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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive. It's a beautiful day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna beautiful all week long. Free agency is well

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Speaker 1: officially set to start at four o'clock Wednesday. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are like at noon today, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of social media to it's He's Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly and uh, I'm like look at this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going We're twenty four hours into this thing and

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Speaker 1: people are acting like free agency is done. The ship

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Speaker 1: is sailed, nobody else is going to be signed. It's

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Speaker 1: all done. This is what your team's got. I'm watching

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Speaker 1: I'm watching NFL Network today and they're talking about the

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Speaker 1: teams that, oh, you know, these teams really took a

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Speaker 1: step back. I'm like, you got more free agency coming.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be more guys released, and they have this

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Speaker 1: whole thing called the Draft.

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Speaker 3: The Draft is coming, and a lot of people that

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Speaker 3: buy heavy on Day one regret it. Yeah, there's all

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Speaker 3: the post June first cut guys that are coming out

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be more releases that happened along the way.

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Speaker 3: But quick story, you're talking about how nice it is here.

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Speaker 3: I drove the whole way here, windows down, listen to

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Speaker 3: my podcast, happy as could be, pulling the lot car

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Speaker 3: next to me, wolf consulting.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how about that.

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Speaker 3: You go out perfect little day, walking the house into

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Speaker 1: All's well in the world. Yeah. Go, And we don't

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Speaker 1: have the lantern flies yet, there's no lantern flash. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I thought it was a good omen didn't have

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Speaker 1: in a good mood. There we go. So to your

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Speaker 1: point about the June first cuts. Two of the guys

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Speaker 1: one is Darius Slay Sure, the other one is Aaron Rodgers. Right.

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Speaker 1: They won't officially become free agents until four o'clock tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're Eagles and Jets respectively this minute as we

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Speaker 1: Yes, they're going to be released. Same with like Javon Hargrave.

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Speaker 1: There's a bunch of going to be released.

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Speaker 3: Like Hard Graves rumored to be signed by the Vikings,

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Speaker 3: but he's not signed by the Vikings or it's not done.

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Speaker 1: So technically you can't come to a contract agreement with

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Speaker 3: The Niners, Eagles, Jets, if they grant that player permission

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Speaker 1: But you but like schefter can't be like there's a

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Speaker 3: They're a Jet, right, I mean, they're not open for

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Speaker 1: They could say, you know, they can have again if

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Speaker 1: they've given them some kind of permission to explore, because

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Speaker 1: we're gonna hey, we're gonna cut you. You can have

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Speaker 1: some parameter on hey we're interested in signing you to

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Speaker 1: the contract details. They're still under contract to their former team.

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Speaker 3: And they certainly can't be reported or official in any way.

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Speaker 1: Right, None of none of this stuff, None of this

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Speaker 1: stuff is official. Everybody's freaking out over. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: there's there's been I think I think there were like

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Speaker 1: People are acting like this is it, it's done. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: steel aren't going to spend any money, so nobody's going

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Speaker 3: Skyler Thompson behind center, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, No, you're right,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot more to happen. There's a lot more

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Speaker 3: not suggesting the Steelers are trying to pry Fields away

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Speaker 1: No, and there's still time. You know, guys can have buyers,

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Speaker 3: But even like what's his face? The Eagles defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: Guys changed their mind, but then we might get Sleigh

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Speaker 3: And usually those are better players or guys have made money.

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Speaker 1: Last night nausea. Harris agrees to a one year deal

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Speaker 3: I said, there's a limit. You can't have all thirty

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Speaker 1: You can have four compensatory picks. And as it stands

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Speaker 1: Even if it's twenty twenty got you that's what justin

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Speaker 3: That was a four, okay, but you could get multiple threes.

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Speaker 3: You can get multiple four's. It doesn't mean you like

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Speaker 3: But if Field says a great year, plays every snap

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Speaker 1: It might be a three. Right. I mean, Dan More

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Speaker 1: Dann Moore, who you drafted in the fourth round. No,

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Speaker 3: There's a reason teams like the Ravens and Eagles, the

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Speaker 1: For so they have years they'd have no first round picks,

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Speaker 3: it's gold. Right And again, like the Fields thing, you

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Speaker 1: It's still It's why and I didn't agree with it,

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Speaker 3: Was really it was a little bit dirty pool.

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Speaker 1: But are not going to get a premium pick out

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Speaker 3: But they made him what two paychecks or whatever to

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Speaker 1: Maybe we get a six out of this, Maybe we

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Speaker 1: big money deal. But I mean he wasn't in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, But there's an art to it, and

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Speaker 3: I think the Steeler front office this isn't an accident,

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Speaker 3: I guess, is my point. They knew these picks are coming.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no doubt they knew they're going to

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Speaker 3: Sleigh and Rogers are two of their targets, well they

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Speaker 3: don't count and DK. You know that's a trade. You

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Speaker 3: end up with extra picks. I mean, if you go

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Speaker 3: into next year's draft at eleven picks or whatever, you're.

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Speaker 1: Sitting pretty Yeah. You can't stress that enough. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: next year. That doesn't mean that the Steelers are punting.

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Speaker 1: on this season. No, they're not pulating assets. They didn't

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Speaker 1: trade for DK Metcalf because they thought they're going to

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they were happy with the service Daniels more nausea,

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Speaker 1: The other thing is, look at the teams who have

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is what it's like. You'd rather

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that you win necessarily, because it just

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Speaker 3: And back to the original premise here, Free Agencies far

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Speaker 1: There are many chess moves yet to make.

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Speaker 1: After four. The quarterback one is a big Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: Then we are back. I am Dale Lolly, he is

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Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and Matt let's talk quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah all right.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's say, for example, Aaron Rodgers decides to

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Speaker 1: What other options are available to them? I don't see

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Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins would be one, and I would understand it.

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Speaker 3: I don't love his style of play. When the Steelers

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Speaker 1: He's even older than Russell Wilson. They're the same draft

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Speaker 3: Now I'm quiet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Jamis Winston.

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Speaker 1: Who are trade Cannon. The Buccaneers signed Tom Brady after

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season. They didn't do a whole else

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Speaker 1: lot in free agency. They basically made a good team.

435
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Speaker 1: They basically brought the same team back from twenty nineteen

436
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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty, just adding taking Jameis Winston, plucking him

437
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Speaker 1: out and putting and taking your claw arm and dropping Yeah,

438
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady injuries and Brady went there. Yeah, they had

439
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Speaker 1: like Wharfs and Evans the dudes in place. They went

440
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Speaker 1: from seven to nine to eleven and five and winning

441
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because super hot streaks. The quarterback didn't

442
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Speaker 1: throw thirty interceptions and fumble ten times. Yep.

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Speaker 3: And if you remember, they had a bye week in

444
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Speaker 3: like week, and that was not great before it was bad,

445
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Speaker 3: and then they basically said, all right, Tom, take over.

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Speaker 1: This, dude, do what you do. They lost again.

447
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and Brady's pretty good.

448
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Speaker 1: Brady's pretty good.

449
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Speaker 3: So I don't think you're implying that the claw arm

450
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Speaker 3: is going to find a Brady and drop him into Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: But that was a forty three year old, Oh Rogers

452
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Speaker 1: is pretty good. That was a forty three year old

453
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Yeah. Aaron Rodgers is two years younger than that.

454
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's seven years younger than that, and all.

455
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Speaker 3: Three are possible or probable Hall of famers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Could there'd be somebody else out there that we

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Speaker 1: don't know about at this point, maybe, but I'm straining

458
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Speaker 1: to find that name. Now.

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Speaker 3: I know he just restructured his contract, but I think

460
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Speaker 3: the Saints can still trade.

461
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Speaker 1: They can go on from Derek Carr. Yeah.

462
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Speaker 3: I don't think that's their intentions at all. And I

463
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Speaker 3: don't think he's a bad player. I think he gets

464
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Speaker 3: a little bit of a bum rap and I wish

465
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Speaker 3: he was more aggressive. But I think he's a good player.

466
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Speaker 3: I think you could pry him away.

467
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Speaker 1: There's some projects to be kind with, like a Joe

468
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Speaker 1: Milton or an Anthony Richardson, or you're the same guy.

469
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Speaker 1: Anthon Richardson and Joe Milton are the same dude, right,

470
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Speaker 1: and just one is younger than the other one and trade.

471
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Speaker 1: They can throw the ball a mile, he considered, can't

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Speaker 1: complete it.

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Speaker 3: Right, none of the average. They're my no, there're my no,

474
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Speaker 3: my goal here now. Daniel Jones is off the market

475
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Speaker 3: since we've got together, Like right, he would have been

476
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Speaker 3: my first name mentioned with cousins after that question. But

477
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Speaker 3: he is a cult.

478
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Speaker 1: I don't know.

479
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Speaker 3: Well, you go team by team and see if there's

480
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Speaker 3: anybody that comes to mind, But it's hard.

481
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Speaker 1: What about calling San Francisco for party? I think you can.

482
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Speaker 1: You could pry him away. I don't love him. I

483
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Speaker 1: know you don't love them. I don't love him either.

484
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Speaker 1: They're in a rebuild right now. They are what they've

485
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Speaker 1: what they're calling a reset because.

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Speaker 3: Their free agencies looked a lot like the Steelers, like

487
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Speaker 3: they can't afford anybody, and they got they got to

488
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Speaker 3: pay party.

489
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Speaker 1: Again. I don't I don't love the player.

490
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Speaker 3: I know you're just spitballing and not I'm just throwing.

491
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Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it out there like that could be.

492
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Speaker 3: I think he's a guy that could be had. I

493
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Speaker 3: don't love it. You'd have to pay him what he

494
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Speaker 3: cost you in draft compensation. But I don't think he's.

495
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Speaker 1: A terrible player.

496
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Speaker 3: He's not a terrible player, but he's I was really

497
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Speaker 3: hard on him his rookie year, like this guy's not

498
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Speaker 3: very good, but he's better than that. I don't know

499
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Speaker 3: that I want my wagon hitch to him.

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Speaker 1: Though, for a year deal or whatever. Which is why,

501
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Speaker 1: which brings me back to Rogers and Wilson. Right, they're

502
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Speaker 1: the two best options.

503
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Speaker 3: Oh they are, I mean, because neither one prevents you

504
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Speaker 3: from taking a quarterback you can't believe is still there

505
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Speaker 3: in any round this year. We're drafting one next year,

506
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Speaker 3: moving up to the first pick in the draft if

507
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Speaker 3: you want next year, I mean, or anything in between.

508
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Speaker 3: So and at this stage, there's no way Rogers causes

509
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Speaker 3: a fuss with that, you know, like with the low

510
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Speaker 3: he's got to know right, I mean, yeah, I think

511
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Speaker 3: they are the best two options, without question. I can't

512
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Speaker 3: come up with one I like.

513
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Speaker 1: And I can't see there's there's a lot of teeth gnashing.

514
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Speaker 1: Well again, this is just going to be equal nine

515
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Speaker 1: to eight? How do you figure that? Like, they they're

516
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Speaker 1: they're upgrading their roster. They've already upgraded the rosters. They

517
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Speaker 1: finally they've solved the receiver problem. Okay, if you look

518
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Speaker 1: at the holes on the roster right now, they need

519
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Speaker 1: assuming you know, until Darius Slay is in the building,

520
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Speaker 1: you need another starting outside cornerback. Looks like that's probably

521
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Speaker 1: solved though for now, a running back to pair with

522
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Speaker 1: Jaleen Warren, which you can get in the draft. I

523
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: need more D line, some D some D line help

524
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Speaker 1: Bgan job, he's gone, you know, right, that could be

525
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: again taking Keanu Bent and kicking him out the defensive

526
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Speaker 1: end and signing one of these. You know, Devon Gotshaw

527
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Speaker 1: got traded, but.

528
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah he's an LSU guy. We're back to the Saints,

529
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Speaker 3: but he are available. Run stuffing.

530
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Speaker 1: Those tackles are a like four million dollars a year. Yeah, yeah,

531
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Speaker 1: you can find and they last till their seventies, they

532
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Speaker 1: last a million. Oh you could sign Kalais Campbell. Oh

533
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Speaker 1: you can sign all of those guys right to a

534
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Speaker 1: one year deal. Yeah. I mean he was not your nose,

535
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Speaker 1: but he would help you win football games. Yeah. I

536
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Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of those guys out.

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Speaker 3: There, and draft one and draft and raft one right,

538
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Speaker 3: maybe two the third round nose tackles will be very attractive.

539
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no question that about that in my mind.

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Speaker 3: There's one other needed to mention though. Okay, they need

541
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Speaker 3: number two quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Well they need to that, but I think you can

543
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Speaker 1: get Kyle Allen back.

544
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Speaker 3: And I'm not comfortable with him as my two. I

545
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Speaker 3: would like better than that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not asking.

546
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be. I don't want if I'm

547
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Speaker 1: drafting one. I don't know if I'm drafted one this year,

548
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Speaker 1: though I'm probably I'm taking I'm taking a quarterback in

549
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Speaker 1: every damn draft. I like it until I find one.

550
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Speaker 3: I love that approach, and that's a Packers Forever approach.

551
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Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a seventh rounder. I'm taking

552
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Speaker 1: a damn quarterback this year, and he's going to be

553
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Speaker 1: in the mix. Somewhere.

554
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little short on picks. I don't dislike

555
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Speaker 3: that at all. But what about like, if you have

556
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Speaker 3: Rogers or Wilson, I'd consider a mac Jones or Rudolph

557
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 3: or somebody like that. You know, that's five million a year.

558
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 3: Like I can't believe Zach Wilson just got a one year,

559
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 3: six million dollar deal. He stinks. But someone that doesn't

560
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 3: like mac Jones look good. He's like the mobile guy

561
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Speaker 3: you want. But he played well last year. He could

562
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Speaker 3: be by two No, I you know what I mean

563
00:26:58,600 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 3: games with him.

564
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Speaker 1: I'd be open to to doing something like that, but

565
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Speaker 1: I don't know that. You you know, you don't need

566
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: It's not going to be something that breaks the bank. No, no, no,

567
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: they'll fire set you back. They'll find a number two quarterback.

568
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not I'm not concerned about that at all.

569
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 3: But they do have to go to camp with three

570
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: more guys than they have.

571
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got a draft in which I like,

572
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: you know a lot of the I like the mid

573
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: round guys. The mid round guys are more so than

574
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Speaker 1: I like the early round guys. In most cases, this

575
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: isn't the draft.

576
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Speaker 3: I'm moving up five spots for your door or any right, right, No,

577
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Speaker 3: it'd be an interesting conversation if Sudor is there at

578
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 3: twenty one. I don't think you will be, and I

579
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 3: still don't love it, but I would understand it.

580
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't have massive holes on this roster, right,

581
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: you could line up again quarterback aside, right right, that's

582
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: going to get solved and play games tomorrow if you

583
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Speaker 1: had to with a viable assuming slaves in the mix,

584
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: and yeah, right, I mean yeah, and Metcalf.

585
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 3: And Slay fill true holes. Yeah, the D line you

586
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 3: couldn't run with at the moment.

587
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 1: Sure he could. Yeah, you only got like four guys,

588
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: five guys. Yeah, but he's a loss of starter. I mean,

589
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: Benton and Cam are fine, obviously more than fine, but

590
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: you can play. I mean, Montrevius Adams could be your

591
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: nose right now, and Bent's your head and you're fine. Now.

592
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: You don't have a lot of depth, right, but you've

593
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: got to start. You've got a starting type, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes?

594
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: Is it ideal? No? Right? Right? You want to you

595
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: want to shoot for better than that. That's what the

596
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: draft is for. And it is a good D line draft. Yeah,

597
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: you know you know, more running back. I think that's

598
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why at this point they haven't

599
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: done anything with Cordero Patterson. Yeah, just because yet you

600
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: gotta wait, Yeah, you gotta wait, make sure you get

601
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: something you're not they're not going to sign one in

602
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: free agency though.

603
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Speaker 3: I don't think unless there's some bargain you can't pass up.

604
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: But I can't imagine that or what I yeah.

605
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you're spending five million plus on Jalen Warren

606
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Speaker 1: this year with the ten under offer, then.

607
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: You you go cheap and you know, I mean, like,

608
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Speaker 3: I don't love the slot situation if you were to

609
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 3: go right now, But they're like nose tackles where you

610
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 3: can find slots that you can live with.

611
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: With those two guys on the outside, you could get open. Oh,

612
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: I shoot her saying, okay, yeah, I like Calvin Austin

613
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: and Roman defense.

614
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not worried about this. The s lots of

615
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: the offense.

616
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Speaker 1: They don't run three receivers out, I mean, other than

617
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: having another running back and a quarterback. Other than yeah,

618
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: but the offense is pretty damn set it is. I mean,

619
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Speaker 1: the Metcalf trade short up a lot of stuff.

620
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff. It's not why I'm hoping that

621
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Speaker 3: Buka is good enough.

622
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Speaker 1: If Metcalf had been a true free agent, he makes

623
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Speaker 1: more than everybody else, he would he would have been

624
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: a number one free agent wide receiver by a long shot.

625
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, considering age, injuries and all those guys.

626
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 3: And there's even like the Amari Coopers are still out

627
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 3: there and Tiggs and Coups about to be. I mean,

628
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: there's a lot of these guys that have warts because

629
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: of age, but that doesn't mean they stink, right, they

630
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: still play.

631
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but Metcalf would have been the most attractive

632
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: guy twenty seven. He just turned twenty seven.

633
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Speaker 3: He probably gets thirty two a year, three year, one

634
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 3: hundred million something like that.

635
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: In the market of where the Steelers paid him, I

636
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: would say more. Yeah, right, I mean if what would

637
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Speaker 1: the what would the Patriots have given him on the

638
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: open market or the Chargers? The Patriots who have signed

639
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: all the signings the Patriots have done in the all defense.

640
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: It's all defense. They've added nothing to the offense, which

641
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: was the problem, right coach out to.

642
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,959
Speaker 3: I mean, they got Morgan Moses, who's a respectable adult

643
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 3: in the room for a year or two, and then

644
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: I bet their whole whole, our whole draft is offense

645
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 3: has to be seattles another one like that. Yeah, like

646
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 3: you trade Gino, you trade Metcalf, you need a guard

647
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Speaker 3: to center, maybe another guard, another receiver or two, and

648
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 3: maybe a tight end and maybe another quarterback. Even like

649
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 3: it's gonna be all offense.

650
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, but New England's funny that way because they could

651
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: have got anything they wanted, right, they had all the money,

652
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: and maybe they're waiting on some prices to come down

653
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: on some of these receivers. They don't want to pay it.

654
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean Godwin was one that everybody had

655
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: linked to them and he now, I'm gonna take twenty

656
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: two million a year to stay.

657
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 3: In And I wonder if they would have been like

658
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: Tray Smith or some one of those bigger named guard

659
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 3: center type guys that they didn't get a shot at.

660
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's free agency when when you talk about

661
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: free agencies, it's not only free agency for the teams. Yeah,

662
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: it's free agency for the players too. They get to

663
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: pick and choose where they want to go.

664
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 3: Some of these interior offensive linemen. I mean it screams

665
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: to me, actually, just sent you my interior line rankings

666
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 3: that people aren't super psyched about going into this draft

667
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: to find a starting guard or way onlike last year,

668
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 3: or starting center. I mean, let alone a tackle, Let

669
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 3: alone a tackle. But I mean this offensive line class

670
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 3: to me is not screaming.

671
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: It's be now. I don't even think it's an average one.

672
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: I don't either.

673
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 3: I don't either, because again, the tackles are guards.

674
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: And yeah, like all all the tackles in this in

675
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: this draft class all have short arms for the most part,

676
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: unless you're a mid round guy who's well he's a project,

677
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: he's a project, but he's he's got the length, you know.

678
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: But everybody else said all the first round, second round

679
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: guys are all like thirty two inch arms. Two inch arms, yeah,

680
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean alligator arms and hope that that's good enough. Yeah,

681
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: and Dan Morris's thanks yeah, right, or Jalen Moore says thanks, ye,

682
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: who's a backup. But like last year's center class, everyone

683
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: knows the top three and powers Johnson did not playing center,

684
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: but I think he will will. Yeah, yeah, they just

685
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: cut James.

686
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, but even like BB became a center, Limmer is

687
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 3: now a starting center, like there's five or six from

688
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 3: that class that are going to be opening day starters. Yeah,

689
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 3: this year, this class might have any.

690
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: One, not a single one. Yeah, right, so this year's

691
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: got and give dolphin Gray Zabel move them the center,

692
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: maybe the Georgia dude or whatever. But if you're in

693
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: a center need your last year's a year to do it. Yeah,

694
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: it's very Steell irrelevant obviously. Yeah. And you know again,

695
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: when they took three offensive linemen in last year's draft,

696
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: you know we looked at, well, Mason McCormick, that's kind

697
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: of a that was just a value pick. Well, no,

698
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: take every lineman he get. He's going to be starting

699
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: this year.

700
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: I wonder not even knowing what his rookie year was like.

701
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 3: Remember we talked about McCormick could be a fallback option

702
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 3: at center, but he was pretty darn good tape not

703
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 3: Zabel level, but I mean at a similar school and situation,

704
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: tested really well. But I was thinking about that today

705
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: I did my top five interior offensive lineman. I'm like,

706
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 3: McCormick might have been fifth for me this year, you

707
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 3: know what I mean, like h or higher. I mean

708
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 3: he didn't have to fight Frasier and powers Johnson and

709
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 3: Graham Barton.

710
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: He had no chance to be in the top five

711
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: last year. They were loaded. You know, it just depends

712
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: on how you view That's I'll be interested to get

713
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: into that a little bit more. And I start putting

714
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: our rankings together and everything. Who do you consider a guard?

715
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: Who do you consider a tackle? Time? I just if

716
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: they had an OT next to their name, I ranked

717
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: him as a tackle because I just assume teams are

718
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: going to try them there, try them first. Yeah, especially

719
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: if you take them in the first round.

720
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, even Membo might be the first one off the board,

721
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 3: or certainly Will Johnson. I mean they're Campbell Campbell. I mean,

722
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 3: these guys are potential top ten picks with thirty two

723
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 3: in charms and yeah, I mean I don't think he's

724
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 3: a tackle.

725
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's just no you gotta be extremely athletic, Yeah,

726
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: extremely athletic to play tackle with thirty two in charms.

727
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: There really isn't an example.

728
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 3: I mean, it's funny because Mike Pursue is putting the

729
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 3: list together too, and he sent me a tax He's like,

730
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 3: what's the magic number on arms?

731
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: Again?

732
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 3: I'm like, they all won thirty four plus, which is

733
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 3: pretty darn hard to find. But there's I mean, there's

734
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 3: a lot of them in the league. And I said,

735
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 3: if you're under thirty four, it's a red flag on

736
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 3: every board. But if you're under thirty three, there's like

737
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 3: zero for one hundred chances, you know, like nobody's I

738
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 3: mean the Joe Thomas's and the Penny Souls are between

739
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 3: thirty three and thirty four and otherwise there's like a

740
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 3: zero percent hit rate. Yeah, and Campbell's at thirty two

741
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 3: and a half or whatever.

742
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: Maybe he's the one members I think thirty two. I

743
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: think he's longer. I don't think it was much. If

744
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: it was anything, he.

745
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 3: Shocked me because I went back and I made him

746
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 3: my number one tackle because I think his arm length

747
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 3: was noticeably more than I thought because he's got that

748
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 3: weird wide body. He doesn't look like he has long arms.

749
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 3: But I think he measured pretty well. I think I

750
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 3: have him here. I think he's gonna be the first

751
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: alignment off the board.

752
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: Campbell is thirty two and five EHS Membo is thirty

753
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: two inches even.

754
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 3: Really Okay, Yeah, I was thinking they were longer.

755
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: So at least that the measurements I saw Okay, looked

756
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: at that CBS one you sent us a well, maybe

757
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: got him backwards. I knew that Campbell was too short,

758
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean so you knew that going into

759
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: last year when all these teams know it. With the

760
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: yeah guys, which is why you drafted three guys, and

761
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: you set yourself up then not have to take an

762
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: offensive lineman issery. You could allow Dan Moore to walk

763
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: into free agency knowing he's gonna get. Yeah, he's gonna

764
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: get a big pay day and get and net you

765
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: a third round pick. James Daniel. All Right, we're gonna

766
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: move on. We got Mason McCormick in the building here.

767
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: We don't have to sign re sign James Daniels.

768
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: It's the beauty of winning doubt drafting offensive lineman because

769
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 3: the guy.

770
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: You have always they're always in.

771
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 3: Like, hey, I like Isaac Ciamali, but his contracts up

772
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: after the year. If he doesn't fall on his face

773
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: next year, someone's gonna pay him in free agency.

774
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

775
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 3: I mean that's like a guarantee. I mean, he's going

776
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 3: to get he gonna do money. He's a get ten

777
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: plus million for sure one year from now, which will

778
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 3: yield you a pick. You know, like at the trade deadline,

779
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 3: if the Chiefs called the Steelers who needed a left tackle,

780
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 3: and said, we're really interesting to have more, you wouldn't

781
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 3: have got a third round pick for him. No, it's

782
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 3: a better deal than that, absolutely, And a desperate team

783
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: trying to win a Super Bowl, they would offered you

784
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 3: a six or five or something. You know, Yeah, it's

785
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 3: a year late, but you know it's coming. It's coming,

786
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: it's coming down the road and trade your third and

787
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 3: it's a time. Yeah, it's a bird in hand. Yeah,

788
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 3: you know, Okay, this is this is out there, but

789
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: this is what you got.

790
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 1: They're really doing it well. The Niners another team, they're

791
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: really doing it well. Right now. Yeah, so you did that,

792
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: you set yourself up, and now you've got to take

793
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: advantage of it. With the best quarterback option for twenty

794
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: twenty five, and I don't care about twenty twenty six.

795
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 3: Well, I want to be able to be fluid in

796
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six.

797
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: That's fine, right, But I think a lot of people

798
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: are getting stuck. And they were doing this with Justin

799
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: Fields as well. Well. He gives you a better future.

800
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, maybe, I don't know if Justin Fields. I

801
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: don't want to. I didn't want to pay forty million

802
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,919
Speaker 1: dollars over two years to think maybe Justin Fields finally

803
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: gets it.

804
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Darnold has a little of that as well.

805
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to pay thirty five

806
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: million dollars a year to find that out over three years.

807
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 1: Now I'm married to the guy for probably at least

808
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: two years. I don't want to. I don't want a

809
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins situation.

810
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: Right like, I don't know that. I bet Seattle, if

811
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: they have a terrible year, could probably stomach taking a

812
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 3: quarterback in the first round next year. It's not that terrible,

813
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 3: But like the Cousin situation, they don't make money, you know,

814
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: because of that. You know, back, you're like you're party,

815
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: you know, I know you're not like lobbying for party.

816
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: No. I just threw it out that he's a guy I.

817
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: Think he could trade for but if you trade for him,

818
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 3: and I'm sure this is what the Niners are thinking too. Well,

819
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 3: now I'm not fluid in the quarterback market.

820
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: Now I've locked up.

821
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 3: Now I've taken your deal and give him seventy five

822
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 3: guarantees and he probably won hundred and sixty right, right right,

823
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, what is it a four year

824
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 3: deal at two hundred half of it guaranteed? Well, if

825
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 3: he comes, he turns into a pumpkin. The Niners can't

826
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 3: go quarterback in the first round after that.

827
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's you don't want to be the Saints.

828
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 3: You don't want to be a Saint, And all the

829
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: sounds are starting to fall into that category. Right, although

830
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: if they took cam Ward this year it would kind

831
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: of relieve them.

832
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: I don't think you can get cam Ward. I think

833
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: the Titans are screaming, we're taking cam Ward. What you

834
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: don't want to have is like the Derek Carr situation

835
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: where you go out and you sign a quarterback to

836
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: a long term deal again, a four year deal that

837
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 1: you can't get out of, and he's good not great.

838
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: Right, if it's Josh Allen, you don't care, you're right.

839
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 3: But if he's good not great, and you got a

840
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 3: Spencer Rattler and hope one of those guys hits best

841
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 3: of luck, you know.

842
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's tough. It's tough, and so until

843
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: you find that guy again, you might have a different

844
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: quarterback room every year and we've seen the Steelers have

845
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: a different quarterback room. But until you find that guy, folks,

846
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: this is what the eighties look like.

847
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know if we've

848
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 3: mentioned on the show, but with Field signing with the Jets,

849
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 3: this upcoming year will be the fifth season in a

850
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 3: row that there's a new opening day stealer quarterback. It's

851
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 3: not ideal, but that doesn't mean you stop trying, right,

852
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?

853
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: You just keep trying. Fifty year. I don't think so.

854
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: I think so so you had you had Fields pick it,

855
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: Trubisky someone between him and Ben. I think Roethlisberger. Four

856
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: four in a row. Yeah, okay.

857
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 3: I think someone tweeted at time to meat Chat that

858
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 3: Chris damn Ski was wrong.

859
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: He said it too. Someone wants to cutting paste. He

860
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: tweeted it out earlier that he.

861
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 3: Must have been wrong about I saw a couple of

862
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: days four it's four okay, Yeah, Ben did start, Yeah

863
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 3: that would make sense.

864
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, he didn't miss any time there. But yeah,

865
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: until you find that guy, you just keep, like every

866
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: other position, you gotta keep it. This will be five,

867
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: This will be five, this will be five.

868
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 3: That's what it is okay, Yeah, this will be the

869
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 3: fifth because Fields won't be the starter this.

870
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: Year, right, right, But he wasn't supposed to be the start.

871
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 3: That's the if Wilson would be the starter this year

872
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 3: in week one, the streak.

873
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: Really the idea, and I keep seeing it out there. Well,

874
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: you know the Steelers when you know they benched Justin Fields. No,

875
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was supposed to be the starter from the beginning.

876
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: He was the starter. All Mike Tomlin did was reinsert

877
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: the starter back in when he was healthy.

878
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a lot of things after He's agreed

879
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 3: with the Jets. He doesn't trust the Steelers because they

880
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 3: benched him and they.

881
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: Said he would bench him.

882
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 3: No, he said I wasn't good enough. And the whole

883
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 3: planet knew Wilson was a starter. He just got injured, right,

884
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: you know. He was the backup, right, he's a backup.

885
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: He wasn't even supposed to be in the picture until

886
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett decided he would take his ball and run

887
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia. Now he's a brownie. Now he's a brown Anyways,

888
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: let's get he is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly.

889
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: You're listening to the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

890
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: Matt and I will be back with more right after this.

891
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 2: At least he's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

892
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the

893
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 2: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

894
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: And we are back on Dale Lolli. He is the

895
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and a couple of minor signings here taking place. Nothing.

896
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd heading to Atlanta.

897
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that they looked for past rush anyway

898
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 3: you can get it.

899
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 1: You know. Peyton Turner, former first round pick the Saints

900
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one's headed to the Cowboys. Minor deals yeah, yeah,

901
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: not needle movers. Washington resigned Jeremy McNichols to a one

902
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: year deal. Mike cu'es back with the Falcons.

903
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: But nothing are shattering the last hour or two.

904
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean today has been much quieter than yesterday. Yeah.

905
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 3: The Vikings were real busy. I mean they signed two

906
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 3: interior linemen.

907
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: Well they haven't signed them yet and they can't.

908
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 3: I was talking about the offensive line. Oh, I surprise

909
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: in the two Colts. And then they Allen and Allen

910
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 3: and Hard Graves looming.

911
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: Looming with a hard Grave, But that doesn't mean somebody

912
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: else couldn't step in and trump that hard. He's a

913
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: June first cut.

914
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he doesn't become available to four o'clock tomorrow

915
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 3: and we will be coming to you live.

916
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite deal yet or a favorite match? Hmmm?

917
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 3: A lot of the ones that were retained, like Khalil

918
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 3: Mack and Godwin and stuff like that. Hmm, nothing blown

919
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 3: me away. I mean the one that's kind of hits

920
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: close to home. I think Nausey found a good landing spot.

921
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's a better Gus Edwards and

922
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 3: fits that system well. I mean I don't think that's

923
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: a massive thought. He's not Barkley or Jacobs or Henry,

924
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 3: but he'll he'll help. He'll get eleven hundred yards out there. Yeah,

925
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 3: I mean we just mentioned the Vikings. It's funny to

926
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 3: me everyone when the Steelers, when before Darnell went to Seattle,

927
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 3: of course you get mentioned a ton of times.

928
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: Well, Dealers and Donald, what do you think of that?

929
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 3: Like, well, they have a way better coaching staff. He

930
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 3: is justin Jefferson. He's got the best line. I'm like,

931
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 3: they have a terrible line. Everyone just assumes that. You know,

932
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 3: the Vikings Darrisaw was out for almost the whole year,

933
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: by far their best line, and the interior line's been

934
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 3: bad for five years.

935
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: That's why Donald looked bad at the end of the year.

936
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 3: Right, No way blocked for him for two the last

937
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 3: two games, especially the last one, and but they addressed it.

938
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: They went and got Kelly and they got Fries, you know,

939
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 3: so I think that was good.

940
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: My two favorites jump out. My two favorite moves are

941
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: the two trades metcalf and Metcalfe and Tunsel.

942
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the Tunsil move. I don't understand what

943
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: Houston's doing.

944
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't know either.

945
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: They made two trades, both high pedigree guys. Now Green

946
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 3: hasn't been great for them, it's the other green, it's

947
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 3: not the Steeler Green. But their protection was like the

948
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 3: worst in the league. And I know a lot of

949
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 3: it was blamed on scheme and past pass.

950
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: Pro problems and all these type of things. You got

951
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: to replace those guys with somebody. But who's gonna block? Yeah,

952
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: I don't if we're doing you know, Houston Nation Radio

953
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: or Texas Nation Radio. Right now, I'm going, right, what

954
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,240
Speaker 1: were we doing on the offensive?

955
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 3: Line folks, and again back to rewind a half hour ago. Yeah,

956
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 3: you can get some guys in the draft. I'm sure

957
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 3: they'll draft O line like crazy.

958
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: But it's not a great offensive line draft, and.

959
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 3: You're just gonna plug and play them as your starters. Yeah,

960
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand that at all.

961
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: Just because they're different. They're not the guys that were

962
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: there last year.

963
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, And I'm looking at Washington going maybe

964
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 3: Tunsel ain't what he used to be, but you can't

965
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 3: get left tackles. I mean, if you got to go

966
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 3: get Damn Moore twenty million a year or take a

967
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: chance on Tunsel for a couple of.

968
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: Picks, Cam Robinson or something, right right right, what are

969
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: you doing? And yeah, give me tunsl Yeah, I'll roll

970
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, So it's it's odd. Yeah, I'm trying

971
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: to think other fits. I think Holland's a really good player.

972
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: Giants did a couple of good things. I'm sure there's

973
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: overpays in there. There's a lot of tons overpays.

974
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Javonte Williams of the Cowboys happened in the

975
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 3: last twenty four hours. That doesn't change my tune on

976
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 3: their running back situation at all, you know.

977
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, it's it's it's been strange thus far.

978
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: I do like because it was it wasn't a great

979
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: free agent class. No, it's not. It's not.

980
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 3: And maybe because he's fresh on your tip of your

981
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 3: tongue after the Super Bowl. But I like sweat going

982
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 3: to the Cardinals. I mean, now they have respectable d

983
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 3: line with last year's first round pick, and they have

984
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 3: some different body types there. So it used to be

985
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 3: so bad. I mean that's okay with me. Yeah, Vikings

986
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 3: retain Murphy as a guy we liked, and I have

987
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: a feeling he was never leaving. You know, when you

988
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 3: some of those that stay on their team a day

989
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 3: or two after free agency, they.

990
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: They probably knew that they have a deal rolling along here.

991
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: Every step of the way. There weren't a lot of moves.

992
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that's a big game changer.

993
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 3: Though, No, no, for sure, I'm trying to scan the

994
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 3: league in my head. I give the Bears credit for

995
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 3: rebuilding the interior of their ow line, kind of like

996
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 3: the Vikings conversation we just had, but it was costly.

997
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: It's constantly and I don't I don't know that's going

998
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: to fix Caleb Williams issue holding onto the football.

999
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 3: No, but you'll know, yeah, I mean you'll definitely know,

1000
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 3: and you'll I bet they have a running game.

1001
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: I mean, what if they draft genty or you know,

1002
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: something like that.

1003
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 3: I'd consider that, But like then they draft, they signed

1004
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 3: some D lineman that I thought they vastly overpaid for.

1005
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were okay, but they're not great. Anyways, that's

1006
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: going to do it for hour number one of the

1007
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I

1008
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: will be back with our number two right after this