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Speaker 1: At least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williams on your twenty four to seven home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network, and Matt Todd mcshae has

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Speaker 2: updated his Top one hundred board, including his latest risers

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Speaker 2: and follows. Again, when you're talking about risers and follers,

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Speaker 2: first of all, you're not going to see guys make

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Speaker 2: massive moves up the now, right, but they may jump ahead, bide.

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Speaker 3: Effects things, it breaks ties, things like that too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: His Risers armand Membo went from thirteen to ten. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: Shamar Stewart went from twenty one to fourteen.

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Speaker 3: He screams, busts to me.

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Speaker 2: I can't get on that. I just did my edge

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Speaker 2: rankings for the Diriple.

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Speaker 3: Doom of a Weekend. Yeah, I put.

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Speaker 2: Him in it five and I did it begrudgingly.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying, I'm just sitting there thinking, like, will he

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Speaker 3: be in my top five? I don't love the group.

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Speaker 3: It's all good, you know, and that's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: tough It might be the toughest rankings yet. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: kind of think of it.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Golden went from twenty five to fifteen.

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Speaker 3: I kind of am mad at myself that I kept

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Speaker 3: Golden at two. I think he should ben my wider.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing about Golden. He had more twenty yard

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Speaker 2: catchers than anybody in college football, and yet people were

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Speaker 2: surprised by his four two nine.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, well he doesn't. He doesn't look

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Speaker 3: that on tape.

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Speaker 2: I'm like what watching Like, Yeah, he caught a short

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Speaker 2: pass and took it because somebody had an angle on him.

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Speaker 3: But he can run. So to tease it, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I did a first round mock. We're gonna do a

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Speaker 3: triple tape mok next week. I had very few. I

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Speaker 3: only had two receivers go in the first round, and

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Speaker 3: McMillan went late. I had Golden go into the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: at like eleven or two.

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Speaker 2: I think I have more receivers in that just because

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Speaker 3: There's still weird not having shut out Burden or you know,

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Speaker 3: the high State dude, or but it's the way it fell.

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Speaker 3: There warn't money in there.

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Speaker 2: Donovan Azeriku, the edge rusher out of Boston College, goes

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Speaker 2: from forty to thirty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, got a good he's a good player.

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Speaker 2: Maxwell Hairston goes from forty two to twenty four. That's

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Speaker 2: the kind of jump that's what scares you. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think teams know all about Maxwell Harston.

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Speaker 3: He's still a little slight. I mean, you knew he

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Speaker 3: was gonna test well. I did put him in at

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Speaker 3: the end of the first round, and he wasn't in

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Speaker 3: my first mock, but there were other corners that could

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Speaker 3: have went in that spot just as easily.

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Speaker 2: He's healthy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's why I didn't put ravel. And that's

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Speaker 3: exactly what it came down to.

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Speaker 2: Both Iowa state receivers they're growing on me. Jayden Higgins

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Speaker 3: Wow, so basically borderline first second round grades on both

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Speaker 3: those dudes. They're really different. I don't know if the

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Speaker 3: Steelers will get either one, but pre metcalf trade, I

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Speaker 3: was interested in both. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Trey Amos goes from nine to forty eight.

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Speaker 3: That's a crazy jump. Yeah, I'm a fan. I like

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Speaker 2: DJ Giddens goes from unranked to ninety three. Jonas Sanker

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Speaker 3: That could have meant there one oh one though, you know.

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Speaker 2: And defensive tackle Tyrian Ingram Dawkins from Georgia goes from

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Speaker 2: unranked to one hundred. Yeah because he's there, right, he

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Speaker 2: tested better than all the other defensive tackles. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: he was thirty pounds lighter than everybody else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some of the groups gets excuse.

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Speaker 2: That's where you get into trouble. The guys who have

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Speaker 3: His testing was real bad. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's not drastic. Testing wasn't great. Yeah, he's zone runner.

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Speaker 2: Jordan James, the running back out of Oregon, goes from

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Speaker 3: That one I understood.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're five to five and the guy you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like his was flat out disappointing. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh, looking here at his big board he is Abdul

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Speaker 3: So it's funny we went through my mock today on

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Speaker 3: He's got this injury. Like every one of these half

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Speaker 3: the dudes haven't run yet. Yeah, what's Mason Graham's height

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Speaker 3: all these guys still have all these questions out there.

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Speaker 2: Mason Graham is three, Ashton genty four, Tyler Warren five,

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Speaker 2: cam Ward six. Seven is jalm Walker, the addresher out

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Speaker 3: I like his chance of being first alignment off the board.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no questions with him compared to some

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Speaker 2: linebacker out of Alabama is thirteen. Shamar Stewart fourteen. I

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Speaker 2: can't get on that. I just can't let somebody else

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Speaker 3: But I made the joke today because I said in

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Speaker 3: he would end up with the Eagles, he'll end up

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Speaker 3: being Reggie White. If he ends up being the Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: like who's going to coach him up and what environments

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Speaker 2: Matthew Golden at fifteen, top wide receiver, MIKEL Williams at sixteen,

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Speaker 3: Be four or five off the border in the Steelers pick.

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Speaker 2: Nick Emuwari, the safety out of South Carolina is his

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Speaker 3: So I don't think he's the same as the A

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Speaker 2: Shador Sanders down at twenty, that's his number two quarterback,

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Speaker 3: He doesn't run, Yeah, he's Mt. Millan hasn't run. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Booker at twenty two. Kelvin Banks junior out of Texas,

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Speaker 2: He's the number three offensive tackle. Down at twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Maxwell Harriston at twenty four, your number four cornerback. Teed McMillan,

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Speaker 2: the wide receiver at of Arizona is your second receiver.

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Speaker 2: Eggbooca out of Ohio State your number three receiver. He's

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Speaker 3: I don't understand why he's not higher. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: Ranked number one in my in my defensive line rankings.

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Speaker 3: I did the same. Basically, I stole it from you

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Speaker 3: and just was like, would I really take Graham over Grant?

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Speaker 3: Grant is harder to play against, and it's higher upside.

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Speaker 2: It's not like he doesn't have It's not like he

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Graham's got some problems.

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Speaker 2: Jayden Higgins at twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: That was one of his rosers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek Harmon at twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: I've come to the conclusion I think i'd take him

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Speaker 2: Thirty is Donovan Azeriku. That's your edge rusher number seven,

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Speaker 2: So seven in the top thirty. That's the most of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is great for the Steelers. I just want

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Speaker 2: He has Jackson Dart at thirty one.

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Speaker 3: I think him and Shucker right next to each other.

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Speaker 2: He's got Tyler Shuck at thirty two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've listened Todd's podcast. He keeps saying, keeps going

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Speaker 3: back and forth with who he likes better, and frankly,

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Speaker 3: he's not so certain that he doesn't like him both

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Speaker 3: I think he'll go high just because he's the left.

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Speaker 2: Walter Nolan at thirty nine his number four defensive lineman.

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Speaker 2: I actually have him number two.

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Speaker 3: I could understand that.

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Speaker 2: Again, I I'm not going to hold the guys. I've

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Speaker 2: Texas A and M, but then you went somewhere else

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Speaker 2: it's not you. Same thing with Scalourton, same thing with Nolan.

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Speaker 2: Like these guys were somewhere else and had production, they'd

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Speaker 2: what's the commonality.

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Speaker 3: Like if Stewart would have left A and M and

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Speaker 3: went to Alabama had had four hundred sacks, like, oh,

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Speaker 3: he should be first picked the draft, right, mild Scarett. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but you don't see he didn't do it. He didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nolan had production at all Miss. Yeah, he didn't have.

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Speaker 2: He didn't show at at A and M.

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Speaker 3: And A and M.

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Speaker 2: Scourton had production at Purdue big time that he didn't

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Speaker 3: One of the good things about the transfer portal at

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Speaker 3: least you get two views on these things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's an A and M problem. Mason Taylor,

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Speaker 2: the tight end out of LSU is at forty Luther

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Speaker 2: Burden down at forty one. That's his number six wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: I left him out the first round, but I don't

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Speaker 2: Quinn Shawn Judkins is running back number four at forty two.

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Speaker 2: Donovan Jackson guard out of Ohio State at forty three.

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Speaker 2: Benjam Morrison cornerback at a Notre Dame. That's his number

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Speaker 2: down at forty six. Darius Alexander is forty seven. That's

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Speaker 2: Josh Farmer, the interior defensive liman at of Florida State,

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Speaker 2: Uh Olo Femi Oladejo, the edge rusher out of UCLA, number.

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Speaker 2: At fifty five is Ariante Ursery, the offensive tackle out

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Speaker 3: He's offensive six. He ran well when he's a tackle.

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Speaker 3: But five of them are noses.

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Speaker 2: Sanders, it's your tenth defensive tackle out of South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: He's at sixty one. Charles Grant, the offensive tackle out

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Speaker 3: I bet there's some debates in more rooms about him.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm I mocked him to the Eagles.

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Speaker 3: Did you. That's an interesting fit. There's a lot to

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Speaker 3: work with. They don't need him right now, like tool guys. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's got traits. Yeah at the end of the first round.

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Speaker 2: Sixty six Cam Scatabo, running back out of Arizona State.

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Speaker 2: I think he was my tight end five to sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: Darien Porter out of Iowa State, cornerback number ten, like he.

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Speaker 3: Would you consider him in the third round? You don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've taken corner off the off the board and

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Speaker 3: I'd love to have, but I don't know how you get.

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Speaker 2: Them, and I don't know what next year's cornerback class

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Speaker 2: Seventy is Jordan Birch, the edge rusher out of Oregon.

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Speaker 2: Seventy one Jonah Savania the guard out of Arizona. That's

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Speaker 2: his fifth guard. No centers yet, No r J. Harvey

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Speaker 2: Pretty high, Yeah, Brayden Swinson the LSU edge rusher. That

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Speaker 3: I have doubts about him. I kept him out of

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Speaker 3: my top five. He's then, yeah, he's I mean he's

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Speaker 3: a good receiver against bad competition.

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Speaker 2: Shamar Turner, Texas A and M defensive lineman number eleven there,

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Speaker 2: Jaylen Milroe, it's seventy six. That's QB five.

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Speaker 3: Mm.

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Speaker 2: Cameron Williams offensive tackle one of Texas is OT number eight.

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Speaker 2: Shows you how like we got eleven interior defensive lineman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Our next edge rusher coming up here is number thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some of them might be guards and guard

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 3: Why is Dan Moore getting the money he did?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the reason and if you if teams go

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Speaker 3: If you're the Bears of the Vikings and you just

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Speaker 3: on these onas. Noah, they're just telling you.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Royals is wide receiver number nine at seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: Seventy nine is J two two Moloa edge rusher out

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Speaker 2: College offensive tackle is OT number nine.

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Speaker 3: I bet he goes high just because he's a true tackle.

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Speaker 2: His styles they're going to go earlier than you think.

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Speaker 2: Eighty one is Demetrius Knight, Junior, the inside linebacker out

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Speaker 3: It's not a very good crop. Yeah, Steelers don't be

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Speaker 2: Jack Sawyer at eighty two, edge rusher out of Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: That's fifteen there. Eighty three is Prince you or more

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Speaker 2: fifteen edge guys. Eighty four there's my guy, Ty Robinson,

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Speaker 3: Seems like Todd tiring him and just about anybody else.

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Speaker 2: Interior defensive lineman number twelve.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand it.

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Speaker 2: Like a guy, tell me a guy. This guy six six,

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Speaker 2: three hundred and ten pounds and he has production, no lot,

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Speaker 3: Combine was really good. Good?

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Speaker 2: What am I not? What am I seeing here? That

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Speaker 2: the draft knicks aren't right?

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Speaker 3: Right? I don't get it. No, I think he's gonna

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Speaker 2: Tate Ratlitch, the guard out of Georgia is eighty five.

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Speaker 3: I think he's also gonna be a good pro.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're safe taking guards.

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Speaker 3: In this day. Yeah. Yeah. He was my fifth interier.

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Speaker 2: Still no centers though, no at eighty seven. Josiah Stewart,

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Speaker 3: I remember watching the Senior Bowl coverage and DJ and

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Speaker 2: Eighty eight Gunner Helm, the tight end out of Texas.

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Speaker 3: Now, it's not.

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Speaker 2: I like the top two save Von Williams out of

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Speaker 2: TCU's wide receiver number ten. He was one of the

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Speaker 3: Oh was he? Okay, I didn't see their visit.

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Speaker 2: Say, Jared Wilson is your first center center out of Georgia,

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Speaker 2: No, no, think At ninety two is Ashton Gillette, the

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's a good player too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Your fifth safety is Jonas Sanker out of Virginia. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I like him. I'm there in the fourth. I'm not

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Speaker 3: But he's speaking explosive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's new to the position and there's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's some raw stuff.

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Speaker 2: Will Howard out of Ohio status QB six at ninety six.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Milroe was five. Okay, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think Billy Bowman, the safety out of Oklahoma, that's

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Speaker 3: They always go.

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Speaker 2: One hundred is Tyrium Ingram Dawkins, the Georgia defensive lineman,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and there's still some guys, good players out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't mention a handful of the defensive tackles

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Speaker 3: really good group. Want those Edges to go early.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, let a let eighteen edges in the top one hundred. Fantastic. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Terry and Ingram Dawkins goes in the first. Yeah, those

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Speaker 2: know that really have.

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Speaker 3: No chance to be very low right right right? You know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad he's got my guy Robinson up there.

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Speaker 2: I'm not smoking something on that one. No, he makes plays,

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Speaker 2: he just makes he just wreck stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's ruptively.

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Speaker 2: It's like the army comes in and breaks things and

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Speaker 2: kills people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sign me up. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale, Lolly. You're listening to the drive here

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio network. Oh we forgot to mention

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Speaker 2: who the other visitors were.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm not aware.

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Speaker 2: Uh so let's save that all right. I want to

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Speaker 1: At least he's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly. He is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and mentioned that save On Williams, the wide

444
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Speaker 2: receiver out of TCU, was one of the draft visitors today.

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Speaker 3: It's a little different than what they have kind of Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also coming in word defensive tackle Yaha Black of Iowa.

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Speaker 3: That adds up a good combine. He's good combine. He's

448
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Speaker 3: a massive human being in the middle of the defense.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad that's the type of guy they're looking at.

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Speaker 3: Fourth round, fifth round, something like that. Probably for him,

451
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Speaker 3: not for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Here's the interesting one running back Dylan Sampson out of Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: That is interesting because we've.

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Speaker 2: Talked about Travon Henderson when we've done our mock draft

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Speaker 2: right well, that they want that that kind of running back, Well,

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Speaker 2: Dylan Sampson is that kind of He's Travon Henderson.

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Speaker 3: He's explosive and he's maybe a round or two later

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Speaker 3: built like Jerome or not here those type of dudes.

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Speaker 3: I can't confirm this, but I read that Tuton is

460
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Speaker 3: also on the list to come in as well. I mean, again,

461
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Speaker 3: these are the explode until they get here, it's not nothing.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm saying it, you know, until they're in

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Speaker 3: the building. Yeah, but it just shows maybe they're looking

464
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Speaker 3: for home run hitters, you know, yea gain Wells. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's not as explosive as those guys, but I mean

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Speaker 3: need big plays. I get it. Yeah, it's a I mean,

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Speaker 3: I hope you don't regret it in December when the

468
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Speaker 3: snow falling in the turf's not as fast as it was.

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Speaker 3: But you've got to get create explosives. And to your

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Speaker 3: point earlier, if Metcalf and Pickings are out here and

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Speaker 3: I can make one man miss to take a twenty

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Speaker 3: where nause you were taken an eight, that adds up

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Speaker 3: pretty quick. Yeah, you can get to keep a rotation going.

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Speaker 3: Three guys.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's with with with Pickens and Metcalf on the field,

476
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Speaker 2: and I don't care who the quarterback is that it

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Speaker 2: doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. I mean, it could be rude offen.

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Speaker 2: The safeties are going to be fifteen to twenty yards

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Speaker 2: off off the line of scrimmage. They're not if they're

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Speaker 2: in the box, the ball is going down the field.

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Speaker 3: Now, I mean, it's almost should be an immedia check. Yeah,

483
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Speaker 3: And that's one of the things about Rouss. I mean, like,

484
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Speaker 3: if Pickens ever got one on one, it was going

485
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Speaker 3: there and now you have two options. If you see

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Speaker 3: single high, I'm just gonna chuck it up there and

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Speaker 3: see what happened. I can't.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet you they see less than ten percent of

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Speaker 2: single high next year.

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Speaker 3: I would think, I would think. I mean, Seattle couldn't

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Speaker 3: run the ball at all and we're at the top

492
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Speaker 3: of the league. And it wasn't because of the jasn. No,

493
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Speaker 3: he's a really good receiver. He's just got that style

494
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Speaker 3: and lock it doesn't run like he used to. It

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Speaker 3: is because of Metcalf right right.

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Speaker 2: It just puts the fear of God into opposing defenses. Well,

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Speaker 2: now you get two of those guys. Yeah, because George

498
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Speaker 2: already did some of that himself.

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Speaker 3: Like the other beauty of it too, And this is

500
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Speaker 3: probably getting into even more. When you start to get

501
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Speaker 3: predictable coverages, it becomes much easier to be a play

502
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Speaker 3: caller too, Like, boy, we get a high percentage of

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Speaker 3: cover two, Well, we're going to practice cover two beaters

504
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Speaker 3: all week, no kidding, you know, right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know if you've got a running backs

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Speaker 2: or running backs that can get.

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Speaker 3: To the edge. And even the screen game, I mean,

508
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Speaker 3: like we didn't see a ton of it, but with

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Speaker 3: the Falcons, Arthur Smith had a pretty accomplished screen game.

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Speaker 2: You know, actually throws a good screen Who's that It'll

511
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Speaker 2: be Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he has a pretty good history of it.

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Speaker 2: He's a good history of throwing screen pass He's pretty

514
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Speaker 2: good at it.

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Speaker 3: You already have two safeties off the ball. You get

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Speaker 3: guys dropping and you get it to Henderson Sampson, Warren

517
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Speaker 3: Gainwell or whoever yards. Yeah, you know, you make one

518
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Speaker 3: guy miss or whatever. But the good accelerators. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: they got an athletical to do.

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Speaker 2: It might be what they're looking at. Again, teams tell

521
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Speaker 2: you what the what they're going to do given you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe they don't want another plotter.

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Speaker 3: H Yeah, And they did create explosives and it's harder

524
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Speaker 3: to create explosives against cover two, of course, and explosives

525
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Speaker 3: don't have to be eighty r runs. They do not.

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Speaker 3: They do not.

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Speaker 2: So there's news out there, Matt that the changing things

528
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Speaker 2: up here a little bit. The Bengals are close to

529
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Speaker 2: finalizing contract extensions for Jamar Chase and t Higgins. Chase

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Speaker 2: his deal will make him the highest paid non quarterback

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Speaker 2: in the league, with his salary expected to be north

532
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Speaker 2: of forty million dollars, just a little more than Miles Garrett,

533
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Speaker 2: a little more than what Miles Garrett got. It's such

534
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Speaker 2: bad business to come out and say a month ago

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Speaker 2: or whatever, we're going to make him the highest paid

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Speaker 2: and might as well do it before Parsons shows up,

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Speaker 2: because now he's gonna get he's gonna shoot past that.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, Chase that to the money chases that

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Speaker 3: type of player.

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Speaker 2: Higgins, who's already guaranteed twenty seven million dollars this year,

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Speaker 2: is also going to get a new deal, which I

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Speaker 2: assume is going to be more than that.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing that's it's metcalf ish, it's around that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would think that's a jumping on the point. He's

545
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Speaker 3: probably happy to see DK's contract.

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Speaker 2: Now, it won't be seventy million dollars in the first

547
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Speaker 2: year that you're spending receivers, but in future years it's

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Speaker 2: going to be that kind of salary acceleration.

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Speaker 3: I honestly don't have a problem with it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: those are your three best players, including your quarterback. That

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Speaker 3: that's your bread and butter. It's not how I would

552
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Speaker 3: build my team, but if those are the guys I drafted,

553
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Speaker 3: I'd rather give it to those guys than.

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Speaker 2: The guard that galax Kappa. Here's the thing, I have

555
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Speaker 2: a lot of needs. The NFL today sent out the

556
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Speaker 2: updated salary cap information and who has what. So as

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Speaker 2: we sit here, the Patriots still have one hundred and

558
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Speaker 2: one million dollars in caps.

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Speaker 3: They've spent like crazy and it doesn't and they still

560
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Speaker 3: dropping them out. It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: The Cardinals are anybody to give Cardinals are at sixty seven,

562
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Speaker 2: Seahawks are at sixty point eight. The Steelers right now

563
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Speaker 2: have forty four million dollars in available cap space, but

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Speaker 2: after sign a quarterback, yeah, they still have to sign

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Speaker 2: a quarterback. We down the list here are the Bengals

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Speaker 2: at twenty six point eight million in available salary caps.

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Speaker 3: So this might actually open a little for this year,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know if it will has such big contracts,

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Speaker 3: it might just be like a break even.

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Speaker 2: It might be a Chase is probably no matter how

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Speaker 2: you build this with the guaranteed money, because he's still

572
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Speaker 2: on his rookie deal, right.

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Speaker 3: See, I was thinking the Higgins franchise tag will come

574
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Speaker 3: out from that and then you're gonna add to both

575
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Speaker 3: of them. So it probably won't be massive savings this year,

576
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Speaker 3: but next year you're going to be a lot of

577
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Speaker 3: money and tied up in those two guys. Yeah, I'm

578
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Speaker 3: just looking up as I get. I mean, that's that's

579
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Speaker 3: your bread and butter. That's the only reason you were

580
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Speaker 3: even competitive last year. Jamar Chase is in twenty draft

581
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Speaker 3: better on defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would help Jamar Chase this season counts against

583
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Speaker 2: their salary cap was twenty one point eight.

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Speaker 3: That's super high pick and some fiftyear option. Right. Yeah,

585
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Speaker 3: Higgins is what like twenty eight or something like that,

586
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Speaker 3: twenty seven seven guaranteed, right, So maybe it goes down

587
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 3: a lightly. Right, It's not going to make them go

588
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 3: out there and spend a time.

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Speaker 2: We just went over there. Defense their defensive players.

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Speaker 3: They didn't really improve, They've done nothing like the same defense.

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Speaker 3: They're just I feel like the decordinator is just a scapegoat.

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00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've gotten There's been more guys who've walked out

593
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Speaker 2: the door. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Yeah,

594
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Speaker 2: then have come in the door, right for a defense

595
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Speaker 2: that was atrocious last year?

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Speaker 3: It was really bad. And I don't know that Henderson

597
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: will be bad. Yeah, I can't imagine them extending them.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati's defense was markedly worse. It was probably outside of

599
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Speaker 2: Cleveland's offense last year, and even that had moments with Jamis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they had some high points.

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Speaker 2: It was the worst unit in the AFC North last year.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think you're saying in the league, not only,

603
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Speaker 3: but it wasn't in the North.

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Speaker 2: If we're again, we did this a few about a

605
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Speaker 2: month ago where we ranked the oh yeah units.

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Speaker 3: And frankly, the Browns offense and Bengals defense were in

607
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Speaker 3: contention for worse than the league. I mean, so they

608
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 3: were battling up, they were behind everything else. The other

609
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 3: six things were way better than those two bottom feeders.

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Speaker 3: And again, I think a good coordinator left and it's

611
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Speaker 3: one of those coaches ver scout things. You know, we're

612
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Speaker 3: drafting these good players, you're not using them, right, I mean,

613
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Speaker 3: that's what they're telling you is they're blaming the coach

614
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: and we're just gonna run it back with these guys

615
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 3: and it was your system. I don't know, man, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I really liked Hill coming out of Michigan. Maybe he

617
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Speaker 3: gets he was I don't know. I mean, Turner was

618
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Speaker 3: herd to the other Michigan corner. There's a little bit

619
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Speaker 3: of hope, but none of them are really shown anything.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like Miles Murphy, come on, man.

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Speaker 2: The rest of the vision looking at their cap space

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Speaker 2: available here, the Browns have twelve point nine million in

623
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Speaker 2: available cap space. I don't know how, but the Ravens

624
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 2: have eleven point.

625
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Speaker 3: Eight okay, and like everyone they got to.

626
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Speaker 2: Sign, it's basically enough to sign their rookie rookie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, A couple of things here and there, filling a

628
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Speaker 3: gap here there.

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Speaker 2: You know, here's the thing that people are talking about,

630
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Speaker 2: the Vikings being in play for Aaron for Rogers, Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: They have thirty two million dollars thirty two point eight

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Speaker 2: million dollars in cap space. I don't know how they

633
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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who that even restructure Jefferson. I mean,

635
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 3: so he's only been one year in.

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Speaker 2: I just don't understand why, and I don't understand why

637
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: they would do it, because now you're gonna retard the

638
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 2: progress of your the rookie guy, the guy that you

639
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 2: took in the first round last year, right, and you're

640
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: gonna say we're gonna sit you even longer.

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Speaker 3: That's way different than signing Daniel Jones. Yeah, I mean,

642
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: this is an all time great ego. You know, first

643
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: you're signing him. You're not signing him to say, you know,

644
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: when when he's not sitting on the bench. Yeah, when

645
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 3: he's back, you're gonna go to the bench. Right. That

646
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 3: makes no sense to me. That's the one that doesn't

647
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: add up. Like they're the third team in it. Now.

648
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Speaker 2: The Giants have thirty point four to five million dollars

649
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Speaker 2: in cap space, so the.

650
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Speaker 3: Steelers have have they got more of those two?

651
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Speaker 2: They get significantly, They have like fifteen million more than

652
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Speaker 2: what the Giants have.

653
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Speaker 3: And if I assume if the Vikings or Giants did it,

654
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Speaker 3: then you're done. You know, the Steels wouldn't have to

655
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Speaker 3: be done after a Rogers deal. Yeah.

656
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, just with the way you're going to structure that thing.

657
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Speaker 3: You could again.

658
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 2: So, but that's why the Steelers haven't been more active.

659
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: They got to get the quarterback on your contract. You

660
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: know exactly what they're going to be paying him before

661
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: you move forward with some of the others.

662
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 3: It would have been nice to have that done a while.

663
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 2: It would have been good, obviously, Yeah, absolutely, but you

664
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: also don't want to be the Jets and paying I

665
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: don't like the jets subpar quarter Maybe he's good. Maybe

666
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: justin Field's thirty million dollars.

667
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 3: The rough environment too. Yeah, they need a lot.

668
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

669
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive here on

670
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network. When we come back, we'll hear

671
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: from a new Steelers wide receiver. We'll do that right

672
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Speaker 2: after this.

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Speaker 3: At least.

674
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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

675
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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and

676
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

677
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is the Matt Williamson

678
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: except no imitations and accept no imitations.

679
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 3: Of DK metcalf I, only he's got to imitate.

680
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 2: There's no xerox for that.

681
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 3: No again, I can't wait to see him in person.

682
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 3: A strange looking cat rare bird and Kuy decided to

683
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: what he has to saying.

684
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he did his press conference yesterday. Actually it

685
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 2: was late in the day, a flight was late coming in,

686
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: but he did get here with the assembled media yesterday

687
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 2: at the U p M. C Rooney Sports Complex. And

688
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 2: I wanted to play that back a I wasn't there.

689
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: Because I was here here, I had to do the show,

690
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,479
Speaker 2: and I wanted to give everybody an opportunity if they

691
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 2: didn't get to see that because it was after five o'clock. Uh,

692
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 2: here's what he had to say.

693
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 5: First, I just want to give a thank a big

694
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 5: thank you to the Roin Rooney family, mister Omar and

695
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 5: coach Tomlin forgiving me this opportunity just to you know,

696
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 5: bring my talents and showcase my skill set.

697
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 7: Uh.

698
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 5: To the a f C North.

699
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 3: Questions led to the decision that you needed to make

700
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 3: a change.

701
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 5: I think just me. Uh, like I said, man, these

702
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 5: guys showing interest, uh Coach Tomlin, Uh, mister Omar and

703
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 5: uh mister Rooney all hopped on the phone me Sunday

704
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 5: and it just felt felt home. He felt welcoming. Uh.

705
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 5: You know that they wanted to bring me to this

706
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 5: historic organization and you know everything was just a snowball

707
00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 5: from there and brought me here in front of you today.

708
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 5: I think my play style just speaks, uh you know

709
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 5: to all those words that you just said. Uh, I

710
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 5: mean I'm a physical uh receiver.

711
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 6: You know.

712
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 5: Big shout out to my pops, who was the old

713
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 5: lineman in this league, uh for uh you know a

714
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 5: little bit, so uh he instilled that uh in me,

715
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 5: and uh I just try to play the game but

716
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 5: a different way. And you know, just God blessed me

717
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 5: with the talents and uh you know, with this opportunity.

718
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 5: So I'm not gonna you know, take it for granted.

719
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 5: You in your.

720
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 6: Decision to extend your contracts as a lot as you

721
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 6: did here, what questions did you ask about the state

722
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 6: of the quarterback position? And what were you told that

723
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 6: made you feel comfortable in doing that?

724
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 5: Right?

725
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: Uh?

726
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 5: Like I said, man, when I hopped on the phone

727
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 5: with those uh three great gentlemen, Uh, they made me

728
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 5: feel we felt welcome first off, and then secondly, that

729
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 5: made me feel like, uh, they had the they had

730
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 5: the right decision, uh, you know, with who's gonna be

731
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 5: throwing me the football? And you know I'm not making

732
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 5: the decision uh in the quarterback room. Uh So I'm

733
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 5: just gonna try to do the best of my abilities

734
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 5: to you know, you know, help whoever they have out

735
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 5: there uh throwing the football. So you know, they they

736
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 5: make the uh correct decisions, uh you know to bring

737
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 5: the uh quarterback in here. So I'm just gonna roll

738
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 5: with that.

739
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 7: When you made the request for a trade, did you

740
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 7: over have an idea that the Steelers might be interested

741
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 7: in kind of what was your reaction when you found

742
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 7: out for the first time that that was.

743
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 3: An option wasn't played.

744
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 5: Yes, man, I felt ecstatic, uh just to hear about

745
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 5: the Steelers, uh because I thought back to to the

746
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 5: uh meeting man coach Tomlin had uh at the twenty

747
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 5: nineteen UH combine, and uh he just always spoke volumes

748
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 5: uh into me and spoke of, uh, you know, my

749
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 5: play style in college, and you know, just being in

750
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 5: the league and going up to him uh before after

751
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 5: a game and he you know kept that same uh

752
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 5: you know rapport with me, and you know, it just

753
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 5: felt like the right decision for me.

754
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 4: What do you remember.

755
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 7: About the game that you think that you were gonna

756
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 7: end up in Pittsburg back then?

757
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 5: Uh, I mean everything comes full circle, uh, you know,

758
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 5: in this league or you know, in life, and it

759
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 5: just felt right. Uh, you know, just hearing his voice

760
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 5: again and you know, just seeing that same excitement from

761
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 5: the combine, uh to six years later. He sees the

762
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 5: type of player that I am. Uh, he's a football guru.

763
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 5: He watches him and uh, you know my play style,

764
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 5: you know, I think jumps off the tape to him.

765
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 5: So uh, you know, just to be in the same

766
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 5: ram or uh organization to where I felt wanted, uh,

767
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 5: you know was a big plus.

768
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: You played with some good receivers, pres very good.

769
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 4: Was Uh what's the dynamic when you have multiple guys

770
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 4: that want the ball? And how do you envision your

771
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 4: working out with George?

772
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Uh, football is the ultimate team game first off,

773
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 5: So you know, all you shouldn't be uh on the

774
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 5: team if uh you know everybody doesn't want the football.

775
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 5: I will say that. And you know, just to come

776
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 5: into this organization just to know, uh George from the

777
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 5: little conversations that we had in passing UH great player

778
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 5: uh Washington from Afar. You know, the R receiver coach

779
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 5: calls him freak show, and I think that's a fitting

780
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 5: name for him, uh you know with the circus catches

781
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 5: that he makes. But I'm just here to you know,

782
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 5: try to instill uh any wisdom or you know, any

783
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 5: knowledge uh that he allows me to and uh you know,

784
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 5: vice versa. I I feel like there's some things that

785
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 5: I can learn from him, uh that he does. And

786
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 5: like you said, I played with great receivers like Tyler Lockett,

787
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 5: you know, Freddie Swain, Uh, Josh Gordon was on the

788
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 5: UH team my rookie year. So I've been around uh

789
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 5: some very talented receivers to where you know, I know

790
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 5: how to uh you know, take a back seat and

791
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 5: learn from uh you know guys like that and uh

792
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 5: you know, willing to do the same if if that uh,

793
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 5: if you know, the the case may be uh that

794
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 5: here do you.

795
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 3: Can what kind of conversations have you had with you know,

796
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 3: joined the Steelers.

797
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 2: Importance of being a leader for this offense.

798
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 5: At this team. I I don't think uh many conversations

799
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 5: needed to be had like I said, uh t coach

800
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 5: Tomlin washingtough film to where uh he he recognized the player.

801
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 5: Uh that I am first, and uh the leadership skills

802
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 5: will come, uh, you know, as they need to be.

803
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 5: But uh, we're here to win games. We're here to

804
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 5: you know, win as many games uh as we can.

805
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 5: So you know that's why I'm here.

806
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: Did they try the border for number fourteen?

807
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 5: And why no, sir, I mean he's been here. Uh

808
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 5: he's he's made a staple uh in in the number fourteen.

809
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 5: I'm not tr trying to you know, take away from

810
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 5: uh you know, anybody's legacy. Uh, just trying to help

811
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 5: build mine. Oh no, sir, I mean it just looked good.

812
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 6: Did you did you seek any advice from Ross about

813
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 6: what it was like here? What sort of feedback did

814
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 6: you get from him about being Steeler and.

815
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 3: His future here?

816
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 5: Well, we haven't talked about his future, uh number one.

817
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 5: Uh but talked to us yesterday.

818
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 7: Uh.

819
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 5: I proposed my fiance and he was the one that connected.

820
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 5: Uh uh so Uh he was just telling me congratulations,

821
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 5: giving us congratulations on that. But last year I think

822
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 5: like halfway did d through the season excuse me, uh

823
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 5: me and Russ had a conversation about how it was

824
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 5: living here and he he just told me that I

825
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 5: would love it here. And you know, I'm I'm waiting

826
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 5: to find that out. You proposed, yester, Yes, sir, she

827
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 5: write them hold it rock up baby. It was uh

828
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 5: it's uh where did you propose? Uh No?

829
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 3: Uh?

830
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 5: Her and her fam My family and her family was

831
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 5: in Houston. Uh it was my sister's uh spring break,

832
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 5: and just thought about uh getting the whole family together

833
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 5: just for a big kumbaya and uh you know, joining

834
00:37:53,960 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 5: our families. Uh you know with the ring. Thank you advanced?

835
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 7: Were you planning?

836
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: Was just like before the trade request?

837
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 5: Oh yes, ma'am. Well, I tried to last year, but

838
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 5: she's a singer and you know her her uh work,

839
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 5: Uh you know, kind of conflicted with the schedule. So

840
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 5: just tried to take an approach to where a schedule

841
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 5: couldn't matter. Uh. So I I started sending her flowers

842
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 5: with a story and then the last uh letter uh

843
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 5: on the flower was, uh, will you marry me? And

844
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 5: she said yes? So, DK, how would you describe it

845
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 5: this week and stuff? Uh? Starting with Sunday? Great? I

846
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 5: mean I don't know too many m too many more

847
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 5: words other than great. Uh. It's just a big blessing

848
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 5: just to you know, come to a new home, you know. Uh,

849
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 5: not you know, discrediting anything from the Seahawks organization, because

850
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 5: they they gave me a chance to become who I

851
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 5: am in this league, and uh, I just thank them

852
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 5: for that. But uh, you know, found a new home

853
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 5: uh here, found a new fiance, and you know everything's

854
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 5: just falling in line. Uh you know, just the way

855
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 5: God God planned it for it to be. And you know,

856
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 5: I'm just excited to you know, continue to move forward

857
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 5: it Because did do you have a chance to watch

858
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 5: the Steelers previously? What are your thoughts about how they play?

859
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 5: And what do they told you about the style they

860
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 5: wanted to play?

861
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 6: Uh?

862
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 5: I mean I've played against them, so I I see

863
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 5: the type of style that they play. They're they're a

864
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 5: tough team, tough tackling team. Uh and they're very disciplined

865
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 5: from uh you know, being on the opposite side of 'em.

866
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 5: But just to be in the same locker room as

867
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 5: some of those guys, uh, I mean it feels good.

868
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 4: Uh.

869
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 5: But even with the free agency signings that we've had,

870
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 5: uh with uh ju Darius Slaye just speaking on one

871
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 5: of 'em. Uh just going against him. Uh the battles

872
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 5: that we have, but just to battle with him in

873
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 5: uh practice. Uh Joey Porter going against him, uh his

874
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 5: rookie year. So I mean coach Tomlin has brought some

875
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Speaker 5: great players in the into this league, has drafted some

876
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Speaker 5: great players into this league. So you know, just looking

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Speaker 5: at uh you know, add to you know, this historic

878
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Speaker 5: uh organization or.

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Speaker 4: Community.

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Speaker 5: Invisioning yourself and yes, sir, I mean I'm I'm my

881
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Speaker 5: own player. Uh so just looking for my own lane

882
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Speaker 5: uh in his offense.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: He's a great coach, had some great exceptional players, uh

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Speaker 5: you know in Tennessee and uh last year here, so

886
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Speaker 5: you know, just looking to put my own marking on

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Speaker 5: his offense.

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Speaker 4: You practice, you play, and does that ever get it

889
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Speaker 4: explosive combative contect?

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Speaker 5: No, sir, you gotta learn how to uh practice against

891
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Speaker 5: your teammates.

892
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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 5: I'm i I try to give my teammates the best

894
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Speaker 5: look possible. Uh. So on Sunday, you know they're they're ready,

895
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Speaker 5: uh you know to go against somebody else. So the

896
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Speaker 5: hard work has already done during practice. What's the th

897
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Speaker 5: was the least thing you're proud of how you developed

898
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Speaker 5: as far as the skill part of your skill.

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Speaker 3: Set over your career.

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Speaker 5: So whith Uh, I just think the way that I play, Uh,

901
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Speaker 5: it just jumps off the tape.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And I I've just consistently put that on film. Uh,

904
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Speaker 5: you know, year and a year out and I try

905
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Speaker 5: not to have a drop off. And I'm not gonna

906
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Speaker 5: have a drop off, now, are you?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Health wise?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 6: And was the second half the season struggle come off

911
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Speaker 6: the injuries physically in that regard?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, sir, Uh, I'm not gonna step on the

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Speaker 5: field if I don't feel like I can be uh

914
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Speaker 5: DK macalf. So anytime I step on the field, you're

915
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Speaker 5: gonna get the best product that I feel like I

916
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Speaker 5: can I can put on the field. Uh. But the

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Speaker 5: second half of the season, I was healthy.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the history of this organization.

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Speaker 3: This is one of the biggest player acquisitions in this

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Speaker 3: organization's history.

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Speaker 5: Maybe the biggest, and they're trying to take the next

922
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Speaker 5: step in the AFC.

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Speaker 6: How do you handle those expectations or pressure or whatever.

924
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Speaker 5: You wanna call it. Yeah, I mean, like you said,

925
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Speaker 5: expectations is unneeded pressure. In my opinion. I'm just gonna

926
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Speaker 5: be myself and uh just try to be the best

927
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Speaker 5: person that I can be walking into this building each day,

928
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Speaker 5: and uh, you know, let the chips fall what they may.

929
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Speaker 2: So can you clear up these uh perceptions that you

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Speaker 2: wanted to play on.

931
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Speaker 1: Warm Weather City?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Man, we never said none of that. And me

933
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Speaker 5: and my team never said, you know, warm City a contender. Uh,

934
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Speaker 5: none of that, man. We we just took the you know,

935
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Speaker 5: trade request and move forward with the teams that uh

936
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Speaker 5: really showed interest. And you know, they showed interest from

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Speaker 5: uh day one, and we just built on the relationship

938
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Speaker 5: that we uh that we had from the first conversation.

939
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Speaker 5: And you know, here we are.

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Speaker 7: Now that you're in the full year. You signed an

941
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Speaker 7: extension that ties you to Pittsburgh for quite some times.

942
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Speaker 7: Do you feel like it's your role or do you

943
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Speaker 7: feel like maybe you wanna recruit a free agent quarterback,

944
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Speaker 7: whether that or Aaron Rodgers with on his decision.

945
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Speaker 3: But did do you have a message to either of

946
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Speaker 3: those guys?

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Speaker 5: No, ma'am, I'm thinking like you, Like you said, this

948
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Speaker 5: is a h historic organization. Uh They've done the recruiting

949
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Speaker 5: before I even got here. So Uh. You know, whoever

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Speaker 5: wants to come here and try to win as many

951
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Speaker 5: games as we can, you know they can join us.

952
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Speaker 5: But you know, if not, good luck on the other side.

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Speaker 7: You talked about don maybe meeting Flavor teams contender right now.

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Speaker 5: But when you came into Seattle, there were a lot

955
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Speaker 5: of guys that had two bull rings. How much is

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Speaker 5: that's why it drives you to this day and you

957
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Speaker 5: know you're looking four in this five.

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Speaker 6: Years of your year.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I mean I'm the ultimate competitor, so I

960
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Speaker 5: I that's the ultimate goal whenever you know, anybody starts

961
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Speaker 5: a season, so uh, you know that's gonna that that

962
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Speaker 5: goal is not gonna change just cause I'm in a

963
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Speaker 5: different uniform. I'm still gonna be uh you know, trying

964
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Speaker 5: to be the best version of myself, tryna you know,

965
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Speaker 5: push my teammates, push myself each day, uh to try

966
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Speaker 5: to get you know, another Lombardi Trophy here. Uh, you

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Speaker 5: know with coach Thomer. Just to clarify that, you say

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Speaker 5: you talked to George Pickens since the deal or you

969
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Speaker 5: just talked to 'em. No, sir, we we just uh

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Speaker 5: had conversations in passing.

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Speaker 6: Kay, anyone else did you just clarified getting how Rush

972
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Speaker 6: came up to It.

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Speaker 5: Was part of this yesterday with the yes, sir so

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Speaker 5: back in twenty twenty, you know, Russ connected me and

975
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Speaker 5: my now fiance no money, and you know him and

976
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Speaker 5: his wife Sierra connected as she was talking to her

977
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Speaker 5: and Russ was talking to me, and you know we

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Speaker 5: hit it all from day one and here we are

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Speaker 5: all right, thanks good, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Greg. That was new Steelers wide receiver enforcer whatever you

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Speaker 2: want to call him, DK Metcalf with the Assembled media yesterday,

982
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Speaker 2: Matt and uh yeah.

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Speaker 3: Pressive dude.

984
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Speaker 2: Pressive dude you know, is open to working with George

985
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Speaker 2: Pickens on becoming a better pro and taking him under

986
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Speaker 2: his winging Slay said the same thing yesterday in regards

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Speaker 2: to Joey Porter Jr. I think there's a value to that.

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Speaker 3: There is value to that, and they're there's similar style

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Speaker 3: of players. I'm sure they can. Is Wes Welker going

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Speaker 3: to help Porter or help Pickens as much as like

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Speaker 3: a Metcalf type, you know, yes, with some things, but

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Speaker 3: I mean just similar styles like I win this way,

993
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Speaker 3: try it, you know, that type of thing.

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Speaker 2: And as we talked about in the previous segment. With

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Speaker 2: those two guys on the outside, you're not going to

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Speaker 2: see a safety within fifteen yards of the line of

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Speaker 2: scrimmage ever against this when they're on the field, right,

998
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Speaker 2: you know it's schronic out there. Okay maybe yeah, but

999
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Speaker 2: when those two guys are out.

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Speaker 3: There, uh, it's gonna have a massive ripple effect on

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Speaker 3: the run game. Yeah. Absolutely. And also year two of

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Speaker 3: the run Game, I expected the payoff. Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 2: But Matt, that's going to do it for the show today.

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Speaker 3: All right, I bet something happened, but I bet on anything.

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Speaker 3: Hoping something happens over the weekend. Yeah, we'll see, We'll

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Speaker 3: see absolutely.

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Speaker 2: But for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here

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Speaker 2: making sure our video gets out there on the YouTube

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Speaker 2: gives thumbs up, and believe it or not, folks, I

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Speaker 2: do go on there and answer questions. I'm Dale Lallie.

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