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Speaker 1: Kevin Coach told us that he was appreciating his time

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Speaker 1: with you through this draft process, knowing that it was

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Speaker 1: your last one in the official capacity is GM. Did

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Speaker 1: you take any of those moments or maybe catch coach Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: you know, thinking maybe a little bit more about what

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Speaker 1: you guys do during this time of year. Not really,

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Speaker 1: I mean we really didn't talk too much about it.

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Speaker 1: A lot of that is just natural interaction between coach

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Speaker 1: and myself, and you know, you don't really focus on

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Speaker 1: it because you don't have time because you're usually moving

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Speaker 1: from one area to another. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: that stuff will come to mind when this draft process

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Speaker 1: is over. But uh, not to say we take for

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Speaker 1: granted everything that we do in a given setting throughout

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Speaker 1: this process, but a lot of it we do take

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Speaker 1: for granted because we know we have to do this

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Speaker 1: to get ready for that. By the way, this is

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Speaker 1: coming down the road, So it's a timely flow type

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Speaker 1: thing that I think we'll appreciate more once it's over.

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Speaker 1: Do you think even maybe Thursday morning you'll maybe think

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Speaker 1: about it. I don't think so, only because again, you're

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Speaker 1: you're so geared up and thinking about what you have

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Speaker 1: to do. Thursday evening moving into Friday Saturday. Maybe when

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Speaker 1: we put in that final pick on Saturday night it

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Speaker 1: might hit you, but in the interim we're just focused

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Speaker 1: on trying to make sure we do it right. Well,

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Speaker 1: speaking of the draft, you guys did a lot during

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Speaker 1: free agency, but no draft capital was given up. I

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Speaker 1: know you and Coach talked about that a lot at

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Speaker 1: the end of March with the owners meetings. Is that

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Speaker 1: because that's kind of how you guys like to do

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Speaker 1: business that has been the tradition, or does it have

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Speaker 1: to do also just with the talent that's in this

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Speaker 1: draft class or can it be both? I think it

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Speaker 1: is both. I mean, that's the way this franchise was

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Speaker 1: was built and that's the way it operates pre UM,

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Speaker 1: pre Colbert and Tomlin, and it'll be that way post

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Speaker 1: Coburn and Tomlin as long as the Rooney's wanted done

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Speaker 1: that way. And we believe in that direction UM getting

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Speaker 1: young talent, developing at young talent, and hopefully winning Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls with that young healent as it matures. So and

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Speaker 1: you do always couple that with the draft class. And

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Speaker 1: we have an idea when free agency starts, what the

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Speaker 1: draft class will be like, we don't have the finalization

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Speaker 1: because we don't have physicals, we don't have pro days,

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Speaker 1: so on and so forth, so we're guessing along the way.

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Speaker 1: And again, everything we did in free agency, none of

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Speaker 1: it will preclude going into this draft. Uh just said

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Speaker 1: earlier that we we have twenty two starting capable players

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Speaker 1: in place. It doesn't mean we're good enough at any

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Speaker 1: one position, but we have players that have started at

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Speaker 1: the NFL level for each position. So we'll just see

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Speaker 1: what we can add to it. Rrell Edmonds was the

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Speaker 1: most recent on Monday, You guys brought him back for

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Speaker 1: a one year deal. Why was it important to bring

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Speaker 1: him back to somebody who has played with Minca, comfortable

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Speaker 1: in the system, and also you know somebody who's been

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Speaker 1: very reliable, as coach always points out, oh the above.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Terrell has has never been unavailable except for

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Speaker 1: the end of the One Sea and when they needed

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Speaker 1: a shoulder surgery. And he's he's performed well. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when we go into free agency, we always we encourage

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Speaker 1: the guys, look, go see what's out there for you,

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Speaker 1: because you'll feel better about coming back to us. And

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Speaker 1: we stay in touch with them, They stay in touch

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Speaker 1: with us. They understand that we have to do our

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Speaker 1: homework on possible replacements, and sometimes when it all comes

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Speaker 1: together at the end, it says, this is the best

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Speaker 1: spot for me and it's the best fit for us,

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Speaker 1: and I think we mutually agreed that it was. Um

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Speaker 1: It's a great option to play next to a great

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Speaker 1: player like Manka, but it's good for Manka too to

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Speaker 1: have that that person, that player that he's comfortable with

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Speaker 1: Um back. So again we can move forward with maybe

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Speaker 1: adding people from the outside, but knowing that we have

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Speaker 1: stability and given spots. So does Terrell coming back change

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Speaker 1: anything in terms of the draft and maybe depth at

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Speaker 1: that position. Not really. Again, we're comfortable with the group

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Speaker 1: and anything we add to it's gonna add great competition

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Speaker 1: at any given position, and it's nice to have that

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Speaker 1: going into a draft and not be specifically locked into

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Speaker 1: having to take a spot or take a player for

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Speaker 1: a spot. Right now, in terms of the first round,

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Speaker 1: you've drafted every position except for offensive tackle, or you're

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Speaker 1: gonna fill out your Bengo card this year and go

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle in the first round. You just gave me

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Speaker 1: a PC information. I never I never knew quite honestly, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I never realized that we had drafted one player in

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Speaker 1: every position. So, UM, could that happen? Of course? Uh,

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Speaker 1: But again does it have to happen? Absolutely not. There's

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Speaker 1: great players. We talked about the tackle depth UM in

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Speaker 1: previous and you know UM sessions and we're we're still

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Speaker 1: confidence a deep group. We also understand those guys get

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Speaker 1: taken high for a good reason. It's a very valuable commodity.

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Speaker 1: But there is depth and there's players who can help

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Speaker 1: us at every level. Is there any update on stephant

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Speaker 1: it and just maybe if in one he will be

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Speaker 1: able to make a decision so that you guys know

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Speaker 1: moving forward. No, there's nothing to update. Again, we were

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Speaker 1: encouraged by our last session with Stefan and we'll continue

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Speaker 1: to monitor that and see where he is UM as

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Speaker 1: we move out to the field. Since you didn't know

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Speaker 1: that you haven't taken an offensive tackle in the first round,

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Speaker 1: I I know you don't care about stats. Super Bowls

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Speaker 1: are clearly important, but you know, outside of stats, and

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Speaker 1: maybe from a personal level, is there anything that you

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Speaker 1: are most proud of of your time here with the Steelers?

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing I would reflect on is

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Speaker 1: you know, we have as many Super Bowls as any

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Speaker 1: other franchise in the National Football League, and having been

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Speaker 1: part of, you know, adding to that room. Um, that's

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Speaker 1: that's satisfying to a certain extent. Um, you certainly would

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Speaker 1: have liked to add more than but um, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, there is some satisfaction of knowing that our

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Speaker 1: group has added to that room, and I think moving forward,

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Speaker 1: don't continue to add to it. All right, thanks, all right,

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