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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Steeler Nation. It is the Drive live at
Speaker 3: Training Camp, Saint Vincent College of Course in Latro, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Another beautiful day here on campus, Rush Huoler, Matt Williamson, Hi,
Speaker 3: a top Chuck Nolefield with you here for the next
Speaker 3: three hours as Matt acclamation part of camp over Sunday off.
Speaker 3: The pads went on.
Speaker 4: Today, Yeah they did. And so the beginning of practice,
Speaker 4: I mean obviously not the stretch portion, and the individuals
Speaker 4: and things were like everybody I was on the edge
Speaker 4: of my seat. How physical are we going to get?
Speaker 4: How much banging are we going to get? Is it
Speaker 4: going to be any different? Is it going to be
Speaker 4: drastically different? Just in terms of tone and physicality. And
Speaker 4: this is not me being critical. We know this head
Speaker 4: coach doesn't value that in as much as keeping his
Speaker 4: players healthy and getting the starting line and conditioning and
Speaker 4: running a ton of plays. It's just different ways to
Speaker 4: attack practice. But I would say the first twenty minutes,
Speaker 4: half hour or so, I'm watching, going this looks exactly
Speaker 4: like last week, you know, I'm like, that's cool, no
Speaker 4: big deal. And then we got into some you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, it wasn't seventies Raiders verse Steelers or you know,
Speaker 4: Ray Lewis versus Ben Sugs in those days by any
Speaker 4: means in terms of the physicality and aggressiveness and violence.
Speaker 4: But we saw legit one on one big men drills,
Speaker 4: you know, like to the left of us here in
Speaker 4: the end zone. They had it was almost like a
Speaker 4: varsity group and a JV group where they had two
Speaker 4: lines on each side of the end zone. Where again
Speaker 4: this is not a rip on Tomlin, Everyone's just doing
Speaker 4: things different. I love how much field they use in practice,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? They spread out, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: so there was three things going on at once. There
Speaker 4: were two O line drills. Again, it was like the
Speaker 4: ones with like Max was in there too, I mean
Speaker 4: ones plus versus the ones plus KMTJ. High Smith, all
Speaker 4: those dudes. And then on the other side of the
Speaker 4: end zone just next to them were the JV guys basically,
Speaker 4: you know, And I didn't pay an attention to JV guys.
Speaker 4: I was just watching the ones, going they gonna play
Speaker 4: ady Cake or are they going to go at it?
Speaker 4: They went at it. I mean it was like a
Speaker 4: Senior Bowl practice or you know Tomlin practice. They were
Speaker 4: one on ones, trying everything they got to do battle
Speaker 4: to get to the quarterback. I was like, great, And
Speaker 4: then you know, the rest of the field was basically
Speaker 4: a skeleton drill, you know, one on ones quarterbacks throwing
Speaker 4: to receivers and stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know,
Speaker 4: Labs and I were here watching it and we're yelling
Speaker 4: through the glass at each other and what you see
Speaker 4: there and who has that made that play? Blah blah.
Speaker 4: There's a lot. It's always a lot to watch in
Speaker 4: these practices more so than the other ones. But we noticed,
Speaker 4: and this definitely was true last week, a lot of
Speaker 4: the defensive backs, if not all, were not contesting catches,
Speaker 4: you know, like they're kind of they play up to
Speaker 4: the to the catch point and then they sort of
Speaker 4: let them. They don't. They're not battling in the air
Speaker 4: and fighting and spiking it out. And frankly, we both said,
Speaker 4: I don't know how many people would get injured doing that,
Speaker 4: but obviously they're being coached to allow it. And then
Speaker 4: as the practice went on, those got a little more
Speaker 4: physical too. You know, we did not see backs on backers.
Speaker 4: We did not see seven shots. You know, those things
Speaker 4: might be things of a past, who's to say, but
Speaker 4: they definitely weren't out here playing paddy cake, you know.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of people here, you know, sure,
Speaker 4: Pat McAfee's here. So it was a really good environment.
Speaker 4: And I had to leave a little early to go
Speaker 4: back to the hotel and do a podcast. But there
Speaker 4: was a two minute drill that I missed at the end,
Speaker 4: but there was good team stuff too. Of course, they're
Speaker 4: not like hitting the quarterbacks and things of that nature,
Speaker 4: and the team drills I don't know what the linemen
Speaker 4: were one thousand percent after each other, because that's how
Speaker 4: you get stepped on or somebody falls into the quarterback.
Speaker 4: But you got a pretty good feel of what they're
Speaker 4: trying to accomplish here. And I really enjoyed the one
Speaker 4: on one drills with the big guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was certainly something that I was
Speaker 3: hoping to see something that And again we know there's
Speaker 3: gonna be no live tackling, but that doesn't mean, to
Speaker 3: use your term, that they're playing patty cake out here.
Speaker 4: And they're doing thud you know, which is just basically
Speaker 4: chesting up a dude, which is by the way, folks
Speaker 4: like what thirty of the teams do. Yes, nobody cares
Speaker 4: about what the other thirty one teams in the world
Speaker 4: are doing, but that's what almost the entire league does.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is it is. This is more common to
Speaker 3: what you see way across the league than what we
Speaker 3: had had the last few years out here. As uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of those one on one drills seemingly some
Speaker 3: good stuff between Zach Fraser and y A Black. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Ke Benton seemed like he was active in a lot
Speaker 3: of those drills. Yes, big year for those I like
Speaker 3: that tournament. We'll probably use that through the rest of camp.
Speaker 3: The one pluses that you yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Liked that it wasn't just five linemen down there on offense.
Speaker 4: There was maybe seven or so. I think Coffin was
Speaker 4: with them, Max was definitely.
Speaker 3: With Those guys are one pluses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're still in the hunt and you know they're
Speaker 4: going against the top dudes.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of those on both sides of the
Speaker 3: football in this camp.
Speaker 4: I don't know where to make the cut, you know, like,
Speaker 4: and I think maybe someone like Yi Black want to
Speaker 4: walk back and forth and done both. I don't know
Speaker 4: for sure, but you know, yeah, you know, like Cam's
Speaker 4: gonna be there in Fraser and those guys. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Interesting where does like Jennings Dunker go.
Speaker 4: You know he's yeah, yeah for now, so that but
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's quite the honor to be like, why
Speaker 4: don't you go the other group today? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Baby, that's that's when you that's when you know you're
Speaker 3: starting to to settle in here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a little bit. So Dunker is a perfect
Speaker 4: guy to bring that up about.
Speaker 3: Great, he's a great one. He's he's a he's an
Speaker 3: absolute great one, because it seems like there's a lot
Speaker 3: of those again one plus a little bit of those
Speaker 3: tweeeners in both sides of the trenches. Yes, a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of good a lot of good, big
Speaker 3: bodies here in this camp, a lot of spots that
Speaker 3: are seemingly already kind of nailed on. Just how's the
Speaker 3: exact pecking order going to shake out? But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's that's that's good to hear. It is. It's one
Speaker 3: of those things, man, when they when they really get going,
Speaker 3: like starting this week, you have to tell yourself, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm watching this for a few minutes.
Speaker 4: I just concentrate on that.
Speaker 3: If you want to watch the quarterbacks, watch the quarterbacks
Speaker 3: for a few minutes. If you want to watch the
Speaker 3: offensive and defensive lineman one on ones, watch that for
Speaker 3: a few minutes, because you'll find yourself trying to follow
Speaker 3: multiple things at once and then you can't really follow it.
Speaker 3: It's like it's that, it's that classic. You know, the
Speaker 3: human brain is is not capable of fully focusing on
Speaker 3: two things at the same time. It's like, don't try.
Speaker 4: Through that again, who's that? And then you get all.
Speaker 3: It's like you got to lock in on one thing
Speaker 3: for a few minutes at a time, watch it, dissect it,
Speaker 3: and then move on to the next thing across the
Speaker 3: field or down on the corner or because like you said,
Speaker 3: there's a lot going on every single practice.
Speaker 4: So Senior Bowl, like when I was at ESPN my
Speaker 4: first couple of years, I joined Todd McShay and Steve Mensch,
Speaker 4: who we reference often. Those guys are still doing it,
Speaker 4: but they needed a third set of eyes because there
Speaker 4: was really three drills going on at the same time.
Speaker 4: There was the big men, there was a little men,
Speaker 4: and the guys in between, you know, So we just
Speaker 4: switched day to day. Like you got the backs first linebackers,
Speaker 4: you got the big guys today. Because we try to
Speaker 4: watch it all, you're really selling yourself short, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just there's there's too much going on. You're gonna
Speaker 3: miss it and you're not gonna catch everything. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna be as detail oriented. So yeah, there's there's a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot to watch out here. And I'm
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy practice, that's for sure. And today we got
Speaker 3: the kind of the first clips of everything with the
Speaker 3: with the pass on, with the big men going at it.
Speaker 3: I wonder too, you know, one thing, despite the the
Speaker 3: physical nature, more physical nature I should say of Mike
Speaker 3: Tomlin practices, because then if I just say the physical nature,
Speaker 3: that makes it seem like they're not doing anything at
Speaker 3: all here with right mcraphy, and that's just not true.
Speaker 4: Which was worrying me the first twenty minutes half hours,
Speaker 4: so labs are apparently look at each other like they're
Speaker 4: just not like last week.
Speaker 3: This looks like we're still acclimating here. With that, I
Speaker 3: wonder what tomorrow's practice looks like in that sense, because
Speaker 3: one thing that Mike Tomlin was, despite how widely known
Speaker 3: he ran physical training camp practices, he also knew when
Speaker 3: to say whoa as opposed to sick on?
Speaker 1: Yea?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like heow it back after Friday night lights, every.
Speaker 3: Real physical for two days, and then the third day
Speaker 3: he would dial it back and then you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: real physical for Friday night lights and then maybe that
Speaker 3: next Saturday it take it easy on them. I wonder
Speaker 3: what tomorrow's practice looks like from that stand.
Speaker 4: That's a good point. I guess we'll find out and
Speaker 4: we'll let you guys know for sure, but then I'm
Speaker 4: being here watching the whole thing yet again, crowd was
Speaker 4: great today. You mentioned before, the weather's been awesome. The
Speaker 4: McAfee aspect of it all adds a little something else,
Speaker 4: you know, pads being on ads in a little something else.
Speaker 4: But talking about the drill that I watched most that
Speaker 4: the big men, my man Max looked really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And to me that was my biggest takeaway, Like, okay,
Speaker 4: Frasier held his own yeah you know, Oh it's what
Speaker 4: characters all right, Yeah, I mean, like I know all
Speaker 4: those things, but I thought Max, you know, eight reps
Speaker 4: or something, one on one often against TJ, which I'm
Speaker 4: sure wasn't on purpose, but also really reminded me of Tomlin,
Speaker 4: you know, like when Artie Burns got here, it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: you could go against AB every time, right, right right.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that was on purpose or not.
Speaker 4: I kind of made the joke like this was tom
Speaker 4: when Max would go against DJ every time at right tackle.
Speaker 4: But he did a lot, and I think TJ beat
Speaker 4: him the first rep I watched, And again I wasn't
Speaker 4: charting it. I don't get stuff in front of me.
Speaker 4: After that, I would say Max got the better of him.
Speaker 4: You know, that doesn't mean oh TJ's shot, He's not
Speaker 4: gonna be any good anymore. Like one rep, he came
Speaker 4: off the edge hard, tried to go right down the
Speaker 4: middle of a Hanachre, Andhannachre just kind of sat back
Speaker 4: in his haunches absorbed it. Didn't take a step back
Speaker 4: after that. I mean he absorbed a big power blow
Speaker 4: right in his chest and the bullrush didn't phase him
Speaker 4: one bit. And even just the rep he got beat
Speaker 4: his first one, it was like, boy, but his feet
Speaker 4: looked really good. The lateral agility getting out of his stands,
Speaker 4: you know, might have been his first real rep against
Speaker 4: DJ Wattever. Probably it probably was very eye opening for
Speaker 4: the young man. And then he adjusted really well. So
Speaker 4: I'm curious to ask, like Starks are some of those
Speaker 4: guys and I know the wh'll go watch tape tonight,
Speaker 4: but I thought, Ohannachre was very noteworthy.
Speaker 3: Well that's something we'll definitely keep an eye on. Yeah,
Speaker 3: row and rolling through here as we continue to roll
Speaker 3: along in this padded portion of practice. Uh yeah, that's
Speaker 3: that's Unfortunately I missed that little portion. You you know,
Speaker 3: this and some other suit. I was a little late
Speaker 3: getting here today. Had had a sick daughter back home
Speaker 3: this morning, so had to kind of hang home while
Speaker 3: my wife ran into work for a couple of meetings
Speaker 3: and then came back home to relieve me. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: the first thing, this.
Speaker 4: Can be a balancing act for all of our schedule.
Speaker 3: It sure is. It really, it's a lot. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of moving parts, without a doubt, and it was.
Speaker 4: It was the first day for me not to make
Speaker 4: light of your daughter's illness. And I know she's on.
Speaker 3: Super yah know, she's just just a fever in that
Speaker 3: kind of you know, typical three year old stuff.
Speaker 4: But this was the first day where I was like, boy,
Speaker 4: being in the dorms would have been a little more
Speaker 4: convenient because I'd like wait for my room to get
Speaker 4: ready and then I ran over there and it's not
Speaker 4: quite ready, right, all right, Right, campus was crazy. It
Speaker 4: was like I wouldn't I wouldn't mind just walking up
Speaker 4: the hill and knowing that I had a home base.
Speaker 3: Yeah, place to do your podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was juggling today.
Speaker 3: Rest your eyes for a few minutes, yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 4: There was no eye resting today. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: There's no rest for the Wickeds and that's that's what
Speaker 3: I've been told. And you got a night show tonight
Speaker 3: as well too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing five hours straight.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. I'm just going to say. You're
Speaker 3: doing Dolly parton today nine to five, but you're doing
Speaker 3: more like nine to nine today, long, long day.
Speaker 4: And along those lines with our schedule this week, are
Speaker 4: we these two days and then Wednesday's all yep, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: these two days we.
Speaker 3: Have today and tomorrow, then Wednesday off, then we'll be
Speaker 3: back Thursday Friday. Obviously Saturday is Saturday night Lights typically
Speaker 3: Friday Night Lights, but it is of course this Saturday,
Speaker 3: and then an off day Sunday, and then Matt a
Speaker 3: week from now, we'll be staring down the Steelers first
Speaker 3: preseason game just a couple of days away. Next Thursday
Speaker 3: is that first preseason game at home against the Packers.
Speaker 3: So that's what now, just ten days away or so,
Speaker 3: it's I'm gonna be here real quick. Yeah, always happens
Speaker 3: quick in this process.
Speaker 4: Again, you know, there's only a couple of us during
Speaker 4: practice as usual up here watching practice, and Rob was
Speaker 4: one of them, Rob King, when he was asking me
Speaker 4: all about the Jets offseason, and it was like, WHOA,
Speaker 4: I guess, is that not that far away either? You know,
Speaker 4: their second preseason game?
Speaker 3: It is. Yep. It's a fun preseason slate with the Packers,
Speaker 3: the Jets, and then the Buffalo Bills. Of course that
Speaker 3: new stadium up there in Buffalo that we'll get to
Speaker 3: see in a couple of weeks. I'm just who am
Speaker 3: I kidding? I'm just trying to find ways to make
Speaker 3: the preseason interesting. But that first game is always something
Speaker 3: that we're looking for. After we get through a few
Speaker 3: more practices here, you're ready to see somebody hit somebody
Speaker 3: in a different uniform and to be able to assess
Speaker 3: a little bit from there. We're just getting started here
Speaker 3: on this Monday on campus. Plenty more ground to cover
Speaker 3: from practice, some other moving and shaking around the league,
Speaker 3: some of those larger themed conversations. We got to get
Speaker 3: back into the Steelers depth.
Speaker 4: Trick, trying to mention law Aaron Rodgers soon to get
Speaker 4: back there.
Speaker 3: Let's do that. We'll talk a little Aaron Rodgers. When
Speaker 3: we returned, still a nice crowd over there at the
Speaker 3: McAfee show. I thought they were wrapping up at three o'clock,
Speaker 3: but maybe they're maybe they're going a little bit longer
Speaker 3: on their YouTube page or something there. But a lot
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Speaker 3: Back on campus here you learn Williams since the drive.
Speaker 3: As we roll along. It was a very busy day
Speaker 3: on campus today Stelsa McAfee stuff show stuff going on
Speaker 3: over there. Of course, the first day of padded practices
Speaker 3: always brings out a crowd, Matt. And it was a beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful weather day today. High seventies, low eighties, just a
Speaker 3: couple of clouds in the sky, no semblance of rain.
Speaker 3: We've been very fortunate in that regard out here so far.
Speaker 3: Hopefully that will continue. Did you get crushed with rain
Speaker 3: at home last night? No, we got annihilated up up
Speaker 3: in Mars Cranberry where I'm at, Oh my goodness, for like.
Speaker 4: Four night before it was crazy, like wake you up
Speaker 4: the mind of the night storm.
Speaker 3: We've got a creek behind our house and it like
Speaker 3: kind of started overflowing last night. Like that's no, because
Speaker 3: we're like up on a hill from that, if that
Speaker 3: makes sense. But I can always tell how much rain
Speaker 3: we're getting because normally it's like nice and calm, and
Speaker 3: then it gets pretty crazy and then it starts to
Speaker 3: overflow a little bit. So yeah, some serious rain back
Speaker 3: in some parts of western Pennsylvania last night. But here today,
Speaker 3: beautiful day and it looks like that's going to be
Speaker 3: the case tomorrow for another practice for the Steelers before
Speaker 3: they get a day off on Wednesday, Matt, before we
Speaker 3: went to break, you had some Aaron Rodgers things that
Speaker 3: you wanted to discuss here on the program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again we were just chatting with Rob and labs,
Speaker 4: you know, observing them in practice and you know, things
Speaker 4: of that nature. He put on a clinic throw in
Speaker 4: the football today. He was so sharp. And it's not
Speaker 4: that it's unusual that it's like, wow, he's really good,
Speaker 4: but like the ball just look beautiful. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 4: I mean, like we talked about the huge net that
Speaker 4: they threw over over there, you know, on the right, Well,
Speaker 4: they had the smaller one today.
Speaker 3: I see ye.
Speaker 4: And it was part of this is good, part of this
Speaker 4: is bad. It's so apparent. And I think these were
Speaker 4: Rob's exact words, like who the starter is compared to
Speaker 4: the other three? Oh yeah, I mean, and.
Speaker 3: Who the future Hall of Famer is right the other three?
Speaker 4: I mean, he made one throw where the net was
Speaker 4: pretty far downfield. I want to say it was fifteen
Speaker 4: twenty yards from where they're released, maybe from the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, let alone their release point where he threw
Speaker 4: it almost underhand. I mean it was as side arm
Speaker 4: as you could get, the instant flick of like a
Speaker 4: dark throw hits that middle thing swish, and he was
Speaker 4: happy about it. He was fingered guns, you know, like
Speaker 4: I mean, he he those fingers. He definitely had the
Speaker 4: you know, like a high, high degree of difficulty on
Speaker 4: that throw. And he was real proud of himself, and
Speaker 4: he should have been because there's still not many people
Speaker 4: to pull that one off. It's awesome, but the other
Speaker 4: guys on the on the flip side, especially next to him,
Speaker 4: are well behind. I mean, just as throwers of the
Speaker 4: football and let alone their command of the game. And
Speaker 4: that's no criticism.
Speaker 3: I mean, one's a four time MVP, first top three,
Speaker 3: top five quarterback to ever live.
Speaker 4: But like Aller missed that entire net several times. I
Speaker 4: mean on ten throws, maybe he sunk one, you know,
Speaker 4: like Toward was okay, Rudolph was okay, but they were okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw the ball over top and do it
Speaker 4: right and come out. It's not snap my head around,
Speaker 4: you know, like the hell, you know, like QB one,
Speaker 4: it was just impressive and watching him throw go balls
Speaker 4: down the sidelines and some of the team stuff I
Speaker 4: watched looked like everything that came out of Aaron Sands
Speaker 4: today was WHOA, that's pretty.
Speaker 3: He was showing off for his MacAfee show.
Speaker 4: I was wondering, I made that joke to in town. Right.
Speaker 3: No, that's and again that is that's not a knock
Speaker 3: on the other guys.
Speaker 4: That is, it's a slight concern, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: if the if a first round pick came in here,
Speaker 4: I'd like him to look more like Rogers than the
Speaker 4: next guy. But yes, again the standard tie. So he's
Speaker 4: probably one of the best. It's he is one of
Speaker 4: the best. It's ever done that stuff in the history
Speaker 4: of the planet.
Speaker 3: Without a doubt. The the arm talent is just it
Speaker 3: jumps off the page. You make this joke sometimes, Matt,
Speaker 3: that like, you know, if I took my wife to
Speaker 3: uh to to the Civic Arena in the nineties, right,
Speaker 3: and she's like, who's that sixty six guy out there?
Speaker 3: He looks he looks a little bit better than everybody else,
Speaker 3: you know, forty three with the hair. You could take
Speaker 3: somebody uh you know, in the nineties to uh to
Speaker 3: the United Center in Chicago and they'd be like, who's
Speaker 3: that bald number twenty three? Man, he's really getting a
Speaker 3: lot of buckets for the goal I think.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, there's this guys that are different.
Speaker 3: Engineering host Ed Troup is upset. I'm sorry, listen, ed Ed,
Speaker 3: You're my second favorite ball guy after Michael Jordan. Okay,
Speaker 3: you know, I think you and I.
Speaker 4: Doesn't take advanced scout and see who the best quarterback was.
Speaker 3: It does. It does not take a football genius to
Speaker 3: come out here and see, oh, that's the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame quarterback.
Speaker 4: I guess I want that guy starting right that's slinging
Speaker 4: that thing.
Speaker 3: And you know it's funny to me too that still
Speaker 3: like they're even with that arm talent though it's still
Speaker 3: the above the next stuff that makes Aaron Rodgers so great.
Speaker 3: I oh, yeah, I almost sent this to you last night.
Speaker 3: I was laughing and you know how this works. But
Speaker 3: I can't remember if it was on Twitter or Instagram
Speaker 3: or whatever social media platform it would have been. I'm
Speaker 3: scrolling through at some point yesterday evening and there's like
Speaker 3: a video of Will Levis working out and throwing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I think he said like, I'm one of
Speaker 4: the best thirty two quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 3: And his agent put out this video and you watch
Speaker 3: Will Levis throw the ball and it's like, how can
Speaker 3: that I not stick on an NFL team?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Because his his arm talent. You watch this forty five
Speaker 3: second cut up and you're like, dude, is anybody sure?
Speaker 3: But it's the above the next When you have that
Speaker 3: ability and the above the next stuff that Aaron Rodgers has,
Speaker 3: that's when you get a multiple MVP and in a
Speaker 3: future Hall of.
Speaker 4: Fame career in the quick processing and the identifying stuff
Speaker 4: pre snap. And so another little story from practice today
Speaker 4: I found was interesting is so when they're doing like
Speaker 4: walk through tempo, they don't want the defense down here.
Speaker 4: The offense is on the near field. It's hard to
Speaker 4: watch the second field from where we sit, you know that.
Speaker 4: So watching offense early practice walk through stuff they will
Speaker 4: have I'm trying and still figure out the beanie system.
Speaker 4: By the way, on defense, there's like three different colored
Speaker 4: beanies of offensive players being scout team defense and just
Speaker 4: going through the mode.
Speaker 3: And we've seen that sometimes in the past, but it's
Speaker 3: usually one color beats usually one color. It's like a
Speaker 3: red beanie. Yes, so there's like orange and green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's three different colors. There's definitely green, and there
Speaker 4: was only one red beanie for offensive players masquerading his
Speaker 4: defensive players. Today and again everyone's getting hit and I
Speaker 4: look at it. I'm like, the guy wearing the red
Speaker 4: beanie has an eight on his jack his back. It's
Speaker 4: Aaron Ryan Rodgers, right, he's playing a middle linebacker. And
Speaker 4: I came to the conclusion that it's probably the green
Speaker 4: dot guy. But then I'm like, why isn't that he
Speaker 4: should be wearing the green ones guy red? Because I won,
Speaker 4: and it looked like he would be the one that
Speaker 4: like barked out the calls to everybody and then he'd
Speaker 4: pretend to be a linebacker and come up there Jennings
Speaker 4: dunker or whatever, you know. But he gets tell he
Speaker 4: was engaged, you know, like the Hall of Fame forty
Speaker 4: two year old doesn't have to be out there with
Speaker 4: a beanie on his head. He playing linebacker, right right?
Speaker 3: Is ed? Are you still back there and still out there?
Speaker 3: I think he I think he might have I think
Speaker 3: he might have ran. I think he might have ran
Speaker 3: to the bathroom and ran somewhere real quick. But uh,
Speaker 3: it was funny. The other day Aaron Rodgers was doing
Speaker 3: that same thing. Yeah, and walking out the cafeteria, Ed
Speaker 3: said to him, he was like, saw you playing linebacker?
Speaker 3: Saw you playing linebacker out there today?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And Aaron was like, that was my favorite position when
Speaker 3: I was growing up.
Speaker 4: Oh really, yet rickindle his youth.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, hey, And that's what some of this
Speaker 3: is all about too. You got to still have that Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got to keep it light and you got to
Speaker 3: have that love for the game. But that is funny,
Speaker 3: that's what he said. That was his favorite position growing up.
Speaker 3: Maybe Aaron Rodgers, instead of being a Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: gun slinger, he always wanted to be a Green doc guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's hilarious. I mean, like I've always talked about
Speaker 4: since he's been here, how he impresses me because everything
Speaker 4: he does is so deliberate and he doesn't waste any
Speaker 4: time on the field, and he's always thinking, you know,
Speaker 4: how can I make myself or my teammates or my
Speaker 4: coach is better, or how you know whatever. But in
Speaker 4: that instance, I thought it was just like I think
Speaker 4: he's just out here make bringing everyone up. With him.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, I'm gonna enjoy this.
Speaker 4: It's not to be taken lightly. If QB one is
Speaker 4: gonna put a beanie on, we should be very cognizant
Speaker 4: of what's going on here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: When Rudolph or whoever's taking snaps, you know, if he's
Speaker 4: gonna be out there playing linebacker, don't blow it off, you.
Speaker 3: Know, absolutely, Matt. We've gotten a few tweets about Drew
Speaker 3: Aller throughout these last couple of days. It seems like
Speaker 3: he continues to make some some impressive arm strength throws
Speaker 3: out here.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember when Chris Hallick sat with us
Speaker 4: that was our last show before breaking he said it
Speaker 4: was a very Drew Awler like day. Now that means
Speaker 4: a bit of a roller coaster his stage of his career,
Speaker 4: and that was what it was like at Penn State.
Speaker 4: I mean, he makes some beautiful throws, big time arm
Speaker 4: strength throws down the field right and it's not loading
Speaker 4: up to do it. Ball comes out clean, clear, and
Speaker 4: then sometimes a crosser that you know is as much
Speaker 4: a layup throw as you can imagine, rows of three
Speaker 4: feet behind him too hot, and again that you know
Speaker 4: throwing into that net. He would miss the entire net
Speaker 4: at times. Like wow, yeah, so that's a work in progress.
Speaker 4: But you see what they're working with.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you do, and that's what this is all about.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited, obviously to see those young quarterbacks when
Speaker 3: we get into a preseason setting. I don't you think
Speaker 3: we'll see any of Mason Rudolph in that first preseason game.
Speaker 4: I was wondering that too, Maybe in the first series.
Speaker 4: It's funny you brought that up, because as I was
Speaker 4: driving here this morning, I thought the exactly why it
Speaker 4: dawned on me. But I'm like, maybe, like out of respect,
Speaker 4: he'll do like the first series act as a starter,
Speaker 4: hand it off to you young pups. I'm different than
Speaker 4: you guys. Or maybe if they just say we're just
Speaker 4: gonna hide your helmet and let those two go the
Speaker 4: whole time because you're valuable. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And I wonder how much of that relates to what
Speaker 3: offensive lineman will play some too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because if it's like a good conversation.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, we're gonna play Zach Frazier and Mason
Speaker 3: McCormick for a series.
Speaker 4: May you deal with them.
Speaker 3: But if it's not, then it's like, hey, let's just
Speaker 3: get all the young guys out there, let them learn together,
Speaker 3: let me let them grow together.
Speaker 4: I would think been in Metcalf have no chance.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't, especially again when we know how much Mike
Speaker 3: McCarthy values getting these guys to September healthy.
Speaker 4: I don't know about Warren or I would think Leco.
Speaker 3: Eat Friar, move anybody that's an established veteran that's no
Speaker 3: longer on their rookie contract. I'd almost be surprised if
Speaker 3: they played.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I bet that's probably true. Maybe the number
Speaker 4: one O line in Week two or something like that.
Speaker 4: But I don't think so. And I don't know Rogers
Speaker 4: play snap.
Speaker 3: I would probably not be shocked if he did.
Speaker 4: He didn't last year, right, I don't think so. Don't
Speaker 4: believe so. If he believes he has to do it,
Speaker 4: he probably would have done it last year.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm thinking. And I guess if he was
Speaker 3: if he was working well last year, he was working
Speaker 3: with a new coach and a new staff. It's different,
Speaker 3: and so this he you'd think he'd be even more
Speaker 3: comfortable than he was at this point last year.
Speaker 4: And I don't care who the coach is, he should
Speaker 4: have a lot of input on that decision.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, if he goes to if he goes to you
Speaker 3: and says, hey, I want I want six plays or whatever.
Speaker 4: You got it?
Speaker 3: You got it fine, if you're going to hand it
Speaker 3: off six times a screen, pats on, take a shower after,
Speaker 3: you know, right, exactly right, exactly right. So that'll be
Speaker 3: something that we'll keep an eye on and start talking
Speaker 3: about more. And honestly, I bet you by the time
Speaker 3: we get to Thursday of next week, we'll probably know
Speaker 3: the answers to that, because I don't think there's a
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna hide anything on that. I'm
Speaker 3: sure he'll be asked about it. Strategic advantage. Right, it's
Speaker 3: a preseason game, right, No one's no one's getting fired
Speaker 3: over a win or a loss. Now, you might be,
Speaker 3: you might be getting on with your life's work if
Speaker 3: you're one of the players. But I don't think I
Speaker 3: don't think any of the coaches are really stressing over
Speaker 3: preseason results, except for maybe Harball in New York now
Speaker 3: because we know that for a while.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I forgot John Harball onereto. Yeah, took it
Speaker 4: real seriously.
Speaker 3: Five or six straight years without losing the preseason game.
Speaker 4: It'll be fun to even talk about the defense too.
Speaker 4: Like if we assume Porter and Ramsey you're still on pop,
Speaker 4: does Samuel play some? Yeah? Does Wilson and not Queen? Probably?
Speaker 4: Probably there's like a Benton. I mean, we know that
Speaker 4: Cams and Watts aren't right right right, But I wonder
Speaker 4: where that new guys like Dean maybe a little or
Speaker 4: a brisker. I don't know. I mean, it'll be interesting
Speaker 4: to have that conversation.
Speaker 3: It sure will, and those will be things we'll be
Speaker 3: keeping an eye on here as we as we roll
Speaker 3: along and get closer and closer to that first preseason game.
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Speaker 3: Growing along here on this Monday, August third, the fifth
Speaker 3: training camp practice in the books for your Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 3: and it is of course the first with pads. A
Speaker 3: lot to kind of glean out here on a busy
Speaker 3: day at Chuck Nolefield. Matt also notable. I think notable
Speaker 3: is a fair way to say roster moved by the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, here.
Speaker 3: Today as uh well, I guess technically I think it
Speaker 3: was last night, but in effect here today. The Steelers
Speaker 3: signed safety ray Shawn Jenkins to a one year contract.
Speaker 3: He was a fourth round pick of the Chargers in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. He's entering his tenth season in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Spent four years with the Chargers three years with the Jags,
Speaker 3: with the Seattle Seahawks for a year, and then was
Speaker 3: with the Browns last year one hundred and thirty nine
Speaker 3: core games. Last year, he had forty five tackles for
Speaker 3: the Browns, one interception, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery.
Speaker 3: Appeared in all seventeen games for Cleveland. And with that,
Speaker 3: the Steelers released Darnell Savage. We had spent I don't
Speaker 3: want to say so much time, but we had spent
Speaker 3: some time throughout the offseason in the draft and all
Speaker 3: that stuff and speculating is he on the roster? Is
Speaker 3: he not on the roster? And then it became official
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, and now Darnell Savage has
Speaker 3: been released as the Steelers continue to try and find
Speaker 3: the right balance in that safety room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't think these are her shattering moves,
Speaker 4: but it's worth bringing up that from what I gathered,
Speaker 4: and I didn't see this in print, but I think
Speaker 4: this took a while because I think he had some
Speaker 4: kind of like offseason clean up surgery or Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think they need to make sure he was healthy. I
Speaker 4: think you're right that they've been in touch with Jenkins
Speaker 4: pretty much the entire since free agency opened, but they
Speaker 4: just wanted to make sure they got the clean bill
Speaker 4: of health. It's kind of like a Chuck Clark move
Speaker 4: or one of those type safeties that and that's not
Speaker 4: uncommon for across the league. A lot of these veteran
Speaker 4: safeties that are smart, that have reasonably good tape and
Speaker 4: a resume of years, can stick around for a while,
Speaker 4: even if they can't run like they once did. Now
Speaker 4: you don't want them out there for a ton of snaps,
Speaker 4: but you know, anticipation and understanding what a defense or
Speaker 4: an offense is trying to do and positioning can go
Speaker 4: a long way at safety, even once you've slowed down
Speaker 4: a little bit from what I gather to just chatting
Speaker 4: to people this afternoon. Special teams had a lot to
Speaker 4: do with it. So unlike Savage, who was a first
Speaker 4: round pick and comes into the league with a lot
Speaker 4: more fanfare, he has a much more developed special teams resume,
Speaker 4: So I think they're counting on him as being a
Speaker 4: core guy on that regard, And just like Savage, he
Speaker 4: could come out here and not look great, and he's
Speaker 4: not guaranteed any kind of roster spot. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's very little signing bonus or guaranteed money or
Speaker 4: any of that stuff, So he's probably just happy to
Speaker 4: get another opportunity extend his career. And maybe he's your
Speaker 4: third or fourth guy you have a late round pick
Speaker 4: in that room that's I think probably likely to make
Speaker 4: the team. But you know, he's a way different part
Speaker 4: of his career. You can't count on him at all,
Speaker 4: at least as it stands here in early August. And
Speaker 4: I also got the impression this wasn't necessarily knock on Savage.
Speaker 4: It was just we need a special teamer.
Speaker 3: You know that makes sense?
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Because that My first thought was kind of like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm not sitting here pounding the table for Darnell Savage
Speaker 3: and to release that guy. But I was like, this
Speaker 3: is pretty early in the process.
Speaker 4: Right, I thought that was shocking to say goodbye.
Speaker 3: To him after just four acclamation period practices.
Speaker 4: But there's I'm sure we could pull one of these
Speaker 4: rosters up and find ten names that we know nothing
Speaker 4: about and cut one of them and we wouldn't have
Speaker 4: thought twice about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But you're right, there's there's always more stuff behind the
Speaker 3: scenes in terms of special teams, in terms of you know,
Speaker 3: just overall health and and and status of these guys. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and so yes, Rayshawn Jenkins in the fold here as
Speaker 3: as the Steelers try and round out and find all
Speaker 3: the all the correct balance for what'll be uh, you know,
Speaker 3: a special team's room that has to come together in
Speaker 3: a safety group with still with some questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just say that position we haven't spent
Speaker 4: a lot of time on, but I guess we could
Speaker 4: chat about it a little bit now, if you know,
Speaker 4: Like this is a really out there example. But late, late,
Speaker 4: late in the process, the Browns released Joe Hayden and
Speaker 4: the Steelers like, oh we played against him, abunk, she
Speaker 4: still has something left?
Speaker 3: Yes, excuse me, God, bless you there. Matt Williams said, yes, no,
Speaker 3: you're right that for those who are unfamiliar, Joe Hayden
Speaker 3: was late in training camera. Might even have been after
Speaker 3: training camp now that I'm might and he was.
Speaker 4: It was after breaking Saint Vincent.
Speaker 3: It was after breaking Saint Vincent, and he was no
Speaker 3: spring chicken. He was not, but he was still twenty
Speaker 3: nine years old at that point. I think clearly had
Speaker 3: a couple good years of football, did have a couple
Speaker 3: good years of football left in him. But it seems
Speaker 3: like something like that there's a surprise release around the league.
Speaker 3: There's always a few, too much every year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if there's a safety that fits that mold or somebody.
Speaker 4: I can see this team still having interest that they've
Speaker 4: done a lot of the last two years of Duggers
Speaker 4: and Clerks and Savage and you know, now this move
Speaker 4: that that veteran dude. Yeah, we're going to keep the
Speaker 4: door open maybe for another Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't
Speaker 4: mind keeping five of them.
Speaker 3: No, you absolutely would. And especially again, I think given
Speaker 3: some of the just unknown yeah, with that group and
Speaker 3: at large, is that something will continue to monitor. But
Speaker 3: I thought that was kind of the first There's there's
Speaker 3: always additions and subtractions at the bottom of the roster.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I thought, you know, that was kind
Speaker 3: of the first significant one. Yea, the names that we've
Speaker 3: heard of and a guy and Darnell Savage obviously that
Speaker 3: I think most fans were kind of keeping an eye
Speaker 3: on throughout this offseason process.
Speaker 4: And people, i mean, I'm sure you guys are you know,
Speaker 4: dialed into the Steelers app, and you get the notifications
Speaker 4: on your phone a lot of times, the ninth receiver
Speaker 4: in camp that no one's ever heard of, from Slippery
Speaker 4: Rock or whatever. It's kind they sign another guy from UTAP.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like those aren't worth really talking about
Speaker 4: until they start showing up and making a name for themselves.
Speaker 4: But this one, as you said, was noticeable. You know,
Speaker 4: it's it's some it's names that have had success in
Speaker 4: this league.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Slippery Rock, though I didn't think, we
Speaker 3: didn't think. We get an SRU reference on the on
Speaker 3: the show today, Matt, thanks to our our buddy Allen
Speaker 3: Saunders of Pittsburgh Sports now Steelers Now, we do have
Speaker 3: a little bit of information already for Mike McCarthy on
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers and preseason.
Speaker 4: Oh really so.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy said that final decisions on specific playing time
Speaker 3: for veterans have not been finalized, but he said, and
Speaker 3: I quote when asked about Aaron Rodgers specifically, he'd like
Speaker 3: to play, and I'd like to see him play. Mike
Speaker 3: McCarthy said earlier that I believe that was earlier today.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty vague statement.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty vague statement, but I'd like to he'd
Speaker 3: like to play, and I'd like to see him play,
Speaker 3: you know. I think the second part of that is
Speaker 3: what is a little hum to me because you hear
Speaker 3: a lot of times, Oh, he'd like to play. We're
Speaker 3: gonna figure it out. This is pretty vague, right when
Speaker 3: he says I'd like to see him play. I don't
Speaker 3: know if he necessarily had to say that part.
Speaker 4: Well, if both those things are true, and there's no
Speaker 4: reason I think they aren't, and again they are vague,
Speaker 4: well what's stopping you then? I mean, who's going to tell?
Speaker 4: You know? If party number one says I want to
Speaker 4: do it, and Party number two so I'd like to
Speaker 4: see you do it, well, they probably gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers and I bet it's like one series.
Speaker 3: I bet it's one series. Yes, Aaron Rodgers said, Mike,
Speaker 3: if you want me to play, all play. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying I want to do it, but if you want
Speaker 3: me to, I will.
Speaker 4: Okay. That makes a step back there.
Speaker 3: That makes me think we maybe need to take a
Speaker 3: little bit of a step back.
Speaker 4: That wasn't like I have to play or jumping into
Speaker 4: the deep end. Maybe we won't say it. Maybe he
Speaker 4: hands off three times and gets.
Speaker 3: Out of there, and hey, I could see that. I
Speaker 3: like it is funny now that because you you know,
Speaker 3: you had asked it, what did they do last year?
Speaker 3: And it kind of took a second. You know, it's
Speaker 3: funny how recently that was. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: all the year, yeah, right, all the years blend together.
Speaker 3: I feel like there was a little, a little, not
Speaker 3: a lot. I don't want to exaggerate, but I feel
Speaker 3: like there was a little commotion last year around Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I can't believe Aaron Rodgers isn't even gonna
Speaker 3: play a series.
Speaker 4: It's a new team, right right? Is he dialed in?
Speaker 4: You know, took him forever to report and then there's that,
Speaker 4: You know, if.
Speaker 3: He's playing three or four snaps, is that really a
Speaker 3: big difference?
Speaker 4: Do you think anyone cares in Week six one bit
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 3: If you're telling me Aaron Rodgers is gonna play thirty
Speaker 3: preseason snaps? Okay, three? Three, my first down and hands
Speaker 3: the ball off two more times?
Speaker 4: How many NFL he's played in his life?
Speaker 3: Thousands?
Speaker 4: Right, thousands?
Speaker 3: So that that to me, and again I get it.
Speaker 3: We all we we want football so bad, we love it.
Speaker 3: We can't wait till camp gets here, then we can't
Speaker 3: wait till preseason gets here. Then we're all jacked up
Speaker 3: for Week one. I get it, But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I feel like we always put a little too much
Speaker 3: stock and maybe yeah, and and and conversation just into
Speaker 3: how much is especially with a veteran. It's different with
Speaker 3: young guys, but with a veteran like that, I don't
Speaker 3: think there's a right answer. I don't think there's a
Speaker 3: wrong answer. Just whatever makes you comfortable, whatever makes you happy.
Speaker 4: Oh, last week or two, we've listed some of the
Speaker 4: anti climatic and overblown things in the NFL calendar, you know,
Speaker 4: like the Hall of Fame games. Top a list for
Speaker 4: maybe one of them is who's playing? How many snaps
Speaker 4: in preseason? And the other one that's one of my
Speaker 4: favorites is who's gonna make that Who's gonna be the
Speaker 4: fifty third guy on the rock?
Speaker 3: It was the bottom of the roster guys.
Speaker 4: Sometimes those guys get cut before the opening day, yes,
Speaker 4: you know, like they go celebrate with their family or whatever.
Speaker 4: I made the final team, and then they go to the
Speaker 4: locker and they go to go see the GMS, like, oh,
Speaker 4: they need a special team or I'm.
Speaker 3: Out yep, like someone got dinged up and they have
Speaker 3: to shuffle some stuff around.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: No, it is, it's it's it's a it's a very
Speaker 3: fluid process. I think that's it is. I think that's
Speaker 3: why I would put it. But you're right, there's a
Speaker 3: lot that we overreact to. But I also get it.
Speaker 3: This is the United States of football. It's our number one,
Speaker 3: number two, number three, number four favorite sport in this country.
Speaker 4: And we're on the air for three hours a day
Speaker 4: and for three hours listen.
Speaker 3: Like, if you're a Pirates fan, you get to watch
Speaker 3: your team play one hundred and sixty two times a year.
Speaker 3: If you're a Steeler fan, you only get seventeen games.
Speaker 4: And so I I analyze like that would be kind.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a little jealous of them for content.
Speaker 3: You know what though, because like I say this to
Speaker 3: some of my but you and I are both about
Speaker 3: as casual as base baseball fans that you can be.
Speaker 4: We want to see the Pirate this morning.
Speaker 3: Trade deadline's Yeah, apparently the Pirates acquired some some some
Speaker 3: pitcher from the Mets. Here we left to ask Rob
Speaker 3: King about that one tomorrow when we see him. But
Speaker 3: I've had this conversation with some of my buddies that
Speaker 3: are like diehard baseball people. I don't know if I
Speaker 3: could do one hundred and sixty two games a year, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, especially if you have to travel with the team.
Speaker 3: And I just like I understand the mindset's different, because like,
Speaker 3: if you lose a game, it's not like losing on
Speaker 3: a Sunday to Cincinnati and then you have to sit
Speaker 3: and stew in it all week. You're right back. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, like.
Speaker 4: The baseball people think the same way, like how do
Speaker 4: you go all week without talking.
Speaker 3: About a game and then it's one game?
Speaker 4: And it's one game? Right?
Speaker 3: I just I can't imagine like living in dying with
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 4: Go to.
Speaker 3: Matt. Matt, you know, in terms of the sporting world,
Speaker 3: there's nothing that I love more than WVU football. If
Speaker 3: WU football played one hundred and sixty two games a year,
Speaker 3: you know how many heart attacks I would have. My
Speaker 3: blood pressure would be up on Mars would be through
Speaker 3: the roof.
Speaker 4: Especially the Pirates.
Speaker 3: Although maybe it got a little bit better here in
Speaker 3: the last in the last couple hours, looks like the
Speaker 3: McAfee show is finally wrapping up.
Speaker 4: A lot of I assume some players were involved.
Speaker 3: I think some players were involved. I also I was
Speaker 3: trying to look, but it looked like McAfee and some
Speaker 3: of the crew were signing autographs over there too, maybe
Speaker 3: maybe hanging around a little bit longer. I'm sure that
Speaker 3: was just a crazy day for Steelers pr for Burt
Speaker 3: and all of our people. First padded practice, big day
Speaker 3: on campus.
Speaker 4: It's quite the stage they'd built, too.
Speaker 3: It was a massive stage over there in the baseball outfield.
Speaker 3: I think that's a pretty big deal, Matt. When you
Speaker 3: have the number one most viewed sports show in the world,
Speaker 3: I er one, it's number one. There's a couple, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a couple like political shows and a
Speaker 3: couple of the like Joe Rogan type podcasts that that
Speaker 3: that have higher viewership, but in terms of sports shows,
Speaker 3: and that's number one right there.
Speaker 4: Wow, and uh.
Speaker 3: And it brought a heck of a crowd out here
Speaker 3: today certainly, and the final kind of people that were
Speaker 3: hanging out over there were starting to disperse. Our guys
Speaker 3: at the ground crew are back out here putting some
Speaker 3: work in. Matt, I don't see our little uh, our
Speaker 3: little green robot painting the lines here or something.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw this. I think it
Speaker 3: was Ian earlier tweeted us a picture they had a
Speaker 3: robot out on the baseball field, out there cutting the grass.
Speaker 4: I've seen that robot. He's a veteran, he's been around
Speaker 4: a couple of years. The other one's a rookie. Other
Speaker 4: that first round.
Speaker 3: Pick grass cutting robot doesn't need any preseason time the line, though,
Speaker 3: we're gonna need to see thirty forty snaps a game
Speaker 3: from him at least little hour in the books another
Speaker 3: hour ago. I want to dig back into some of
Speaker 3: the roster conversation stuff that Matt and I had last week,
Speaker 3: comparing certain position groups to others. We've also got some
Speaker 3: big storylines around the league that we need to some
Speaker 3: injuries and some uh some moving and shaking that we
Speaker 3: need to get to an hour number two here. Keep
Speaker 3: those tweets rolling in. We will get to those throughout
Speaker 3: this three hour show. Hour in the books. Two more
Speaker 3: hours to go. Euler and Williamson. We are at Saint
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