1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Black and Gold in Steelers Nation Radio. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive and welcome to Happy New Year. 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 3: Happy New Year to you. Absolutely it is official. Four 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 3: o'clock exactly on the nose. 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: All the stuff will still start to see, all kinds 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: of news start to happening now. All the contracts that 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: have been agreed to before will now become official, and 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 2: or at least they can be. 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 3: They should my team doesn't mean it's a done deal, 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 3: but it is now able to be. In the June 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: first cut guys, Aaron Rodgers er now no longer jets 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 3: rape or cuts. 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys are going to start being released here 16 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: as well. So all kinds of news going to be 17 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 2: happening here over the course of the show. And I 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: want to clear something up. Let's go because apparent currently 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: there's some people on the message board who think that 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: I am somehow backtracking or double talking on Aaron Rodgers. 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: If I had my choice between just for the Steelers 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 2: quarterback in twenty twenty five, given how the roster is constructed, yea, 23 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: I would pick Russell Wilson. I would not pick Aaron Rodgers, gotcha. 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: Here's what's changed, all the other stuff around, moving parts 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 2: around this. You didn't get justin fields. 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: Back nor I'm looking Sord. 27 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 2: You trade for Stafford, You didn't sign any Barnold Donald. 28 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 2: Those guys are all gone. 29 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 3: And I'm frankly not broken hearted about it. Stafford was 30 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: never on the tape. Yeah, I mean Stafford would. 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: It was a pie in the sky kind of thing. 32 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: But give him my choice. 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: Based on what the Steelers have at wide receiver, Russell 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: Wilson would be my choice. Can understand that. And here's why. 35 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: And I sent you this earlier today. If you look 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: at the passing charts from last season and so there 37 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: it goes. So Aaron Rodgers on passes down the field 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 2: twenty yards or more down the field, on passes outside 39 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: the numbers. 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 3: Yep, was not good. Not at all. It's Russell's specialty too. Yeah. 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: In fact, if you look at it, he was far worse. 42 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: He was three for eleven for seventy six yards throwing 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 2: outside left down the field. He was ten of thirty 44 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 2: three outside right. What if the Steelers added this offseason. 45 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: Right right right, the deep threats outside the number of guys. Right, 46 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: that's what you got right, right that it's definitely Wilson's specialty. Yeah. 47 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 2: Now he was twelve of nineteen deep middle. Anybody said, well, 48 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: Russell Wilson didn't even attempt those passes. Yeah, I did, 49 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 2: and he was five. He didn't have as many of them. 50 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:03,839 Speaker 2: He was five of ten. 51 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 3: He did started as many games either. 52 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: Right, he didn't start as many games he was, but 53 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: he was five for ten for one hundred and thirty 54 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 2: eight yards two touchdowns in an interception down the middle 55 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: of the deep middle of the field. He was thirteen 56 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: to twenty five for four hundred and twenty one yards 57 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 2: and three touchdowns with an interception down the right half 58 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: outside the right hash or left hask I should say. 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: And he was nine of fifteen outside the right hash 60 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 2: for two hundred and ninety two yards and two touchdowns. 61 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: He is a better deep passer, and you add a DK. 62 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 3: Metcalf, he's a better deep passer than just better have 63 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 3: been E league. Yeah, I mean that's his specialty. Outside 64 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: the numbers. That is absolutely his wheelhouse, no question about it. 65 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: I prefer Rogers. I don't feel super strong about it, 66 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 3: to be very honest with you. I mean, I do 67 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 3: think the familiarity thing of Wilson, I think he's much 68 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 3: less of a distraction. I think he'd be a better 69 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: mentor for somebody you draft this year or next. So 70 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 3: all those things are valuable to me. I just think 71 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 3: Rogers is still a better player now. I do think 72 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: Wilson probably had a better year all in all. So 73 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: I did some work too. You did send me that stuff, 74 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 3: and I sent some stuff back, and in the end, 75 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 3: Rogers was basically the least accurate quarterback in the league 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 3: not named Richardson or Cooper Rush bad. 77 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 2: Some of that was because he was getting the rid 78 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 2: of the ball so he wouldn't get hit that. 79 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 3: Those are the two big complaints for me is there's 80 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 3: a little bit of late Ben ball has to come 81 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: out now. But there's also a turning point in rogers 82 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: season last year. And we didn't go through this, but 83 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 3: I was kind of looking at it since we were 84 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: texting earlier. His first ten games are really bad. I 85 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: mean really bad. Now, if I was his lawyer and 86 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 3: you know, saying, well, let's explain some things. Well, he 87 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 3: didn't have DeVante Adams, but he did have Garret Wilson, 88 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 3: who's a really good player. But having both of them, he. 89 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 2: Also had all the receivers that he had to have. 90 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: Oh, which was all bad. Yeah right, I mean that's 91 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 3: part of the off the field nonsense. And he was 92 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: also coming back from a massive injury. Those last seven 93 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 3: games were good. Well, he was an above average starter, 94 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 3: but nobody's paying attention because the Jets season was shot. 95 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 3: I don't know what version you get. The reason I 96 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 3: would pick Rogers is if it hits, and he takes 97 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: this thing unbelievably seriously, it could hit big, you know. 98 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 3: I mean because his peaks are were high, you know, 99 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 3: and that wasn't that long ago. But he's older too, He's. 100 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: Older right now. He is much better from the ten 101 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: and in. 102 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 3: Yes, and I do think he's a better between the 103 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: numbers passer for sure. I mean it's not Wilson. The 104 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 3: numbers are a little misleading with Wilson because there's passes 105 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: to be had there that he doesn't attempt, or he 106 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 3: doesn't see or whatever. But Rogers is not the gun 107 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 3: slinger he was. But on his best day, I mean 108 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 3: this was years ago, in neither one of them's best days. 109 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: He's one of the best quarterbacks to ever list. Sure, 110 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 3: and Wilson's best days are unbelievable too. Both these guys 111 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 3: are right there with Mahomes of best touchdown interception ratios ever. Like, 112 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 3: both are really good at valuing the football, and I 113 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: think that you still have that with either player, which 114 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 3: it's going to be a necessity for this team. Yeah. 115 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: Adam Schefter now reporting that Russell Wilson is scheduled to 116 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: fly tonight to Cleveland to visit with the Browns on Thursday, 117 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: and he's scheduled to fly to New York Thursday night 118 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: to visit on Friday with the Giants. 119 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 3: Okay, sure implies that Rogers is a leader in the 120 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: clubhouse here then, but who knows, yeah. 121 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 2: Or neither or or you're Russell Wilson, You're going, I'm 122 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: going to force their hand. Sure, we got to do 123 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: something here. I can't I can't sit around, nor can 124 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 2: the Steelers sit around and wait for whatever mountain top. Yeah, 125 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers finds himself on now, so the acropolis bowing 126 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: whatever he's doing to make a decision. 127 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 3: You got to make it anyway, retire in the end 128 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 3: or whatever, right right, Yeah to. 129 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: Me, Russell Wilson. 130 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 3: I got to move on. 131 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: If you're not going to get something done here with 132 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: this guy, either sign me or I've got other options too, right. 133 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 3: And I think the Steelers have to move on in 134 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: the next twenty four hours or so without a doubt, 135 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 3: right right, right out of dob. If that's the hang 136 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: up is I gotta go into a dark cave for 137 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 3: a week and think it over, then staying there for 138 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: your luck, right right. 139 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: But if it's just you're not thirty, You're not thirty 140 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 2: two year old Aaron Rodgers anymore. 141 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 3: No, no, no, and you don't need to realize that, right right. 142 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: I mean like you could go to Minnesota and be 143 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 3: a backup, or go to the Tennessee Titans at the 144 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 3: first pick in the draft, or Brown. I mean like 145 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: those are like that's that's a choice, right, that's your choice. 146 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 3: It's not the Chiefs. Once you ars, you know, right, 147 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: and I am not. If there's nonsense going on, that's 148 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 3: a tiebreak already, right, already seven sign He hasn't even 149 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 3: signed yet and he's already causing nonsense. I don't want 150 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: to deal with it, do we know that? Though? I 151 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 3: mean people I don't trust or like well, he wants 152 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: too much money, and now he wants nobody knows anything 153 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: like that. I don't believe anything that's today. 154 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: Mike Florio, who was the one who put the two 155 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 2: years ninety or ninety million dollars thread out there last 156 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: week on the other station in town, goes on there 157 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 2: and says it's two years ninety million dollars. Today goes 158 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: on the same station and says, yeah, I'm not I'm 159 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 2: hearing it's not two years ninety million dollars. 160 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 3: Which is it? 161 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: Mike, make up your mind. 162 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 3: If you're going to float a rumor out there. 163 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: And you're just gonna make it up off the top 164 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: of your head, then just say you're making it up 165 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: off the top of your head, right right right. This 166 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: guy has no bargaining power. 167 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 3: Right And forty five millions too much for me. 168 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 2: It's absolutely it was too much. When it was first floated. 169 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 2: I said it was ridiculous, and I'm saying it's ridiculous now. 170 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: He's not a forty five million dollar a year quarterback. 171 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 3: No, No, he's not. 172 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 2: He's not a forty million dollar year quarterback. Now, he's 173 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 2: not thirty If you were going to spend thirty five 174 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 2: million dollars a year on a quarterback. 175 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 3: You did just sign Sam Darnold. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I 176 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 3: don't know what the hang up is or if there 177 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 3: is a hang up. I mean, again, the league years 178 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 3: nine minutes old at the same I'm not willing. 179 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 4: I mean, the. 180 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 2: Negotiating period has been going on here. There have been 181 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: talks right right now. Unless you know or you feel 182 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: pretty good about him deciding on you, then okay. If 183 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: that's the case, then move forward. But I'm not going 184 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 2: to allow him to hold me hostage on this. If 185 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 2: I'm the Steelers, no, if it goes much longer, you 186 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 2: have to, you get it. 187 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: I'm done. I'm one hundred percent on the border. 188 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 2: Let's go back to Russell Wilson. I think they might 189 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 2: be the better choice. 190 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: I see that, and certainly with those two outside the 191 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 3: number deep threats, that matches very well with one. 192 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 2: Unless the only way it makes sense is if you're 193 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: going to trade George Pickens and you know that, and 194 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 2: you're going to do something like sign Cooper cup. 195 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 3: Right, who would fit another thing that could happen any minute. 196 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 2: Much more with Roger's style again, ten yards an in 197 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: and getting rid of the ball in two point less 198 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: than two point five seconds. 199 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 3: He was outstanding last year, and he's a big time 200 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 3: adult in the room and all that kind of stuff too. 201 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 3: Cup's very attractive to me, Like, for example, one minute ago, 202 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 3: Javon Hargrave became officially a Viking. So this next half 203 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 3: hour cop stuff, stuers, et cetera might happen, you know, right, 204 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 3: But if it is true that, hey, I got to 205 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 3: go to a cave and do high Wasascar or whatever, 206 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 3: then I'm done. I'm out. But I think he's the 207 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 3: better football player than two today. 208 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a two year, thirty million dollar deal for Hardgrave, 209 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars guaranteed for Yeah, sounds about right, thirty 210 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: two year old coming off of a torn pictorial muscle. 211 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 3: Ay, right, Allen. The money's getting thrown around for you generals. 212 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been in on that. 213 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 3: It's pricey. It's pricey. 214 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 2: I'm not like ten million, twelve million, okay, but yeah, 215 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: not not that. 216 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 3: High, hear you. I just don't know what to make 217 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 3: of all these contracts. They're the inflation in this league 218 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 3: has been crazy this year more than ever I can remember. 219 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: So can they get out of it? After a year. 220 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 3: If he's not great, maybe, I mean it's nineteen million guaranteed. 221 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 3: I don't know. 222 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 2: I've not overreacted to that. It's easy to say that 223 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 2: when you're not the one writing the check. When I'm 224 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 2: the guy writing the check, and I said nineteen million dollars. 225 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 3: But the league I send to me these monster checks. 226 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 2: I understand that king nineteen million dollars is still nineteen 227 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: million dollars. 228 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: That's how you get yourself starting defensive tackle. 229 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, Steelers have made another move, potentially, They've agreed to 230 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: terms with cornerback Brandon Eccles of the New York Jets. 231 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 2: He is a cornerback five ten and eighty pounds, basically 232 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: has played inside, has played outside. Ran a four to 233 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 2: three six good athlete. He can fly and forty two 234 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 2: and a half inch vertical. 235 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 3: I didn't know the vertical. I remember is forty being 236 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 3: really good? 237 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: So that that five to ten size. 238 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 3: What's twenty seven ish? Yes? After yeah? 239 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 5: Yeah? 240 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 2: And what to Kentucky plays plays bigger than he is 241 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 2: because of that vertical, but definitely gives you a slot 242 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: capability there. 243 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think he's slot only though, right, No, he's. 244 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 2: Played, he's played inside, and he's played outside. In fact, 245 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 2: he started his rookie year started fourteen games. 246 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 3: For the Jets. Yeah. I was shocked to see that 247 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: he was a starter that early. And obviously they went 248 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 3: past him with Red and saw in those guys too, 249 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 3: so he was under the radar guy for me. I 250 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 3: didn't know a ton about him or have him really 251 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 3: on the radar of a target. Yeah. 252 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 2: Five, So he takes the ball away and again gives 253 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 2: you another slot option. Also, you know, has been a 254 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 2: contributor on special teams for them. So again not the splashy. 255 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 3: No, no, no, you're useful players. 256 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, but a guy who's going to come in and 257 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: compete for a starting job. 258 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 3: And I think he's an upgrade over what they played 259 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 3: with the slot last year. Yeah, I mean, no question. 260 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 3: And he can play outside for you if Trice. 261 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: Or who knows what's going on something, You've got a 262 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 2: guy who's capable of stepping outside, which Beingie Bishop is 263 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: not right. 264 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 3: So no, I don't mind. I don't mind that pick 265 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: up at all. I think that makes all the sense 266 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 3: in the world. Blue guy, you know. Yeah, and lessons 267 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 3: your draft they needs to Yeah. 268 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: Both the Browns signed Malik Collins to a two year, 269 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 2: twenty million dollar deal thirteen million dollars. 270 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 3: Another one's been bounced around the league like crazy too, 271 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 3: and it's official. Cooper Cup released, okay, and then Evan 272 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 3: Ingram just signed with the Broncos on a two year deal. 273 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 3: They were heavily in the tight end market linked to 274 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 3: like the two first round guys a bunch. That's a 275 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 3: very much a Sean Payton type of move. Yeah, a 276 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 3: couple of things happening here. Yeah. Yeah, well, se MALIEK. 277 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 3: Collins doesn't change my life at all. No, no, not 278 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: at all. Around the league quite a bit. And he's 279 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 3: kind of just a guy. 280 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, but at some point I got to tell Aaron Rodgers, 281 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 2: this is our deadline. Yeah, this needs to happen. I'm 282 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 2: not interested in seeing the Steelers line up in twenty 283 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 2: twenty five with a very good roster and Teddy Bridgewater quarterback. 284 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 3: No, no, no, I mean those things have to be 285 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 3: You can't be held captive by him. I mean again, 286 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,599 Speaker 3: the MVP version. If you're the Packers back in the 287 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 3: day doing the far stuff and all the nonsense that happens, 288 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: that's different. Now it's like, Okay, you've been released I 289 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 3: needn't answer, Yeah, pretty much in the story's. 290 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 2: Got to have an answer and maybe by midnight to 291 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: night or whatever. And if if you're out on us, 292 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: we're okay. 293 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta know that, right, We got to move 294 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 3: on because there's not a ton of other options. I mean, 295 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 3: I got no problem with Russ. But other than that, 296 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 3: then it gets Yeah, now you're looking at like mac Jones. Yeah, 297 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 3: it gets real dry, real quick. Yeah, Rudolph or I mean, 298 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 3: who knows. 299 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's just the way it has to be. 300 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 2: And if he doesn't like it, well it wasn't probably 301 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: meant to be to be in. 302 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 3: With no right, right. But the person I mean, he's 303 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 3: not the easiest personality in the world, that's for sure. 304 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: He's the forty year old and please excuse my metaphor here, 305 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 2: but the forty year old divorce a who used to 306 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: be hot. I haven't been I haven't been on the 307 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 2: dating scene in years. Yeah, but the forty year old 308 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 2: divorce who at one point it was hot but and 309 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: still attractive. 310 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: And say, but I'm still fifty one and she looks 311 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 3: all right to. 312 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 2: Me, Ye, she's still attractive. It could you know, this 313 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: could be a man or woman. Of course they value 314 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: themselves higher than what they are. 315 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: Well, there's probably that too. And he has so much 316 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 3: money in the bank too. If he never played football again, 317 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 3: I think he'll be just fine. Yah, and other interests 318 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: and absolutely earning power and all those things too. 319 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: And again there's there's somebody out there who's gonna fall 320 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 2: in love with that forty year old, divorce a male 321 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: or female and be happy. 322 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 323 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that it would be me. I 324 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 2: would certainly keep up talks crazy there that I'm not willing. 325 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 3: To deal with. It's a hot, crazy hot scale, right, yeah, 326 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: give me no question. And to your point, what I 327 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 3: definitely agree with though, is an answer needs to happen, 328 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 3: has to soon. So yeah, we're not waiting around for 329 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 3: a week or another two days. 330 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 2: I do wonder, you know, again, with Wilson pushing those 331 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: buttons and scheduling mee with other teams, does that. 332 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 3: It's it's one of things. It's either he's waiting for you, yeah, 333 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: or he's been told you're the runner up. 334 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 5: Yeah. 335 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 3: I mean one of those things happened. You know. He 336 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 3: either got sick of waiting or he's been told he's 337 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: not gonna be a Steeler. Yeah, so we'll see. But 338 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 3: what are labs has to think about it? 339 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll find out that next one. And when we 340 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 2: come back, he is Matt wearing spin to it. I'm sure, 341 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lolly. This is the drive on the Steelers 342 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: Audio Network. Will be joined by the Dean of Doom, 343 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: the Lord of living in his. 344 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: Fears, Bob Labriola. 345 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: Right after this, at least, he's the drive with Dale 346 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: Lolly and Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven 347 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 348 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the 349 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and we're joined on the Justin Miller Hotline 350 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: by the Dean of Doom, the word of living in 351 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 2: his Fears, Bob Labriola. 352 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 6: Bob. 353 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 2: Before we get started here, I just wanted to give 354 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 2: you a chance here to uh to talk a little 355 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 2: bit about our good friend, h Craig Wolfle. You did 356 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: a nice job of with his oh bit on Steelers 357 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 2: dot Com and uh just uh your memories of of 358 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 2: wolf I know you guys had a long, long, long 359 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 2: friendship over the years that span both his playing days 360 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 2: in his broadcasting days. 361 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, we for for a lot of years. He was 362 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 5: part of a show that was called count Down a kickoff. 363 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 5: It was you know, all through the season and it 364 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 5: was it was on Wednesdays on the South Side. We 365 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 5: did it at Chukus two for years years and you 366 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 5: know we had a lot of laughs. I mean it 367 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 5: was who was my pursuit was part of that. And 368 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 5: you know a lot of times those are drudgery, you know, 369 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 5: I mean, but you know Wolf always made them. You know, 370 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 5: it was fun. Even if you didn't really feel like 371 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 5: being there, you didn't feel like, you know, talking about 372 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 5: that team or you know, whatever the situation might have been. 373 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 5: You get there, Wolf was there and you know, before 374 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 5: you knew it, you were His infectious just way about him, 375 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 5: you know, got you into and then and the two 376 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 5: hours would fly by. I mean it was and let 377 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 5: me say this too, there were a time or two 378 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 5: after that show ended at nine o'clock, you know, because 379 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 5: there wasn't reserved parking for us out on car Street 380 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 5: for those so you know, walking back to your car, 381 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 5: you know, nine o'clock, the show it would end. By 382 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,959 Speaker 5: the time he ended up leaving those nine fifteen or whatever, 383 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 5: walking back to the side streets where you often parked. 384 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 5: I was always a whole lot more confident Wolf, I'll 385 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 5: tell you that. And there was never any you know, 386 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 5: it was never a big deal or anything. I mean, 387 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 5: he was just there and you just knew. 388 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 6: That if you needed anything, you know, he was you know. 389 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 5: He was there for you. So yeah, just you know, 390 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 5: it's incredibly sad. You mentioned the story that I wrote. 391 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 5: You know, those are harder when you really know and 392 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 5: like the person. Yeah, and personally I mean not you know, 393 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 5: for example, you know, you write something about Franco Harris 394 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 5: and great guy, great human being, all of that stuff, 395 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 5: but I didn't know him, and so it wasn't as 396 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 5: hard as this one was. And so anyway, you know, 397 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 5: Wolf was one of the boys. I miss him already. 398 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 5: It's really gonna be hard at training camp, starting a 399 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 5: training camp. But like I said, it's just a just 400 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 5: a kind and gentle human being, good man. The world 401 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 5: is a lesser place without him. 402 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 3: Labs. I hosted a Wednesday show for a handful of 403 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 3: years with Wolf, and let me say, the ribs at 404 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 3: the South Side Clubhouse didn't stand a chance. 405 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 5: No, uh, And I'll tell you something else. You know, 406 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 5: when we did those shows, we would all kick in 407 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 5: for a tip for the the serve verus, the kitchen people, 408 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 5: you know, because they would always make us something. A 409 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 5: lot of times it wasn't you know, order off the 410 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 5: menu and they would just bring it out and you know, 411 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 5: and sometimes people would fill in, you know, for someone 412 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 5: who was unable to make it or sick or you 413 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 5: know whatever. 414 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 6: And Wolfe was not shy about, uh, you. 415 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 5: Know, getting you to kick in. I mean there was 416 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: no you know, and he and he never he he 417 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 5: wouldn't let you try and like slide by with half 418 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 5: of what he was asking you for either, So I mean, 419 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 5: you know, so he was always thinking of the you know, 420 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 5: the other people, the little man, you know, the working 421 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 5: people as he called himself, you know. So again I uh, 422 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 5: I had a lot of respect. I miss him already. 423 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, just a just a good man and 424 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 2: good good human and uh. 425 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I can. 426 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: You just made me think of the first time I 427 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 2: did a radio show with wolf and we were at 428 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 2: a training camp. This is over a decade ago, and 429 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 2: we were at an establishment that no longer exists. There's 430 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 2: now the sheets is now where the in the trope 431 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 2: is now on route thirty is where this place used 432 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 2: to be, and they had. 433 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 3: Me on this on this the schedule. 434 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 2: Wolf was to be the host and I was supposed 435 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 2: to be the guest. And then he's like, I went 436 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 2: as soon as I sat down, I'm like, Wolf, this 437 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 2: doesn't make much sense for you to fire questions off 438 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 2: at me. Let's let's He says, are you comfortable hosting? 439 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 2: I said, yeah, i'll host. That's that's no problem, and 440 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 2: he said okay. So he starts ordering food. He says, 441 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 2: he tells the waitress, I'm going to diet, so no 442 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: French fries. Just bring me out three of your It 443 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: was like three chicken rolls or whatever something huge. Yeah, 444 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 2: and like and then she and she forgot she she 445 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: brought the fries out, so we had this he ate 446 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 2: all three of them and we had this massive pile 447 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: of French fries sitting in front of us, and I'm like, yeah, 448 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 2: that's a diet. 449 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: He was on a diet with with our Wednesday show 450 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 3: a few times and would take the cheesecake to go 451 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 3: as opposed to eating in the last segment, which I'm 452 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 3: sure never made it home at any red lights. 453 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, the the appetite was not it was not fake 454 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 2: at all. I remember telling him at Tounch's funeral, and 455 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 2: Wolf was one of the people there with with Tounches 456 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 2: kids and everything and and and his his wife and 457 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 2: and uh. I walked up the Wolf. I said, Hey, Wolf, 458 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 2: who is going to yell at you now about your diet? 459 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: Because that's what all Tounch used to do with to me? 460 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: Just needle leave him, just need him about his wait, 461 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: you know. 462 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 5: And uh. 463 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, just the camaraderie, the Abbott and Costello like act 464 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 2: that those two had. 465 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 3: It wasn't an act. That's why. That's who they were. 466 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 3: The world's just. 467 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 2: It's not the same place now without one last thing 468 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 2: about him, you know, for people who only knew Wolf as. 469 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,239 Speaker 5: A radio guy, you know, a guy who made up 470 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 5: words and you know, phrases and all that stuff as 471 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 5: he went along, I'm here to tell you, Uh he 472 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 5: could write. Yeah, I'm talking about writing. And he would. 473 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 5: I would see him, uh sometimes at the media room 474 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 5: on the South side, or sometimes during camp, you know, 475 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 5: under a tree or something, or you know, wherever the 476 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 5: under the tent a lot of times where they would 477 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 5: have the in. 478 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 6: The locker room would be done, you know, and. 479 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 5: He would be sitting there maybe after it was over, 480 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 5: and have a notebook, one of those spiral notebooks, and 481 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 5: a pen, a pen, and he's writing it out, Longhand 482 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 5: and it was good. I mean he wrote things for 483 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 5: me for Steeler's Digest, and you know it was good. 484 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 5: There wasn't a lot of you know, his composition, the 485 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 5: way he framed ideas, the flow of it. You know, 486 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 5: he always came to a conclusion at the end. 487 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 6: I mean it was nicely done, professionally done. 488 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 5: And you know that's so anybody. 489 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 6: Who thought he was just like a gesture in the 490 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 6: media that there was a whole lot more to me 491 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 6: than that. 492 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Well, changing gears here, Bob Steelers have reportedly 493 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: made some moves here. I expect him to be announced 494 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 2: here at anytime, the big one being the signing of 495 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 2: DK Metcalf or I should say, the trade for DK 496 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: metcalf You like that move, Is that something you're in 497 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 2: favor of? 498 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,959 Speaker 6: Well, let me let me say this first Happy New 499 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:05,719 Speaker 6: Year fellas. 500 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 3: Ye. 501 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad you didn't try and phone me for 502 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 5: because you know I had the noisemakers out. 503 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 2: And yeah, and one other things too. 504 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 6: I am no longer the doctor of because I don't 505 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 6: know if you guys have been dealing all with Steelers 506 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 6: fans as I do. That's an answered but the doom 507 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 6: and before we even get into DK metcalf, I mean 508 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 6: to me, I'm not going to bury the lead here. 509 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 6: The big news is the quarterback and how awful it 510 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 6: is and just you know, uh, right off the season, 511 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 6: all of the different uh takes on it and reasons 512 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 6: for it and people to blame for it, and and 513 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 6: and all of the bizarre suggestions about where the Steelers 514 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 6: should go, you know now that they're in the situation 515 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 6: that they are in, and all of the weird combinations 516 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 6: and bring this guy back and sign this guy and 517 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 6: do this or praise for this one. And I mean 518 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 6: it's just so I'm they do this. 519 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 2: I think we we lost labs there. Yeah, well, justin 520 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 2: try to call him back here and see if see 521 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: if he answers. Sometimes he doesn't because when he gets 522 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 2: cut off like that, he just tends to go stay off. Yeah, 523 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: but I don't know what was going on with the 524 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 2: phone line there that wasn't landline. 525 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 3: So to his point, I get a tweet one minute 526 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 3: ago Omar and Tomlin must go worst GM coach Combo 527 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 3: in the NFL season is already over. Yeah, Like, could 528 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 3: you imagine looking at this team or any team the 529 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 3: worst organization in any sports in that light and worth 530 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 3: two minutes into the or twenty minutes into the league 531 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 3: year and the season's over already, Like Okay, I guess 532 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 3: we shouldn't bother what we're all wasting our time here. Yeah. 533 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 3: At the Lab's point, I mean, dealing with some of 534 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 3: these people is in saying lately, looks like we're back. 535 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: All right, we got laughs back, all right, let's try 536 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 2: this again. Bob, you were breaking up like crazy there. 537 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 2: I don't know what the what was going on there. 538 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 2: We could kind of hear what you were saying, but 539 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: it was in and out. 540 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 5: Well that's okay, I mean, there you are, that's not 541 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 5: Your listeners. 542 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 6: Are probably better off. But the question of the question 543 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 6: of DK Metcalf, yeah, I mean, he's what I believe 544 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 6: that the. 545 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 5: Steelers needed at the position wide receiver was a a weapon. 546 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 5: You know, none of this, uh you know, I've had 547 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 5: requests or demands for a slot receiver. Now to me, 548 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 5: there's a difference between a receiver and plays in the 549 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 5: slot or it does some work from the slot, and 550 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 5: what is meant by a slot receiver, Antoine Randlell. You 551 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 5: know those kind of guys work the underneath routes, not 552 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 5: really down the field kind of people. You need six 553 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 5: yards on third down, they run a seven yard round 554 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 5: and make the catch. Not that kind of not that 555 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 5: kind of player. I think what they needed at that 556 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 5: position was a weapon, the whole package, you know, a 557 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 5: home run hitter, whatever, whatever analogy you want to make. 558 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 5: And that's dk Metcalf. So let me say this too. Uh, 559 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 5: I'm way too old to talk about the money that 560 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 5: these players are making now because it's just totally absurd 561 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 5: to me. But that that's what it is. I mean, 562 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 5: the cab keeps going up, so the salaries keep going up, 563 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 5: and you know, thirty thirty million a year for a 564 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 5: wide receiver, that's what it is now. So again, I'm 565 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 5: not going to comment on, you know, whether it was 566 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 5: a good deal or a bad deal, they paid him 567 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 5: too much of whatever. Okay, I'm just saying that he's 568 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 5: the kind of player that I think that the Steelers 569 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 5: needed if they were going to add a receiver this offseason. Okay, Now, 570 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 5: when you do it in a trade like this, you 571 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 5: get them without having to spend one of your premium 572 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 5: draft picks on one. Right, And that's where I believe 573 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 5: you know, we've we've argued about this or disgusted or 574 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 5: whatever verb you want. I got. 575 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 6: I'm interested in defensive linemen, and I think. 576 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 5: They got to do to for the defensive line what 577 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 5: they have done recently with the offensive line. And they've 578 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 5: got to commit significant in capital the top of the 579 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 5: depth chart players at that position, and I don't know 580 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 5: that one is enough. So you got to have again, 581 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 5: you've got to have a replacement for Cam. And what 582 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 5: I'm looking for, I don't want a nose tackle like 583 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 5: Casey Hampton. That's another suggestion. I constantly get a nose 584 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 5: tackle like Casey Hampton. Casey Hampton came off the field 585 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 5: on third downs. So I need more from an interior 586 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 5: defensive lineman that what Casey Hampton was asked to provide. 587 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I mean, unfortunately in today's NFL Casey Hampton 588 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: goes into third round. 589 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be just as good as what he does, 590 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 3: but would doing be out there for. 591 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 5: I'm looking for staffa on to it, right, that kind 592 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 5: of guy. Okay, So getting DK Metcalf when you did, 593 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 5: I think is a good, you know, a good way 594 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 5: of addressing what I thought was an off season need. 595 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 5: Now the second round pick, do you get it back 596 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 5: by another trade? Uh? You know, I don't know. I'll 597 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 5: leave that up to Omar and Mike Tomlin and aren't 598 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 5: ruiney the second you know, because only they know what 599 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 5: they can get or what the situation is with Pickens 600 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 5: or you know, any of those kinds of things. But 601 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 5: I would say i'm a i'm a ya instead of 602 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 5: an A on the DK Metcalf thing. And just one 603 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 5: other thing to all the media people who think they 604 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 5: know everything about this, Apparently you can get a top 605 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 5: flight wide receiver before you get the quarterback. 606 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 3: Apparently, yeah, yeah, because they will have a quarterback, contrary 607 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 3: to popular belief. 608 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 5: Well, and here here's another thing. You know, as Dan 609 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 5: Ruoney always said, whenever the question is why, the answer 610 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 5: is money answers that one too, the. 611 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 2: Same reason Miles Garrett is still a Cleveland Brown. 612 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 5: Right right? And why why would DK Metcalf sign with 613 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 5: the Steelers. Well there you have it, so yep, I 614 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 5: I like the move. 615 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 3: Labs. Is there any now former Steelers that you didn't 616 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 3: see coming nausey more Daniels Roberts. I didn't see a 617 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 3: whole lot of surprises that walked out the door. They 618 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 3: prepared for it. 619 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 5: You know, No, I mean, and again, the numbers, the 620 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 5: numbers for Dan Moore, if what I saw was accurate, 621 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 5: I mean, those are those are pretty big numbers, and 622 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 5: that just shows you what at his position, there aren't 623 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 5: a lot of that, and teams are looking for them 624 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 5: and needing them, and so again what what Steelers fans 625 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 5: might have thought was a weakness. I've heard this saying too. 626 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 5: One man's trash is another man's treasure. And Dan Moore junior, 627 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 5: God bless him. Yeah. Right, that shows you the value 628 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 5: of a lot of playing experience at that position. I mean, 629 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 5: he started a lot of games in the NFL at 630 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 5: left tackle, and teams I'm sure looked at since it 631 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 5: was NFL games. The video is just calling up on 632 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 5: your computer, you know, So he must have done enough 633 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 5: right to draw that. 634 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 2: Kind of Yeah, they don't hand out eighty two million 635 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 2: dollars in contracts for guys who stink, which is what 636 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 2: all I've heard about Dan Moore. You know, these NFL teams, 637 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 2: did they may be playing with some funny money right now, 638 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 2: but they don't like to give it away. 639 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 3: Tackles don't grow on trees, No, they do not. 640 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,800 Speaker 2: It looks like a couple of cornerbacks coming to the Steelers, 641 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 2: Bob Darius Slay and Brandon Eckles according to reports out there, 642 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 2: so they've they've kind of addressed outside cornerback and Eccles 643 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 2: is a slot type guy. I can play inside or 644 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 2: out and that kind of kind of takes the cornerback 645 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 2: neat off the off. 646 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 3: The board too, probably wraps it up. Yeah, yeah, very different. 647 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 4: I mean, and again though, I I don't think you 648 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 4: go into the draft with the same uh feeling about 649 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 4: cornerback that you would. 650 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 5: Have had had did you not make those signings? 651 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 3: Right, But. 652 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 5: If that's that's one of those positions where, uh, if 653 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:00,120 Speaker 5: you think, if there's if there's a you know what 654 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:07,040 Speaker 5: they call him now, avatar cornerback available on Thursday or Friday, 655 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 5: that is just one of those I can't believe he's 656 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 5: still there for real. You know, I wouldn't be opposed 657 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 5: to that either, because that's another one of those positions 658 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 5: that's like offensive linemen to a lot of degree. You 659 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,320 Speaker 5: never have enough because there are injuries and teams. Will 660 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 5: you know you're you're competing against Burrow and Lamar and 661 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 5: Josh Allen and Mahomes are on the AFC justin Herbert. 662 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 5: I mean, you can't think that you have enough ability 663 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 5: to cover and if you can line up and play, 664 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 5: you know, match up coverage, tight zone, man demand, you 665 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 5: know those kinds of things that really sets you up 666 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 5: to be able to do some things with pressure that 667 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 5: can create takeaways. So you know, again, yes, a sleigh 668 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 5: and eccoles nice acquisitions. And if you've got to go 669 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 5: h to training camp with just those two editions at corner, okay, 670 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 5: that's okay. But if something else drops in your lap, 671 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,359 Speaker 5: you know I wouldn't pass. Well. 672 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,399 Speaker 2: He never turned you never turned a good player away, 673 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 2: regardless of position. 674 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 5: Year. There are some positions that I wouldn't draft. I'm 675 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 5: not picking a tight end that Tyler Warren from Penn State. 676 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,320 Speaker 5: I don't believe it would happen if he's available twenty first. 677 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 6: I'm up picking him. I'm not. 678 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 5: I'm not picking a tight end. 679 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 2: You've never advocated for taking a tight end in the 680 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:48,760 Speaker 2: first round. 681 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:55,400 Speaker 5: I like the Heath Miller pick No. I'm serious, but 682 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 5: I'm not, you know, based on you know, you have Friarmouth, 683 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 5: you have Darneld Washington, Darneld Washington, and you have Parham, 684 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,720 Speaker 5: who is a third guy. I'm not I'm not adding 685 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:16,359 Speaker 5: a tight end at this point. You also got DK Metcalf. Yeah, 686 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 5: I'm not picking a tight end first. So that's and 687 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 5: I don't know that i'd pick a running. 688 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 3: Back first, quarterback of side labs. I mean, it seems 689 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 3: like they'll probably draft a running back and they signed 690 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 3: one yesterday. We didn't mention gainwell and probably concentrate on 691 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 3: the D line. I mean, I would think that, you know, 692 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 3: the short of it is, the draft is probably going 693 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 3: to be attacking those two positions. 694 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, and as it should. 695 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, that works out well. 696 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 5: And then you know, once you get to Saturday, you know, 697 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe maybe you're looking at offensive linemen too, 698 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,640 Speaker 5: because that's another one of those you don't have enough 699 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 5: another right, or maybe maybe a free agent or two, 700 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,800 Speaker 5: because you know, it's it's wild that free agency is 701 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,280 Speaker 5: I look at the clock is officially forty three minutes old, 702 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,480 Speaker 5: and you know, we're talking about it as almost as 703 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 5: it's as if it's that's. 704 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 3: Why it's been the last two days. 705 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 2: I tweeted that out, Yeah, Tuesday at twelve thirty and 706 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,879 Speaker 2: like free agency has been less than is just over 707 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,839 Speaker 2: twenty four hours old, and people were acting like there's 708 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,439 Speaker 2: nobody else out there that could possibly play in the game. 709 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,080 Speaker 2: They are over six hundred players who played in the 710 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 2: league last year who were still free agents, and yet 711 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,719 Speaker 2: free agency was done. 712 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 5: Yep, and you call me the doctor of doom. I'm 713 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 5: just saying I think I'm going to advocate my crown. 714 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 3: There's a lot of doom doomsday folks out there listening. 715 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 3: I have a feeling, right yeah. 716 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 2: So yeah, anyways, Bob, we'll let you go. 717 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:03,839 Speaker 3: Let you get back to your festivities. 718 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 2: I'm sure you have some champagne to drink or something 719 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 2: along those lines, maybe a cocktail as you watch the 720 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 2: news ticker go by here and everything becomes official. But 721 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 2: we appreciate your time, and I'm sure we'll. 722 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:19,320 Speaker 3: See you at the at the Wolfy stuff. 723 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 2: It's coming in well attended, Yeah, I would assume so. 724 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,560 Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm gonna miss him a lot, and I 725 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 2: know you will as well. But our guest has been 726 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 2: Bob Labriola, editor of Steelers Digested Steelers dot Com. He's 727 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive. 728 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,840 Speaker 2: You're on the Steelers Audio Network. 729 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 3: Matt. Now, I'll be back with more right after this. 730 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:42,879 Speaker 5: At least. 731 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on 732 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and 733 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 1: Gold in Steelers Nation Radio. 734 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,919 Speaker 3: And we are back. 735 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lolly. He is the Matt Williamson and Matt 736 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,640 Speaker 2: the NFL came out with his compensatory picks for this year. Yeah, 737 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 2: and we've been talking about compensatory picks over the last 738 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,760 Speaker 2: couple of weeks here, we've been talking about next year's compensatory. 739 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 3: Stealers are just dripping with them even after these moves. Yeah, 740 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,560 Speaker 3: it's yeah. 741 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,760 Speaker 2: Slagh doesn't count against that as Eckles would. 742 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 3: Eckles would probably wasn't a huge deal. I don't think 743 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 3: it takes some tracks much because at the mean time 744 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 3: you lost Nausee and Jackson and Uhlan. 745 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 2: Robbers, you're guaranteed, even if those six rounders go away 746 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 2: like you signed some guys replace those guys, because you are. 747 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,840 Speaker 3: Going to keep adding things to your roster. 748 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, but the third and fourth ones aren't going anywhere. 749 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 3: No, No, those are the big thing, those tickets, those 750 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,400 Speaker 3: are the ones you care about. Not to mention if 751 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 3: Wilson signed somewhere else, right, I mean he's that's gonna 752 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 3: cancel and make double digit millions. Yeah, you know it's 753 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 3: going to cancel a lot of that out. So they're 754 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 3: gonna be loaded with next year's compicks, which I know 755 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,080 Speaker 3: everyone doesn't quite understand. Like, I got a couple of questions. 756 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 3: Jason at OTC does an amazing job, and I put 757 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 3: out the you know what they're project did four right now, 758 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 3: He's on top of it. You tuned me into it. 759 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 3: And people are like, well, can you trade we trade those? No, 760 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,879 Speaker 3: but you could trade your third or your fourth knowing 761 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,000 Speaker 3: that you have, knowing that these things are coming, Well, 762 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,040 Speaker 3: you trade your four because you know you got a 763 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,359 Speaker 3: three right, exactly right, so you got the stuff on and. 764 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 2: You've also got the four, so you can also trade 765 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,440 Speaker 2: you five, like because you you don't want to get 766 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 2: too far back. 767 00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 3: But and today this year's became official. Yeah, like three 768 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,480 Speaker 3: and sixty five days from now, the Steelers are going 769 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,359 Speaker 3: to be awarded a third or fourth and whatever else. 770 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 3: Here's what it means. 771 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,799 Speaker 2: So the compensatory picks in the third round this year 772 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,759 Speaker 2: that were awarded our picks ninety seven through one oh two. 773 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:38,879 Speaker 3: It's always the end of the round. 774 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, the end of the third round. So you're looking 775 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 2: at the Steelers potentially getting picked ninety nine for damn yeah. 776 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,239 Speaker 3: Yeah right that neighborhood, right, okay, yeah, exactly top one. Yeah, 777 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,880 Speaker 3: I'll take that. You didn't plan on resigning? 778 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, give me, give me three four. You know, the 779 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 2: fourth round compensatory picks this year in the one thirties, 780 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 2: So in reality, you could come out of this with 781 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,879 Speaker 2: you're going to have right now, as things stand, next year, 782 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,799 Speaker 2: six picks in the top one thirty. Yeah, something about 783 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 2: that in that range. 784 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,200 Speaker 3: How about that? Yeah, that's that's where they're sitting right now, 785 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,960 Speaker 3: if they don't make any other moves or trade pickings 786 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,200 Speaker 3: for a future second right whatever, I mean, Like, whatever 787 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:20,759 Speaker 3: you do, you're sitting pretty nice. 788 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:20,960 Speaker 5: Yeah. 789 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a bad place to be. And again 790 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,440 Speaker 3: that could bundle up to go get a quarterback. That 791 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 3: could be whatever you want. I'm one of these mock drafts. 792 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 3: We do these. 793 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,000 Speaker 2: We do a mock draft, but boy, I'd like to 794 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 2: have some extra picks here and some of these rounds, 795 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,400 Speaker 2: and it's like, now you're going to have them. 796 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 3: And without having to trade down and loser picks and 797 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 3: all that stuff too. 798 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,000 Speaker 2: So where you had the ability now to package your 799 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 2: two third round picks to move up and get an 800 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,239 Speaker 2: extra two if you want something along those lines. 801 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it wouldn't shock me at all if they 802 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 3: offer up next year's third or fourth the Steeler picks 803 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 3: to get a Day two pick this year or whatever. 804 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 3: I mean, they just have a lot of cards in 805 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,080 Speaker 3: their hands. Yeah, which and to clear it up too, 806 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 3: because the ones that were just awarded for twenty twenty 807 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 3: five draft, they can trade those. Yeah, these teams. 808 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 2: Now that now they officially out them right right, But 809 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,719 Speaker 2: it's not until this time next. 810 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,560 Speaker 3: Year the Steelers will officially. 811 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,839 Speaker 2: Own exactly those twenty twenty confused twenty twenty six pix Uly. 812 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be in the twenty six draft. 813 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,239 Speaker 2: Which is also when Pittsburgh hosts the NFL. 814 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:22,960 Speaker 3: Right, maybe they'll be busy those couple of days. We 815 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,040 Speaker 3: might be a little busy. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah, 816 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,440 Speaker 3: we'll be wheeling and dealing. I think the Ravens are 817 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,239 Speaker 3: the one that did the best with this year, right, 818 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,319 Speaker 3: I think they got three. They got three. Yeah, but 819 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,520 Speaker 3: they need them, they need them, they need them. Yeah. 820 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 3: They signed DeAndre Hopkins, which fine, you know he was 821 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,239 Speaker 3: pretty rough this year. Doesn't move the needle. No, No, 822 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,600 Speaker 3: I think they just want to something different than the 823 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,440 Speaker 3: two guys they had, which is kind of why they 824 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,080 Speaker 3: went after Deontay. Yeah. I mean that's not a big 825 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,080 Speaker 3: deal with it. Yeah. 826 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,800 Speaker 2: Anyways, we'll see what else continues to happen here around 827 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,200 Speaker 2: the league. None, nothing has been official yet. The Steelers 828 00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:59,000 Speaker 2: haven't officially announced and even the trade for DK Metcalf yet. Oh, 829 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,680 Speaker 2: it hasn't been announced yet. So we'll see what happens here. 830 00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,200 Speaker 2: But everybody by four o'clock today, so a little over 831 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 2: a little under an hour ago, had to be cap compliant. 832 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,439 Speaker 3: Like we were talking about the Chiefs twenty four hours ago, 833 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,160 Speaker 3: they massively restructured Mahomes and Chris Jones again. You know, 834 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,880 Speaker 3: they're just banking, going mortgage and that stuff. Yeah, so 835 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,440 Speaker 3: how everybody's under let's get to a break. He is 836 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 3: the Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lolly, you're listening to 837 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,920 Speaker 3: the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network and we 838 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,840 Speaker 3: will be back with our number two right after this