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Speaker 2: how we doing well? That's good us too. It is
Speaker 2: our number three, our final hour of the drive today,
Speaker 2: our final hour of nine straight hours that we'll be
Speaker 2: doing here on campus every single day that the Steelers,
Speaker 2: quite the line up have practice. It is it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a big lift. And there's obviously a
Speaker 2: lot of people that play into into these crazy couple
Speaker 2: of weeks and we're thankful for all the efforts that
Speaker 2: it takes to get this done. Matt, real quick before
Speaker 2: we go to the tweets here to start our number three,
Speaker 2: like we will continue to do over the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. It's just mere to you can tell that.
Speaker 2: I'm in the process of remodeling the basement and the
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Speaker 2: flooring in here this year, I think so.
Speaker 3: I think I noticed it when I used the restroom,
Speaker 3: like it has a different feeling here, and I think
Speaker 3: it's the flooring. Yeah, it's those. All kinds of changes
Speaker 3: at viny.
Speaker 2: There really are there. There's usually one or two every year,
Speaker 2: but it feels like about five or six this year,
Speaker 2: and so far, so good. Let's get to us some
Speaker 2: of the tweets here. You always know you can get
Speaker 2: it Matt and I about any Steelers topics, football topics,
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Speaker 2: This is a good one from Pittsburgh Conversation Matt. He says,
Speaker 2: what's more important to figure out by the end of
Speaker 2: training who fits where in the secondary, how all those
Speaker 2: pieces work together, or who is the wide receiver three?
Speaker 3: Ooh, wide receiver three. I'm pretty confident that they know
Speaker 3: what the secondary is. I think that every snap, you know,
Speaker 3: barring injury, of course, Porter and Dean are gonna be
Speaker 3: outside the numbers, and they're gonna play a lot more press,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be big and do that stuff and
Speaker 3: not move much. They'll probably be left right. I don't
Speaker 3: know that for sure. Maybe Porter, Falo Higgins or Chage
Speaker 3: whatever whatever, and Ramsey's gonna be your big nickel slot star,
Speaker 3: dime linebacker, all those things, and they're gonna basically live
Speaker 3: in nickel with two strong safety types in Brisker and
Speaker 3: Elliott that are semi interchangeable. I don't think it'll be
Speaker 3: a free strong situation where one's always in the deep
Speaker 3: middle or anything of that nature. I think they can
Speaker 3: kind of do both things, although neither one's really a
Speaker 3: free safety, So I think that's what you're gonna see
Speaker 3: a high percentage of the time. I think they're going
Speaker 3: to try to avoid base with four defensive backs. But
Speaker 3: I bet when they are, Brisker comes off the field
Speaker 3: and they become a little more free strong with Ramsey
Speaker 3: as the free and go from there. I don't know
Speaker 3: how much dime they'll play, Probably not much. The league's
Speaker 3: starting to drift away from dime. But I also think
Speaker 3: Echos would be your backup slot. I think Samuel probably
Speaker 3: backs up both outside guys. I would think you want
Speaker 3: a red shirt Everett break Glass in case you have to.
Speaker 3: But one wild card is I wonder what Savage. Savage
Speaker 3: is another guy I really want to watch here, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't think he'll be in the starting mix, but
Speaker 3: I wonder if he can do some of the Ramsey
Speaker 3: star position stuff, you know, where the third receiver to
Speaker 3: me is basically a starter and we don't know who
Speaker 3: he is. Yeah, you know, I think it's an easy answer.
Speaker 2: I think here. I think you're spot on there. And yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about Savage Factory and the equation too.
Speaker 3: See two until about an hour ago, and I or
Speaker 3: when we were watching practice and like, what number is he?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 3: I wonder what they're gonna do with them?
Speaker 2: Jeff, that's funny. We got a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: questions about the secondary today on the tweets. Jeff says,
Speaker 2: was there anything to be learned from practice today on
Speaker 2: how they will align the safeties and the secondary in general?
Speaker 2: Not really, Jeff, because especially because no JP if if
Speaker 2: you potentially missed it earlier, anything for any of our
Speaker 2: listeners Joey Porter Junior and Jalen Ramsey both on the
Speaker 2: pup List, and so we're not active in practice today.
Speaker 2: So without those two key pieces, yeah, it's gonna it's
Speaker 2: gonna take a little time.
Speaker 3: Again, I didn't study it, but my very my educated
Speaker 3: opinion that I feel pretty strong about is with those
Speaker 3: three corners on pop not that camp would be in
Speaker 3: the top two. I would think the starters today would
Speaker 3: be Dean and Asante, Samuel on the outside, Eccles as
Speaker 3: your slot, and with these guys being out, it's probably
Speaker 3: more reps for Everett too, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm sure this is one thing we didn't talk about
Speaker 3: in the first hour, about McCarthy's priorities and how things
Speaker 3: will be different. Not that Tomlin didn't give a lot
Speaker 3: of reps to the young guys, but I'm expecting Aler
Speaker 3: Howard Everett's dunker, you know, those type of dudes to
Speaker 3: really get a good look in these practices.
Speaker 2: And Nate kind of tweets us along the same lines.
Speaker 2: With Joey Porter Junior and Ramsey on the pup list,
Speaker 2: how do you see this benefiting guys like a Sante
Speaker 2: Samuel Junior and rookie Dalon Everett Everet in particular. There's
Speaker 2: always so many reps to go around, and he's he's
Speaker 2: getting a larger portion of that right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that they doubled down on again.
Speaker 3: No one's ever told me this, but my hunch is
Speaker 3: just reading the tea leaves and watching their cornerback moves.
Speaker 3: Since Omar has been the GM that he's been frustrated
Speaker 3: with the other corners, you know, the not Joey Porter corner.
Speaker 3: And I think he just finally said, all right, we're
Speaker 3: gonna pay Dean and we're in a draft Everett to
Speaker 3: be the next team you know, then pay Porter hopefully,
Speaker 3: which and we're gonna have three outside corners. Samuel is
Speaker 3: also kind of a placeholder, but he's different than the
Speaker 3: other three, Like if all four of those walked in
Speaker 3: the room, you would think Samuel is not quite the
Speaker 3: same as he has, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: I think Everett's a guy that there hopefully doesn't play
Speaker 3: a snap this year because the other guys are so good.
Speaker 3: I also wonder, because I didn't know this until we
Speaker 3: spoke to him after he was drafted. He did play
Speaker 3: a lot of nickel in practice, okay, and he played
Speaker 3: a lot of special teams early on at Georgia. So
Speaker 3: maybe he's more than I'm not saying he's more than Porter.
Speaker 3: That makes Porter sound like he's less than somebody. But
Speaker 3: maybe Everett has more position versatility than I think. But
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna make your bones as an outside corner.
Speaker 2: Angry bike Line tweets us and says, any under the
Speaker 2: radar players you guys plan on keeping an eye on,
Speaker 2: I've got two, Matt.
Speaker 3: How about the lineman Jones? You brought him up befo him,
Speaker 3: so I knew I was steeling your.
Speaker 2: Guys, Stephen Jones. Matt and I liked a lot of
Speaker 2: what we saw from him in camp last year. Now,
Speaker 2: I'll say this, I think the door was much more
Speaker 2: a jar for him to make the team at that
Speaker 2: position group pretty last year than it was now, where
Speaker 2: it seems like there might not be many seats at
Speaker 2: the table that are still up for grabs there. And
Speaker 2: then Max Hrlman, another guy who oh yeah, yeah, who.
Speaker 2: I really liked what we saw from him in camp
Speaker 2: in preseason last year. You and I said at the
Speaker 2: time of you know, the initial fifty three man roster.
Speaker 2: We hope both of those guys are back here again.
Speaker 2: You know, in the summer of twenty twenty six. They
Speaker 2: are going to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you nailed him. I mean they they kind of
Speaker 3: always have that list every year of he's not gonna
Speaker 3: make the team. But I hope he's back next year.
Speaker 3: And they may never turn into anything. They may turn
Speaker 3: into a guy that sticks, you know. But I think
Speaker 3: those are two great examples. I bet Hurlman didn't love
Speaker 3: the Hide and Right pick.
Speaker 2: Though I bet they are similar. They're cut from this
Speaker 2: similar yeah. Yeah, but hey, two dogs, one bone.
Speaker 3: Right, yep, go out there, and I'm pretty excited to
Speaker 3: see if Hide and Rake does some wide receiver stuff.
Speaker 3: I know he's listened as a running back, he's wearing
Speaker 3: a running back number, but I still think he's more
Speaker 3: of a slot than he is a running back.
Speaker 2: I agreed. Ian says, how much of a wildcard is
Speaker 2: a healthy Broderick Jones to the Steelers offensive line Predictions
Speaker 2: and Projections, talked a little bit about that at the
Speaker 2: start of the show.
Speaker 3: Talk a lot about it. I would say rewind two
Speaker 3: hours because I think we used.
Speaker 2: The words he's a wildcard because you know he could
Speaker 2: play both tackle positions. We know Mike McCarthy likes to
Speaker 2: use traditional tackles at guard as well. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: listen again. We know his ability. That door at the
Speaker 2: offensive line room is not as a jar as it
Speaker 2: was this time last year. But he might be the
Speaker 2: one who could really shake it up.
Speaker 3: I mean, he may show so much the teams are
Speaker 3: calling you and offering you a good pick for him.
Speaker 3: He may have a good year as you're starting right
Speaker 3: tackle or right guard, hits free agency and gets way
Speaker 3: more than Dan Moore did and gets your third round
Speaker 3: pick in return. You know, like maybe they play more
Speaker 3: six to offensive lineman than I thought because they just
Speaker 3: can't keep him off the field. But Max and faltonu
Speaker 3: are too good, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, or maybe he's there. I mean, he's definitely a
Speaker 3: wild card, but there's a lot there. Let's not forget
Speaker 3: he was a mid first round pick just a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see, probably the last one we have time
Speaker 2: for today. One of our regulars, Michael Adsso, says, Matt,
Speaker 2: are you in the best shape of your life at
Speaker 2: training camp?
Speaker 4: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Am I crazy? Or is Aaron Rodgers talking about needing
Speaker 2: more play action on early downs and McCarthy saying they
Speaker 2: need to move DK Metcalf around more the biggest news
Speaker 2: of the day. I love to hear this kind of talk.
Speaker 3: Oh I wish I didn't hear either one of those
Speaker 3: straight from their mouth, but I hope that's very true.
Speaker 2: And it's two things we've talked about throughout the off season.
Speaker 3: Like I don't think Metcalf's going to do a lot
Speaker 3: of slot stuff, but I'd like to see more preseat motion,
Speaker 3: more snap motion. That's another term people don't hear enough.
Speaker 3: That's becoming more and more that he's the guy on
Speaker 3: the move when the ball is snapped. It's harder to
Speaker 3: press him. We talked about our corners are getting up
Speaker 3: in his grill more than any receiver in the league.
Speaker 3: It's harder to do that. Plus a big body like
Speaker 3: him in motion when the ball snapped, as opposed from
Speaker 3: a standstill position, it's kind of frightening. And I'm all
Speaker 3: for the play action stuff. Weirdest stat I have ever heard,
Speaker 3: or one of this is from football siders and I
Speaker 3: think we talked about it two weeks ago or so
Speaker 3: when their guide came out from FTN. For ten years
Speaker 3: in a row, the Steelers have been worse when they
Speaker 3: use play action than not.
Speaker 2: Over where, multiple multiple, multiple.
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks and coordinators. And they even wrote that we thought
Speaker 3: it was a Bend thing, but then it was everybody
Speaker 3: else since I but the league, the more play action
Speaker 3: the better. Yeah, I mean, that's what's so weird about it,
Speaker 3: because nine out of ten teams every year are better
Speaker 3: when they use play action than not. The Steelers can't
Speaker 3: be a coincidence. Ten years in a row, we're one
Speaker 3: of those ten percent or whatever. Yes, that's really weird.
Speaker 2: It's the same quarterback over those tens the whole.
Speaker 3: Time for the next five I'd buy it, you know,
Speaker 3: but those are old dogs that don't want to learn
Speaker 3: new tricks.
Speaker 2: But you know, been a lot of different dogs.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and that Coils and Trubisky and Picket and
Speaker 3: young guys all right, right, right, yeah, good athletes and
Speaker 3: bad athletes and you know, right.
Speaker 2: Let's hear a little bit of what Aaron Rodgers had
Speaker 2: to say along those lines when we returned. Maybe we'll
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Speaker 2: Down the home stretch here on our first day of
Speaker 2: training camp coverage. And of course a big part of
Speaker 2: this whole thing we know is Mike McCarthy, the Steelers
Speaker 2: head coach but Matt the reunion storyline with his former quarterback.
Speaker 2: They wont a Super Bowl together.
Speaker 3: They did some good things together, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately they did those good things against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: But if they win some games this year, we'll let
Speaker 2: it slide. Matt. Year number twenty two for Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: isn't that nuts? Like, Wow, you have two children that
Speaker 2: are in college and they're not twenty two years old.
Speaker 4: Oh exactly.
Speaker 2: He's been in the league long enough that his tenure
Speaker 2: can go to the bar and go to Sharky's and
Speaker 2: Dinos and buy a cold one here in Latrobe.
Speaker 3: Again, that was the year I was with the Browns.
Speaker 3: That was that year. That long, it's crazy, doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like twenty two years.
Speaker 2: Ag and you and I say this a lot. There
Speaker 2: are some people, and.
Speaker 3: I've been in media for twenty two years, twenty one years.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. There are some people that and we
Speaker 2: don't mean this with with disrespect, but there's some coaches,
Speaker 2: there's some players, there's some athletes that just aren't the
Speaker 2: most interesting sound bites. You know, you don't, you don't really,
Speaker 2: you don't really get much. It's kind of cookie cutter.
Speaker 2: It's all trained in pr centric and they're never really
Speaker 2: gonna say much. Aaron Rodgers is not one of those guys.
Speaker 2: We enjoy listening to this dude's peak.
Speaker 3: I'm like enlightened every time I hear him talk or
Speaker 3: even off the record, just watching them do things. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's very, very perceptive, deliberate and intelligent.
Speaker 2: Twenty two years old, twenty two years in the National
Speaker 2: Football League, Aaron Rodgers speaking heading into his final training camp.
Speaker 5: If I can start by asking something that we probably
Speaker 5: should ask. Last time we talked, you mentioned that this
Speaker 5: was this was it. I guess what led you to
Speaker 5: that decision on why did you feel? Why did you
Speaker 5: want to share it before the season started.
Speaker 6: H I don't know. Somebody asked me about it. I
Speaker 6: don't remember what the context was, but yeah, this is it.
Speaker 4: I guess why what is it?
Speaker 5: Why is why is decision?
Speaker 6: I thought last year might be it, and then Mike
Speaker 6: got hired, and I talked to the wife and she said,
Speaker 6: you can do one more year, so well see if
Speaker 6: it works out. And then it kind of all came together.
Speaker 2: When you talked to da earlier in USA, well, you know,
Speaker 2: saying it to the last year. Might just be something
Speaker 2: that I did this year.
Speaker 1: You want to be back another year.
Speaker 7: You you have any kind.
Speaker 5: Of debate or no, zero debate, it's zero.
Speaker 4: What's the biggest thing that excites you about? How in
Speaker 4: the courtory coach you get?
Speaker 6: Well, just the history we got thirteen years together, got
Speaker 6: long uh you know, long track record of success and
Speaker 6: playoff run, super Bowl championship, and then just the full
Speaker 6: circles seeing each other. Now we're out in life. I
Speaker 6: think I'm the the same age that he was when
Speaker 6: he got hired in Green Bay.
Speaker 5: So that's nice. Uh, full circle moment for both of us.
Speaker 7: Is there some philosophically or stramatics do you guys particularly
Speaker 7: clip with do you do you see the game the
Speaker 7: same way? Do you attack it the same way?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: The West Coast offense, which is basically gone in the
Speaker 6: NFL other than what Mike's doing.
Speaker 2: Aaron, how do you do How do you view the
Speaker 2: significance of that trip you guys took out West and
Speaker 2: Dking was talking about the camaraderie.
Speaker 5: What do you think comes out of that? How do
Speaker 5: you impacts you guys?
Speaker 6: There's a crew I think a lot A lot is
Speaker 6: made about those trips. I think probably overblown at times.
Speaker 6: The most important chemistry is as the season gets going,
Speaker 6: for sure. But you know, the thing I will say
Speaker 6: is that you spend six months with guys every single day,
Speaker 6: then you go on a trip for four days, and
Speaker 6: you after the trip you felt like, man, I didn't
Speaker 6: even know these guys before these these four days. So
Speaker 6: it was good bonding around the campfire, good you know,
Speaker 6: activities out we were at and got out on the
Speaker 6: on the river and fished and did some things and
Speaker 6: rode some horses and had a good time.
Speaker 2: Already.
Speaker 8: To say is that a golpius is to increase his
Speaker 8: communication with me during the course of the week and
Speaker 8: your connectivity. So what you talked about during the week
Speaker 8: manifests on Sunday once the ball was snapped. What more
Speaker 8: do you think you can get out of DK this year?
Speaker 8: And how can that relationships grow?
Speaker 5: What's the game against? Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean this this is what this training campus four.
Speaker 6: I think we had a nice, nice start in the
Speaker 6: OTAs I thought he was super productive.
Speaker 5: He's uh.
Speaker 6: He actually a greeted me last night at the dorms.
Speaker 6: He's my roommate again, which I was excited about. He
Speaker 6: helped me unload my stuff. I'd say we're in a
Speaker 6: real good place as far as our friendship. He looks incredible,
Speaker 6: he said. He's about his normal weight, but he's lower
Speaker 6: body fat percentage. You know, DK is a rare specimen.
Speaker 6: I think he likes the offense, likes the opportunities that
Speaker 6: he saw in the OTAs, and just about finding a
Speaker 6: way to get on the same page and in this
Speaker 6: second year together in training camp as we were going
Speaker 6: and you know, not put any crazy expectations on what
Speaker 6: asked to look like at certain times. The most important thing,
Speaker 6: like you said, is the communication. And I think it's
Speaker 6: been really good.
Speaker 5: Last year.
Speaker 2: You didn't really take many city practices off.
Speaker 5: A lot of bettering quarterbacks come through that necessarily did
Speaker 5: that important to you, and you expected this year to
Speaker 5: be any different. You start to pay more and be
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 6: I'd like a couple of days off, already told I
Speaker 6: already told the boss that, But you know, some of
Speaker 6: the things working against me, as he was with me
Speaker 6: forever and he knows how much I love the practice,
Speaker 6: which I do, so I think it's a little push
Speaker 6: and pool.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure what the final decision was.
Speaker 6: Actually, Mike t had some days slotted for me to
Speaker 6: be off, and then we had some rain out practices,
Speaker 6: so he kunt of those gym you know walkthroughs is
Speaker 6: my days off, So I would like a couple, that'd
Speaker 6: be nice.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's talked to us a couple of times about
Speaker 2: QB school.
Speaker 10: Just what do you remember as a young quarterback about
Speaker 10: going through.
Speaker 5: That and what some of the benefits kind of muld
Speaker 5: have done. Yeah, there's a lot of benefits.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I did it with Tom Arth my first time. Now
Speaker 5: he's my coach. Tom.
Speaker 6: I've said this before, the prettiest heel toe drop I've
Speaker 6: ever seen. I still like to remind him of that.
Speaker 6: How he used to just make me look look bad
Speaker 6: every single day. And you know, it was a crazy
Speaker 6: workout back then, just the two of us do and
Speaker 6: forty five minutes NonStop. So one it got us in shape. Two,
Speaker 6: you know you're doing stuff you don't normally do, like
Speaker 6: jump rope, which I think is really important kind of
Speaker 6: foot work thing. There's quick feet in that, and then
Speaker 6: the drill work is working on you know, throwing on
Speaker 6: the run from different angles, and different, you know, targets
Speaker 6: you're looking at. So it's way different though. It QB school,
Speaker 6: whatever he's calling it now, is not what it was
Speaker 6: back then. I mean that was March fifteenth, that was
Speaker 6: three days a week, that was going over time sometimes.
Speaker 6: But the QB profile that he does do I think
Speaker 6: is a good learning tool for all young quarterbacks, but
Speaker 6: they missed out on the the real work back then
Speaker 6: when the rules are different.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what a my side you want to play.
Speaker 7: You have to assess whether you think you still can
Speaker 7: to your standard and how.
Speaker 5: Do you do that? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: I mean let's get back into the workout, see how
Speaker 6: the body feels.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 2: Perfect him with that.
Speaker 5: He's what.
Speaker 6: You know, start to throw and see how the arms
Speaker 6: respond to The arm has never been an issue, uh
Speaker 6: really at all my twenty plus years playing and before that,
Speaker 6: never really had any arm issues. Light soreness early in camp,
Speaker 6: maybe the first couple of days, but never, you know,
Speaker 6: any issues with that.
Speaker 5: It's just a leg. So yeah, I did my usual spend.
Speaker 6: A lot of time with with my bodywork folks and
Speaker 6: try and lightening muscles and open things up and feel better.
Speaker 6: And you know then obviously I wanted to feel like
Speaker 6: I could come out in O tas and and uh,
Speaker 6: you know, have the rhythm at the time and throw
Speaker 6: and I feel like OTA has went really smooth. And
Speaker 6: you know, we'll see how camp goes. Obviously it's always
Speaker 6: like ups and downs, and it's way more scrutinized than
Speaker 6: it used to be back in the day, So you know,
Speaker 6: there'll be there'll be a new learning curve for all
Speaker 6: of us as we get into it.
Speaker 5: But I feel like by the second week we'll start
Speaker 5: to hit our shred derec What.
Speaker 6: To feel any different knowing that it's your last time
Speaker 6: around as you're going through things. I mean, I thought
Speaker 6: it might like last year it felt way more dramatic
Speaker 6: to me, like it's my last you know, arrival to
Speaker 6: training camps. And this year it doesn't feel anything. You know,
Speaker 6: I really don't. I'm just happy to be out here
Speaker 6: with the guys. Good to see some of their faces
Speaker 6: I haven't seen in a while, Good to see the
Speaker 6: you know, the six guys that went on the trip
Speaker 6: with us again. I feel like there was like a
Speaker 6: tighter bond that will have to bring in some of
Speaker 6: the other guys who weren't at that trip, but you
Speaker 6: know it's good.
Speaker 2: We're at a trip.
Speaker 6: Last year you guys went to Malibu hosted everyone.
Speaker 2: How did you decide where you went this year?
Speaker 5: And where were you and Zacha the wild Clast.
Speaker 6: A lot of the guys wanted a Malibu trip. They
Speaker 6: wanted to go to Nobu, they want to see the dolphins,
Speaker 6: they wanted to put the feet in the sand. And
Speaker 6: so this spring, I said, hey, what do you guys
Speaker 6: want to do this time? And they said experience, And
Speaker 6: we want to do an experience. So what are you
Speaker 6: talking about? Do you want to go to Hawaii or something?
Speaker 6: Or he said, now we want to go to the mountains.
Speaker 6: We want to like do like a ranch thing. So
Speaker 6: I you know, did a lot of research and found
Speaker 6: a couple of places and then this place you know,
Speaker 6: came available, and we're very thankful to to the person
Speaker 6: that made that happen. I'm not I can't I'm not
Speaker 6: allowed to speak on where it is any of that thing,
Speaker 6: but it was.
Speaker 5: It was a great time.
Speaker 2: Aaron, what is your number one area that you would
Speaker 2: like to improve on going into this year?
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I work on stuff every single day. I have to
Speaker 6: think about that. It's day one. I'm just coming out
Speaker 6: of getting my passport renewals, so you know, that was
Speaker 6: my main goal today was to make sure I can
Speaker 6: go to go to France. So I think We're going
Speaker 6: to be locked in on that. But I'll be working
Speaker 6: on things every single day. You know, It's more just
Speaker 6: it's a different offense. There's different terminology. Mike was flexible
Speaker 6: and chain and a few things in the spring, but
Speaker 6: you know, be a work.
Speaker 5: In progress with the offense.
Speaker 2: And your month has a history of his teams throwing
Speaker 2: at the highest rates on first downs in the NFL.
Speaker 5: It's change a pace for what the Steelers have been
Speaker 5: or recently.
Speaker 2: What are the key elements that you guys need to
Speaker 2: achieve to make that and be one of those better
Speaker 2: teams at throwing on first down.
Speaker 6: We got to be under center, you know, we got
Speaker 6: to be under center and and get the action game
Speaker 6: going and the movement game going. So but it starts
Speaker 6: under center. I think some of the best offenses in
Speaker 6: the legue are not shotgun happy. You know, they're not
Speaker 6: too shotgun happy obviously in third down to give me
Speaker 6: a shotgun.
Speaker 5: But the more you can be.
Speaker 6: Under center in first second down. I think is really
Speaker 6: important to be an efficient on those downs as well.
Speaker 2: Aaron, how different is a Mike McCarthy training camp to
Speaker 2: maybe some of the other ones that you've participated in
Speaker 2: over the course of your career.
Speaker 6: Well, you gotta understand, Like I was a MIC in
Speaker 6: two thousand and six, and that was back when you
Speaker 6: could do double days, so we had two to one
Speaker 6: two one alternating. My first year was was double days
Speaker 6: for the first couple weeks of camp. So training camp's
Speaker 6: way different. It's way easier. It's like a mental grind.
Speaker 6: It's not a physical grind the way it used to be.
Speaker 6: Now knowing Mike and his Pittsburgh grit background, sure he's
Speaker 6: gonna try and make some gagger practices out there, but
Speaker 6: the rules are in place where there's a certain timeframe.
Speaker 6: I don't if it's two hours and twenty minutes or
Speaker 6: two thirty or something. Back then, we used to joke
Speaker 6: about how quarterbacks would be on the field, like twenty
Speaker 6: minutes before practice. We'd have three hour and fifteen minute practice.
Speaker 6: We'd get into like the I used to say, the
Speaker 6: real practice like an hour and forty five in because
Speaker 6: it'd be so much individual work, and those were real practices.
Speaker 6: Those were not a whole lot of fun. So I'm
Speaker 6: not sure what the Mike McCarthy training camp practice will
Speaker 6: be like, but I know that the OTAs were crisp.
Speaker 5: You guys saw him out there.
Speaker 6: It was crisp, things moving fast in and out of
Speaker 6: team periods, and I expect more of the same.
Speaker 2: Have you learned more, guys? Do more?
Speaker 5: Have you learned anything about DK this offseason that maybe
Speaker 5: didn't now over last year or last season? Yeah, a
Speaker 5: lot a lot personal stuff for sure.
Speaker 6: Again, like you know, I spent a lot of time
Speaker 6: with DK and the off season and during the season
Speaker 6: and outside the facility, and you know, four days at
Speaker 6: the ranch, you know, I found out more about him
Speaker 6: than I know and in that time, And I think
Speaker 6: that's part of the the.
Speaker 5: Plot of being kind of a man, you know, an alpha.
Speaker 6: In this society today, it's hard to be vulnerable, and
Speaker 6: you know, I was trying to create the space where
Speaker 6: that was kind of normal. So, you know, I try
Speaker 6: to be as honest and open as possible about kind
Speaker 6: of my own life and background and struggles and frustrations,
Speaker 6: and a lot of guys opened up and shared some
Speaker 6: really personal stuff and I'm not obviously not going to
Speaker 6: share that here, but but yeah, man, I just have
Speaker 6: so much respect for DK and kind of how we
Speaker 6: grew up and where he's from, and I just feel
Speaker 6: like I really got to know him and now, you know,
Speaker 6: before we were friends, but now I just feel like
Speaker 6: that word has a different meaning to it here. What
Speaker 6: upstarts you about this receiver room this year with the
Speaker 6: addition of Michael Pittman and drafting Jeremy Bernard and another.
Speaker 5: Year with Roman Wilson A Brow. Yeah, I mean those
Speaker 5: those three DK.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I think this offense, uh you know suits d K.
Speaker 6: I think Michael and his humility as a z asking
Speaker 6: him and do a lot of stuff that you know,
Speaker 6: I feel like we did when we were really good
Speaker 6: on offense in Green Bay in twenty and twenty one
Speaker 6: with the with Devonte at the X, you know, in
Speaker 6: the DK role, Alan Wizard and the z uh and
Speaker 6: Marquez and you know, you got to stick stickheading Aaron
Speaker 6: Block and then off of that some action stuff and
Speaker 6: then having a guy in the slot that can get open,
Speaker 6: which you know, I think Germ is gonna get some opportunities.
Speaker 6: But I think the guy out of anybody that's really
Speaker 6: shown this new staff, because it is a new staff,
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of great ape is Roman Wilson.
Speaker 6: I think Roman had a really nice spring. Got to
Speaker 6: know him, you know, on a deeper level during that trip,
Speaker 6: which was fun. But I expect, you know, I expect
Speaker 6: him to start to make some some splash place he
Speaker 6: did in the spring, and I expect him to have
Speaker 6: a nice camp.
Speaker 2: Your signal caller QB one Aaron Rodgers there set in
Speaker 2: the tone. Uh, and he is Matt reiterating that yes,
Speaker 2: this is his last training camp. Hey, he could always
Speaker 2: change his mind between now and you know, January February March.
Speaker 3: But using it again, it.
Speaker 2: Gets real close. And what's one last bite at the apple?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: But yeah, a guy that is one day going to
Speaker 2: moonwalk into the Hall of Fame and is one of
Speaker 2: the greatest to ever do it. We're we're pretty privileged here,
Speaker 2: I think to uh, to see what will be the
Speaker 2: final act of his career.
Speaker 3: We're pretty excited about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am too, especially with a familiar coach in
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy. We will wrap up the show when we
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Speaker 2: number one of Steelers Training Camp twenty twenty six. Matt,
Speaker 2: it's uh, we're starting to get our feet went a
Speaker 2: little bit here figuring out how things are are gonna look.
Speaker 2: But we'll really different a little different, a lot of
Speaker 2: the same. We will still have three more acclamation practices
Speaker 2: this week. That's one thing that doesn't change. As we mentioned,
Speaker 2: that's an NFL CBA thing. But Matt, pretty cool conversation
Speaker 2: that we want to play some of here before we
Speaker 2: get up out of here. And that is Dan Rooney
Speaker 2: or Junior, who is a VP of player Personnel for
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. He joined our buddies Mike Persuda and
Speaker 2: Bob Labriolak on DVE kind of just talking about a
Speaker 2: training camp of change for that. I mean, that's going
Speaker 2: to be the overarching theme of these next three weeks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, especially during the acclamation period. I'm sure
Speaker 3: we talking about a lot of the different changes. And
Speaker 3: then we start the pad and stuff too, like, oh,
Speaker 3: this definitely has a different feel too.
Speaker 2: It already does exactly right. And so here's what you know.
Speaker 2: These are These are three Steelers Elder Statesman really getting
Speaker 2: into it here. Here's what those guys had to say
Speaker 2: real time.
Speaker 4: Dash.
Speaker 7: We're joined now by a very special guest, a guy
Speaker 7: who's been nice enough for a boy a lot of
Speaker 7: years now.
Speaker 4: To stop buying chat with a sturing these programs.
Speaker 7: Steelers Vice President of Player Personnel, Dan Rooney Junior, Dan,
Speaker 7: welcome back.
Speaker 4: Do you have your union card after?
Speaker 10: Thank you very much for having me. It's always fun
Speaker 10: to be on with you guys. You know, I said
Speaker 10: this a couple of years ago that you know the
Speaker 10: best part of my game day is the pregame show
Speaker 10: with you guys. Then I get nervous a crap for
Speaker 10: the hours.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you paid any attention to the
Speaker 7: media sessions today, but a lot of guys talking about
Speaker 7: all the.
Speaker 4: Things that are different beyond the staff and the players.
Speaker 7: What what is hitting you in the face as Wow,
Speaker 7: that's different.
Speaker 10: I really haven't noticed anything major obviously, you know that
Speaker 10: just in general that the staff, you know, Mike and.
Speaker 4: His his new staff is you're.
Speaker 10: Just getting getting to know them, getting to know what
Speaker 10: they like, and trying to you know, be available to
Speaker 10: help them when we can. But my kind of focuses
Speaker 10: on the players and you know, helping Omar and Andy
Speaker 10: and now Max Gruder our pro guy to you know,
Speaker 10: if I can assist in any way with getting those
Speaker 10: guys ready to go.
Speaker 9: You know, Mike McCarthy, you you hired it. And I
Speaker 9: say this with respect. You hired a y inser. I
Speaker 9: mean he's he seems to be into it the whole.
Speaker 9: You know, he's into the Latrobe thing, the Destination training camp.
Speaker 9: He understands the history a little bit. Uh. Probably, Well,
Speaker 9: I don't know about Bill Cower's understanding of the history
Speaker 9: of the Steelers when he was hired. But Mike McCarthy
Speaker 9: a green Field guy. He lived well, he grew up,
Speaker 9: he was raised in the house ten minutes maybe from
Speaker 9: the practice facility on the south side eight Well, it
Speaker 9: depends on whether he catch that light at the end
Speaker 9: of Greenfield Avenue. I don't think it's the same, but uh,
Speaker 9: you know it has to be I don't know, comforting
Speaker 9: maybe to be working with the guy who seems to
Speaker 9: get a lot of it what the Steelers are about,
Speaker 9: the relationship with the city, the fans, and Mike and
Speaker 9: I were talking in the first segment. You know, as
Speaker 9: a former coach of Green Bay and Dallas, he gets
Speaker 9: it when the pro football team is the big deal.
Speaker 9: Dallas green Bay both kind of spotlight franchises in their areas,
Speaker 9: the Steelers certainly in this area. Could you talk a
Speaker 9: little bit about the things that you've seen from Mike
Speaker 9: McCarthy that you like that maybe comfort you a little
Speaker 9: bit in a coaching change that doesn't happen very often
Speaker 9: for this franchise and otherwise might be a little bit
Speaker 9: nerve wracking.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, beyond the uh, you know, the local
Speaker 10: guy and all that stuff, Mike is very very detailed.
Speaker 10: He's very kind of strict as far as you know,
Speaker 10: how he wants things done, and it's a something that
Speaker 10: you really have to get accustomed to. But it's a
Speaker 10: good thing, you know, something that you know, we all
Speaker 10: have kind of parameters in a sense that you know,
Speaker 10: we kind of you know, kind of you work with
Speaker 10: and we're getting get to know a little bit better.
Speaker 10: But as a person, he's a great guy. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 10: first time I met him was after they beat us
Speaker 10: in the Super Bowl in Dallas. But you know, I
Speaker 10: really always enjoyed just having a hello, how you doing
Speaker 10: conversation with him when he was a different team, and
Speaker 10: then now it's been fantastic to you know, get to
Speaker 10: know him as a coach, get to know him as
Speaker 10: a boss, as the guy that you know is running
Speaker 10: this show here.
Speaker 4: And I think that you know.
Speaker 10: It is it is a Pittsburgh flair, so to speak,
Speaker 10: because he grew up here and he has a love
Speaker 10: for the city and you know, a genuine appreciation for
Speaker 10: the franchise and you know what the what the seventies
Speaker 10: were like and how it transformed the city into you know,
Speaker 10: football town. But you know, beyond that, you know, he's
Speaker 10: a he's a great guy. Like he's a he's a
Speaker 10: he's a funny guy. He's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 10: He's easy to talk to you. I was talking him
Speaker 10: today about that article, Uh somebody wrote in the magazine
Speaker 10: called the Athletic great piece on him, and he had
Speaker 10: a brother of the past one unfortunately and just a
Speaker 10: really a nice piece just about the area of Greenfield
Speaker 10: and all that kind of stuff. So it was just, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, working for him so far has been been
Speaker 10: fantastic for both the structure that he played, you know,
Speaker 10: he's laying out and as far as the human being
Speaker 10: has just been you know, really enjoyable to work with.
Speaker 7: You know, his resume is known. Labs mentioned Dallas, green
Speaker 7: Bay won a Super Bowl, you mentioned, you know, he's
Speaker 7: been in big games.
Speaker 4: He's won a lot of games.
Speaker 7: He didn't work last year and while I thought he
Speaker 7: clearly has the bona fides for the job, and the
Speaker 7: hire makes sense.
Speaker 4: With Aaron Rodgers being.
Speaker 7: Here, A little part of me wondered, is this guy
Speaker 7: coming back? Does he really want to coach? Or is
Speaker 7: he just coming back to where Steeler gear and go.
Speaker 4: To Aallos and Saint don Ton.
Speaker 7: And you know, there's a thing in the military they
Speaker 7: call it road retired on active duty when the officers
Speaker 7: stopped putting into it what they did to become officers
Speaker 7: in the first place. And I had a little thought like, wow,
Speaker 7: I wonder, really is he gonna be all in?
Speaker 4: That stuff got blown away during Goesta.
Speaker 7: You guys, I guess we're aware how competitive he still
Speaker 7: is when you hired him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, in terms of the hiring process,
Speaker 10: you know, Art and Omar and my nephew Dan were
Speaker 10: kind of filling me in on just bikes who some
Speaker 10: of the top prospects were, and Mike name kept coming up.
Speaker 4: But he didn't come here to play round. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah.
Speaker 10: It's it's pretty cool, like, you know, to mean as
Speaker 10: far as like I see what you're saying, what you're
Speaker 10: saying originally, Mike, but like there was never a moment
Speaker 10: in his in my interaction with him that he wasn't
Speaker 10: all about football. You know, we enjoyed having conversations about Pittsburgh,
Speaker 10: about the chief and those kind of things. But you know,
Speaker 10: he was here to win the Super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 10: that's what he's putting out, you know, putting everybody, the
Speaker 10: staff together, the process, getting the players ready for that
Speaker 10: kind of a you know experience.
Speaker 9: This year, what are you seeing from Aaron Rodgers forty
Speaker 9: two going on forty three.
Speaker 10: I thought last year it was you know, Dan Colbert
Speaker 10: usually gives me the quarterbacks at training camp and probably
Speaker 10: was only four guys. I can't screw them up too bad.
Speaker 10: But he threw one pass. It was the very first
Speaker 10: pass at the individual period, and I said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 10: you still got I ran to coach Tom and I said,
Speaker 10: hey man, this guy can still do it. And then
Speaker 10: as I got to be just observe him. You know,
Speaker 10: the elite competitor and the elite football intelligence, and the
Speaker 10: and the guy that wants to bring the players to
Speaker 10: be their best. You know, all those kind of characteristics
Speaker 10: that I saw guys in the seventies have. You know,
Speaker 10: they had that ability to make everybody on the team
Speaker 10: play their best. Now, I know this is a whole
Speaker 10: different era, and you know, the things are obviously financially
Speaker 10: whatever you want to call it. But I just felt
Speaker 10: that that football guy that really you know, was going
Speaker 10: to drive this team his teammates to be the best
Speaker 10: they can be. And you know, I was so excited.
Speaker 10: He's always been one of my favorite non Steelers, so
Speaker 10: when he signed it, it was great. Then when he re signed,
Speaker 10: I was like, all right, this is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 10: So you know whatever, you know, I'm sure there's critics
Speaker 10: will say whatever they want about his age anything. I
Speaker 10: have not seen anything with the arm, the intelligence to be,
Speaker 10: ability to process, you know, whether his body it thinks differently,
Speaker 10: I don't know, but it's been unbelievable.
Speaker 9: It also seems to me the respect that he has
Speaker 9: as with his teammates, that that that to me was
Speaker 9: apparent right from the beginning last summer. Last because he
Speaker 9: didn't really get here to training camp, how the team
Speaker 9: kind of reacted to him, how they talked about him. Uh,
Speaker 9: it really seems to me that Aaron Rodgers is the
Speaker 9: offensive leader that this team has lacked for a while
Speaker 9: with doubt. Uh, and not only a leader within his
Speaker 9: own locker room, but also a presence in the league. Yes,
Speaker 9: and uh, that's really important to have somebody on that
Speaker 9: side of the ball. Maybe was pound at one point,
Speaker 9: but all due respect to Markus Pouncey, love him and everything.
Speaker 9: He was a center, right when it's a quarterback, I
Speaker 9: just think it means more.
Speaker 10: I agree, one hundred percent. And I think that he
Speaker 10: showed that. And it was something that I didn't really
Speaker 10: know about him obviously. I just liked his talent watching
Speaker 10: him play in Green Bay and not not really in
Speaker 10: New York, but anyway, it was just something that I
Speaker 10: didn't ever see, but you could witness it right away,
Speaker 10: Like you said, the respect that he had from the
Speaker 10: other players, and then that the way he demands players
Speaker 10: to do well is not in a arrogant way. You know,
Speaker 10: it's in a kind of.
Speaker 4: Build you up.
Speaker 10: But let's let's make sure we get after these expectations too.
Speaker 10: You know, it's just a really if you're a real
Speaker 10: football player, you want to work for him, You want
Speaker 10: to play for that kind of a guy.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: Last thing I have for you, You guys have won
Speaker 7: a lot of regular season games since you last won
Speaker 7: a playoff game, and you know the argument regular season
Speaker 7: doesn't matter. I was at the Ravens game last year.
Speaker 7: People poured out of the stadium like it was New
Speaker 7: Year's Eve.
Speaker 9: It mattered.
Speaker 4: Yes, division championships.
Speaker 7: Matter, but how do you compartmentalize or wrap your head
Speaker 7: round just you don't speak for the organization, but it
Speaker 7: doesn't add up that you win as much as you
Speaker 7: do in the regular season and you're over the playoffs
Speaker 7: for nine years or whatever.
Speaker 10: This, Yeah, obviously he's extremely frustrating. Pardon me, you know it.
Speaker 10: It is a during the season. You have to win
Speaker 10: enough games to qualify for the playoffs, obviously, and it's
Speaker 10: hard to do it correct. And Mike did it with
Speaker 10: a variety of quarterbacks. And Mike I thought, was a
Speaker 10: heck of a coach and got our guys ready to play,
Speaker 10: especially down the stretch, and really did a nice job.
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm not I don't know, how do
Speaker 10: you say this. I don't want to sound arrogant, but like,
Speaker 10: I'm kind of in the business to win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 10: you know, so winning a playoff game is fine, but
Speaker 10: you know, I want I want I want that seventh ring.
Speaker 10: You know, and I know that sounds, you know, kind
Speaker 10: of crazy, but you know, it's just like it's it's
Speaker 10: a miserable feeling when you have to end the season,
Speaker 10: you know, it just feels I just feel feel terrible.
Speaker 10: But I do want to say that as soon as
Speaker 10: that season ends, I start looking how can we how
Speaker 10: can we change it? And you know, I have a
Speaker 10: minute role within the organization, so I'm not I'm not
Speaker 10: trying to say that, you know, I'm doing any fixing,
Speaker 10: but as far as wey, I can support Omar, support
Speaker 10: Kevin Colvert, uh, you know, whatever coach is there, whatever
Speaker 10: you know. But I don't want to be a guy
Speaker 10: that's gonna be walking around my head down. I want
Speaker 10: to get moving right away to try to start getting
Speaker 10: the college guys UH evaluated as best we can do
Speaker 10: what we can with the with the with the pro
Speaker 10: the free agent guys, and you know, get our current roster,
Speaker 10: you know, squared away as far as you know, contracts
Speaker 10: and that stuff.
Speaker 4: But I believe that.
Speaker 9: The intent or the hope for the team last year
Speaker 9: was to draft their quarterback of the future UH in
Speaker 9: twenty to twenty twenty six NFL Draft, and the class
Speaker 9: was supposed to be great. Didn't turn out that way.
Speaker 9: What's the twenty twenty seven draft class of quarterbacks look like?
Speaker 4: It looks great?
Speaker 10: Except I don't know who's gonna all come out, you
Speaker 10: know with what you know.
Speaker 4: I hate to say this, but you know, Nil that's
Speaker 4: making too much money, right exactly.
Speaker 10: You know, And but you know, just doing a brief
Speaker 10: study on some of the guys, you know, I really
Speaker 10: thought that Arch Manning looked like he was going to
Speaker 10: be a heck of a prospect and maybe he'll, you know,
Speaker 10: value get into that. The guy down at South Carolina
Speaker 10: le North Sellers. I actually thought, the guy that went
Speaker 10: from Tennessee out to UCLA, Nico, I don't know how
Speaker 10: to say his last name. I thought, yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 10: yeah right, And.
Speaker 4: You know, I thought he was good.
Speaker 10: And then the Dante More I think is at Oregon.
Speaker 10: He looks like a pretty good prospect. I haven't seen
Speaker 10: the guy from Notre Dame. They say he's he's pretty strong,
Speaker 10: But you know, I think that has a chance. Like
Speaker 10: there's other guys that I'm not mentioning that I just
Speaker 10: not off the top of my head that this class
Speaker 10: has a chance to be pretty pretty deep. We got
Speaker 10: to get through right one though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan really appreciate the visiness always, thank you, thank
Speaker 4: you very much. Yeah, I appreciate good luck with your
Speaker 4: travels this fall.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 7: That was Steele as nice as President of player Personnel,
Speaker 7: Dan Rooney Junior joining us here and Matt.
Speaker 2: That will do it for us today.
Speaker 9: There.
Speaker 2: I think that's a fun way to kind of cap
Speaker 2: things off here on day number one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's been a good day. We got many ahead.
Speaker 3: I hope we get this kind of weather.
Speaker 2: You know, absolutely, you are not lying. Matt and I
Speaker 2: are off to Dino's for an evening show with Jerry
Speaker 2: dulak uh and you are you stop by and say hello.
Speaker 2: Looks like the team's gonna have a little bit of
Speaker 2: an evening walk through as well. Potentially. I was wondering
Speaker 2: how that. Yeah, they wonder how that gonna work because
Speaker 2: it used to be morning walkthroughs and then practice. But
Speaker 2: you know, they still want to you got to work
Speaker 2: on that mental side of the game that we were
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 3: This is not like two days. I mean, they're allowed
Speaker 3: to do this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is this is about his
Speaker 2: walk through, his walkthrough, can get it's schematics and formations
Speaker 2: and all that different stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean they do it in a ballroom before the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exact, man. I wish there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: that I'm privy to. That's I'm very fortunate. It's a
Speaker 2: really cool part of my job. I wish Steeler fans
Speaker 2: could see the setup in the hotels when we go
Speaker 2: on the road. It's like we did the Steelers just
Speaker 2: take over the ballrooms and it's like, this is where
Speaker 2: we do our walkthroughs. This is where team meetings are.
Speaker 2: This is where the chapel is if you want to
Speaker 2: go and do church. This is where the cafeteria. This
Speaker 2: is where the you know, the treatment, massage and chiropractor.
Speaker 2: It is a heck of an operation, just like it
Speaker 2: is out here on the campus of Saint Vincent College.
Speaker 2: But that will do it for our operation today. Of course,
Speaker 2: we will resume tomorrow at nine am with Tom Waperman
Speaker 2: and Bob Labriola with our nine hours of coverage here
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