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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Allie. He is the Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and Matt. The first week of or free agency is

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Speaker 1: pretty much in the books here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but just what do you think things were? To

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Speaker 2: call them down?

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Speaker 1: Not even like the full week.

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Speaker 2: But we've we're it's Friday, It's Friday.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday.

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Speaker 2: But Keenan Allen got traded, three quarterbacks got traded, a

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Speaker 2: big draft trade already. I mean like things are happening

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Speaker 2: left and right still.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about let's take a look here at

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Speaker 1: the AFC North and see we're.

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Speaker 2: Not worth us mocking it up today?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, not today next week?

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Speaker 2: Uh so? Or even looking at marks, yeah, traded.

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Speaker 1: What teams have added, what teams have gotten rid of

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Speaker 1: thus far in free agency? So I'm looking here, CBS

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Speaker 1: Sports has these kind of broken down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, NFL dot Com actually does a good job with it.

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Speaker 1: Two yeah, uh so for the Ravens, who they give

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Speaker 1: an a minus for their moves this year rich thus far,

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Speaker 1: here's what they've done. They've added Derrick Henry and I

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Speaker 1: do like that for them. They re signed Justin Matta

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Speaker 1: Bouquet and Nelson Aguilar, but.

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Speaker 2: They franchise Mattabuke or they extend.

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Speaker 1: They franchised him and then extend.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he's locked up. I wasn't sure about that

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Speaker 2: second part. Okay.

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Speaker 1: They then they have lost Gus Edwards, Yeah, John Simpson,

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Speaker 1: Gino Stone, Patrick Queen, and their long snapper Tyler Rott. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Queen an a minus for that.

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Speaker 2: And there's some guys like Zeitler still out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, like you, I get that. Those the

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Speaker 1: signings that they've made are big.

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Speaker 2: They are big ones. I mean, losing Edwards for Henry

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Speaker 2: is a win. Yeah. Of course they knew Stone and

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Speaker 2: Queen were leaving a year ago. I mean they've drafted, accordingly.

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Speaker 1: Someone a replacement for Simpson.

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Speaker 2: They don't, and they trade.

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Speaker 1: What's not on here is you know they traded Morgan Moses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they also don't mention Odell's still up. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the receiver position. It's pretty light right

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Speaker 2: now outside of a Flowers, Agalar and Bateman, which is okay,

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Speaker 2: but it's not great. Not that Odell was great. I's

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Speaker 2: trying to think something else. Did they cut Marcus Williams too?

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Speaker 2: I thought they did early in the process. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: On that. I don't believe that they did and now,

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Speaker 2: because I would have been talking about him as a

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Speaker 2: potential stealer signing way back. So scratch that. So he's

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Speaker 2: still there. Okay, so they're still fine at safety. Their

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Speaker 2: own line to me is the concern troublesome is real troublesome.

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Speaker 1: You're down three of your starters right now.

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Speaker 2: And one of the remaining is Stanley. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: so it's Stanley and Linderbaum are the only guys retained

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Speaker 2: from last year's starters. Mccary's good, and he'll probably end

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Speaker 2: up being one of the stars. Okay, that's three, that's three,

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Speaker 2: But I think Stanley's more like a half at this point. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean he would him out of game.

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Speaker 1: You can't go in and counting on him to be

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Speaker 1: He was rotating with McCary.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So mccary's either be a guard or

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Speaker 2: your right tackle, but he's not as good guys who

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Speaker 1: And do you think Stanley can get through a full season?

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Speaker 2: That would really really worry me. And so they're at

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Speaker 2: least two linemen a way from really putting together a

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Speaker 2: starting group. They did make one pick. Remember the vour

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Speaker 2: He's kid from USC a year ago. He was the

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Speaker 2: zenter of that class. Yeah, you know it was new,

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Speaker 2: not as good as the enter, but they knew he

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Speaker 2: wasn't gona play all his rookie years, so you got

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Speaker 2: him a couple of rounds later. He's a pure guard.

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Speaker 2: People talked about him like he could have been a

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Speaker 2: second round pick if he was clean. So maybe they're

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Speaker 2: counting on him as one of the spots.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm sure I have done a lot

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Speaker 1: of workouts for them. No, right, right, or you know,

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Speaker 2: But it's not a big deal. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: they brought back Huntley either. I'm not sure who their

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Speaker 1: Is, right. They just signed Josh Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I guess that's good enough. But he's almost our age.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he's on his hundred team. Okay. I mean I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't give him an a minus. I don't think Derrick

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Speaker 2: They're a good team. I don't think it's an A

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Speaker 2: minus off season to this point, not to this point.

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Speaker 2: And they're picking late, of course, you know, but their.

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Speaker 1: Draft will get an eight plus what No doubt the

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Speaker 1: Bengals key additions Geno Stone, Zach Moss, Mike KISICKI uh

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Speaker 1: They also did resign Von Bell. I don't look at

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Speaker 2: I think the safety thing is the best thing they

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean they got they they basically

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Speaker 1: got two new safeties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of which was only gone for a year.

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Speaker 2: Von Bell.

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Speaker 2: So but he's old, he is old heels, but he's

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Speaker 2: smart and I think they're going to move Dax Hill

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Speaker 2: to corner.

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Speaker 1: That works.

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Speaker 2: It was Bengals off season or Bengals season is easy

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Speaker 2: to dismiss of. They went back a step because Burrow

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Speaker 2: got hurt and he wasn't the same, But the defense

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Speaker 2: took a massive step backwards too. Like that one was

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Speaker 2: not very explainable, but a lot of it was because

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Speaker 2: the safeties, I mean the more you dig into it,

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Speaker 2: they asked their safeties to do so much late rotations

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Speaker 2: and all kinds of different assignments that this time last

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Speaker 2: new safeties and that was an awful experiment for them. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I think it is telling that they went out

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Speaker 2: and got two veterans that are known for their intelligence.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that was the entire problem though.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's the entire problem though.

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Speaker 1: Because people they do things. Teams were running the ball

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Speaker 2: Especially when Reader got hurt. Yeah, yeah, and I don't think.

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Speaker 2: it's fine. They don't have a right tackle yet though.

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Speaker 1: Right, they don't have a right tackle. Joana Williams signed

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Speaker 1: a two year, thirty million dollar deal. He's gone.

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Speaker 2: He's a Pardner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen million dollars a year for Jon.

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Speaker 2: I know, and then they cut Humphreys. I'd rather Humphreys,

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Speaker 2: but I mean I know that there's a contract stuff there.

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Speaker 1: But that got a B from CBS, just a straight b. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I guess because the key departures were Joe Mixon, Well,

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Speaker 1: they replaced him with Zach Moss. That's probably an even

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Speaker 1: swap at this time, a woozy A you didn't replace.

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Speaker 2: No, I think Hill's going to go to corner there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Irv Smith.

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Speaker 2: Is him and Giseck you are the same and they

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Speaker 2: don't use them anyways. Yeah, so they still have a

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Speaker 2: whole right tackle which probably easily could be their first

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Speaker 2: Reader is now a lion. Yeah, so I don't know

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Speaker 2: what the plan is there, but I don't see one.

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Speaker 1: For Cleveland. The key additions are Jerry Judy, yeah, very

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Speaker 1: overrated and Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 1: The key re signings there is a Darius Smith and

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Speaker 2: They haven't done much period.

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Speaker 1: They haven't done anything either. And Jerry Judy to me,

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Speaker 2: But it looks like stend him. Well.

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Speaker 1: It looks like what they did was kick some money

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Speaker 2: They've because he's playing on his fifth year tag.

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Speaker 1: He's playing on his fifty year tag, and they lowered

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Speaker 2: Which is what they do. They're they're cash spending is

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Speaker 2: always through the roof Watson.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't it's not much different really, No, and

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Speaker 1: they don't have a first run draft pick.

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Speaker 2: Trying to think there's any other small moves they made,

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I mean, the defense is going to

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Speaker 1: They got a B plus for that much B plus.

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Speaker 2: Judy doesn't matter if he was going to opponent or

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Speaker 2: the Steelers higher. I mean, he is a very overrated player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver three with a wide receiver one's attitude.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's is great.

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Speaker 1: He think he is, Yeah, I saw. I mean that

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Speaker 1: whole incident last year was Steve Smith. He's screaming and

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Speaker 1: yelling at Steve Smith on the sidelines just completely turned

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Speaker 2: No, I hear it, I hear it. And people think

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Speaker 2: because he's got such quick feet, and he's got all

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Speaker 2: I guess he's got all these YouTube videos and tiktoks

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Speaker 2: and stuff. They think he's a great route runner. He's not.

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Speaker 2: He's a very sloppy route runner.

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Speaker 1: For the Steelers, they got to be with the additions

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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson, Patrick Queen, Dante Jackson, and they don't have.

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Speaker 2: Let's the pick a trade is on there.

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Speaker 1: That's that Tray's not on here, nor is the safety signing,

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Speaker 1: the key resigning Myles killerbrew departures, Mitch Trubisky chooks a

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Speaker 1: saying that that that hurts is Deontae Johnson, of course,

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Speaker 1: Loss your audition at quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Much have Wilson and Trubisky. It's kind of like Henry for Edwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how is that any different?

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Speaker 2: Right exactly?

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Speaker 1: And you and you added Patrick Queen and a second

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Speaker 2: Linebacker, right, No, you definitely gained more than you lost.

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Speaker 1: I don't get why that's a b in the in

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are an A minus.

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Speaker 2: We also haven't mentioned that Adams has been assigned. That

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Speaker 2: made me happy. I thought you did a really good year.

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Speaker 2: I think you're done at nose. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you're done at D line. I think you're done at

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Speaker 2: no Adams can play either, yeah, yeah, which I think

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Speaker 1: That's what they want, that flexibility.

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Speaker 2: Like I don't know that they would draft sweat now

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Speaker 2: I think they're more likely to take the A or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, let's kick some of our assets down

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Speaker 1: The Colts key addition. This is the Colt's key addition

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Speaker 1: For the Raiders. Key addition Christian Wilkins Gardner, Minshew re signed,

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I didn't know how they did it.

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Speaker 1: They just kicked the money all the way down the road.

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Speaker 2: That's what they bought. Yeah, I would expect a little

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Speaker 2: move and just draft offensive linemen and receivers and figure

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Speaker 2: out from there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like the Jets are probably gonna end

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Speaker 1: up with the vice president, the vice president of the

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Speaker 1: United States, the candidate there. They're key additions, Tyrod Taylor,

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Speaker 1: John Simpson, Isaiah Oliver.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought they had another lineman. I thought they

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Speaker 2: got to tackle recently too.

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Speaker 1: Maybe. Okay, their key re signing is Greg zier Line.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Moore said, so their kicker and their punter. They

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Speaker 1: kept those guys and then they lost defensive end Bryce Huff.

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Speaker 2: No, they're pretty much running it back. Yeah. It does

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Speaker 2: look like they've at least paying attention to the O

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Speaker 2: line though, and they're set up to draft one. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The last AFC.

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Speaker 2: Jet note for you, Cory Davis is back in the league.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers could do worse than that. He blocks. He's

451
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Speaker 2: former early pick. We haven't seen him in a while.

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Speaker 2: I think you get him super cheap, just a name

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Speaker 2: throughout there.

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Speaker 1: The Titans key additions Tony Pollard, Lloyd Cushion, Berry, Kenneth Murray, Chadobia,

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Speaker 1: Woozy a Calvin Ridley, and May root Off.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: He resigning long snapper Morgan Cox. Uh, how come they

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Speaker 1: didn't list the Steelers resigning Chris You mentioned that he resigning.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Key departures Aaron Burr, Deniko atri As, He's Alscher, Saan Murphy, Bunting,

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Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry. This is a team that looked at

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Speaker 1: it and said, you know what, we weren't good enough

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Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, let's get rid of all these guys

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Speaker 1: and bring in a whole bunch of new guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They cut like Andre Dillard today too, which is

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Speaker 2: an awful signing. And I think that's all saying. I

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Speaker 2: think there's two things we said about the Titans, which

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Speaker 2: I get both. I get on very much. We are

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Speaker 2: not Vrabel Henry a cloud of dust tough team anymore.

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Speaker 2: We're very analytical and we're a lot more finesse, which

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's good or bad, but I

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Speaker 2: think they're much more finesse than they used to be.

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Speaker 2: And I think they said we didn't put nearly enough

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Speaker 2: around will Levis last year to analyze them. Now we will.

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Speaker 2: And I think, like you know, all to end up

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Speaker 2: there too or something like that. Yeah, but they have

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Speaker 2: receivers now.

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Speaker 1: They have receivers now. Yeah, and they up Mason Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: Who might play more than people think. I think that's

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Speaker 2: a great landing, yeah for him. No, I think that's

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Speaker 2: a great spot for absolutely. Let's get to a break.

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Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt Patrick. Queen was asked today at is

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Speaker 1: a press conference, like, what's it going to be like

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Speaker 1: playing for the Steelers now instead of the Ravens. And

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Speaker 1: he's like, well, he said, I like to be the villain,

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Speaker 1: so I guess I'll be the villain. I would not

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Speaker 1: imagine that like he and Deshaun Elliott will get a

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Speaker 1: great welcome.

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Speaker 2: I would think not in Balton, right right.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Deshaun Elliott said today that he was asked

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Speaker 1: about that and he said, yeah, I got a text

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Speaker 1: here from Lamar Jackson and I haven't opened it up yet.

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Speaker 2: It's probably not like, hey, best of luck. Now, that's interesting.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of movement within divisions, you know,

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Speaker 2: Stone crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you don't usually see a lot of that

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Speaker 1: this year than maybe in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly it. Actually, we do a

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Speaker 2: mailbag every Thursday and someone asked that question, why do

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Speaker 2: you think that's been so much? And my first response

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Speaker 2: was because you know the players so well. You game

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Speaker 2: planned against queen for years and years. You must have

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Speaker 2: had respect for him and I you know, the question

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Speaker 2: was phrased, do you think people Do you think players

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Speaker 2: do that so they can get back at their old team.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe they mostly changed teams because they usually

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Speaker 2: picked their team to be and pay some money, I

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Speaker 2: mean more often than not. But familiarity to division I

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Speaker 2: think is attractive to the team and the team knew

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Speaker 2: Elliott and Queen better most you know.

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Speaker 1: When you're looking for a new team as well. I

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Speaker 1: think there's some familiarity with the style of play.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then North is a little different than the

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Speaker 2: other division.

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Speaker 1: And that's one thing that both of those guys said today, like,

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Speaker 1: hey look this. Particularly Elliet he's like, look I played

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Speaker 1: because he played in Detroit two years ago, played Miami

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Speaker 1: last year. He goes, I'm getting back into the AFC North.

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Speaker 1: He says, I understand this is a different style of football.

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Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I mean I don't think that's lip service

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Speaker 2: or coach Tomlin after an AFC North game, let's sa

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Speaker 2: AFC North football. People get tired of hearing that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But it's it is a little different. Everyone in the

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Speaker 2: division admits it.

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Speaker 1: They're all physical. Yeah, yeah, you know, even the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: You look at the Bengals, you think that's a finesse team,

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Speaker 1: but they are.

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Speaker 2: Look at their line. They're big guys. I mean they're

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Speaker 2: never gonna have a little scat back either. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: a big, physical team. I mean the Big ten is

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Speaker 2: better different than the SEC. It's better different than the

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Speaker 2: Big twelve, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: I also think too, Matt, that there's something to the

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this all the time that

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Speaker 1: the Steelers and Ravens are often interested in the same

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Speaker 1: not only the same type of players, but the same players,

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Speaker 1: right right.

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Speaker 2: I think they're scouting system and values coming out of

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Speaker 2: college and through the pros are very similar. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: you're going to be after the same type, same guys. Off.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen some steel We've seen it go

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Speaker 1: both ways more recently, Like you know, we saw warmly

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Speaker 1: the Steelers make a trade for for Chris Warmley obviously strange, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they liked Chris Wormley. We saw last year, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens go out and they get Arthur Malette, like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, these's there's a lot of similarities there. Some

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Speaker 1: of that, you know, some of that animosity between the

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Speaker 1: two is because they are so similar.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think so too. I mean it's physicality, it's

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Speaker 2: strong leadership. I mean, it's the head coaches are one

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Speaker 2: year apart in their tenure and both of them extremely successful.

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Speaker 2: I think it's not jealousy. I think it's respect, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know between those organizations, and then I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's an accident that your last game of

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Speaker 2: the year was against the Bills and Mitch Morse gets released.

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Speaker 2: We just game planned against them. We thought it was

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Speaker 2: good enough bring them in. You know, like any edge

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Speaker 2: you can get in the scouting world is great. I

563
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Speaker 2: mean said the same thing when they drafted Picket. They're

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Speaker 2: gonna know more about Picket than anybody else. You know,

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Speaker 2: they workout exact as we want to know. But that's

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Speaker 2: any edge you can get or any bit of information

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Speaker 2: you can get about these guys is great. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: real quick, Like you know, just from a scouting perspective,

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Speaker 2: as opposed to your area or your pro scout that

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Speaker 2: was in charge of the Ravens getting grades on Queen, well,

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Speaker 2: your entire offensive staff did too twice, you know, so

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Speaker 2: there's more eyes on him throughout the course of the

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Speaker 2: year and game planning against the strengths and weaknesses. Well,

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Speaker 2: he was hard to play against.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you you have that knowledge, that inside

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Speaker 1: knowledge because you did game plan against him twice a year,

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Speaker 1: very familiar and you saw him early in the year,

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Speaker 1: and you saw him late in the year like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: he still looked you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's holding up. That's the one thing we've mentioned

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Speaker 2: about him too. He's been unbelievably durable.

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Speaker 1: Really durable, Yeah, really durable. The guy the last two seasons,

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Speaker 1: played over a thousand snaps in each of the last

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Speaker 1: two seasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's he's also very young for his experience. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was asked today about the whole thing, because I

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Speaker 1: guess one of the radio stations in Baltimore went on

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Speaker 1: this diatribe and said that, you know, Roquan Smith had

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Speaker 1: made Patrick Queen made him a better player and that's

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Speaker 1: why he got paid and the Ravens won't miss him

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Speaker 1: at all, and blah blah blah. And apparently Queen saw

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Speaker 1: this and kind of clap back at them and said, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I learned, And he said today, I learned

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Speaker 1: from Roquan Smith, I hope. So I learned a lot

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Speaker 1: from him. I learned, you know, how to be a

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Speaker 1: better leader. I learned how to be a better communicator.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm ready to do this on my

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Speaker 1: own now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean again, if someone's going to come

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Speaker 2: in and help you get better. Take it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean I don't look at that as a negative at all.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's one of my questions.

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Speaker 1: He's a high There aren't that many high pedigree inside

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Speaker 1: linebackers in today's NFL. No, No, at most every year

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Speaker 1: there's one taken.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, give or take right, right, I mean less and

607
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Speaker 2: less than ever. People are realizing they have a tough,

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Speaker 2: tough acclimation period. And physically he checks every box.

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Speaker 1: Now you've let the Ravens get him ready to play.

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Speaker 1: Now you get him. He's reaching his physical peak and

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Speaker 1: his mental peak. More importantly, understands how to play, and

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Speaker 1: you've kept him in the same division. He knows how

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Speaker 1: to play against these teams you think, you think he

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Speaker 1: knows how to handle Lamar a little bit than the

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Speaker 1: average Bear.

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Speaker 2: He's played against Borrow a ton, and he's played against

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Speaker 2: the Browns a ton. And maybe he even chips in

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Speaker 2: and says has some critique for the Steelers offense, you know,

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Speaker 2: or yeah, I know it's a different offensive coordinator so

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Speaker 2: that might not even apply. But yeah, I think again,

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Speaker 2: the familiarity is great. You're getting him at this peak

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Speaker 2: time and he does need to show that he can

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Speaker 2: be the green dot guy and survive without Roquon or

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Speaker 2: thrive without rok On. Of course he's gonna survive. But again,

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's like Alvin Harper and Michael Irvin,

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Speaker 2: you know, where the one guy gets doubled all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean they're linebackers. I mean, if Rokwan missed a

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Speaker 2: games for Queen have been just fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, Rokwan did miss the last game of

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, against the Steelers. He sat that one out.

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Speaker 1: Queen played and had a nice game, and you know

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's so oh.

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Speaker 2: I think he'll be missed from that defense. I mean

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Speaker 2: one of the beauties of that defense with their safeties

635
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Speaker 2: and linebackers, the spine of their defense was phenomenal. That's

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Speaker 2: why he did so well against the Niners. And you

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Speaker 2: know why McDonald's in Seattle as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: And I really think there are a lot of similarities

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Speaker 1: between the two defenses in terms of their attacking styles.

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Speaker 1: They're they're not going to sit back and let stuff happen.

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Speaker 1: Rokwan Smith will be blitzing this year.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Yeah, he's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Do the things that he did. Well, mean, Queen, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Queen, I.

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Speaker 2: Should say I I mean, we talked about blitzing linebackers,

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Speaker 2: but he's a very good pass rusher. He has a

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Speaker 2: variety of moves. McDonald helped. He devised a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But same with the Steelers staff. Yeah, I mean he's

649
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Speaker 2: I think he has like nine sacks over the last two.

650
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: Years and he's eight and a half. It's the second

651
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: second most of for inside linebackers. And he will get

652
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. He will play in. His coverage has

653
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: gotten better.

654
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: That was a knock over the course of its turn

655
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: better and better. Range has never been an issue and

656
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Physicality has never been an

657
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: issue in terms of blitzing. He's the type of linebacker

658
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: that if you're going to leave him isolated, if you're

659
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 2: just gonna have a back deal with him, it's a

660
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: major disadvantage for the offense. Yeah, good luck with that. Yeah.

661
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: And more than just that. Yeah.

662
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: And he he was asked today about you know what

663
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: do you know about Ryan Cheese here he says, look,

664
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Speaker 1: I I watched a lot of Ryan Chaz and and

665
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: you know know what a good player, he was, and

666
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm here to replace him.

667
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like they've obviously been searching since Ryan's unfortunate situation.

668
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: I think they got their guy now, you know. And

669
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Speaker 2: this may not even matter to them, But Queen's so young.

670
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna get a nice third contract some day.

671
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Speaker 1: I would think so, because he's twenty four now. He

672
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: signed a three year deal here. If that works out,

673
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: you you.

674
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: Extend to market twenty sev ish, you know, right, So

675
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: I think he's got a bright future. And I did

676
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: not see that one coming. Yeah. Uh, some people on

677
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: Twitter have mentioned it. You guys didn't think Patrick Queen

678
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 2: was worth her time. I thought he was gonna get

679
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: five million dollars more a year than right.

680
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,479
Speaker 1: I thought he's gonna get ridiculously paid. And I just

681
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: wonder if he took a little less money than maybe

682
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: what he would have gotten somewhere else, possibly to stay

683
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: here in the AFC North which he mentioned, play for

684
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin and a team that in a winning you know,

685
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: organization which he mentioned, and I and to be the man.

686
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really good situation for him. Definitely get

687
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: out from Roque Shadow and all that stuff too, and

688
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: play against some directly great linebacker history here, great defense

689
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 2: history here. This this crowd is gonna eat him up too.

690
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so he gonna be fun on backs and

691
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 2: backers too. Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. Nausey and those guys.

692
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: That was the other thing he was He was mentioned,

693
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 1: if you know, is there anybody with the Steelers when

694
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: you were playing for the Ravens, if was there anybody

695
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: that you developed a real rivalry with. So he mentioned

696
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: that he did know Nausea Harris from their SEC days

697
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: together and.

698
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: They're close to the same age and butt heads there.

699
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he said Jalen Warren. He said that, he

700
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: said that guy I hated playing against him because he's

701
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: he's low to the ground.

702
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he.

703
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: Plays physically and and somebody said, well, geez, can't wait

704
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: to see you guys in backs on backers, and you know, yeah,

705
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: actually he didn't. He said he didn't call him Jalen

706
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: where he said mister Warren.

707
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: Oh, sounds like Queen's a pretty personal guy too.

708
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

709
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: His interviews were good, and I love that you mentioned

710
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: too that he what he learned from Roquand was mostly

711
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: above the neck and communication stuff. That was a bit

712
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 2: of a knock on him early in his career too,

713
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 2: is you know he wasn't the green doc guy, the communicator.

714
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: And I don't fee whether the green dot or.

715
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: Not, but that's tough for young linebackers, really hard.

716
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: It's part of the quarterback.

717
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: You're learning the defense yourself and now you're asking, okay,

718
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: you're not gonna learn to be learning the defense, but

719
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: now he wants you to call it.

720
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 2: Now, get to call it and line everybody up right,

721
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: and you know, you see those linebackers go up to

722
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 2: a defensive lineman was in a three point stance and

723
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: tap them on the butt just to move six inches

724
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 2: this way because they have a feel of what's coming.

725
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: And you know, you start to get to that point

726
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 2: as a linebacker and now you're talking, you know, yeah, So.

727
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: I think he'll be a good I think everybody, all

728
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: the guys that they've added thus far, I think will

729
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: be good additions. I think they make them a better

730
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: team now because remember the big thing about the Steelers

731
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: going into this offseason, they really weren't going to lose anybody, no,

732
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: and they're starting twenty two unless they wanted to. Well,

733
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: they apparently they wanted to. With Deontay Johnson. That opened

734
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: up another hole. I get Patrick Peterson, which he was

735
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: on yesterday. He was on NFL Network and said the

736
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: door's not closed.

737
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 2: I was I saying, I wonder if you could call

738
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: him him and Alan Robinson back off from a one

739
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: year deal. That's a lot more friendly because I don't

740
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 2: think those you know, bridges were burned. I just think

741
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 2: they were high quality.

742
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: We can't pay what you were not that, but that

743
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: was really obvious. But we can bring you back, you know,

744
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: and you guys liked it here.

745
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we still think you have football left

746
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 2: in you and give you a one year deal and

747
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 2: be a locker room leader. And I'm not sure how

748
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: we'll use you, but we're gonna use it.

749
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. So that would be interesting though. That

750
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: would be interesting because I've added some some queens and

751
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: LSU guy h Dante Jackson's an l s U guy.

752
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.

753
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: Peterson obviously, Peterson's an l s U guy, like and

754
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: these guys were.

755
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 2: Were L s U was a powerhouse, powerhouse, yeah, especially

756
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 2: that era, right, I mean they played with I don't

757
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: know think they'd overlap with Burrow or not not he's.

758
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: A little younger than he's a little younger when they

759
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: were when they won the national title.

760
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Justin Jefferson yea.

761
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: That was what they would like Chase and yeah, you

762
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: look at the the secondary when Dante Jackson was there

763
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: was Mills. Uh who is the other cornerback. I just

764
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: looked this stuff up the other day. They had four

765
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: guys in their starting secondary.

766
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: We're all NFL guys. Yeah, I mean it's obviously a

767
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: great school to go get people from. Too super competitive.

768
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 2: It's at the Bama level based on Adams yea and

769
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: all these guys.

770
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: They you know, really for a while there, Lsu was

771
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: defensive back.

772
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 2: You I remember when Peterson sat down with us, he

773
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 2: started talking about that's why he didn't go to Florida State.

774
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: And he was the dude that started and started.

775
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: He didn't want to follow Dion and those guys. He

776
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 2: wanted to be the Dion and he was, you know,

777
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: honey Badger. And there's been a long lest Stingley, you know.

778
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I think they're a better team now than

779
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: they were a week ago.

780
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, except the receiver situations.

781
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: That's fine. I mean, I think the way that they

782
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: want to play football, though I don't know that you

783
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: need seventeen receivers running around out there.

784
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: Well, I think there'd been eleven a lot less than

785
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: they were. I think that's pretty apparent. I mean, there's

786
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 2: no question about it.

787
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: And like again, they're going to do something at receiver.

788
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: I think, you know, yeah, maybe it's an upgrade, maybe

789
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: it's even if it's a step backwards a little bit.

790
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that because I think they're going to

791
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: draft one.

792
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as it's open to the draft. Yeah.

793
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: And b again, I think they're going to run the football.

794
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: I think they're going to run the snot out of

795
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 1: the football.

796
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 2: No, I agree. I don't know that the second starter

797
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: will be as good as Deontay or not.

798
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: I know that I know that they've upgraded at linebacker.

799
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: I know that they've upgraded at the other cornerback.

800
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

801
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: I know they've upgraded a.

802
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: Quarterback, yes, yeah, yeah.

803
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: And I know that they've upgraded the safety position.

804
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: Yes. I think all those things are true. And I

805
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 2: think center you can question, and receiver you can question.

806
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, you know, I think that they will

807
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: upgrade center regardless of Mason Cole was not good last year.

808
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: No, no, I mean there's almost nowhere to go but

809
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: up right to be very honest, good guy and all that.

810
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 2: But he's he's gonna be a backup next year somewhere somewhere. Yeah,

811
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not going to be a starter, you know.

812
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: So whatever you do there is likely to be an upgrade.

813
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: And you know, if they if they have to take

814
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: a half a step back at receiver, that's fine. If

815
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: they go out and get step On Diggs, that's not

816
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: a step backwards, has a step.

817
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: Forward, especially if you use a second round pick on

818
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: a young guy that has all the upside in the world. Yeah.

819
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go get Lad McConkie or Ricky Piersoll and

820
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: you know Roman Wilson.

821
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: There's a lot of options, Okay, a lot of options. Yeah. No,

822
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: I think you take advantage of a rich receiver draft,

823
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 2: and that's definitely going to happen. Yeah. So that's some

824
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 2: of these mid round picks that they now have more of.

825
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you'll get a decent one the

826
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: fourth round. Yeah, I mean, it's not a bad place show.

827
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: And then they all got two third round picks. Yeah, yeah,

828
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: I guess that you can get one in the third,

829
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: we might have to go third round that third, like

830
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: we when we were all every time we've done a

831
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: mock draft, Yeah, when we get to that pick at

832
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: eighty four, we're like, well, there's like three different ways

833
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: we could go here. There's a bunch of different players.

834
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

835
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: Well, now they get through it the same thing.

836
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and we always like those two as well.

837
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I like two thirds better.

838
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 2: A lot better. Yeah, they're they're gradually inching up into

839
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: the sweet spots of these drafts too.

840
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's interesting. Let's get to another break. He

841
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lallie. We'll be back

842
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: to finish up the show right after this. Well, Steeler fans,

843
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: it's been an eventful day and certainly one that I

844
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 1: think a lot of people will remember. And of course,

845
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846
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848
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849
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,279
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Speaker 1: or Tanger out Let's to do that as well. And

852
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853
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: You might want to go get Queen a Patrick Queen Jersey. Yeah,

854
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: maybe even Elliott maybe you were yeah, maybe you know, Yeah,

855
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: and so any of those they also sign upun this week.

856
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: Forget about that.

857
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 2: True. True.

858
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cameron Johnson spots upgraded in there's another one.

859
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 2: I mean, there's another upgrade. Yeah, you got top ten

860
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: type punter from what I understand against really one of

861
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: the worst punters wasn't a.

862
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: He just wasn't a weapon. And now you've got a

863
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: guy that can be a weapon and reliable, Cameron Johnston.

864
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: I was looking at like forty five percent of his

865
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: punts last year down inside the opposing twenty. Yeah, it's ridiculous.

866
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: Like of all the guys he was, he didn't he

867
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: didn't have the most kicks inside the twenty. He had thirty,

868
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: which was like tied tied for six or seven. It

869
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: was in the top ten. But he did it on

870
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: sixty six punts. All the other guys who panther, all

871
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: the other guys who were ahead of him, in terms

872
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: of number of punts down inside the twenty had like

873
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: seventy five plus punts percent Yeah, his percentage was was

874
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: maybe the best in the league. You know, that's a weapon.

875
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: That's a weapon, especially when your defense should be pretty good.

876
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're a run the ball, play defense team,

877
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: you better be great on teams and you're both your

878
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: kicker punter should be really strong. And now it's not

879
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 2: my specialty at all, but I'd be shocked if there's

880
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 2: many teams out there that have a better kicker punter

881
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 2: combination of steel.

882
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: Pretty good one.

883
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's really good, really good one. And

884
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 2: it's worth the money.

885
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

886
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're in fleetball at night, you know

887
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: you're going to.

888
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: Play football that way, then play football that.

889
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: Way exactly exactly. So I think they told us that

890
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 2: quite a bit. It's a small thing, but all round

891
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 2: out after camp, but the core special teamers are still

892
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: to be determined a little bit.

893
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: They kept Killerber, they kept Killer Huge.

894
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 2: You know, well, boy can be back, you know, I

895
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, so I think that group is

896
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 2: interesting too. Pierre might not be back. You know, some

897
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: of those guys have been core special teamers. For you.

898
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: But that changed every but you got your you got

899
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: your main guy. Like you build out a round killer brew. Yeah, yeah,

900
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: I mean he's he was the All Pro And there's

901
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: one long step.

902
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: Too, and you extended your long styah some of your

903
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: four most important special teamers or locked up.

904
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's huge. Final thoughts on on the Kenny

905
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: Pickett trade, Matt.

906
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: I was shocked, to be very honest with you, I

907
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 2: think there will be another shoe to drop. I mean

908
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 2: maybe they're excited to get Tannehill in here or somebody

909
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 2: like that. I don't know, but I get it. I

910
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 2: think it's a lot more about you were the starter.

911
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 2: Now you're not the starter. You're a younger guy. It's

912
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 2: not your time to get demoted. But it's better for

913
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: you and the team to have you elsewhere. You know. Yeah,

914
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: if i'd be the Eagles, I'd be pretty excited to

915
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 2: get him, though. Yeah.

916
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: They get a year basically two year look at him,

917
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: decide whether they want to pick up the fifty year option.

918
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 2: You know.

919
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: For the Steelers, you know, it's.

920
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 2: I bet they looked at it. I think they're telling

921
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 2: us that they hadn't planned on picking on the fifth

922
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 2: year option. Well, I mean I think could have been determined.

923
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: That would have been determined by what happened this year.

924
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 1: But I think when they made to be a starter, yeah,

925
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: I think as they as they talked to Russell Wilson

926
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: and got a better feel for the situation, I think

927
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: they just looked at it and said, you know what,

928
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: he's the veteran guy, he's the thirteen year veteran, he's

929
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: the guy that's won Super Bowls.

930
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

931
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: Uh, it's only right that we give him first opportunity

932
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback.

933
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

934
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's number one on the depth chart. Kenny

935
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: Pickett's number two, and I just don't think any Pickett

936
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: could deal with that.

937
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if that offended him, then your skin might

938
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 2: have been a little too thin anyways.

939
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: Because might not have been the guy that we thought

940
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: you were.

941
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean Wilson deserved that. To me, I think

942
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 2: his track record implied.

943
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: That's like bringing in Tom Burton. I'm not saying Russell

944
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: Wilson star Brady. That would be like the Tampa Bay

945
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: Buccaneers bringing in Tom Brady a couple of years ago

946
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: and say and telling you know, the whoever the Kyle

947
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: Trask k Kyle, we're gonna give you, We're gonna give

948
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: you a show. You're equal footing with Tom, with Tom Brady.

949
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 2: That's just not how things work. I mean, I think

950
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: you hire Wilson, you have the discussion with Wilson that, Hey,

951
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 2: this is a really fortunate financial situation for us, considering

952
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: what Denver's doing for you. The least we can do

953
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 2: is give you first crack at this thing. Because Kenny

954
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 2: Kenny starting thirteen touchdown passes. Yeah, I mean it's not enough.

955
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, the winning was nice, and I'm not gonna talk

956
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: on and no matter what you think of that, he

957
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: found ways to win games in big moments, but we would.

958
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: Love to see him in this offense. Yeah. Yeah, I

959
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 2: mean part of me is a little discouraged that we

960
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: don't get that opportunity.

961
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't it be nice so to not have to

962
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: win games that way up to ten points in the

963
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and just run the football and run the

964
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: clock out.

965
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you throw twenty five thirty touchdown passes, the games

966
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 2: go a lot of the script changes than thirteen or

967
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: fifteen or whatever. You know.

968
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, So season, we'll see if they're able to better

969
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: do that moving forward. But big week of change or

970
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Seelers. We'll see what else comes to fruition.

971
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: Maybe there'll be some more moves over the weekend here.

972
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: I'm counting on it.

973
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we get head into Remember free agency is

974
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: only like technically.

975
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 2: Opens have been fifty hours is how long it's been open. Yeah, exactly.

976
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that way because everything starts Monday. But

977
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: by by next Monday, when when our next show rolls around,

978
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: some different things will have happened around not only in

979
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh but around the league.

980
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen got traded.

981
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the time we roll back around here on Monday,

982
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: maybe Stephan Diggs will have been traded.

983
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 2: I just have a feeling that, like six oh two,

984
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 2: he's gonna get traded. So yeah, yeah, like this how

985
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: it works.

986
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we'll see. We'll see where they ends

987
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: up at. Just to remind everybody, So next week we're

988
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: on our Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule.

989
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 2: Again, a lot of people saying, you guys should have

990
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 2: been five days this we we should have five days

991
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 2: this week. I think the.

992
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: Following week, because of the owners meeting, we'll be down

993
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: at the league meetings We'll be on from ten to

994
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: twelve on each of those days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

995
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: in Orlando. We'll have some good guests so and we'll

996
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: probably talk a lot about some of these moves that

997
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: have been made around the league. Picture stuff, big picture stuff,

998
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: and you know, some of the rule changes, things of

999
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: that nature. The Steelers putting out the rule change along

1000
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: with some other teams, the steel Deelers proposed moving the

1001
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: trade deadline back one week five. Other teams proposed moving

1002
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: it back two more weeks to week ten.

1003
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: Good. I like it, I'd like I'd vote for either one.

1004
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: Well, I think the fact that you had six teams

1005
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: proposed that tells me that there's a good something's going

1006
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: to happen with that. But that's going to do it

1007
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Speaker 1: for our show today and for this week. So for

1008
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site

1009
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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lolly. We appreciate

1010
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: you listening to this edition of the Drive on Steelers

1011
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,200
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