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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson and Matt we're going

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Speaker 1: over the UH top ten lists on the ESPN of

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Speaker 1: the top ten players. It lists Jeremy Fowler put together

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Speaker 1: by polling fifty league personnel members. And we're now moving

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Speaker 1: over to the offense and UH. The first look here

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Speaker 1: is at interior offensive lineman. Again, the Steelers not represented

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Speaker 1: on this one, but would it surprise you in if

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Speaker 1: his Steelers interior offensive lineman made it onto this list. No,

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Speaker 1: I honestly think James Daniels might even be others receiving

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Speaker 1: votes already, and you know that's always a position. It

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Speaker 1: takes a year or two to truly get recognized. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the change of scenery opened some eyes. I think he's

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Speaker 1: very much on this path. And to be honest, I'm

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Speaker 1: not predicting it, but I think Green and Dots and

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Speaker 1: are capable of getting on this list. Like when we

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Speaker 1: talked tackles, I'm not gonna say Dan Moore and Schoops

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Speaker 1: can get on the list. I don't think they can,

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Speaker 1: you know, but I think all three of those guys

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Speaker 1: could Yeah, I agree with that, looking at the also

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Speaker 1: receiving votes for Rodney Hudson the Cardinals and Tray Smith

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs, where he couldn't be on opposite two

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Speaker 1: more opposite ends of the specter there right, one of

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Speaker 1: them about sixty pounds eavier and the other and one's

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Speaker 1: about fifteen years older than the other. Yeah. Um. The

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Speaker 1: guys who were honorable mentions were Elijah Vera Tucker of

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Speaker 1: the Jets, Eric McCoy of the Saints Lake and Tomlinson

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Speaker 1: of the Jets. Frank rag now the of the Alliance,

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Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey of the Chiefs, and Ryan Kelly of the Colts.

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Speaker 1: As much hump hype as Humphrey's got, I'm glad he's

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Speaker 1: not in the top ten, you know. I'm I'm fine

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Speaker 1: with an honorable mention here, and even Tray Smith next

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Speaker 1: to him and Vera Tucker, you know, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is a longevity position. You know, I need to count

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Speaker 1: on you. Show me I can count on you game

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Speaker 1: after game, year after year, and you know they just

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Speaker 1: haven't been in the league long enough for that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Number ten is Corey Linsley, the

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Speaker 1: center for the Chargers, highest ranking number four, lowest ranking

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Speaker 1: out of the top ten. They gave him big money.

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Speaker 1: They're happy with it. I mean, it's one of those

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Speaker 1: rare free agent signings where the dollars add up to

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Speaker 1: the play and the production and some leadership. With all

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Speaker 1: these young linemen they've drafted lately too, so no quality

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Speaker 1: quality starter. Number nine is Wyatt Teller of the Browns,

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Speaker 1: highest ranking, number four, lowest out of the top ten.

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Speaker 1: Last year, he was an honorable menching guy. There's some

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Speaker 1: interesting stats on him in here, though. Mhm. He had

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Speaker 1: ten penalties last year and four sacks allowed. Like I

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Speaker 1: don't know, like if he were if you were on

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Speaker 1: the Steelers line instead of the Browns line, mh, and

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Speaker 1: he had four four sacks allowed and ten penalties. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that people will be talking about him in

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Speaker 1: this top ten. I think. I think he's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a pro football focused creation. I think really

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Speaker 1: well for them two years in a row. So everyone

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Speaker 1: likes to sound smart and be like this guy you

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Speaker 1: never heard of. Why I tell her that the bill's cut.

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Speaker 1: You know it is better than you think, because I'm smart,

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Speaker 1: you know, because last year's numbers Yeah, last year, his

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Speaker 1: numbers are two years ago, his numbers were very similar.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of sacks, bunch of penalties, but boy, he

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Speaker 1: grades aren't really well in the run game. Well that's great,

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Speaker 1: but but if he gets a bunch of penalties, like

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Speaker 1: He's one of the few linemen that actually have a

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Speaker 1: fun highlights. You know, he's he's progressively various people. That's great,

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Speaker 1: be a top ten player for me. Number eight is

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Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey, still getting done, highest ranking number three, lowest

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Speaker 1: maybe getting by on reputation a little, but including Pouncey

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Speaker 1: few players have played the position like him over the years. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Played a lot of tackle last year. I think he's

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Speaker 1: he doesn't lose, you know, going from left to right

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Speaker 1: of these lists. Yeah. Number six is Ryan Jensen of

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Speaker 1: football focuses metrics UM. His ninety two point four percent

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Speaker 1: pass block win rate was twenty three among centers last year.

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Speaker 1: His run block win rate was seven. He had five

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Speaker 1: penalties last year. He's a trend setter, a leader as

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Speaker 1: toughest could be type of dude. But I think him.

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Speaker 1: And who's the left tackle from Penn State at Tampa

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Worf's is as good as he looks. Those

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Speaker 1: is Joel Bottonio highest rankie number one, lowest ranking out

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Speaker 1: best Browns guard. I do too, but I mean this

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Speaker 1: is a trend with that team, and we've brought it

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Speaker 1: up before his contract goes crazy next year. This might

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Speaker 1: be the last year of Gubtonio And yeah, I agree. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number four is Joe Thuney or the Chiefs highest ranking

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Speaker 1: his run block in grade wasn't quite as high, but

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Speaker 1: still a really good player. And well, they don't run

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Speaker 1: the football that much, so it's all about the past blocking, right.

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Speaker 1: And they got what they paid for, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he unbelievably durable, definitely much more of a he's he

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Speaker 1: plays a position more like a tackle than a traditional guard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is what they did, which is exactly what they need. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Number three is Brandon Sure for the Jaguars. He of

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Speaker 1: he's good, but he's also good. There's a there's a

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Speaker 1: trend here that most of these players are thirty or above.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing like for the Jags,

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Speaker 1: and let's make Lawrence as good as he possibly can be.

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Speaker 1: I understand the signing. There's very little insure history to

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Speaker 1: suggests he's gonna be a bust like when they signed Norwell,

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Speaker 1: missed time. They probably won't be as good for the

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Speaker 1: our Our Corner conversational last segment, I think Jalen Ramsay

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Speaker 1: the Browns guards or whoever. Right, But that's just no,

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Speaker 1: or I've you I've used this example of many time

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Speaker 1: with offensive Lineman, the Euros, with the Browns. I was

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Speaker 1: in charge of the NFC West and honestly This isn't like,

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Speaker 1: interesting list others receiving votes. The only one who did

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Speaker 1: my other podcast as well, and to me, there's really

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Speaker 1: their own category at twelve and thirteen, and there's nobody

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Speaker 1: ten quarterback, I'd hate to play against him, But the

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Speaker 1: other guys are equal. You know, somebody had to be

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Speaker 1: short changed a little bit. Tim was Dak Prescott, Eight

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Speaker 1: Eight was Russell Wilson. At Lamar's right with those guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: At seven is justin Herbert uh At six is Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: and looking at the honorable mentions, you got Uh, also

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Speaker 1: The honorable mentions were Austin Ekelar a real it's not

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Speaker 1: no Austin ekelarsk Elliott and say Kwam Barkley. We're all

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Speaker 1: guys who got honorable mentions. At number ten, Javonte Williams.

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Speaker 1: Is it too early for that? Because it came down

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Speaker 1: to him, Jeremy said, I mean, I just think if

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