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But 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.720 now the skies are blue and the sun is shining, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.680 and maybe, Matt, we should have just waited a few 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.880 minutes longer. But we are with you. Here for the 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.360 next three hours. Matt. It is our final show from campus. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.319 Here is part of our training camp coverage. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.640 Yeah, and it's been awesome and quick funny story. Like 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.520 the hotel we say that is honestly like a three 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.920 minute ride. You can basically see it from here. You know, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.920 you could walk there if you wanted to. So I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 get in my car to come over. Practice was canceled. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:32.880 I guess we probably should have lead with that. The 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.119 final practice was did never happen. So I didn't leave 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.280 my room until I was gonna meet you in the 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.040 cafeteria at like two o'clock and we're going on the 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.760 air three. So I got all my bags and I'm 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.800 walking to the car and I'm like, all right, here 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.400 we go, last day checked out. Get in the car, 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:53.400 turn it on, and the sky just opens up so much. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.240 So I'm driving over. I'm like, oh man, I don't 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.320 have an umbrella. It's gonna be a long walk to 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.000 the cafeteria. Part cars close to the cafeteria as I 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:06.000 possibly can hit, put it in park, and it just stopped. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.200 I'm like, this is my day. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.880 I got to get some lottery right tapped. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.639 I mean, like, this is my day. This is unbelievable. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.480 It rained for exactly three minutes my trip, Matt. When 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.040 we get when we and then we came out of 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.679 there and we got our hair. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.560 We looked like we just jumped out of the swimming pool. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.960 You need to stop at the casino on Route thirty 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:27.720 there on our way out there. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.760 Yeah, but they brought me back to reality with the 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.040 walk over here lots a couple of. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.040 Times that that is funny, and it is. Uh, it's 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.240 been a weird it's been. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:35.639 A weird week. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.119 It's been a weird camp. It's been a weird day 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.799 in terms of the weather. Like we said, sun is shining. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.720 Actually the skies are. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.840 Blue right now. Canceled practice and man, it. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:48.200 Rained a lot yesterday, rained, overnight, rained this morning because 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.800 of that practice closed, uh and canceled. Actually is it 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.639 wasn't even like a close to the public type thing. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:54.880 It was right right right. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.280 Practice was canceled for the day people. And so Matt, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.640 it's usually a quiet campus by the time you and 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.560 I get to our last show here as we are 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.040 kind of the caboose of this whole thing. But it's 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.320 even quieter today than it typically is with no fans. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.160 I know a lot of the players and coaches are 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.640 already out. Licteria closed early. Poor Matt didn't get a 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.520 full schmugesborg a lunch like myself and Ed Troop did. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.520 I just found anything I could scavenge while they were 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.480 cleaning up. Basically had ice cream for lunch. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.320 Ice cream and a cheeseburger. Man, if that ain't that's 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.720 like every seventeen year old's dream bunch right there, just 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.520 living living the dream out here baby as Yeah, so 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.359 a different day today, a little anti climactic and kind 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.600 of the way that the camp rounded out, But hey, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.440 you can control what you can control, and the weather 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 is certainly not something that you can control. You just 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.400 got to roll with the punches with that, Matt. We've 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.800 got a lot of ground to cover today as we've 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.760 got a bonus hour, We've got a three hour show, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.120 our last three hour show for a little while, and 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.640 and of course we're gonna get to your tweets. We 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.240 do have a lot of fun stuff planned for you, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.000 including an idea that Matt kind of came up with 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.480 last night slash this morning. Yeah, and I think is 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.840 a really fun one for us to start this first 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.760 hour of the program today, Matt, and that is quite 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.600 simply fifty three man initial roster for the Steelers. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.760 But we haven't done it yet. This isn't our final answer. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:13.640 We got time, we'll do. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.240 It. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.080 Seemed like a monumental day to do it. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.320 But you said, let's try and piece together the Steelers 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.080 fifty three man roster with. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.240 Four quartermack with four quarterbacks. So now that's a much 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.039 bigger conversation, and I don't want to have it right now. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.120 I'm just gonna say and chat with Mike Pursudo last night. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.280 I've chatted with a lot of folks that do what 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.560 we do. Jerry du Lack's been pushing for this. It's 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.080 a real possibility since day one of training camp. I 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.160 don't think any of the quarterbacks have shown poorly. So 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.640 instead of fighting should we keep four or not, I'm 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.760 just saying we're keeping four and what does it look like? 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.320 Because we got a tweet about it saying what position 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.960 would get short cut? And I don't want to do 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.560 a two minute answer on that. In the last segment 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.880 during Twitter time, I'm like, let's figure it out where 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.159 what what can we do to make that work? Now? 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:08.560 One caveat that I ninety percent understand you can finagel 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.920 things in terms of you put someone on your practice 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.080 like you can put Travis Homer on your practice squad 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.120 and you could call them up twice. I think it is. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.480 And then you got to make a decision. So you 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.919 can do things like that, the kind of buy time, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.440 you know, Bruner or you know, but they got to, 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.920 you know, make sure they get up on the practice 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.000 squad first of all. But you can finagel things your 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.000 roster a little more than the old days, like these 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.560 are the fifty three and these are all I have 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.840 to deal with. But I just thought it be fun, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.239 like is it feasible would the roster be a disaster. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.200 Or just where you're cutting from? What position group? 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.880 Yeah? Yeah, can weather it? You know? Yes? 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.920 Now, so I think a couple of things that we 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.760 can establish here right off the jump, and if it's 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.279 okay with you, we'll kind of with the parameter of 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.520 this being you're keeping four quarterbacks on the roster, yeah, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.240 I figure we go ahead and start on the offensive 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:57.960 side of the ball. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.360 Then yes, And really we're gonna come up with forty 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.000 six names because there's three specialists are making the team. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.080 That's funny you say that literally if you look at 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.120 my piece of paper here, because. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.520 I look over so. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.440 I have four quarterbacks. I have three teams. Okay, that 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.480 means that means Chris Boswell, Cam Johnson and Christian Kots 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.440 even talk about don't even talk about Hi. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:17.960 You're gonna have. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.719 Thirty seconds of our life. You can have wasted talking 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.000 about three teamers. You're gonna have four quarterbacks. That puts 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.320 us a seven already, Matt. Let's talk running backs. How 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:31.640 many are we gonna keep? And you came up with this. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.480 Just to make it fun. Let's jot down every name 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.320 that has a chance, and then we'll have Then we'll 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.280 come back and maybe in the second segment and fight 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.159 about who doesn't make it. You know what I mean? Like, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.320 are there? Okay, let's start with thrownning backs. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:48.960 Let's start runing. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:54.719 Okay, Warren and Dowell absolutely boom boom to me, non 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.200 locks are everybody else? Yes? But to me, Homer would 0:06:59.200 --> 0:06:59.800 be the third. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.800 I agree, and then Lou Nichols fourth. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.159 I think I think Caleb has no chance. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.599 I probably put Hide and Rek at five and Caleb 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.159 at six. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.760 Yeah, yeah, I always still don't think of Hide and 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.800 Rake as a running back. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.520 But that's where they've got him. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.280 So I think that has to probably be three. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:18.240 I think it's three. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.240 Yeah, okay, I think that's the way to do it. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.200 And again, we could kind of argue about how do 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.240 they consider Homer, But I think as of now, I 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:27.840 think it's three, and I. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.040 Think it would be protector. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:29.800 He is. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:30.920 Yeah, he's making the team. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.920 He's making the team. You need him on game day. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.200 I mean again, maybe you could. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.400 Some fun angling like you talked about by a. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.840 Couple of weeks and while you're trying to dangle Caleb 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.680 Johnson or something like that, or if Warren has a 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.360 bad knee, maybe you try that Homer trick so that 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.280 Nichols can be active for two weeks until he's ready 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.000 here you know, like that. Those are why the rules exist. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.640 But I think three true running backs and a full back. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:55.840 You aback written down. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.080 Oh you're right, I was forgetting something. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.640 You're right. Last, they have a fullback and they are 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.200 going to keep one, Yes they are. So I think 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.560 it's also safe to say tight ends are next on 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.520 your list. That enter next three. Three. Yeah, I think 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:11.559 Tanyan's that third. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.480 I think he is too, and I really don't know 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.920 who else is truly in the equation. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.000 I've heard some buzz about Bell. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.880 I was gonna say, Jaem Bell would be probably the 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.640 fourth one dimension, but it's it feels like Tanyan, especially 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.160 by that preseason game of course, is clearly that third guy, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.520 you know, one of our camp darlings of past JJ 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.000 Gallbreath no longer here. Yeah, I mean maybe again, maybe 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.600 Bell can still have something to say in this process. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:39.760 But they're going to keep three. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.720 They're going to keep three, and we don't even have 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.439 to know the names one hundred percent. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.880 Right, we know two? Three? Yeah, Tanyan certainly, I think. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.640 He's like home where he's a ninety percent. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.600 I would say that's I would say that that's about 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:52.120 right now. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.280 Another note, but it doesn't change our numbers. Maybe the 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.839 Browns or some bad team cuts an older running back 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:02.320 or tight end just to keep a young guy, and 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.760 you say I'll take him over Tanya and her Homer. Okay, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.360 but your numbers are still the same. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.840 Yes, that then that's that's the important kicker there. Wide 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.400 receivers interesting, Matt. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.040 Yes, we have a set number there that we have 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.559 to absolutely stand by. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:25.160 DK Metcalf Michael Pittman junior Bernard Roman Wilson I still 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:31.720 think is pretty harm and then we put Chronic in Wigian. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:39.000 Yeah, that's six. I wish this sounds wrong because it's 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.520 I have no problem with Wigen, but he's gonna make 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.960 the team. He's a FOURTHROND pick and he's your top returner. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.480 But I wish you could combine him and Roman Wilson, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.480 you know what I mean, Like I wish Roman Wilson 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.280 was already a great returner. So you could only keep 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.319 five because Weegen and Scronic have to be active on 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.719 game day, which means Roman won't be mm hmm. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.800 But unless they have six active on game. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.560 Day, I guess that's possible, possible, But I. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.840 Think they're gonna keep sick. I think they're gonna keep 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.559 six regardless. You are right, though, man yourself anywhere. Remember 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.320 we have an extra quarterback, right, That's where eventually somewhere 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.040 we're gonna have to have a rubber meets right. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.640 We'red fifty four here, so but we. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.560 Can always we can always walk this back too and 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.720 just have to. Yeah, I think we will. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.080 Some of the sounds easy until you do the math 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.920 and you come up with fifty five or fifty four. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.720 So what we have left for the offense here is 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:37.720 offensive line Matt Okay, Yes, the starting five as currently constituted. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.679 Called Cook the five I am. Yes, I'm gonna. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.400 Say Futanu, McCormick, Frasier, Anderson Cook. Those are five, MAXI 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:44.439 Hana is six. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.200 Hopefully that's not like an ir situation or that too 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:48.800 would right. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.000 I know, because because Mike McCarthy said not he doesn't 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.360 see Max playing this week against the Jets. He did 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.760 say that earlier today. We'll get to that more. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.120 Yeah, I'm sure we'll talk on I don't love. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.640 It starting five, Max six, Dunker. I mean we could 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:07.160 say Hoffman seven, Dunker eight, Broderick, Broderick nine. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.839 I think McCollum's a no. I think every other O 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.800 lineman's a no. So you have four tackles, yes, five 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.040 interior guys, Yes, two rookies. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.800 Could you see a scenario where they only keep eight 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.600 and no Broderick only if. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.559 He could trade him. That's kind of what I was 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.200 thinking with Roman. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.600 I think nine's the right number to put for now 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:30.400 for offensive lineman. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.360 Okay, super quick, Since we disfinished offense of the names 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.559 We basically didn't chisel in, but we wrote in pen 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.400 literally after you said, know the pen dudes you could 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.200 trade because I don't want to cut any of these 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.320 dudes we talked about. But if you give me a pick, okay, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:48.600 I need a roster spot. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.600 You know, I don't think there's any at wide receiver. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:55.960 I think Rudolph Broderick are your only tradeable assets. No 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.640 one's gonna give you anything for Roman right now. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.240 No one's gonna give anything for Roman. And you would 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.439 have other tradable assets, but they're not gonna be guys 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.440 that you would want to like, you know, at this 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.360 point trading Hoffman. At this point, you just signed him 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.320 and drafted those guys, drafted and signed those two. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.880 Yeah, I mean and Jones and Rudolph for both three agents. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.840 After the year, conceivably somebody might offer you a pick 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.000 that you would consider for one of those guys. I 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.160 don't think Romans in that mix because he's two years 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.559 removed out of college. I'd have to light up the preseason. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.360 Completely agree, completely agree. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.760 But I like Roman more and more, but he's kind 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.920 of messing us up because if he's not active on 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.439 game day. Between them and Bernard, and he's not a 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.360 he's not a return guy, and he's not a special teamer. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.320 He's been better, but like of all the dudes we've 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.600 penciled in here, I hate to say it, but he's 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.640 the one that's maybe the most useless, just in term 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.960 of constructing a game day. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.000 Even you could, you could, you could see a scenario 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.280 where Broderick would become more needed, but I would think 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:02.960 it would be one. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.040 Roderick, you're starting right tackle. Hey, I mean, I guess 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:07.400 you're right. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.560 I guess that's not I guess that's not inconceivable at 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.080 this point. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.559 I mean, as it stands here in the last day 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.280 of camp, he's gonna be taking snaps with the ones. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.320 I bet the next time they get together, or maybe 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.440 even be this. I mean, I don't think he's gonna 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.360 start in the game, but I bet he'll be quick 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:23.400 off the bench again. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.640 And we can see a lot of him on the 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.480 right side potentially in this preseason game Friday night against 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:28.200 that you think you can. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.480 Afford to move on from him, I mean, you have 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:31.240 to blow me away. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.920 So that's twenty six offensive rostered players. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.040 Matt including specially not including specially. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.080 So we're at twenty we're at twenty nine. Yeah, you're 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.280 twenty nine here already. Yes, and we have not even 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.040 discussed the defense. So let's take a break. Let's table 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.079 this for now. We're gonna flip the other side of 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.559 the football defense. And again, eventually, at some point we're 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.360 gonna have to get lighter in a position group maybe somewhere. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.640 Maybe we'll revisit something with the wide receivers or the 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.880 offensive line. But you have to stay with us to 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.160 find out if. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.440 He cutschronic man, I think he's pretty valuable. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.440 You'd have to really have some other guys emerge as 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:09.920 special teams deep right. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.160 And there to We'll talk about those guys next segment. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.360 You know where to get at us if you want 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.840 to get involved. Wes Yuler, Matt Williamson. I'm liking this 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.320 idea that Matt came up with to start the show today. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.840 Through it. 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We'll bring 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.760 you some of that audio at some point in the 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.480 show to yeah as well, he did the inser thing 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.360 that you and I were talking about a couple days ago. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:41.600 He throws messes on the end. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.040 He said, I just want to say everyone here at 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.520 Saint Vincent's has been a plus. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.760 Ah time. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.160 You know it's hilarious. Is then I went and I 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.960 was on NFL dot com and I was reading like 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.680 their training Camp round up and they quoted Mike McCarthy 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.080 in there, and then their quote they actually typed out 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.280 Saint Vincent's in the quote. I'm like, oh, yeah, I mean, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:01.760 that's what you gotta do because that's what he said. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.160 But I'll even text like going back to Saint Viz 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.920 to my parents and there's no or my family or whatever. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.240 Yeah, I get what you're saying, Saint these Yeah, but 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.880 it is Saint Vincent College here, correct. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.160 I was. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.440 I was just laughing at that. It was like Mike 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.360 McCarthy with the little the little drive inside joke of 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.680 putting an S on the end of everything that we 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.920 that we do in western Pennsylvania. And like I told you, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.320 I think that's a Pennsylvania thing. I think it is 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.240 in general because I've got relatives in the central part 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.960 of the state. My wife is from the eastern part 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.160 of the state, and they all they all do it 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.720 as well too. Matt. We are in the middle of 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.800 an exercise here where we are trying to predict the 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.480 Steelers fifty three man roster under the premise of the 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.760 team keeping four quarterbacks and where you might have to 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.680 pinch from. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.480 Somewhere else get crowded quick. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.720 We did the offense to start the show, twenty six 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.480 guys on offense that we had in our initial number, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.440 again subject to change here before. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.320 We close this exercise down have to make a cut. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.720 And then of course you assume three special teamers kicker, punter, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.119 and long snapper as always. That puts us at twenty 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:09.560 nine already, which would give us twenty four spots for. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.840 The for the defense entire defense. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.919 Which I guess, hey, when you look at the split offense, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.960 twenty six defense twenty four wouldn't be that far off. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:17.680 But let's see if. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.840 That's how the little leaning a little. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.040 See how that actually plays out here, Matt. Can we 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.880 start on the defensive line to again, and this does 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.399 not include ed Rusher, So this doesn't include DJ and 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.760 high Smith and you know herbig and on. We're just 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.680 the big people with their with their hands into trenches. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.640 The minimum is six, and they have kept six at 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.960 times over the years as a true three to four defense, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.879 and back then they didn't play as much nickel with 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.560 only two of these guys on the field either, So 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.800 six was not a crazy number, you know, back in 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:56.240 the day at Lobau times. I think seven is almost 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.040 mandatory though, considering the players available, and frankly, there's a 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.960 about eight players I don't want to get rid of. Yeah, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.399 and that's no way you can take keep eight. But 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.800 there's eight names I would hate to see Goup. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:14.240 Cam Hayward, Derek Harmon, Keanu Benton y a Black d Day. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.840 That's five locks. I think Rubio is as well too. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.119 I know a sixth round pick isn't guaranteed to make 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.159 the roster like a third or fourth round pick, but 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.159 everything that we've heard and seen and he is a 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.000 draft pick rookie, I think he's six. And then it 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.040