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Speaker 1: What did I Steve Wolks was just talking about a

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Speaker 1: text you sent to him, kind of laying out what

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Speaker 1: you see the the challenges are for the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Can you kind of Is that something you do often

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Speaker 2: as far as just diving in and and diagnosing the

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Speaker 2: upcoming opponent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do that a lot.

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Speaker 4: And uh, me and Chris because Ceric always have convos

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Speaker 4: about what I see and stuff and in the run

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Speaker 4: game in the past game. So you know, been building

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Speaker 4: a relationship with Wilson, decided, you know, to share with

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Speaker 4: him what I was seeing when I was studying them already.

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Speaker 5: What is that?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: At what point have you started to look ahead to Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 2: You know, at what point during camp did you start

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Speaker 2: really focusing in all week one?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Just like just after our last preseason game, really Uh

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Speaker 4: started studying watching some film. You know, they got a

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Speaker 4: couple of preseason games and games from last year, so

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Speaker 4: started studying after that.

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Speaker 1: Teammates reference this and uh maybe they did last year.

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Speaker 2: I just don't remember it. But how long have you

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Speaker 2: been blueprint?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Tap started that. Uh, Darryl Tap started calling me that

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Speaker 4: when he got here. So it's been a couple couple

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Speaker 4: years since uh twenty twenty think uh tapping, What does

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Speaker 4: that mean to you? It's just a nickname that uh

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Speaker 4: he has a nickname for everybody, So you know that's

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Speaker 4: that was his nickname for me and what he saw

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Speaker 4: out of.

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Speaker 2: Me since weird pretty good compliment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: You know that's my responsibility is to help everybody else

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Speaker 4: and lead, uh lead our group.

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Speaker 3: So yah.

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Speaker 6: So obviously ranked in the top of the league last

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Speaker 6: year in a lot of statistical categories, how do you

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Speaker 6: think it can be better this year? And in what

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Speaker 6: ways has Steve Wilks brought up a new energy, a

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Speaker 6: new twist? How was he maybe tweaking what you guys

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Speaker 6: have done well?

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Speaker 4: Last Year's last year and it's the start of a

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Speaker 4: new journey. We can't hang our hat on what we

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Speaker 4: did last year. So it's uh, it's a new team,

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Speaker 4: you know, a a lot of new guys and so

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Speaker 4: we're you know, we're gonna start our own, uh, our

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Speaker 4: own journey, and you know, we wanna get off to

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Speaker 4: a good start against Pittsburgh and you know, I think

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Speaker 4: we'll do that. You know, we gotta lock in and

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Speaker 4: and uh, you know, keep preparing, keep keep practicing and getting.

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Speaker 3: Ready for that.

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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a lot of fun, you know,

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Speaker 4: taking the field with his defense and uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: I think Will springs a great element to our defense,

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Speaker 4: especially on the back end, him being uh a back

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Speaker 4: end guy majority of his career, and how he's gonna

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Speaker 4: help our DBS and just his overall presence and uh

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Speaker 4: mentality of uh you know, how our defense would look.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 5: Eric, can you come across Naji Harris, but I'll just

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Speaker 5: you're gonna figure you guy.

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Speaker 4: Uh, Yeah, I met him a few times. We have

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Speaker 4: the same agency. Yeah, I met him a few times.

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Speaker 3: Let's breaks you.

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Speaker 5: About him, and I guess as more as more so

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Speaker 5: as a player, I guess.

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Speaker 4: He's an amazing player. You know, I've heard about Nagy

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Speaker 4: since he was in high school really when he got

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Speaker 4: the Alabama offer, I think, like as freshman and sophomore

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Speaker 3: So uh been hearing about him for uh a while.

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Speaker 3: He's a great back.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna be a challenge to uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: get him down, and you know, I think we'll be

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Speaker 4: up for the challenge though, But uh, he's he's a

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Speaker 4: he's an amazing player.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's what what point in your career did you

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Speaker 5: feel like comfortable sharing like here, here's what I was

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Speaker 5: seeing was with the coach and coaches.

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Speaker 4: It's been a while I was. Uh, I used to

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Speaker 4: share a lot of stuff with Salah. Me and Sala

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Speaker 4: had a good relationship. He used to share stuff with

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Speaker 4: Demko and then of course, of course, uh when Chris came,

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Speaker 4: you know, me and him have a great relationship as

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Speaker 4: well too.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think, uh Salad has always it.

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Speaker 4: It started with solid really, you know, once I got

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Speaker 4: comfortable in the scheme or what he was wanted us

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Speaker 4: to do, then I can uh study and and show

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Speaker 4: how teams are trying to attack us.

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Speaker 6: How did you just see in his demeanor with you guys,

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Speaker 6: and how was he different and even solid the MECA.

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Speaker 4: He's his own person you know, he has his own personality.

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Speaker 4: I don't really compare uh the three. You know, they're

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Speaker 4: all their own individuals. I think they all are amazing

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Speaker 4: coaches in their own right, and they just have a

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Speaker 4: you know, a different personality, and you know, they they

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Speaker 4: all believe in, you know, how football should be played

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Speaker 4: the right way, and that's playing you know, physical fast execution,

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Speaker 4: everybody beating on the same page. And you know that's

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Speaker 4: that's a that's a makeup of a great defense. He's

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Speaker 4: a cool He's a cool dude. You know he coming in.

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Speaker 4: I heard things about him from f uh former or

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Speaker 4: some of his former players friends of mine. You know that,

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Speaker 4: uh he would be a great uh great guy and

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Speaker 4: a great coach for us. And you know that's that's

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Speaker 4: what what I've seen from him. So, uh, he's he's

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Speaker 4: a good dude, and I look forward to continue to

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Speaker 4: get to know him.

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Speaker 1: Well, You've gone through the uh the off season and

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Speaker 1: the preseason after the way you had to fight through

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Speaker 1: the regular season last year, are y, do you.

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Speaker 2: Think you're primed for uh a a real a good year.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm a uh when healthy, I'm

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Speaker 4: all always play good. So you know, God went in

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Speaker 4: good health, had a great off season, great training camp,

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Speaker 4: and uh, you know, I'm ready to rock and roll.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time, but I as I recall

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Speaker 2: your probably your second NFL game was at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Seems like such a lot of time, A Gil, What

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Speaker 2: do you remember about that?

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Speaker 4: I remember a lot about the day it wasn't a

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Speaker 4: good day uh for us. But yeah, I remember I

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Speaker 4: haven't played there since my rookie year. Uh, Pittsburgh is

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be an amazing atmosphere. You know they have

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Speaker 4: great fans. Uh you know, really uh a football football city.

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Speaker 4: So I remember that that the atmosphere is gonna be

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Speaker 4: great and uh, yeah, some things I don't wanna talk

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Speaker 4: about in that game.

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Speaker 3: They can look at this, they can look at the

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Speaker 3: score and see what happened.

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Speaker 1: But it seems like the game just got out of control.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know they have big Ben and ab and all

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Speaker 4: those receivers and uh Le'Veon. I don't think Le'Veon played,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, they're they're a good team.

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Speaker 5: You're obviously not in an offensive but whose last year.

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Speaker 5: You've been around lots of quarterbacks during your career. When

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Speaker 5: you have a quarterback who obviously has the poison, pretty

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Speaker 5: showed it is calm in a very stressful situation. Does

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Speaker 5: that effect like the locker room you're kind of is

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Speaker 5: there a sense of like, Okay, this guy has something

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Speaker 4: Of course, you know, people look at the quarterback such

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Speaker 4: an important position. You know, people feed off of their

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Speaker 4: energy and how they're looking. If they're they're stressed, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna stress everybody else out. So having that calm

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Speaker 4: demeanor and you know, instilling that confidence in his teammates

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Speaker 4: is you know a great uh part about his his

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Speaker 4: game and his personality. So you know, credit to him,

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Speaker 4: you know, coming in and being that poison, you know,

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Speaker 4: being calm uh even when you know there's adversity and

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Speaker 4: there's things going on, and that helps, uh, you know

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Speaker 4: the rest of the team too.

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Speaker 5: What are tell tell signs when you're like, Okay, this

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Speaker 5: quarterback is not peace, not in peace, not calm.

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Speaker 3: I think it.

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Speaker 4: We're all human beings, so you could tell that with

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Speaker 4: with the how you guys all can tell how the

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Speaker 4: relationships and people you meet on the daily are stressed.

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Speaker 3: It's the same way there alright,