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Speaker 3: Our number two on campus. Here on this Saturday edition
Speaker 3: of The Drive, Euler and Williamson, we got some action
Speaker 3: in front of us right now. Matt As, there are
Speaker 3: probably what nine or ten school buses. If I had
Speaker 3: to guess one, two.
Speaker 4: Three, four, five, say easily, I can't see the end, and.
Speaker 3: I think there's one back there, would make nine school buses. A.
Speaker 4: Why would you need nine school buses forty some players?
Speaker 3: Well, you're taking the entire coaching staff and the training staff.
Speaker 4: You and I could hop on there if we want
Speaker 4: to media people.
Speaker 3: You know, our our friends. You know our friends like
Speaker 3: Tyler and Alec that work in the video department, a meal, Nate.
Speaker 3: All those guys had no.
Speaker 4: Over anyone associated with the organization in any way.
Speaker 3: It's there, and so everyone takes the buses yea, and yeah,
Speaker 3: all these uh it's I would imagine they'll probably be
Speaker 3: leaving in about an hour, six calos.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna be on the bus. They're gonna being before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, we are not going to be on the buses.
Speaker 3: But you've got man nine or ten buses line of least, yeah,
Speaker 3: and about five or six cop cars ready to give
Speaker 3: the old police escort as things are about to get
Speaker 3: wild across the way at latrob Memorial tonight.
Speaker 4: I would assume they want to get there by five, right,
Speaker 4: I mean it starts at six and stretch, and.
Speaker 3: I would be I would think within the next.
Speaker 4: Penalty road, the busy dressed minutes they dress here, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They get on there fully dressed, and and get off
Speaker 3: the bus and right onto the field, and same type
Speaker 3: of thing when they return. Matt, I'm sure I've told
Speaker 3: you this story before, but the first Friday night lights
Speaker 3: after we returned to campus at the end of the
Speaker 3: two year Hinesfield hiatus for COVID. Okay, so twenty and
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one there was no Saint Vincent training camp
Speaker 3: due to the NFL restrictions due to COVID, so twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two the first year that it was back here.
Speaker 3: That was also the night that Friday Night Lights got
Speaker 3: rained out because the weather was so bad.
Speaker 5: It was really bad.
Speaker 3: So that was I remember that kind of being a
Speaker 3: huge bummer because it was like two years without a year,
Speaker 3: and then the third year and it finally is back
Speaker 3: in Friday Night Lights, and then they had to cut
Speaker 3: it short or maybe barely even got anything in before
Speaker 3: the rain delays and the weather delays took effect. So
Speaker 3: I hadn't even gone over to Friday Night Lights. I
Speaker 3: was still here on campus, and there was word like,
Speaker 3: oh it got scrapped. It's not happening. They're heading back.
Speaker 3: They don't bother. So I am walking out of the
Speaker 3: cafeteria to go back to the dorm room, you know,
Speaker 3: walk across campus. And this was when and I were
Speaker 3: still staying in the dorms. And right as I'm leaving
Speaker 3: the cafeteria and making my way across these football fields here,
Speaker 3: all the buses pull up to drop the players off. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now keep in mind, it is pouring down, pouring down.
Speaker 3: But I guess t J. Watt and Cam Hayward had
Speaker 3: planned they had Matt waiting for them where the busses
Speaker 3: get dropped off. I'm not kidding, probably six big tubs
Speaker 3: full of filled water balloons.
Speaker 4: So the first busts of rain.
Speaker 3: That's what makes it so funny, because it would have
Speaker 3: been hilarious. The first bus rolls off and clearly TJ
Speaker 3: and Cam playing this, and they hop off the bus
Speaker 3: and they've got all the water balloons waiting, and they're like,
Speaker 3: come on, just fucking water balloons with these guys as
Speaker 3: they get off the bus. But it's bumping. All the
Speaker 3: guys are getting hit with the balloons and they're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: big deal, I'm soaked. Anyway, that's like a it's like
Speaker 3: a drop of water in the Atlantic Ocean, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, so it would have been even better if
Speaker 3: it was you know, eighty eighty some degrees. Great idea.
Speaker 3: But I walked right through there as TJ and Cam
Speaker 3: were pelting everybody with water balloons.
Speaker 4: And I can didn't have the same effect.
Speaker 3: Didn't have the same effect. But on their faces, Matt,
Speaker 3: they still looked like nine year olds on Christmas morning.
Speaker 3: They were having a lot of fun with it.
Speaker 4: Certainly, I'm sure they slipped somebody back here a couple
Speaker 4: bucks to fill up eight thousand water balloons.
Speaker 3: Might have been nine thousands. It was so many water
Speaker 3: balloons in the middle of a rainstorm. Those type of
Speaker 3: visuals that you get to see out here that stick
Speaker 3: with you for a long time, Matt Today, tonight a
Speaker 3: big night here in Latrobe today, though it was quiet
Speaker 3: on campus except for some of these Steelers coordinators and
Speaker 3: coaches that we heard from really for the first time
Speaker 3: of you know, we've heard from Brian Angelico and Patrick
Speaker 3: Grant and Danny Crossman, these guys leading up to this process,
Speaker 3: but hadn't heard from them yet here in the Saint
Speaker 3: Vincent Vincent portion of this training camp. Here's what new
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator Brian Angelico had to say this morning.
Speaker 6: A wide variety of ways that you guys use a
Speaker 6: quick passing attack to hit all different parts of the field.
Speaker 6: How do you go up organizing that in the offense to.
Speaker 3: Mix it up at the right pace and encounter what
Speaker 3: defenses are doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we obviously want to try to spread the field
Speaker 7: and we're blessed to have some really good perimeter players
Speaker 7: and some of those are called some of those are
Speaker 7: run solutions.
Speaker 5: Checks that the quarterbacks can get to.
Speaker 7: But it's been good for us, whether it's the quick
Speaker 7: game or the bubbles or the screens, but just trying
Speaker 7: to get the ball in playmakers hands right.
Speaker 3: How would you evaluate Mason will and Drew what they've
Speaker 3: done at KIM to this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they're doing a great job. I think
Speaker 7: Tom does a great job in the QB room and
Speaker 7: you know, as far as maximizing their time with the
Speaker 7: QB school and fundamentals during the special teams, and they're
Speaker 7: really taken to the footwork and the training.
Speaker 5: So it's been really good to see them now they've had.
Speaker 7: A chance from OTAs in Phase two, they really you know,
Speaker 7: now they know the drills, they understand the footwork, and
Speaker 7: it's really good to see it grow in training camp
Speaker 7: in terms of maximizing their reps.
Speaker 3: How beneficial is the two spot and running you know,
Speaker 3: the two team periods simultaneously, two.
Speaker 7: For everyone, not only the quarterbacks but all our players.
Speaker 7: I think it allows us to certainly double the reps,
Speaker 7: you know, rather than guys seeing it on film, they're
Speaker 7: actually able to do it, so it's been really really good.
Speaker 8: How difficult is it to kind of keep track of
Speaker 8: both things that require a lot more films?
Speaker 3: So, or how do you manage it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What we typically do is in the two spot, we'll
Speaker 7: have a script and they're running the same script that
Speaker 7: the other group's doing. And it's cool because when we
Speaker 7: watch the tape as coaches, the plays are back to back,
Speaker 7: so if you know, one group executed it and the
Speaker 7: other group didn't, they can see what it should look
Speaker 7: like and then if we repeat it. So it's really
Speaker 7: good training and teaching, and you know, you get your
Speaker 7: best film through training camp for your cutups, and we're
Speaker 7: able to get a lot of reps.
Speaker 5: That's been really beneficial.
Speaker 8: Have you personally done the two Spider but involved in
Speaker 8: a training camp practice.
Speaker 5: That operated that way?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, places I've been, we've done it. You know,
Speaker 7: I think every everyone you know, all the coaches, they've
Speaker 7: they've experienced it at some point for sure. And Mike
Speaker 7: usually goes with the kind of the second field the
Speaker 7: younger guys, right, and you're with the Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 7: cool for you as someone who's first time and no, it's.
Speaker 5: It's you know, we talked about that.
Speaker 7: Then there may be times that if Mike goes over
Speaker 7: on the ones and I'll be over with the twos,
Speaker 7: or Tom may go over with the twos, souh and
Speaker 7: Mike will be with the ones. But I think it's
Speaker 7: good for you know, Will and Drew obviously to hear
Speaker 7: Mike's voice and you know how he calls Thayings and
Speaker 7: to articulate that.
Speaker 6: Roman Wilson's had a very productive camp as far as
Speaker 6: you know, being involved in you guys team group sessions.
Speaker 6: What have you seen from him in this camp that
Speaker 6: maybe you didn't see when you first like studied him
Speaker 6: and to get understanding of what you were inheriting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Roome's done a great job.
Speaker 7: I think it's really cool like him and Aaron seem
Speaker 7: like they're on the same page and and you know
Speaker 7: what their their communication and and where where he needs
Speaker 7: to be with the concepts. So and Rome's really worked
Speaker 7: hard in his preparation and film study. So I think
Speaker 7: he's playing a little bit more quieted, mind relaxed and
Speaker 7: uh just going out playing football rather than you know,
Speaker 7: thinking like you know, when when you're in the OTAs
Speaker 7: you know, it's you know, everybody's learning a new system,
Speaker 7: and you know, now we kind of call these recalls
Speaker 7: where it's you know, we've installed it twice, so let's
Speaker 7: go out. And I think players are starting to get
Speaker 7: a little bit more comfortable, and you know, each day
Speaker 7: it should get a little bit better.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: Aaron said that in order to be explosive inefficient on
Speaker 9: early downs, you need to go under center because a
Speaker 9: lot of top offenses are doing that. How are you
Speaker 9: seeing that as a trend around the league and how
Speaker 9: does it fit with this turn vision reoffensis?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know, the the you know, the explosives,
Speaker 7: the you know, the catchphrases they come off the play
Speaker 7: passes and trying to marriage the run in the past.
Speaker 7: So you know, certainly under center allows that. You know,
Speaker 7: it's better action. You can get more downhill with the runs.
Speaker 7: So there's a component to that that certainly if you
Speaker 7: tie them all together, you know, you can kind of
Speaker 7: conflict the linebackers or the second level coverage with their fits,
Speaker 7: which allows you to throw the ball over the top
Speaker 7: of them.
Speaker 9: Your time with Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota kind of help
Speaker 9: you develop that specific part, especially working with the tight ends.
Speaker 7: You were sure, Yeah, obviously, I have tremendous respect for Kevin,
Speaker 7: learned a ton from him, and he's a.
Speaker 5: He's a he's a really good friend.
Speaker 7: But yeah, obviously that was a great experience, you know,
Speaker 7: just seeing how they tied together some of the runs
Speaker 7: and play passes.
Speaker 5: So it was definitely beneficial for me pretty experienced running backs.
Speaker 5: Is picking a number one something that's important to you?
Speaker 5: And how do you envision the time splip between those
Speaker 5: guys working out?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're we're, you know, very fortunate to have you know,
Speaker 7: Rico and Jalen.
Speaker 5: That'll play itself out as we go.
Speaker 7: They're both gonna play They're both going to be a
Speaker 7: big part of our success, and they're.
Speaker 5: Both very capable of carrying the load.
Speaker 7: So it's a good problem to have and we're gonna
Speaker 7: need him both and super super excited that they're with us.
Speaker 7: Where's German Bernard at this point?
Speaker 5: Has he exceeded expectations?
Speaker 3: He where he needs to be or does he need
Speaker 3: to catch up? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think germs right where he needs to be and
Speaker 7: he's just steady. I love his approach, I love his intentionality.
Speaker 7: I love his work ethic, you know, and he's he's smart,
Speaker 7: like you know, Adam's moving him around. He's playing all
Speaker 7: three positions on you know, at the receiver position and
Speaker 7: handling it.
Speaker 5: So it's it's been it's been good.
Speaker 7: And you see him every day he'll make a play,
Speaker 7: so he's uh, he's doing well.
Speaker 5: We're very happy where he's at. Right.
Speaker 3: I think last season, Aaron spoke really highly of working
Speaker 3: with Zach Frasier, calling him potentially one of the top centers.
Speaker 5: In the league.
Speaker 7: Down the line, what have you noticed about Zach being
Speaker 7: a young player of this league?
Speaker 3: Now he's handled working with such a season quarterback.
Speaker 7: Like Aarran Prey, steady and really smart. That's that was,
Speaker 7: you know for me to see. You know, I totally
Speaker 7: agree with that. You know, he's got command. He makes
Speaker 7: the calls up front, uh fair and check something, phrases
Speaker 7: right on it, he can relay it. So he's kind
Speaker 7: of that the stability that sets it off for the
Speaker 7: old line.
Speaker 5: And it's really cool to see. Right, how do you
Speaker 5: see the offensive line gelling when it comes to especially
Speaker 5: like the zone blocking.
Speaker 7: How how are they kind of gelling together and getting
Speaker 7: on the same page because this is a new system
Speaker 7: for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, the line is a group, is is is a
Speaker 7: smart group.
Speaker 5: They do a good job.
Speaker 7: You can tell that they've they've worked together their communication.
Speaker 7: So I've been I've been pleased with the old line
Speaker 7: and you know the strides they've made, you know, in
Speaker 7: training camp and obviously will continue to be tested versus
Speaker 7: our front. We got a really good front. So it's
Speaker 7: it's really good to see those matchups.
Speaker 5: It's it's been good.
Speaker 3: How have you seen the competition for the third tailback spot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that'll be something that will play out as we
Speaker 7: go through preseason games. And that's where we're really excited
Speaker 7: to get to those games. You know, those guys are
Speaker 7: all getting reps and we'll see where that thing goes
Speaker 7: in the next three weeks.
Speaker 6: Hide and right fit in that is as far as
Speaker 6: third running back or six wide receivers.
Speaker 5: You know, his ability to line up all over all
Speaker 5: over the formation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, like like with all our players, position flexibility,
Speaker 7: the more you can do is certainly beneficial, whether it's
Speaker 7: on teams or playing offense, splitting out, playing in the backfield.
Speaker 7: So he'll be he'll be included in the mix, and
Speaker 7: you know, we're gonna we're gonna stretch him as much
Speaker 7: as we can mentally and just see where this thing goes.
Speaker 8: We've seen Aaron go to Pat Fryarmouth a number of
Speaker 8: times in the two minute drill and critical situations early on,
Speaker 8: just with Pat. What do you envision his role being
Speaker 8: would have been some of the.
Speaker 5: Early impressions of ten.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Pat's done a really good job at
Speaker 7: controlling the middle of the field, and I agree with you.
Speaker 5: You know, at.
Speaker 7: Any time we get a one on one with Pat,
Speaker 7: you know, he's made some plays. So that's been really
Speaker 7: really cool to see. And we're just going to keep
Speaker 7: pushing the envelope and you know, hopefully that connection continues
Speaker 7: to grow because it could certainly be a big help
Speaker 7: for us.
Speaker 8: Stick sticky with stigma tight end for a second. Dornell
Speaker 8: Washington is a very unique body type. How do things
Speaker 8: change for.
Speaker 3: You guys when you have Pat in.
Speaker 8: The game versus Darnell?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we really don't. We really try not to.
Speaker 7: You know, I think they're both capable, so you know,
Speaker 7: we want to be able to call our plays, but certainly,
Speaker 7: you know, try to emphasize in what they do well.
Speaker 7: But right now we're just playing ball, and you know,
Speaker 7: they both are doing a good job blocking at the
Speaker 7: point of attack, and certainly, you know in the passing
Speaker 7: game they're very very capable.
Speaker 5: Waiting You young quarterbacks, you know, how much are you
Speaker 5: waiting what happens here versus those three opportunities when the
Speaker 5: lightser on, the rush is live and that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, certainly there's no there's no better way
Speaker 7: to evaluate in game game reps, so that certainly they'll
Speaker 7: be critical, But obviously there's a ton that goes into practice.
Speaker 7: You know, the operation, the checks at the line, do
Speaker 7: they understand the adjustment the audible?
Speaker 5: So that's all.
Speaker 7: Really really good stuff that they've handled well, and that's certainly,
Speaker 7: you know, a big evaluation, it's part of it all.
Speaker 5: But ultimately, when you get out there.
Speaker 7: And see them play, that's versus a different defense, an
Speaker 7: uncommon opponent, and how they react and respond is the
Speaker 7: ultimate measuring stick.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Drew?
Speaker 7: I mean, going from a certain system at Pens stay
Speaker 7: different like you might have had a cadence there.
Speaker 5: You know, colleges are very different when it comes to
Speaker 5: that stuff.
Speaker 8: How do you see him not just picking up a system,
Speaker 8: but getting the cadence down, making those checks of the
Speaker 8: line and stuff better.
Speaker 5: Impressed.
Speaker 7: You know, his poise, you know, his ability to retain
Speaker 7: information and I think you know when he when he
Speaker 7: makes you know, when you correct him on something, his
Speaker 7: ability to immediately go go back in there and and
Speaker 7: get it right. Like that's that's important. You know, he's
Speaker 7: he's like a sponge in that QB room. If you
Speaker 7: know Tom tells him something or he's here's Aaron speaking
Speaker 7: on something, he can immediately.
Speaker 5: Go apply it. So he's done a really good job
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 3: Now that you've seen Riley in Actually, what kind of
Speaker 3: impact do you think his role or he might have
Speaker 3: in this offense?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know he's he's been able. You know, he's
Speaker 7: done a good job playing tight end. He's handled multiple roles,
Speaker 7: playing on the line, off the line, in the backfield.
Speaker 7: He's capable and you can see him getting more and
Speaker 7: more comfortable with each rep. But you know, just like
Speaker 7: with Germ, and pleased where he's at right now, you know,
Speaker 7: as we sit in training.
Speaker 1: Camp, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3: I like that. Maybe we could just start calling him Germ.
Speaker 4: I bet that sticks.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 4: I would think so.
Speaker 3: I think so. And a lot of talk about the
Speaker 3: wide receivers. That was Brian Angelico if you miss it
Speaker 3: at the start Steelers offensive coordinator. I just like the
Speaker 3: positive stuff, and it is this time of year, and
Speaker 3: that's and that's the way you want it to be.
Speaker 3: But I think even more so, you know this is yes,
Speaker 3: the Steelers have had changed. You know, they had a
Speaker 3: few different offensive coordinators over the last handful of years
Speaker 3: of Mike Tomlin and and different quarterback coaches and offensive
Speaker 3: line coaches and all that stuff, and felt like the
Speaker 3: wide receiver coach was changing pretty regularly, but sweeping wholesale change.
Speaker 3: New offensive coordinator in Brian Angelico, of course, a offensive
Speaker 3: head coach, and Mike McCarthy, Matt There's going to be
Speaker 3: a million storylines that we're going to keep an eye
Speaker 3: on throughout this season, as we always do. But I
Speaker 3: feel like it's gonna start with and the majority of
Speaker 3: it will be around the Steelers offense. Aaron Rodgers, that
Speaker 3: young offensive line, in the wide receiver room that now
Speaker 3: finally for the first time in a few years, feels
Speaker 3: like you have enough ammunition in that group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tend to agree with you, and then when
Speaker 4: the season ends, it's really going to go towards well,
Speaker 4: what we're gonna do at the quarterback position from here,
Speaker 4: which is just going to dominate headlines and is going
Speaker 4: to fall on Angelico to some degree as well, and
Speaker 4: let alone this new staff. So there's kind of put
Speaker 4: up a shot of time here on that side of
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 3: It's time for a lot of the rubber to meet
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was encouraging stuff.
Speaker 3: It was we'll uh, we'll hear from uh from Patrick
Speaker 3: Graham before we get out of here in the next
Speaker 3: hour and a half, maybe some Danny Crossman Special Teams
Speaker 3: coach as well as again those guys speaking today for
Speaker 3: the first time during this training camp. West Shuler, Matt Williamson.
Speaker 3: It's all quiet on campus right now, but I do
Speaker 3: think in the next half hour or so we'll have
Speaker 3: the other match up there. There's some I think that
Speaker 3: some of the media guys are hacking out up there waiting,
Speaker 3: and some of the team employees, I mean, they're not
Speaker 3: getting on the bus just yet. They're kind of loitering
Speaker 3: around because you don't half.
Speaker 4: An hour time.
Speaker 3: I would guess four fifty ish you know, half half hour. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think a little before five.
Speaker 3: Get them there about an hour ahead of time. Uh,
Speaker 3: they can take in the setting, they can get all
Speaker 3: their you know.
Speaker 4: Stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Just get kind of a for the new coaching
Speaker 3: staff too. In the past, you get, you get there,
Speaker 3: you know where you're going, you know where this is,
Speaker 3: that is, here's where we're setting up, here, where we're
Speaker 3: walking in it. For all this coaching staff too, they
Speaker 3: might want a few minutes just to assess.
Speaker 4: And most teams don't do this, by the way, guys,
Speaker 4: they do not.
Speaker 3: Most teams have some type of scrimmage in their stadium.
Speaker 4: Yes, like our buddy, our.
Speaker 3: Buddy Michael McQuaid of course, of Steelers Ireland and and
Speaker 3: NFL Ireland. He was out here last week. He was
Speaker 3: on SNR. He's been on SNR a few times in
Speaker 3: the past. Good dude. We like hanging out and chatting
Speaker 3: with him. He was last night at Lambeau Field for
Speaker 3: the Packers scrimmage and they had sixty thousand plus there
Speaker 3: at Lambeau and he was posting about it on his Instagram.
Speaker 3: He was like, this is like bucket list stuff. He's like,
Speaker 3: this is incredible. You know, Friday night at lambeau Field
Speaker 3: was sixty thousand people there for a scrimmage.
Speaker 4: There's some college spring spring games get that many.
Speaker 3: So you know what's funny, Matt, is they used to
Speaker 3: you know, Ohio State, Nebraska, Alabama and all those places.
Speaker 3: It's funny now though, in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: And you know why that is because coaches don't want
Speaker 3: extra film of their depth guys out there for portal purposes.
Speaker 4: I had I thought for sure it had to do
Speaker 4: something with nil or portal.
Speaker 3: Now just this year they finally.
Speaker 4: Don't scarf up that five star receiver who's tearing it
Speaker 4: up just just can't beat out Jeremiah Smith exactly right.
Speaker 3: You know, there used to be a spring portal. There's
Speaker 3: not anymore. There's the one portal window in January and
Speaker 3: that's it now. But for the last you know, six
Speaker 3: years or whatever it was since the transfer portal started,
Speaker 3: there was a spring window and a lot of coaches
Speaker 3: were like, I don't want to put my second string
Speaker 3: guys out there and then.
Speaker 4: Put them on a billboard to come steal.
Speaker 3: Like you said, here's a five star receiver for Ohio State, who's.
Speaker 4: God quarterback that's stuck behind a first round pick.
Speaker 3: And then you know, and then here comes all Miss
Speaker 3: with a big offer for them or you know, someone
Speaker 3: like that, who could use somebody at that position right now.
Speaker 3: I do think that's been a big part of spring
Speaker 3: games getting downplayed over the last few years. But maybe
Speaker 3: now that they've it was always going to take time,
Speaker 3: and I still don't think it's perfect, but I at
Speaker 3: least think the transfer portal setup is better now than
Speaker 3: it was. It still opens before the season ends, which
Speaker 3: seems asinine, but I again, I understand it's never going
Speaker 3: to be a perfect system. Yeah, I think they've got
Speaker 3: it at least a little bit closer now, But you're right,
Speaker 3: fine a little bit. For a long time, man, those
Speaker 3: spring games were like.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they were gathering, right, and I haven't heard
Speaker 4: much about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know a lot of schools too. It
Speaker 3: was like, it's a five dollars ten dollars donation to
Speaker 3: get in and all that money goes to the children's hospital,
Speaker 3: you know, or something like that. So they'd make a
Speaker 3: big cause out of it and a big day out
Speaker 3: of it. But it is a big day here in Latrobe,
Speaker 3: of course for Saturday Night Lights. We'll let you know
Speaker 3: when the buses roll out, when the things get going
Speaker 3: here as Matt and I have about another ninety minutes
Speaker 3: in today's program before we lead right up to the
Speaker 3: start of Saturday Night Lights here across campus in town
Speaker 3: Euler Williamson. It's all part of our ongoing training camp
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Speaker 3: The sun is shining here on the campus of Saint
Speaker 3: Vincent College. My goodness, the last five minutes or so
Speaker 3: that we were in commercial break there, the sun has
Speaker 3: come out. It's another beautiful day here in Westmoreland County
Speaker 3: Unity Township, and of course going to be a massive,
Speaker 3: massive crowd down at the True Memorial for a little
Speaker 3: Saturday night lights here as we are still waiting for
Speaker 3: everyone to get on the buses. But there's some moving
Speaker 3: and shaking going on here on campus right now, Matt.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean real slow day, as we've mentioned. Everyone
Speaker 4: will gather up here and get out of here and
Speaker 4: then be crazy over there and then we'll get back
Speaker 4: at it, have a bro slow day tomorrow too, yep.
Speaker 4: And then down the home stretch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would think Monday and Tuesday will be
Speaker 3: big days, of course, with the guys off on Wednesday,
Speaker 3: and then that first preseason game at home against the
Speaker 3: Packers of course on Thursday at Akroscher Stadium. Matt, if
Speaker 3: you look down the walkway here, it looks like a
Speaker 3: bunch of our fellow media shlubs are making their way
Speaker 3: up there, throwing, making their way up to the hill
Speaker 3: of the buses. So I would think that, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: getting ready to part depart here and maybe the next
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes or so. Yeah, I would say so if
Speaker 3: you're if you're media guys, you don't want to be late, Matt,
Speaker 3: because they.
Speaker 4: Are not waiting for you.
Speaker 3: They will not wait for you. No, I've told you
Speaker 3: some some good Arthur Motes stories and anecdotes, you know,
Speaker 3: over the years, and particularly we this time of year,
Speaker 3: we always reference his one about training camp is not
Speaker 3: over when we leave Saint Vincent College. It's just over
Speaker 3: for everyone from a public standpoint. Another thing that he
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever told you this before
Speaker 3: the first time, it would have been what five years
Speaker 3: ago when I started traveling as part of the Steelers
Speaker 3: game day broadc cast crew as well. Did I ever
Speaker 3: tell you about the little speech that Motes gave to
Speaker 3: me before that first trip? No, So I would have
Speaker 3: been a p It was a preseason game in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: Was was my first was my first time, first time
Speaker 3: I'm hopping on a plane to trad You know, I
Speaker 3: had worked game broadcasts from our DV studios before back
Speaker 3: here in Pittsburgh, but it's my first time being part
Speaker 3: of the game day traveling crew. It was a preseason
Speaker 3: game in Jacksonville. I want to say it was a
Speaker 3: Friday night game if I believe correctly, so we would
Speaker 3: have been flying out Thursday, so I think Motes and
Speaker 3: I did the show on Thursday, and then I was
Speaker 3: going right to the airport type thing, and Motes was like, look, dude,
Speaker 3: he's like, for all these games, don't be late. Don't
Speaker 3: push it. He's like, I understand, you know, like like
Speaker 3: plane usually leaves about three o'clock ish sometimes when we're
Speaker 3: going to the West coast or obviously if we're going
Speaker 3: to Ireland or France, it's different. But in vast majority
Speaker 3: we usually fly out at three o'clock on Saturdays. And
Speaker 3: Motes was like, you need to be on that plane
Speaker 3: by by two fifteen, two thirty, all right, He's like,
Speaker 3: because typical travel, you know, you know, it's literally like
Speaker 3: you you you go through the gates and show your
Speaker 3: ID and you go get on the plane. There's no
Speaker 3: airport security, and then there's some TSA stuff, but it's
Speaker 3: it's all so streamlined and so quick and you can,
Speaker 3: you know, grab a sandwich again. It's as good as
Speaker 3: it gets. It's you feel like a one percenter when
Speaker 3: you're when you're doing that, certainly you grab a you know,
Speaker 3: grab a sandwich in a gatorade and get on the plane.
Speaker 3: But Motes was like around two thirty two forty is
Speaker 3: when all the players show up, and he's like, it
Speaker 3: gets a little wild there. You don't want to get
Speaker 3: caught in the shuffle because he was like, believe me,
Speaker 3: they will not wait for you, all right. He was like,
Speaker 3: he was like, in my four years with the Steelers,
Speaker 3: I only saw us wait one time, and that was
Speaker 3: because Ben Roethlisberger was a few minutes late, and Wes,
Speaker 3: you're not Ben roethlis here, all right, so you better
Speaker 3: be on time.
Speaker 4: You should be early.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: He was like for the players, he was like rushing.
Speaker 5: On with that.
Speaker 3: He was like, get there before the players. He's like,
Speaker 3: get yourself something to eat, get comfortable on the plane,
Speaker 3: all right, and just don't be rushing. Don't be late
Speaker 3: because they will leave your butt behind.
Speaker 4: Quick question for you, because I know you know your
Speaker 4: spot on the plane and things like that. Now everyone
Speaker 4: probably sits in about the same area.
Speaker 3: Just about the same seats every single flight.
Speaker 4: Did anyone coach you up where to sit day one?
Speaker 4: So or did you like sit mister Rooney seats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I went.
Speaker 3: I went right in the front of the plane, and
Speaker 3: I was like, ah, that'd be I'd be first class
Speaker 3: sleeper pod there. That looks like it's for.
Speaker 4: Me first, I get to pick anywhere I want. That's
Speaker 4: probably not.
Speaker 3: How it works, so fortunately, uh, it's not how it works.
Speaker 3: In fact, when when you check in with your ID, right,
Speaker 3: they give you a little card that has your seat
Speaker 3: assignment on it. Okay, and it's pretty much the same
Speaker 3: every game.
Speaker 4: Now again, granted, I bet you can move two seats
Speaker 4: and nobody cares.
Speaker 3: But and sometimes like if we're going to la or
Speaker 3: we're going to Miami, the Steelers might take a little
Speaker 3: bit bigger of a plane because we might have some
Speaker 3: more spot answers or people like that they're going going
Speaker 3: with us. But for the most part, like preseason, we
Speaker 3: take a bigger plane because you obviously have thirty forty
Speaker 3: extra guys still on the roster. But for the most part,
Speaker 3: it's about the same seat. You get a little you
Speaker 3: get a little note card when you check in with
Speaker 3: your seat assignment on it. But I was fortunate too.
Speaker 4: That like pretty much sit next to the same person.
Speaker 3: I sit next to Dan Quinlan every every single flight,
Speaker 3: although there was a couple of years in the preseason
Speaker 3: where Max Max is only on the plane for preseason
Speaker 3: because then then he's flying from Arizona by himself for
Speaker 3: the preseason. He's out here the whole time. So in
Speaker 3: the preseason they would it would supposed to be Max
Speaker 3: and Wolf sitting next to each other and Me and
Speaker 3: Dan sitting next to each other. But Wolf and Max
Speaker 3: are like Wolf and Max were like, yeah, Wes, Wes
Speaker 3: is gonna sit with one of us, all right, He's
Speaker 3: a little bit smuth. So I ended up squeezed next
Speaker 3: to Wolf for a couple of those preseason flights. But
Speaker 3: I had Quinlan and Wolf who had been doing it forever,
Speaker 3: and they had kind of told me like, hey, back
Speaker 3: right back, right corner of the plane is where we're
Speaker 3: gonna be. But it's a good group, you know, like
Speaker 3: Missy's back there with Bob King obviously, yeah, some of
Speaker 3: the some of the video and equipment guys. So we
Speaker 3: have a we have a good time.
Speaker 4: But I'm sure everybody has their their neighborhood on the plane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's a little sesame streetish it's a
Speaker 3: little uh, mister Rogers. And it's a lot of fun too, because.
Speaker 4: Dublin was so different. But I wasn't sure, like with
Speaker 4: my stepping on toes, because there was two planes that
Speaker 4: went to Dublin. I s went near the back, and boy,
Speaker 4: there's a ton of rooms. So I didn't feel bad
Speaker 4: after a while, but I'm like, I hope I'm not
Speaker 4: like in the wrong neighborhood.
Speaker 3: We we check in for that Dublin flight, and it
Speaker 3: was a it was an overnighter obviously, right. I think
Speaker 3: we left Pittsburgh at like nine o'clock or something. That's
Speaker 3: eight o'clock, nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: In the evening, don't remember.
Speaker 3: That's something something like that. And Matt and I, uh,
Speaker 3: Matt and I get to the back in our seating assignments,
Speaker 3: and there's probably what four or five empty rows behind us,
Speaker 3: so many right, and we're kind of like me, you,
Speaker 3: Missy Matthews, Teresa Varley, We're all kind of looking at
Speaker 3: each other like nobody's sitting back here. And they closed
Speaker 3: the doors for the plane and we're getting ready to
Speaker 3: take off and we're all like sweet, We're laying down
Speaker 3: on the.
Speaker 4: Back and it was that huge plane, Like the middle
Speaker 4: row was four or five seats, so I my six
Speaker 4: oh two seven body just fit fine. I just laid down, Yeah,
Speaker 4: put over me.
Speaker 3: And I think that was the best I slept on
Speaker 3: a plane since I was a teenager.
Speaker 4: Fitting up at all. Laying there on my shoulders.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. And then we woke up and we
Speaker 3: were in Dublin. You can't beat that. You can't beat that, Matt.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Ben Roethlisberger, we now know the twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: of course Hall of Fame class officially enshrined earlier this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Here's the list of first time eligibles for the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven class, and it is a heavy hitting g
Speaker 3: It is a group. Rob Gronkowski, Ben Roethlisberger, Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 3: Richard Sherman, Cam Newton, Antonio Brown, Lev Bell, Andrew Whitworth,
Speaker 3: Alex Mack, Gerard McCoy, and Eric Weddle, all first time
Speaker 3: eligible in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Now I'm not the one I didn't remember.
Speaker 3: He's he might not be first ballot, but I think
Speaker 3: he's He's getting go. Gronk feels like a no doubt
Speaker 3: first ballot I think, and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people feel that way. He's got the individual accolades, he's
Speaker 3: got the team accolades. He's I would be shocked if
Speaker 3: he's not first ballot. And then I think a quarter
Speaker 3: of a step behind him is Ben and Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if I had the rank them, I'd probably
Speaker 4: put Peterson's case a little stronger.
Speaker 3: Just because there were a lot of years where you
Speaker 3: said he's the best at his position. Yeah, which is
Speaker 3: harder to do a quarterback.
Speaker 4: It is, it still is, but I mean he was
Speaker 4: kind of the last of the Golden Age true running backs.
Speaker 4: And then I'd put Sherman for fourth. But all four
Speaker 4: of those guys I absolutely think are getting in.
Speaker 3: I think they're locks to get in.
Speaker 4: And should get in the next two years at most.
Speaker 4: I think Whitworth's got a decent case too.
Speaker 3: It's funny, I was gonna say he's the other one.
Speaker 3: He might have to do the Alan Fannika thing in wait,
Speaker 3: six years or whatever it is, but I think Whitworth
Speaker 3: gets in one of the better left tackles of his generation,
Speaker 3: has the Super Bowl ring to go with it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't hurt these guys when they're in the
Speaker 4: public spotlight. But after their coaching career, playing career too,
Speaker 4: Sherman Whitworth, you know, they've been very busy. Monk too,
Speaker 4: Gronk as well. Yeah, I mean he's it's kind of
Speaker 4: assumed he to get in, But you're right, these guys
Speaker 4: haven't vanished off the face of the earth, like oh,
Speaker 4: I forgot all about him. The interesting one though, is
Speaker 4: Antonio Brown, of course, who is every bit of player.
Speaker 4: Everyone we just mentioned, including Gronk, in my opinion, are
Speaker 4: close to it now, there's a lot more going on
Speaker 4: with him. I don't think he'll get in this year,
Speaker 4: especially in such a loaded class. If it's Sherman or
Speaker 4: ab he's probably going to lose out. But I just
Speaker 4: don't think it's fair, no matter what he did off
Speaker 4: the field, to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: And I only say that because from what I understand,
Speaker 4: it's the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's not the
Speaker 4: NFL Hall of Fame. It's a Pro football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: They don't have any rules or stipulations of morality, clauses
Speaker 4: or what you did off the field. So if you're
Speaker 4: going to stick by the letter of the law and
Speaker 4: just base these players on what they did on the
Speaker 4: football field.
Speaker 3: He's a Hall of Famer, He's a first ballot Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer. If you're staying there, and you're right, and
Speaker 3: we know that there's the way that the laws are written,
Speaker 3: the ways that they're interpreted by by by the people,
Speaker 3: right like I think baseball, I'm pretty sure Cooperstown, where's
Speaker 3: Rob King when you need him? Cooperstown, I believe, has
Speaker 3: a morality class and that's what they use for guys
Speaker 3: like Barry Bonds and Pete Rose and on down the line.
Speaker 3: You're right, the NFL does not have that, but we've
Speaker 3: also still seen it work against guys in the past
Speaker 3: who I think eventually all end up getting in.
Speaker 4: But yeah, maybe have to. But ab is don't how
Speaker 4: baseball works. But I also think it hurts that who's
Speaker 4: going to be the human being standing up in the
Speaker 4: room for Abbe.
Speaker 3: You would think it would be a Steelers person because
Speaker 3: that's where he spent the vast majority of his career
Speaker 3: and where he had his most success.
Speaker 4: And Jerry's tough ask for Jerry, Yes, it is.
Speaker 3: Jerry gonna get up and tell stories about the time
Speaker 3: that they used to do radio shows together when AB
Speaker 3: was early in his career, back at our, back at
Speaker 3: our nine seventy studios. AB is a very interesting tough
Speaker 3: case because you're right, the guy between the white lines
Speaker 3: is a no doubt Hall of Famer, But we also
Speaker 3: know the way that he's been caring himself the last
Speaker 3: couple of years, and he's got it. You can't, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't have him. You have to be able to
Speaker 3: trust that the person that is wearing the gold jacket
Speaker 3: is going to show up, is going to carry themselves well,
Speaker 3: is going to give a nice speech from the podium.
Speaker 4: Right, And don't think anyone be super confident at this
Speaker 4: this minute.
Speaker 3: It's you know, for the NFL, it's all about the shield, right, Matt,
Speaker 3: It's it's all about the reputation and the reflection of
Speaker 3: the shield and currently and rightly, so there's there's questions
Speaker 3: around a b in that regard.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, So it'll bother me if he doesn't
Speaker 4: go I mean not this this, yeah, particular classes necessarily,
Speaker 4: but if he's not in the next ten years, I
Speaker 4: think you're kind of talking on both sides your mouth.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's hard for me to argue that, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and again I can foresee a scenario where
Speaker 3: he never kind of walks the line and they don't
Speaker 3: feel comfortable putting him in that spotlight. But you're you're right.
Speaker 3: From the way that it's governed, the way that it's
Speaker 3: legislated and written, it's it's it's hard to deny that
Speaker 3: that guy shouldn't be in much sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4: I don't have a ton of examples off the top
Speaker 4: of my head, but I can promise you many current
Speaker 4: Hall of famers had stuff before they were inducted. Like
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about OJ I mean that happened after.
Speaker 4: But I still think he should have gone too. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not making light of murder or death or anything
Speaker 4: of that nature. But if he was arrested and in
Speaker 4: jail when it was his turn to go up, he
Speaker 4: should still go because the rules are the rules. If
Speaker 4: you don't put in the rules, then he was good enough.
Speaker 3: Football player to go, or have a morality clause if
Speaker 3: you want, then he has no chance, right.
Speaker 4: Right, right right.
Speaker 3: It's unless I'm.
Speaker 4: Missreading the how I think the NFL or the Pro
Speaker 4: Football Hall of Fame works. I think none of that's
Speaker 4: supposed to matter.
Speaker 3: You know, what we'll have to do is when we
Speaker 3: have one of our night shows with Jerry here in
Speaker 3: the next thing, Yeah, doing.
Speaker 4: It next week or so it's changed the last time.
Speaker 3: We'll have to pick his brain on that one.
Speaker 4: We do know it influences things.
Speaker 3: Without a doubt, supposed to not human human element is obviously,
Speaker 3: uh is a part of this whole process. Certainly, big
Speaker 3: congratulations to the five that got inducted today, and hopefully
Speaker 3: we won't be waiting too long till number seven has
Speaker 3: his day out there in his home state. Next year's
Speaker 3: class could be one of the better classes of all time,
Speaker 3: depending on how it shakes out. He's up the year
Speaker 3: after that. Part of me wonders, are they gonna wait
Speaker 3: and and and put Belichick in with Brady because he's
Speaker 3: he's still he's still available as a candidate, Still available
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4: Process.
Speaker 3: Yes, because it's not just it when it comes to
Speaker 3: the coaches and the contributors, it's not just a yes
Speaker 3: or no vote, you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 3: you can only vote for so many I mean, what
Speaker 3: are we doing out but some of some of the again,
Speaker 3: the human element of the process could certainly be tweaked.
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Speaker 3: Here from Patrick Graham, Steelers defensive coordinator. As some of
Speaker 3: the Steelers have started to trickle out of the locker
Speaker 3: rooms and get onto the buses, I'd imagine in the
Speaker 3: next ten minutes or so here they will be taken
Speaker 3: off for Latrobe Memorial. If you're down there, enjoy yourselves,
Speaker 3: have some fun. Hopefully the weather continues to look as
Speaker 3: beautiful as it is right now. It's sunny out matt
Speaker 3: but not too hot today. No, it's nice, good day
Speaker 3: to take in some football practice and some fireworks and
Speaker 3: all that good stuff. A few more I've been watching
Speaker 3: down here. I haven't seen it yet, but they've got
Speaker 3: kind of the security posted up at the main entrance
Speaker 3: of camp and been waiting to see some people if
Speaker 3: they drive in and get told nope, you're in the wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not here.
Speaker 4: Always forel bad, but it's always kind of funny every year.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. But if you guys are listening down
Speaker 4: at the high school fields, as you should be, spread
Speaker 4: the word. We'll let you know when they pull out,
Speaker 4: and you can get put an idea when people are gonna.
Speaker 3: There you go. You can all start going nuts when
Speaker 3: the boys roll into town. Yeah, certainly, Matt. We've got
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes shorter segment here to get our
Speaker 3: clock back on track for the final hour. But I
Speaker 3: did just see some good news roll across the timeline here.
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan, of course, recovering from that carround.
Speaker 4: We haven't brought that up.
Speaker 3: Pretty serious by all reports of an accident that he
Speaker 3: was in a few weeks ago. He intends to coach
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers preseason opener. Thinks that he's healthy
Speaker 3: and recovered enough to be on the sideline and moving
Speaker 3: around and that's great news.
Speaker 4: And I mentioned I host an NFL six pack show
Speaker 4: with Brian Peacock, who covers the Niners, and he basically
Speaker 4: he explained it to him. He said, yeah, he has
Speaker 4: some bumps and bruises. He may even have a broken
Speaker 4: bone or two. Like, he's pretty lucky that it wasn't
Speaker 4: worse in terms of like dehabilitating or ruining his coaching
Speaker 4: or situation. But the big problem has been severe concussion relief,
Speaker 4: you know, So he's kind of been off the side,
Speaker 4: sunglasses on, or.
Speaker 3: At least he noises, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so I guess that's gradually coming back to him,
Speaker 4: that he can be in command of things again.
Speaker 3: That it's awesome, good, it's great to see. I know
Speaker 3: originally they had, you know, there were some questions of
Speaker 3: will he be on the sideline for any preseason games,
Speaker 3: could he you know, still be recovering when the regular
Speaker 3: season gets here. But obviously all the best of him
Speaker 3: and his recovery, and that is great, great news to
Speaker 3: hear for the head coach of the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: Could have certainly certainly gone a lot worse. Man car
Speaker 3: crashes or those are some scary, scary things, and if
Speaker 3: this game isn't dangerous enough, right, exactly right, exactly right.
Speaker 3: I also wanted to Matt before we get to break here,
Speaker 3: I meant to ask you this when we were having
Speaker 3: some fantasy football conversation, and before I forget, is it
Speaker 3: is it fair or foul that a lot of people
Speaker 3: are drawing comparisons to Love in his rookie season that
Speaker 3: he has ahead in Arizona to what we saw from
Speaker 3: Genti last year with the Raiders. Is that a fair yes?
Speaker 3: And is that a fair warning sign for where you're
Speaker 3: going to draft him?
Speaker 4: As pure football players, I prefer prospect Love over prospect genty,
Speaker 4: not by leaps and bound. They're both in the same tier.
Speaker 4: I also think Love's a better receiver, which is helpful
Speaker 4: for fantasy. One of the beauties of genty who actually
Speaker 4: the league that won. I had the eleventh pick and
Speaker 4: I took him in a chan right around the band.
Speaker 4: I forget which I took first, And what I was
Speaker 4: so attracted to was there's nobody else in his backfield.
Speaker 4: I mean, like he's going to get such a workload,
Speaker 4: and that's what worries me. In Arizona. James Connor's there,
Speaker 4: Benson's there, they signed out year. Even if they trade
Speaker 4: Benson O'Connor. If I'm them and I'm one in seven,
Speaker 4: i am not running.
Speaker 3: I'm the guy rookie.
Speaker 4: And that was true for the Raiders too, but they
Speaker 4: still did it. I also think the rate of the
Speaker 4: Cardinals almost have to be more competent in terms of
Speaker 4: O line coaching in general. Supporting cast but love somebody
Speaker 4: I'm kind of staying away from and for where he's.
Speaker 3: Going and if he ends up falling in the price
Speaker 3: is right, there's a price.
Speaker 4: But there's other backs in that neighborhood with Breese Hall
Speaker 4: that I would take ahead of them. Gentm on the
Speaker 4: fence for I think that there's his situations way better
Speaker 4: than it was. They're a lot more competent that I
Speaker 4: think the old line should be better. He still doesn't
Speaker 4: have a lot of touch competition. He's still a good prospect.
Speaker 4: I never discredited him as a prospect. He's going about
Speaker 4: that first round, second round turn and we all got
Speaker 4: it burned a little by it last year, but he
Speaker 4: wasn't a miserable fantasy player when he was all said
Speaker 4: and done. There were some bad weeks, but there was
Speaker 4: also a couple of big explosive runs and he put
Speaker 4: some points out.
Speaker 3: No he did. He's a real He's a real one
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on this year. Yeah, where do
Speaker 3: you think he goes about that same spot in drafts
Speaker 3: this year? I think the first round.
Speaker 4: A second fifteen, top twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's I know, we always we always bas.
Speaker 4: Are definitely ahead of them, and then it's questionable.
Speaker 3: You and I always kind of chuckle when people say this,
Speaker 3: but it can't get worse. Right for the Raiders and
Speaker 3: that offense, it can, but it feels like they're in
Speaker 3: a much better Say.
Speaker 4: If you're that low, it's almost nowhere to go but up,
Speaker 4: especially if from an O line and coaching perspective.
Speaker 3: Honestly, buses are starting to load up here. I think
Speaker 3: everyone's going to be rolling out in the next few minutes.
Speaker 3: Matt and I have one more hour to go. When
Speaker 3: we return, you know, we'll start hitting those tweets. You
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Speaker 3: say earlier today in our bonus hour of the Drive
Speaker 3: here on campus at Saint Vincent College West Uler Matt Williamson.
Speaker 3: It is the Drive, all part of our ongoing training
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