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

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Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: SNR Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale All.

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Speaker 1: We be here with Matt Williamson. It's a sunny but

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Speaker 1: Chile Wednesday here in uh in Pittsburgh and Matt. One

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Speaker 1: week from today, free agency sets starts in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Next Monday is the quote unquote legal tampering period, which

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Speaker 1: kind of drives me nuts. All right, you'll you'll get

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Speaker 1: all kinds of news about this guy getting agreeing to contract,

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Speaker 1: that guy agreeing to contract within like two minutes of

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Speaker 1: the period the illegal tampering period opening. Um, and we're

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Speaker 1: supposed to believe it that just all happened right away,

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Speaker 1: Like there's no started talks. Just send him a thing,

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Speaker 1: a contract offer, and he accepted it right away. How

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Speaker 1: about that they didn't even go back and forth. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the league's fun right now. I mean, leading up

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Speaker 1: to that, you're seeing cuts left and right. We got

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Speaker 1: franchise stuff. There's Aaron Rodgers rumors, there's Lamar stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what the Giants did and Gino Smith's signing

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Speaker 1: and this stretch. Basically, combine through the first couple weeks

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Speaker 1: of free agency is a blast. There's a lot going on,

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Speaker 1: so let's unpeel some of that. Obviously, yesterday was the

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Speaker 1: franchise tag deadline Tuesday, and we saw some quick movement there.

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Speaker 1: It's almost so I liking this too. These deadlines are like,

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Speaker 1: since we're it's almost spring, we're getting into into at

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Speaker 1: the end of the high school year coming up here.

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Speaker 1: And I remember one of my teachers telling me in

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Speaker 1: high school that he and the other teachers always talked

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Speaker 1: these couples for him in the spring, because well it

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Speaker 1: was time for the prom and you had to ask

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Speaker 1: somebody to the prom. The deadline for the franchise tags

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Speaker 1: kind of forces these couples together or in some cases apart.

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Speaker 1: Right a deadline certainly contracts done in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we see that all the time. What do you do,

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Speaker 1: you want to go right to Baltimore here, let's do it,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, not that we haven't talked a ton

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Speaker 1: so I feel like there's more of a chance that

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Speaker 1: Lamar's a Raven because it's the non exclusive tag than

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Speaker 1: if it was the exclusive tag. See, I feel the

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Speaker 1: other way about this. Okay, I have to mike feelings

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Speaker 1: about it because I really do want to talk about

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Speaker 1: it more now than we have. Because here's what. So,

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Speaker 1: immediately immediately after it was announced that the Ravens were

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Speaker 1: team's not interested in Lamar and that team's not interested

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Speaker 1: in Lamar. First of all, I don't believe about half

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Speaker 1: But secondly, so if I'm, for example, the Carolina Panthers,

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Speaker 1: gonna have to give up next year's first round draft

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Speaker 1: I gotta pay him. Okay, But I know what he is.

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Speaker 1: I know I can win with Lamar. Yes, so all right,

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Speaker 1: let's rewind. I think Baltimore did this because they realized

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Speaker 1: they could not get a contract on Lake Lamar. So

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Speaker 1: they then said, you go work a contract out with

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Speaker 1: But I'm Daniel Snyder. Everyone hates me anyways, putting my

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Speaker 1: I can kind of give the finger to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the league hand out the exact Watson contract plus

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Speaker 1: I hated the Snyder era. He's horrible. But he goes

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Speaker 1: Lamar at the end that, yeah, we stole a bar.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's a great deal for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: If Daniel Jones is getting forty million dollars a year,

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Speaker 1: We saw car sign something very similar. If I'm Lamar,

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Speaker 1: I don't I want that kind of money. I want,

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Speaker 1: you know, I want to Seawan wants some money. I

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Speaker 1: So I opened this by saying I think that there's

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Speaker 1: leads to the question can you afford a franchise quarterback? Right?

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Speaker 1: does that affects spending next week? I mean, they're not

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Speaker 1: more than they used to be. I mean incrementally, just

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Speaker 1: him to Shaun Watson money because that's what he's asking for, right.

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