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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lollly. He is Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and Matt. It is the Friday before the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and um, kind of I don't know how you feel

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Speaker 1: about this, but I'm kind of like the season is

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Speaker 1: gonna end. Yeah, it's I'm always a little sad after

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Speaker 1: I always have an after super Bowl hangover a little

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Speaker 1: little bit that week I don't quite know what to

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Speaker 1: do with myself. And even this week leading up to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowls only one one game to analyze. I

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Speaker 1: was really as you were, even more so senior Bowl

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Speaker 1: mode last week. You know, the season kind of ends

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Speaker 1: for me after the championship games. And then there's that

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Speaker 1: other one Sunday game that's you know, fan fair and

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Speaker 1: fun and it should be a great game. I'm psyched

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Speaker 1: about it. But I'm sure you're the same way. Just

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Speaker 1: like players and coaches, I become such a creature of

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Speaker 1: habit through the season that I can tell you Wednesday

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Speaker 1: at three thirty, I'll be here weeks in a row,

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Speaker 1: or you know what I mean, right, right, And I

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Speaker 1: think too. Part of it is because of that that

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Speaker 1: lag weekend between m like he gets so locked into

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Speaker 1: having a game's games every Sunday, every Sunday, every Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and then you don't have one, right, right, right, It's odd.

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Speaker 1: I always my wife and has noticed it over the

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Speaker 1: years too. It's like you have that that that strange

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Speaker 1: thing between season and off season. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: days I just don't quite know what to do with myself.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's not like I'm not busy things to do,

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Speaker 1: but it's just I'm not I don't have to my

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Speaker 1: routine set yet. Yeah, I hear you. Um. So Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: the NFL had its honors ceremony and a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff to break into with that, but the uh, the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame class is announced, and I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit under home by the entire group Darrell Reevas,

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Speaker 1: I think to me, headlines to class um. And then

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Speaker 1: after that, it was kind of like, Okay, that guy

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Speaker 1: was pretty good, you know, does he? People love Joe

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Speaker 1: Thomas and I get it, but you know, was he

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Speaker 1: a surefire first ballot Hall of Famer? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean think I think we put I think that

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Speaker 1: gets too much gets put on that part of it. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I look at like Ronde Barber, Zach Thomas, they

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Speaker 1: were good. I don't know that they're great players. For

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Speaker 1: to me, the fact that Zach Thomas got into the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, the fact that Joe Cleco was it

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Speaker 1: was was put in as a senior player. Um, to me,

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Speaker 1: James Harrison should get in. Then I feel the same way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so I helped recruit the roll reeves to

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Speaker 1: Pitt way back when you know, we didn't overlap there,

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Speaker 1: but I was there for this whole recruiting process, and frankly,

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Speaker 1: I think he's the definition of a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's first ballot corner right there with the

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Speaker 1: woodson and Woodson's and Dion's and those type of dudes

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Speaker 1: that are no brainers to me. Um, I think Joe

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Speaker 1: Thomas is also a no brainer. But I think to

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Speaker 1: your point, he's not quite oggden Pace. You know that

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing to me is, Matt, is that they

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Speaker 1: didn't put any wide receivers in. There's such a log

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Speaker 1: gym of wide receivers that you couldn't have waited, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was Joe Thomas more dominant and Alan Fanica that

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Speaker 1: means similar, right, right, Yeah, Fannika had to wait six

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Speaker 1: years to get into the Hall of Fame because they were,

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Speaker 1: you know, electing all these other guys because there was backlogs.

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Speaker 1: But you're creating him more of a backlog at wide Receiver.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this is where you were going

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Speaker 1: with it, but I think there's too much emphasis. Was well,

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Speaker 1: he a Hall of Famer, but I'm not sure he's

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're if you're a no brainer

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Speaker 1: to me, you're a no brainer. Revus and Thomas to me,

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Speaker 1: of famers and water it down a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: that's not making fun of James Harrison or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: Zach Thomas was on the ballot again when I voted

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Speaker 1: pageant type of thing. I mean, we know that. But

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Speaker 1: low lately. And here's my here's my problem with with

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Speaker 1: Ronde Barber getting in as well. So that Tampa that

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Speaker 1: four members of that defense right going into the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. I don't think Lynch belongs either, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: so you're telling me this is one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: defenses of all time. They won one Super Bowl. Let's

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Speaker 1: say they were great for like two years or three

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Speaker 1: a decade long, awesome defense. I mean, the legion of

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Speaker 1: Boomed to me, is better than recent member, right. So

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Speaker 1: And I bring this one up all the time. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I don't care. And but you

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Speaker 1: now have four members of this defense in the Hall

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Speaker 1: so it was basically it was thy Law, Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick in a bunch of slappies. Well, Seymour's now

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Speaker 1: Or the Dolphins are undefeated with the no Name defense.

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Speaker 1: But frankly, if someone's telling me that Patriot argument or

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Speaker 1: there doesn't have there's not a prerequisite. And I get it.

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Speaker 1: you can't have seven or eight Hall of Famers, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl on

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Speaker 1: three defensive players in them, like there, who would it be?

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Speaker 1: we have to put a veteran in every year? Though?

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a deserving Hall of Famer, but he

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Speaker 1: for the Veterans Committee to do it. Joe Cleco really,

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Speaker 1: Like they're not the same. Yeah, I don't know. Did

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Speaker 1: what we expected. And again I would have voted for

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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson for Coaching the Year. I mean, they took

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Speaker 1: Ball was a second, he was a wild card third division.

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