WEBVTT - Segment 1: Training Camp Practice Live 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.840 Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale Lulli. He is Matt Williamson, 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:12.640 and we are live from Steelers training camp here at 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.279 Saint Vincent College. And Matt, that was an interesting little yeah, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.840 I like finishing touch there to the drill the Steelers 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.520 going through there. Now, they had had three receivers going 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.279 out in patterns and you saw a lot of crossing 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.920 stuff and right right, some kind of rubs if you're 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.280 on offense, picks, if you're on defense, right, you would 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.879 call that the final rep. They put Kawant Alexander out 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:40.760 there one on one against Washington, Big Darnell Washington, Yeah, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.040 and Quant Alexander gave him a rough time getting off 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.519 the line of scrimmage first of all, and then defended 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.160 the pass down field. Really nice job there. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.880 So a couple of notes from that is, like you said, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.160 the majority of the drill was a three on three 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.800 passing drill. But in the middle of the field, right, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.880 it was a back, it was a tight end, it 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.720 was a slot, it wasn't outside receivers. And they were 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.040 all working, as you mentioned, against man coverage on purpose. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.240 So the defense was at a huge disadvantage. They knew 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.080 they were getting rubbed and picked and all that stuff 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.160 for middle of the field routes, crossers and things of 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.240 that nature, which is what we've been harping on exactly right, right, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.720 how many times we told you they need to do 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.640 more of that. They know that, that's why they're doing it, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.640 you know. And then they finished it with one on 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.480 one stuff, but not outside receivers. And Alan Robinson and 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.520 Deontay aren't dressed or aren't participating today, Not that that matters. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.040 I think that they were trying to work on what 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.200 they need to work on middle of the field stuff. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.960 Yeah, the Steelers in shells today, so not in full pads, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.759 working on some eleven and eleven here inside run stuff. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.080 But again, when you get to this situation and guys 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.880 aren't in pads, it's a little different, right, They're working 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.080 on run fits and no Isaac sam Malo out there today. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.280 Nate Herbig is in there in place of him. I 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.760 know West Shulder in the previous segments said that Joebi 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.920 wasn't out there. He is out there, Yeah, I saw 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.240 I saw him in seven shots. He's out there now 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.440 again in this one. But Malie Golden out there in 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:14.119 place of t J. Watt, Joey Porter Junior not practicing today. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.960 It doesn't look like they're having Patrick Peterson practice either today. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.280 Hayward and water Citty. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.440 You get James Pierre getting a shot here with the 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:22.920 first team defense. Yeah. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:23.480 Absolutely. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.880 Oh, by the way, Mika Fitzpatrick is out there. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.359 I know, good stuff. So we had two very physical 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.360 days back to back, a night practice and then followed 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.760 up with sort of a short rest practice where they 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.519 went acted pretty hard. Now you get this one to 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.120 kind of fine tune things, give some guys a break 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.520 and then or true break tomorrow, you know, to a 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.440 whole twenty four hours off taking. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.680 Care of guys bodies. Yeah, it is a long season. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.480 I know when you know when when when Craig Wolflee 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.079 or you know, some of the older guys coming back. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.239 In our day, we did two a day's every day. Yeah. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.280 You also, for a large portion, for those guys in. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.360 The seventies only played fourteen games even so, oh, I 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.280 mean those guys also didn't come to camp in the 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.600 same condition that these guys. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.440 That's the other thing. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.040 It's a huge part of it, and really the biggest 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.440 part of. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.240 It is there were no such thing as OTAs. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.000 That and sports science is way smarter now than that, right, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.000 you know. I mean there's a reason for this stuff 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.520 that if someone would have been ahead of the curve 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.080 maybe in nineteen seventy five and practice less or smarter, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.360 maybe they would have had a huge advantage that nobody 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.280 else did. I mean, it's just the sign of the times. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.760 Yeah, that's what always gets me, Like, I know, you know, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.320 I hear complaints from people at the youth level. You know, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.200 we're gonna start practicing here August first to get ready 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.680 for those youth football games in September. I'm like, more 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.440 football at that, you know, at that age, it's it's 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.400 not about that, It's about doing what you do well. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.400 You know, football is in the game that you get 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.680 better at necessarily from a lot of practice, but you refine, 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.360 like at this point, that's a nice yeah, nice nice 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.080 comeback there by George Pickens. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.720 Nice deep ball on the outside. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.240 Yeah, really pushed that in the ball, Yeah, just drove 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.280 it in there about that's about a twenty yard out. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.280 And Kenny Pickett drove that in there into double coverage. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.960 Too, absolutely, And George used his body really well there 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.520 too to kind of present that pocket for him. To 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.480 throw it to but pick it then that show any 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.240 bashfulness whatsoever that was. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.560 Throwing him open too. It was, it was exactly, And 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.320 that's one of those things like you know, if you're 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.440 a young college quarterback or a young quarterback, you don't 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.880 necessarily see that as it develops, exactly because he threw 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.920 to a spot and Pickings had to come back to 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:29.920 the football. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.360 And get it right. Just trust the quarterback to take 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.080 me to where I need to be exactly. And I 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:36.720 didn't know who to praise more on that one, Picket 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.200 or Pickings, because they both really did a perfect job right, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.760 which made it an uncoverable route right right, kind of 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.000 like one of those Aaron Rodgers back shoulder fades that 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.760 Jordy Nelson backs. Then you can do what you can 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.159 do about it. You know, nothing you can do. There's 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.880 roads like that because if you try to play it 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.880 to the back shoulder, which is difficult, he's going to 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.680 really over the top and you'll get a pass interference 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.000 call more often not too and you know, so no, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.760 it's smart and you can really see development from those 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.200 two second year pass catcher and throwers as well. They 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.880 look like they're veterans at this point. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.520 Yeah, Mitch Trubisky in there now with the second unit, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.960 and I see a lot of that offensive line in there, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.600 the Raven Clark in there. Uh, you got Kendrick Green 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.000 at center looking to see who the guards are since 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:24.120 herbig was in with the the first unit. Uh, it 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.840 looks like Spencer Anderson's at guard. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.839 Didn't guy's been everywhere. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.719 That might be him at at right guard and let 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.120 me see here, Yeah that is him. So yeah, he's 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.200 played all along that line. Now we've seen him at tackle. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.320 We've seen him at both tackle positions this week. Now 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.880 today he's at guard. That's really tough to do. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:42.920 He's a bit of a story. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:43.279 Yeah. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.839 I mean a lot of these seventh round guys get forgotten. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.880 But he's doing everything and it seems like he's showing 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.640 up more and more on the practice field. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:51.840 Yeah. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.720 So obviously see something different every day every day. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.360 Okay, this week, you're gonna work on tackle. This week, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.599 you're gonna be a no, he's where wherever. He's like 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.120 the you know, the utility guy. Yeah, that's really that's 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.200 really helpful. Again for a seventh round. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.039 Pick, exactly. I mean I think of a guy like 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.560 Justin Strelzik who started his career that way. I mean, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.160 there's been a couple in history that just our true 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.800 sixth men that can do anything. When when you come 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.280 off the bench and then sometimes you eventually find a 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.880 home or eventually you're just active on game day filling in, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.039 and that's really valuable too. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:24.760 So you can take you're gonna make a lot of 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.440 money in this league for a long time if you 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.480 can do all five of those. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.679 Yeah, especially as an offensive lineman. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.960 But he must you're never a starter if you're going 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.760 to be valued for ten plus years. Yep. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.480 He must be passing all the tests mentally too, knowing 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.200 all these put him out there. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.960 If he's gonna blow the assignment every time. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.159 Yeah, So he's making a strong push to make that 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:45.839 final roster. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.560 Absolutely. That's impressive. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.320 It is. It's impressive. So what we got going here? 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.520 We got double tights to the left with Hayward and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.640 I think that's Washington standing up, but I can't quite tell. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:57.960 Yeah, it's hard to tell, you know, when he's in 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.960 a crouch, if he's not, if he's standing or crouching. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.280 He's so tall, he's a giant. Yeah. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.560 How about sixty eight polling around the edge here. That 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.880 one opened the eyes. More guys just nfl wide open here. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.800 Yeah, yeah, one hundredercent schemed up. It kept seven in 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.720 the block, they kept both those tight ends to block 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.920 in there, and just had a three man combination and 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.160 it popped wide open. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:19.440 Yeah. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.080 Big William Duncle pulling out from a guard spot to 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.480 protect the backside or the front side, I should say 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.280 on that one, that was interesting. He makes he's making 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.960 a little bit of a name for himself too. Yeah. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.560 Yeah, it's uh, it's interesting. Uh looking here at the 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.320 defense out there, you've got a lot of the third teamers. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.080 I see David parrellis out there at one outside linebacker 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:43.800 spots inside on the noses. I believe that's Fojoko there, Hey, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.800 it is it is. Yeah, he's got big Jonathan Marshall 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.720 next to him. That's a lot of beef. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.160 There's a lot of beef. And we got the four 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.960 string quarterback in too. So Yeah, getting a repping the 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.720 bottom of the roster a little bit here, Yeah, I 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:58.920 mean that's a big theme for today. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.640 He hasn't got many reps for Tanner Morgan, but he 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.360 has gotten well more than what they were able to 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.240 get for Chrysal lodakon last year. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.480 Yeah, good point, good point. So do you think Morgan 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.640 plays much in the preseason. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.440 Opener, the opener? 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:13.160 I don't know. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:14.760 I mean, they're prepping him for something here. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:16.960 A lot of these guys are gonna play a lot 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.840 in the opener, and they want to get him mentally ready. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.000 It's gonna be interesting. I'll be very interested when Mike 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.040 Tomlin has his, uh his press conference later this week. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.360 You know, I'm sure he's not going to give us 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.000 the exact rundown on how the quarterbacks will be used. Sure, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.199 you know in terms of all the Kenny's going to 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.960 play the first quarter that so and so on and 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.560 so forth. That's a nice throw. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.079 Yeah. Butler over the middle, Yeah, he's the middle of 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.120 the field option for sure. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.040 Absolutely, he's a big dude right in there. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.439 Yea the tight window too. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.680 But you know, just if he if he has any 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.800 plans you know, to play uh Tanner Morgan. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.320 And I wonder how much Kenny plays. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.640 You would think, well, I'm sure he'll play some, but 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.800 you would think he almost You want to play him 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.360 with the starters. You don't want to play him with 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:02.360 the with the backups. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:03.120 Well, yeah, for. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.600 Sure, So do you do you because of that? 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:07.240 Do you say? 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.480 You know what, Kenny, You're not going to play a 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:10.800 lot in this first game, if at all. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.520 I was thinking he might not play hardly at all. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.480 Yeah, but I'm thinking this week he might not play 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.640 at all, then play a half next week. Maybe maybe 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.679 the starters only play a series this week on offense 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.280 because they are so young. I mean, there's not a 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.600 lot of veteran guys. Or maybe no, right, maybe you 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.360 don't play Isaac sam Malu. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.800 Or maybe resting day, well for Robinson's resting the day too. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.360 So those three guys you don't necessarily need to play. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.360 But the rest of them, they're all second, third year guys, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.439 you know, so yeah, why not play? 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.880 My hunch is kind of like you said. I thought 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:44.360 maybe he wouldn't play the first game, play substantial amount 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.640 the second game, then set him down. Yeah, you know, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:47.760 I think that would make some sense. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.640 I mean, you know, he got a lot of a 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.000 lot of playing time last year. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.480 Oh yeah, big old Fajoko ya zipping through there. But 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.760 he guessed the snapcount right and exploded off the ball. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.480 Yeah that was five yards in the backfield. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.000 Yeah, now again they don't have pads on here, so 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.800 the blocking is a little but still he got in there. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.480 He's a big body to be moving that quick though. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.280 Yeah. I like him breaking up dude too. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.360 Yeah. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.160 He is a fun guy, really understands the history of 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:16.160 the game, things like that. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.520 That that. 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.760 You know, there's just so many guys that I just 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.840 feel like he's he's he has studied this game. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.240 and those the history of the Steelers, the history of 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.520 that position in the NFL. Yeah, absolutely, you know, it 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.920 gives you a better sense of yourself in how you 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:33.680 fit into things. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.319 You know. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.120 I bet he's popular in the locker room too, and 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.800 seems like a hard worker and a fun guy to 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.320 be around. And I think he's going to be probably 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.680 an upgrade over the nose play from last year. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.800 Yeah, we'll see. I mean, Montrevius Adams has still gotten uh, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.600 you know, a lot of the first team reps, if 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.480 not all the first team reps at this point. But 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.679 you know, they've got some some nose tackles on this roster. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.920 How many of them do you keep? You We see 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.880 them using Marshall more at end. Now he's you know, 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:02.720 he's listed as a nose tackle or defensive tackle. But 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.360 you know he's six three three and ten pounds. He's 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.359 big enough to ride, to ride on the outside. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.280 Yeah, and he can live inside too. Yeah. Right, so 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.520 he's interesting. I mean, you're probably keeping seven at most 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.840 six for sure, and there's about five of them. They're 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.000 already basically guaranteed the spot. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.040 Yeah. I mean, you look at that position. It might 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:23.280 be one of the deepest on the teams. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.040 It really is. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.600 You know, Cam Heyward, Larry Ogan, Joby, you're two starting ends. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.440 You know, what do they do there with Montrevius Adams, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.040 Braden Fojoco, Keanu Benton, Jonathan Marshall. We know, we know 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.080 Benton's making the roster and Leal I kind of look 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.880 at their making the roster. Can Isaiah Loudermilk call hold 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.200 on to a spot his arm, Mom Watts pushing him. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.559 Those two are probably fighting directly. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.199 For one spot. You got Manny Jones there. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.920 He has done a couple of good things. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.840 Yeah, so they I mean, there's some depth there and 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.200 those guys have If you look at it, you got Hayward, Adams, Ogan, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:12:02.440 Jobi louder Milk, fa Hako, Leal Watts. I mean these 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.240 guys have all played in the league. Yeah, even Marshall's 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.160 gotten some you know, some snaps and Manny Jones. Those guys, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.360 they don't have a ton of experience, but they've got 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.000 experience at the NFL level. Yeah. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.960 Yeah, I mean there's two that don't, Benton and Leal, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.960 and their future looks bright, and they're gonna be on 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.040 this squad and then you're gonna have some veterans backing 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.160 them up or mixing in with them, you know that 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.240 have been around the block and know what takes in 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.960 this league. So I think that's valuable. I like how 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.560 they've constructed that room. Ideally, i'd love to keep seven 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.800 of those guys. You know, it's hard to do, you know, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.080 because they're not big. They're not they're not out there 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:38.400 right now on this punt team right now. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.120 Well, that you with that expanded practice squad and the 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.640 ability to bring two guys up every week, I think 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.520 at a factor, I can only do that so many 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.560 times during the season where you bring a guy up 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.760 off the practice squad, but you do have those two 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.840 additional spots, you know. The one caveat with that though, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.160 I believe if I've read that rule correctly. If you're 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.800 gonna have your third quarterback be available, you can't use 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.280 both of. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.640 Those spots, so he takes up one of the two. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.040 Essentially, Yeah, because they don't want to, you know, they 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.040 don't want to. That would if you if your third quarterback, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.600 as the emergency quarterback, has to play, that pushes your 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:23.680 game day roster then to fifty one players because you 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:29.480 dropped down to fifty forty forty five whatever it is, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.079 you'd have one extra player because of the quarterback situation. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.360 So you can't bring up two guys if you're going 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.000 to use the emergency quarterback as they're the third quarterback. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.800 I would think in a normal regular season game, unless 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.520 Picket or Trubisky was fighting something, I don't think I've 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.959 interested in the third quarterback. Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.600 I mean, that's a lot of disaster that would have 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.600 to happen, and people might ask, Okay, so if that's 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:51.520 the case, then who is. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.839 Your emergency quarterback on a game day? If something were 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.960 to happen to the top two guys and you don't 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.720 have that third guy available, it's sex Gentry, that's. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.319 I bet it's Entry, right, Yeah, because I mean he 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.680 went to Michigan as a quarterback. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.080 Like he was a top rated one of the top 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.000 rated quarterbacks in the country. Who just happened? Now, you 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.559 wouldn't obviously do a lot of throw. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:12.640 Change. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:13.240 I did. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.880 I did a little story about that last year for 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.760 Steelers dot Com. UH and and you know, talk to 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.560 UH to Matt Canada about that, and and you know 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.560 they would they would have a small package fore I 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.720 talked to Actually, I could talk to UH to Sully 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.920 about that as well. You know they've seen him throw. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.000 He can throw the football. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.520 And I would think too, if that disaster happened, I mean, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.760 it obviously decreases your chance of winning the football game massively. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.520 I mean any third quarterback, let alone UH a tight 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.680 end playing quarterback and emergency quarterback. But I think what 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.960 you do is bring out all the beef, you know, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.800 six offensive linemen green in the backfield, all the tight 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.880 ends and just hammer them, you know, and then try 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.440 to shorten the game to no end. See how it 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.000 takes you. I mean, you don't want him dropping back, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.800 you know, throwing out routes downfield, you know, over and over. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.200 Right, Yeah no, but you could do some shorter stuff, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.000 you know, he could throw some bubble screens and things 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.400 of that nature that I'm sure he's done. Yeah you 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.800 mentioned green there again, and there's something to that. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.920 Oh, there's something to that. I think that's sticking. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.280 Yeah, they're not just repping it just to rep it, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.280 you know, I really think what they what they're trying 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.640 to do. I don't think they want to put too 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.640 much on on Connor Hayward's nice A great punt, I think, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:30.400 still traveling. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.240 Wow. Yeah, Preshley Harvim boomed that one. Yeah, beautiful spiral, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:35.080 perfect placement. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.040 But I don't think they want to put too much 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.280 on on Connor Hayward's plate. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.680 It's a lot of physicality. Yeah, you could. He still 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.880 will do it. I'm sure he's good at it, you know, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.160 the motion stuff, the lead blocking stuff. But if he's 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.440 gonna play all your teams, he's gonna run a lot 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.680 of routes. Carry the ball five times a year or 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.600 something like that. You might carry it more than that 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.360 and he's not. He might be your third running back. Yeah, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.480 it's I mean, he could do that too on game 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.440 day you're talking about, or even on the roster. Yeah, okay, yeah, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.160 that's certainly possible. But that's a lot of wear and 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.360 tear on his body, you know, right, so you don't 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.080 want to you don't want to use him up. And 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.840 Green's obviously a different body type, I mean, a little 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.760 huge human being, a little bit another nice punt, you know. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.880 The more the more I've watched Hayward in this camp 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:27.040 and do all these different things, it's kind of like 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.000 Jalen Samuels, a better version Jaylen Samuel. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.720 That's what they wanted out of Samuels. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:33.000 Yeah. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.080 Yeah, I think he's a much better route runner. I 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 think better hands better, I don't remember. Samuel might be 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.960 a better runner. He might be a better runner. Samuels, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.040 I know, tested pretty well from what I remember, but 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.040 I never really saw that translate to the field where 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.200 Hayward to me, moves and plays faster than he tested, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.600 where Samuels was the opposite. And it's a hard thing. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.320 I mean, a lot of these guys, oh jack of 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.200 all trades, you can do all these things in the league. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.840 Most of the time you can't, you know. I always 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.600 talk about that. On defense. So he says, Isaiah Simmons 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.000 is a safety, a linebacker, a slot corner, blah blah. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.000 Well he might be none, Yeah. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.840 But what we saw all Yeah, the thing about Hayward 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.480 it really separates him is his ability to get downfield. Yeah, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.200 he saw that show up a couple of different times 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.359 last year. I don't remember seeing Samuels make those kind 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:19.560 of catches over the middle, like the. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.240 Fifteen yards downfield and then after the catch. He's pretty 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:22.760 good too. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.080 Because if you remember with Samuels at the I think 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.760 it was at the combine, they had him work out 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.000