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Speaker 2: Welcome back to our number two of the Drive here

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Speaker 2: in Orlando. We are on the road and again we

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Speaker 2: were on the road just last month in the Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we would go and mobile. Yeah, that's what we do

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Speaker 2: for fun. We take you where the action is. And

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Speaker 2: all right now the action is our mock draft. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they get Steels have made some roster moves since

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Speaker 3: we've done this last gathered a little intel as well.

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Speaker 2: So we're doing this one today on Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 2: and we haven't done with them in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 2: I assume they think they've updated. They've updated some things

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Speaker 2: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Ja Daniels doesn't follow the twenty ye Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah. Uh So we're up now at pick twenty

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Speaker 2: and the people available to us are Cooper, Degene Interesting, Interesting,

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Speaker 2: Jerson Newton, Nate Wiggins, Terry and Arnold Interesting, Jackson, Powers Johnson. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: A'mrius Mims, I'm a fan, Graham, Barton, Tyler, Newban, Peyton Wilson, Tyler, Geyon,

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Speaker 2: Donnie Mitchell, so you.

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Speaker 3: Know it's good, but there's not a run of the

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Speaker 3: podium guy from Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we do have ten teams on the phone

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Speaker 2: offering trades.

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Speaker 3: Ten okay, ten, Well, let's definitely listen.

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Speaker 2: Let's see who's on the phone.

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Speaker 3: Do we need the field?

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Speaker 2: All ten on the phone are the Philadelphia Eagles. They

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Speaker 2: have picked twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I say I'd like to stay close twenty six

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Speaker 3: or lower, give or take.

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Speaker 2: Okay, then you're not going to like any of these

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Speaker 2: other offers because then the only other team with a

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Speaker 2: who's offering a first round pick or has a first

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Speaker 2: round pick this year to offer is Detroit a picked

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Speaker 2: twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: You have to blow my doors off. I mean there's

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Speaker 3: always a price. Yeah, I mean I think you'd get

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Speaker 3: a decent O lineman at twenty nine or receiver, but

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Speaker 3: I'd rather stay close to you.

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Speaker 2: If we go to twenty two, I assume Philadelphia is

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Speaker 2: coming up to get to get the Gene or Wigans

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Speaker 2: or Wigans, one of the two or Arnold or Arnold. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's three corners there, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Which means that one would still be there, one would

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Speaker 3: still be there for us.

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Speaker 2: You know, if that was if that's the direction that

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Speaker 2: we want to go. We could talk to Detroit for fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was let's see what Philadelphia a lot

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Speaker 2: of names I liked. Let's see what Philadelphia has to

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Speaker 2: say here. So if we give twenty two for twenty

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Speaker 2: they have pitched fifty and fifty three, but they typically

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Speaker 2: won't give those up. A doubt that's going to get done.

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Speaker 2: Fifty three is not They're not going to stare. They're

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Speaker 2: not going to say yes. But what if I say

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Speaker 2: for ninety eight, so that would give us twenty two

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Speaker 2: and fifty three, we'd be giving up twenty and ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: There's a thirty percent chance that that if they would.

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Speaker 3: Take a swing, I mean I would definitely do that,

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Speaker 3: but I'd be shocked if they are cool they did

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm not giving them eighty four.

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Speaker 3: For fifty three.

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Speaker 2: You said, yeah, now, okay, although I would like that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's their third rounder?

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Speaker 2: They don't have one.

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Speaker 3: That's the problem. Okay, they may not be a good

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Speaker 3: trade partner, they may not be future picks are great,

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Speaker 3: but I want to make some early picks on this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not I'm not interested I mean I might

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Speaker 2: would I would you give up they have fifty as well?

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Speaker 2: Would you go twenty two and fifty for twenty and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, considering what's on the board right now, I mean

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Speaker 3: it wouldn't change my life that much to move all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would do that. Okay, So that is a

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Speaker 2: forty seven percent chance, okay of being accepted. Maybe we

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Speaker 2: could throw in a you'll try to kick her next year.

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Speaker 2: You would try to swap picks next year, Like let's

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Speaker 2: Say one of one of those six, they're six next

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Speaker 3: I would say the other way. I thought we'd have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, give them their they're six next year for what

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Speaker 2: That is a forty That only knocked it down two percent.

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Speaker 2: That's forty five percent chance.

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Speaker 3: See, I thought the original the deal from this year's picks,

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Speaker 2: We're giving up twenty and eighty four, they're giving up

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Speaker 3: I thought we had to ad a sweetener to make

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Speaker 2: Doesn't look like it. We're we're giving up the seventh

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Speaker 2: next year for a sixth next week. Okay, that is

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Speaker 2: a forty five percent. We got that seventh from them,

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Speaker 2: and to pick a deal that was not accepted. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but what if we do it without their six well,

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Speaker 2: without the without the swap. Yeah, because next the seventh

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Speaker 2: runner next year only move bumps it up one percent.

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Speaker 3: They did that, Okay, So we moved up heavy from

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Speaker 3: three to two and only moved back.

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Speaker 2: To We moved up thirty four spots.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in on that. Yeah, considering what if Latham

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Speaker 2: Now if we wanted to with those two with the

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Speaker 2: a center if we want to too.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm, No, we could. And I'm also sort of

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Speaker 3: interested in the McCormick type too. Yeah, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 3: right right where I'm trading up on these. Yeah, the

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Speaker 3: sites are's really do? All right?

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Speaker 2: We're going to resume the draft heres, Okay, we moved

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Speaker 2: back They took Terry and Arnold Tyler Geiton when at

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Speaker 2: twenty one so that means Cooper Dejene is still there. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Nate Wiggan is still there, Jackson Powers Johnson still there,

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Speaker 2: Amarus Mims still there, Graham Barton's still there. We've got

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Speaker 2: two more. We have three more teams on the phone now, including.

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Speaker 3: I think we won't agree, but I would take Mims,

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Speaker 3: but I would certainly listen to trade offers.

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Speaker 2: I have no problem taking Mims.

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Speaker 3: There, Okay, yeah, especially after Guiton fell. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh, San Francisco is the only other team with a

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Speaker 3: I'd rather stick in the NAT take the pick. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In draft Mems, yes over Degene.

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Speaker 3: Close, but yeah, okay, just Overnead. I mean it's not

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Speaker 3: because of his injury. It's just the secondary is in

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Speaker 2: Okay, Amarius Mems is to pick at twenty two, and

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Speaker 2: we're cruising here. We're back up at fifty and Zach

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can live with that now. I'm feeling

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Speaker 2: Okay, I guess you could still call Mason Cole. If

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Speaker 3: And and Bordolini. Yeah, I mean it's not perfect, guys,

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Speaker 3: but then you'd have other things, you know.

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Speaker 2: You would, okay, floated a receiver or you know, we

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Speaker 2: got six trade offers for pick fifty. We have picks

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Speaker 2: fifty and fifty one now after the trade. So who

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Speaker 2: do we like here? TJ. Tampa.

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Speaker 3: It's great, but they don't need an outside corner.

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Speaker 2: Mike Santastrul.

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Speaker 3: I think you can get them later, but not on

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Speaker 2: On this Yeah, yeah, Chris Braswell, Michael Pennock's room and Wilson.

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Speaker 2: Remember we're gonna get two of these dudes. I know

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Speaker 2: we could do. We could take Santa stru and Wilson.

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Speaker 2: They can room together, they room together, they could battle

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Speaker 2: it out. Yeah, there you go. Now, I like Wilson.

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Speaker 2: It's built in here. Uh. Javon Bullard Deasa, Isaac Jatavian Sanders,

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Speaker 2: Jermaine Burton, Joan Alis, Ruker cor Row. I think that's

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Speaker 2: the move. Would you take Santistro or Rooke? I think

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Speaker 3: Wilson I think is the easiest one on that.

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Speaker 2: I think take. I think I think he doubled down

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Speaker 3: They won a lot of games together.

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Speaker 2: Do it fills a lot of You get your now

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Speaker 2: you have your slot corner. You get the best slot

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Speaker 2: cornerback in this draft. And Roman Wilson, who I think

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Speaker 3: No, I'm a big fan and he's much more than

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Speaker 3: just a slot to me. We should have one third

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Speaker 3: rounder now right after?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have. We have ninety eight and then our

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Speaker 2: here at ninety eight. Michael Pratt, Cedric van Prant, Mason McCormick.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll be assured of.

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Speaker 2: That, Dadrian Taylor, Demerson, Maris de Leofu, Sioni, Vaki, Ray

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Speaker 3: I really like McCormick and I didn't know by the

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Speaker 3: maybe James Daniels are center. Yeah you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 3: that's one more center guard capable guy.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me take a look here in his background

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Speaker 2: because I can do that on here. Yeah, that is nice,

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Speaker 2: but he's played all guard in college in college.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's a small school.

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Speaker 2: But small school. Yeah, but you know, I mean those

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Speaker 2: those Dakota guys, that the Dakota State guys, North and

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Speaker 2: South Dakota. There's a track record there a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a lot of them went there as tight ends and then.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah they were big, they weren'trus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's six five, he's three hundred and fifteen pounds.

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Speaker 2: Would you take him over Limber.

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Speaker 3: If I knew that he's truly center capable And that's

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Speaker 3: not just Miller making it up. I mean, I just

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Speaker 3: don't know the background from an hour ago. And that's

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Speaker 3: something I'm gonna do whenever I get to the airport,

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Speaker 3: to be honest with They're gonna look at his background

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Speaker 3: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I like Limmer.

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Speaker 3: I like Limber.

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Speaker 2: He's also played some guard. Kay, He's played right He's

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Speaker 2: played right guard his first two seasons. Moved over to

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Speaker 3: That's fine with me. I mean, the only place that's

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Speaker 3: it listed McCormick is the center was Miller. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's wrong, but it's first I've ever

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Speaker 3: seen that, and he hasn't played anything, and.

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Speaker 2: I think for the Steelers I like Limmer better than Van.

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Speaker 3: Prant, ob too. Van Prant to me, he's off the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know a lot of Steeler fans like Van

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Speaker 2: Print because what's the name that they saw. They've been

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Speaker 2: here about three years. He's a potential first round draft PA.

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Speaker 3: He's won national titles. He's a really good college player

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Speaker 3: on a great team. But I also don't think he

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Speaker 3: And you maybe bring back Mason Cole or something like that,

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Speaker 3: He's a good player. I mean I like him in

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Speaker 2: He is Tyke Smith, the safety out of Georgia.

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Speaker 3: He's definitely different, well kind of different.

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Speaker 3: He would makes some sense. I'd rather Nissan Smith, but

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Speaker 2: Right, Ania Smith the wide receiver out of Texas A

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Speaker 3: Out of Little two redundant though. Yeah, Cooper Bebe guard

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Speaker 3: Their fourth right. I thought Golden might be the mix. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's cheap, he's productive, he'd be a really good special team.

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Speaker 2: It was a really good special teamers. That's my favorite

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Speaker 2: is still there? Just real quick, is there a six

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Speaker 3: No, not really, Okay, Yeah, I was hoping like a

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Speaker 2: I think it's Tyke Smith or Mohammed Kamara.

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Speaker 3: I think Kamara is a better prospect. Yeah, I would

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Speaker 2: I'll take Kamara. They've had pretty good luck with those

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Speaker 2: Colorado State edge rushers.

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Speaker 3: Or you know, the six to one and under edge

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Speaker 2: Our next pick here is at one seventy eight James Williams.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting, Yeah, it is because he's going to be

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Speaker 3: NFL slash nickel line. I mean, he's not gonna be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you don't know about him, he is.

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Speaker 2: He's played. He played safety at Miami.

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Speaker 3: I think he was heavily heavily four or five star

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Speaker 2: He's six five, two hundred and fifteen pounds. See tell hey, James,

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Speaker 2: you're going to be a special teams player. Sit here,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna veto that pick, though, okay, I mean just

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Speaker 3: because he's so tall and skinny to be in the box.

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Speaker 3: And the reason he's not busted or isn't projected to

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure that means at the NFL level he

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Speaker 3: I mean? I don't need that project.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know what else we're gonna like here.

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Speaker 2: Cornerback Dwight Mclothin out of Arkansas, Trevor Keegan guard out

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Speaker 3: That's what we don't need. To running back good, he's good,

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Speaker 3: really interested player. He's a receiver turned running back. I'm

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Speaker 4: A J.

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Speaker 2: Barner, the tight end out of Michigan.

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Speaker 3: They don't need a tight end at all, but I

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Speaker 3: think A. J. Barner is going to be a number

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Speaker 3: The Ohio State kid and the Michigan tight end to

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Speaker 2: Tip Raymond is also there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I only who'd rather have. Yeah, Raymond is more

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So one of those guys that would make some sense.

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Speaker 2: Cody Schrader another running back there is kind of interesting.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Jefferson the other I haven't taken the defensive tack.

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Speaker 2: Defensive tackle. That's his height and weight. He is six

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he'd be fine. Or one of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you also have uh see here, I mean now

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Speaker 2: He's six three two fifteen.

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Speaker 3: I was also thinking an athletic linebacker to in this

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Speaker 3: neighborhood makes some sense too, with some upside.

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Speaker 2: Steel Chambers is there, Yeah, he fits that, he does.

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking here? One of the tight ends,

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Speaker 2: one of the tight ends Raymond or barn Barner. Barner's safer,

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Speaker 2: Raymond is more upside. I think both would be useful.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Barner gets this far, to be honest

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Speaker 3: with you, I mean I would have a higher grade

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Speaker 2: Okay, so then we take him. Yeah, all right, I

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Speaker 2: got a problem with that. Tight ends often and Raymond

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Speaker 3: That doesn't.

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Speaker 2: This is our final pick at one ninety five.

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Speaker 3: Looking here, we got the concentrated on like linebacker or safety.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Schrader's still here. Kamal Hadden, MJ. Devons Shire, the

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Speaker 2: cornerback out of Pitt Brendan Jackson Edge out of Washington State.

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Speaker 2: M hmm, let's see here. Tyron Hopper is there, the

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Speaker 2: linebacker in Missouri. That's not bad. So I Tanner BORDERLINI

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Speaker 2: is still available.

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Speaker 3: He's always He's another one here that I don't take

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Speaker 3: because he's too low.

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Speaker 2: Too low. Yeah, Jalen Ford still available at linebackers.

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Speaker 3: That would fit the built you know. Yeah, he may

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Speaker 3: end up being a borderline starter in a year. That's

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Speaker 3: not a bad pick, all right, Yeah a.

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Speaker 2: Pick then it's a push Mark Robinson type pick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And who knows if Folkm's ready for week one.

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Speaker 3: I mean he may be. Both might be in the

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Speaker 3: ross right off the bat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so the picture in. We made a trade

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Speaker 2: after we made the trades. There we took the Michigan

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Speaker 3: Ended up with three Wolverines. Whin's all said this we did. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then at ninety eight we took center Bo Limmer out

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Speaker 3: That was kind of funny.

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Speaker 2: We just it just that's the way it came out. Oh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then at one seventy eight we took tight end A. J. Barner,

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Speaker 2: linebacker Jalen Ford out of Texas. Okay, our overall draft

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Speaker 3: same is Drill Wilson thing. But they're both little. You know,

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Speaker 3: two of our top three picks are small people. That

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Speaker 3: I love Mems, but is he a plug of play guy?

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Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, questionable? Is Limmer even a day one

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Speaker 2: I like it and you start moving around. This is

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Speaker 2: You don't know how those picts are gonna fall. That's

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Speaker 3: Once in a while you trade down and then the

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Speaker 2: take place and everything of that nature of the league

439
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 2: votes on all that stuff, you know, the for the

440
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Speaker 2: Steelers Mike Tomlin talks for the only time this offseason

441
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 2: and until we get to the draft. Omar Cohn also,

442
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,880
Speaker 2: of course address the media and to wrap things up

443
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,959
Speaker 2: every year, Art Rooney the second gives his kind of

444
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 2: synopsis of everything that was done here at these meetings,

445
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,439
Speaker 2: and so that happened late yesterday. We haven't had a

446
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Speaker 2: chance to speak of the equation here. Yeah, obviously absolutely

447
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,119
Speaker 2: so he spoke with the media yesterday. I was there

448
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 2: and here's what Art had to say yesterday at the

449
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Speaker 2: end of the meetings.

450
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon.

451
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Speaker 5: First to say that we were happy with the announcement

452
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 5: that we were awarded Germany as our third global market opportunity.

453
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Speaker 4: We can have.

454
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Speaker 5: More activities in Germany and look forward to continuing to

455
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 5: build our fans internationally. As far as the rules changes,

456
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 5: a couple of significant rules changes that.

457
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Speaker 4: You know, the hip drop tackle I think was.

458
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Speaker 5: An important to rule to pass, and then the kickoff

459
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 5: rule is gonna be interesting.

460
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Speaker 4: Let's put it that way.

461
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 2: Did did you uh vote for against the kick hop.

462
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 5: Oh, we wound up voting for it after it was

463
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 5: uh sort of a foregoing conclusion that it was gonna pass.

464
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 4: Weren't exactly in favor of it could start not a

465
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Speaker 4: lot of enthusiasm for it to start with.

466
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Speaker 6: Does he any Smith have any enthusiasm for it?

467
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Speaker 5: Do you think, Well, you know he was part of

468
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 5: the group of uh of special teams coaches that puts

469
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Speaker 5: this thing together, so we can blame some of it

470
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Speaker 5: on him.

471
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Speaker 4: Fard, your proposal for the pushing back to trade in.

472
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Speaker 3: One of the two was exactly right.

473
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Speaker 4: Yes, it passed. Yeah, sort of pushing back of it.

474
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Speaker 3: And and just what's the significance of it?

475
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Speaker 5: What's that people to be able to be I mean,

476
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Speaker 5: you know, I think it's just an adjustment that now

477
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Speaker 5: that we have a little longer season, just catching up

478
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Speaker 5: with kind of the fact that the seasons you know,

479
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 5: a week longer now, or the optics of the kickoff

480
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 5: rule is something that was of uh uh concern or

481
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Speaker 5: disrupting to the owners.

482
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Speaker 4: It just it be entirely different.

483
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Speaker 5: Look now, I mean it's a dramatic change, uh nowhere

484
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Speaker 5: around that, and you know we had some reservations because

485
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Speaker 5: of that. So it's gonna be interesting.

486
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Speaker 6: You've got in a sense from the league when you

487
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 6: guys might get another international game. I know that they

488
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Speaker 6: were kind of working through some of those announcements this week.

489
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Speaker 5: You know, as we stand today, we don't think we're

490
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Speaker 5: gonna have one in twenty twenty four, but we think soon.

491
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Speaker 5: It's a no Brazil, not as far as we know.

492
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Speaker 4: Any thoughts on this gonna.

493
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Speaker 2: I guess it's gonna play Christmas Day game on Wednesday

494
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Speaker 2: this year.

495
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Speaker 5: Right right again, it's I mean, you have to be flexible,

496
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 5: you have to be willing to go where your fans are,

497
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 5: and you know, it's become a popular day for our games,

498
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Speaker 5: and so I think we'll continue to see it. With

499
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Speaker 5: adding Germany to Mexico and Ireland, is the idea to

500
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Speaker 5: eventually play in all those places or just you know,

501
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 5: having a marketing agreement not necessarily mean that you.

502
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Speaker 4: Want to play a game there.

503
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, we'd love to play a game in

504
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Speaker 5: all those places, you know, not sure how quickly that

505
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 5: can happen, So it's you know it it it'll be

506
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 5: a while before we get to all of them, but yeah,

507
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 5: we'd we'd love to play games in the markets.

508
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Speaker 4: Where we you know, we have that uh opportunity.

509
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 3: That's from your perspective.

510
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 2: How important was it to get the hip Drop Tackle

511
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: band from the game.

512
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Speaker 5: Well, as you may recall, you know, we lost Le'Veon

513
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 5: Bell for a whole season because of a tackle like

514
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 5: that way back, and so you know, we we've had

515
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 5: concerns about it for a while.

516
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 4: Now. I think, you know, the biggest question.

517
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 5: Is, you know, uh, you know, our officials have a hard,

518
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 5: hard enough job and it is.

519
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 4: A hard.

520
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 5: Uh a file to call. So it'll be interesting to

521
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 5: see how it gets called. But uh, but there's no

522
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 5: question it's a dangerous can be a dangerous play? Or

523
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Speaker 5: Do you like how the off season has been going

524
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 5: for you guys so far, acquisitions and how your team's

525
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 5: setting up now.

526
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 4: Well, it's been a busy off season, you know. I

527
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 4: like where we are so far.

528
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Speaker 5: Obviously we have you know, the draft is the next

529
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Speaker 5: priority and and.

530
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Speaker 4: Uh, you know we've got to do a good job

531
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Speaker 4: with the draft.

532
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 5: Art there were a lot of big time moves there,

533
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson, do Fields, Patrick Queen.

534
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Speaker 4: I don't wanna say it was a departure, but it

535
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 4: was a.

536
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: Little one, uh, out of the ordinary for you guys.

537
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 4: Is that just all part of how we need to take.

538
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 3: The next step.

539
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 5: You know, I think every year we try and figure out,

540
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 5: you know, how do we get better and how do.

541
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Speaker 4: We get big at better as quickly as possible? And so,

542
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 4: uh yeah, I think that.

543
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 5: That's really the bottom line is U try to you know,

544
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 5: try to get better as quickly as possible.

545
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 4: At the same time, what excites about Arthur Snett?

546
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're glad to get Arthur. I mean, he's brings

547
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 5: a lot of experience.

548
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 2: Uh.

549
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 4: You know, we we've seen, we've we've.

550
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Speaker 5: Been on the other side of the line of scrimmage

551
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 5: from him, uh for a while now, and we're we're

552
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 5: always impressed with, you know, his approach to the game

553
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 5: and uh so you.

554
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 4: Know, we're excited about having Arthur as well. Any feedback

555
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 4: on your proposal to get the draft in Pittsburgh.

556
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 5: Uh, nothing really new to report other than we wetinue

557
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,959
Speaker 5: to continue to be optimistic about it.

558
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 4: That should be next meeting. I guess that they'll make.

559
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 5: It's likely the main meeting will be when we find out.

560
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Speaker 6: Right since we've talked to the NFLPA had their second

561
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 6: report card come out, do you have any takeaways from

562
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 6: the feedback that you guys got from the players this

563
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 6: time around?

564
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 5: You know, we prefer to get our feedback directly from

565
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 5: the players. You're not even sure you know where that

566
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 5: comes from. It doesn't get presented to us. It gets

567
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 5: presented to the media. So you know, as far as

568
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 5: I'm concerned, it's more of a media opportunity for the

569
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 5: Players Association as opposed to a serious effort at constructive criticism.

570
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 5: But having said that, you know, we look at improving

571
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 5: our facilities every year and we'll continue to do that,

572
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 5: all right, m.

573
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Speaker 4: Last thing about the Christmas Day?

574
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Speaker 5: Does that mean the previous week game has to be

575
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 5: played on a Saturday for.

576
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Speaker 4: The teams participating.

577
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 5: It means that the teams that play at Christmas will

578
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 5: play an early game the week before.

579
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Speaker 4: That's right.

580
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 6: You know, it was this time of year ago we

581
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 6: talked to you about the Thursday night flex scheduling and

582
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 6: you guys ended up being impacted by that. I think

583
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 6: this is less. You're having two Thursday night games. How

584
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 6: did you think the first season of the change to

585
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 6: the Thursday night schedule, right.

586
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? We we survived.

587
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 5: Uh, I think we won both of those Thursday night games,

588
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 5: so it was it went okay.

589
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 4: You know, we're always a little concerned about how many

590
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 4: night home.

591
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 5: Games we get scheduled and and so we had three

592
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 5: this year, and you know that's kind of hopefully the

593
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 5: maps part.

594
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 4: The other teams have three global partnerships or more. There

595
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 4: are teams with with three or more. Yes, a couple, Yeah,

596
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 4: anything else? All right?

597
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: Thanks every That was Steelers President Art Rooney the second

598
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: with the media yesterday, wrapping up a lot everything that

599
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: happened there. And of course, you know, the Steelers being

600
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 2: granted the market in Germany. They now have Mexico, Ireland

601
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: and Germany. Uh at some point they as he said,

602
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 2: they would like to play in all of those places.

603
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 2: But I think, you know, the way that I think

604
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 2: the packing order is going to be Mexico, Ireland, Germany

605
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 2: unless they end up playing another team that has several

606
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 2: teams have the German market.

607
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a number of markets obviously super strong.

608
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: But you know, for the Steelers to be the home

609
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: team in one of the in each of those markets,

610
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 2: which you know, that's kind of what that's set up

611
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: to be. You know, you all you have all kinds

612
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 2: of you do.

613
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 3: More, you know, like marketing to say, watch parties and

614
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 3: things of.

615
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: That nature in those areas and work closely with the

616
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 2: you know, the people in those areas to to you know,

617
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 2: dram up interest in the league. And the Steelers have

618
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 2: a large fan base in all of those places.

619
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Speaker 3: And I urge people to go back and listen to

620
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 3: yesterday's show if you didn't, because we went in pretty depth,

621
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Speaker 3: because I didn't really understand the whole international markets and

622
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 3: how you get awarded and all that to me to

623
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 3: you know, ten ten to fifteen minute conversation of how

624
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 3: that works. But it's profitable. It spreads the brand, it

625
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 3: spreads football, it spreads the NFL, create new Steeler fans

626
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 3: too from abroad. So it's a pretty cool situation. I mean,

627
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 3: they're there. I don't know if people understand that there

628
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 3: are millions. When I say millions, there are millions of

629
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 3: Steeler fans in Mexico.

630
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's there. It's a it's a big part

631
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 2: of the fan base. And so that's you know, one

632
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: of the reasons. I mean, it's one of the reasons

633
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 2: why you know, the Steelers have a Spanish broadcast, you know,

634
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: so that they can play it, you know, for the

635
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 2: fans down there.

636
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 3: So until recently that they were so huge in Mexico, yeah,

637
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 3: I mean not like every team is. I mean they

638
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 3: are one of the most they're one of the one

639
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 3: of the top top ones.

640
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: So but also the you know, he mentioned the hip

641
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 2: drop tackle and losing Levy on bell to that. Yeah,

642
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: back in twenty fifteen. And of course the kickoff change

643
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 2: is going to be the thing that people the fans

644
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: sitting at home watching because it's going to be the

645
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: first thing that you see when you turn the game on.

646
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 3: Yeh, like what is different? Right? And not everyone's listening

647
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: to the rule changes in late March and whatnot until

648
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 3: they turn on the TV first.

649
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: Digging too deeply into it. Then you're going to turn

650
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: on that first preseason game, you're going to see that

651
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: that that rule change. You're going to see it the

652
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: you know, the everybody aligning for the first kickoff, and

653
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: it's going to be like, whoa, that's different.

654
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: It looks different. Yeah. Didn't sound like the Steelers were

655
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 3: super thrilled about it, but the special teams coaches were,

656
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: and it was that one's getting passed either way.

657
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: It's a fundamental change to how the game has been played.

658
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 3: It is, and I think it's going to be a

659
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 3: stressful situation for those special teams coaches that wanted it,

660
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 3: but implementing it's a whole different story when depending how

661
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 3: much time your head coach gives you for practice time

662
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Speaker 3: and special teams.

663
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Speaker 2: I can't I can't wait to talk to Danny Smith

664
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Speaker 2: as the Steelers special team coordinator and see get his

665
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: thoughts on this, not only his thoughts, but did he

666
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: have any of the input into some of these things

667
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: and how.

668
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: He was against it, yeah, and how if.

669
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: He feels it's going to be implemented. Because you know,

670
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: if you had all thirty two of those guys together,

671
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean they all agreed on what was going

672
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: to come.

673
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Speaker 3: Out of this.

674
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: Maybe seventeen of them put yeah, this may have This

675
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: may have been the compromise that came out of the

676
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Speaker 2: whole thing.

677
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: And you know, as we started the show, they quickly pivot,

678
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 3: go get a great kickoff returner, because now kickoff returners

679
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: are drastic back again they were a day ago.

680
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at it, last year, the Steelers

681
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: return to twenty four kickoffs, only twenty four, their opponents

682
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 2: returned eighteen.

683
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 3: Wow.

684
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 2: Okay, so basically one per game from the opponents and

685
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: a little more than half of the Steeler. Yeah, yeah,

686
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: that's gonna go up drastically for every day. If you're

687
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: probably going back up above thirty. I would think so

688
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: somewhere in that range, because I don't know that it

689
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: really benefits you.

690
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: I wonder how many times fair catch both averaged? Yeah,

691
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 3: I mean touchbacks per game is going to go to

692
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 3: like nothing.

693
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, And honestly, I think that makes a game more exciting.

694
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Speaker 3: It does it does? You know?

695
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 2: Because a lot of times, if you're at home, then

696
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: they're okay, it's a kickoff, come out of a commercial break,

697
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 2: they do the kickoff, it's a touch back, they go

698
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: to set things up, let's go to another commercial break.

699
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Speaker 3: Just gets repetitive. Yah, yeah, yeah, and I know that

700
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 3: they make an extra buck, you know with that commercial break, kickoff,

701
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: commercial break. Of course you still can do it. Yeah. Now,

702
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 3: I might not beat the fridge grabbing something to eat

703
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 3: or in the bathroom or whatever. I want to see.

704
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 2: The play and scoring, as we've mentioned before, has been

705
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,479
Speaker 2: down in the league the last couple of years, and

706
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: this may spur that along a little bit.

707
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: It could and certainly opens the door for kickoff returner

708
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: types to make an impact on the game, like.

709
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: That and now you you know, when you're when you're

710
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: building your roster, you do have to pay attention to

711
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: that bottom of the roster. Better have some guys that

712
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: can cover kicks. And I wonder if, as we said yesterday,

713
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: I wonder if that changes now, do you include maybe

714
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 2: some of those bigger body guys. Maybe you do have

715
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: another tight end on your roster than you normally would.

716
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you put an athletic defensive lineman out there.

717
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: Maybe you know some guys like that for the blocking purposes.

718
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 3: As a return team, because they don't we didn't get

719
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 3: We've got a lot more into it earlier in the week.

720
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 3: But the distance from the kickoff team to the kickoff

721
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 3: return team the walls is much shorter than it used

722
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 3: to be.

723
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: So you can't on side kick unless you declare. So,

724
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 2: you know, you could put those guys out there because well,

725
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: the teammates say, hey, I see this guy out there.

726
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: He has no hands.

727
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: He has no hands like blasting it at a guard, right,

728
00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: you know.

729
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: He's not going to over that. Well, now you can't

730
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: do that. But you can't put those guys out there

731
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: to set up your wall.

732
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: And I would think the Darnell Washington's of the world

733
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 3: will be out there for sure on your front line

734
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: and maybe your most Athletico lineman or you know, something

735
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 3: like that. It's an undersized guy that's a fifth round

736
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 3: pick that's putting on wait to start next year. Yeahlimmer, Boulimmer. Yeah.

737
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: Anyways, let's get to another break. He is the Matt

738
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: Williams and I'm Dale Lolly. That was what Art Rooney

739
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 2: the Second had to say coming out of these meetings yesterday.

740
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: Everything wrapping up here yesterday. We are still here. We're

741
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: doing our final show of the week here in Orlando,

742
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: segment of the week, our final segment coming up here

743
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: of the week here from the beautiful Rich Carlton in Orlando.

744
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 2: We'll do that when we return. He's Matt Williamson. I'm

745
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.

746
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

747
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

748
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio.

749
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly. He is the

750
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: Matt Williams and our final segment of the weekends. It

751
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: really has. It's been a lot of fun, learned, a

752
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: lot of stuff. Yeah, some we've talked about. Some we

753
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: can't talk about, sure, but you know, it really is

754
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 2: a valuable to come to something like this. You learn

755
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: about some of these new rule changes, you learn about,

756
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: you know, just a little bit of everything. You get

757
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: to talk to some people from some of the other

758
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: teams and things of that nature. And the one of

759
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: my takeaways from this week, Matt is, to me, the

760
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four NFL Draft really starts at pick three

761
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: with the Patriots.

762
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: I think so too. I think it's definitely quarterback quarterback,

763
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: and then teams.

764
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: Do they move out of there? Does somebody move up?

765
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 2: Because I bet that's the Once somebody moves up, that

766
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: changes the entire rest of the draft, even if the

767
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: Patriot stay there and take a quarterback. Okay, that's that's

768
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: kind of what everybody's been saying. It's possible, But I

769
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 2: think I think more and more that they trade out

770
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: of that spot and there's a there's a ripple effect

771
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 2: through the rest of the draft.

772
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously Minnesota is the most likely culprit to

773
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 3: be the one to move up. I mean, they don't

774
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 3: even hide, never could, and maybe the Raiders, I mean,

775
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 3: there could be a surprise team and there the Giants

776
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: could go to six to three or something like that too.

777
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 3: But I think I would be maybe comfortable today moving

778
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: to three. You're not comfortable moving to four, right, you

779
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 3: know what I mean? But there's not a lot of

780
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: clarity of who Washington likes best and ls u's pro

781
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: days going on as we speak too, so maybe they

782
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 3: don't even know. Yeah, some of that could still take

783
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 3: place here, Williams at one sounds like it's concrete. Yeah,

784
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 3: you know, you heard Art Rooney the second in the

785
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 3: previous segmentary he's asked about the Christmas Day games.

786
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 2: Two games on Christmas. Both of those those four teams

787
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: will play the Saturday before Christmas.

788
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 3: That's a slightly short We play Saturday, a really short week,

789
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: play Wednesday, nice long eleven.

790
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 2: Day week and over the holidays, which isn't bad, right,

791
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: And maybe even have a buye before your Saturday game

792
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: you want to buy it between you might have buy

793
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 2: before the Saturday game, possibly one of the four teams.

794
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 3: But hey, I mean for the viewers. I mean selfishly,

795
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 3: I love standalone games because even if it is Christmas

796
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: Day and there's only two and we're gonna have people over,

797
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 3: I can still pay heavy attention to it or tick

798
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 3: them out and watch them work, right, yea, for personal reasons,

799
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve gets a little hairer in my family to

800
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: pull off. But there won't be an Eve game this year.

801
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 3: I don't.

802
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not going to do that.

803
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I assume there's a Thursday night game that

804
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 3: week as usual that I don't know.

805
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 2: I haven't got any clarity on that. I guess we'll

806
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: figure that.

807
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: That's actually one of our next big that will be

808
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: the next tick there.

809
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, the next big event

810
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 2: coming up for the NFL is that schedule release here

811
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: in a few weeks, and.

812
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 3: We always have a live show with Mike Persuda and

813
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 3: you know, react to it exactly as it happens.

814
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: And we know the teams, we just don't know where

815
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: and when and all. That's the where's the wins? And

816
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,479
Speaker 2: is Art Rooney the second said no international game? Doesn't

817
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: look like there's going to be an international game this

818
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 2: year for the Steelers. The one next year they're coming. Yeah,

819
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 2: they're they're definitely coming here because it's been the Steelers

820
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: haven't done it since twenty thirteen when they played the

821
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 2: Vikings in London and as.

822
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 3: Much the band as they are in Mexico and the

823
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 3: three countries now too. They're yeah, and they've always been

824
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 3: a good cell anyway.

825
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always part of the problem, is it is

826
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 2: that teams. One of the reasons why the Steelers and

827
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: Packers have not played a lot of overseas games because

828
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: you largely do that when you are the visiting team,

829
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: at least for those those two teams, the game. Yeah,

830
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 2: and nobody wants to give up a home game against

831
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 2: the Steelers or Packers, right, because that's a guaranteed sellout.

832
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 3: That you're selling. Yeah, that's a great.

833
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: Point because of you people. You show up at those

834
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: games and and make it so that the that's a

835
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 2: uh basically another Steeler home.

836
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 3: Game is thriving. But the ones that do. If green

837
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 3: Bay comes to town, Pittsford comes to town, it's gonna

838
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 3: be full. Where there's a lot of beers, where there's

839
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 3: a lot of parking, a lot of dogs, you know, right, absolutely,

840
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 3: that's a good point.

841
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. Of course the Steelers were active this week and

842
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: making u well bring the terms of four guys. Yeah,

843
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,959
Speaker 2: so that's that's noteworthy as well.

844
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 3: Turning that bottom of the roster, you know, finding some fits,

845
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 3: prepping for the draft. And as you mentioned, I mean

846
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: it's really draft season pretty.

847
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: Much as soon as we hang up here today, Yeah,

848
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: you'll start to see the visits start to heat up

849
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 2: for the Steelers. They've had that belief seven guys in

850
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 2: as we sit here now. So maybe we'll review those

851
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: guys next week. Yeah we can, yeah, look at that,

852
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 2: but they can have thirty. The local guys don't count

853
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 2: against that thirty. Big guy can just walk the pick guy,

854
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: West Virginia guys, Penn State guys, mile radius thing. Yeah,

855
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 2: so those guys don't count against your your top thirty visits.

856
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 2: And well, typically over the years, if you start looking

857
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: at those guys who came in for top thirty visits

858
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: for the Steelers, there's a hand full of them that

859
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: end up becoming Steelers.

860
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. And what's really interesting is they bring them in

861
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: for a reason. Sometimes it's just a medical recheck or

862
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 3: a boyt. I want clarity on what was this quarterback

863
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 3: seeing on third and eight? So I didn't get it

864
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: at the combine. There's ten more questions I really want answered.

865
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: So I to see a second round picker to the

866
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 3: third round pick for me because I don't know that answer,

867
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: but most of them are because we're strongly considered making

868
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: new Pittsburgh Steeler.

869
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, we want to get to tell you even a

870
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: little bit more. We wouldn't have you come into the building.

871
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: You could spend the entire day with the entire day.

872
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: Right, I mean you see them picked up from the

873
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 3: airport to the time you drop them off, meals, you know,

874
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 3: walking around the facility. You know, how are they whenever

875
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 3: things aren't scripted in a fifteen minute sit down or

876
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of value to it. And folks,

877
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 3: a little trick of the trade too, is when free

878
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 3: agency rolls around, look who they brought in four years

879
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 3: ago too, Yeah, you know what I mean, Like that

880
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense because they've kept their eye

881
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 3: on those players. Maybe we know a.

882
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: Little bit more about that guy because we did all

883
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: of our research on him. We had him in for

884
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 2: a visit, know, and he went to the Ravens and

885
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: we played against him. We couldn't get him in the

886
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 2: draft because they picked him before we could. But now

887
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: we can get him.

888
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 3: Like I don't remember if Patrick Queen was a visit

889
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 3: or not. But I mean a guy like that would

890
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 3: make a ton of sense. I mean, we still monitored

891
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 3: him extremely closely, couldn't wait to get your hands on him. Yeah,

892
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 3: so you get you get other opportunities if you don't

893
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 3: give him first time around.

894
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a fun week here. Yeah, yeah, you know,

895
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: I always enjoy this. It's always kind of sad when

896
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: it's over. But I'm then I'm ready to get home.

897
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 2: Now I'm ready to get home too, that's the question.

898
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 3: I mean.

899
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 2: But we hang out a lot with hanging out with

900
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: with Gerard and Emil and all the all the guys

901
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: down here and h it's a lot of fun, a

902
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: lot of work, you know, beats a ditch for a living.

903
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 2: It's sure, it sure does do that. Any other takeaways

904
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: from the week, The rule changes don't blow my doors off,

905
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, they're not massive ones, but they

906
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 2: are noteworthy. I'm glad we talked through them. I do

907
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: think a trend that you're seeing is and we talked

908
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 2: about this two segments ago that the bottom Yeah, a

909
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: certain head coach from the division just walked by the

910
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 2: second of his nature and had a little something to

911
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 2: throw our direction. Coach, you can sit down with us

912
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 2: if we want the last segment of the week. Oh

913
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 2: he's walking back. Oh we don't have we don't have

914
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: an extra mic here today, coach. Sorry, sorry, hey, good

915
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: luck to see it. Maybe you guys in back when

916
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 2: I might recognize that voice, But that was Sean Harper.

917
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 3: He's a done battle with the Steelers once or twice, like.

918
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: Some matchups, wait sometime and a lot of a lot

919
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: of respect. Back at forty two.

920
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 3: He was walking back here and we didn't actually have

921
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 3: a like for him, right right, I should just given

922
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 3: him mind right.

923
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get right.

924
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 3: I'll start backing out right, I'll go to the airport.

925
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 3: I can't believe we turned out of that.

926
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing that that that makes this

927
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 2: a unique situation, even unlike I mean, what a way

928
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 2: to end the week, even unlike the like the Combine.

929
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: We get a lot of media guys coming in and

930
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 2: stuff like that, but all week long here there's there's

931
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 2: you know.

932
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 3: Combines, a different environment. We've got so many media guys

933
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. For these are head coaches walking

934
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: by and owners and you know, you know there's you

935
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 3: don't just grab them and throw them down here like

936
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: we do in the combine, you know, combine. I'm always

937
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 3: searching for people to for guess, but that would have

938
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 3: been all right.

939
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: That would have been a first I know that.

940
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 3: The wasted opportunity by me. I'm like, you take my head.

941
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could have you could have told them he

942
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: was he was literally coming back. That's good for him, Yeah, absolutely,

943
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 2: But cool wait end end the week. It really is

944
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 2: a cool way to end the week. But the week

945
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 2: does have to end, and so I guess it's time

946
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: for that. We've had fun here. We want to thank

947
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 2: Gerard Schaeffer for keeping us on the air here, keeping

948
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: to tolerate us, keeping everything on, you know, on the

949
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 2: YouTube videos working. We don't thank Justin Miller, who's worked

950
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 2: diligently back in Pittsburgh to keep us on the air

951
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 2: there as well. I want to thank my partner Matt Williamson,

952
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 2: and most of all, I want to thank everybody who

953
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 2: listened this week, because without you people, we couldn't do this.

954
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 2: We wouldn't be given the opportunity. And we love we

955
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 2: love our listeners. We love the interaction that we get.

956
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 3: We love the.

957
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 2: Tweets and retweets and all the stuff that all the

958
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: feedback that we get from you, you make it. You

959
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: make our jobs easier, you make it more fun, and

960
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: we do appreciate you all. And again, check out the

961
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 2: videos on YouTube if you haven't done so. Lots of

962
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: good Steelers content on there all year round. These guys

963
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: work really hard on this stuff to come up with

964
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 2: new and interesting ways to just present these players to

965
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: you and allow you to get to know these guys

966
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: a little bit more. It's part of my job as

967
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: well on Steelers dot Com with some of the features

968
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 2: that I do there on the backgrounds of some of

969
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 2: these players. It's a lot of fun.

970
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 4: Too.

971
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 2: Again, as Matt mentioned, you know, you still have this schedule,

972
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: the schedule out coming out here soon. We get the

973
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 2: Triple Takes coming up here. We'll do some more mock

974
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: drafts with Mike Pursuda as well, and of course you

975
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: know there'll still be some more videos with forthcoming here

976
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 2: with some of these new stealers, you get a chance

977
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: to hear from them as well. But that's going to

978
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 2: do it for our coverage here from the NFL Meetings

979
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four here at the Rich Carlton in Orlando,

980
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: we'll be back again, hopefully next year, doing the same thing.

981
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: I believe we're also going to be in Florida again,

982
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: little by Little BIRDI Burry the same. We're going to

983
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 2: stay in Florida.

984
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, which coast and not just trench change, So we'll

985
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:33,959
Speaker 3: see where that goes.

986
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 2: But we'll of course also have our Waldeball draft coverage.

987
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: You'll be able to hear Matt and I talking about

988
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 2: the draft the entire time on these very airwaves as

989
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 2: the picks are made. But we would to thank everybody

990
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 2: for watching this edition of The Drive and listening to

991
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: I guess here on Steelers Nation Radio.