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Speaker 1: NFL combine on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the

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Speaker 1: Steelers Audio Network. A few more segments here, some teas

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to talking about some appointment viewing prospects,

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Speaker 1: you know, guys that you have to watch here on

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Speaker 1: the field as the action gets going tomorrow. But we're

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Speaker 1: gonna Aaron Rodgers assess the situation at the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage pivot here a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people don't want to hear this.

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Speaker 1: Because we got some exclusive audio Rob king sitting down

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Speaker 1: with Steelers general manager Omar Kahn talking about the combine,

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Speaker 1: the off season process. Of course, our guy Kinger, he was,

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Speaker 1: he's pretty good at this, you know, the interviewing and.

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Speaker 2: The hang of it, yeah, and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: He was born to talk about sports on TV.

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Speaker 3: He was, this is radio. But you know he was

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Speaker 3: enjoying our guests earlier today, Yeah, he sure was.

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Speaker 1: So here is Rob Kings one on one conversation with

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Speaker 1: Steelers GM Omar Khan.

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Speaker 4: All right, Omar, thanks very much for being with us.

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Speaker 4: My first question for you. The Steelers won the AFC

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Speaker 4: North last year. A lot of people didn't predict that.

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Speaker 4: I know, I don't know if you pay much attention

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Speaker 5: You know, we won some good games, but the reality

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Speaker 2: So anything short of that's not good enough.

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Speaker 5: And we're in the process of evaluating everything we did

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Speaker 4: The season ended and Mike Tomlin announced his resignation. It

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Speaker 4: So I'm sure that now you have to go through

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Speaker 3: Some great candidate. It's really really the process.

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Speaker 5: Was was really proud of the process that we ran,

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Speaker 4: So how does he get up to speed? How do

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Speaker 4: You know, when when you come to the combine, I

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Speaker 5: So scouts really spend obviously a lot of their time

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Speaker 2: And we get together in December. It kind of gives me.

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Speaker 4: What is the most valuable part of the combine for you?

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Speaker 5: You know, you guys have heard me talk about I've

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Speaker 5: Certain players might not you know, fit what we want

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's sometimes hard to explain because there's so

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Speaker 5: Just really getting them and see if they're they're meant

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Speaker 5: This is a good draft, a lot of talented players,

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Speaker 2: But the spring is really important for.

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Speaker 4: You and your staff have had three really well regarded drafts.

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Speaker 4: How do you make sure that trend continues? Are there

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Speaker 4: This time last year, there were a lot of questions

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Speaker 4: So you've continue to be aggressive in free agency. I

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Speaker 4: of this year's class, and certainly guys can be extended.

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Speaker 4: Some of your own guys might be extended. So outside

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Speaker 5: who didn't.

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Speaker 2: And then now the pro day start.

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Speaker 5: You know, Coach McCarthy and I were going to be

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Speaker 5: hitting the pro day circuit here in March.

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Speaker 2: Uh, so so are our scouts.

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Speaker 5: And then lots of meetings, lots of conversations, a lot

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Speaker 5: the draft will be here before we know it.

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Speaker 4: And I would be remiss if I didn't ask one

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Speaker 2: The quarter zip you're wearing. Yeah, l in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: What is your excitement and expectation of There's.

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Speaker 5: No place better than Western p A to b hosting this.

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Speaker 5: You know, we've been talking about this for a long

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Speaker 5: time and it's it's hard to believe that it's it's here.

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Speaker 5: You know that this is the year, and I'm so exciting.

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Speaker 5: I'm getting a ton of requests. I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 5: of people are and uh you know, but my focus

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Speaker 5: obviously will be in on uh on on picking the players.

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Speaker 2: But I CA tell you how excited I am.

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Speaker 5: The city's excited, the organization is excited, and I can't

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Speaker 5: wait to show you know. I've been in Pittsburgh now

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Speaker 5: for what twenty five, twenty six years.

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Speaker 2: And I've grown. I love it, you know, It's a

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Speaker 5: To be and it has so much the reason has

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Speaker 5: so much more to offer than people realize. And I

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Speaker 5: can't wait for whatever, five six, seven hundred thousand people

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Speaker 5: that are coming to see it to really get an

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Speaker 5: exposure of western Pennsylvania because it's special, it's unique.

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Speaker 2: And can't wait.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Mark, thanks very much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. M'm good to see a.

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Speaker 1: Omar Con Steelers general manager with Rob King, the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Good conversation there, No, it was good.

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Speaker 1: Fifty nine days until the NFL the first round of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh