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Speaker 2: Steel Welcome to the Sunday Show Steelers Nation live from

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Speaker 2: Saint Vincent College. It's the Drive here on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson with you for

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Speaker 2: the next three hours as we've got a practice just

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Speaker 2: getting underway in front of us. It is a padded practice,

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Speaker 2: many more hands on deck than yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Matt.

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Speaker 2: It's another beautiful day here, and I think you and

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Speaker 2: I are ready to have some fun and anticipation of

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Speaker 2: what should be a fun intense practice before the guys

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Speaker 2: and we all get a day off tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and justin playning the seat in my head has

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Speaker 4: me chuckling behind the scenes and trying to fight back

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Speaker 4: some laughs from a drive gone by.

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Speaker 3: But we'reiscing reminiscing right before we come on air.

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Speaker 4: It's an awesome day here. I mean like it was

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Speaker 4: actually a little chilly this morning, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 4: like I'm sure Tom lowind rather it's one hundred and ten.

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Speaker 4: But for the fans, for everybody, Crystal clear skies and

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Speaker 4: sunny right, everybody's practice and we know yesterday a lot

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Speaker 4: of dudes sat out after Friday night. Lights, pads are on.

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna be in for the ultimate experience.

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Speaker 4: This might be the best practice of the of the year.

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Speaker 4: I really think I'm to or be attending to or

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Speaker 4: listening to.

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Speaker 3: You know, I completely agree.

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Speaker 2: I really think that could be the case, because of

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Speaker 2: the weather, because of the pads, because of the intensity

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Speaker 2: I expect today with the day off tomorrow, everybody day

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Speaker 2: off tomorrow, and everybody knows it. And you know, this

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Speaker 2: is kind of the I mean, let's face it, this

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Speaker 2: is the final of six straight days of practice for

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Speaker 2: these guys. You know, this is the gauntlet week of camp.

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Speaker 2: You know, this is the the the longest stretch that

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Speaker 2: they have here, six days in a row that are

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Speaker 2: not broken.

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Speaker 3: There's no preseason game, right, there's nothing different.

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Speaker 2: Get a little different they get a little bit thinner,

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Speaker 2: you know, the road starts to narrow a little bit

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Speaker 2: more when they when they get back. And so today

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Speaker 2: it's like we said, there are a couple of absences.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Pat Fryer Mouth looks like he's getting a

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Speaker 2: day off.

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Speaker 3: See him.

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Speaker 2: You see him in the end zone there right now,

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Speaker 2: kind of mimicking some defense. He's got the black the

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Speaker 2: black hoodie on with with no sleeves.

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Speaker 4: Kind of shine.

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Speaker 2: And I'm wondering if that's maybe part of it. You know,

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Speaker 2: there were a handful of guys who had a veteran

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Speaker 3: Mouth wasn't one of them, and he had a great

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Speaker 3: day out here, so one of them, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 2: But I don't see Joey Porter Junior. I don't see

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Speaker 2: Calvin Austin. We know Corey Trice is dealing with a

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Speaker 2: little something. Calvin and Anderson and Dante Kent as well too.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, Matt and in terms of the veterans,

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Speaker 2: you know, Aaron Rodgers is out there and participating. DK

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Speaker 2: or a go as well too now. But they'll do

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Speaker 2: in team period. All those things obviously to be determined.

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Speaker 2: We saw I was just gonna say, yeah, we saw

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Speaker 2: stuff in front of us to get going here, and say,

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Speaker 2: Amalu and Roger Jones both in on the left side

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Speaker 2: of the line. So I'm excited for this one today, Matt.

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Speaker 2: I think we will have plenty to see here before

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be shocked if we don't get backs on

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Speaker 4: backers and one on ones with the big guys. Although

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Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get plenty of one on one pass

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty ribbed up. I'm also kind of rebbed up

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Speaker 4: here for the next three hours, go home, recharge a

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Speaker 2: Back, no no doubt. I think that sounds great. And

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Speaker 2: today kind of family day here for the Steelers as

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Speaker 2: well too. I don't know if you noticed that little

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Speaker 4: Rats in there a lot of little.

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Speaker 2: Rugrats in there having fund which is always funny to see,

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Speaker 2: like the looks on their.

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Speaker 3: Face when TJ. Watt walks into the cafeteria, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like the best day ever.

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Speaker 4: Some of them don't care at all because they're used

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Speaker 3: Some of the exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Some of them it's no big deal as there'll be

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: Max was joking about that this morning, like when your

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Speaker 2: family comes out the practice, you better have a good

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Speaker 4: What's funny is, you know we we do a line

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Speaker 4: shift with labs. Who was in here with Vince Williams

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Speaker 4: before us. I'm sure a lot of you guys were listening,

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Speaker 4: and he mentioned to Vince, He's like, you know, when

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Speaker 4: don't know why I remember that, but it was family

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Speaker 4: adds to the story. And he's like I stoned him

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Pretty cool? You know that is remember it being family

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Speaker 4: day and the day you felt like, yeah, I belong

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Speaker 4: here as a mid round pick rookie and he was right.

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Speaker 2: And and this is you know about that time. Those

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it started to get the speed of things

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Speaker 2: Are slowing down. You better be picking some stuff up.

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Speaker 2: You better not be making the same mistakes you were

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Speaker 2: that's what we've started to see and hopefully will continue

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Speaker 2: to see from It's been nice like we've had some

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Speaker 3: Starting to emerge this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and hopefully today is another day, another opportunity

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Speaker 2: for somebody to uh, you know, to get their name

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Speaker 2: and in one of those headlines like Vince Williams did

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Speaker 2: a few many.

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Speaker 4: Moons ago exactly. And and while they're all teammates, this

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Speaker 4: will sound selfish. You start to look around your position group,

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Speaker 4: going how do I stack up against these guys? You know,

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Speaker 4: like if you're all.

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Speaker 3: Right, they're going to keep seven of us? Wh or seven?

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Speaker 4: And might I know I'm not beating that guy out.

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Speaker 4: I think I can beat these two out. And you

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Speaker 4: little bit too, Like it's kind of the old poker adage.

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Speaker 4: If you yea, you look around the table when you

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Speaker 4: can't find the soccer, Well you're the soccer.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right, right, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to beat like it's a it's an

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Speaker 2: old touchline, right if you if you can't beat the stiffs, that.

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Speaker 3: Means you are a stiff? Because what was one of

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Speaker 2: Say all the time, so yeah, listen it is it is.

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Speaker 2: That's a that's the thing that they use in college football, right,

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Speaker 2: It's like separation Saturday, you know, like, yeah, that makes

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Speaker 2: sense when you get into November and all of a

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Speaker 4: From the riff Raft fell off. That were good stories

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Speaker 4: and yeah, you know, punching above their weight a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, And and and now it's like, Okay, you're

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Speaker 2: deep into conference season, you're playing ranked opponent's on the road.

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Speaker 2: It's separation Saturday time. Who's a real national title contender

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Speaker 2: who's not. It's kind of separation Sunday. Getting to that

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Speaker 2: point for these guys with you know, the first preseason

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Speaker 2: game less than a week away, and again, just your

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Speaker 4: Like that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be off Tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then

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Speaker 2: they're on the road.

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Speaker 3: So next week, I mean, you get three practices next week, and.

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Speaker 4: That prove like you need playing time against the Jags exactly,

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Speaker 4: you know, right, because there's gonna be guys that really

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Speaker 4: even get their jersey dirty, you know. Yeah, yeah, if

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Speaker 4: you're on the fringe, you got to get that opportunity

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Speaker 2: To kicking, right, And you were talking about that yesterday,

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Speaker 2: like some of these guys won't even get pre season reps. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's when, that's when you know it's starting to look grim.

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Speaker 4: Like Terrell Davis is a great running back from the Bronco. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think it was his Hall of Fame speech, but

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Speaker 4: he told the story of but he was a six

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Speaker 4: drafted a running back the same year ahead of them. Okay,

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Speaker 4: and I remember him going something along the lines on paraphrasing,

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Speaker 4: of course. But like first week of camp, I hardly

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Speaker 4: got any action. No one was paying attention to me.

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Speaker 4: Felt like I was hardly gonna play. We go to

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Speaker 4: I'm not doing anything. I don't get any carries, and

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Speaker 4: they put me in on the kickoff team, which I'd

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Speaker 4: never done before, and blasts this kick return, you know,

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Speaker 4: just like had the perfect rep. It all lined up

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Speaker 4: six yards eight yards ripping it off, and before you

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Speaker 4: know it, come opening Day, you got a guy, and

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Speaker 4: a couple of years later you got a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that's a that's a cool story, and

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Speaker 2: that's listen, that's how those things in Mark's works. For

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Speaker 2: guys like Antonio Brown, it started out here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's.

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Speaker 2: Not like we highlight and I think rightfully, so the

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Speaker 2: Jalen Warren types right right, right right, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Ramon Foster types, the ones who were undrafted and really

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Speaker 2: Vince Williams was a sixth rounder. Antonio Brown was a

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Speaker 2: sixth rounder, it starts in these settings. There's you know,

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Speaker 2: there are exceptions to everything, Matt, but there's not many

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Speaker 4: And I'm not defend the guy. He's allowed to use.

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Speaker 2: the Steelers. As we mentioned yesterday, it happens pretty quick.

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Speaker 3: Man.

440
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Speaker 4: We're well passed halfway mark here.

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Speaker 2: And it's one of those things, it's almost like every

442
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Speaker 2: other year kind of thing where the Steeler because and

443
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Speaker 2: again I'm sure most of our listeners know this, but

444
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Speaker 2: the way the preseason in the NFL is set up now,

445
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Speaker 2: one year you'll have two home games and one.

446
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Speaker 3: Road again, and then the next year you'll have number yeah,

447
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Speaker 3: you'll have two on the road, one at home and

448
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Speaker 3: then two would home.

449
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Speaker 2: And it flip flops every year, and so years like

450
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Speaker 2: this one where it's two preseason games on the road

451
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Speaker 2: and you end up going on the road that first

452
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Speaker 2: weekend for the preseason, I mean it it takes out

453
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Speaker 2: a couple extra days of practice because you're getting a

454
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Speaker 2: day off on the front end and on the back

455
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Speaker 2: end for travel and h you know, with that, there's

456
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Speaker 2: only four weekend practices at this year's training camp, the

457
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Speaker 2: two last weekend and the two this weekend. And so

458
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Speaker 2: nice crowd on hand here again today for what should

459
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Speaker 2: be like. We've mentioned a I think a high energy,

460
00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 2: high impact pads on. We kind of went through the

461
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Speaker 2: list of everybody. He was out, he was out, he

462
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Speaker 2: left Friday night lights to practice a little bit early.

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Speaker 3: He was out yesterday. He is back out there again today,

464
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Speaker 3: which is good to see. Matt.

465
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Speaker 4: A couple of notes that Friar moos just walk past Rogers.

466
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Speaker 4: You know, Friar Moose is not dressed today, and you

467
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Speaker 4: could tell Friar Mouse was kind of busting on or

468
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Speaker 4: Rogers was busting on them a little bit. He kind

469
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Speaker 4: of gave him one of these looks like, come on, man,

470
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Speaker 4: I need you today, you know, and then they hug

471
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Speaker 4: it out and you can just tell they're getting along

472
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Speaker 4: well and all that good stuff and that. Uh. That

473
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Speaker 4: preseason scheduling obviously correlates now with a seventeen game schedule

474
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Speaker 4: where AFC one year has nine home games, the next

475
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Speaker 4: year they have eight. You know, the next year they

476
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Speaker 4: have nine, next year they have eight, correct and in

477
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Speaker 4: this year and they do this to the teams all time,

478
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Speaker 4: is if you're the overseas team, yep, you lose when

479
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Speaker 4: you have the extra game, you know, so you still

480
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Speaker 4: end up with a home if you don't get the

481
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Speaker 4: year that you have truly nine, but you still have

482
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Speaker 4: your eight. So I mean, so be it. Let's take

483
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Speaker 4: a second here, because I think before long the schedule

484
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Speaker 4: will start. I think there's gonna be an eighteen game schedule. Yeah, yeah,

485
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Speaker 4: I think there'll be two by maybe less less. I

486
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Speaker 4: think they'll be I would say, yeah, yes, I think

487
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Speaker 4: people should prepare for two preseason games the season starting

488
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Speaker 4: Labor Day weekend as opposed to the weekend.

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Speaker 2: As oh man, and you know that would hurt my

490
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Speaker 2: college football heart.

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Speaker 3: I would get it. From the NFL standpoint, it.

492
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Speaker 4: Would hurt my Yeah, it would deep creek.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody who works at the NFL right now, Labor

494
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Speaker 2: Day weekend it's like, all right, the last It's like

495
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Speaker 2: your life is over for the next six months.

496
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Speaker 3: So yeah, come on, don't take that.

497
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Speaker 4: And a lot of people, I've heard a lot of

498
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Speaker 4: people say, oh, the NFL doesn't want to start Labor

499
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Speaker 4: Day weekend. Everyone's busy, Like, no one's gonna they play

500
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Speaker 4: on Christmas. Christmas, come on, everyone's gonna watch of course.

501
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Speaker 4: So I do think you're gonna get two preseason games.

502
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Speaker 4: I think you'll get Labor Day weekend, opening day, maybe

503
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Speaker 4: the Thursday before that'll be that you know, first home game,

504
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Speaker 4: opening night type of thing. Eighteen game schedule, nine home,

505
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Speaker 4: nine road, two buys, which I really think they need now,

506
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Speaker 4: you know, like I don't.

507
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Speaker 3: Think it's a terrible right.

508
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Speaker 4: You should really never play a Thursday game, especially a

509
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Speaker 4: road game, not with a buye and you should be

510
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Speaker 4: able to prepare for that. And even just like look

511
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Speaker 4: at the Steelers, they're going to the Dublin and it's

512
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Speaker 4: such an early buy. If you could throw in a

513
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Speaker 4: week fourteen by on top of that, how much of

514
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Speaker 4: better it would be? And then the usual playoffs I

515
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Speaker 4: think will go. But that also bumps you back a

516
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Speaker 4: month or a week two where I think the super

517
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Speaker 4: Bowl would then be President's Day weekend, which then the

518
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Speaker 4: whole planet gets Monday off, which everyone's wanted after the

519
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Speaker 4: super Bowl. Anyways, that's a good point. Yeah, I think

520
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Speaker 4: that's the schedule people should get used to seeing coming

521
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Speaker 4: up here before long.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there's a lot that I like about that.

523
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Speaker 4: Weekend, and maybe can't would have to open a week

524
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Speaker 4: earlier too.

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Speaker 3: We already lose a summer and all of our holidays,

526
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Speaker 3: give us labor day weekend.

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Speaker 4: I hear it out loud. But the second would be

528
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Speaker 4: players and sort of for us, So it's not like

529
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Speaker 4: we stopped. You know, I'm sure do a drive five

530
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Speaker 4: days a week, you know, right.

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Speaker 2: It'd be nice to have a and I know it's

532
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Speaker 2: a little different for you, but he nice to have

533
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Speaker 2: a weekend and not travel.

534
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Speaker 4: And you know, yeah, yeah, all those you would get.

535
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Speaker 2: That, all those different things. But yeah, I think you

536
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Speaker 2: are I don't think I know you are correct. I

537
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Speaker 2: know that that's coming down the line sooner.

538
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Speaker 4: Rather than later, and you might expand rosters a little

539
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Speaker 4: and even add more the salary cap spot right right,

540
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Speaker 4: right right, and more money in players pockets and.

541
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Speaker 2: In an extra regular season game would absolutely boost the

542
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Speaker 2: salary cap.

543
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Speaker 3: That's absolutely going to bost revenues.

544
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Speaker 4: Maybe add two or three more roster spots, you know,

545
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Speaker 4: those type of things. But I think that's what people

546
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Speaker 4: should get used to seeing sooner than later, and maybe

547
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Speaker 4: even before the next CBA whenever that's up. Yeah, which

548
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Speaker 4: I think was a ten year CBDA.

549
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Speaker 2: It was that they signed what about three or four

550
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Speaker 2: years ago? Does that sound right? Like I thought?

551
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Speaker 3: Short shortly after COVID.

552
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Speaker 2: I think I think you're right if I'm if I'm

553
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Speaker 2: recalling correctly, if.

554
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Speaker 4: You make it worth the player's time, and and you know,

555
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Speaker 4: that's that much more TV revenue too, I mean, yeah,

556
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Speaker 4: it's a lot. That's a lot of money.

557
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Speaker 3: It's a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think anybody would mind losing the preseason game.

559
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Speaker 4: You know, one of each is fine.

560
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Speaker 2: No, I mean maybe the guys on the bottom of

561
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Speaker 2: the roster that are that are scrapping a clawing and

562
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: needs your opportunity.

563
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Speaker 4: But and you probably more joint practices too.

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Speaker 2: That's a result as you've kind of laid out thinking

565
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Speaker 2: that we're going to start seeing more and more of

566
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Speaker 2: that here as the years pulled away.

567
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Speaker 3: And I think you are correct on that one.

568
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Speaker 4: I don't know that we'll be broadcasting from it or

569
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Speaker 4: how that will work, but I'm sure I will be there.

570
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you will be there. That's gonna be as

571
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Speaker 4: fun as today's practice, if better, I mean to be

572
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Speaker 4: honest with you, it might be better in the preseason game.

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Speaker 2: It might be our favorite thing of this uh this

574
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Speaker 2: late late July August time frame here before we get.

575
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Speaker 4: To the Baker Mayfield and Vidaveah. I mean those guys

576
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Speaker 4: are all going to be like involved, you know, right.

577
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be a lot of fun.

578
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Speaker 2: Yeah, nd okay, let me ask you this too while

579
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Speaker 2: we're while we're on it in a little bit of a.

580
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Speaker 3: Bigger picture conversation here.

581
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Speaker 2: Uh, you think, well, we just saw what four years

582
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 2: ago now, I want to say five years ago, the

583
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: expansion of the playoff, the extra wild card team. Right now,

584
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Speaker 2: instead of six and six from the AFC and NFC,

585
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Speaker 2: it's seven and seven.

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Speaker 3: You think we'll see eight and eight? I hope not.

587
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Speaker 3: I really do.

588
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Speaker 4: I have respect for the NBA and NHL, but I

589
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Speaker 4: think it's too easy. Yeah, yeah, I think.

590
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Speaker 2: Regular season still matters in football. It's like the only

591
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Speaker 2: sport where you could still say that legitimately.

592
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Speaker 4: And I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but

593
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Speaker 4: I would think with eight nobody would get a buye

594
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Speaker 4: you know, because one to play eight or you go

595
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Speaker 4: back two.

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Speaker 3: You'd have to go back to two teams getting a

597
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Speaker 3: buy or.

598
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Speaker 4: Two would And I kind of like that one gets

599
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Speaker 4: a bye. That's such an honor and such a privilege,

600
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Speaker 4: right right, right, So I kind of like how it

601
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Speaker 4: is now, and maybe it would change. I kind of

602
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Speaker 4: hope not. Though the schedule I laid out for preseason

603
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Speaker 4: regular season. You know, the calendar might not be best for

604
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Speaker 4: our social lives, but I think it's probably best for

605
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Speaker 4: the league.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know about absolutely. We're just speaking selfishly from

607
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Speaker 2: time to time, right.

608
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Speaker 4: Right right, I already kind of vacation short. I think

609
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Speaker 4: I could probably not even attend at all anymore.

610
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Speaker 3: I've just listened.

611
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Speaker 2: I've just started to tell my family, like, if you

612
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Speaker 2: want to guarantee that we're going to vacation, like we

613
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Speaker 2: got to go in April or May, you know. And

614
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Speaker 2: I know that's tough because you can't really go to

615
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Speaker 2: the beach in April or May or something like that,

616
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Speaker 2: but we'll find something. And it's a good point. Yeah,

617
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Speaker 2: And this year's draft, I don't.

618
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Speaker 4: Want to go to the beach in early July when

619
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Speaker 4: it's a bazillion degrees you know, right.

620
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Speaker 3: Yes, correct, And I'm with you on that.

621
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Speaker 2: But you also don't want to go like in early

622
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Speaker 2: June because then it'll probably rain half the days that.

623
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Speaker 3: You're at the beach, you know what I mean.

624
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Speaker 2: Uh, But yeah, obviously the draft is going to be

625
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Speaker 2: huge in April always.

626
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Speaker 4: Change for me.

627
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in it's in Pittsburgh, and I'm sure we'll

628
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Speaker 2: be doing some fun stuff.

629
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Speaker 3: We we got a little.

630
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Speaker 2: Uh, we got a little how do I want to

631
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Speaker 2: put it? We got some details, maybe I should say,

632
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Speaker 2: if some of the things that we'll be doing, uh

633
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Speaker 2: in Ireland and Dublin. Oh okay at the end of

634
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Speaker 2: the month, which will which will be fun? Be doing

635
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Speaker 2: some shows and all of that. Yeah, yeah, on location

636
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: and things like that, and I imagine we'll be doing

637
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 2: plenty of the same when the draft rolls through town

638
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Speaker 2: in April.

639
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Speaker 4: It sounds though, I'm sure it'll be elevated.

640
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Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a it's gonna be a big

641
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: year and uh, it's all going to uh all gonna start.

642
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 3: Well, it's already started, get started right right we are.

643
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 2: We're getting really into it here now and that first

644
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 2: preseason game about six days away.

645
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Speaker 3: As we've got the quarterbacks and the wide.

646
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Speaker 2: Receivers working on some route running in front of us

647
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Speaker 2: here Matt far side of the field. Defensive backs are

648
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Speaker 2: off to the right linebackers are on the third field

649
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 2: all the way down to the right in the corner.

650
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Speaker 2: Got some special team stuff going on in that middlefield

651
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 2: as well too, Defensive lineman back left, offensive lineman in

652
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Speaker 2: front of us here hitting the sleds, and.

653
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Speaker 4: Quarterbacks and receivers just running go balls here too, And

654
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Speaker 4: it's funny to me they've Connor Hayward out there as well. Yeah,

655
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Speaker 4: like sometimes he will do receiver drills yep, as opposed

656
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Speaker 4: to the tight end stuff that's going on right now.

657
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Speaker 4: All these guys throat fine, but Rogers deep balls better

658
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Speaker 4: than all of them. I mean, just sitting he's kind

659
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Speaker 4: of doing it off one foot, leaning back like he's

660
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 4: getting pressure in his face, and he puts a nice

661
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 4: arc under it. And I mean he throws the best

662
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 4: deep ball while he's got and should shock nobody know.

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Speaker 2: It's hilarious too, Like if you watch, I mean, like

664
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 2: Matt mentioned, they're just warming up, just throwing from forty

665
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: yards out, just the low balls into the end zone.

666
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 2: Just let's get the legs moving, let's get the blood pumping, yep.

667
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 2: And like Rogers throws one a DK metcalf and the

668
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: crowd goes wild.

669
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good point.

670
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 2: No defensive back on him, no pass rush though, nothing,

671
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: But that's just how I think.

672
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 4: Watch how he's doing it too. He's kind of leaning

673
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,719
Speaker 4: back like he's getting pressure and he's only off one

674
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 4: leg and you could tell he's working on not perfect

675
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 4: conditions throwing the deep ball too. And I'm not picking

676
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 4: on Skyler Thompson, but like if you watch his it's

677
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 4: a lot flatter. It's a lot harder for the receiver

678
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 4: to get under. You know, it's hard to catch a

679
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 4: flat deep ball like a line drives. You do not

680
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 4: want to throw a line drive. And Russell Wilson did

681
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 4: as well as anybody. Just that moon ball thing, yep,

682
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: and it kind of got, you know, got the life

683
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 4: of its own. But it's hard to defend when that

684
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 4: thing comes down straight, you know, like a like a

685
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 4: dropping a bomb out of a plane.

686
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a perfect swish on a three pointer, you

687
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: know what I mean.

688
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 4: If you're that defensive back, you could still be on

689
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,719
Speaker 4: his shoulder and it's still right there.

690
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 3: They could play on that ball. Yeah no, I mean you.

691
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: See it just it just it flutters so perfectly to

692
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 2: dk Metcalf down the sideline there and uh yeah, it's

693
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Speaker 2: uh it's a lot of fun.

694
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: And yeah, again, I mean people are like Connor Hayward

695
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 3: just made a little bit of a sprawl and catch

696
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 3: and a.

697
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 4: People are going and you're right, I mean they're all

698
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 4: completing them. But the Rogers, the DK one gets a bigger,

699
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 4: you know, bigger applause than everybody else.

700
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: Like here we go Rogers to big Darnell Washington down

701
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 3: the side.

702
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 4: Are tight ends out there.

703
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 3: Everyone's loving it. Everyone's having some fun.

704
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: Uh here on a beautiful day for it on the

705
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 2: campus of Saint Vincent College. I think just that thing

706
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: just hangs in the air. It's beautiful. It looks like

707
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: they're gonna run it back here. Going the opposite way

708
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: one more.

709
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 4: Time allows the receiver to get a step and then

710
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: pin you know, kind of keep you on my back

711
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 4: and so I can slow down, adjust whatever, so that

712
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 4: thing can drop or only I can catch it.

713
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 3: Oh. Now, Aaron Rodgers throwing darts.

714
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 2: He just signaled something to Roman Wilson there and was like, hey,

715
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: let's let's try this. And instead of a deep lofted ball,

716
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: he was throwing a dart to him, just a little

717
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: bit shoulder back shoulder stuff.

718
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, as you're.

719
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 4: Gonna see a lot more of that with Rogers as

720
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 4: the I've been saying this. Yeah, like I never heard.

721
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 4: I think the first time I ever heard the term

722
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 4: back shoulder throw.

723
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 3: Was like him and Jordan Nelson.

724
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, like on Monday Night, you know, his fourth year

725
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 4: in the league or whatever. That was not common stuff.

726
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying he invented it, but he perfected

727
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 4: it and was way ahead of his time on that.

728
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 4: And again, if I'm playing man covers you on your

729
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: inside shoulder and you throw a rocket to the sideline

730
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 4: where I'm the only one knows that's coming that way,

731
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 4: and I can shield my put my back to you

732
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 4: and you know, shield it off. It takes a lot

733
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 4: of reps. So these guys are bad at it right now.

734
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 4: I mean, if you watch this, yeah, it's not pretty. Now.

735
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 4: Rogers just threw in the metcalf, and like I'm sure

736
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 4: when they were in UCLA hanging out together, they start

737
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,479
Speaker 4: working on that stuff. Like the guy, This takes a

738
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: long time to get good at. And some of these

739
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 4: quarterbacks have never thrown it to some of these receivers

740
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 4: and I don't have high expectations, but some of these

741
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 4: are ugly, you know. But I will say Rogers metcalf

742
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 4: is a good start where you're gonna see a fair

743
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 4: amount of it.

744
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you absolutely.

745
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 4: Reps and reps and reps and trust like, if you're

746
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 4: not going to run that route perfectly, it's gonna get picked.

747
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: Exactly right, all right, Matt, let's take a break. Looks

748
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 3: like things are gonna pick up here soon.

749
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,360
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753
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Speaker 2: Back on Campus where seven Shots is going on in

764
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: the end zone to the right. We're about to see

765
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: the first Will Howard rep here of this seven shots period.

766
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: Ben Skronick in motion from left or from right to

767
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: left now turns back right.

768
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 4: Ben Scironica himself in a little bit troubled.

769
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that in just a second.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: This one just gonna be a handoff right up the

772
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: gut and the offense after a frustrating seven shots period,

773
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: I think that might have been their first score. Well,

774
00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: it's been all defense here through seven shots. I think,

775
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: as Will Howard gonna get another rep here, it looks

776
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: like just the seventh one. I believe this is the

777
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: seventh one.

778
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 4: They've done that once in a while where Howard gets too.

779
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been some times where they put Aaron Rodgers

780
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: the last one.

781
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 4: I wonder or not.

782
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: I think if it's like it's three to three, let's

783
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,239
Speaker 2: put the ones back out there beside this. But this

784
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 2: one has been decided for a while, as it's not

785
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 2: been the offense's best seventh. I think they've gotten one

786
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 2: out of the sixth so far by my estimation as well. Too,

787
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: we'll see if they can at least end on a

788
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: high note here. As Howard is in the shotgun Hayward

789
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: moving from right to left. Now our guy Stephen Jones

790
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: at right tackle, and he's gonna loft one of the

791
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: end zone.

792
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 3: That's gonna be too high and.

793
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: Out of pretty real sloppy and and you know for

794
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: for the first team, Aaron Rodgers first three reps there.

795
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 2: First one was just I don't think not the throw

796
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: that he wanted. It was a little low for John

797
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: Smith on the right side of the end zone. Uh,

798
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: second one some miscommunication between him and Ben Skronik that

799
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers was not.

800
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Speaker 4: Happy shotting about it as we speak, shatt and he

801
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 4: gave him a palms up, you know, looking on that

802
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 4: one after like what are you doing? Then?

803
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 3: Where Aaron thought he was going to go?

804
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 4: And then Aaron went and found him as soon as

805
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 4: seven shots were over too it would be like, hey,

806
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 4: we clear on this. You know, hey, he is a perfectionist.

807
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 3: He is a perfectionist.

808
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: That's also why we're out here, you know, this is

809
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: this is the area that you better be working.

810
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 4: On that when you work those things out, that's fine.

811
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Speaker 2: No one is going to run every route or make

812
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: every throw in these settings, no doubt. But then on

813
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: the third rep.

814
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 4: Said first like, at least blowed up, and then.

815
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: The first two reps for the offense, the possib was hey,

816
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, at least the offensive line is

817
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: not getting blown up. They've hold their own well on

818
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: these last two places.

819
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 3: Then the third rep and then boom, blown out. He

820
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: got blown up.

821
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers had no chance even for anything to develop,

822
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: and it wasn't much.

823
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 4: Another good drill hair going on though. Yeah, the two

824
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 4: on two route stuff which.

825
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 3: Is going to be a lot of fun, So it'll be.

826
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 4: It might also be backs on backers single too. They

827
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 4: mixed together sometimes.

828
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: Okay, I love it, so yeah, right now it's two

829
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 2: on two with a quarterback. As Aaron Rodgers finds, DK

830
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: Metcalf pretty well defended by being bishop there.

831
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 4: But it was this is really tough on the defense.

832
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 4: But they'll, you know, they're like they'll almost have them

833
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: like bunch together, not quite a bunch like one behind

834
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 4: the other, but two receivers. And this is a great

835
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 4: drill for the defense, just communication, who am I taking?

836
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 4: Who got him? You got them? That type of thing

837
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,479
Speaker 4: is it man is its own and the quarterbacks reading

838
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 4: it quick and it's a route combination of if I

839
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 4: can pick your guy or if I can, you know, yeah,

840
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 4: different route combinations from a somewhat bunched alignment.

841
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: Can the defense read it? Can the quarterback read it?

842
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 4: Really good coverage there.

843
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 2: Really good coverage there by Chuck Clark, no part of me.

844
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 2: That's one thornhill. Okay, yeah, it was all over number

845
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 2: twenty two. I will say a lot of these defensive

846
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 2: backs they met, they got like the crop top thing going,

847
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: I know, which, Don't get me wrong, I would probably

848
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 2: do it too, because I'm sure when you're in shape

849
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 2: like these guys are, it looks pretty cool.

850
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, look better than me and a crop up.

851
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 2: But it makes it a little bit more difficult here,

852
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: uh to to point out these numbers. Uh, but it

853
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: looks like James Pierre out there, I tell you what.

854
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: Today another big day for James Pierre, Beanie Bishop guy

855
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 2: guys like that, you know, No Corey Trice, no Joey

856
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 2: Porter Junior. There's some some some real opportunity, uh for

857
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: a lot of these these younger quarter cornerbacks. Part of

858
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 2: me kind of the the next group of guys after

859
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 2: the nailed on starters to continue to to assort their

860
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 2: pecking order as they passed there from Will Howard intended

861
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 2: for Ben Skronick a little low and unable to corral

862
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: that one. Yeah, we've got offensive line and defensive line

863
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: working on some stuff on the second field across the way.

864
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 3: It looks like.

865
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 2: Tight ends and linebackers over to the right as well,

866
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: So we'll try and keep an eye on everything going

867
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: on here.

868
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 4: But the old line, I mean, the O line, D

869
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 4: line stuff is live. I mean, they're they're they're they're

870
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 4: drilling it out like I mean, it's just it's double

871
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 4: teams and two on ones and moving to the next level.

872
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 4: But they're going full go. I mean in pads, they

873
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 4: sure are.

874
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: And uh, it looks like we've got the first team.

875
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 3: No part of me catch a ball called back there.

876
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 4: I was just about to bring up Rock Taylor and

877
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 4: there's some buzz about him at the bar last night,

878
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 4: and more and more people keep asking him. For a

879
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 4: while there, I was like, why someone asked me about

880
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 4: Rock Taylor every day before he ever joined the team.

881
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 4: I do think the team's kind of excited about him.

882
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 4: But that one hit him right in the numbers and

883
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 4: ended up on the grass.

884
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you will have that a situation like this

885
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: as it looks like why a Black and Chroi Faltanu

886
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 2: going through some some good reps over there on the

887
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 2: far side of the football.

888
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,479
Speaker 4: I think that's a run only drill, but I haven't

889
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 4: paid as much attention to it.

890
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm trying again.

891
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: It's it's on the far side field, so it's a

892
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 2: good what Matt probably seventy.

893
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 3: Yards away from us.

894
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we sit up here, so it can sometimes

895
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 2: be tough to get all the details of that second field,

896
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: but we do want to focus on everything going on here.

897
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 2: As a Pat Fryermuth over with the tight ends, giving

898
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: some instruction to the guys as they get ready to

899
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: do some one on one stuff with some of the linebackers.

900
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 2: Looks like Connor Hayward there working on a blocking drill.

901
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 4: With from what I've seen with the big guys, it's

902
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 4: half a line. It's it's a three on two drill

903
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 4: with center guard, tackle verse, two big defensive linemen, and

904
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 4: some of it's when I double one of them, how

905
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 4: long do I stay to go get the backs or

906
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 4: how well do I handle it?

907
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: Zone concepts?

908
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly exactly, And they're trying to hold the point

909
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 4: and fight through the blocks and it's a good drill.

910
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 4: I mean they blow it that two seconds in or

911
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 4: whatever that it's not like that, there's no ball carrier. Yeah,

912
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 4: as DK metcalf with a nice route and that one

913
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 4: and flipped his hips and got.

914
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,919
Speaker 3: A quick he turns real quick.

915
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 4: Oh fall Star and the big fellows.

916
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure who that was was that Britton

917
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 3: Fioko might.

918
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 4: Be, he might be just by his body type.

919
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe Dominique Davis actually okay, but yeah,

920
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 2: a decisive six to one win for the defense and

921
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: seven shots.

922
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 3: Evan Hall on the touchdown run at the end.

923
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 4: Was that him that got up?

924
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only the only sign of life.

925
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 4: Had a good career in Northwestern.

926
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 3: He really did. He certainly did.

927
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 2: And again, as we've talked about, that's another group where

928
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 2: you'd like to see a fourth option emerge.

929
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: We've been in. Yeah, pressure is impressed with Kenneth Gainwell. Yeah,

930
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 3: you know, Jalen Warren and Caleb Johnson.

931
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: We know we're going to be heavy in the mix,

932
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 2: but you could use certainly one more person to emerge.

933
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 4: Johnson still needs work in protection from what I.

934
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: Noticed you see down here near side sideline guy in

935
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: the blue polo that's kind of crouched down at the

936
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: twenty yard line.

937
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's kind of like a catcher stands Steve.

938
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 2: Smith, right, noted former Carolina Panther in Baltimore. Raven Is

939
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 2: practice today with the NFL Network.

940
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 4: He was a just missed on the Hall of Fame

941
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 4: this past year. He gets going to.

942
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 2: Say, I think he's one of those guys who might

943
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 2: have a chance to to get in at some point.

944
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was like, that guy looks familiar. And

945
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 2: then I saw like Tom Win go up to him

946
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 2: at one point and I was like, all right, what's

947
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: going on here? And he just turned around for a second.

948
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 4: And I saw that that is Yeah, that's a big

949
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:50,479
Speaker 4: time player.

950
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: That's a big time player and part of us some

951
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 2: fun battles with the Steelers over the years.

952
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 4: Certainly nasty physical, He is a bulldog.

953
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: I mean he was.

954
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: You know, he's one I think the few guys that

955
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: maybe you could compare to like a Hines Ward.

956
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

957
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I love them.

958
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 2: If you're gosh, it would be there would be Smith

959
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: senior jerseys all over the place.

960
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: As Yeah, he's hanging out down there chatting with some

961
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: of the guys.

962
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 4: And see that all the time. Though. Man, I remember

963
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 4: one time being on the sidelines and not paying attention.

964
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 4: I turned around real quick and with Danian Tomlinson was

965
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 4: there in the NFL network, was like, oh, sorry, you

966
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 4: know right right, you got this bunch of net bunch

967
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 4: up here with Rogers, Rogers, A little flick the wrist, boom.

968
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: Click one quick one to rock Taylor there as uh

969
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 2: you hah, a far side, man.

970
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 3: They're continuing these offices.

971
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 4: That's a battle.

972
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: It's a linemen are battling over there, certainly, and they're

973
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 2: putting a lot of the like the two's and the

974
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 2: threes through the ringer.

975
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 4: Here here the battle going and the backs and the linebackers.

976
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 4: Some physicality in the fore absolutely absolutely closest is fine.

977
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 4: I'd rather be watching a.

978
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 3: Little more, you know, exactly right exactly.

979
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 4: You're blocking, tackling, get off blocks, all that kind of

980
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 4: stuff going on.

981
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 3: There, and bring that, bring the physical Bring the physicality

982
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: over here for us, baby, Come on.

983
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 4: And the running backs of the only is not doing anything.

984
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 4: There's over here doing their own position, drill over the

985
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 4: cond fields.

986
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, working on some ball security stuff.

987
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 4: Could be getting tackled in all these drills and that yet.

988
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 2: Not yet soon enough here but not yet as Aaron

989
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: Rodgers looking deep and drops it right in the bread basket.

990
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 3: Nicely there for Scotty Miller.

991
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 4: It was nice also, no safety on the field, right

992
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 4: on the field.

993
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 3: Yep, this is all tough cover. It's it's a tough

994
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 3: ask for the defensive back, it's no doubt.

995
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 4: But it was a touchdown. It was well run. And yeah,

996
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 4: Miller's an interesting guy. I mean, he's easy to root for.

997
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a spot for him, you

998
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 4: know what I mean, especially if they were to add

999
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 4: another receiver, which I think is possible. It just kind

1000
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 4: of his career path at this point, you know, trying

1001
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 4: to latch on do anything possible, and he does that.

1002
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 4: Anything they ask of him, he does. But it's going

1003
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 4: to be tough to keep him.

1004
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too.

1005
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 2: And he's one of those guys that, you know, if

1006
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: they end up releasing him and he's not picked up

1007
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: by somebody else, we could certainly see him back at

1008
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: some point if there's some injuries.

1009
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 4: And maybe another team to be like, I know exactly

1010
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 4: who he is. I'm We're not as good off and

1011
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 4: we'll grab him or they have an injury or whatever.

1012
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, still similar drills going on here as we've

1013
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 2: been describing to you.

1014
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 3: Looks like no, never mind.

1015
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 2: I thought Johnny Smith was about to take a rep

1016
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: in the in the tight end droom, but he hit

1017
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: And maybe he's next up here. But somebody else is

1018
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 2: in line far side on the defensive or on the

1019
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: defensive offense stuff. Man, I tell you what, once again,

1020
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 2: big seventy nine Stephen Jones is out there getting some work.

1021
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 3: He is.

1022
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 4: It might be one of those guys, you know, the

1023
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 4: Warren or whoever, starts showing up and showing up and

1024
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 4: getting promoted and getting promoted, and now he goes to tackle.

1025
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 4: That's a compliment, man.

1026
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 3: That really is.

1027
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: And that means that they're seeing something. That means that

1028
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: they've tried it. See if you can do it, See

1029
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 2: if we can trust you out there on an island

1030
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: by yourself, in an area where we would love to

1031
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 2: have some depth and some options.

1032
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 4: They don't do that with people that they don't think

1033
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 4: has any chance to make the team.

1034
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: I'm not going to waste my timeque exactly right, especially

1035
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 2: letting you run with the twos, you know here when

1036
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: we're really trying to figure out what that second units

1037
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: can look like.

1038
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 4: So another thing people rarely think about is you have

1039
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 4: the same linebackers coaches, o line coaches, whatever for your

1040
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 4: final roster as you do for this roster. Yes, but

1041
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 4: they got like double the amount of people they need

1042
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: to coach, you know. Like I think it's just like

1043
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 4: reps in preseason or quarterback reps, like when we talk

1044
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 4: with the Browns or whatever. It's like, I'm not going

1045
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 4: to ignore you. I'm a coach, but I think there's

1046
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 4: so many hours in the day to coach.

1047
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 3: A quarterback coach. I can't spend all my time with all.

1048
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 4: Five nineteen offensive linemen or whatever it is. So I

1049
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 4: know they switched this rule, but I kind of think

1050
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 4: position coaches would love if you had first cuts and

1051
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 4: then as opposed to getting everybody cut at once, you

1052
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 4: know it, it'd be nice to be like, man, the

1053
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 4: five dudes I know aren't going to make this team

1054
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 4: can get on with their life's work and I don't

1055
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 4: have to bother with, you know, or they can latch

1056
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 4: on somewhere else or who knows, or end up in

1057
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 4: a different league or whatever. But and you know those

1058
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 4: guys are like doing everything they possibly can to get

1059
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 4: the coach's attention. But I think got so much time

1060
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 4: for that.

1061
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. And that's a great point by you.

1062
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: And it's not like the old days where you used

1063
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 2: to have cut down days to have this process like

1064
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 2: now it's just it's the best waves gone fell swoop

1065
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 2: all at once like a guillotine man quick.

1066
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 4: But they want those bottom of the roster guys around

1067
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 4: for fourth quarters of the last preseason game. You don't

1068
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 4: want to put somebody out there that can get him

1069
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 4: in harm's way and ends up being a Ryan Watts

1070
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,959
Speaker 4: situation or whatever. This is a good drill here, Oh yeah,

1071
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: open good tackle drill.

1072
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, tackling between the linebackers and the running backs is.

1073
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 4: I know we're up against it, but I've described us

1074
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 4: in the past. They put some fun about halfway between

1075
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 4: the numbers and sideline and they'll pitch the ball to

1076
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 4: an offensive player. He's not allowed to go anywhere outside

1077
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: the cones and it's basically a make you miss type

1078
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 4: of deal, and the linebacker, defensive player, safety, whoever it is,

1079
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 4: has to run, break down, get themselves in tackle position.

1080
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 4: They're not taking them to the ground, but it happens.

1081
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 3: Maybe force them out of bounds and things like that.

1082
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 4: But I mean people, it's probably people in stands going man,

1083
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 4: the offense is winning every drill, not really. You know,

1084
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 4: there's not last in their teammates here, correct. You see

1085
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 4: how they come to balance, you know, I mean you

1086
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 4: can definitely see who the like. Minco was really good

1087
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 4: at this, very good. He always stood out to me

1088
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 4: last year because.

1089
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 3: He would like he'd punch the football out once.

1090
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was instant to get there, he'd break down,

1091
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 4: and he was also aggressive with trying to get the

1092
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 4: ball out as opposed to just survive and get the

1093
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 4: do on the ground.

1094
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 2: Did you see the Menca highlight that was all over

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Speaker 2: social media? I heard you had some big pick and

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Speaker 2: goal line drill. He picked off to it and took

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Speaker 2: it back to the house for one hundred yard pick six.

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Speaker 4: Good for him. I am to big Menca guy.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you'll find many and I think we

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Speaker 2: all agree we like what the trade means for the

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Speaker 2: defense and how they'll be able to deploy. But at

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Speaker 2: the same time, you won't find many people around here

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Speaker 2: with a bad thing to say about Mega Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 4: Believe it or not, people aren't gonna give you Jayson

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Speaker 4: Ramsey and Johnny Smith for nothing.

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Speaker 3: Really, but Matt on my Madden game, I got round.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Now you got to give something up that you do.

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Speaker 3: Uh, they gave up.

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Speaker 4: They gave up.

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Speaker 3: A good one. And yeah, we wish him, We wish

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Speaker 3: him all the well down in Miami up here at

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Speaker 3: linebacker exactly right.

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Speaker 4: He's another type dude. Yeah, a little high, little high,

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Speaker 4: little high on.

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Speaker 2: That for Devin Harper, third year out of Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 2: As uh, looks like we're kind of maybe coming to

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Speaker 2: the end of this period. Yeah, nice pitch and catch

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Speaker 2: there between Tristan Thompson and DK metcalf.

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Speaker 3: Hour of the show in the books. Two more hours

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Speaker 3: to go.

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Speaker 2: Another hour or so of practice that we'll describe for

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Speaker 2: you when we return on the other side. Plenty of

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Speaker 2: moving and shaking to get to on a busy day

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Speaker 2: on campus here West Shooler and Matt Williams. And it's

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Speaker 2: a special edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.