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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lilly. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt um Let's ear line from NFL dot

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Speaker 1: Com as uh. He's their NFL media draft analyst, and

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Speaker 1: he put out his first mock draft of the year

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Speaker 1: here and I thought we'd go over that one today

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Speaker 1: for the final segment and a different ones I've seen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got some different guys in there, and that's the

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Speaker 1: beauty of this right now. Um, you get a lot

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Speaker 1: of different names. Went over Daniel Jeremiah's top fifty list

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Speaker 1: earlier in the week, and there were some names on

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Speaker 1: there that weren't in some of the other guys, and

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Speaker 1: some guys who Daniel Jeremiah had in his top who

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Speaker 1: weren't in some of the other in the other lists.

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Speaker 1: And that's the you know, the thing about uh, mock

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Speaker 1: the year, so much of what's out there is just

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Speaker 1: copying off of others, and so you see the same

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden As you get closer to

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Speaker 1: the draft, people start to catch up on some things

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Speaker 1: and you'll see a new name in there, and and

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe he's in here. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's Rrell Edmunds. You know, nobody, nobody's hearing anything

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Speaker 1: about Arrell Edmonds in the pre draft process coming out

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Speaker 1: of the season because he was hurt his senior year.

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Speaker 1: So it's a bad pick. So he's a bad So

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Speaker 1: he's a bad pick because nobody had him listed in

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Speaker 1: their mock drafts in January. But then you know, a week,

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Speaker 1: a week before the draft, you start hearing stuff about him.

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Speaker 1: You know, this guy's really rising up the boards. Well

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Speaker 1: because everybody's caught up because it's starting to leak out

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Speaker 1: of the rooms or people are telling things or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But my favorite thing of in the Edmonds wink. It's

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Speaker 1: a perfect example. Steelers so dumb. They could have got

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Speaker 1: him in the third round. That's what Mel Hiper said.

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Speaker 1: Then you've seen Mel's mock or I'm not picking on Melon. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saw a seventh round mock and he went in

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Speaker 1: the third round. Didn't Steele see that they could have

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Speaker 1: gone in the third round? Okay, anyways, just taken. Like,

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Speaker 1: look here at Lance dear lines Mark draft, and he

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Speaker 1: has a he has the Bears taking picking number one.

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Speaker 1: He didn't do any trades here. Yeah, so he has

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Speaker 1: the Bears taking Jalen Carter. Okay, um, he has the

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Speaker 1: Texans end taking Bryce Young. Real quick here, I want

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Speaker 1: to stop on the Texans because Lance is a Houston guy.

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Speaker 1: He hosts a huge radio thing Forever super dowed in

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Speaker 1: No not he doesn't work for the Texans directly, but

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Speaker 1: I heard him on the podcast say he expects not

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Speaker 1: just like maybe this will happen. He thinks Houston will

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Speaker 1: put in a heavy play to go from two to one.

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Speaker 1: Get Young. They value this the Miko Young Alabama, I'm

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Speaker 1: a connection, trying to really build an identity between head

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Speaker 1: the Texas. I do too. At three, then the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: at four then takes c J. Stroud. Okay, I mean

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Speaker 1: these are typically the top four either Chalky. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: guys you know, everybody has these guys to tell for

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Speaker 1: edge rusher out of Texas Tech. Not that he's chalky

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Speaker 1: little interesting. At six, he has the Lions taking Christian Gonzalez,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders take Will Levis, the quarterback out of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about Jimmy Garoppolo their last segment.

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Speaker 1: Line on NFL dot com. He does his grading system

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't they the Steelers weren't reaching for Already Burns. No,

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Speaker 1: him about Jalen. Hotti says, Look, I'm not saying Jalen Hyah,

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Speaker 1: it's the most talented receiver in this draft, he said,

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Speaker 1: again Lance knows his team better than anyone. They'redn't run

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Speaker 1: I think pairing a rookie quarterback with the twelfth overall

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Speaker 1: everybody again Yeah, yeah, those guys get overdrafted. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: those their numbers don't reflect the impact on the game

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Speaker 1: guy I texted you yesterday. I was just watching some

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Speaker 1: of Fitzpatrick with Brian Branch. It's an intriguing thought. It's building.

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Speaker 1: free agency breaks right, you can convince me Branches seventeen

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Speaker 1: pass catcher. I mean, that'd be three first round picks

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Speaker 1: just call him Havoc reaker, you know what I mean.

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