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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lallie. He is Matt Williamson over here,

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Speaker 2: chatty playing, chatty Kathy.

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Speaker 3: What I'm really doing, though, is I'm enjoying the recruits

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Speaker 3: interacting here next door. Just brings back my roots, my

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Speaker 3: memories back here. It's cool getting a bunch of recruits together,

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Speaker 3: don't know each other, and they're all in the same building,

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Speaker 3: and they started to get a little competitive.

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Speaker 1: It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, sixteen seventeen year old.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to watch the Steelers practice here and yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're doing that right in front of us here as

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Speaker 2: they get this looks like some offensive linemen and tight.

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Speaker 1: Ends a lot of big bodies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna grow up and can be a lot bigger. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So anyways, the Steelers, they're wrapping up their OTA practice

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Speaker 2: number six over they're on the far field today, so

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Speaker 2: we can't see quite as well.

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Speaker 1: But they should be nicer to us and put do

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Speaker 1: it right on this one. Yeah, right here in front

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Speaker 1: of us. They didn't, didn't ask us our opinion on that.

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Speaker 1: They did not. They did not. They they never do. No.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say seldom do, but they never do.

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Speaker 1: Of course, never do.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, We are live from the Steelers Ota sessions here

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Speaker 2: at the up mc rooney Sports Complex Today. We are

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Speaker 2: expected to be joined by Isaac Samalu, the Steelers new guard.

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Speaker 1: There was some I was hesitant to bring it up.

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Speaker 1: We've been, I've been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean the first two times were

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Speaker 2: technical difficulties on our end. Yesterday, Yeah, yesterday, he and

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Speaker 2: the offensive line we're out there working very long after

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Speaker 2: practice and by the time they came off the field,

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Speaker 2: everybody from PR had gone inside, and well they forgot.

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Speaker 1: About it and kind of forgot abouts. And he did

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Speaker 1: as well. And he did as well.

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Speaker 2: And I wouldn't expect him, remember, since you know, he

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Speaker 2: was first told about it, like last Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Good point, you know, happens. A lot of happened then,

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Speaker 3: and who knows. So I assume, Oh, I'm just guessing

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Speaker 3: he may stick around after practice because it seems like

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Speaker 3: something he does with some what.

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Speaker 2: The offensive line does, they stick around, they hang out,

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Speaker 2: they he's.

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Speaker 3: The old man stuff on the Yeah, I'm hoping. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll happen sometime between now and during camp.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask some of the James Daniels choke

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Speaker 3: score for what's Isaac been as a resource for you?

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Speaker 3: You know, he's been around the league a little longer,

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Speaker 3: he's a little older, widely regarded as a fantastic football mind.

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Speaker 3: Wondering if he's chirping up and throwing some suggestions in

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Speaker 3: or not or all those things. So it's an interesting

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Speaker 3: dynamic on that line. And got a high first round pick.

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Speaker 1: In the mix.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, get a nice mix of ye now old

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Speaker 2: and young, but a lot of experience, a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was blown away last year with the combination

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Speaker 3: of youth and experience on the O line.

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Speaker 1: That's hard to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And the buzzer or the horn is sounded there,

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Speaker 2: so that wraps up practice. So they'll go off in

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Speaker 2: their little position groups here and have a chat about

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Speaker 2: everything it just happened, and then they'll break off. Guys

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Speaker 2: who want to stay out here and work. We'll stay

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Speaker 2: out here and work. Others will head for the locker

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Speaker 2: some team meetings or whatever they got.

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Speaker 1: To do before.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's just the way this goes these aren't.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned this before though?

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Speaker 3: And this is a Thursday though, I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 3: of these guys might go back to their home city

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Speaker 3: here or you mean.

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Speaker 1: In a way.

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Speaker 2: That's why these things aren't mandatory. That's why these things,

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Speaker 2: you know, when people get all upset that this player,

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Speaker 1: Here, commitments to you. Right, if your boss.

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Speaker 2: Told you that this is not mandatory that you come

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Speaker 2: to something, and you were in a stat you were

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Speaker 2: well established in your job, you're right, you know.

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Speaker 3: And as we witnessed in the indoor the other day,

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Speaker 3: there could be some very established NFL players that decide

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Speaker 3: I'm going to work out my way, not your way.

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Speaker 3: And it's not like I'm not using my time properly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you don't. They're not sitting around eating cheetos.

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Speaker 3: They could be even them, But yeah, you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys put the time in, they put the

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Speaker 2: have to balance everything. And trust me, if a guy's

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Speaker 2: not here, it's not the end of the world. It's

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Speaker 2: not the end of the world. And I guarantee you that,

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Speaker 2: like Mike Tomlin knows, I'm sure why if.

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Speaker 3: Somebody misses a day, and I doubt it's boy in

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Speaker 3: my contract. I'm not happy with my contract or my

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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're not any of that kind of stuff out of

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Speaker 2: this Pittsburgh this year.

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Speaker 1: No, but you see in some other places.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's really one of the reason why DeAndre

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Speaker 2: Hopkins got released.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't want to. They started ripping management and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a hairy situation there. I mean they're looking

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Speaker 3: for leaders. They obviously are rebuilding. They told the world

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Speaker 3: with that release that hey, we understand we're not going

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Speaker 3: to win anything this year. I mean that's just where

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Speaker 3: always wonder too, you know, like maybe the young guys

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Speaker 3: sticking around. I'm just guessing, but they don't have a

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Speaker 3: lot of buddies yet. So do you go ask the

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Speaker 3: it's new dinner to night. I don't know, well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't know anybody else you got guys in your

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Speaker 1: That's what you know.

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Speaker 2: Rookie classes tend to be pretty close with each other

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Speaker 2: because right, right, right, you're have thrown together a lot.

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Speaker 3: They're asked, Yeah, they're all fish out of water in

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Speaker 3: they're all similar age.

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Speaker 1: Of course. You know that's just interesting about the Patrick

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Speaker 2: I mean you're talking about Patrick Peterson is older than

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Speaker 2: pretty much everybody.

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Speaker 1: Is he the oldest sealer? Now? No?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean Hayward Stillyard are the same draft class.

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Speaker 2: They're in the same draft class. I think Hayward's a

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Speaker 2: little like a couple of months older. Okay, but you

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Speaker 2: heard that with Ben, Like, but there's not many over thirties.

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Speaker 2: Ben was, Ben's thirty nine years old, and you know

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Speaker 2: they're drafting quarterbacks and things and that, like Ben and

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph are almost a full generation.

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Speaker 3: Oh right apart. I mean Ben's a perfect example. But

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Speaker 3: can you imagine Brady? You know, yeah, and you know

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Speaker 3: his wife's a supermodel, and you know you live in

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Speaker 3: two different lifestyles, right, I mean, people probably don't remember

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Speaker 3: let alone Brady's rookie year, or Brady at Michigan or

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Speaker 2: After a while, you get tired of people. You know,

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Speaker 2: I watched you. I was a kid when you were

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Speaker 2: played in the Super Bowl in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 2: I remember watching that game.

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Speaker 3: Like, I mean, you think Ben has heard a million times,

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Speaker 3: even from a teammate that I used to please you

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Speaker 3: on Madden. Yeah, I'm like, okay, that's cool, It's cool,

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Speaker 2: That's only the twentieth time I've heard that this.

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Speaker 3: Week, this week, right right, so interesting. But no, this

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Speaker 3: is a very young team. But it doesn't lack leadership.

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Speaker 2: No, it certainly does not. And that leadership I think

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Speaker 2: you see that come out. I mean as we watch guys,

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Speaker 2: Have to do that, you know, absolutely not, but they're

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Speaker 1: Ye throw the helmet off and go run sprints.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of that often tends to be like, okay,

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Speaker 2: these five guys from my position group are running. I

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Speaker 2: don't be the one that I don't want to do it,

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna do it because it's peer pressure.

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Speaker 3: And this sounds bad, but it was really true with

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Speaker 3: But what if the head coach walks by. I don't

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Speaker 3: here at five o'clock, so I would just throw another

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Speaker 3: Be here, you know, but I really don't want to

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Speaker 3: But these guys are obviously a lot more productive than

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Speaker 3: I am at that point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Notice the other day too, like even between running back drills,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see a lot of guys doing stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: It's it's about being in football shape and you know,

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Speaker 2: knowing for especially for a guy like Jayalen Warren knowing

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah you know last year he did I find.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, last year you wouldn't have known. I mean how

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Speaker 1: You know, does Washington her big porter? Do those guys know?

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Speaker 2: That's why having a guy like Patrick Peterson around it

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Speaker 2: Isaac Samalo is so valuable. Absolutely, James Daniels, the guys

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Speaker 3: And this might shock people, but I think we had

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Speaker 3: this conversation. We've had a lot of them that a

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Speaker 3: lot of these rookies when they come to OTAs aren't

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Speaker 3: in as good a shape as you think. Well, why

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Speaker 3: is that? Well, because they spent like a month touring

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Speaker 3: around the different teams and on planes.

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Speaker 2: They spent two months getting ready for the combine, right.

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Speaker 3: Working on their starts and their verticals, you know, and

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Speaker 3: not with pads on and that type of thing where

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Speaker 3: NFL players or know what to expect every phase of

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Speaker 3: the you know, of the season of the whole calendar

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Speaker 3: year where the rookies were just trying to get themselves

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Speaker 3: drafted and appeal to the giants and commanders and everybody else.

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Speaker 3: It's tough to do your regiment when you're torn around

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Speaker 3: the country and they're taking out the dinners and you know,

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Speaker 3: things like that. Yeah, I mean you know, the next

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Speaker 1: Well, that would be Tomlins.

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Speaker 2: That'll be his message, I guarantee you when he speaks

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Speaker 2: again at the end of the of the OTA session,

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Speaker 2: we're pleased to be joined now by Isaac sam Molo,

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Guys? Doing good? Uh, glad to be here. Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: How's the Pittsburgh experience treated you so far since signing?

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Speaker 4: It's been good.

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Speaker 5: I mean everybody, a lot of guys reached out when

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Speaker 2: Isaac had an opportunity to talk to your dad, it's

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Speaker 1: A few words, he doesn't talk a lot. Your dad

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Speaker 2: How did what's the difference sharing the personalities. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Does he critique your game?

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's just, you know, he's I think he's

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Speaker 2: You come from a really it's a football family. I

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Speaker 1: When you when you get together.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean it's like, you know, we do this

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Speaker 3: How did you learn from him and what was that

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Speaker 2: So one of the things your dad said that is

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Speaker 1: Sure you like to deliver the blow.

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Speaker 3: Back real quick to your experience with the Eagles, which

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Speaker 5: Yeah, growing up in Hawaii, my grandma did most did

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Speaker 5: at all. It was uh some good time.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a I mean, you know, you go from

441
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Speaker 2: the Islands, you moved to San Luis, Obispo and and

442
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Speaker 2: then you know, eventually to h to corrals. That's the

443
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Speaker 2: life of being a football coach a son, though, isn't it.

444
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can kind of move around a little bit.

445
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it' it's a unique life. But I think it

446
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 5: gave me a lot of you know, advantages and insights,

447
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Speaker 5: like being able to go to games like that and

448
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Speaker 5: spend time with you know, other college coaches and football

449
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Speaker 5: college players and kind of see that other side of

450
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Speaker 5: it was was really cool.

451
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Speaker 3: Last question I really have for you is do you

452
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Speaker 3: get a chance to go back to Hawaii very often?

453
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Speaker 1: And we get there before training camp by chance?

454
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Speaker 4: If it was?

455
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Speaker 5: Uh, it was it was up to some of my family.

456
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Speaker 5: You know, I'd be there every week. But not easy though, Yeah,

457
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Speaker 5: Tougher said, than done. We try to go back. I

458
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Speaker 5: know at least like once a year.

459
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Speaker 1: You're playing on getting there before camp?

460
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Speaker 4: I think so, I think in July hopefully.

461
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you join this team. What did you know

462
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 2: about the Steelers before he came here? I mean, obviously

463
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Speaker 2: you're just across the state, but yeah, did you have

464
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Speaker 2: some friends on he grew up on the West Coast?

465
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, other than playing

466
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Speaker 5: against them, knowing hearing about coach Tomlin, I didn't really

467
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Speaker 5: know too much. But coming to visit and then you know,

468
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Speaker 5: meeting some of the guys, it's been. It's been awesome.

469
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Speaker 5: It's been really good.

470
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Speaker 4: Uh.

471
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Speaker 5: The old line room, you know, is younger, but not

472
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Speaker 5: necessarily unexperienced, a lot of guys have played a bunch

473
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Speaker 5: of games, so it's been Uh, it's been a good opportunity,

474
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Speaker 5: you know, to help out where I can while also

475
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Speaker 5: you know, honing in on my craft against you know,

476
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Speaker 5: a good defensive line that we have. So and then

477
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Speaker 5: coach Tomlin's everything that, uh, everything and more, you know

478
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Speaker 5: what I mean, He's a man. So uh, I've I've

479
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Speaker 5: enjoyed it so far.

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Speaker 2: It seems like, I mean you just mentioned that that

481
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Speaker 2: offensive line room is younger. Do you feel like the

482
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Speaker 2: old guy in that room at this sport?

483
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

484
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Speaker 5: For sure, Yeah I feel it. But you know they

485
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Speaker 5: you know those guys the guy old is. You know,

486
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Speaker 5: there's a bunch of good players and we've got good depth,

487
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Speaker 5: and you know it's guys that want to win and

488
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Speaker 5: be good. And you know you can see guys always

489
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Speaker 5: doing work before were and after practice. So that's what

490
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Speaker 5: I like. You know, the guys that are excited to

491
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Speaker 5: be here, you know, want to get better and you know,

492
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Speaker 5: want to want to win games.

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Speaker 3: That's to be a little bit different perspective for you.

494
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Speaker 3: I mean, because I'm sure Kelsey and Lane Johnson were

495
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Speaker 3: the the older statesman in Philadelphia I and well deserved.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean when I first got there, it was Jason

498
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Speaker 5: Peters was there too. Yeah, Brandon Brooks just came in.

499
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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: So it was it was like walking into the high

501
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Speaker 5: stakes poker.

502
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Speaker 1: Room and hall of fame potential.

503
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Speaker 5: I mean so, I think it was a great thing

504
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Speaker 5: because they were such I mean willing to help guys

505
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Speaker 5: to you know what I mean. They weren't oh we're

506
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Speaker 5: older with this or that. They were you know, open

507
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Speaker 5: and accepting. And uh, I'm thankful for mentors like that,

508
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Speaker 5: and hopefully, you know, I can you know, be something

509
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Speaker 5: like that.

510
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Speaker 4: Uh as my career goes on.

511
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Speaker 2: Our guest has been Isaac Samlo, the Steelers new guard.

512
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Speaker 2: And Isaac, we appreciate you sitting down with us here

513
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Speaker 2: and wish you luck this season. Hopefully we'll get a

514
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Speaker 2: chance to do this again down the road and maybe

515
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Speaker 2: maybe in a playoff game or something like that.

516
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Speaker 4: Oh, that'd be great. I appreciate you, guys.

517
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you a lot.

518
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Speaker 2: Again, that was as I say, I'm all other Steelers

519
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 2: new offensive guard and big off season acquisition. Good stuff

520
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: from him there. And you think about that offensive line dynamic.

521
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Speaker 2: We talked about it a lot last year, how young

522
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Speaker 2: an experienced they were. Now you've got another year's experience

523
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Speaker 2: under the belts of those guys, and you've added another

524
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Speaker 2: key piece to that who has plenty of experience himself,

525
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Speaker 2: and it brings that nasty demeanor to the He's a weal.

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Speaker 1: Of a player.

527
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Speaker 3: But I think it's interesting too that you know, he was,

528
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Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, he was the young guy with

529
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Speaker 3: some hall of fame, I mean true hall of famer

530
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Speaker 3: around him. Where now people are gonna be asking him

531
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Speaker 3: for advice and he's more than willing to do it,

532
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Speaker 3: and there's gonna be a positive influence on the younger guys,

533
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Speaker 3: especially Jones, you would imagine.

534
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as he mentioned, you know,

535
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Speaker 2: he's I think you see this with a lot of

536
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Speaker 2: the the Polynesian players. They don't they let their actions

537
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Speaker 2: on the field speak louder than.

538
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: Troy is a perfect example. Tyson lewis similar. You know,

539
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't.

540
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Speaker 2: They're not you know, big raw raw guys in many cases,

541
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Speaker 2: but they're there. They just go out there and play

542
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 2: and there's a there's a love of the game. That's

543
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Speaker 2: the culture.

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely right, it's not. It's a different upbringing.

545
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that there's not generations of Steeler fans or

546
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Speaker 3: remember me and Joe on the islands and things like that,

547
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Speaker 3: you know, and it's it's you were talking about this,

548
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Speaker 3: how much harder it is to get the practice and

549
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Speaker 3: some of these guys have to get on a plane

550
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Speaker 3: to go to practice for high school and things like that,

551
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Speaker 3: you know, and go to a different island. I mean

552
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Speaker 3: that's commitment too.

553
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

554
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Speaker 2: And for a guy like like Isaac, I mean he's

555
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Speaker 2: grown up around this his entire life. Again, dad's a

556
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Speaker 2: football coach.

557
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Speaker 3: I didn't realize some of the stuff you brought up

558
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Speaker 3: about all the you know, equipment in the backyard and

559
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Speaker 3: homeschooling and it was a one shop stop.

560
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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: I mean that people think about, you know, you know

562
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Speaker 2: the life of a football coach and how much time

563
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Speaker 2: you have to spend coaching football. And then you add,

564
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Speaker 2: you know, so his you know, his wife is basically

565
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Speaker 2: homeschooling the kids. They're moving from the islands to San Luis,

566
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Speaker 2: Obispo to you know, to Corvallis, and you know, the

567
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Speaker 2: family stayed in court Vallis for a little bit.

568
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Speaker 1: While you know, while he was a college Joe was off.

569
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Speaker 1: You know. It's it's it's tough on the families. It

570
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Speaker 1: is I mean a lot of examples.

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Speaker 3: When I was in the college ranks, of well, we

572
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Speaker 3: hired an O line coach at Akron and the mother

573
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Speaker 3: had to pack up there are six kids, all of

574
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Speaker 3: which were like twelve and younger from Texas and drive

575
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Speaker 3: him up to Akron where you know, we needed him

576
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Speaker 3: to coach the olignement and he couldn't help with any

577
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 3: of that stuff, you know, I mean the coach's life

578
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Speaker 3: and the entire family of a coach or anyone in

579
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Speaker 3: this business can be crazy, yeah.

580
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Speaker 2: But just a an interesting family. Like I said, his

581
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Speaker 2: sister works, you know, in the NFL.

582
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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't realize that either. That's interesting he's got.

583
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Speaker 2: You know, they're they are a football family, and they're

584
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Speaker 2: also a very intelligent family.

585
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned.

586
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Speaker 2: A number of his wife's family members, college professors, you know,

587
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 2: went to MI I t in places like that.

588
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Speaker 1: Right, no joke.

589
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Speaker 3: What they do they do well, Yeah, whether it's on

590
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Speaker 3: the field or in the classroom. It sounds like and

591
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 3: again we've talked about this, and he's obviously very well spoken,

592
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Speaker 3: soft spoken guy, but people rave about his football intelligence too,

593
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Speaker 3: you know, And.

594
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Speaker 2: I think you know, if you're if you're intelligent. You're intelligent.

595
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Speaker 2: You see people who you know, maybe they're not the

596
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Speaker 2: most well spoken people, but they understand football. I think

597
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 2: he's maybe, you know, a melding of Look, he's obviously intelligent,

598
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Speaker 2: but he also knows football right right right. When you

599
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: grow up around it, you can't help But George, you

600
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: hear that about well, this quarterback his dad was football coach.

601
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely a Jim Ratt. They're Jim Rats and

602
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 3: just knowing the commitments and how it works on both

603
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Speaker 3: sides and what dad does when he comes home from

604
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Speaker 3: the office and things like that too. And again it's

605
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Speaker 3: a it's a good combination of football background and academic

606
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 3: background that you can obviously see with them, and it

607
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 3: translates to the field.

608
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

609
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you knew this about him, but

610
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Speaker 2: Isaac was the second center to start as a true

611
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Speaker 2: freshman at Oregon State. The other one was Roger Lavasa

612
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Speaker 2: and he did it in the seventies.

613
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Speaker 3: So that's a really tough position to do that too.

614
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Speaker 3: I mean, like, well, you recruit kids as centers and

615
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: be like, wow, you're really really good. We can get

616
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Speaker 3: you on the field, but you're gonna play guard this

617
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Speaker 3: year and then we'll movie the center.

618
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Speaker 2: But they didn't just take it like he wasn't he

619
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Speaker 2: wasn't flounder at Oregon State and dad was a football

620
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Speaker 2: coach there.

621
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Speaker 3: He just take just because No, he could play star recruit, right,

622
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Speaker 3: and they put him in the lineup immediately, like.

623
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Speaker 2: He was making trips to USC in places like that,

624
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Speaker 2: and he wound up at Oregon State just happened to

625
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Speaker 2: be where his dad coach.

626
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Speaker 3: No, it doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, especially

627
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Speaker 3: with his athletic ability and traits and just sitting next

628
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Speaker 3: to him, he's very impressive physically as well.

629
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the big dude that moves well.

630
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's not doesn't carry a lot extra weight,

631
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Speaker 3: he's got long arms.

632
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: You know, he's powerful guy and obviously.

633
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: Works out it a lot, as as we've seen here

634
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Speaker 2: with all the Steelers offensive lineman. We're gonna take that

635
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Speaker 2: at break. Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lollie.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to a special edition of The Drive here

637
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Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy. We are

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Speaker 2: live from the upmc rooney Sports Complex. We'll be back

639
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Speaker 2: to finish up the show right after this, Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lollie. He is Matt Williamson and we're

641
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Speaker 2: pleased to be joined nas. We were yesterday by one

642
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 2: Thomas Opperman of the Standard Tom How you doing doing great?

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Speaker 1: Boys?

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Speaker 6: It was nice listening to Ike sit down with you guys.

645
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Speaker 6: You know, a lot of people said he wasn't a big.

646
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Speaker 2: Time presumptuous calling starting to call him.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you guys like best buddy. You don't like that.

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Speaker 6: You don't think that's a good one. You should have

649
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Speaker 6: slipped that by him and see if he likes to Yeah, big,

650
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Speaker 6: You guys did a good job at cracking that nut.

651
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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 6: I was waiting for him to be kind of a

653
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Speaker 6: slow interview, but you got some good stuff out of him.

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Speaker 1: He was a little reluctant, but he had good stuff

655
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Speaker 1: to say. I like to put the headset on.

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Speaker 6: That'sa he sat down and didn't even want to go

657
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Speaker 6: for it. You gotta talk into the microphone.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of hair there.

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Speaker 6: I love that too. Yeah, it reminds me of another

660
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 6: guy his name ended in a similar sounding fashion back

661
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 6: in the day. Yeah, yeah, you.

662
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: Would you take away with from what you had to say?

663
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 6: I think he's going to be a good influence, a

664
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 6: good veteran presence, and I think a lot of people

665
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 6: thought that he was kind of propped up by the

666
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 6: two guys next to him on that Eagles offensive line.

667
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 6: It was refreshing to hear Kelsey, and I do take

668
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 6: it with a grain of salt, because what's he going

669
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 6: to do? Come out and bash his X teammate and

670
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 6: friend and be like, gone.

671
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: So you always you love the one you're with. I

672
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: always say that when whenever somebody says, well, ju Ju

673
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: said this or this guy said that, but he loved

674
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: the one you win, Isaac's no longer with the Eagles.

675
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: He could have said, we really think that. You know

676
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,719
Speaker 2: that these new guys are going to step in here

677
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: and they're just going.

678
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: To replace that. We won't miss a beat.

679
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 6: You can say that right. He could have done the

680
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 6: vanilla thing too and just be like, I wish Isaac

681
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 6: well moving forward. It was a lot of fun playing

682
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 6: with him. No, he gassed him the hell up. So

683
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 6: I take that vote of confidence out of a guy

684
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 6: like Jason Kelcey and kind of like what you said, Dale,

685
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 6: he couldn't He didn't have to say anything like that.

686
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: Sure.

687
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 6: I like that a lot. I think, you know, this

688
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 6: is more than just a product of two Hall of

689
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 6: famers around him on that offensive line.

690
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, And maybe I was even guilty of this.

691
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: That line was so star studed even went back to

692
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 3: Peters and Lane, Johnson and Melatta and Brooks and all

693
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: those dudes, let alone Kelsey. He could have easily been

694
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 3: the forgotten guy. You know, and I'm not saying he's

695
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 3: like getting out of their shadow.

696
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 6: But his play like didn't allow him to become forgan,

697
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 6: especially in recent years. Like you could make the standards hot, right,

698
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 6: you could make the argument he was right there with

699
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 6: Kelsey and Johnson. A lot of people, just like I said,

700
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 6: assume that, oh he's getting rising tide lifting all.

701
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: Right, he's the guy right, exactly right.

702
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 6: But Kelsey and them come out and they're like, no,

703
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 6: this dude was just as good as everybody else, just

704
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 6: as important, and honestly there was sometimes he lifted us

705
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 6: up whenever we were struggling.

706
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: The tape shows it too.

707
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, no question, And I mean again I said this yesterday.

708
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 6: He's just another an example of it. Kind of looks

709
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 6: like this whole team took the Mario mushroom and just

710
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 6: like upgrade in size a little bit, like what what what? Yeah,

711
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 6: the college is so much bigger now.

712
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: It's just nasty. How many guards that look like him.

713
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's athletic. Yeah, right, right, it's funny.

714
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: You know, you meant you asked him that you know

715
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: what he uh what he learned? He does he get

716
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: critiqued by his dad? Yeah, his dad's his dad told

717
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: me that he watches the game both as as his

718
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: dad obviously.

719
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: That's an interesting dynamic, but also as a football coach.

720
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: And he said, I do a little bit of both there,

721
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: he said, I'm looking for the effort. He said, you're

722
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: playing next to Jason Kelsey. Why why is Kelsey getting

723
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 2: out and getting on that blocks, you know, twelve yards

724
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: downfield and you didn't get there.

725
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: So there's always that.

726
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, and it's his dad and right right,

727
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 3: so you expect that effort. I was wondering what kind

728
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 3: of critiquer he was, and Isaac danced around that one

729
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 3: a little bit. I think it's more than just call

730
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 3: your mom and yeah, yeah right, sure things are good

731
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 3: at the FAM.

732
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 6: No offense to the guards that the Steelers have with

733
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 6: Daniels or Dotson. But I am so much more comfortable

734
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 6: with this as a sidecard next to Broderick Jones on

735
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 6: the side of that.

736
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: Well, here's something we've talked about, tom So.

737
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 2: My belief is, and this was before they drafted Broderick Jones,

738
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 2: one of the reasons they bring in a veteran guard

739
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: on that side is to help Dan Moore out with

740
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: some of the Obviously, he's a great communicator. Isaac sim

741
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: all right, So now you you've got that interior. You've

742
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: got three veteran guys on the interior. Your youth is

743
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 2: on the outside. It's my belief that that Isaac Saamalo

744
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 2: could make Dan Moore a better player and allow Broderick

745
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: Jones the time. Because people forget Broderick Jones has started

746
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 2: fifteen career games at the college level. He is not

747
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: a finished product by any stretch of the amount.

748
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: That I think.

749
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it, but he doesn't. I mean,

750
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: you know, if you're talking about, hey, is he a

751
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 2: finished product? Not by any means, whereas Dan. You know,

752
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: I'm not so quick that to just throw Dan Moore aside.

753
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 2: I want to see what he looks like with Isaac

754
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: Samalo next.

755
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 3: I think Isaac kind of sent him at that too,

756
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 3: because something you and I have talked about a lot

757
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 3: that if you're an offensive lineman, it's not like other

758
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 3: positions where you can just throw him out there for

759
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 3: thirty snaps and hey, your real feet wet, you're real fast,

760
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 3: run go routes. You know, you can't run out rots yet,

761
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: but you can run gos or you're just a pass rusher,

762
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: So we'll put you out there on third and eight.

763
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 3: If you're starting left tackle, you don't leave the field.

764
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 3: So if you have this, you know, if you have

765
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 3: issues to work on, it's gonna be exposed. So don't

766
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: assume that Jones is the starter week one.

767
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 6: And being around here in the past couple of days

768
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 6: talking to people like Craig Wilfley know a lot more

769
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 6: about that than me. That's the guy he points to.

770
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 6: He's been impressed with stand more. He really doesn't say

771
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 6: he's not impressed with Roderick Jones, but he's really noted

772
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 6: what Moore has built his body into over this past offseason.

773
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 6: And so this footwork looks a lot better too, And

774
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 6: you know, maybe that's what a guy getting your potential

775
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 6: replacement draft it'll do to a guy, you know, maybe

776
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 6: kick it into that extra gear a little bit.

777
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: So I think more lasceness league a long time it

778
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: will Dale.

779
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 6: I am starting to come around to more like what

780
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 6: you're saying, where it's not just a placeholder like project's

781
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 6: gonna have to do a lot of work to try.

782
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: To beat that guy out.

783
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: And you got you got a two year incumbent starter

784
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: on there who basically won that job a couple of

785
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: years ago, and and you're gonna be he gonna knock

786
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: him off. And Roder Jones isn't gonna shy away from that.

787
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 2: I mean he did that at Georgia. You know, they

788
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: had income with guys ahead him. He understands that dynamic.

789
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: Now you're professional, and now you know this is a

790
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 2: team that traded up, albeit a little bit, to go

791
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: get you.

792
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean you're gonna be guaranteed anything. No,

793
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: that's in terms of the situation you're gonna be on

794
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: the roster. But I mean, I'm sure in training game

795
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the left tackle battle.

796
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the way it's way, and who

797
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: looks better and which ones you know, which one's worried

798
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: because the idea is you're not You're not doing this

799
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 2: to Oh, let's let's just throw a guy out there

800
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 2: and and get him some work and get him get

801
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 2: him acclimated.

802
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: Uh, you're protecting your your.

803
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 2: Franchise quarterback, potential franchise quarterback.

804
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: A side note though, and Broderc Jones looks pretty good.

805
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not saying he's guaranteed anything but hundred

806
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: percent agree with you. But I hope people weren't misconstrued

807
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 3: in this like, oh, that Jones guy doesn't look or anything.

808
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: He looks just fine.

809
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: No, I'm just reminding people that you're talking about a

810
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 2: young guy who his fifteen career starts under his belt,

811
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: you know, and you're gonna throw You're gonna throw him

812
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 2: out there in Week one against Bosha, all right, Right.

813
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 6: And the Steelers have had to in the past couple

814
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 6: of years throw those linemen into the fire who weren't

815
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 6: as high a pedigree. Example, yeah, Kendrick Green. I mean,

816
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 6: those guys had to come in and start right away

817
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 6: with third round, fourth round pedigree. So if they can

818
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 6: award themselves, you know, maybe a couple of weeks into

819
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 6: the season, until Broderick finally dethrones Dan Moore. I think

820
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 6: that's great for them. Do you think that the right

821
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 6: side is locked down with chokes or do you think

822
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 6: there could be a possibility that Dan swings over there eventually.

823
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: No, you know, and I've heard people you know talk

824
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 2: about that. Here's the thing, Dan Moore's rookie season, the

825
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 2: reason he wound up being the starting left tackle is,

826
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 2: if you're a member, Zach Banner got hurt that year.

827
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: The idea that was supposed to be you had Banner

828
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: on one side and Chucks on the other on the left.

829
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 6: Side, and.

830
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 2: Banner wasn't ready to start a camp, so dan Moore

831
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: got all the work on the left side and Chukes

832
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 2: was on the right side in that in that camp,

833
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 2: and then when when Banner came back, he only lasted

834
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: like a week. So Dan Moore only practiced on that

835
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 2: right side because when they did that, they moved Cheeks

836
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: back to the left side and put more on the

837
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: right side. It's like three practices on the right side.

838
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 2: That's what he's had.

839
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 6: He's a left tackle and he's gonna play tackle.

840
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 2: And he played left tackle in college. He played he

841
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 2: played a little bit of guard in college.

842
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 3: I say, I think he also could be a really

843
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: good guard, probably not here because they have a greatest

844
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: pair of Yeah, but I mean I think that is

845
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 3: also a fallback plan for him at some point.

846
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 6: And then on the chuck side of things too, I mean,

847
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 6: he could carve himself out into a very serviceable right tackle.

848
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: So I think he I think he's I think he's

849
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: a league average right.

850
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 6: Tackle, which if the rest of your line is above average,

851
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 6: I mean, you can't have superstars at all five spots,

852
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 6: you know.

853
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: And especially on O line.

854
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 3: I would rather have five b's across the board or

855
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: B minuses or B pluses.

856
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: Then here's an A and here's a D.

857
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: Which ones is which one is the snickers bar? Which

858
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: one are we going to go after an attack? I

859
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: mean that's that's because that's what teams will do. Yeah, yeah,

860
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 2: I mean you'll see it constantly when when you see

861
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 2: certain teams play, why is Miles Garrett lined up inside

862
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: or why is t J Watt rushing from this spot?

863
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: Because why is Cam Hayward moving over there? Because they

864
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 2: they are left guard can't block anybody. They have a

865
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: matchup that they want to try to exploit.

866
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 3: And they might and the Steelers might now have seven

867
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 3: C plus the B plus guys.

868
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 6: Well, I was just gonna say that. You guys talked

869
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 6: about depth in the first out and maybe more. And

870
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 6: it was such an anomaly last year for no one

871
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 6: to get hurt on that offensive line, and you had

872
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 6: to know what's going to happen this year at some point,

873
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 6: and they're prepared to deal with it. And one of

874
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 6: the other on her big jumps right her both games,

875
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 6: you know.

876
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 2: And one of the other things, and Matt loves to

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Speaker 2: do this is you can play let's let's drop an

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Speaker 2: offensive formation where personnel group. Yes, you've got six offensive

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Speaker 2: linemen on the field, you know, by the way, you

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Speaker 2: get maybe two tight ends out there and.

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Speaker 6: Run one of them is a monster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them is another monster? Are they running

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Speaker 2: the ball here? But you can also throw the ball

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Speaker 2: out of those formulations and do things like.

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Speaker 3: That, like I guarantee if Roger Jones is not the

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Speaker 3: opening day starting left tackle, he plays snaps in that game.

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Speaker 6: I bet you you're right too. And the tight end

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Speaker 6: thing too. You know, you gotta have a hitter in there.

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Speaker 6: If you're Matt Canada for Darnell Washington, because if you're

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Speaker 6: just running the ball, running the ball, running the ball,

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Speaker 6: and he's extra beef, you gotta have a play in

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Speaker 6: there where he releases and gets your I mean, you know,

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Speaker 6: and I think more of a gifted catcher than gentry.

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Speaker 1: Already brings a lot more an athlete. Yeah, he gets

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Speaker 1: more downfield, he brings more after.

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Speaker 6: The I love that you can all these teams to

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Speaker 6: sleep with eighties out there. Looks like they're going to

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Speaker 6: run the ball twenty yards down the middle of the

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Speaker 6: foeh man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think what you can do with six

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Speaker 3: offensive linemen Friar, Mooth, Washington, Harris and Pickens, right, but

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Speaker 3: they can get downfield, yes, and.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not goal line defense against that, but you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get based.

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Speaker 1: You might get a four to four or Street they're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Bring an extra linebacker on the field or something like that,

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you get a mismatch.

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Speaker 4: Right right right.

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Speaker 1: I hate pinkins is one on one on the outside

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is.

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Speaker 6: I hate comparing, you know, great groups to modern groups

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Speaker 6: and saying, oh, they look like this, but it does

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Speaker 6: remind you a little bit of Fernandez Gronk. When it

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Speaker 6: comes to the Patriots versatility play that that might be

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Speaker 6: really like their offensive mo is going through these two

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Speaker 6: tight ends. Maybe not this year, but when Darnell gets

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Speaker 6: up to speed too, yeah, it could be real dangerous.

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Speaker 2: And we had, you know, when we had Cole Hulkam

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Speaker 2: on last week and Matt you asked him about, you know,

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Speaker 2: playing against these Philly guys. Oh right, well, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: glad they're you know, I don't have to do that.

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Speaker 3: We asked them about Isaac, you know, like, what's it

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Speaker 3: like to play against him at all times?

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Speaker 1: Nasty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there's you know, I think the

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Speaker 2: Steelers offensively added a lot of nasty, Yes, a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of a lot of nasty, but good movement players too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Jones moves really well, Washington moves really well,

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Speaker 3: Isaac moves really well well for their size and their length.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's an impressible group. Yeah, absolutely, so

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Speaker 3: a lot of possibilities.

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 2: I always like watching the sprinklers are now on here

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Speaker 2: in front of us.

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Speaker 1: There's an art to it. There is an art to it.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite the Bolaggio or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Feel like I'm at bush I'm at Bushwood Country Club, Bushwood.

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Speaker 1: No, but it's the synchronicity of it all is pretty cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just want to go out there and run through it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you absolutely, Maybe I will. I can get your

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Speaker 1: ring now.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, anode, another fun show, another week in the books.

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Speaker 2: Here the ball rolling into the water there, where'd that

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Speaker 2: ball come from? I guess there's still there's still some folks,

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Speaker 2: some folks out there doing some work.

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Speaker 1: That ball rolls.

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Speaker 2: That's going to be a soaking wet ball.

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Speaker 1: CJ. Go run over there and grab that football.

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Speaker 6: Take your hand set off first. One other note here,

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Speaker 6: another electrocuted.

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Speaker 1: Here as CJ.

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Speaker 2: Wolfly noted here Isaac Samala wearing the number seventy three, as.

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Speaker 1: Who famously wore that. Couple of people right out.

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Speaker 2: One would be one Craig wolf Ley and the other

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Speaker 2: will be the ranger.

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Speaker 3: So wolf always has a soft spot for the seventy three.

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Speaker 3: He always does, always finds him, He always finds with

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Speaker 3: They'll have many conversations. I think there'll be one siding

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Speaker 3: conversations just the heun talking to both those guys.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but that's gonna do it for our show today.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate Tom Offerman stopping by here and chatting with us.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate the Steelers PR getting Isaac Samlo for us

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Speaker 2: as well, and we appreciate you listening.

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Speaker 1: For my partner, be back next week.

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Speaker 2: We will be back next week, same same schedule, Tuesday

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Speaker 2: through Thursday, eleven to to one. Hopefully get some more

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Speaker 2: players on here with you for my partner, Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: For CJ here on site keeping us on the air.

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Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lallie. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 2: special edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and

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Speaker 2: ESPN nine to seventy