Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Allie. He is the Matt Williamson
Speaker 1: and Matt. The first week of or free agency is
Speaker 1: pretty much in the books here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just what do you think things were? To
Speaker 2: call them down?
Speaker 1: Not even like the full week.
Speaker 2: But we've we're it's Friday, It's Friday.
Speaker 1: It's Friday.
Speaker 2: But Keenan Allen got traded, three quarterbacks got traded, a
Speaker 2: big draft trade already. I mean like things are happening
Speaker 2: left and right still.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about let's take a look here at
Speaker 1: the AFC North and see we're.
Speaker 2: Not worth us mocking it up today?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, not today next week?
Speaker 2: Uh so? Or even looking at marks, yeah, traded.
Speaker 1: What teams have added, what teams have gotten rid of
Speaker 1: thus far in free agency? So I'm looking here, CBS
Speaker 1: Sports has these kind of broken down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, NFL dot Com actually does a good job with it.
Speaker 1: Two yeah, uh so for the Ravens, who they give
Speaker 1: an a minus for their moves this year rich thus far,
Speaker 1: here's what they've done. They've added Derrick Henry and I
Speaker 1: do like that for them. They re signed Justin Matta
Speaker 1: Bouquet and Nelson Aguilar, but.
Speaker 2: They franchise Mattabuke or they extend.
Speaker 1: They franchised him and then extend.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's locked up. I wasn't sure about that
Speaker 2: second part. Okay.
Speaker 1: They then they have lost Gus Edwards, Yeah, John Simpson,
Speaker 1: Gino Stone, Patrick Queen, and their long snapper Tyler Rott. Okay,
Speaker 1: Queen an a minus for that.
Speaker 2: And there's some guys like Zeitler still out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, like you, I get that. Those the
Speaker 1: signings that they've made are big.
Speaker 2: They are big ones. I mean, losing Edwards for Henry
Speaker 2: is a win. Yeah. Of course they knew Stone and
Speaker 2: Queen were leaving a year ago. I mean they've drafted, accordingly.
Speaker 1: Someone a replacement for Simpson.
Speaker 2: They don't, and they trade.
Speaker 1: What's not on here is you know they traded Morgan Moses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they also don't mention Odell's still up. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the receiver position. It's pretty light right
Speaker 2: now outside of a Flowers, Agalar and Bateman, which is okay,
Speaker 2: but it's not great. Not that Odell was great. I's
Speaker 2: trying to think something else. Did they cut Marcus Williams too?
Speaker 2: I thought they did early in the process. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: On that. I don't believe that they did and now,
Speaker 2: because I would have been talking about him as a
Speaker 2: potential stealer signing way back. So scratch that. So he's
Speaker 2: still there. Okay, so they're still fine at safety. Their
Speaker 2: own line to me is the concern troublesome is real troublesome.
Speaker 1: You're down three of your starters right now.
Speaker 2: And one of the remaining is Stanley. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's Stanley and Linderbaum are the only guys retained
Speaker 2: from last year's starters. Mccary's good, and he'll probably end
Speaker 2: up being one of the stars. Okay, that's three, that's three,
Speaker 2: But I think Stanley's more like a half at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he would him out of game.
Speaker 1: You can't go in and counting on him to be
Speaker 1: He was rotating with McCary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So mccary's either be a guard or
Speaker 2: your right tackle, but he's not as good guys who
Speaker 2: played with last.
Speaker 1: And do you think Stanley can get through a full season?
Speaker 2: That would really really worry me. And so they're at
Speaker 2: least two linemen a way from really putting together a
Speaker 2: starting group. They did make one pick. Remember the vour
Speaker 2: He's kid from USC a year ago. He was the
Speaker 2: zenter of that class. Yeah, you know it was new,
Speaker 2: not as good as the enter, but they knew he
Speaker 2: wasn't gona play all his rookie years, so you got
Speaker 2: him a couple of rounds later. He's a pure guard.
Speaker 2: People talked about him like he could have been a
Speaker 2: second round pick if he was clean. So maybe they're
Speaker 2: counting on him as one of the spots.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm sure I have done a lot
Speaker 1: of workouts for them. No, right, right, or you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't have a lot of tape to go off of.
Speaker 2: But it's not a big deal. But I don't think
Speaker 2: they brought back Huntley either. I'm not sure who their
Speaker 2: backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: Is, right. They just signed Josh Johnson.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess that's good enough. But he's almost our age.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's on his hundred team. Okay. I mean I
Speaker 2: wouldn't give him an a minus. I don't think Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry shot, which surprises me to no end. I thought
Speaker 2: he had a really good year.
Speaker 1: He's also not what he wants was No, no, no, he's
Speaker 1: not the best pat He's now human No, right, right,
Speaker 1: I mean he was in a really rough situation last
Speaker 1: year and did pretty well.
Speaker 2: They're a good team. I don't think it's an A
Speaker 2: minus off season to this point, not to this point.
Speaker 2: And they're picking late, of course, you know, but their.
Speaker 1: Draft will get an eight plus what No doubt the
Speaker 1: Bengals key additions Geno Stone, Zach Moss, Mike KISICKI uh
Speaker 1: n Bell. He resigning t Higgins, Drew Sample, Cody Ford dead.
Speaker 1: They also did resign Von Bell. I don't look at
Speaker 1: that though.
Speaker 2: I think the safety thing is the best thing they
Speaker 2: did all off season.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean they got they they basically
Speaker 1: got two new safeties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of which was only gone for a year.
Speaker 2: Von Bell.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So but he's old, he is old heels, but he's
Speaker 2: smart and I think they're going to move Dax Hill
Speaker 2: to corner.
Speaker 1: That works.
Speaker 2: It was Bengals off season or Bengals season is easy
Speaker 2: to dismiss of. They went back a step because Burrow
Speaker 2: got hurt and he wasn't the same, But the defense
Speaker 2: took a massive step backwards too. Like that one was
Speaker 2: not very explainable, but a lot of it was because
Speaker 2: the safeties, I mean the more you dig into it,
Speaker 2: they asked their safeties to do so much late rotations
Speaker 2: and all kinds of different assignments that this time last
Speaker 2: year they scrapped both their starters and went with two
Speaker 2: new safeties and that was an awful experiment for them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I think it is telling that they went out
Speaker 2: and got two veterans that are known for their intelligence.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that was the entire problem though.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the entire problem though.
Speaker 1: Because people they do things. Teams were running the ball
Speaker 1: at will on them.
Speaker 2: Especially when Reader got hurt. Yeah, yeah, and I don't think.
Speaker 2: I also don't think their defense is super talented. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's fine. They don't have a right tackle yet though.
Speaker 1: Right, they don't have a right tackle. Joana Williams signed
Speaker 1: a two year, thirty million dollar deal. He's gone.
Speaker 2: He's a Pardner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen million dollars a year for Jon.
Speaker 2: I know, and then they cut Humphreys. I'd rather Humphreys,
Speaker 2: but I mean I know that there's a contract stuff there.
Speaker 1: But that got a B from CBS, just a straight b. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess because the key departures were Joe Mixon, Well,
Speaker 1: they replaced him with Zach Moss. That's probably an even
Speaker 1: swap at this time, a woozy A you didn't replace.
Speaker 2: No, I think Hill's going to go to corner there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Irv Smith.
Speaker 2: Is him and Giseck you are the same and they
Speaker 2: don't use them anyways. Yeah, so they still have a
Speaker 2: whole right tackle which probably easily could be their first
Speaker 2: round pick. I mean there will be somebody available and
Speaker 2: Reader is now a lion. Yeah, so I don't know
Speaker 2: what the plan is there, but I don't see one.
Speaker 1: For Cleveland. The key additions are Jerry Judy, yeah, very
Speaker 1: overrated and Jameis Winston.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The key re signings there is a Darius Smith and
Speaker 1: guard Michael Dunn that doesn't move now done to backup
Speaker 1: key departures se Ony Tacky Tacky, Anthony Weaver or Walker
Speaker 1: I should say, cornerback Mike Ford. They haven't lost a
Speaker 1: lot yet.
Speaker 2: They haven't done much period.
Speaker 1: They haven't done anything either. And Jerry Judy to me,
Speaker 1: but they re they redid his contract.
Speaker 2: But it looks like stend him. Well.
Speaker 1: It looks like what they did was kick some money
Speaker 1: into future years as.
Speaker 2: They've because he's playing on his fifth year tag.
Speaker 1: He's playing on his fifty year tag, and they lowered
Speaker 1: that number down to like two and a half million
Speaker 1: or something like that. So it looks like they pushed
Speaker 1: some voidable years in there just to get.
Speaker 2: Which is what they do. They're they're cash spending is
Speaker 2: always through the roof Watson.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't it's not much different really, No, and
Speaker 1: they don't have a first run draft pick.
Speaker 2: Trying to think there's any other small moves they made,
Speaker 2: I don't think. I mean, the defense is going to
Speaker 2: be pretty close to be the same.
Speaker 1: They got a B plus for that much B plus.
Speaker 2: Judy doesn't matter if he was going to opponent or
Speaker 2: the Steelers higher. I mean, he is a very overrated player. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a he's a wide receiver three in my opinion.
Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver three with a wide receiver one's attitude.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's is great.
Speaker 1: He think he is, Yeah, I saw. I mean that
Speaker 1: whole incident last year was Steve Smith. He's screaming and
Speaker 1: yelling at Steve Smith on the sidelines just completely turned
Speaker 1: me off on that guy.
Speaker 2: No, I hear it, I hear it. And people think
Speaker 2: because he's got such quick feet, and he's got all
Speaker 2: I guess he's got all these YouTube videos and tiktoks
Speaker 2: and stuff. They think he's a great route runner. He's not.
Speaker 2: He's a very sloppy route runner.
Speaker 1: For the Steelers, they got to be with the additions
Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson, Patrick Queen, Dante Jackson, and they don't have.
Speaker 2: Let's the pick a trade is on there.
Speaker 1: That's that Tray's not on here, nor is the safety signing,
Speaker 1: the key resigning Myles killerbrew departures, Mitch Trubisky chooks a
Speaker 1: corps for Deontay Johnson. So really, I mean, of the
Speaker 1: of the departures, the only one that you're looking at
Speaker 1: saying that that that hurts is Deontae Johnson, of course,
Speaker 1: but you got a cornerback for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I think Armani Watts is a.
Speaker 1: Loss your audition at quarterback.
Speaker 2: Much have Wilson and Trubisky. It's kind of like Henry for Edwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how is that any different?
Speaker 2: Right exactly?
Speaker 1: And you and you added Patrick Queen and a second
Speaker 1: team All Pro.
Speaker 2: Linebacker, right, No, you definitely gained more than you lost.
Speaker 1: I don't get why that's a b in the in
Speaker 1: the Ravens are an A minus.
Speaker 2: We also haven't mentioned that Adams has been assigned. That
Speaker 2: made me happy. I thought you did a really good year.
Speaker 2: I think you're done at nose. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're done at D line. I think you're done at
Speaker 2: no Adams can play either, yeah, yeah, which I think
Speaker 2: is what they want from them.
Speaker 1: That's what they want, that flexibility.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know that they would draft sweat now
Speaker 2: or you know, a three hundred and thirty pound guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they're more likely to take the A or
Speaker 2: a roar hero who had a which he had his
Speaker 2: day yesterday, Rooke call him Rooke. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 2: that's the style if they're going to add a D
Speaker 2: line used the force roupe. Yeah, so, I I just
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, grades are grades, and be fine now, they're subjective.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: It's just like draft grades. I really don't think any
Speaker 2: grades matter. And oh, by the way, it's like a
Speaker 2: poker hand and some has all aces and some has
Speaker 2: nothing in their hands. You know, how well do you
Speaker 2: play your hand is more important to me. Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 2: just signed with the Rams. Oh, Okay, that makes sense
Speaker 2: the bill.
Speaker 1: So just could take a look at some of the
Speaker 1: other AFC teams, Yeah, especially the contenders. They get a
Speaker 1: C plus for signing Mitch Trubisky, linebacker Nicholas Morrow, and
Speaker 1: wide receiver Curtis Samuel. Also resigning Dion Dawkins, David Edwards,
Speaker 1: Taylor Repp, aj Ipanessa, and day Kwon Jones. But they
Speaker 1: lost Gabe Davis, Leonard Floyd, Jordan Poyer, Sarron Neil, Deontay Hardy,
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, Nim Hinz, Cam Lewis, and Jordan Poyer.
Speaker 2: I think they're going backwards. I wouldn't give them.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a C plus.
Speaker 2: I think you even said it was a B. I
Speaker 2: think it's like a C minus.
Speaker 1: It's like five of the guys that were listed, there
Speaker 1: are starters that they lost.
Speaker 2: Like I like the Daikon Jones re signing, and you
Speaker 2: know he's quality player, but both your safeties are gone
Speaker 2: to Davis White's gone, Mitch Morris is gone. I really
Speaker 2: think this is like Diggs could be gone soon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I really feel like this is phase two of the
Speaker 2: Josh Allen era. It starts this year. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot different.
Speaker 1: Looking here at Denver. Denver gets an F and F,
Speaker 1: which I get because their key additions safety Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Malcolm Roach, who could walk in here right
Speaker 1: now punch us both in the face and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: know who he is. Yeah, their key resigning safety p J. Locke,
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, you see kicker Will Watts and fullback
Speaker 1: Michael Burton. Your key, one of your key resignings is
Speaker 1: a full back.
Speaker 2: And a kicker. And the kicker and the safety we've never.
Speaker 1: Heard of, and a safety nobody's ever heard of. K
Speaker 1: departre is Justin Simmons, Sure, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: And not only is he a departure, but you're paying
Speaker 2: him a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're paying him for somebody else to play him.
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy, Lloyd Cushionberry and Josie Jewel. That's five starters.
Speaker 2: I bet if we asked most listeners to name ten Broncos,
Speaker 2: five of them would have well been five.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, Malcolm Roach, p ch A Lock, Will Watson,
Speaker 1: Michael Burton would be five of five of the ten.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean the five that walked out the door,
Speaker 2: including Wilson would have been those people's answers.
Speaker 1: They would have been the dudes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they might pick first.
Speaker 1: Overall, they're gonna be pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna be pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Uh. The Houston Texans. Everybody's raving about what they've done.
Speaker 1: They've done some good things. Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: And then they made it a strange trade today though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what they gained.
Speaker 1: From that two next year I guess was fine, big thing,
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was a Matt Williamson trade. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about?
Speaker 2: It is? But I wouldn't have traded out of the
Speaker 2: top twenty five today without knowing who's there. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean my one thought on it was maybe because
Speaker 2: they added some.
Speaker 1: Of these names, are about think the rookie was gonna.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, let's kick some of our assets down
Speaker 2: down the road a little bit for next year maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, when they're they have less cap space.
Speaker 1: So they they acquired Joe Mixon, HM signed Danielle Hunter signed,
Speaker 1: Denico signed, Aziz Al Shaier. Those three are the ones
Speaker 1: I really like, Lonnie Johnson and Jeff Akuda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Akuda's worth a shot. Yeah, but those front seven
Speaker 2: players they add Shahir played for him under the Niners,
Speaker 2: you know, and Autrey's a big power in Daniel Hunters,
Speaker 2: a perfect compliment to Anderson. Their front seven got noticeably better.
Speaker 1: Their key resignings Dalton, Schultzen, Kyr Fairbairn. Okay, yeah, their
Speaker 1: quality player, I mean, and they lost Devin Singletary, Jonathan Greenard,
Speaker 1: Blake Cashman while they replaced all three of those guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I'd rather mix Inner
Speaker 2: Singletary who cares really? Yeah? They maybe he'll use a
Speaker 2: third round pick on the back.
Speaker 1: The Colts key addition. This is the Colt's key addition
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, which is a weird backup too, by the way,
Speaker 1: it doesn't fit.
Speaker 2: Doesn't fit at all except for the mentorship, the age,
Speaker 2: and he played pretty well last year, but he's nothing
Speaker 2: like Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 1: Key re signings Michael Pittman, Taekwon, Lewis Zaier, Franklin, Grover Stewart,
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, and punter Rigoberto Sanchez. A key departures is
Speaker 1: what the Colts do.
Speaker 2: Though they resign their own, they don't go outside very often.
Speaker 1: Gardner, Minshew Zach Moss and Isaiah McKenzie are the losses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're all homegrown talent. Yeah, we would
Speaker 2: get a little frustrating. I mean, I know the Steelers
Speaker 2: did that for a lot of years, but times have change.
Speaker 2: I mean you need to supplement your roster and free
Speaker 2: agency a little bit.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville went out and traded for mac Jones. They had
Speaker 1: the wide receiver Gabe Davis, which I don't like that.
Speaker 2: This is probably my least favorite offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mitch Moore, Starnel Savage, Eric Armstead.
Speaker 2: I like the Armstet signing, but they probably gave him
Speaker 2: too much money. I haven't seen the contract.
Speaker 1: I was like seventeen millions something like that.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, Key resigning Seash Allen and Ezra Cleveland. Key departures
Speaker 1: place kicker Braindon McManus, cornerback Darius Williams, and wide receiver
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 2: I don't know their offense is much better.
Speaker 1: I think they're just kind of moving chares around.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the I always feel like they
Speaker 2: don't have a plan.
Speaker 1: Kay Davis for Calvin Ridley is not a loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, adding Morse is nice. He has some injury stuff,
Speaker 2: but that's okay.
Speaker 1: Kansas City key additions punter Matt Arasi. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you called that a key addition because he's never
Speaker 1: kicked in the NFL before.
Speaker 2: I guess he has never ever. Yeah, No and tight
Speaker 2: end Irv Smith, Marky's Brown they signed today, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Key re signings Chris Jones, Lgerious and Drew Trankwell. Key
Speaker 1: departures Nick Alligretti and Willie Gay Jr. Pretty much stand
Speaker 1: keeping the status quo. I love the Brown signing for
Speaker 1: them at Receiver. I don't think we're talking about this
Speaker 1: on my podcast. I think he's more of a nice
Speaker 1: upgrade over Hardman or Valdez Scantley as opposed to the
Speaker 1: next Hyrek Hill. People were automatically comparing that, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2: No he's not. But he's a lot different than Rice
Speaker 2: and Kelsey.
Speaker 1: For the Raiders. Key addition Christian Wilkins Gardner, Minshew re signed,
Speaker 1: Andre James and running back of mirr Abdula doesn't need
Speaker 1: from me. Key departures Josh Jacobs, Jermaine Illuminare and cornerback
Speaker 1: of Meek Robertson.
Speaker 2: So I Adore Wilkins. I think he's phenomenal and he's
Speaker 2: a great locker room guy, and maybe their D line
Speaker 2: now is really really good and it's finally a strength.
Speaker 2: I just think you could contemplate for a team like that,
Speaker 2: would you rather have Wilkins or four starters, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like four five million dollar guys, a linebacker,
Speaker 2: you know, a nose whatever.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have read or kept rather kept Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: and Germaine iluminor and added and another you know somebody
Speaker 1: else and added a serviceable defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sheldon Rankins, something like that. Yeah, I think there's
Speaker 2: for that team. They weren't one big ticket item away,
Speaker 2: is my point.
Speaker 1: The Chargers weird, weird, weird key additions Gus Edwards and
Speaker 1: Will Disley, he resigning a Lloy Gilman, ke Partsers Austin
Speaker 1: like Klar Kenneth Murray, Gerald Everett and Keenan Allen some
Speaker 1: of they got a see and Mike Williams and Mike Williams.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's a seed.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to see either. It sounds like
Speaker 2: Bosa and Mack will both be back under restructures. That's great,
Speaker 2: that's great.
Speaker 1: They gave Mac like a six year extension.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I didn't know how they did it.
Speaker 1: They just kicked the money all the way down the road.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would have at least brought back one receiver.
Speaker 2: I would have kept a edge and a receiver, not
Speaker 2: two edges, not.
Speaker 1: Just empty my wide receiver room.
Speaker 2: You're right, and count on Quinton Johnston and like, I
Speaker 2: don't want Justin Herbert for Fantasy this year.
Speaker 1: Non it.
Speaker 2: They're gonna run the ball a thousand times right.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins key additions Dan Jordan Poyer, Shaq Barrett, Johnny Smith,
Speaker 1: Anthony Walker, Aaron Brewer, Jordan Brooks, and Kendall Fuller. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of those dudes are like thirty four.
Speaker 2: I'd say there's some age there. It's another they were
Speaker 2: so cash strapped. I'm a little shocked how they got
Speaker 2: that all in and how they're going to get to
Speaker 2: a signed But I mean, I know if people manipulate
Speaker 2: the cap. But they made a lot of changes. They
Speaker 2: also got rid of a lot.
Speaker 1: Of key resignings, Nick Neid Him and Robert Jones. Key
Speaker 1: departures Robert Hunt, Christian Wilkins, Brandon Jones, Andrew van Ginkel,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, Emmanuel Ogbaugh and now of course, uh they
Speaker 1: also lost the safety the Steelers signed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah Elliott right. Yeah, is the center the
Speaker 2: only offensive lineman they brought in? Yes, I think so, yes,
Speaker 2: And I know they lost hunt Win is still a
Speaker 2: free agent. Their line is frightening.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if they could put five on
Speaker 1: the field right now.
Speaker 2: The experience, it's a problem. Yeah, Connor Williams is up
Speaker 2: there starting center. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For the Patriots. Key additions Jake Jacoby, Brissett, Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, Cioni, Tacky Tacky, and Choke sakor for. They
Speaker 1: have all kinds of money, and that's what they bought.
Speaker 2: That's what they bought. Yeah, I would expect a little
Speaker 2: bit bigger offensive splash than that. I didn't think they
Speaker 2: touched the d and they really didn't. They brought back
Speaker 2: o Cha. They brought back Dugger on the transition tag
Speaker 2: and Gonzales comes back next year. It's gonna be an
Speaker 2: all offensive.
Speaker 1: But they re signed Kyle Dugger, Michael and Oweno, Kendrick Bourne, Hunter,
Speaker 1: Henry Jalen Rager, Anthony Jennings, josh Ucha, Tyrone Watley, the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, and Christian Ellis. They just kept a lot
Speaker 1: of the We like these guys that we won five
Speaker 1: games with so much, let's bring them all back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know it's a little odd, Like
Speaker 2: how about shake it up a little? So on today's
Speaker 2: the podcast I did earlier today, if you if you
Speaker 2: go to the trade value chart, you know, draft trade
Speaker 2: value chart, the Vikings now two first rounders. Yeah, almost
Speaker 2: exactly equals the third pick overall. You could sprinkle in
Speaker 2: something else, would you consider that? If you're the Patriots,
Speaker 2: maybe you even get in the fields market, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: move and just draft offensive linemen and receivers and figure
Speaker 2: out from there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like the Jets are probably gonna end
Speaker 1: up with the vice president, the vice president of the
Speaker 1: United States, the candidate there. They're key additions, Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: John Simpson, Isaiah Oliver.
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought they had another lineman. I thought they
Speaker 2: got to tackle recently too.
Speaker 1: Maybe. Okay, their key re signing is Greg zier Line.
Speaker 1: Thomas Moore said, so their kicker and their punter. They
Speaker 1: kept those guys and then they lost defensive end Bryce Huff.
Speaker 2: No, they're pretty much running it back. Yeah. It does
Speaker 2: look like they've at least paying attention to the O
Speaker 2: line though, and they're set up to draft one. Uh.
Speaker 1: The last AFC.
Speaker 2: Jet note for you, Cory Davis is back in the league.
Speaker 2: The Steelers could do worse than that. He blocks. He's
Speaker 2: former early pick. We haven't seen him in a while.
Speaker 2: I think you get him super cheap, just a name
Speaker 2: throughout there.
Speaker 1: The Titans key additions Tony Pollard, Lloyd Cushion, Berry, Kenneth Murray, Chadobia,
Speaker 1: Woozy a Calvin Ridley, and May root Off.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He resigning long snapper Morgan Cox. Uh, how come they
Speaker 1: didn't list the Steelers resigning Chris You mentioned that he resigning.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Key departures Aaron Burr, Deniko atri As, He's Alscher, Saan Murphy, Bunting,
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry. This is a team that looked at
Speaker 1: it and said, you know what, we weren't good enough
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, let's get rid of all these guys
Speaker 1: and bring in a whole bunch of new guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They cut like Andre Dillard today too, which is
Speaker 2: an awful signing. And I think that's all saying. I
Speaker 2: think there's two things we said about the Titans, which
Speaker 2: I get both. I get on very much. We are
Speaker 2: not Vrabel Henry a cloud of dust tough team anymore.
Speaker 2: We're very analytical and we're a lot more finesse, which
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's good or bad, but I
Speaker 2: think they're much more finesse than they used to be.
Speaker 2: And I think they said we didn't put nearly enough
Speaker 2: around will Levis last year to analyze them. Now we will.
Speaker 2: And I think, like you know, all to end up
Speaker 2: there too or something like that. Yeah, but they have
Speaker 2: receivers now.
Speaker 1: They have receivers now. Yeah, and they up Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 2: Who might play more than people think. I think that's
Speaker 2: a great landing, yeah for him. No, I think that's
Speaker 2: a great spot for absolutely. Let's get to a break.
Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly. You're
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt
Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt Patrick. Queen was asked today at is
Speaker 1: a press conference, like, what's it going to be like
Speaker 1: playing for the Steelers now instead of the Ravens. And
Speaker 1: he's like, well, he said, I like to be the villain,
Speaker 1: so I guess I'll be the villain. I would not
Speaker 1: imagine that like he and Deshaun Elliott will get a
Speaker 1: great welcome.
Speaker 2: I would think not in Balton, right right.
Speaker 1: In fact, Deshaun Elliott said today that he was asked
Speaker 1: about that and he said, yeah, I got a text
Speaker 1: here from Lamar Jackson and I haven't opened it up yet.
Speaker 2: It's probably not like, hey, best of luck. Now, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of movement within divisions, you know,
Speaker 2: Stone crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you don't usually see a lot of that
Speaker 1: this year than maybe in a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly it. Actually, we do a
Speaker 2: mailbag every Thursday and someone asked that question, why do
Speaker 2: you think that's been so much? And my first response
Speaker 2: was because you know the players so well. You game
Speaker 2: planned against queen for years and years. You must have
Speaker 2: had respect for him and I you know, the question
Speaker 2: was phrased, do you think people Do you think players
Speaker 2: do that so they can get back at their old team.
Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe they mostly changed teams because they usually
Speaker 2: picked their team to be and pay some money, I
Speaker 2: mean more often than not. But familiarity to division I
Speaker 2: think is attractive to the team and the team knew
Speaker 2: Elliott and Queen better most you know.
Speaker 1: When you're looking for a new team as well. I
Speaker 1: think there's some familiarity with the style of play.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then North is a little different than the
Speaker 2: other division.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing that both of those guys said today, like,
Speaker 1: hey look this. Particularly Elliet he's like, look I played
Speaker 1: because he played in Detroit two years ago, played Miami
Speaker 1: last year. He goes, I'm getting back into the AFC North.
Speaker 1: He says, I understand this is a different style of football.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I mean I don't think that's lip service
Speaker 2: or coach Tomlin after an AFC North game, let's sa
Speaker 2: AFC North football. People get tired of hearing that stuff.
Speaker 2: But it's it is a little different. Everyone in the
Speaker 2: division admits it.
Speaker 1: They're all physical. Yeah, yeah, you know, even the Bengals.
Speaker 1: You look at the Bengals, you think that's a finesse team,
Speaker 1: but they are.
Speaker 2: Look at their line. They're big guys. I mean they're
Speaker 2: never gonna have a little scat back either. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: a big, physical team. I mean the Big ten is
Speaker 2: better different than the SEC. It's better different than the
Speaker 2: Big twelve, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I also think too, Matt, that there's something to the
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this all the time that
Speaker 1: the Steelers and Ravens are often interested in the same
Speaker 1: not only the same type of players, but the same players,
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 2: I think they're scouting system and values coming out of
Speaker 2: college and through the pros are very similar. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: you're going to be after the same type, same guys. Off.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen some steel We've seen it go
Speaker 1: both ways more recently, Like you know, we saw warmly
Speaker 1: the Steelers make a trade for for Chris Warmley obviously strange, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they liked Chris Wormley. We saw last year, you know,
Speaker 1: the Ravens go out and they get Arthur Malette, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, these's there's a lot of similarities there. Some
Speaker 1: of that, you know, some of that animosity between the
Speaker 1: two is because they are so similar.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think so too. I mean it's physicality, it's
Speaker 2: strong leadership. I mean, it's the head coaches are one
Speaker 2: year apart in their tenure and both of them extremely successful.
Speaker 2: I think it's not jealousy. I think it's respect, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know between those organizations, and then I
Speaker 2: don't think it's an accident that your last game of
Speaker 2: the year was against the Bills and Mitch Morse gets released.
Speaker 2: We just game planned against them. We thought it was
Speaker 2: good enough bring them in. You know, like any edge
Speaker 2: you can get in the scouting world is great. I
Speaker 2: mean said the same thing when they drafted Picket. They're
Speaker 2: gonna know more about Picket than anybody else. You know,
Speaker 2: they workout exact as we want to know. But that's
Speaker 2: any edge you can get or any bit of information
Speaker 2: you can get about these guys is great. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: real quick, Like you know, just from a scouting perspective,
Speaker 2: as opposed to your area or your pro scout that
Speaker 2: was in charge of the Ravens getting grades on Queen, well,
Speaker 2: your entire offensive staff did too twice, you know, so
Speaker 2: there's more eyes on him throughout the course of the
Speaker 2: year and game planning against the strengths and weaknesses. Well,
Speaker 2: he was hard to play against.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you you have that knowledge, that inside
Speaker 1: knowledge because you did game plan against him twice a year,
Speaker 1: very familiar and you saw him early in the year,
Speaker 1: and you saw him late in the year like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: he still looked you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's holding up. That's the one thing we've mentioned
Speaker 2: about him too. He's been unbelievably durable.
Speaker 1: Really durable, Yeah, really durable. The guy the last two seasons,
Speaker 1: played over a thousand snaps in each of the last
Speaker 1: two seasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's he's also very young for his experience. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was asked today about the whole thing, because I
Speaker 1: guess one of the radio stations in Baltimore went on
Speaker 1: this diatribe and said that, you know, Roquan Smith had
Speaker 1: made Patrick Queen made him a better player and that's
Speaker 1: why he got paid and the Ravens won't miss him
Speaker 1: at all, and blah blah blah. And apparently Queen saw
Speaker 1: this and kind of clap back at them and said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: I yeah, I learned, And he said today, I learned
Speaker 1: from Roquan Smith, I hope. So I learned a lot
Speaker 1: from him. I learned, you know, how to be a
Speaker 1: better leader. I learned how to be a better communicator.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm ready to do this on my
Speaker 1: own now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean again, if someone's going to come
Speaker 2: in and help you get better. Take it. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I don't look at that as a negative at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's one of my questions.
Speaker 1: He's a high There aren't that many high pedigree inside
Speaker 1: linebackers in today's NFL. No, No, at most every year
Speaker 1: there's one taken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give or take right, right, I mean less and
Speaker 2: less than ever. People are realizing they have a tough,
Speaker 2: tough acclimation period. And physically he checks every box.
Speaker 1: Now you've let the Ravens get him ready to play.
Speaker 1: Now you get him. He's reaching his physical peak and
Speaker 1: his mental peak. More importantly, understands how to play, and
Speaker 1: you've kept him in the same division. He knows how
Speaker 1: to play against these teams you think, you think he
Speaker 1: knows how to handle Lamar a little bit than the
Speaker 1: average Bear.
Speaker 2: He's played against Borrow a ton, and he's played against
Speaker 2: the Browns a ton. And maybe he even chips in
Speaker 2: and says has some critique for the Steelers offense, you know,
Speaker 2: or yeah, I know it's a different offensive coordinator so
Speaker 2: that might not even apply. But yeah, I think again,
Speaker 2: the familiarity is great. You're getting him at this peak
Speaker 2: time and he does need to show that he can
Speaker 2: be the green dot guy and survive without Roquon or
Speaker 2: thrive without rok On. Of course he's gonna survive. But again,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's like Alvin Harper and Michael Irvin,
Speaker 2: you know, where the one guy gets doubled all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they're linebackers. I mean, if Rokwan missed a
Speaker 2: games for Queen have been just fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, Rokwan did miss the last game of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, against the Steelers. He sat that one out.
Speaker 1: Queen played and had a nice game, and you know
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's so oh.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be missed from that defense. I mean
Speaker 2: one of the beauties of that defense with their safeties
Speaker 2: and linebackers, the spine of their defense was phenomenal. That's
Speaker 2: why he did so well against the Niners. And you
Speaker 2: know why McDonald's in Seattle as a head coach.
Speaker 1: And I really think there are a lot of similarities
Speaker 1: between the two defenses in terms of their attacking styles.
Speaker 1: They're they're not going to sit back and let stuff happen.
Speaker 1: Rokwan Smith will be blitzing this year.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Yeah, he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Do the things that he did. Well, mean, Queen, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen, I.
Speaker 2: Should say I I mean, we talked about blitzing linebackers,
Speaker 2: but he's a very good pass rusher. He has a
Speaker 2: variety of moves. McDonald helped. He devised a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: But same with the Steelers staff. Yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 2: I think he has like nine sacks over the last two.
Speaker 1: Years and he's eight and a half. It's the second
Speaker 1: second most of for inside linebackers. And he will get
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. He will play in. His coverage has
Speaker 1: gotten better.
Speaker 2: That was a knock over the course of its turn
Speaker 2: better and better. Range has never been an issue and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Physicality has never been an
Speaker 2: issue in terms of blitzing. He's the type of linebacker
Speaker 2: that if you're going to leave him isolated, if you're
Speaker 2: just gonna have a back deal with him, it's a
Speaker 2: major disadvantage for the offense. Yeah, good luck with that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And more than just that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he he was asked today about you know what
Speaker 1: do you know about Ryan Cheese here he says, look,
Speaker 1: I I watched a lot of Ryan Chaz and and
Speaker 1: you know know what a good player, he was, and
Speaker 1: I'm here to replace him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like they've obviously been searching since Ryan's unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2: I think they got their guy now, you know. And
Speaker 2: this may not even matter to them, But Queen's so young.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna get a nice third contract some day.
Speaker 1: I would think so, because he's twenty four now. He
Speaker 1: signed a three year deal here. If that works out,
Speaker 1: you you.
Speaker 2: Extend to market twenty sev ish, you know, right, So
Speaker 2: I think he's got a bright future. And I did
Speaker 2: not see that one coming. Yeah. Uh, some people on
Speaker 2: Twitter have mentioned it. You guys didn't think Patrick Queen
Speaker 2: was worth her time. I thought he was gonna get
Speaker 2: five million dollars more a year than right.
Speaker 1: I thought he's gonna get ridiculously paid. And I just
Speaker 1: wonder if he took a little less money than maybe
Speaker 1: what he would have gotten somewhere else, possibly to stay
Speaker 1: here in the AFC North which he mentioned, play for
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin and a team that in a winning you know,
Speaker 1: organization which he mentioned, and I and to be the man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really good situation for him. Definitely get
Speaker 2: out from Roque Shadow and all that stuff too, and
Speaker 2: play against some directly great linebacker history here, great defense
Speaker 2: history here. This this crowd is gonna eat him up too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so he gonna be fun on backs and
Speaker 2: backers too. Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. Nausey and those guys.
Speaker 1: That was the other thing he was He was mentioned,
Speaker 1: if you know, is there anybody with the Steelers when
Speaker 1: you were playing for the Ravens, if was there anybody
Speaker 1: that you developed a real rivalry with. So he mentioned
Speaker 1: that he did know Nausea Harris from their SEC days
Speaker 1: together and.
Speaker 2: They're close to the same age and butt heads there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he said Jalen Warren. He said that, he
Speaker 1: said that guy I hated playing against him because he's
Speaker 1: he's low to the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he.
Speaker 1: Plays physically and and somebody said, well, geez, can't wait
Speaker 1: to see you guys in backs on backers, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: actually he didn't. He said he didn't call him Jalen
Speaker 1: where he said mister Warren.
Speaker 2: Oh, sounds like Queen's a pretty personal guy too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: His interviews were good, and I love that you mentioned
Speaker 2: too that he what he learned from Roquand was mostly
Speaker 2: above the neck and communication stuff. That was a bit
Speaker 2: of a knock on him early in his career too,
Speaker 2: is you know he wasn't the green doc guy, the communicator.
Speaker 2: And I don't fee whether the green dot or.
Speaker 1: Not, but that's tough for young linebackers, really hard.
Speaker 2: It's part of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're learning the defense yourself and now you're asking, okay,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna learn to be learning the defense, but
Speaker 1: now he wants you to call it.
Speaker 2: Now, get to call it and line everybody up right,
Speaker 2: and you know, you see those linebackers go up to
Speaker 2: a defensive lineman was in a three point stance and
Speaker 2: tap them on the butt just to move six inches
Speaker 2: this way because they have a feel of what's coming.
Speaker 2: And you know, you start to get to that point
Speaker 2: as a linebacker and now you're talking, you know, yeah, So.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be a good I think everybody, all
Speaker 1: the guys that they've added thus far, I think will
Speaker 1: be good additions. I think they make them a better
Speaker 1: team now because remember the big thing about the Steelers
Speaker 1: going into this offseason, they really weren't going to lose anybody, no,
Speaker 1: and they're starting twenty two unless they wanted to. Well,
Speaker 1: they apparently they wanted to. With Deontay Johnson. That opened
Speaker 1: up another hole. I get Patrick Peterson, which he was
Speaker 1: on yesterday. He was on NFL Network and said the
Speaker 1: door's not closed.
Speaker 2: I was I saying, I wonder if you could call
Speaker 2: him him and Alan Robinson back off from a one
Speaker 2: year deal. That's a lot more friendly because I don't
Speaker 2: think those you know, bridges were burned. I just think
Speaker 2: they were high quality.
Speaker 1: We can't pay what you were not that, but that
Speaker 1: was really obvious. But we can bring you back, you know,
Speaker 1: and you guys liked it here.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we still think you have football left
Speaker 2: in you and give you a one year deal and
Speaker 2: be a locker room leader. And I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: we'll use you, but we're gonna use it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. So that would be interesting though. That
Speaker 1: would be interesting because I've added some some queens and
Speaker 1: LSU guy h Dante Jackson's an l s U guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.
Speaker 1: Peterson obviously, Peterson's an l s U guy, like and
Speaker 1: these guys were.
Speaker 2: Were L s U was a powerhouse, powerhouse, yeah, especially
Speaker 2: that era, right, I mean they played with I don't
Speaker 2: know think they'd overlap with Burrow or not not he's.
Speaker 1: A little younger than he's a little younger when they
Speaker 1: were when they won the national title.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Justin Jefferson yea.
Speaker 1: That was what they would like Chase and yeah, you
Speaker 1: look at the the secondary when Dante Jackson was there
Speaker 1: was Mills. Uh who is the other cornerback. I just
Speaker 1: looked this stuff up the other day. They had four
Speaker 1: guys in their starting secondary.
Speaker 2: We're all NFL guys. Yeah, I mean it's obviously a
Speaker 2: great school to go get people from. Too super competitive.
Speaker 2: It's at the Bama level based on Adams yea and
Speaker 2: all these guys.
Speaker 1: They you know, really for a while there, Lsu was
Speaker 1: defensive back.
Speaker 2: You I remember when Peterson sat down with us, he
Speaker 2: started talking about that's why he didn't go to Florida State.
Speaker 1: And he was the dude that started and started.
Speaker 2: He didn't want to follow Dion and those guys. He
Speaker 2: wanted to be the Dion and he was, you know,
Speaker 2: honey Badger. And there's been a long lest Stingley, you know.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I think they're a better team now than
Speaker 1: they were a week ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except the receiver situations.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I mean, I think the way that they
Speaker 1: want to play football, though I don't know that you
Speaker 1: need seventeen receivers running around out there.
Speaker 2: Well, I think there'd been eleven a lot less than
Speaker 2: they were. I think that's pretty apparent. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no question about it.
Speaker 1: And like again, they're going to do something at receiver.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, yeah, maybe it's an upgrade, maybe
Speaker 1: it's even if it's a step backwards a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that because I think they're going to
Speaker 1: draft one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as it's open to the draft. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And b again, I think they're going to run the football.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to run the snot out of
Speaker 1: the football.
Speaker 2: No, I agree. I don't know that the second starter
Speaker 2: will be as good as Deontay or not.
Speaker 1: I know that I know that they've upgraded at linebacker.
Speaker 1: I know that they've upgraded at the other cornerback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I know they've upgraded a.
Speaker 2: Quarterback, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I know that they've upgraded the safety position.
Speaker 2: Yes. I think all those things are true. And I
Speaker 2: think center you can question, and receiver you can question.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, you know, I think that they will
Speaker 1: upgrade center regardless of Mason Cole was not good last year.
Speaker 2: No, no, I mean there's almost nowhere to go but
Speaker 2: up right to be very honest, good guy and all that.
Speaker 2: But he's he's gonna be a backup next year somewhere somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not going to be a starter, you know.
Speaker 1: So whatever you do there is likely to be an upgrade.
Speaker 1: And you know, if they if they have to take
Speaker 1: a half a step back at receiver, that's fine. If
Speaker 1: they go out and get step On Diggs, that's not
Speaker 1: a step backwards, has a step.
Speaker 2: Forward, especially if you use a second round pick on
Speaker 2: a young guy that has all the upside in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go get Lad McConkie or Ricky Piersoll and
Speaker 1: you know Roman Wilson.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of options, Okay, a lot of options. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: I think you take advantage of a rich receiver draft,
Speaker 2: and that's definitely going to happen. Yeah. So that's some
Speaker 2: of these mid round picks that they now have more of.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you'll get a decent one the
Speaker 2: fourth round. Yeah, I mean, it's not a bad place show.
Speaker 1: And then they all got two third round picks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that you can get one in the third,
Speaker 1: we might have to go third round that third, like
Speaker 1: we when we were all every time we've done a
Speaker 1: mock draft, Yeah, when we get to that pick at
Speaker 1: eighty four, we're like, well, there's like three different ways
Speaker 1: we could go here. There's a bunch of different players.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, now they get through it the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and we always like those two as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I like two thirds better.
Speaker 2: A lot better. Yeah, they're they're gradually inching up into
Speaker 2: the sweet spots of these drafts too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's interesting. Let's get to another break. He
Speaker 1: is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lallie. We'll be back
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Speaker 2: True. True.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cameron Johnson spots upgraded in there's another one.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's another upgrade. Yeah, you got top ten
Speaker 2: type punter from what I understand against really one of
Speaker 2: the worst punters wasn't a.
Speaker 1: He just wasn't a weapon. And now you've got a
Speaker 1: guy that can be a weapon and reliable, Cameron Johnston.
Speaker 1: I was looking at like forty five percent of his
Speaker 1: punts last year down inside the opposing twenty. Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Like of all the guys he was, he didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't have the most kicks inside the twenty. He had thirty,
Speaker 1: which was like tied tied for six or seven. It
Speaker 1: was in the top ten. But he did it on
Speaker 1: sixty six punts. All the other guys who panther, all
Speaker 1: the other guys who were ahead of him, in terms
Speaker 1: of number of punts down inside the twenty had like
Speaker 1: seventy five plus punts percent Yeah, his percentage was was
Speaker 1: maybe the best in the league. You know, that's a weapon.
Speaker 1: That's a weapon, especially when your defense should be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're a run the ball, play defense team,
Speaker 2: you better be great on teams and you're both your
Speaker 2: kicker punter should be really strong. And now it's not
Speaker 2: my specialty at all, but I'd be shocked if there's
Speaker 2: many teams out there that have a better kicker punter
Speaker 2: combination of steel.
Speaker 1: Pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's really good, really good one. And
Speaker 2: it's worth the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're in fleetball at night, you know
Speaker 2: you're going to.
Speaker 1: Play football that way, then play football that.
Speaker 2: Way exactly exactly. So I think they told us that
Speaker 2: quite a bit. It's a small thing, but all round
Speaker 2: out after camp, but the core special teamers are still
Speaker 2: to be determined a little bit.
Speaker 1: They kept Killerber, they kept Killer Huge.
Speaker 2: You know, well, boy can be back, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, so I think that group is
Speaker 2: interesting too. Pierre might not be back. You know, some
Speaker 2: of those guys have been core special teamers. For you.
Speaker 1: But that changed every but you got your you got
Speaker 1: your main guy. Like you build out a round killer brew. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he was the All Pro And there's
Speaker 1: one long step.
Speaker 2: Too, and you extended your long styah some of your
Speaker 2: four most important special teamers or locked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's huge. Final thoughts on on the Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett trade, Matt.
Speaker 2: I was shocked, to be very honest with you, I
Speaker 2: think there will be another shoe to drop. I mean
Speaker 2: maybe they're excited to get Tannehill in here or somebody
Speaker 2: like that. I don't know, but I get it. I
Speaker 2: think it's a lot more about you were the starter.
Speaker 2: Now you're not the starter. You're a younger guy. It's
Speaker 2: not your time to get demoted. But it's better for
Speaker 2: you and the team to have you elsewhere. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if i'd be the Eagles, I'd be pretty excited to
Speaker 2: get him, though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They get a year basically two year look at him,
Speaker 1: decide whether they want to pick up the fifty year option.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: For the Steelers, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: I bet they looked at it. I think they're telling
Speaker 2: us that they hadn't planned on picking on the fifth
Speaker 2: year option. Well, I mean I think could have been determined.
Speaker 1: That would have been determined by what happened this year.
Speaker 1: But I think when they made to be a starter, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think as they as they talked to Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and got a better feel for the situation, I think
Speaker 1: they just looked at it and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's the veteran guy, he's the thirteen year veteran, he's
Speaker 1: the guy that's won Super Bowls.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's only right that we give him first opportunity
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's number one on the depth chart. Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett's number two, and I just don't think any Pickett
Speaker 1: could deal with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if that offended him, then your skin might
Speaker 2: have been a little too thin anyways.
Speaker 1: Because might not have been the guy that we thought
Speaker 1: you were.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean Wilson deserved that. To me, I think
Speaker 2: his track record implied.
Speaker 1: That's like bringing in Tom Burton. I'm not saying Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson star Brady. That would be like the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers bringing in Tom Brady a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: and say and telling you know, the whoever the Kyle
Speaker 1: Trask k Kyle, we're gonna give you, We're gonna give
Speaker 1: you a show. You're equal footing with Tom, with Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: That's just not how things work. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: you hire Wilson, you have the discussion with Wilson that, Hey,
Speaker 2: this is a really fortunate financial situation for us, considering
Speaker 2: what Denver's doing for you. The least we can do
Speaker 2: is give you first crack at this thing. Because Kenny
Speaker 2: Kenny starting thirteen touchdown passes. Yeah, I mean it's not enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the winning was nice, and I'm not gonna talk
Speaker 1: on and no matter what you think of that, he
Speaker 1: found ways to win games in big moments, but we would.
Speaker 2: Love to see him in this offense. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean part of me is a little discouraged that we
Speaker 2: don't get that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't it be nice so to not have to
Speaker 1: win games that way up to ten points in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and just run the football and run the
Speaker 1: clock out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you throw twenty five thirty touchdown passes, the games
Speaker 2: go a lot of the script changes than thirteen or
Speaker 2: fifteen or whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So season, we'll see if they're able to better
Speaker 1: do that moving forward. But big week of change or
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Seelers. We'll see what else comes to fruition.
Speaker 1: Maybe there'll be some more moves over the weekend here.
Speaker 2: I'm counting on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we get head into Remember free agency is
Speaker 1: only like technically.
Speaker 2: Opens have been fifty hours is how long it's been open. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem that way because everything starts Monday. But
Speaker 1: by by next Monday, when when our next show rolls around,
Speaker 1: some different things will have happened around not only in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh but around the league.
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen got traded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the time we roll back around here on Monday,
Speaker 1: maybe Stephan Diggs will have been traded.
Speaker 2: I just have a feeling that, like six oh two,
Speaker 2: he's gonna get traded. So yeah, yeah, like this how
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we'll see. We'll see where they ends
Speaker 1: up at. Just to remind everybody, So next week we're
Speaker 1: on our Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule.
Speaker 2: Again, a lot of people saying, you guys should have
Speaker 2: been five days this we we should have five days
Speaker 2: this week. I think the.
Speaker 1: Following week, because of the owners meeting, we'll be down
Speaker 1: at the league meetings We'll be on from ten to
Speaker 1: twelve on each of those days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Speaker 1: in Orlando. We'll have some good guests so and we'll
Speaker 1: probably talk a lot about some of these moves that
Speaker 1: have been made around the league. Picture stuff, big picture stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know, some of the rule changes, things of
Speaker 1: that nature. The Steelers putting out the rule change along
Speaker 1: with some other teams, the steel Deelers proposed moving the
Speaker 1: trade deadline back one week five. Other teams proposed moving
Speaker 1: it back two more weeks to week ten.
Speaker 2: Good. I like it, I'd like I'd vote for either one.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the fact that you had six teams
Speaker 1: proposed that tells me that there's a good something's going
Speaker 1: to happen with that. But that's going to do it
Speaker 1: for our show today and for this week. So for
Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller here on site
Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lolly. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening to this edition of the Drive on Steelers
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