, so I so I

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Speaker 2: think the secondary is two pieces away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. So right now as we sit here,

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Speaker 1: you have needs at wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Two needs there. I think.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why I said needs. Yeah, I know you

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Linebacker's taken care of.

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Speaker 2: I say, you've done it, linebacker. I think the answer

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Speaker 2: is yes. I mean someone to challenge Mark Robinson the

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Speaker 2: fifth round. Maybe, I mean you're talking about it. It

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Speaker 1: Would you know again, that's that's what the beauty of

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Speaker 1: having that pick move up seventy spots. Okay, I can

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Speaker 1: take I can take the best player still on my board.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I had a third round grade on this guy

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Speaker 1: and he's still available in the sixth I'll just.

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Speaker 2: Take happen to be a linebacker or somebody in the

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Speaker 2: secondary or the multiple positions anywhere. Really, I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: a reach, a quarterback that might not probably doesn't make

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Speaker 2: the team, or things of that nature. No, that is

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Speaker 2: a big deal. I mean our mark drafts will be

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Speaker 2: better because of it. Yeah, we don't have to trade

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Speaker 2: that last PI that's gone. I guess my only concern

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Speaker 2: if at all? You know, because if you knew that

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Speaker 2: I think, and he misses.

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Speaker 1: The first six weeks. Just I'm just throwing aside. I

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Speaker 1: don't know anything nobody, But let's say misses the first

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Speaker 1: That's the thing, like, you you've got two starter capable

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Speaker 1: when it was Robert anybody, they pulled off the couch

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Speaker 2: Now it's a strength. Now it's a strength band aid.

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Speaker 1: And then you add Holcomb back to them into that mix.

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Speaker 2: And even if he is going to miss six weeks

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Speaker 2: or so, you could sign someone just like Alexander for

439
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Speaker 2: a million a year in camp, you know, I mean

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Speaker 2: after the first preseason game. I mean there's those guys

441
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Speaker 2: are always out there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so yeah, that becomes a strength now, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you do the same thing at safety. Yeah, that

444
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Speaker 1: because like if you get a black man or somebody

445
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Speaker 1: like that, I mean, you're your defense up the middle is.

446
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Speaker 2: Night and day different than it used to be, way better.

447
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Speaker 2: It's just it's a positive not a negative. Yeah, I

448
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Speaker 2: mean it used to be Minka and the Pips and you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got now a cornerback who again, if

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Speaker 1: if he if he had been a free agent, that's

451
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Speaker 1: a good point, is probably already gone. He's probably already signed.

452
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Speaker 2: With He's like in the ilusier level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and he got it. He got eight

454
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Speaker 1: or nine million, and you don't get him.

455
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Speaker 2: You don't get him, right right, there were rumors they

456
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Speaker 2: were going to cut him, but then you got to

457
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Speaker 2: compete with everybody else, right, Yeah, I mean, so you

458
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Speaker 2: make sure that structure them up and you know, get

459
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Speaker 2: them all trained up in what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: These are minor moves, but I'd still like to see

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Speaker 2: Watts brought back Golden. They can happen a week from

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Speaker 2: now point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys get stooped up.

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Speaker 2: You can get someone very similar. Absolutely, but your defense

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Speaker 2: is pretty close. Yeah, pretty close. And you've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of draft picks I had you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is the Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and Matt some of the moves from Randa League that

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Speaker 1: we kind of knew were happening. Yeah, they're officially, they're

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Speaker 1: starting to become official now. So the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: have officially released Eric Armstead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to be sought after, and you could

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Speaker 2: convince me he wouldn't look bad in black and gold either,

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Speaker 2: but there's gonna be competition for that there.

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Speaker 1: He would be expect that would be a big ticket idea.

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Speaker 2: Be a big ticket item. There's a couple of these

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Speaker 2: are gonna be big ticket items, which are kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: So the the Dolphins officially released Xavian Howard. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they did so with a failed physical designation, So now

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Speaker 1: it makes he's a little more interesting.

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Speaker 2: Okay, like he.

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Speaker 1: Failed as physical. Now he's got to pass the physical.

486
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Speaker 1: Like any team that brings him in, you're gonna put him.

487
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Speaker 1: He's been you played in the league. As long as

488
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Speaker 1: he has, you're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Have some He's had a handful of big things. I

490
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Speaker 2: think too.

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Speaker 1: So you know, now any team that looks at him,

492
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Speaker 1: you know, somebody might have said, well, you know, the

493
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Speaker 1: Steelers could have just waited and signed Xavier you know

494
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Speaker 1: Xavier Howard.

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Speaker 2: Well if not if he's healthy, not if he's not healthy. Yeah,

496
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Speaker 2: and we didn't add him in the free agent corner

497
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Speaker 2: list because he's new. Yeah, I don't love it either.

498
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Speaker 2: I always thought he was a little overrated. Like sure,

499
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Speaker 2: if they got I'm at the right price, like anything,

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Speaker 2: he'd be a great addition. He's a starting player, he

501
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Speaker 2: takes football away, but he's not super athletic and he's

502
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Speaker 2: lost a step.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we mentioned Mike Williams being released that one has.

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Speaker 1: I would be interested in Mike at the right price.

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Speaker 2: He's hurt all the time, not as much you think, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean he him and pickings running go routes for

507
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Speaker 2: Wilson throwing bombs. Yeah, he'll block, he's feisty, he's huge.

508
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Speaker 1: Goes up and gets the football. I think this is

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Speaker 1: the cheapest you could ever get him in his career. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the what the price tag would be.

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Speaker 1: It's probably upwards a ten million a year.

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Speaker 2: I would say tennis. Yeah right. He might be on

513
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Speaker 2: a ten year proven deal or a two year twenty

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Speaker 2: three ish deal, something like that. I don't know. I

515
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Speaker 2: mean Ridley supposedly asking twenty which he won't get. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 2: he's probably top of the market now. I think he

517
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Speaker 2: get ends up settling at sixteen fifteen something like that.

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Speaker 1: Get more, who knows a little more. Yeah, he had

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Speaker 1: two teams bidding for you. That's that's all the thing.

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Speaker 2: He's got a lot, you know, they're right in it

521
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Speaker 2: and they got a lot to spend. Yeah, jacksonvill doesn't.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders released Hunter, Henry Hunter, Renfresh he's interesting too

523
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Speaker 1: money Renfro.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he got a short end of the stick there

525
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Speaker 2: only because he signed too big a deal. Yeah, they

526
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Speaker 2: liked him to much. It's the last regime. Like I

527
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Speaker 2: prefer him to boyd oh yeah, like to me, they're

528
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Speaker 2: both slots that are sort of similar in how you

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Speaker 2: would use them. I think Renfrozer, ren Frozer open all

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Speaker 2: the time, all the time. He runs better, and he's

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Speaker 2: quicker than Boyd. He's younger, he's younger. I haven't seen

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Speaker 2: much from him lately, which.

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Speaker 1: That's not a bad thing though, because he's he's pretty fresh.

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Speaker 2: Pretty fresh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, he'd be a really good addition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, so, you know, if you if you

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Speaker 1: were able to do, if you're able, I don't care

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Speaker 1: how you add the big receiver on the outside on

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Speaker 1: the other side of pickings and then.

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Speaker 2: The draft, Yeah right, right right, you know, now you've

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Speaker 2: you've got a nice basketball team. Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 2: I also think side note fire moose role is set

544
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Speaker 2: to grow exponentially. Oh yeah, yeah, exponentially. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think the tight ends are going to be very happy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, looking at the division earlier today, the Ravens

548
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Speaker 1: shipped off Morgan Moses.

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Speaker 2: To the Jets, coming right good for the Jets are

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Speaker 2: actually getting legit.

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Speaker 1: Lineman Baltimore's offensive line is an issue. It's a real

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Speaker 1: They've already lost John Simpson right starting with guard. He

553
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Speaker 1: was starting guard now they've traded Moses starting right tackle,

554
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Speaker 1: starting right tackle. Zeitler's still a free agent.

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Speaker 2: I guess they could bring him back, but he's older

556
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Speaker 2: and declining rapidly. Linder Baum's gonna return at center. Who's

557
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Speaker 2: I think on the cusp of stardom. Stanley used to

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Speaker 2: be a star. He's a left tackle. They structure. I

559
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Speaker 2: thought he might be a cut That's.

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Speaker 1: Probably what was going to happen. Sure it's not that

561
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Speaker 1: kind of player, anymo.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's an unfortunate set of circumstances. He got

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Speaker 2: hurt the day after they signed him, basically, but he is,

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Speaker 2: at this point in his career not an upper tier players.

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Speaker 1: Average to A to A by an average left tackle.

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Speaker 2: They use him in a rotation. He doesn't even play

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Speaker 2: every snap. I mean, like that don't know if he can.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that he can't either. McCarry's a valuable

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Speaker 2: guy for them because he can play every position. But

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Speaker 2: he's really a six guy, you know, but he's gonna

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Speaker 2: probably end up being a starter somewhere. We laugh at file.

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Speaker 2: But right now he's a starting right tackle because he's bad.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's on the ground all the time. T

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Speaker 2: J Watt would love him to be a starting right tackle.

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Speaker 2: So they kind of have like one and a half dudes,

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Speaker 2: you know, one and two halves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but when when you know they go out and

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Speaker 1: they signed Derrick Henry, which has been their only signing

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Speaker 1: thus far. Yeah, they're only outside and they've lost like

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Speaker 1: eight guys.

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Speaker 2: We knew they're hit hard.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things that was said, Wow, he's

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Speaker 1: going to run behind that great Ravens offensive line.

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Speaker 2: Is it great? I mean, i'd be better than the

585
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Speaker 2: Titans last year, which is a worse than the league,

586
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Speaker 2: but it's not what it was even a year ago.

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Speaker 1: No, it's I don't know, it's going to be a

588
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Speaker 1: real good offensive line.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I wouldn't want to be shopping for free

590
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Speaker 2: agent alignment right now either.

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Speaker 1: No, that the prices those guys have been getting like

592
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Speaker 1: they'll start to come down a little. But still yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's interesting. Did you see the thing today the

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Speaker 1: former Tyler Eifert on a podcast.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I thought you said it would come back.

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Speaker 1: No, no, he's right, but he said on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: don't be surprised if Cincinnati makes a play to go

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Speaker 1: get Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, I read three headlines this morning. We're

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Speaker 2: not interested in trading Justin Jefferson, which probably means you're

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Speaker 2: interested in trading Jefferson. I mean, what would that entail.

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Speaker 1: I I would guess t Higgins will be involved in

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Speaker 1: the deal.

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Speaker 2: I would think, or he goes to Carolina or something.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, you don't have all three of them.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna make thirty three, right, and Chase is gonna

607
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Speaker 2: want the exact same contract a year from now.

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Speaker 1: But if you want the scariest, yeah, if you wanted

609
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Speaker 1: to go for it for one year, right and just say, hey,

610
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Speaker 1: we are we are all in on going for it

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, Because there's no way we're going to

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Speaker 1: afford all three of these guys moving forward.

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Speaker 2: I would assume not. But they at least signed some

614
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Speaker 2: tight ends. Gasek's was one of them.

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Speaker 1: Not well, what I thought, that's another receiver that's really

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Speaker 1: that's their slot.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Boyd's going to be back. They hadn't

618
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Speaker 2: touched right tackle, but Jonah Williams has gotten no interest

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Speaker 2: from what I've seen either. Mixing's gone signed Moss to

620
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Speaker 2: be his replacement, which is fine whatever. I had not

621
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Speaker 2: seen that about Jefferson, But if Higgin wants to trade,

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Speaker 2: I didn't think it'd be an upgrade. You know, I

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Speaker 2: don't know how you fit that.

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Speaker 1: What Higgins in Cincinnati's won do it for you? If

625
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Speaker 1: you're the Vikings, Yeah, yeah, pretty close. It's like sixteen

626
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Speaker 1: right or sixteen or seventeen right where the Bengals are picking.

627
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Speaker 2: Vikes need to find a quarterback somehow. They were really

628
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Speaker 2: aggressive in free agency, and I don't think they were

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Speaker 2: as excited to bring they had six.

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Speaker 1: If they had sixteen in their pick, they might be

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Speaker 1: able to get to trade.

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Speaker 2: Up a ree to get that definitely get to the

633
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Speaker 2: McCarthy neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, no, I could see it. I

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Speaker 2: could see it. I mean, go with Addison and Higgins

635
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Speaker 2: and Hawkinson and good ol' line and Aaron Jones is

636
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 2: a nice pickup for him. Yeah, they wouldn't much no

637
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: other than not having but not Cousins.

638
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: And you wouldn't have the headache of, hey, we got

639
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: to resign Jefferson And does Jefferson want to resign here

640
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Speaker 1: with ourt Cousins and you know, our quarterbacks up in

641
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Speaker 1: the air.

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Speaker 2: As awesome as he is, I don't know that he's

643
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Speaker 2: a thirty three million dollars a year player. I mean,

644
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Speaker 2: I think he's probably the best receiver in the league.

645
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Speaker 2: But if my quarterbacks are rookie, I don't know. That's

646
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Speaker 2: a tough one. That's interesting. I just don't know how

647
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Speaker 2: the Bengals could swing it, because Chase is on one

648
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 2: year behind him. I mean, right, you don't make that

649
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: move and then just let Chase walk the next year.

650
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: I think you give those guys the same contract their

651
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 2: buddies from LSU blah blah blah.

652
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be spending.

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Speaker 2: Three guys would be your whole paper pretty much. Yeah.

654
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you could do anything else this offseason,

655
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: but that would certainly make it interesting.

656
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: They would found it interesting. They signed a safety, they

657
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: were not happy with their guys. There's been some talk

658
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 2: they might move to ax Hill to corner, which maybe

659
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: that's what he is. You know, they've done nothing in

660
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: the reader world. He's still out there. They might. I mean,

661
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: I want to talk about two sides of my mouth.

662
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: I mean, people call the Bengals cheap, but I think

663
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: they've been more frugal than cheap lately and didn't want

664
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: to get in the title wave. I bet I could

665
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: see them the next day or two making some moves.

666
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: We go.

667
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a nice pickup. Yeah, it was a pretty good,

668
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: you know, pretty good price for that guy.

669
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Raiders also announcing the release of Jimmy Garoppolo.

670
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: So yeah, another guy, yeah man renfro right, Yeah, and

671
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: there's two dudes.

672
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 1: Maybe he winds up in Minnesota.

673
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam Darnold's Vike, which I'm kind of interesting in.

674
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: But you could still use another guy. Yeah.

675
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 2: So here's a weird thing with Jimmy, Like I think

676
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: he is the perfect bridge for a rookie, but he

677
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: suspended the first two games. Yeah, Like it'd be so

678
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 2: much better if he suspended the last four games, you know,

679
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: like we need you at the begin of the year

680
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: to hold down the fort for Drake may or somebody

681
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: like that, and you're out. I mean, so that hurts

682
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: his situation. But he's such a good locker room guy.

683
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: I think he'll get scooped up soon. Maybe he's like

684
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 2: the Bears guy backup or so something like that. Yeah, yeah,

685
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: maybe a good influence. I don't know, there's a lot

686
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: of landing spots for him. Doesn't seem like there's a

687
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: lot of land spots for Fields.

688
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: It does not that seems to be.

689
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: I don't know who could even be in the market.

690
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm hearing things like Seattle's backup, the Eagles

691
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: back up, you know.

692
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: Like, but nobody's trading you anything of note for right,

693
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: somebody who's your backup?

694
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,959
Speaker 2: Right? I think you hold on to him. Well, if

695
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 2: I'm Seattle, I'd rather roll dice on getting Pinnis in

696
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: the second round or something.

697
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: You know.

698
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, especially if the Patriots sign and

699
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: per set they've got to be out of it.

700
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one that to me just didn't make

701
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: sense for the Steelers, not with what you potentially would

702
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: have had to give up and then have to pay

703
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: him on top of that.

704
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 2: The impression I got with Fields is if it were

705
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: two years ago and you got him for four million

706
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 2: and five million.

707
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, that's a different conversation.

708
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 2: And earlier I thought, you know, twenty eight million form

709
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: for two years isn't that bad? But I think the

710
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 2: league has told us that no one wants to pick

711
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: up a fifth year option, right because it's a one

712
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 2: year then and then it's you're not going to give up.

713
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: It's a four round pick.

714
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: You're not giving up a Day one or two pick

715
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: right and potential potential one year reundal.

716
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 2: I think that's what the league's saying, or if they

717
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: if they were all like we're going to take up

718
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: his his option, then he'd gotten traded by now.

719
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. So so looking at this, uh and and there'll

720
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: be more moves to come. But the Steelers have made them.

721
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: They're they're they're big splashes thus far. How would you

722
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: grade these these moves out thus far?

723
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: I know we have a lot of listeners that remember

724
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: things we said yes and we weren't super into Wilson,

725
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: We brushed off Queen, and we thought the Anta's trade

726
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 2: was a bad idea.

727
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: Of all those things, to me, giving up Deontay Johnson

728
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: is the ones I have the question the most because

729
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: you had the point because you actually had to give

730
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: something up right to get I get it.

731
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: And I'm certain he's good.

732
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what he is. I know he's a

733
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: good football player. Jackson is fine. Again, you probably wouldn't

734
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: have gotten better than that on the open market, But

735
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't like opening up that hole, right.

736
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 2: I think Johnson's better than what he does, than what

737
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: Jackson does, to be honest with you, Yeah, and it's

738
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 2: worth more in an entry draft right now or what

739
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 2: they're going to get per year like Caroline is going

740
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 2: to extend him. I think it's a really good deal

741
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: for the Panthers. Frankly, what's a compliment to Deontae but

742
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 2: Wilson for what you're paying him. Yeah, and the veteran

743
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: and the other quarterbacks available. I don't have a problem

744
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: with today. And it's not like I changed my tune

745
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 2: on them all that much.

746
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: And frankly of them when we talked about him, like, look,

747
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: I see both sides.

748
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: Ye, yeah, you know this does They're two very obvious.

749
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: Monetarily in terms. Would I want to pay Russell Wilson

750
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: thirty five million dollars a year? If I would? I

751
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: want to pay Russell Wilson the Baker Mayfield contract.

752
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 2: I would not do. No, I wouldn't want to do

753
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. Would I want to be a year

754
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 2: from now?

755
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: I will if he's a world maybe much more about

756
00:32:59,600 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: him now?

757
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: Would you can consider it? But I want him to

758
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: throw to the middle of field more than he has

759
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: too at no cost. Okay, you can cut him in camp, Yeah,

760
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: I mean really good. I mean, if he's a disaster,

761
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: you don't even have to bring him to the opening day.

762
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: And the Queen thing, it wasn't because we didn't think

763
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: he was good.

764
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 1: Eighteen. Yeah, I didn't think he'd be available to him

765
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: at that price, right, right, So I thought at eighteen

766
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: he's probably overpaid.

767
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 2: So I think I would rank those three moves. Queen's

768
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: my favorite, Wilson's my second, Johnson trades my third.

769
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

770
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I do believe maybe as soon as our

771
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: next visit on Friday, the Johnson thing makes something more.

772
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: Something will have happened that makes it.

773
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: Either if it's just cap space created contractually or Mike

774
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: Williams all of a sudden's in town or whatever it is,

775
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: I think that will make more sense in a day

776
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 2: or two.

777
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I'm with you. You know something this is

778
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: you don't make that trade without another move two receivers.

779
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: You know there's there's another shooters.

780
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: Because you're not drafting two receivers and saying, oh, we

781
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: got to plan both.

782
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 2: No, right, I mean you'd like a leader in that

783
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: room and somebody's been around the block, and how young

784
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: do you want to be on offense? I think you're

785
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 2: excited now to draft the receiver. I mean, yeah, so

786
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 2: many good ones. Yeah, but your center need didn't go away.

787
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 2: Love to take advantage of this tackle market. I still

788
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: think you need to draft a corner so you can't

789
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: have them all in round one, you know. And I

790
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 2: don't think corners in the round one discussion anymore. It's

791
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 2: more of a third fourth type of situation.

792
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you can. You can choose to be

793
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: a little more prudent.

794
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you if you sign the right receiver,

795
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: even a third round receiver, I could live with, you know.

796
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: In addition to yeah, looking at some of the guys

797
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: still available at the receiver position, obviously, Calvin Ridley is

798
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: the is there.

799
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 2: He's the jewel. I think he's from what I understand,

800
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: he has an inflat add value of himself. And it's

801
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 2: come down to the Jags who don't have any money

802
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: in the Patriots that nobody wants to go to. But

803
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 2: he's good. I mean, he's better than his fantasy numbers

804
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 2: implied last year in Jacksonville.

805
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: I can promise you that, which doesn't speak well for

806
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: what they did last year in Jacksonville. Trevor Lawrence in particular.

807
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: Their brutal I thought they made life really hard on

808
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 2: Lawrence and so I don't think Ridley returns there, but

809
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 2: maybe he does if it goes another day or two.

810
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 2: I at least put a call in.

811
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

812
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: He's a little older than you think too, by the way, folks,

813
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 2: and he's been suspended.

814
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: You also have to look at adding You know that

815
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: we mentioned Hunter renfro now back out there in addition

816
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: to Mike Williams.

817
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: Mark Williams would be my first or second choice.

818
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that Marquise Brown fits what they

819
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: want to do in terms of I.

820
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 2: Think blocking is one of the reasons Deionte is not here.

821
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean to be honest with you, and Marquis

822
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: Brown's not going to do that for you.

823
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 2: No, he's been rumored that the Chiefs are interested. As

824
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 2: we speak. That seems like the perfect marriage to me

825
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 2: for what both guys could get. I still think Marquis

826
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 2: is a very good player and be a welcome addition

827
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 2: to any team. There's one of my number on him.

828
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Odell Beckham. He's there. I'm not in.

829
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of work.

830
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel, he was originally you know, like projected to

831
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: get eight or nine.

832
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 2: I didn't love that six or seven.

833
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 1: He makes plays, makes plays, he's stay on the field.

834
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

835
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: I talked about Tyler Boyd. Yeah, Josh Reynolds, that one

836
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: I like too. Yeah.

837
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 2: I mean I think he's a downfield, tough guy. He's

838
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: skinnier than a Williams or a Pickens or those type

839
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: of dudes. But I think he's a better player than

840
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: given credit for. So I would have some interest in

841
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 2: that and a second round pick.

842
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, kJ Osborne.

843
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 2: Maybe he's a lot like Westbrook, a keen Ad. They're

844
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: tough guys their size. They would be their third or

845
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:02,959
Speaker 2: fourth ideally or fourth.

846
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: They still know what brown List is being out here.

847
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 1: I thought he signed.

848
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: I think he resigned. It went somewhere. I don't think

849
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: he's available.

850
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: And DJ Shark. I don't want DJ Shark either, but

851
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: he would be another LSU guy that you would be.

852
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. I mean he's tall and fast,

853
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: so he has that to him. I just think his

854
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: name values. I mean, at the right price, I'll take

855
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 2: any of them, but at the at his name value

856
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 2: is better than the player. He's very inconsistent. Yeah, I agree,

857
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: he's a one trick pony two. Yeah, but just looking

858
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: thinking there's another name or two out there.

859
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: Let me looking for a more updated list here, let's see,

860
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: uh the tracker, I get the tracker up. There's a

861
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: lot of contracts signed here.

862
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: It's insane.

863
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about the running backs. By the way I counted,

864
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: this was as of last night, the moment the position

865
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: in which the most movement had taken place, it was

866
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: running back sixteen moves in the first two days.

867
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 2: Which tells us I think the back class thanks coming out.

868
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: It's kind of my feeling about it too, But it

869
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: also tends to lean against what everybody said, Well, running backs,

870
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: they don't matter team different right.

871
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: It goes back to our conversation of if we're gonna

872
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 2: run the ball more against too high and dime, I

873
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 2: want better ball carriers. And I also wonder some of

874
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: them is just shuffling chairs on the deck on the

875
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: you know, like Green Bay swapped one out for another,

876
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: you know, like that they value them more, they got

877
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 2: a little younger, you know. But one of the most

878
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 2: telling things to me though, was maybe the most analytically

879
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 2: inclined front office in the league is the Philadelphia Eagles, folks,

880
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 2: and a lot of people Steelers aren't analytically enough in

881
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 2: the client. They just signed the best back in the market,

882
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 2: you know, like to big money, to big money, and

883
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: I'm sure that they will treat him quote as a

884
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: weapon like the Niners doing with McCaffrey. I don't know

885
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 2: if they'll give him thirty carry the game and run

886
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 2: him into the ground. But these weapons, you know, I

887
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 2: was critical of the Lions for taking Jamior GiB in

888
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 2: the first round, like that's just not enough value. You

889
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: can find running backs are cheaper, not if you're a weapon.

890
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 2: You know, if you change the game in all facets,

891
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 2: you're valuable.

892
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm just looking here at some of the other wide

893
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 1: receivers still available. Some guys we didn't mention here. Michael

894
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: Thomas is there. I don't no interest there. I don't

895
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: think Cedric Wilson's still out there. Jamal Agnew.

896
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. You're not going to trade for t Higgins.

897
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 2: Trying to think of any trade candidates too. Mooney just

898
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: got scooped up, which it doesn't break my heart.

899
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: Leviscus Shenault.

900
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 2: At league minimum, Yeah, trickster guy. I mean, he wouldn't

901
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 2: I still think you need to more.

902
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: Uh. Van Jefferson there another one.

903
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like some things he did, and they're young.

904
00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: I mentioned Nick Westbrook of Kinney. Yeah, Sterling Shepherd is there.

905
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: He's always hurt.

906
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: I say, your doctors would have to like him. He's

907
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: on the field, he's good.

908
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 1: Oh he's been yeah, great when he plays weird career.

909
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder kind of the same thing. When he's fine.

910
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: Shepherd's more dynamic at least when on their best days.

911
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: I'd rather do renfro or even Voyd probably over.

912
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: Osborne.

913
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: Osborne and Westbrook Keene are nice consolation prize not difference makers.

914
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: But if they're your fourth and you draft one high,

915
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: I get it. They're valuable contributors.

916
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: Donovan People's Jones.

917
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: Still be in that mold too. I think he plays

918
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 2: special teams too.

919
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, got uh.

920
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 2: I know what's his face?

921
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: Pure? You want pure speed in the slot? Ques Watkins.

922
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, these guys will be out there a week

923
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 2: from now.

924
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's basically what you're looking at here.

925
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 2: And I just think they probably have a plan in place.

926
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: Something. There's something in the works.

927
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 2: There's something in the works. I mean you can't go

928
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 2: this baron at that.

929
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: Position with its two guys, not in today's NFL.

930
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 2: Like it's getting late in the process for that, you know.

931
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we'll see what happens with with the remainder,

932
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: with with the rest of that. But something's going to happen.

933
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

934
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lawlly. You're listening to the drive here on

935
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,400
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936
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943
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Speaker 2: New jersey's gonna be available somewhat soon here.

944
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 1: Did you see the video? By the way of Russell

945
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: Wilson put out video of him opening up his new

946
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: Steelers number three jersey, So it's it's official. He's going

947
00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: to wear number three.

948
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 2: Ye I didn't it happened, though.

949
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: I can't remember any threes for the Steelers that.

950
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 2: I remember them. I wanted them to draft Philip Rivers

951
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: and give him a three. Three Rivers I'm saying, but

952
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 2: the betting thing worked out a right.

953
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: I guess jeffreed War three. There we go. That's I'm

954
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: not good with those things.

955
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: You're better than me.

956
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: Like there are people out there that you know that

957
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: the all time? Yeah, that's that that that's not.

958
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 2: A common number. Yeah, no quarterbacks. I remember Landy Jones, Okay,

959
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 2: did he switch?

960
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Uh? No? I think lander who did War three the

961
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: entire time?

962
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

963
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: And I guess Brad Wing War three last year?

964
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 2: Fair enough?

965
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you got that. The first number three in

966
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: Steelers history was the great Maury Bray. Do you remember him?

967
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 1: I do not. I was nineteen thirty five.

968
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: Good player.

969
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what he did where he played.

970
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: And then if their numbering back then was like you

971
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 2: get one, you get two, you get three, you get four,

972
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: just whenever you show up.

973
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: You know, maybe Bill Dudley War three in nineteen forty two.

974
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: I know they don't retire numbers, but I mean it's

975
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 2: a retiable number.

976
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: He's kind of a big deal. He's in the Hall

977
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: of Fame. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned you have Landry Jones,

978
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, War three not bad so Jeff Reed, Mark

979
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: Royal's War three. I didn't remember that one.

980
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 2: No, I would have got that one. Yeah, I don't.

981
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: And Ron Stark. So it's been largely upon pers and

982
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: kickers of quarter three. But you know they'll be the

983
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: quarterback now wearing that number three.

984
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 2: Nice for the Steelers, Okay, yeah, I bet they saw

985
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 2: some of those jerseys, I would think. So I'm excited

986
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: about that more and more. It's not just because I'm

987
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: you know, going back on my thoughts on the guy.

988
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: It's just a proud athlete that had his ego knocked

989
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 2: down a little bit. I think is a scary thing,

990
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 2: you know, like back a wounded animal into a corner

991
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: type situation. He may not be a good player, I

992
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, the game may have passed him by,

993
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: or he might rebound nicely. You know, I think he fits.

994
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: Here's the difference for me is, you know, when Denver

995
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: trades for him, Denver, which hasn't made the playoffs since

996
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, correct, you want to talk about this, Well,

997
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 1: the Steelers haven't won a playoff game. They haven't made

998
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs since twenty five.

999
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: Denver's not thought of in that light nearly enough.

1000
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: No, And Denver, by the Way, for a long long

1001
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: time is one of the premier AFC franchises.

1002
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: Oh elway to Manning. Oh yeah, yeah, they go to

1003
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 2: super Bowls and win divisions and right yeah, tough places

1004
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: to play.

1005
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: So they've gone now a decade without making the playoffs playoffs.

1006
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: I think that they realized Peyton came in, gave it

1007
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: a year and said, you know what, our team isn't

1008
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: good enough.

1009
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 2: Well, they don't fit Peyton's system at all. Right. He

1010
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 2: is the most timing in rhythm. Get it out now,

1011
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 2: do exactly as I say. And I love Drew Brees.

1012
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 2: But like Ben and Breeze, if they would switch careers,

1013
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 2: both of would have been so much worse, you know

1014
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 2: what I mean, they were the same contemporary year Ben

1015
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 2: didn't play that way, he would not have fit the

1016
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 2: Peyton system. Thenlson's more like Ben, you know.

1017
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: I just I just think he I think Peyton looked

1018
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: at the roster and said, we're not close.

1019
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: Oh I think that's why I got hired to give

1020
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 2: you We're gonna make you an ob seemly rich coach.

1021
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 2: You have all the power in the world. He went

1022
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: out and got his lineman the first off season, and

1023
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 2: they're paying the price.

1024
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: Now they're blowing it up.

1025
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 2: Now they're blowing it up.

1026
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1027
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: I think Wilson trade killed them.

1028
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: I think he came in, he looked at and said, yeah,

1029
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: this isn't going to He gave it the year basically,

1030
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: and he says, you know what, this isn't gonna work.

1031
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna get rid of Russe Wilson. We're gonna get

1032
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: rid of Justin Simmons. We're gonna they just blow all

1033
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: this guy. We got to We got a clear cap

1034
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: space so I get my guys in here, so I

1035
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: can get what I want to do in here, because

1036
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: it's all about my system.

1037
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 2: He's one of those guys percent what he is and

1038
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 2: Wilson doesn't fit it at all. And even he made

1039
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 2: little moves he got like Troutman from the Saints and

1040
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 2: a couple of his dude, little Jordan Humphrey, little things

1041
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 2: like that. And I think they're gonna end up with

1042
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 2: bo Nicks because bow Knicks will paint by numbers. Yeah,

1043
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: you know, and it worked. I mean it worked tremendously

1044
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 2: well Drew Brees, you know. So Wilson's not a fit

1045
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 2: there at all. Steelers historically have more leeway with ad libbing,

1046
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 2: doing what you want. You know, we'll see how it works.

1047
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: But that was not a system fit at all.

1048
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: No, So I just think that played more into a factor.

1049
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,479
Speaker 1: Wilson wasn't good two years ago. No, but nobody would

1050
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: have been good two years ago. That was a miserable

1051
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: That was a horrible marriage.

1052
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, I think they was playing for an offensive coordinator,

1053
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 2: not a head coach.

1054
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1055
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 2: And I think Wilson came in there by all accounts

1056
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: and thought he was better than he was. And you know,

1057
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: I'm king of the castle here, and that's not the

1058
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 2: player he is not. No, he's not.

1059
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think that the Steelers are going to

1060
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: be asking him to be the engine. No.

1061
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 2: I think they're going to say, we need you to

1062
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 2: make six throws, we need you.

1063
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: To be a facilitator, we need you to be what

1064
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: what Roethlisberger was.

1065
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: When he used to hand it to John Marshawn Lynch.

1066
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: We need you to be late career Ben Roethlisberger here,

1067
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: make us four or five big throws a game.

1068
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, or early career Russ. Yeah, I mean that's where

1069
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: he had his most success. Probably handing the ball off

1070
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 2: with a good defense, make some plays. He won't make

1071
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 2: as many with his legs. The wow Mahomes plays as

1072
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: he did back then. But he's smarter now too, Yeah,

1073
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 2: you know, and he takes care of the football, cut

1074
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:15,959
Speaker 2: down the sacks a little bit, throw in the middle

1075
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 2: field more than you have. Still make those wild throws

1076
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 2: down the sidelines. Nowhere to go with the football. Don't

1077
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 2: turn the ball over.

1078
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: You win a lot of games. Yeah.

1079
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Scramble for twenty twenty five yards a game, we'll

1080
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 2: take it. Yeah, it's a lot better than what they've

1081
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 2: got the last couple of years. Yeah. Throw for close

1082
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 2: to thirty touchdowns like that's unheard of.

1083
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: But I think that's the idea here and so and.

1084
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: I think they're going to try to get him his

1085
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: type of receivers. Yeah, you know, it's not that Deonta

1086
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 2: wouldn't be bad for it. It would be bad for anybody.

1087
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,479
Speaker 2: But I think they want bigger bodies that'll block, that'll

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Speaker 2: go downfield and be physical, go up and get jump balls, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, absolutely, we got to get to another break. That's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for our number one of the

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Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back for

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Speaker 1: our number two right after that. This