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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 back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with

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Speaker 1: Matt wind at List is segment two of our three

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Speaker 1: segments today and they're wrapping up the Steelers loss on

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Speaker 1: Sunday to the Cincinnati Bengals. Um, Matt, I've gotten this

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Speaker 1: question a lot, and it's it's it's now kind of hindsight,

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Speaker 1: I guess for everybody. Well, the Steelers shouldn't have drafted

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Speaker 1: Nauj Harris. They should have taken an offensive lineman, and

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Speaker 1: they should have taken Lineman. They should have gone out.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't spent the money on t J Want. They

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Speaker 1: should have they should have signed Lineman. Lineman, Lineman, Lineman, Lineman, Lineman.

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Speaker 1: I get it. I do as well, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: give me names. And we've also gotten the tweet, which

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Speaker 1: I think is a little bit better than the complaints

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Speaker 1: that you just listed. With all five of their starting lineman,

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Speaker 1: none of them are first or second round picks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I bet that changes soon. Yeah, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna change this year. It's not gonna change

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Speaker 1: this year, it's they are not a super talented group.

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Speaker 1: I think that goes without saying they're not all late picks.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I mean it's so you're allowed to

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Speaker 1: develop guys to your problem is their their problem is

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Speaker 1: that instead of having just one or two of those

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Speaker 1: developmental guys in your lineup, you've got four of them exactly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean again, it's if it's just Chokes the core

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Speaker 1: for there with the castro and pouncy and fell in

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Speaker 1: the way, Okay, you can then if it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: Dotson in there. Oh, he looks really good. Now those

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Speaker 1: guys are all out there and you know, basically on

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Speaker 1: their own, they're out there together. Um, none of them

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Speaker 1: have looked good like all the people who were like

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Speaker 1: you know, Dots and Kevin Dots is great. He looked

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Speaker 1: like garbage. He's been pretty bad. Yeah, he's been pretty

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Speaker 1: most disappointing of absolutely like the people. Yeah, um, more

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Speaker 1: is okay, you know, I'm mean, if you want to

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Speaker 1: put the parameters of well, he's a fourth round left

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Speaker 1: tackle that no one expected to play, but compared to

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Speaker 1: thirty one other starting left tackles, he's not great. Um

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Speaker 1: and Sam with Green probably is in terms of ranking

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Speaker 1: and verse other centers. I don't say Tredy Turner looks done,

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Speaker 1: but I thought expected more from him as the veteran

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Speaker 1: and Chooks is the whipping boy, but the other guys right, right,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of things. I mean, I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: gotten this heavy well. Zach Banner comes back this week. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know. I mean, I'm open to the idea

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Speaker 1: that he's better than Choots or whomever. It's a very

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Speaker 1: small sample size, but I thought Joe Haig played well

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Speaker 1: at right tackle, but it was like fifteen snaps against

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Speaker 1: prevent defenses and you know what I mean. So it's

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Speaker 1: not and no one's game planning for him, you know.

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Speaker 1: And they've got they've got reasons not to play Joe Haig.

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Speaker 1: If he plays the snaps this year, they lose a

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Speaker 1: fifth round draft picks, right, And I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: good enough for that. Not right now. He's not writing, No,

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Speaker 1: he's not like he's not gonna um, Mike, you know

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Speaker 1: the question I have to ask. Let's say a quarter

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Speaker 1: four does come back this week? Banner? Right, Banner comes

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Speaker 1: back this week, first of all, quarter for we need

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Speaker 1: he's in a concussion protocol, so they would need him

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Speaker 1: to come back as well, they could be without either. Yeah, right, POSI. Um,

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Speaker 1: so if Banner comes back, do you slide a quarter

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Speaker 1: four back to the left side. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: he's better or worse than more, right, you know? If

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Speaker 1: do you think Banner is better than Chookes? Well they

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Speaker 1: did last year. They did last year on the right anyway,

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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of that sample, So I guess he

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Speaker 1: gets the right tackle job if he's back and healthy.

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Speaker 1: So that's step one chokes verse more to me big picture,

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Speaker 1: you'd rather more played, Yeah, you know, But if Chucks

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Speaker 1: is eight here above him at left tackle, and I

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Speaker 1: think he's a better left tackle and right tackle for

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Speaker 1: in his defense, I guess you play him. Um, you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get the quarterback killed. You're trying to win

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Speaker 1: football games. And now, of course, of course not the

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Speaker 1: big development, because here's the things on the road. Isn't

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Speaker 1: this you're three games into this, you're one game out

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Speaker 1: of first place. It's not like this somebody's gotten off

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Speaker 1: to a three and oh start here and they're running

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Speaker 1: away with this thing. No, there's a lot of football

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Speaker 1: left to be played. Yeah, I guess your best line

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. I went and looked up here

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Speaker 1: the top one free agents from from a year, from

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Speaker 1: this past, from this spring, guys who were signed. Guys.

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Speaker 1: These were the top hundred guys. Now, mind you, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of offensive linemen on here. No, A lot

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Speaker 1: of them don't hit free agency, or they get franchise

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Speaker 1: or you know, they get franchise. So Brandon Shuff got

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Speaker 1: franchised the franchise. He was not leaving the team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Trent franchise two ars in a row, now, Yeah, Trent

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Speaker 1: Williams six years, a hundred and thirty eight million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, as much as, if not more than,

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Speaker 1: what what got. The Steelers had no chance to sign him, right,

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. No, there was three years old, right right.

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Speaker 1: There was two teams or so in that conversation, and

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Speaker 1: they all had gobs of money to do it. H

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Speaker 1: Taylor Molten got the franchise tag. Yes, uh. Joe Thuney

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Speaker 1: from the Chiefs got five years, eight million, eighty million

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Speaker 1: dollars over five years. He's a guard. He's a guard,

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Speaker 1: and he's a pure left guard. And million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: I think that's an overspend. Uh. Let's see here, Corey

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Speaker 1: Linsley got sixty two and a half million dollars over

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Speaker 1: five years. It's a center, and that would have been

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Speaker 1: He's a good center, but he's not my webster. And

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Speaker 1: he's he's also thirty. Um there was he would have

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Speaker 1: been out of the out of the mix. But I

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Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson, but he would have cost your third drump

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Speaker 1: pick and you would have been a lot older. And

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Speaker 1: before you go further, there's one thing I do want

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Speaker 1: to really stress, and this is a big picture thinking.

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Speaker 1: They really they didn't say it, but their actions tell

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Speaker 1: us they wanted to get younger. You know, they didn't

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Speaker 1: want to sign thirty year olds or trade for thirty

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Speaker 1: four year olds. They want to get younger for the

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Speaker 1: next quarterback. I mean, I believe that to my core.

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Speaker 1: And if there's some speed bumps on the way, so

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Speaker 1: be it. But you don't want to get old by

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Speaker 1: the time the next guy is ready, and you gotta

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Speaker 1: do it again, you know when you're you know, so,

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Speaker 1: I think the expectation is that it wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: be a train wreck, and thus far, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: say it's been a train wreck thus far, but it's

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Speaker 1: not been good. But it's coming off the tracks pretty quick,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, frankly, I we all thought the

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Speaker 1: offensive line was the biggest weakness on the roster before

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Speaker 1: they made an open or a snap in the regular

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Speaker 1: so you thought of doubt. I mean, everyone in the

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Speaker 1: world knew that. That's not a secret. Frankly, I believed

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Speaker 1: a new running back, a new scheme and the quarterback

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Speaker 1: would help that that situation more than it has. To

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, I agree, you know, I agree. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking here some more offensive lineman. Alejandro villaineuavo.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't the Steelers resign him? You've been hearing that

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Speaker 1: one a lot of bet this week. Uh. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: gave him eight million dollars a year, Right, you want

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Speaker 1: to pay you want Alejandra villain. You saw a villain

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Speaker 1: like you couldn't wait. Oh he's done, he's shot. Whatever. Um,

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Speaker 1: I still think he's done in a shot, even though

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Speaker 1: he's had two okay games that left eight million dollars,

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Speaker 1: I mean, embarrassed himself in week one. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think that there is much left there at all. You don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't pay for a tank of gas that has

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Speaker 1: pay full price for that. No. Darryl Williams from the

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Speaker 1: Bills resigned three three years, twenty eight million dollars. That's

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Speaker 1: over nine million dollars a year. Yeah, yeah, for a

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Speaker 1: but average. But some of those guys, as we've seen

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Speaker 1: out on the market and offers. You know, they kind

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Speaker 1: of made us a handshake deal with their team. We're

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Speaker 1: it doesn't if you call that agent, they're not may

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Speaker 1: the other top everybody's saying, we don't buy Russell Kong.

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Speaker 1: He's still out there. Well, there's a reason he's still

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Speaker 1: out there. Must be even more wrong with him than

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Speaker 1: we know. You know, either he doesn't want to play

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Speaker 1: or he's got an injury issue. He also has a

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Speaker 1: strange situation. He's old for one thing to and he

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Speaker 1: represents himself and he wanted to be played paid in bitcoin,

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Speaker 1: is what he said. And even there might be teams

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Speaker 1: every like, yeah, you could go do your own thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't don't they know the money here, but he

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Speaker 1: the air during this, but you know, during that time,

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Speaker 1: there was like a week there when there was like

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Speaker 1: all starters, but borderline starters, you know. I mean they

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Speaker 1: point I thought maybe the Steelers would grab one of

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Speaker 1: the guys and the musical chairs didn't land on them

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Speaker 1: or they were frankly, what really happened. And again we've

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Speaker 1: talked with this over and over. They looked at the

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Speaker 1: draft and they saw six good young ones and they

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Speaker 1: wanted one of them. You know, they want a guy

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Speaker 1: next deck. I'm sure they like Creed Humphrey. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they liked you know, Myers and green Bay, who were

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Speaker 1: going to see all these dudes, you know, but and

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Speaker 1: they thought they'd get one and they did. Now the

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Speaker 1: one that you know, if you want to make this argument, okay,

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Speaker 1: we can, we can have this. There would be some

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Speaker 1: that are valid. I mean, Matt filer a three years,

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Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars have made some sense. He'd be

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Speaker 1: very useful right now, Yeah, because he can play two spots.

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Speaker 1: He would probably be a right gap. At that point,

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Speaker 1: though they're not super old, they thought, okay, Banner is

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Speaker 1: gonna be back, he's gonna be our right tackle. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna play checks on the left side, the Castros one,

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Speaker 1: the Castros coming back at at at right guard we've got.

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Speaker 1: We've got a left guard that we like, we think

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Speaker 1: he's got. Yeah, right, so okay, we're gonna let him walk.

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Speaker 1: It's seven million dollars year. That's more than we want

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Speaker 1: to pay. But you understand, and there's certainly hindsight involved there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can make the argument that, well, don't

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Speaker 1: just look at it as we need five starters. We

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Speaker 1: wouldn't pay him as your six. You're just started somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe they've miss evaluated Banner or maybe he's good,

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Speaker 1: I mean, could still be good. Yeah, Banner could still

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Speaker 1: be good. They just the injuries taken longer for him

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Speaker 1: didn't hear that. One Fields was sacked three more times

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Speaker 1: they finished the day with one plus one in passing

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Speaker 1: horrendous to forty points. I've given up nine so they

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Speaker 1: of these guys back exactly exactly, like, is this the

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Speaker 1: And don't think all of a sudden, Spencer Rattlers the

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Speaker 1: and it's all good. I don't think Steeler fans quite

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Speaker 1: you know, they got green Bay this week. You know

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Speaker 1: and you know the defense should keep them competitive, should

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Speaker 1: keep them that way. We'll see. Um. Yeah, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. He is Matt Williams and 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. When we come back, time for the Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Focus, we'll throw on some league stuff there. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about some of these other games that happened on

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Speaker 1: Sunday as well, we'll do that right after this