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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly, he is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and this is our number two of the

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Speaker 2: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. And typically we would

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Speaker 2: do draft stuff for fantasy all stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, stuff, We're not going to do that right now.

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Speaker 3: That's fine by mean.

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Speaker 2: So I get a story here on our piece here

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Speaker 2: on CBS sports dot Com. Seven teams that revealed their

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Speaker 2: identity with their twenty twenty four NFL draft.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Okay, as you can imagine, the Steelers are on here.

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Speaker 2: When you draft three offensive linemen in the first four

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Speaker 2: rounds of the draft, yeah, you're pretty much announcing to everybody.

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Speaker 3: You're not what you want to do. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's remarkable over the last two years, the

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Speaker 4: changes on the other line, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I expect it to pay off. I hope it

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Speaker 4: But man, they've invested heavy and they brought in a

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Speaker 4: lot of talent upfront. I mean, clearly that's surprise.

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Speaker 2: They've drafted five offensive linemen in the last two years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not to mention that they could They could.

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Speaker 2: Run They could run a starting lineup out if they

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Speaker 2: wanted to, of just five offensive linemen who have been

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Speaker 2: draft picks in the last two years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it would probably be okay. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 4: it would probably be okay with upside to get real good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean I think there's it's screaming from

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Speaker 2: the mountaintops, we are going to run the football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I also think some of it's this this style

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Speaker 4: of quarterbacks. We talked about this last you know, last hour.

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Speaker 4: Let's protect these guys a little bit. You know, the

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Speaker 4: two guys who brought in hold the football more than

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Speaker 4: the old dudes. I mean, they're not going to be

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Speaker 4: ben getting it out in two point two seconds. So

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Speaker 4: if you know that build around it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Some of the other teams that announced their intentions.

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Speaker 4: I would bet the Chargers are on there too. I mean,

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Speaker 4: just the nature of their head coach taking alt over neighbors.

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Speaker 4: You know, that type of thing is an announcement.

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Speaker 2: The Bears are announcing that there are any win now

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Speaker 2: mode I'll know about that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know they had wholesale changes and they're

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Speaker 4: the hot team everyone wants to talk about. But I

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Speaker 4: don't know that they think they're the Texans after drafted

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Speaker 4: Stroud all of a sudden, you know, I mean, I mean.

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Speaker 2: They can look at that and say that's that's what

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Speaker 2: we want to be.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they strive to be that way, and hopefully our

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks that good in his rookie year and that promising.

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Speaker 4: And I love that they added a Keenan Allen. That's

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Speaker 4: a win now type of move. But I think it's

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Speaker 4: you know how much he's gonna learn from Keenan Allen.

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Speaker 4: And hopefully, even if you don't win a game this year,

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Speaker 4: your quarterbacks would be very comfortable throwing or to Allen,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna get first downs. You know, whether results and

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Speaker 4: wins or nots I get it. But I can see

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Speaker 4: next year being the win now mode for them. They

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Speaker 4: win eight or nine game this year of a ton

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Speaker 4: of cap space, go get the Christian Wilkins.

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Speaker 3: It's on the on the free agent market and say

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Speaker 4: Like the text I keep babbling, The Texans showed this

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Speaker 4: year there and went now mode.

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Speaker 3: Right, they went out and get Diggs and you know,

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Speaker 2: Uh, the Washington Commanders covening playmakers in their rebuild.

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Speaker 3: See, I think they're doing more just a facelift of

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Speaker 2: I think so too.

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Speaker 4: Go get Ertz and Echolar and Bobby Wagner and a

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Speaker 4: ton of draft picks, and you old guys. Teach these

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Speaker 2: Year, the Patriots went in competition at wide receiver and

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're in the midst of some change.

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Speaker 4: They could use stars at receiver and at left tackle,

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Speaker 4: you know, like I'm sure every mock draft, way too

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Speaker 4: of seven teams that are making a statement.

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Speaker 2: So here's the thing with the Patriots right now. So

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then you got Taykewe Thornton.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. Then you got Douglas or Douglas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Thornton's I mean he's so young and it's

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Speaker 2: Then you got Juju Smith Schuster, you got Kendrick Bourne,

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Speaker 3: Would any of those three interest you if they get cut?

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Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne would interest me.

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Speaker 4: not interested in bringing Juju back.

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Speaker 3: We brought him up in free agency.

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Speaker 4: I mean I remember talking about like Westbrook, a Keene

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Speaker 2: Be there's only so many of those guys they can keep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see what their offensive line. Just saw today.

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Speaker 4: Oh really, I didn't know that. Yeah, I know, left tackles.

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Speaker 4: The big situation Chokes is battling one of their early.

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Speaker 2: Picks, uh for the Vikings. He feels, as the draft showed,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's a mistake.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like, hey, I understand going to get an

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Speaker 3: I mean you don't even have to.

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Speaker 4: Like last year they didn't have a second round pick

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you don't even have to go in the

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Speaker 4: I think you're overestimating your depth.

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Speaker 2: For the Rams, the idea is to replace Aaron Donald

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Speaker 3: That's a good way of putting it.

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Speaker 4: Get close to it at least right right again, I

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Speaker 3: Of any team in the whole offseason.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean, that's that's huge.

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Speaker 3: Your replace was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. For the Jets, they showed that they're all in

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Speaker 2: They did that last year.

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Speaker 3: They did that last year. I mean it's they have

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Speaker 2: And the problem with that, you know, going all in,

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Speaker 3: When it comes up red and you have a chip

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's his that's his list. I mean, is there

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Speaker 4: I think the Lions what they did on defense, I

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Speaker 4: and Saint Brown, but no one's going to tell you

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Speaker 4: I'd give him every penny he wanted, no matter what penny.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 4: But the defense, you know, reader draft two corners high.

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Speaker 4: They think they're good and they're pushing their chips in

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Speaker 4: and it's an aggressive move too, after all their first

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Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna mention them. They think that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just gonna.

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Speaker 2: we finished last season is not acceptable. Yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: We're gonna just retold.

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Speaker 4: The whole thing I was saying about that with the

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Speaker 3: Was not acceptable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and heads are gonna roll if this doesn't get better,

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Speaker 4: and they'll spend I mean, they're they're aggressive. Bills are

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Speaker 4: another one time to take a step back. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Era two of the Josh Allen you know, lifespan is

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Speaker 4: now upon us. This is year one of.

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Speaker 2: I think that, you know, if you look at the

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Speaker 2: Bengals by keeping t Higgins, keeping Hendrickson, when when you

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Speaker 2: know for that one extra year here, Yeah, like they're

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Speaker 2: kind of all in on this year.

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Speaker 3: They are. I assume Burrow gets real Expensivey're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Say, yeah, they're gonna take a step back when they

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Speaker 3: It's probably their best window. Yeah, I would think so.

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Speaker 4: I bet, I bet their team is better on paper

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Speaker 4: I mean they would end up with a great draft pick.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, But I bet this is their peak.

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Speaker 2: Pezuda on the thirty third team about seven potential breakout

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Speaker 2: His number one guy on here is Khalil Shakir. A

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good one. I mean that's taking a

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Speaker 4: Who do you think it's the most targets on that team?

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Speaker 2: I mean Shakiers, this is year three for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they like he should break out.

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Speaker 2: And I could see that, Yeah, I can see it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick Benito edge rusher for the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Teams just if they never throw at it. You know,

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Speaker 4: And unfortunately for him, he's gone through every defensive system

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Speaker 2: Any other Steelers Benton, Yeah, thank Yeah, really good one.

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Speaker 4: that's great, he could farm was too old. Pickens has

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Speaker 3: Her Big.

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Speaker 2: There's just no path.

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Speaker 3: To the question is going to be could he be

444
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Speaker 3: a six sac guy?

445
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,119
Speaker 2: Maybe?

446
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna be pretty darn efficient, So.

447
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. There are people in this town

448
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,880
Speaker 2: banging the drum that the Steelers should trade Alex high

449
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Speaker 2: Smith for a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand that.

451
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Speaker 2: I don't understand that at all, because while I like

452
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Speaker 2: Nick Herbig.

453
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Speaker 3: I was listening to any offer for any player period.

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Speaker 2: He's not Alex high Smith in terms of his overall

455
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Speaker 2: overall play He's a speedball off the edge, which is great.

456
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Speaker 3: Which is great, but he's not going to hold up.

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Speaker 4: I'm definitely signing Golden yeah before I make the trade,

458
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Speaker 4: and it better be a darn good receiver for me

459
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Speaker 4: to answer this, you know. And I don't want to

460
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Speaker 4: get Highsmith money off books, like I think he's worth

461
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Speaker 4: the money.

462
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Speaker 2: Of course, he's a very good player.

463
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Speaker 3: He's a very good player. And I don't. I like

464
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Speaker 3: her Big a lot. I think he's always going to

465
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Speaker 3: be a three. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was no bigger fan of her Big

467
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Speaker 2: in the draft last year than me, and I'm not

468
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Speaker 2: I'm not trading away Alex Highsmith starting at herbig.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think he's great as a three. I don't want

471
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Speaker 4: her big. I mean, for those of you who haven't

472
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Speaker 4: seen him in person, he's not as impressive as high

473
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Speaker 4: Smith and.

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Speaker 3: James Harrison and the dudes that have done it over

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Speaker 3: the years.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I want him playing sixty five snaps

477
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Speaker 4: against the Bengals. Tackles right that are hundred pounds have

478
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Speaker 4: it and they'll have his flash. Yeah, but play sixty

479
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 4: might not be so great if you're down seven points.

480
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Speaker 2: And right at him he's giving up one hundred pounds,

481
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Speaker 2: you know, right.

482
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Speaker 3: Right right?

483
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Speaker 4: I mean I want to keep him fresh and rotate

484
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 4: him in it maybe proves me more than that, But

485
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Speaker 4: as it stands now, I can't trade high Smith with that.

486
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Speaker 2: I think it's silly. Why would you? Why would you

487
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Speaker 2: turn his strength into a weakness just to strengthen something else.

488
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Speaker 4: Right, doesn't I mean I should even mention this, But

489
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Speaker 4: if they want to trade t. J. Watt for Justin Jefferson,

490
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Speaker 4: I understand, you know what I mean, but like trading

491
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Speaker 4: high Smith for Courtland Sutton in a future second, and like, no.

492
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense, right right, it doesn't make

493
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Speaker 2: any sense. Yeah, looking, I mean, I just I think

494
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Speaker 2: there's some some guys around the league that, you know,

495
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Speaker 2: you start looking at that rookie class from last year,

496
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Speaker 2: and there's some players out there that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was actually thinking about the division. I could

498
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Speaker 4: see Za Flowers taking a nice step forward. Anyone else

499
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Speaker 4: from there, I mean, like likely's a number two tight end.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that he's a breakout candidate. I think

501
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Speaker 4: Hamilton already broke out, Yeah, Bata.

502
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Speaker 3: Bouquet already broke out in a big, big way, and.

503
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Speaker 4: Any Brown's set the breakout the joke who kind of

504
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Speaker 4: did this past year?

505
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Speaker 3: Yeah, teas teas and took a step forward. The corners

506
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Speaker 3: are the corners are intriguing.

507
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Speaker 4: Yeah, how about any Bengals Like Higgins is already I mean,

508
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Speaker 4: I mean I think like Burton could be fined, but

509
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Speaker 4: he's a rookie.

510
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Speaker 2: Maybe one of their young corners, I don't know.

511
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, even like Wilson the linebacker is a

512
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Speaker 3: good player.

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Speaker 2: People know who Yeah, I.

514
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Speaker 4: Mean who's the who's the ones waiting in the wing? Like,

515
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's Miles Murphy.

516
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's Chase Brown, could.

517
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Speaker 4: Be could be although we both like Moss a little

518
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Speaker 4: better I think, you know, but no Brown could that

519
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Speaker 4: could be a nice one two punch.

520
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean he can fly, yeah, yeah, catch the ball

522
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Speaker 3: pretty well. He runs hard, So yeah, I don't know.

523
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just think that there's a little less

524
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Speaker 2: intrigue with the Steelers this year with this kind of list.

525
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Speaker 2: I think they kind of know for the most part

526
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Speaker 2: what these guys are. Yeah, their rookie class last year,

527
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Speaker 2: those guys were really good as rookies.

528
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Speaker 3: And you were the youngest offense in.

529
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Speaker 2: All this League. The expectation is that they will continue

530
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Speaker 2: to get better. Maybe it's maybe it's a guy like

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Speaker 2: Darius Rush.

532
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he of course would make this list,

533
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Speaker 4: right if we did a Steelers only list, it's a

534
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Speaker 4: good one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe he's a.

536
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Speaker 4: Breakout player like Leol kind of a little out of sight,

537
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Speaker 4: out of mind. But there's ability there. You flip the

538
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Speaker 4: switch and give you forty snaps instead of ten.

539
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Speaker 3: It'd be great. I'm a predicting it. It could be great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be You know, this is it's time

541
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Speaker 2: to put up her shut up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's get to another break. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to finish up the

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Speaker 2: show right after this.

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

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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Matt looking here at the touchdown wire. They put together. Yeah,

553
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Speaker 2: teams that made the biggest adjustments or most improved position group.

554
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Speaker 3: Take position groups who really stepped it up.

555
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Speaker 2: So looking here the defensive side of things, they had

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Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals entire secondary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they put a lot, I mean Melton and guys

558
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Speaker 4: like that and some quality. It was a really bad,

559
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Speaker 4: a really big great and they can now live with it,

560
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Speaker 4: and it's promising you can play nickel and dime without

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Speaker 4: putting replacement level guys out there.

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Speaker 3: So they're making progress.

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Speaker 2: A lot of young body that.

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Speaker 3: I think they drafted three different guys.

565
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Speaker 4: The Detroit Lions cornerback corners and not exactly. We mentioned

566
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Speaker 4: this earlier, Rakeshraw and Arnold pretty good, pretty good. Yeah,

567
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Speaker 4: even only one hits pretty good.

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Speaker 2: You're looking at the the's a lot of stuff that

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Speaker 2: scroll through. I know that's a hard Green Bay Packers safeties,

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Speaker 2: and I would kind of disagree with this one. Well,

571
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Speaker 2: they got McKenny, I get, but McKinney's not a star,

572
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Speaker 2: and they're paying McKinney star money. They're paying McKinney like

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Speaker 2: he's Minka Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 3: It's the contract. Bothers me too. And then they drafted

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Speaker 3: three more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're weird to you all the time. Yeah, that's

577
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Speaker 2: how they kind of handle stuff. I don't know there's necessary.

578
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Speaker 2: I mean it's.

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Speaker 4: Different, it's better, but it's not. It's probably not what

580
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Speaker 4: they invested. Yeah, it's like they've got three quarters back

581
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Speaker 4: for a dollar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean e Xavier McKinney at four years, sixty

583
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Speaker 2: seven million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Good player, but he's not that.

585
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Speaker 2: Good of a place.

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Speaker 3: He had top ten safety.

587
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you're paying them maybe right, right, he'd better be.

588
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Speaker 4: I mean going out and getting the best safety on

589
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Speaker 4: the market in free agencies. Probably not wise.

590
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Speaker 3: Every year they could.

591
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Speaker 2: Have just Justin Simmons is still sitting out there.

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Speaker 3: Great point, who might be better?

593
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Speaker 2: Who might be at he's been a better player over

594
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Speaker 2: the course of his career. I don't know the Rams

595
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Speaker 2: defensive line now, I am going to completely disagree with that.

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Speaker 4: They were away. They got better, they got better. If

597
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Speaker 4: we start at the starting point is the day after

598
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Speaker 4: Aaron Donald retired. But not from last year.

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Speaker 2: Not from last year. No, no, just throwing a bunch

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Speaker 2: of rookie bodies at that doesn't doesn't fix it.

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Speaker 4: We talked about this earlier in the show. It's like, Okay,

602
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Speaker 4: they're trying to create the aggregate. Fine, but they didn't

603
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Speaker 4: get better.

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Speaker 2: No, No, absolutely not. That's that's not an improvement. You

605
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Speaker 2: don't improve losing Aaron Donald.

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Speaker 3: No, it should not be on the list.

607
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Speaker 2: Vikings Edge Rushers, they lost to Neil Hunter though, that's

608
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Speaker 2: a pretty big loss. That's it's kind of the same

609
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Speaker 2: thing as.

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Speaker 4: You're talking about, right, Like I get Dallas Turner, okay, but.

611
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they added somebody else.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Hunter at eighteen sacks last.

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Speaker 4: Year, right, and they had a great Grennard reener swapped.

614
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Speaker 4: But you lost that deal, right, and you lost the

615
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Speaker 4: best player of the group.

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00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, you lost the best, dude.

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Speaker 3: Best improved room. That can't be one of the ones.

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Speaker 2: Like to me, the Steelers off ball linebacker improvement is that.

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Speaker 3: Was one I thought should have been on there.

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Speaker 4: I scrolled through these, I'm like, if you're up a

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Speaker 4: rams D line and Vikings Edge Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Got a patch of Queen and Peyton Wilson. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: too high quality.

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Speaker 3: It might be your one and two. I mean, your

625
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Speaker 3: best two from last year might be three and four.

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Speaker 2: At the very worst, those are probably your two starters

627
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Speaker 2: next year.

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Speaker 4: I would think so, I would think that's the plan, right, No,

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Speaker 4: I thought that was a position group.

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Speaker 3: On offense.

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Speaker 4: There is a Steeler group, which is not surprising at all,

632
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Speaker 4: But I thought Steeler off the ball linebacker. That's why

633
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Speaker 4: I wanted to bring it up. This should have been

634
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Speaker 4: at least in the conversation. Ego's cornerbacks, well, similar moves

635
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Speaker 4: to Lions. Two corners and the top forty picks. They

636
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Speaker 4: better be improved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what else you got here? We got San

638
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine or secondary?

639
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Speaker 3: What they do?

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00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 3: Nothing they they mind boggling.

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Speaker 2: One key addition will be Florida State cornerback Ernardo Green. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers selected sixty fourth.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean last pickling the second round or second

645
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Speaker 3: and last pickling. Yeah, he's okay?

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Speaker 2: Does that really fix everything for that? That's the only

647
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Speaker 2: one I'm seeing here that they it's all talking all about.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean I liked him in.

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Speaker 4: Back, but okay, I think they drafted Mustafa in the

650
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Speaker 4: fifth round. Okay, I mean I don't think that's super improved.

651
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Speaker 2: No, I don't think they've fixed it or made it

652
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 2: markedly better. Mean either the Seahawks cornerbacks, really.

653
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Speaker 3: What's better about it? Their safeties are a lot different. Yeah,

654
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Speaker 3: I mean they had the two young corners who were

655
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Speaker 3: good already.

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Speaker 2: They took Byron Murphy in the first round.

657
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Speaker 3: And they take two Auburn guys super late.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're they're starting two cornerbacks or treeque

659
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Speaker 2: Wooland and Devon Witherspoon.

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Speaker 3: Right, but that didn't change.

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Speaker 4: That's unimproved, he said Seattle's cornerbacks. I know, their safeties

662
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Speaker 4: are the ones that they change slash improved.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what he's talking about. No offense, right,

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Speaker 2: but again, the Steelers linebackers should be Wait wait, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: There's other positions too that would be Yeah, the ones

666
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 4: they picked aren't great.

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Speaker 2: The Titans cornerbacks, well, okay, they went out and yeah, indeed,

668
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: yeah they made a big.

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Speaker 4: Deal, nice move that definitely just counts. I mean, their

670
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 4: corners were really bad. Now it might be a strength

671
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Speaker 4: of the team.

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00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 2: They definitely upgraded.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like that's that's a good way of defining

674
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 4: it to me, is was it if you made a

675
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 4: negative a positive? I think the Steelers linebackers should.

676
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: They should obviously be on that list.

677
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: It was better than it's been last year, but near

678
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Speaker 4: the end, it was definitely a negative and now it

679
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 4: should be in a extreme positive for the Steelers.

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00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 3: Awesome ball line.

681
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: That's from Doug Farrar too.

682
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: He usually does does good stuff. Yeah, he digs deep.

683
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 4: He's also super dialed in with Seattle on. Well, maybe

684
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 4: a couple of late round corners isn't going to change

685
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 4: my tune.

686
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: Nor no from from the Steelers signing a second team

687
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Speaker 2: All Pro.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, And I'm sure there's a lot of

689
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 4: teams out there. I mean, like, well, we'll get I

690
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 4: was taking offense, but like Chargers O line, I mean

691
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 4: there's a lot of Yeah, there's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of right, all right, let's let's look at the offensive side.

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Speaker 3: This one.

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00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: Doug did this one as well.

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00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 3: Good.

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00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: Uh so he has the Atlanta Falcons passing game. Well, okay, yeah,

697
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: you're running two quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: No doubt, no doubt. I mean even Moon he's in

699
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 4: an addition, Yeah, okay, yeah that counts. Uh you're looking

700
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Speaker 4: at no more was another Yeah, Yeah, it's definitely.

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Speaker 2: Better Chicago's passing game obviously, Yeah.

702
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Speaker 3: Keen Allen Dunes and the first overall pick.

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00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: Sure, that's just that's a big improvement. Yeah, presumably, Uh,

704
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: the Jets offensive line that they added a lot of

705
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: bodies and they drafted won in the first round.

706
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 3: If they wouldn't have drafted.

707
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Speaker 4: Penn State kid and just yeah, then I would have

708
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 4: been like, Okay, but maybe not. But the fact that

709
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 4: you doubled down with the tackle and at the ninth

710
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 4: pick or the tenth pick qualifies.

711
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: The Steelers offensive line easy one.

712
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that it would be criminal

713
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 3: not to mention it.

714
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The fact that you would go that strong in the

716
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 4: draft with names that every draft nick and everyone watching

717
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 4: them likes. You know, they're not projections, they're quality players.

718
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: Washington's passing game.

719
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Speaker 3: I guess.

720
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Speaker 4: I mean the receivers are basically the same as McCaffrey was,

721
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 4: the third round pick that I thought was a little overdrafted.

722
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: A lot of people love.

723
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Speaker 4: To not Okay, ERTs big change a quarterback of course

724
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Speaker 4: in Kingsbury.

725
00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 3: It's fine.

726
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Kingsbury though, don't either.

727
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's a change.

728
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: It is a change.

729
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the old line worries me, which is to

730
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 4: be part of the passing game.

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00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: That's what he's got there. I'm trying to think if

732
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Speaker 2: there's any other offenses I would say, really, you could

733
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: make the argument like, did Houston's offense get better?

734
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: Probably, I mean they had to.

735
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 4: If mix In and Diggs, Yeah, if Diggs is your

736
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 4: two or three, right, all right, you get a pretty

737
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 4: good passing gear if all three of those guys are equal.

738
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Speaker 4: I mean, right, it's just I'm sure it's gonna be

739
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 4: a pick your poison week to week. They invested a

740
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 4: little in the O line too. I don't love Mixing,

741
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 4: but he's in a great situation.

742
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: Oh he's never going to see a load of box no.

743
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 4: Like, I know we're not talking fantasy right this minute,

744
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 4: but I don't know what to do with him in

745
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 4: fantasy because I think he's a massively declining player that

746
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 4: might be in the best situation in the entirely. And

747
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 4: I know he can play still, he's not terrible, you know,

748
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 4: So that's definitely one.

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00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 3: How about Tennessees receivers.

750
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, they upgraded that in a big.

751
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 3: Graded a huge way. I mean, that's a good one.

752
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: You can make the argument the Ravens upgraded their running

753
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: back situation in a huge way.

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00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. They did. I mean they were playing

755
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 3: with I think.

756
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: I understand as your thirty year old running back.

757
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 4: But compared to Gus Yeah, I mean he's a jag.

758
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 4: I mean he's just a guy. He's fine. Henry's a

759
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 4: special player.

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00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they could have made that list. The Steelers.

761
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 2: A quarterback could have made this list.

762
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely about I was gonna say, wide receiver for

763
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 4: Kansas City, you had worthy a Brown.

764
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 4: I guess two guys thrown at the problem. But they

766
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 4: may but they may have lost the guy.

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00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: O line for Chargers and really Saints Titans. I mean,

769
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 4: no one doubled down with the Steelers, but anyone that

770
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 4: took one of those tackles in the top ten to

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Speaker 4: twenty line, you know what.

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00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: About it's a Giants passing game.

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00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 3: I think so.

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00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 4: I think it starts with the O line and they

775
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 4: were like the worst blocking team in the league. And

776
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 4: they got like a lumin or in Runyon that are

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00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 4: at least quality pros they ever paid for him. And

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00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 4: they have a real receiver if they've trod out Slayton

779
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 4: Wandell Robinson and the Yellis Dabors trio is okay, so

780
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 4: better than what they used to play with.

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00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 2: And you can make the Cardinals same thing.

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00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 2: When I'll get you, Hay Jay Jones, you got yeah.

784
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 4: Under Harrison, Wilson's good enough. Yeah, yeah, McBride's young. Yeah

785
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 4: that's a good one too. Philly running back and a

786
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 4: weird one.

787
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, these teams don't care about running back.

788
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of a sudden, cared about Now they care

789
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 3: about running back. Yeah, we'll figure.

790
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's plenty more, but those ones come to mind.

791
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 4: I'm just scanning the league. Saints didn't do much for me,

792
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 4: Bucks didn't do much. I mean, how about the Panthers.

793
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 4: I mean, their offense has to be at her nowhere

794
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 4: to go, but up, we talked about that or in

795
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 4: the show. At least they overspent for a pair of guards. Yeah,

796
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 4: Deonta's They would have killed for Deonta last year, right,

797
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So I think that's something

798
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 4: even Brooks could help. The offense should be better. But

799
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 4: I think they sacrificed a little defense to do it.

800
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. You know, they gave up

801
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 2: some quality players.

802
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they mentioned Atlanta's passing game. I'm just going

803
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 4: division by division my head. We got most of them,

804
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 4: I think.

805
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Steelers could have been on this

806
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 2: list A couple of times.

807
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 4: Yes, certainly linebackers. I'm glad they did mention O line

808
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 4: quarterback room would have been. I mean, if we were

809
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 4: to rank who upgraded most at quarterback in the league,

810
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 4: Atlanta's probably won.

811
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know how to assuming Cousins is ready

812
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: to go.

813
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he al sided Panics at least, right, so

814
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 4: the room's much better than it was. I don't know

815
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 4: how you judge Caleb Williams, but the world would probably

816
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 4: put him high. I think New England you'd go high.

817
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 4: But those are all unproven dudes. Steelers are right in

818
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 4: there in terms of wholesale changes that could pay off

819
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 4: huge at quarterback at Land has probably won the Steelers

820
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 4: probably two. If you still if you take the first

821
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 4: round rookies out of it, I don't know if it'll

822
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 4: be good or bad this year.

823
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm with you.

824
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's Minshew going to the Raiders.

825
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what that hell that's going to

826
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 2: work out.

827
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 3: I mean I don't either. They keep thinking of O'Connell's

828
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 3: going to be the guy.

829
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: I mean, good luck with that.

830
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

831
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about this earlier today that I

832
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 4: didn't love the Raiders draft, and I'm sure they would

833
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 4: have preferred to have Pinnis than Bowers. But if that

834
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 4: nest is kind of nice. Now, yeah, you have powers Johnson,

835
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 4: you have Bowers. They drafted the Maryland tackle too. That

836
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 4: if they stink, it's all because the quarterback. If you

837
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 4: insert quarterback next year, it's a pretty soft landing spot all.

838
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 3: Of a sudden. Yeah, you know, assuming Adams is still

839
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 3: there and Myers.

840
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: You go make the pitch fordk Prescott.

841
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 3: They might they got money, I mean, or fing.

842
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 2: The drafty good. But we'll see, we shall see. But Matt,

843
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: that's going to do for the show today?

844
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: You have it?

845
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: How about that?

846
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 4: I'm thinking me another segment. I get a little wires

847
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 4: cross there. We're done, good stuff, We're done.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back.

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Speaker 2: We will be back. We do a show on Wednesday

850
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: this week and then no show on Friday, right, but

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Speaker 2: uh we will be back on Wednesday. Uh So for

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Speaker 2: my partner, Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller, freshly back from

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Speaker 2: Hawaii here on site keeping us on the air, I'm

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Speaker 2: Dale Lollie. We thank you for listening to this edition

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Speaker 2: of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.