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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matthew League is a buzz buzz I love

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Speaker 1: this week. It's a it's a fun week typically not

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Speaker 1: if you're a Steelers fan, right, But there's stuff happening. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot happening. There's a lot to react to,

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Speaker 1: of course. Uh, a lot of player movement, a lot

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Speaker 1: of rumors of course that do or do not come

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Speaker 1: to fruition, and you have to bring it back to

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. As you mentioned, most of the stuff doesn't

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Speaker 1: work out as good as it sounds this week. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just the history has taught us this that being

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Speaker 1: slow and patient and filling holes through free agency and

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Speaker 1: developing through the draft is absolutely the way to go

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Speaker 1: to team build. It's a much cheaper and that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean more fiscally the way to go. Um, And

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Speaker 1: we're seeing a lot of early deals here is at

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Speaker 1: the at noon today, the the the legal tampering period

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Speaker 1: opened up, and and so that we're getting some deals

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Speaker 1: that are happening. Um, the Patriots have been very uh

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Speaker 1: act as you expect. I mean they had the second

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Speaker 1: most second most camp space. But you always see, you know, like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I saw, you know, Patriots signed Johnny Smith and then

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Speaker 1: you see what they paid him, right, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: great on paper. Oh that's a good fit. Boy. They

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Speaker 1: need a tight end. He's an ascending player, I think,

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Speaker 1: and he catch a lot of passes there. Maybe he'll

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Speaker 1: be on my fantasy team. But what it costs you

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Speaker 1: twelve and a half million dollars a year, um, it's

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Speaker 1: just that's It's kind of like when the Brown signed

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Speaker 1: Hooper last year, that was eleven million dollars, Like you

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Speaker 1: knew it was going to be more. John Smith is

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Speaker 1: He's not the highest paid tight end in the league

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Speaker 1: because Kelsey. Yeah, Kelsey signed a new contract last off season.

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Speaker 1: But twelve and a half million dollars a year for

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Speaker 1: who a guy who's I like Jonna Smith. But he's

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Speaker 1: essentially a big wide receiver. He's a big wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: and I guess if you look at it from that perspective,

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Speaker 1: you go, okay, well, wide receivers are going you are

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Speaker 1: getting more than more than that. Yeah, And there's matchups

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Speaker 1: and you get about linebackers in right, I mean tight end.

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Speaker 1: The definition of a tight end is obviously changed drastically

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Speaker 1: over the years. But I don't know. I mean the

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Speaker 1: guy like I think his career high for catches is

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Speaker 1: like forty five. I say, he's not even a high

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Speaker 1: snap guy at Tennessee. I mean I like him, don't

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Speaker 1: get me wrong, But they've used Firk sir, and they've

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Speaker 1: used other guys a lot. Yes he's a starter, but

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Speaker 1: he's not you know, and every down no doubt about

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Speaker 1: this guy or featured there. Um, I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what the rate is about Hunter Henry comes

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Speaker 1: in it more when the number of happens. I mean,

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Speaker 1: free agent tight ends are to me not a great

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Speaker 1: business to be in. I mean, we we've talked so

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Speaker 1: much about what Jesse James get that year, and there

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Speaker 1: was like three or four of that was four years,

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Speaker 1: twenty four millions. Tyler Croft had the same contract. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and they're all gone, they're not worth it, They're back.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. Um. The Patriots also signed uh nose

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Speaker 1: tackle Devon Yeah, two years, nine million or sixteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars includes nine million guaranteed. Wow, that's an awful eight

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year for a nose tackle who hasn't

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Speaker 1: been very good. He's been fine, Yeah, he's been okay.

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Speaker 1: Heavily recruited kid at l s U. He's been a

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Speaker 1: name for a while and he moves pretty well as

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Speaker 1: noses go. But and in their defense, they want two

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Speaker 1: monsters in the middle and have kind of been missing that.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean you spend eight million dollars a

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Speaker 1: year on this guy, right right, I mean, there's that's

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Speaker 1: something you don't do the first day of free agency anyway.

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Speaker 1: I mean, usually things that happened today are gonna be

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Speaker 1: over spends and on those if they just signed this

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Speaker 1: guy three weeks from now, they probably get him for

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Speaker 1: two years and eight million dollars, you know, something along

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Speaker 1: The guy just wants to get something before he hits

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Speaker 1: free agency, or a lot of them return home, or

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Speaker 1: These ones that are happening while we're recording and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Are going to be crazy. Well, Zeitler actually signed this morning,

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Speaker 1: so that was that was to the Ravens for three years,

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Speaker 1: twenty two and a half million dollars um. That's a

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Speaker 1: that's a good deal for the Ravens. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: aging player. Um, you wonder know where what he's The

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Speaker 1: interesting thing is he's now played for the Bengals, Browns

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Speaker 1: his fourth team. Yeah, yeah, and thought about that. Wow. Um,

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Speaker 1: And he was the Giants gave him big, big money

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Speaker 1: million times last year. They never properly replaced Yonda. And

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Speaker 1: I think Orlando Brown could still be on the move.

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Speaker 1: You know, you keep hearing like Indie could be in

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Speaker 1: the market. For him maybe Kansas City, now who knows.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so they better for that helps firm up

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Speaker 1: their own line. Well, if you're the Ravens, do you

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Speaker 1: trade with Kansas City? Say, I don't know if I can't,

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Speaker 1: or even in India? Do you want to? You want

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Speaker 1: to if you're gonna trade him unless you absolutely can't

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Speaker 1: get anything in the NFC, you know. Um, they almost

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Speaker 1: after like, hey, you gotta give me two first round

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Speaker 1: draft picks were the same conference. No, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure I'm gonna help out Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and maybe after Trent Williams falls or whoever,

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Speaker 1: they start getting calls. But interesting, Yeah, what we haven't

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Speaker 1: seen yet, uh, is anything with any of the Steeler guys.

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Speaker 1: I expect something to happen with at least one of them. Actually,

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Speaker 1: something happened right this second. I mean it's a little

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Speaker 1: off the beaten path, but Kevin Colbert signed a one

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Speaker 1: year contract. Well there, you know, we knew that was coming,

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Speaker 1: but it became official. My phone just kind of lit

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Speaker 1: good news, of course. Um. Yeah, so Colbert sticking around

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Speaker 1: year deals here for a little while. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: that makes perfect sense. So they just revealed it, made

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Speaker 1: it kind of expected that to happen after the draft,

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Speaker 1: It was a yeah, I mean, not unexpected, but um,

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Speaker 1: if you're Steelers fan, that should be good news because

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Speaker 1: it means Kevin Colbert will not only be handling this draft,

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Speaker 1: but he'd be handling next year's draft as well. That's

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Speaker 1: a good point. I mean, as I found out the

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Speaker 1: hard way, scouting contracts basically go draft to draft for

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Speaker 1: the people don't realize, Like my my contract, I got

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Speaker 1: You know, so Kevin will be in that same mold.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna get two off seasons out of him

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Speaker 1: Braylon Edwards? Yeah, wait, we didn't want that guy. He

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Speaker 1: was number one on our board. But that's the best

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Speaker 1: They're they're you know, they're gonna be the division. Bengals

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Speaker 1: are fallen behind in the NFC North, as they say

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Speaker 1: every year in March. Yeah, and then we'll see how

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Speaker 1: teams that are patient, and usually that is the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots are typically a team that sits and waits.

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Speaker 1: They've had a couple of big tickets. Stefan Gilmour rivus

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Speaker 1: low hanging fruit, the chief stuff. There w's be a

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Speaker 1: lot of that. There will be a lot of chief

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of guys waiting

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Speaker 1: and signing one year deals. Just still think sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a smart move. I mean, if I'm one of

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Speaker 1: these guys agents, I might take the bird in the hand,

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Speaker 1: take a good situation, put out good tape for a year.

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Speaker 1: I think the cap is gonna be massive a year

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Speaker 1: from now, and you know, play it back, you know,

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Speaker 1: try to win, you know, build a resume. I think

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Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks and I'm not applying the Steelers should be

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Speaker 1: contrary to last year, I think that might be a

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Speaker 1: position that suffers. You know, if you're a for set

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Speaker 1: not happening here, folks. People putting that out, We're just

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Speaker 1: trying to put that was the agent talking like, hey,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers might be interested. Yeah, they might have a

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Speaker 1: Kevin's like, oh shocks with yeah we lost. But what

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Speaker 1: that signing does now is to Jamal Williams is not

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Speaker 1: going back to Green Bay. Now. I thought that was interesting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's been a target of mine for a while that

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Speaker 1: I think he's better than I would have even guessed of.

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Speaker 1: Could be that Steeler guy you sign and then still

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Speaker 1: draft for in the first round. He is again you

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Speaker 1: and then you go into the draft. We can live

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Speaker 1: with the potential start. But yeah, right right right, you

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Speaker 1: would be very very fine. Great in protection, does all

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Speaker 1: the dirty work, catches the ball, catches the ball well, um,

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Speaker 1: tough as nails, coach favorite. Yeah, but not good enough,

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Speaker 1: not dynamic. He's not you know, you're not gonna want

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Speaker 1: your starter. But nor is he going to be prohibitive

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Speaker 1: to boy, we can't use first round pick on running

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Speaker 1: the room maybe off the roster. Yeah, so there's that,

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Speaker 1: which I don't have a problem with. No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how Kevin Dawson was, but he

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Speaker 1: He's got his grown man strength, he's ready to go,

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Speaker 1: and those guards and things last in this league too.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not like you would hesitate to sign

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Speaker 1: him to a second contract if he was really good

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Speaker 1: or something something along those lines. You know, Um, boy,

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Speaker 1: Davis next to Bush, that was kind of intriguing. That

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Speaker 1: I mean like he's very much as sending guy, not

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Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have to start. They want to

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Speaker 1: hands on the football. Though. Yeah, i'd like to see

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Speaker 1: him in Pittsburgh if you could, If you could set

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Speaker 1: up the draft that he's sitting there in the second

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Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's what I think. That's that's

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Speaker 1: why Kevin Colbert when he goes into in the free

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Speaker 1: agency and prior to the draft, likes to fill those

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Speaker 1: starting spots. Now you don't have to take a safety,

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Speaker 1: but you can take five positions instead of two or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is you don't have to do. Right, That's

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Speaker 1: the beauty, you know, that's to me, that's the beauty

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Speaker 1: draft extremely well year after year and not force yourself

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Speaker 1: I'm just watching you. I haven't seen anything. We saw

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Speaker 1: haven't seen anything recently. The Cardinals made a couple of

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Speaker 1: little moves, I mean Andy Lee and some of those

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Speaker 1: air that Carolina's looks like they're taking the offensive line

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Speaker 1: approach of let's just sign ten of them. Yeah, sometimes

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Speaker 1: that works. It did for Bubb Fellow. It's not a

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Speaker 1: horrible idea. New England tried to at the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: I think it can work for old line because these

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, old line is a tough

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Speaker 1: position to be. I don't Yeah, I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: And maybe Rule has different ideas about what he wants

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Speaker 1: out of his offensive line. I mean they I think

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Speaker 1: they want to run more of the spread probably, Um,

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Speaker 1: so we don't need him the power block or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. We just we're gonna get the bump at

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Speaker 1: the McCaffrey and get it to d J. Mooren space

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Speaker 1: and kind of stuff. Yeah, that's possibility. The little clip

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Speaker 1: I just saw here, And there's so many rumors Judean

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Speaker 1: and the Patriots might be close. He's another one. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't. I wouldn't sign him if they wanted

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Speaker 1: the free agency for whatever he's gonna people again, people

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Speaker 1: talk about Belichick being this this great him. He's a

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Speaker 1: great coach, great coach. But man, some of the moves,

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Speaker 1: some of the drafting has been bad. The drafting has

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Speaker 1: see looking. Yeah, the roster shouldn't get that bad just

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Speaker 1: because Brady leaves right, who was making way under market value.

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Speaker 1: He covered up a lot of the a lot of

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Speaker 1: the words for As for Bill the GM, Yeah, and Bill,

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Speaker 1: Bill the coach bails Bill the GM a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I get that they like their guys,

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Speaker 1: but when you take a safety out of Rutgers that

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Speaker 1: every year that you got in the six, take him

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Speaker 1: in six. Yeah, you know, and they've been successful resigning

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton. That's interesting to say the least. Do you

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Speaker 1: think they're done there? I don't think they're necessarily done there,

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Speaker 1: but Cam Newton will be their starter this year. I

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Speaker 1: think he'll be their starter. I bet they would love

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Speaker 1: the through six touchdown passes last year six. I know

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Speaker 1: it's on and played pretty much the whole year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I would. I bet their plan is would love

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Speaker 1: to get involved in a trade lance and learn from Cam,

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Speaker 1: butenough trade up to do that, and who knows you

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Speaker 1: can make us swing that or not. Yeah, so hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We're gonna thank you for listening to this addition,

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