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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: What's going on Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 3: It's the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers

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Speaker 3: Audio Network. West Shouler and Matt Williamson with you here

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Speaker 3: on a Tuesday where Matt, we have certainly got some.

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Speaker 2: News of the day to get into.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Tomlin's press conference just happening a few hours ago,

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Speaker 3: and some moving and shaking with the Steelers roster pretty

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Speaker 3: significantly here, let's kind of dive into this first with

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin's injury updates.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and start there. Yeah, and I think we'll get

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Speaker 4: into the move.

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Speaker 3: That will kind of lead to the move that the

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Speaker 3: Steelers have made, the addition that the Steelers have made

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Speaker 3: here to the roster as well. So at his weekly

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Speaker 3: Tuesday press conference, Mike Tomlin for this upcoming week against Seattle,

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Speaker 3: the home opener of course, one o'clock at Akersher Stadium,

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Speaker 3: ruling out Derek Harmony, ruling out the Sean Elliott, Okay,

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Speaker 3: ruling out Malik Harrison. Okay, those three will be out

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Speaker 3: all oddly enough with knee injuries. So a similar type

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Speaker 3: of same church different pew f Yeah, yeah for those three.

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin said he is optimistic about Joey Porter Junior

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Speaker 3: and Nick Herbig good.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Herbig was fifty to fifty ish a week ago.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was a good move to keep him out.

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Speaker 4: Harrison played some outside linebacker in his stead. Sawyer played

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Speaker 4: quite a bit. Now you don't have the Harrison option,

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Speaker 4: and Harrison and Sawyer are much different players than Herbig.

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Speaker 4: And Seattle does want to run the ball a lot,

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Speaker 4: but not to the Jets level, I don't think. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Jets are a running team and did it very well.

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Speaker 4: Obviously Herbig's not a run stuffer, so give him another week.

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Speaker 4: Cool harmon, No shock there. I mean I think we

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Speaker 4: knew that. Maybe next week we'll start to have the

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Speaker 4: conversation of maybe or does he go to Ireland with us?

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Speaker 4: Or who knows? You know, we'll see the big news

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Speaker 4: to me, But not to discredit Harrison. I mean, Harrison's

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Speaker 4: a decent player. He's a bottom the roster guy. He's

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Speaker 4: a good special teamer. But Elliott was one I was

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Speaker 4: concerned about. Especially. I'll break the news. I'm sure people

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Speaker 4: already know when it comes across that they signed Jabrill Peppers.

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Speaker 4: I immediately thought, that's not the season ender for Elliott.

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Speaker 4: This is terrible. And then all the reports started to

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Speaker 4: come out, you know, since the Prince conference that no,

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Speaker 4: that's not the case. But did he I don't know

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Speaker 4: if you know the answer this or not. Did he

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Speaker 4: mention Harrison or more importantly, Elliott as into reserve guys

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Speaker 4: or are they like week the week I got the

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Speaker 4: oppression they were more weak the week, especially Elliott.

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Speaker 2: I did as well too.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he laid that out, you know,

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Speaker 3: directly the exact roster, the exact kind of spot that

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Speaker 3: they're in right now.

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Speaker 4: But according to that's not always his movie either say

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Speaker 4: well this guy's going to injury reserve. You just get

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Speaker 4: the notice in an hour or whatever.

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Speaker 3: To the the insiders, right, the Jordan Schultzes of the world,

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Speaker 3: the Adam Schefters of the world, Deshaun Elliott will miss

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Speaker 3: a couple weeks with an m c L sprain, all

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Speaker 3: things considered, not viewed as a serious injury. The goal

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Speaker 3: is to be back for Week four against the Vikings

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Speaker 3: in Ireland. That last part, according to Jordan Schultz, right, so.

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Speaker 4: That's probably avoids I are I IR is at least four, so.

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Speaker 2: Which which a void.

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Speaker 3: George Kittle just got placed on as well too. I

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Speaker 4: And that can change because like the day ago, Kittle's like,

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Speaker 2: You know, things can can always change rapidly.

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Speaker 4: But I think inflammation doesn't go down or I don't

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Speaker 4: know the.

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Speaker 3: Medical stuff in the grand scheme of things. Hey, like

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Speaker 3: all five of those names, those injured names that I

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Speaker 3: the show here are all on the defensive.

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Speaker 4: Side of the defenders.

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Speaker 2: So it's like there's already a little bit of attrition

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Speaker 4: Is the offense on Sundays.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they I think, to say the least, I think

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Speaker 3: that's fair to say. The good news is though, like

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, losing to Shaun Elliott for the year or

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Speaker 2: Relatively for those guys.

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Speaker 3: Just to be a couple of weeks, it still feels

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Speaker 3: like you dodged a bullet and it's still manageable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in the scheme of things, when you

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Speaker 4: compared to thirty one other teams, you'll take it. I

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Speaker 4: mean it's probably not number one, it's definitely not thirty two.

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Speaker 4: You know, like you'll take it at this stage of

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Speaker 4: the game. You know, Harmon went off and originally went,

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Speaker 4: oh that looked bad. Elliet went off immediately was rolled out,

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Speaker 4: Oh that looks bad, and usually it's bad. Well it

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Speaker 4: wasn't that bad. At least it's not great. The Porter

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Speaker 4: stuff doesn't shock me either. I was wanting to throw

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Speaker 4: that out there. I mean, you do get a lot

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Speaker 4: one dehydration. You know, heat haven't played a time, so

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Speaker 4: that one, as long as it wasn't like a tear

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Speaker 4: or anything, I wasn't overly concerned about. You talk Peppers.

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Speaker 3: Now, I was gonna say, that's where this all leads.

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Speaker 3: There was, as you mentioned, the news of the Steelers

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Speaker 3: signing Jabrill Peppers came across the timeline before Mike Tomlin's

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Speaker 3: press conference, before the Deshaun Elliott news came across the timeline.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so there was.

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Speaker 3: I had the same reaction like, we have a we

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Speaker 3: have a group chat that's like the.

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Speaker 2: Broadcast booth on game days.

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Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, so Rob King, Max Stark's Missy Matthews, myself

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Speaker 3: and dan Quinlan And right when that news of Jabrill

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Speaker 3: we would think gonna need Jabrill Peppers at least for

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Speaker 3: what's that scouting report look like? What do we expect

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Speaker 4: First off, I have no clue if there's any truth

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Speaker 4: go of New England for two reasons. First Off, he's

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Speaker 4: good bad so's Ramsay Show's Rogers, you know, I mean, like,

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Speaker 4: that's not unusual, and the Steelers are not shying a

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Speaker 4: But it's not like they're bad people or not competitive

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Speaker 4: really well, which is exactly what Pepper's does. That they're

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Speaker 4: more of a too high scheme now with Vrabel and

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Speaker 4: it different. And he's making money, so let's save some money.

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Speaker 4: We're rebuilding team. It's not going anywhere. He's not a

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Speaker 4: perfect scheme fit. Okay, we'll move on. And I was

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Speaker 4: shocked when happened. But I did some homework today and

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Speaker 4: that all adds up. No, But what I was thinking though,

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Speaker 4: is I've been praising the defensive depth for months now.

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Speaker 4: Really the Steelers defensive depth. Omar's done a great job

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Speaker 4: tons of defensive line, and he brought in extra outside linebacker.

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Speaker 4: If Eccles is your fourth corner, wow, that's great. But

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Speaker 4: safety was the one spot where I didn't think it

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Speaker 4: of like Chuck Clark's okay, got you out of the

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Speaker 4: game yesterday, But he's on someone I'm begging to play

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Speaker 4: Big Nickel with when everyone's healthy with three safeties on

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Speaker 3: And you've been talking about this since the Menka trade.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, this is something you brought.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so you mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: If you sign a vested veteran after week one, he's

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Speaker 4: not guaranteed anything. So I'm just curious this deal might

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Speaker 4: have been in the works last week before the injury.

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Speaker 4: Just curious, you know, like he would have been useful

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Speaker 4: if Elliott was one thousand percent, because I think he's

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Speaker 4: better than Clark and will be used in a similar manner.

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Speaker 4: Now here's my Sky report on him. I mean, he

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Speaker 4: was a phenomenal college player. Oh, people probably remember.

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Speaker 3: That he was like his high school highlight tape and

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Speaker 3: coming out of his senior year of high school, he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like Charles Woodson comparisons at Michigan, Right.

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Speaker 3: He had like a Reggie Bush type highlight tape as

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Speaker 3: a safety, defensive back, do it all stud on his

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Speaker 4: Yes, and ended up high in the Heisman balloting. Finish.

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Speaker 4: I think he played a lot of offense for Michigan

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Speaker 4: from what I remember too, because I don't know it's

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Speaker 4: He hit the ball in his hand some.

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Speaker 3: It was the year that Lamar won the Heisman Trophy.

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Speaker 4: Ended up like fourth or fifth in the the balloting.

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Speaker 4: I think you said again, behind Baker and the guys

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Speaker 3: Watson, DeShawn Watson, Baker, Mayfield, Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 4: Not bad, not bad at all, quarterbacks, et cetera. So

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Speaker 4: he's a high pick. He's had a really good career.

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Speaker 4: We don't need to go his whole history, but the

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Speaker 4: recent tape of him is still really good. I don't

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Speaker 4: think he's declining at all. I think he's a good,

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Speaker 4: not great athlete. That's why I say the further away

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Speaker 4: from the ball has changed directions. Okay, he's a lot

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Speaker 4: more linear, fast in a straight line, more of a

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Speaker 4: downhill player. If he's a two high guy, you want

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Speaker 4: him coming towards the line of scrimmage more than flipping

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Speaker 4: his hips and going backwards. But still he's better than

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Speaker 4: Chuck Clark at those things, so you improved that aspect

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Speaker 4: of it. He's more strong than free, better in your

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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. But he's really versatile, and if you

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Speaker 4: look at his snaps over his career, he's played slot,

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Speaker 4: he's played linebacker, he's played safety, he's played free, he's

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Speaker 4: played too high. And I wouldn't say he's awesome at

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Speaker 4: any of them, you know, but he's not deficient in

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Speaker 4: any I mean, I think he's quite good in all

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Speaker 4: exceptional tackler, like rare tackler, rarely, rarely, rarely misses a tackle,

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Speaker 4: and when he gets there, he's a thumper with the

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Speaker 4: expression yes, yes he can blitz. I think he's a

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Speaker 4: better football player than Chuck Clark. And when everybody's healthy,

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Speaker 4: I think you might start thinking about some big nickel stuff.

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Speaker 4: Assuming he fills in for Elliott and you like what

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Speaker 4: and again they may have jumped on him a week ago,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: That is an interesting point from you that maybe this

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Speaker 3: When we return on the other side, he was down

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Speaker 1: Alright, dude, your tunes about drive on your twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven home of the black and Goal. Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Back on the drive here on a Tuesday, into the

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Speaker 2: Matt.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited about this one. Longtime Steelers Beat reporter has

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Speaker 3: of course you know there's a lot of you mount

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but now we're getting some more Mars planets in

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Speaker 5: You get like Kurt Angling here to say, Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: So, dude, you guys been a lot of fun to

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Speaker 3: a great job. Chris, let's get right into it. We

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Speaker 5: the season, So it a lot less flexibility. You had

436
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,359
Speaker 5: seven guys and that was it, and you would be

437
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 5: really judicious with how you've brought in guys or or

438
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:11,600
Speaker 5: or you know, you couldn't put him on the practice

439
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,680
Speaker 5: squadf they're veterans. Things like that. Now there's a lot

440
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,480
Speaker 5: more maneuverability and things you can do, and especially in

441
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 5: the short term with two practice squad call ups. If

442
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 5: you had to get a guy at a certain position,

443
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,520
Speaker 5: they could do it. But I just get the sense

444
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,080
Speaker 5: it's probably gonna be Harrison to I are.

445
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 4: I thought out the way you might be in trouble,

446
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,159
Speaker 4: and I crushed his name. I apologize a d.

447
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Speaker 5: Lineman's funny you say that, because I was wonder I

448
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,600
Speaker 5: about me to say his name, and I'm like a

449
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 5: writer and I have to type it, so I just say, oh, that's.

450
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Speaker 4: Very good radio.

451
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Speaker 5: I'm like, I'll be like a quality and oh.

452
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I crushed every chance I get. Yeah, yeah, I

453
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 4: thought he might be in.

454
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, he got and he was the scratch. So I

455
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 5: mean he would be obvious, an obvious candidate if you did,

456
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 5: especially you know, as Harmon creeps closer and closer back

457
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Speaker 5: to availability.

458
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Speaker 3: Chris uh, Derek Harmon. You mentioned him there, Let's let's

459
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Speaker 3: talk about him for a minute, Mike Tomlin ruling him out.

460
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Speaker 3: But do you get a sense of optimism that there's

461
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Speaker 3: a real chance, you know, they'll they'll try and get

462
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,400
Speaker 3: him ramped up a little bit this week and then

463
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Speaker 3: hopefully kind of green light and good to go for

464
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Speaker 3: next week.

465
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that. I think that goes a little

466
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Speaker 5: bit more. I was almost I thought he might do

467
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 5: the old leave the light on this week, and even

468
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 5: though it wasn't really really on, or the door wasn't

469
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 5: the door might have been a jar and name, but

470
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 5: just the little tiny crack or you had to really

471
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Speaker 5: kind of pry it open. So I was I was

472
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Speaker 5: sort of surprised he didn't even leave that that little

473
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Speaker 5: out for it this week. So but the fact that

474
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Speaker 5: he is trending that way in heck, it's like again

475
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Speaker 5: it goes back to the they didn't put him on

476
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 5: IR so they fully expected he had a good chance

477
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Speaker 5: to be back within the first four games, and this

478
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Speaker 5: would be two games then, So yeah, if they're they're

479
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Speaker 5: able to see, you know, I would I certainly wouldn't

480
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Speaker 5: rule him out at all for for week three. And

481
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Speaker 5: I think that was probably if you look at sort

482
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Speaker 5: of the timeline anyway from what you heard from that

483
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Speaker 5: that first game, and that would be you know, in

484
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Speaker 5: terms of weeks, that would be the four weeks out

485
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Speaker 5: from that, and that's kind of what the initial reports

486
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Speaker 5: were on that, So that would seem to be a

487
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 5: good target at least for that what that Patriots game.

488
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Speaker 4: Chris maybe this is simplifying things. It's only one games

489
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Speaker 4: of the tiny sample size, but the more you study it,

490
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Speaker 4: it sure looks like Jalen Warren took the nause Harris

491
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Speaker 4: role and Gainwell took the Warren role. Do you think

492
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Speaker 4: that's accurate? Do you think that's did to shock you?

493
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Speaker 4: What do you take of the running back rotation and

494
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 4: usage at this point?

495
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I was trying to tell everybody last

496
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Speaker 5: week that you'll be seeing Gainwell a lot more than

497
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 5: you probably think. But he played a lot more than

498
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Speaker 5: I thought, even with my expectations that he would play.

499
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 5: I was surprised at how much he was out there,

500
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 5: and it is kind of you know, it's I get,

501
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 5: of course, and Tomlin kind of gushed about game all

502
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Speaker 5: today about he's coming. I'm obviously get the big stussion

503
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 5: teams play. And he wasn't as if he was super

504
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 5: super productive or anything on Sunday and his debut, but

505
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 5: he has that skill set and I thought it was

506
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 5: a sneaky, little good signing there. They did for very

507
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 5: little money and very little term there to bring a

508
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 5: guy it's been a playmaker like that. In the question

509
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 5: I always had though, was that if he's your perfect

510
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 5: third nine back. I mean that was Warren's role essentially,

511
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 5: or at least least the Lion's share of Warren's role

512
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 5: in the pass. It's almost they're not the same player

513
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 5: by any means at all, but there is certainly some

514
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 5: overlap there in terms of how they'd be used. And

515
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 5: I don't know if Warren is the best. I don't

516
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 5: know if the Steelers thought or hoped. I'm sure there

517
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 5: was a hope that maybe Caleb Johnson would just knock

518
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 5: their socks Offter and Camp in the preseason and maybe

519
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 5: just be able to be the former Nogy. Then you

520
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 5: have maybe too many guys, but that's a you know,

521
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 5: the good problem to have rather than the other way around.

522
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 5: So but you're right, I hadn't thought of it in

523
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Speaker 5: the way you put it, but that really seems to

524
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Speaker 5: be it's, you know, it's almost roughly. It wasn't exactly

525
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 5: fifty fifty split, which is pretty much what they had

526
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Speaker 5: the last two seasons when they were together, the fifty

527
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 5: to fifty split, and if you go by roll and everything,

528
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 5: although there was it seemed to be well, I mean,

529
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Speaker 5: you're right, Warren, did you know the whole the full

530
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 5: series thing first and second down. Yeah, so it was

531
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 5: a lot like that, Yeah, in past years, like what

532
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 5: they did. It's kind of funny then, how Warren reversed

533
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 5: his roles from what he held before.

534
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Speaker 4: And looking back on it, I didn't realize at the time.

535
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 4: I'm talking a little bit up the game script too,

536
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 4: like say a twenty point lead that put Bettie in

537
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 4: there and close the guy out, you know what I mean,

538
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 4: And they wouldn't see as much gain well as a shootout.

539
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 4: They were throwing a high percentage of time short, quick

540
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Speaker 4: passing game. Maybe that was a little more of a

541
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Speaker 4: gainwell friendly script too.

542
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, and gainwell always is part of And I think

543
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 5: I don't know what you guys think, but I think

544
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Speaker 5: I don't know production wise he had. Of course he

545
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 5: had the real long catch, a couple of long catches

546
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Speaker 5: in games in the past, but I don't know what

547
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 5: the numbers exactly were, but I thought maybe it was

548
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 5: in terms of the IYE tests, in terms of the

549
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 5: varied routes and the catches and the plays he made.

550
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 5: Colvin Austin maybe had his best game. And what I'm

551
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 5: getting at with that is that that gain well as

552
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 5: much as he runs routes and almost plays as like

553
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 5: a slot receiver, an extra wide receiver, and people talk

554
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 5: a lot about the extra tight ends and how that

555
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 5: can maybe cover up or mask the knee for depth

556
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 5: at wide receiver, and we certainly saw that in week

557
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 5: one with the We all expected to see Johnny Smith

558
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 5: a lot, and of course Briar and Myth a lot,

559
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 5: and we probably didn't see Darna watching it as much

560
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 5: as most of us thought for sure, But seeing gain

561
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 5: Well and the route team run and everything almost kind

562
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 5: of again serves as it's kind of that, you know,

563
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 5: number two, number three receiver. However you want to put

564
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 5: it in terms of the in terms of the eligibles

565
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 5: that are out there in any given play.

566
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Speaker 3: Chris Adamski with us here on the Drive. He is

567
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Speaker 3: part of the new Steelers Blitz with Tom op from

568
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Speaker 3: in here on the Steelers Audio Network. He also covers

569
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 3: the Steelers for the Trip a Damski. One guy that

570
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: we didn't see much of was Roman Wilson. Just ten snaps,

571
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 3: zero targets. Were you surprised by his usage? Again, like

572
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Speaker 3: so much of this is, it's one game, It's a

573
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 3: small sample size. We're gonna get more data points. But

574
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Speaker 3: were you surprised in that first data point of this

575
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Speaker 3: season kind of being such such a small sample, such

576
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Speaker 3: a small spin for Roman Wilson.

577
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably would have you asked me last week,

578
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 5: it would have been more than that, for sure. I

579
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 5: didn't think he'd get any more, of course than Austin

580
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 5: or anything like that. And I mean Scotty Miller got

581
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 5: a lot of play over the preseason there, of course,

582
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 5: and he was kind of the hot guy, and I thought,

583
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 5: maybe it's a little more of him even But but yeah,

584
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 5: there were no I think other the Chronic of course,

585
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 5: was a big play. The one target is Chronic. I

586
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: don't think there were any targets even to a wide

587
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 5: receiver other than Austin and Metcalf. You know, I got

588
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 5: the impression, it's crazy. I've gone up and down with

589
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 5: Roman Wilson so many times now, and even I feel

590
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 5: like the Steelers have too. Like I felt a sense

591
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 5: that they were kind of, you know, a little bit

592
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 5: down on him last year in terms of the faith here,

593
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 5: the healthy trash and even he did play, he played

594
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 5: five snaps. Sometimes I know he's injured and that kind

595
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 5: of thing, but I always we make the comparison of

596
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 5: then s apples the oranges in higher pedigree, different position.

597
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 5: I get all that, but fa a Tondo hardly practiced either,

598
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 5: and as soon as they had a chance, they put

599
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 5: him in there immediately to be you know, the play,

600
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 5: and they need to do that with Roman Wilson and

601
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 5: but so I didn't know. I thought early in camp

602
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 5: he wasn't that he wouldn't popping that much. And then

603
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 5: he started to get better in the middle of camp.

604
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 5: And then I really kind of opened my eyes when

605
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 5: it seemed like Aaron Rodgers went out of his way

606
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 5: to praise him and talk about he could be you

607
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 5: know what, he's called him something special in this league

608
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 5: he could turn into. And then I started to get

609
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,719
Speaker 5: convinced that we're gonna see a lot more of Rum

610
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 5: and Wilson, but a lot of it could be game

611
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 5: played specific and things like that. We'll see, like I said,

612
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 5: with all the game well, and you know, you're gonna

613
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 5: see the tight ends and as good as Austin was,

614
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 5: you know, maybe there be other games and other you know, situations,

615
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 5: we'll see how it flowed. Maybe he does play a

616
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 5: little more of the third wide receiver. But yeah, I

617
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 5: would have thought a little more than we saw from him. Certainly,

618
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 5: I thought that, you know.

619
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Speaker 4: A targeter too, at least so one guy that obviously

620
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna candy code it. But Roder Jones

621
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 4: had a really rough day on Sunday, and I thought

622
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 4: the rest of the line held pretty well against a

623
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 4: good front, and there were some bright spots from all

624
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 4: of them, but Jones was very worrisome. Are you getting

625
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 4: the impression at you know, at practice around the organization

626
00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: that there's a losing trust situation or considering any moves

627
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 4: or they what do you what do you think? How

628
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 4: do you think they feel about Jones?

629
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what's about this way and it's nothing

630
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 5: to do with them or whatever. But I made sure

631
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 5: late in the fourth quarter, or you know, once we

632
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 5: got late in that in the second half, that I

633
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 5: was looking through drugs on the field every time. I

634
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 5: wouldn't have been blown away at seven if Calvin Anderson

635
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 5: was running up. And now maybe that's just me, like

636
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 5: I said, that's not based off of you know, infra

637
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 5: or anything, but I thought that was of course, that

638
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 5: would have been sort of almost I don't say seismic,

639
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 5: but that would have. I think that the the ramifications

640
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 5: of that, when you have your first round picked, you

641
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 5: still believe. And it was one gay you can't lie.

642
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 5: I mean you can't look at the stats and the

643
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 5: numbers and the sacks and I know that on every

644
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 5: sack is simple to assign to somebody, but I mean it, yeah,

645
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 5: you kind of have to look at that, and it

646
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 5: is it's his first start at left tackle, so you know,

647
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 5: if that happens in every tackle, that happens once, you know,

648
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 5: in week eleven and everything, he's been okay than that, okay,

649
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 5: you know you kind of look past and sais this

650
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 5: is a bad game and whatever. But yeah, you know,

651
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 5: if if you're doing in week one, it's certainly not encouraging.

652
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Speaker 5: But you know that the Steelers, I mean, they gave

653
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Speaker 5: Kylevin Anderson what a two year deal, so I guess

654
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 5: that was the faith they have him to be the

655
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 5: swing tackle. But they didn't go out and get you know,

656
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 5: a more you know, like they did kind of with

657
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 5: Herbig a couple of years ago. Guy who has started

658
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 5: and can started, you know, kind of a middle range salary.

659
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 5: There's kind of insurance, and I took that is kind

660
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 5: of faith they had in Broderick Jones. So he still

661
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 5: has a leash. Of course, he still is alterra talented

662
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 5: and everything. But but yeah, you know, obviously you can't

663
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 5: have too many more games in a row where where

664
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Speaker 5: you know you're you're probably charge of three sacks.

665
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Speaker 3: Chris Adamski last one I've got for you, partner. Uh,

666
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 3: maybe we buried the lead a little bit because we're

667
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 3: about fourteen minutes into this segment and we didn't ask

668
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 3: here talk to you about the quarterback Aaron Rodgers and

669
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Speaker 3: what we saw from the four time MVP, the future

670
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, the Super Bowl champion. Listen again, one week,

671
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 3: one data point. I don't think we all expect him

672
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 3: to throw for four touchdowns every single Sunday, certain, but

673
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 3: for his first in stadium action with the Steelers, his

674
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Speaker 3: first in stadium action with d K and Calvin Austin Man,

675
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Speaker 3: I thought that's a pretty good starting point.

676
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Speaker 5: Yeah it wasn't. Listen, he was there on the road.

677
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 5: You're playing. Whatever you thing about the Jets overall, whether

678
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 5: it be I don't think there'll be any any worse

679
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 5: than you know, an average defense. It's not a bad

680
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 5: defense for short and you know, they got a good

681
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 5: front and things. There wasn't much of a running game

682
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 5: for them from the Steelers, so a lot was and

683
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 5: you're you're playing from behind a lot of that game.

684
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 5: He's back in some of that game, at least you're

685
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 5: playing from behind the end, certainly in the fourth quarter.

686
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 5: And and on that point, that's what if you're signing

687
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Speaker 5: a forty one year old former four time MVP of

688
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Speaker 5: the league, you're signing him for those drives in the

689
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 5: fourth quarter, right, I mean, that's what No matter what

690
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 5: he is, you know, mobility wise, this and that, whatever,

691
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 5: that's what you're feeling most comfortable about is having him

692
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 5: there for the you know, for those situations. And and

693
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Speaker 5: you know, Week one is his debut with the Steelers.

694
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 5: It came through, you got just barely enough of that

695
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 5: second drive to get into getting the balls well range.

696
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 5: But it got the job done and they won the game.

697
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 5: And I've always since there's a you know, a palpable

698
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 5: sort of trust and reverence. Might be, I don't know

699
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 5: if that's a strong reboard or not, but amongst these guys,

700
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 5: I mean, all these teammates, they were, you know, to

701
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 5: varying degrees, they were kids watching Aaron Rodgers win super Bowls, right,

702
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean that most of the roster would

703
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 5: have been what I mean, if you average age of

704
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 5: twenty seven. They won the Super Bowl fifteen years ago,

705
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 5: so he was what they were a goot twelve years old.

706
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 5: So there is kind of that, you know, the cachet

707
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 5: that he has, And I think you saw that in

708
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 5: terms of the offense at times, you know, even though

709
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 5: you know whatever the offense was doing, I never felt

710
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 5: like it was I felt organized and felt everything felt

711
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 5: it was on schedule. Of those kinds of things generally speaking.

712
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 5: So I think you saw the presence of having a

713
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Speaker 5: guy like him as your quarterback.

714
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Speaker 2: Chris Adamski.

715
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Speaker 3: You could check out his work in the trib Make

716
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 3: sure you are listening to him and our buddy Tom

717
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 3: Opperman at noon right here on Steelers Nation Radio on

718
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network. Chris, great stuff man, Looking forward

719
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 3: to having you a part of the s and our

720
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 3: family and chatting with you all year. Thanks for the

721
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 3: time he.

722
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 5: Went to talk to you, guys.

723
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Speaker 2: Care guys there he is.

724
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: Chris Adansky, good stuff, good start. Glad to have him

725
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 3: in the fold. You were joking before we went on

726
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 3: air like we need you know, we need more. We

727
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 3: need more reporters. We need more boots on the ground

728
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 3: guys here and not just all of us who yap

729
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 3: from the from the the comforts of our studios. So yeah,

730
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: good stuff from him and looking forward to chatting with him,

731
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: I think probably just about every single Tuesday here on

732
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Speaker 3: the show. We are also from a new guest in

733
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 3: Chris Adanski. Yeah, to a new segment idea that I

734
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 3: have for you on the other side, Matt, a little

735
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: Tuesday rewind.

736
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 4: Know what that means bringing on this is?

737
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Speaker 2: Would you like to know now? Or should I just

738
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: lay it on you at the start? The next time,

739
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: I just.

740
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: Drop it right on me.

741
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 3: I'll drop it on you. When we returned from commercial bread.

742
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 4: Read balloon that's aelin reference.

743
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 2: Yes, I know that.

744
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 3: I know that one that's gonna go over, that's gonna

745
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: go over like a led Zeppelin.

746
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: I do know that one. I can't believe I messed

747
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: up up in through the Outdoor.

748
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna let you live that one down either.

749
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 3: That's all right, three hundred and sixty five days of penance,

750
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 3: I'll make up for it. It's the drive on Steelers

751
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 3: days you're radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

752
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: Your tune's about Drive on your twenty four to seven

753
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

754
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: Back on the Drive here on a Tuesday afternoon, and

755
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 3: we will have a new guest on Tuesday afternoons, Chris

756
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 3: Adanski that we just introduced to you all there. Yeah, awesome,

757
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 3: happy to happy to have him in the fold here

758
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: with our S and R family. And not just because

759
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 3: he's a fellow Mars High School graduate and I'm sick

760
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 3: and tired of are you, oh you lebo guys around

761
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 3: here just doing your thing all the time. I also

762
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 3: would like to do a thing with you on Tuesdays.

763
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 4: He's a show with the Libo guy. Now I think

764
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 4: about it, so connection.

765
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 3: I was just going to say, two of the regular

766
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 3: programs one one Libo Grad and one Mars gradamelor same

767
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: color scheme. Maybe that's why we all, maybe that's why

768
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 3: we all get along so well. We are the fighting planets.

769
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: That's fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, don't you for don't you

770
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: forget it? Another thing that I would like to do

771
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 3: on Tuesdays, And we might have to adjust this a

772
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 3: little bit obviously. When the Steelers play Monday night, Thursday

773
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 3: night football or anything like that, but a Tuesday rewind.

774
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 3: So obviously I know that you have watched the game again,

775
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 3: you have dug more into the numbers again. Since we

776
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 3: do kind of our initial reaction game recaps on Mondays,

777
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 3: I just to kind of peel back the curtain for

778
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: you and for our listeners. Monday Night's a big night

779
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 3: for me in terms of rewatch stuff because every and

780
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 3: this too. I think I've mentioned this, but I'm the

781
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 3: Steelers game day engineer, right, so I'm first one in

782
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,959
Speaker 3: the booth, last one out of there. I'm in charge

783
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 3: of our entire operations in the broadcast booth, all the

784
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 3: set up, all the tear down, the wireless microphones on

785
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 3: the sidelines, everything with everything.

786
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 2: With Rob and starts.

787
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we got to go on the sidelines and

788
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 3: test the microphones before the games, all all that kind

789
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 3: of stuff production. I mean, we get there about four

790
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 3: and a half five hours early before kickoff, just to

791
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: give you an idea of how long everything takes. With that,

792
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 3: I am obviously in the broadcast booth, sitting right behind

793
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 3: Max and and Rob and I have and I have

794
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 3: a great view of the game. But there's also a

795
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 3: lot of things that happened that you know, when I'm

796
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: there in the broadcast booth doing my job, I might miss.

797
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 4: Oh, I would think, or if something happens wrong.

798
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 3: If something happened, you know, if Missy's having an issue

799
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 3: with her microphone on the sideline and I have to

800
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 3: step away for five minutes, which happens from time to time.

801
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 2: What's studying the plays, whatever made the case may be.

802
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 3: And I'm obviously not watching all the other games that

803
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 3: go on at that time, you know, if we're on.

804
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: The road, like I assume there's a TV in the booth.

805
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 3: There is, but it's mostly it's on Steelers, you know,

806
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 3: because because Max is looking for replays, Rob's looking for

807
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 3: replays all that kind of stuff, and you know, and

808
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 3: then we get for the away games. We go and

809
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: we get on a flight and we're in the air

810
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 3: and so you know, I can I can miss some

811
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 3: action there.

812
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 2: So Monday's a big rewatch night for me. I like

813
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 2: to watch a lot of.

814
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 3: The condensed games from stuff from stuff that I missed,

815
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 3: and I like to rewatch the Steelers game in its entirety,

816
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 3: just because again making sure I'm remembering everything.

817
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 2: Correctly.

818
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 3: Well, wait, were the Steelers down six or were they

819
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 3: down nine in the second quarter?

820
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: Well, what exactly.

821
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 4: You're saying similar situational stuff or.

822
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 3: What exactly was the down and distance when they took

823
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: a shot to Calvin Austin at the end instead of

824
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 3: maybe just trying to get a couple extra.

825
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: Yards or Chris Boswell.

826
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all.

827
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: Different kinds of things like that.

828
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Speaker 3: We'll call it a Tuesday rewind, maybe a you know,

829
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 3: a kind of look back at some things that we

830
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: want to talk about from the game that we didn't

831
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 3: talk about in our initial game recap.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that makes right, Yeah, super quick. You mentioned that

833
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 4: Austin shot. I don't think we brought that up even yet.

834
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: That was one of the things that I wanted to

835
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 2: talk to you about, if you want to go there.

836
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 4: I just thought that it's noteworthy. I mean, we we

837
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 4: know what Tomlin's formula has been since Ben's elbow injury

838
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 4: in terms of managing the quarterback. How many time we've

839
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 4: cited it that when they throw a pick, they lose.

840
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 4: When they do, don't they do you know whatever. I'm

841
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 4: not sure if that shot would he got taken last

842
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 4: year or definitely the year before or the year before

843
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 4: or the year before, And frankly, I'm not sure Rogers

844
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 4: even asking anybody you know he's taking if he sees

845
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 4: one on one in a matchup, he likes him. I mean,

846
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 4: they didn't one thing that was also true side note,

847
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 4: they didn't throw a sauce at all. I mean, the

848
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 4: rest of that secondary is pretty vulnerable, and I think

849
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 4: there was only one or two balls even thrown. Sauces

850
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 4: way smart and smart, and he followed DK a lot,

851
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 4: but three of the catches DK got were the three

852
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 4: snaps the gardener wasn't on him, You like, Roger's like,

853
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 4: I'm not throwing at sauce. We got other options I

854
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 4: like better. But if DK's not on sauce, I'm throwing him. Yeah.

855
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 4: Every time, Yeah, I mean it was almost every time,

856
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 4: like you and.

857
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: I would joke during training camp. It was like almost intentional.

858
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 3: At the first rep of team period was always Aaron

859
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 3: Rodgers throwing the DK metcalf.

860
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 4: He didn't run any routes with other quarterbacks.

861
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 3: Every time during training ramime. Yeah, that felt a little

862
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 3: of the same church, different pew. On Sunday it did,

863
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 3: where like every time sauce is not lined up on DK.

864
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 3: That's Aaron's first read and the majority of time he's

865
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: going there.

866
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Speaker 4: And that doesn't mean he couldn't beat Gardner. I mean,

867
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Speaker 4: I think that's a battle, but the other safeties and

868
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Speaker 4: corners were pretty vulnerable. That that's where they're going with football, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, totally totally, and so that you know what, it's

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Speaker 3: funny because I didn't really that wasn't even in my

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Speaker 3: thought process. But I think that's a brilliant call by you.

872
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Speaker 3: Like my thought process was kind of, hey, they believe

873
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Speaker 3: in Calvin Austin. They had an opportunity to take a

874
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Speaker 3: one on one shot with him. It was a fifty

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Speaker 3: to fifty. I didn't think it was an egregious man

876
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Speaker 3: by not calling the pass interference, but I wouldn't bemembe.

877
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Speaker 3: Fifty to fifty could have gone either way. I was

878
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Speaker 3: just looking at it as like, hey, you get three,

879
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Speaker 3: you call your three, four, five, six yard gotta have

880
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Speaker 3: it play there. And it turns a sixty yarder into

881
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Speaker 3: a fifty four yarder for Chris Boswell.

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Speaker 4: Which is usually how they've done it. Then make his

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Speaker 4: life a little easier.

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Speaker 3: But your thought process of like a not when Aaron

885
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Speaker 3: Rodgers is out there and that's see an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: That is a that is a great show.

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Speaker 3: And to kind of piggyback off of that, Matt, the

888
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Speaker 3: first note that I had in my Tuesday rewatch way

889
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Speaker 3: more explosive pass plays.

890
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Speaker 4: Than we've seen oh times one thousand.

891
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 3: I know there was still the lack of that in

892
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 3: the run game, right, I believe Jalen Warren nine yard

893
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 3: carry I want to say, was the Steelers longest carry,

894
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 3: longest in rushing run ten plus and it's fifty plus

895
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 3: pass game, right, Yeah.

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00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 4: That's how that's the official next Gen three or four.

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00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: The Steelers had a fifteen plus.

898
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Speaker 4: Maybe had more I wouldn't say, maybe even.

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Speaker 3: Six, okay, which is which is a good number and

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Speaker 3: something that we haven't seen a ton of in the

901
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Speaker 3: last few post Ben years.

902
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 4: And they came about them in a much different way.

903
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Speaker 4: So we have seen explosive passing, you know, Wilson deep ball,

904
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Speaker 4: moonshots down the sidelines, throwing the ball far and somebody

905
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Speaker 4: pickings normally going up and get it down the field,

906
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Speaker 4: running go routes. You know, it is to remember the

907
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Speaker 4: explosive play rate stuff we did. They ended up being

908
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Speaker 4: positive part of it's because no one ever throws deep

909
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 4: on the Steelers. I mean, so they didn't give up

910
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 4: a lot of explosives either, but their explosives came almost

911
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 4: all off play action, which I tweeted some stuff today

912
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Speaker 4: about Rogers. I mean, he's never been a big play

913
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Speaker 4: action guy, but they've obviously bought in on play action.

914
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Speaker 4: Makes my life easier, even more rollouts.

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Speaker 2: That's the Senate observation I have wrote down for you.

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Speaker 3: By the way, wund No, just that I love it

917
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Speaker 3: when a play comes together way more explosive pass plays,

918
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Speaker 3: way more play action. Those are my first two notes

919
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 3: from my Tuesday rewind.

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Speaker 4: But the explosive play passes were not forty yards downfield,

921
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,479
Speaker 4: dk running past somebody or pickings. In fact, he only

922
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Speaker 4: threw one pass over twenty yards down the field, and

923
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Speaker 4: it was twenty one you know, like if you look

924
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 4: at his chart, there aren't any long balls.

925
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Speaker 2: I mean there's a couple of twenty ish yards ors

926
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Speaker 2: o Pepper's.

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Speaker 4: That neighborhood about it, right right right, And even like

928
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Speaker 4: Austin touchdown was into the end zone, but it was

929
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Speaker 4: from the nineteen yard lines, so people fought me. Side note,

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Speaker 4: I made a lot of enemies on Twitter yesterday because

931
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 4: I put down basically I posted his chart earlier, but

932
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Speaker 4: I also just wrote his average depth of the target

933
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Speaker 4: was very low, the ball came out of his hands

934
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Speaker 4: very quick, and I cited all the numbers and he

935
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Speaker 4: didn't attend I wrote down he didn't attempt to pass

936
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Speaker 4: over twenty yards. Well, I didn't make that stuff up.

937
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Speaker 4: I cut and pasted it from next Gen Stats or

938
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Speaker 4: someone the charts this stuff, and everyone's why you hating.

939
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Speaker 4: I didn't mean this as a negative. If all he

940
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Speaker 4: did was put putting numbers down, if he had been

941
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Speaker 4: holding the ball for four seconds, throwing the ball forty

942
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Speaker 4: yards on field, he would have got destroyed with that protection. Yet,

943
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Speaker 4: I mean that was good quarterbacking. That was lit Land, right.

944
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Speaker 4: I mean that doesn't diminish from what he did, you know,

945
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Speaker 4: at all. I mean threw a lot of balls behind

946
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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage too, because they couldn't run the ball.

947
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Speaker 2: You.

948
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Speaker 3: I think one of the things that a quarterback like

949
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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers does, and to his credit, when things were

950
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Speaker 3: going good for the first handful of starts last year,

951
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Speaker 3: I thought we saw some of this from Russell Wilson

952
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Speaker 3: as well too.

953
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Speaker 2: They're gonna take what the defense gives you.

954
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, right right, it's Rady's the master was right,

955
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Speaker 3: yeah right, we're starting, We're starting to get on the

956
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Speaker 3: I'm in the led Zeppelin zone and I was just

957
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Speaker 3: going to go to top Tom Brady. Some weeks it

958
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Speaker 3: was I'm gonna air this thing out the Randy Moss,

959
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 3: We're gonna stretch the field. Other weeks it was we're

960
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 3: going to crush you in the slot with the Edelmans

961
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Speaker 3: and the Whelkers running back sometimes you know, the the

962
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Speaker 3: Gronk and the Hernandez double tight end sometimes, like that's

963
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Speaker 3: what the best quarterbacks do, is they take what the

964
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Speaker 3: defense has given them and they run with it.

965
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Speaker 4: Mahomes is the best example recently too. He had his

966
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 4: average depth of target this first couple of years was

967
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Speaker 4: through the roof, shrug guys off, throwing bombs at Tyreek.

968
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Speaker 4: Now he's at the absolute bottom of the league in

969
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Speaker 4: average depth of target. Doesn't make him any worse, guys,

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, like it's it's hard to beat

971
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Speaker 4: a team by death by a thousand paper cuts, you know.

972
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Speaker 4: And it bothered me because everyone writing back is why

973
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Speaker 4: you hate and it doesn't matter. They got to win.

974
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Speaker 4: All they look at all the orgy put up. I'm like, yeah,

975
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Speaker 4: because it was all I did was psyche the numbers. Yeah,

976
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Speaker 4: and it worked. That's good quarterbacking, right.

977
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Speaker 2: Statistics just make people feel some type of.

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Speaker 4: Way they do. Right, don't be why you're cutting ar

979
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Speaker 4: I mean, you couldn't say that bad about Rogers, which

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Speaker 4: I did. I love that everyone's defending their.

981
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Speaker 2: Not saying anything bad about it.

982
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Speaker 4: I'm not saying good or bad. I just pointed out

983
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Speaker 4: where the ball was at.

984
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Speaker 3: The middle of the field. Numbers on that passage too,

985
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Speaker 3: which is good to see.

986
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Speaker 4: More than in recent Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hour in the Books, Another hour to go. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Do you have any other Tuesday rewind observations

989
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Speaker 2: you want to get.

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Speaker 4: One thousand, but they'll come up over the course of

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Speaker 4: the week.

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Speaker 2: It sounds good. We'll do some of those.

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Speaker 3: We want to do a little fantasy football focus to

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Speaker 3: kick off our number two as well. We'll do all

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Speaker 3: that as we roll along here on a Tuesday. West

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Speaker 3: Huler Matt Williamson Hour in the Books, Another hour to go.

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