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Visitshop 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:52.440 dot Steelers dot com. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.279 Good afternoon, Steeler Nation. It is the Drive live at 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.000 Training Camp, Saint Vincent College of Course in Latro, Pennsylvania. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.920 Another beautiful day here on campus, Rush Huoler, Matt Williamson, Hi, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.160 a top Chuck Nolefield with you here for the next 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:12.480 three hours as Matt acclamation part of camp over Sunday off. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:13.560 The pads went on. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.800 Today, Yeah they did. And so the beginning of practice, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.320 I mean obviously not the stretch portion, and the individuals 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.640 and things were like everybody I was on the edge 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.400 of my seat. How physical are we going to get? 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.440 How much banging are we going to get? Is it 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.160 going to be any different? Is it going to be 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.400 drastically different? Just in terms of tone and physicality. And 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.520 this is not me being critical. We know this head 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.760 coach doesn't value that in as much as keeping his 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.960 players healthy and getting the starting line and conditioning and 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.080 running a ton of plays. It's just different ways to 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.080 attack practice. But I would say the first twenty minutes, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.840 half hour or so, I'm watching, going this looks exactly 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.680 like last week, you know, I'm like, that's cool, no 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.720 big deal. And then we got into some you know, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:05.040 I mean, it wasn't seventies Raiders verse Steelers or you know, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.639 Ray Lewis versus Ben Sugs in those days by any 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.800 means in terms of the physicality and aggressiveness and violence. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.800 But we saw legit one on one big men drills, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.040 you know, like to the left of us here in 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.239 the end zone. They had it was almost like a 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.680 varsity group and a JV group where they had two 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.919 lines on each side of the end zone. Where again 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.880 this is not a rip on Tomlin, Everyone's just doing 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.680 things different. I love how much field they use in practice, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.080 you know what I mean? They spread out, yeah, you know, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.360 so there was three things going on at once. There 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.799 were two O line drills. Again, it was like the 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.359 ones with like Max was in there too, I mean 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.640 ones plus versus the ones plus KMTJ. High Smith, all 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.519 those dudes. And then on the other side of the 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.480 end zone just next to them were the JV guys basically, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.399 you know, And I didn't pay an attention to JV guys. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.000 I was just watching the ones, going they gonna play 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.520 ady Cake or are they going to go at it? 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.040 They went at it. I mean it was like a 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.079 Senior Bowl practice or you know Tomlin practice. They were 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.880 one on ones, trying everything they got to do battle 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.360 to get to the quarterback. I was like, great, And 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.440 then you know, the rest of the field was basically 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.639 a skeleton drill, you know, one on ones quarterbacks throwing 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.400 to receivers and stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.800 Labs and I were here watching it and we're yelling 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.600 through the glass at each other and what you see 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.200 there and who has that made that play? Blah blah. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.799 There's a lot. It's always a lot to watch in 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.560 these practices more so than the other ones. But we noticed, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.320 and this definitely was true last week, a lot of 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.400 the defensive backs, if not all, were not contesting catches, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.120 you know, like they're kind of they play up to 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.840 the to the catch point and then they sort of 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.200 let them. They don't. They're not battling in the air 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.760 and fighting and spiking it out. And frankly, we both said, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.320 I don't know how many people would get injured doing that, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.560 but obviously they're being coached to allow it. And then 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.560 as the practice went on, those got a little more 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.600 physical too. You know, we did not see backs on backers. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.760 We did not see seven shots. You know, those things 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.600 might be things of a past, who's to say, but 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.120 they definitely weren't out here playing paddy cake, you know. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.760 And there's a lot of people here, you know, sure, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.120 Pat McAfee's here. So it was a really good environment. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.680 And I had to leave a little early to go 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.120 back to the hotel and do a podcast. But there 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.000 was a two minute drill that I missed at the end, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.080 but there was good team stuff too. Of course, they're 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.279 not like hitting the quarterbacks and things of that nature, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.359 and the team drills I don't know what the linemen 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.480 were one thousand percent after each other, because that's how 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.799 you get stepped on or somebody falls into the quarterback. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.320 But you got a pretty good feel of what they're 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.200 trying to accomplish here. And I really enjoyed the one 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.120 on one drills with the big guys. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.279 Yeah, that was that was certainly something that I was 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.880 hoping to see something that And again we know there's 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.919 gonna be no live tackling, but that doesn't mean, to 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.159 use your term, that they're playing patty cake out here. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.479 And they're doing thud you know, which is just basically 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.000 chesting up a dude, which is by the way, folks 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.000 like what thirty of the teams do. Yes, nobody cares 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.680 about what the other thirty one teams in the world 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.159 are doing, but that's what almost the entire league does. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.080 Yes, that is it is. This is more common to 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.960 what you see way across the league than what we 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.960 had had the last few years out here. As uh, yeah, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.960 a lot of those one on one drills seemingly some 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.960 good stuff between Zach Fraser and y A Black. Yeah, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.760 Ke Benton seemed like he was active in a lot 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.839 of those drills. Yes, big year for those I like 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.920 that tournament. We'll probably use that through the rest of camp. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.200 The one pluses that you yeah, I. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.440 Liked that it wasn't just five linemen down there on offense. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.640 There was maybe seven or so. I think Coffin was 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.680 with them, Max was definitely. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.719 With Those guys are one pluses. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.560 Yeah, they're still in the hunt and you know they're 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:38.640 going against the top dudes. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.440 There's a lot of those on both sides of the 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:41.400 football in this camp. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.520 I don't know where to make the cut, you know, like, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.240 and I think maybe someone like Yi Black want to 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.200 walk back and forth and done both. I don't know 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.800 for sure, but you know, yeah, you know, like Cam's 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.760 gonna be there in Fraser and those guys. But yeah, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:53.560 it's it's kind of. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.440 Interesting where does like Jennings Dunker go. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.120 You know he's yeah, yeah for now, so that but 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.720 I'm sure it's quite the honor to be like, why 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.600 don't you go the other group today? Yeah? 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.280 Baby, that's that's when you that's when you know you're 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:07.640 starting to to settle in here. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.400 Yeah, yeah, a little bit. So Dunker is a perfect 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:10.400 guy to bring that up about. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.440 Great, he's a great one. He's he's a he's an 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.800 absolute great one, because it seems like there's a lot 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.760 of those again one plus a little bit of those 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.720 tweeeners in both sides of the trenches. Yes, a lot 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.520 of a lot of good a lot of good, big 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.240 bodies here in this camp, a lot of spots that 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.159 are seemingly already kind of nailed on. Just how's the 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.920 exact pecking order going to shake out? But yeah, no, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.320 that's that's that's good to hear. It is. It's one 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.320 of those things, man, when they when they really get going, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.880 like starting this week, you have to tell yourself, Okay, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.679 I'm watching this for a few minutes. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.160 I just concentrate on that. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.560 If you want to watch the quarterbacks, watch the quarterbacks 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:48.760 for a few minutes. If you want to watch the 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.839 offensive and defensive lineman one on ones, watch that for 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.840 a few minutes, because you'll find yourself trying to follow 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.760 multiple things at once and then you can't really follow it. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.120 It's like it's that, it's that classic. You know, the 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.159 human brain is is not capable of fully focusing on 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.040 two things at the same time. It's like, don't try. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.920 Through that again, who's that? And then you get all. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.680 It's like you got to lock in on one thing 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.680 for a few minutes at a time, watch it, dissect it, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.680 and then move on to the next thing across the 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.640 field or down on the corner or because like you said, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.120 there's a lot going on every single practice. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.640 So Senior Bowl, like when I was at ESPN my 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.160 first couple of years, I joined Todd McShay and Steve Mensch, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.800 who we reference often. Those guys are still doing it, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.640 but they needed a third set of eyes because there 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.000 was really three drills going on at the same time. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.800 There was the big men, there was a little men, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.640 and the guys in between, you know, So we just 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.840 switched day to day. Like you got the backs first linebackers, 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.640 you got the big guys today. Because we try to 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.280 watch it all, you're really selling yourself short, no doubt. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.400 Yeah, just there's there's too much going on. You're gonna 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.080 miss it and you're not gonna catch everything. You're not 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.840 gonna be as detail oriented. So yeah, there's there's a 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.880 lot of a lot to watch out here. And I'm 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.640 Mike McCarthy practice, that's for sure. And today we got 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.480 the kind of the first clips of everything with the 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.680 with the pass on, with the big men going at it. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:06.640 I wonder too, you know, one thing, despite the the 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.280 physical nature, more physical nature I should say of Mike 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.880 Tomlin practices, because then if I just say the physical nature, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.880 that makes it seem like they're not doing anything at 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.200 all here with right mcraphy, and that's just not true. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.160 Which was worrying me the first twenty minutes half hours, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.280 so labs are apparently look at each other like they're 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:21.680 just not like last week. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.920 This looks like we're still acclimating here. With that, I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.560 wonder what tomorrow's practice looks like in that sense, because 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.840 one thing that Mike Tomlin was, despite how widely known 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.240 he ran physical training camp practices, he also knew when 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.240 to say whoa as opposed to sick on? 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:39.560 Yea? 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.600 Yeah, Like heow it back after Friday night lights, every. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.000 Real physical for two days, and then the third day 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.760 he would dial it back and then you know, yeah, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.520 real physical for Friday night lights and then maybe that 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.800 next Saturday it take it easy on them. I wonder 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.600 what tomorrow's practice looks like from that stand. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.200 That's a good point. I guess we'll find out and 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.320 we'll let you guys know for sure, but then I'm 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.199 being here watching the whole thing yet again, crowd was 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.920 great today. You mentioned before, the weather's been awesome. The 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.240 McAfee aspect of it all adds a little something else, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.600 you know, pads being on ads in a little something else. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.360 But talking about the drill that I watched most that 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.960 the big men, my man Max looked really good. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:16.480 Yeah. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.800 Yeah, And to me that was my biggest takeaway, Like, okay, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.719 Frasier held his own yeah you know, Oh it's what 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.640 characters all right, Yeah, I mean, like I know all 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.360 those things, but I thought Max, you know, eight reps 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.440 or something, one on one often against TJ, which I'm 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.679 sure wasn't on purpose, but also really reminded me of Tomlin, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.079 you know, like when Artie Burns got here, it's like, oh, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.160 you could go against AB every time, right, right right. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.920 I don't know if that was on purpose or not. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.600 I kind of made the joke like this was tom 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.080 when Max would go against DJ every time at right tackle. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.040 But he did a lot, and I think TJ beat 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.360 him the first rep I watched, And again I wasn't 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.040 charting it. I don't get stuff in front of me. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.920 After that, I would say Max got the better of him. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.079 You know, that doesn't mean oh TJ's shot, He's not 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.679 gonna be any good anymore. Like one rep, he came 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.559 off the edge hard, tried to go right down the 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.400 middle of a Hanachre, Andhannachre just kind of sat back 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.040 in his haunches absorbed it. Didn't take a step back 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.040 after that. I mean he absorbed a big power blow 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.080 right in his chest and the bullrush didn't phase him 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.880 one bit. And even just the rep he got beat 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.920 his first one, it was like, boy, but his feet 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.600 looked really good. The lateral agility getting out of his stands, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.800 you know, might have been his first real rep against 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.960 DJ Wattever. Probably it probably was very eye opening for 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.280 the young man. And then he adjusted really well. So 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.160 I'm curious to ask, like Starks are some of those 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.440 guys and I know the wh'll go watch tape tonight, 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.720 but I thought, Ohannachre was very noteworthy. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.680 Well that's something we'll definitely keep an eye on. Yeah, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.120 row and rolling through here as we continue to roll 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.040 along in this padded portion of practice. Uh yeah, that's 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.600 that's Unfortunately I missed that little portion. You you know, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.600 this and some other suit. I was a little late 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.640 getting here today. Had had a sick daughter back home 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.920 this morning, so had to kind of hang home while 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.200 my wife ran into work for a couple of meetings 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.080 and then came back home to relieve me. So, yeah, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:04.719 the first thing, this. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.439 Can be a balancing act for all of our schedule. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.240 It sure is. It really, it's a lot. It's a 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.000 lot of moving parts, without a doubt, and it was. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.800 It was the first day for me not to make 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.040 light of your daughter's illness. And I know she's on. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.040 Super yah know, she's just just a fever in that 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.960 kind of you know, typical three year old stuff. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.839 But this was the first day where I was like, boy, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.440 being in the dorms would have been a little more 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.480 convenient because I'd like wait for my room to get 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:26.959 ready and then I ran over there and it's not 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.319 quite ready, right, all right, Right, campus was crazy. It 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.640 was like I wouldn't I wouldn't mind just walking up 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.680 the hill and knowing that I had a home base. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.240 Yeah, place to do your podcast. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:37.400 Yeah, I was juggling today. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.960 Rest your eyes for a few minutes, yeah, yeah, No. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.840 There was no eye resting today. I'll tell you that. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.120 There's no rest for the Wickeds and that's that's what 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.880 I've been told. And you got a night show tonight 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:46.480 as well too. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.120 Yeah, I'm doing five hours straight. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:49.959 I'll tell you what. I'm just going to say. You're 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.080 doing Dolly parton today nine to five, but you're doing 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.240 more like nine to nine today, long, long day. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.160 And along those lines with our schedule this week, are 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.880 we these two days and then Wednesday's all yep, yeah, yeah, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.520 these two days we. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.320 Have today and tomorrow, then Wednesday off, then we'll be 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.720 back Thursday Friday. Obviously Saturday is Saturday night Lights typically 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.960 Friday Night Lights, but it is of course this Saturday, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.280 and then an off day Sunday, and then Matt a 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.679 week from now, we'll be staring down the Steelers first 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.240 preseason game just a couple of days away. Next Thursday 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.360 is that first preseason game at home against the Packers. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.319 So that's what now, just ten days away or so, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.000 it's I'm gonna be here real quick. Yeah, always happens 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:26.920 quick in this process. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.000 Again, you know, there's only a couple of us during 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.000 practice as usual up here watching practice, and Rob was 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.559 one of them, Rob King, when he was asking me 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.840 all about the Jets offseason, and it was like, WHOA, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.160 I guess, is that not that far away either? You know, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.520 their second preseason game? 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.240 It is. Yep. It's a fun preseason slate with the Packers, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.720 the Jets, and then the Buffalo Bills. Of course that 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.160 new stadium up there in Buffalo that we'll get to 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.440 see in a couple of weeks. I'm just who am 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:53.880 I kidding? I'm just trying to find ways to make 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.400 the preseason interesting. But that first game is always something 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.719 that we're looking for. After we get through a few 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.079 more practices here, you're ready to see somebody hit somebody 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.360 in a different uniform and to be able to assess 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.120 a little bit from there. We're just getting started here 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.880 on this Monday on campus. Plenty more ground to cover 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.920 from practice, some other moving and shaking around the league, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.160 some of those larger themed conversations. We got to get 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.360 back into the Steelers depth. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.199 Trick, trying to mention law Aaron Rodgers soon to get 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:19.440 back there. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.640 Let's do that. We'll talk a little Aaron Rodgers. When 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.480 we returned, still a nice crowd over there at the 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.520 McAfee show. I thought they were wrapping up at three o'clock, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.960 but maybe they're maybe they're going a little bit longer 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.040 on their YouTube page or something there. But a lot 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.480 happening on campus today, another beautiful, sunny, gorgeous day here 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.200 on the campus of Saint Vincent College. Matt and I 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.880 are with you until six p. M. Williamson just getting 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.120 started here. 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Did you get crushed with rain 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:16.520 at home last night? No, we got annihilated up up 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.200 in Mars Cranberry where I'm at, Oh my goodness, for like. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.920 Four night before it was crazy, like wake you up 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:22.720 the mind of the night storm. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.440 We've got a creek behind our house and it like 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.520 kind of started overflowing last night. Like that's no, because 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.440 we're like up on a hill from that, if that 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.480 makes sense. But I can always tell how much rain 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.240 we're getting because normally it's like nice and calm, and 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.080 then it gets pretty crazy and then it starts to 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.640 overflow a little bit. So yeah, some serious rain back 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.360 in some parts of western Pennsylvania last night. But here today, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.240 beautiful day and it looks like that's going to be 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.400 the case tomorrow for another practice for the Steelers before 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.880 they get a day off on Wednesday, Matt, before we 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.160 went to break, you had some Aaron Rodgers things that 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:55.800 you wanted to discuss here on the program. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.800 Yeah, and again we were just chatting with Rob and labs, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.640 you know, observing them in practice and you know, things 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.840 of that nature. He put on a clinic throw in 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.600 the football today. He was so sharp. And it's not 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.880 that it's unusual that it's like, wow, he's really good, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.400 but like the ball just look beautiful. It's so beautiful. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.120 I mean, like we talked about the huge net that 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.720 they threw over over there, you know, on the right, Well, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.520 they had the smaller one today. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:22.120 I see ye. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.240 And it was part of this is good, part of this 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.800 is bad. It's so apparent. And I think these were 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.800 Rob's exact words, like who the starter is compared to 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.480 the other three? Oh yeah, I mean, and. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.960 Who the future Hall of Famer is right the other three? 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.880 I mean, he made one throw where the net was 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.360 pretty far downfield. I want to say it was fifteen 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.680 twenty yards from where they're released, maybe from the line 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.440 of scrimmage, let alone their release point where he threw 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.600 it almost underhand. I mean it was as side arm 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.680 as you could get, the instant flick of like a 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.520 dark throw hits that middle thing swish, and he was 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.080 happy about it. He was fingered guns, you know, like 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.080 I mean, he he those fingers. He definitely had the 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.080 you know, like a high, high degree of difficulty on 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.199 that throw. And he was real proud of himself, and 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.600 he should have been because there's still not many people 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.760 to pull that one off. It's awesome, but the other 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.080 guys on the on the flip side, especially next to him, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.000 are well behind. I mean, just as throwers of the 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.520 football and let alone their command of the game. And 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.719 that's no criticism. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:32.600 I mean, one's a four time MVP, first top three, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.320 top five quarterback to ever live. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.760 But like Aller missed that entire net several times. I 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.399 mean on ten throws, maybe he sunk one, you know, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:48.520 like Toward was okay, Rudolph was okay, but they were okay, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.879 I'm gonna throw the ball over top and do it 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.399 right and come out. It's not snap my head around, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.640 you know, like the hell, you know, like QB one, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.320 it was just impressive and watching him throw go balls 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.600 down the sidelines and some of the team stuff I 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.320 watched looked like everything that came out of Aaron Sands 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.560 today was WHOA, that's pretty. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.360 He was showing off for his MacAfee show. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.960 I was wondering, I made that joke to in town. Right. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.000 No, that's and again that is that's not a knock 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:16.800