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Hass Is is hospitality. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.520 And normally this is part of the drive where I say, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.440 good evening, Pittsburgh, Good evening, Steeler Nation. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:49.279 How we do it. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.520 But it's only four o'clock here, so it's not quite 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.320 evening yet, So good afternoon once again. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.639 As the sun is shining here at Chucknoll, fast day, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:58.680 it really is. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.080 It's like one of those it's a good summer day 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.600 to be outside. You know, it's it's it's sunny, but 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.759 it's in the it's in the load of mid seventies, 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.920 it's not too hot, and there is you know, still 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.160 some stuff going on with some of the equipment staff 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.240 and some of the field people here, but other than that, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.640 it is mostly. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.160 Quiet, as it will be. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.000 I think pretty much every time you and I are 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.400 doing a show this year, man, it'll certainly be a 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.280 little different in that regard, and we kind of spent 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.839 spend a good amount of time there in the first 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.920 hour of the show talking about some of those differences 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.319 already here at training camp, one of them being, you know, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.279 my co host Matt Williamson just raving about the looks 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.399 of Michael Pittman Junior and how he's a strong, good 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.280 looking dude. It's his first training camp here with the 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.720 Pittsburgh Steelers, of course, as we all know, heading into 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.919 what is his seventh year in the National Football League 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.320 for the six' four wide receiver out OF. Usc here's 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.520 What Michael Pittman junior said today after his first practice 0:01:58.560 --> 0:01:59.240 as A Pittsburgh. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.280 Steeler first. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.520 Day, oh it's. GOOD i, mean like it's good that 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.560 we're all like settled and we're all moved out. Here 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.280 so it's great your first. CAMP i know it's new 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.840 for a lot of people, here but also new for 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.760 you being out. Here how was that if they want 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.120 ABSOLUTELY i, mean obviously the offense get out here like 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.400 for the first, time so just just working through some. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.480 Stuff AND i thought the defense practiced well today and 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.920 we're looking forward to get back at them. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.320 Tomorrow WELL i know. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.760 It so how much can you kate play off these Older? 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.400 ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i feel like it's just energy on 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:33.200 top of energy and execution fuels execution AND i feel 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.760 like both are both ARE i feel like both of 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.800 us and some of our other guys can make. Plays 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.600 so just being able to just build off. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.720 That how'd you find working more fans and pulling? Backs 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.480 and IF i don't know how many at you look 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.440 at you young, guys but WHO i saw how many 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:48.880 in These? 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.040 ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i think that all of them are 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:56.400 doing great and they all bring different things like to the, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.799 table And marion is going to be our lead, guy 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.840 and and those other GUYS i get to learn from, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.200 Them SO i think it's gonna be. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.639 GREAT i don't think guys is going to take the 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:06.960 hopes thin phasis. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.280 On the, team especially at the and mixing out of 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.000 the DOWN Indus states and how. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:11.560 Much time is? 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.799 Last, ABSOLUTELY i mean there's so many games that come 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.200 down to that last drive and just the fact that 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.520 we're practicing it every single day AND i think will 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.040 be the most conditioned team by the end. Accoump so 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:25.519 how long. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:25.799 Will it take? 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.360 Her will it take long for everyone to kind of 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.519 there's so much newness, HERE i, mean not only do 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.760 the coaching staff and mixing. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:32.840 With a lot of. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.160 Veterans how long does that take maybe for the team 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:36.040 to get on the same. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.040 Thing, YEAH i mean it definitely takes. TIME i, mean 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.760 no team like is a finished product until the very last. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.480 Game so as long as we keep on building like 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.960 each day and keep getting, better then by the end 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.720 of the, SEASON i think will be uh a happy. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.320 Team so how much do. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.680 Those trips out last kind of go toward help and 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.520 build back chemistry before you guys. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.040 Even get the training. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.600 Camp, ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i feel Like aaron said it. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.800 BEST i, mean before that, trip LIKE i didn't really 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.520 know those, guys and NOW i feel LIKE i know 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.680 them pretty darn. Well so it's always good to just 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.200 go do those things and take that. Time for. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.760 Sure do you have to teach them how to fishure 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.560 their professionals out? 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:14.760 There? 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.400 No, NO i MEAN i Mean aaron is a very 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.800 avid fishermen and a couple other, guys LIKE i felt 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.920 like they were catching, fish so they knew what they were. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.520 Doing the biggest, CATCH. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.520 I don't, know because we're all kind of fishing in different, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.640 areas SO i didn't really keep truck to. Apples, yeah 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:34.880 BUT i MEAN i THINK i caught the. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.839 Most but you, know you're anywhere around here for you, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:38.320 go do you? 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:38.560 Ask? 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.240 Oh, YEAH i MEAN i went out a couple of 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.240 times and caught some, Musky like there's a picture out there. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.160 Somewhere caught a forty eight and a half inch. Musky 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.839 so that's a pretty big. One it's a trip like 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.360 that translate to what you guys want to do on the, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.040 field that you want to have their. Systems, YEAH i, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.240 mean it's just like, chemistry AND i think that it's 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.200 important to like the guys that you're going to war 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.000 with for the next seven. Months SO i think it 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.360 helps a. Lot like you kind of. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.560 Talked about your route from when you sign that you 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.280 might be able to kind of diverse them by a. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.800 LEATHER i were just seeing that kind of start. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:13.440 To pop up. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:13.800 Earlier. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.240 ABSOLUTELY i mean just just bouncing around inside, outside just 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.640 running different, routes you, know stretching deep and running those 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.839 under routes. INTERMEDIATE i, mean all of that's gonna come 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.840 to like fruition like throughout the, season and we're all 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.960 gonna have different roles because we all bring something, different you, Know, ME, Dk, Rome, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.119 jeremy all of those. Guys so we'll see how it shakes. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:42.440 Out Michael Pittman, junior one of the New Pittsburgh, steelers 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.320 and of course a Man matt tasked with solving a 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:47.919 problem that it seems like we've been talking about for 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.720 a couple of, years and that is, uh you, know 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.640 it was honestly same, church different pews when we used 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.679 to talk about when it Was George pickens here BEFORE 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.360 Dk metcalf kind of the the one two punch at 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.080 wide receiver that The steelers have been looking for what 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.400 probably since The Antonio brown juju days last. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.760 Time, Davis, yeah, real. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.800 Real you, know, deep, Stable, yes and and guys that 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:11.680 all commanded. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:12.120 Attention. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.320 YEAH a couple of things he said there, though THAT 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.400 i wanted to just go back. On was the. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.560 Fishing, well the fishing the musky stuff, too for. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.080 Sure all those guys love the fishing and we talk 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.359 about this every. Year but, yeah the parks and the 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.560 nature and the outdoor recreation in this region is. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.440 Awesome, yeah a lot of these, dudes you, know when 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.120 they get, drafted like, oh BECAUSE i need to fish 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.200 the rivers or the lakes around. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:32.760 Here blah blah. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.279 Blah good good work on the forty eight inch. Musk 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:36.000 he's a big fan of. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.839 THAT i heard they're frying it up in the cafeteria 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:39.320 for dinner. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.200 TONIGHT i was gonna, say, oh something mentioned just about 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.320 sorry for. Cutting, no, no, NO i wouldn't talk about that. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:50.000 Anyways the, uh the practice we, mentioned it's probably not 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.760 gonna be as physical as, banging but that doesn't mean 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.159 to be slow. Tempo you, know they're gonna if they're 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.320 gonna do a lot of two minute. Stuff and as he, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.080 mentioned he thinks we might be the most well conditioned 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.599 team in the league when When campa, ends because we 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.440 we're gonna be no standing. Around you, know there's gonna 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.160 be a lot of high tempo. STUFF i think that's. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.480 Valuable you, know it's just a different way of you, know. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.240 Toughness you, know toughness doesn't necessarily mean that we ran 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.920 into each other a thousand. Times it's we're still mentally 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.600 strong and sharp late in the game when we've played 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.840 sixty five snaps or. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.360 Whatever SO i think that's. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.720 Interesting and, again it's not the olden days where guys 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.560 come to camp to get in, shape but you still 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.600 can't replicate the football, stuff you, know and so maybe 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.680 they won't play a lot of preseason, stuff but it 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.960 is going to be high tempo and you, know cardio 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.160 stuff in a football, manner in, cleats in pads against you, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:50.160 know other. Players really, interesting and you're, right of all the. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.520 Positions i'm still a little worried about wide receiver depth 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.920 As july, enters but the top two is way better 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:02.280 than it's been for quite a while. While and unfortunately 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.960 we've seen how important it is that When pickens went 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.200 out two years ago late in the, year When metcalf 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.880 was suspended this past, season those other guys just aren't cutting, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 it you. KNOW i, mean, SO i don't know IF 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.680 i told you This metcalf stat really interesting to me. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.360 Too by no means AM i saying he's the best 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.360 or most dangerous wide receiver in the. League but there's 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.480 a newer stat THAT nfl puts out of what's the 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.880 distance between the wide receiver at the line of scrimmage 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:37.640 and the closest Corner metcalf was first or second. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.680 Closest why would they do? That he's scary over the 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.080 top six' five. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.640 Beast because there's always a safety on the other side 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.080 over top of themyep, so right because they didn't fear 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.960 the guy on the, OTHER side i WOULD under, I 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.520 mean i'm not saying these Good As jamar chase, or 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.120 whatever but It's Not jamar chase because He's, got higgins 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.240 you KNOW what, I mean like it was real obvious what. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.200 Teams did they're Gonna double metcalf as much as basically 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.240 any wide receiver in the league in, some way shape, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.679 or form and no Offense To calvin Austin or roman. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.840 Or whoever the other. Guys were if they, whip us so. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:12.280 Be it. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.000 YOU know, I mean i might make a, player too 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.200 but we're gonna win that. Battle, more, Yeah yeah. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.240 I'm not they're not letting the leading scorer gets sixty. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.440 On me if he gets, his, twenty fine and their 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.600 fourth leading scorer has a big day and hits a bunch, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.640 of threes, we lose. You know BUT now i would 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.440 think the doubles ease up on Metcalf with pittman, out 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.760 there and he's just a professional move the. Change receiver 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.199 he's not gonna have a huge high depth. Of target 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.440 he's not gonna have a, huge average, you know yards. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.680 Per catch but that's also what this. Offense is He's 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.480 very Rogers And west, coast friendly especially the, big body and. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.000 He blocks he's he's. Gonna block he's going to be 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:52.800 in the right place at the. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.280 Right time he's going to run his, routes crisply and 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.880 he's we talked about versatility with the. Offensive line he's 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.840 a versatile wide receiver or. CERTAINLY so i think a 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.640 lot to be excited. By there saw a little bit 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.040 of Him and, rogers today you know a little BIT. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.240 Of dk it felt, like. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.680 Though, And listen MATT, and, i uh we had a 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.640 lot of different stuff, going on, you know we Had 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.560 some the first day is always a bit of. A 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.600 whirlwind you're trying to make sure everything's set up and 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.760 good in the. Broadcast booth we had to do picture 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.079 day and Media day MATT and i, this year. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.360 So we had a lot going on. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.000 This morning but it also looked like early on they 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.080 were trying To Get roman wilson and Uh And jeremy, Bernard, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.640 involved uh because you got to see what you have 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.280 in those guys obviously behind the top two, big dogs 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.920 and it's a big year for that wide. Receiver group 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.840 man that that group has, you know again for the 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.160 for the last couple of years they've had they've had a, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.480 you know a top dog and not not a lot underneath. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.840 Of them it's it's been something that we have discussed 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.000 every year here at, training camp all the way back to, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.640 you know a couple of. Years ago were they gonna 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.240 Add A brandon ayuk or A Debo, Samuel. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.320 Day yeah he's a, show tomorrow, you, know right free, beer, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.520 Tomorrow right, probably good it. Didn't happen looking back, at, that. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.920 Yes might have ended up being a blessing in disguise 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.120 in the. Long run but hopefully this will finally be 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.320 the year where we start talking about that position group 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.920 is a bit of a strength instead of a real 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:17.440 weakness for. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.040 The, OFFENSE now i don't want to bring the, mood 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.960 DOWN but i did mention it's still The position i'm 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.440 most worried About depth and the, reasoning is, First off. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.800 Pittman and metcalf are both twenty nine. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.560 Years old, they're expensive and they're getting up, in age 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:36.080 and history shows that they're entering the, back nine. YOU know, 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.120 I mean i don't know that either one is going 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.480 to fade Away Like larry fitzgerald into his deep into, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.559 his Thirties Or new kopkins or any of those type. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.800 OF guys i still think they're both really. Good players but. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.839 A lot of bad stuff happens between now and the 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.559 end of, the season and there's gonna be twenty nine 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.600 year old receivers that start to decline across. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:54.480 The league it's just the way the. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.880 WORLD works i really Like the, bernard pick but he's 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:58.480 A rookie i son. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.440 KNOWING about, i mean. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.880 STUFF'S great i think he's very well worth trading up 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.640 in the. Second round, four great so he can help 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:06.760 you Beat the Ravens of week six. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:07.760 Or, WHATEVER though i mean it's a. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.520 Different world we haven't, seen it, YOU know I think 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.679 roman and then everybody else to ME is. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:15.040 I, don't know. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.880 You know and this gets magnified Because the steelers were 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.760 at the absolute bottom of the league in three receiver sets. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.160 LAST year i know that number is gonna go, up 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.959 drastically probably not as MUCH as i thought it was 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.000 gonna go up the day they. HIRED McCarthy i thought 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.920 they'd be exclusively eleven personnel now After paying washington And, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.920 friar muth that those guys will be out there quite. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:37.920 A bit but. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.480 It's not gonna be thirteen personnel With just metcalf. Out 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.079 there you know you're gonna need more snaps from, wide 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:50.240 Receivers and Bernard and pittman are. Very capable, but again 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.400 if you lose one, of Them or bernard doesn't, work 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.960 Out or wilson doesn't make, the team, you know like 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.760 you could be a little lacking there would. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.640 League's, rough yeah that's. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.960 My point rookies and twenty nine year olds, are good 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.880 but they aren't. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.600 Sure bets, you know it's. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.120 A young, man's, game right but that doesn't necessarily mean a. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.480 Rookies game there's a middle ground there that you're kind of. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.280 Looking, for certainly certainly. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.160 Could, be, hopefully though this will be a year that 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.200 we start seeing that wide receiver room move in the 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.680 direction that we've been waiting for for the last. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.160 Few, years HONESTLY. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.880 And i think. IT has, i mean clearly the room 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.280 is there was a priority and needed. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.040 To be like it much more now than you did a, year, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:35.160 ago though that is. For sure let's go around the 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.199 league a, little bit discuss some of the other moving 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.120 and shaking across some other THIRTY one nfl training camps. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:46.120 Getting underway there's been some, contract extensions there's been some some. Injury, scares, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.880 Yeah already we'll get to all that when we return 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:49.240 on to the. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.120 Other side You. 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Training camp, With, that matt there's some 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.880 around the league stuff that needs. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.960 A ton that happened since we got the other mone 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.080 right it did is like, extension season and of course 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.840 there's some, injuries already which makes you forget how unforgiving this. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.360 League is that's why it's kind OF why i brought 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.200 up the rookies in twenty nine, year olds like most 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.800 stuff's gonna happen bad from. Now, ON yeah i know, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.160 everyone's optimistic but, it's. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:26.520 Rough. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.800 Man there there certainly have been SOME injuries i think 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.359 that we should touch. On now matt gave it this Disclaimer, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.600 on Monday and i'm glad, he did and it will 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.760 probably repeat it a couple times throughout the course of. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.120 Training camp but because someone is, carreded off pretty much 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.800 everyone is carded off with injuries because they're out on 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.800 the field and they don't want them walking hundreds of 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.920 yards back to the locker room if they might. Be 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.040 injured and a lot, of times especially Here At Saint, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:53.960 vincent college you're going, up hills. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.560 That hill with a, bad ankle, right yeah oh you think. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.240 You might have got a high. Ankle sprain why don't 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.720 you go walk three hundre? Yards uphill? 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.760 Not Smart but Matt The Cincinnati Bengals shimer stewart was 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.480 carted off with a left leg. Injury today he of 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:14.240 course there last year's so twenty twenty five first overall 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.280 pick with a left, leg injury and the video didn't. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.200 Look Great his it's one of those where the knee 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.840 bends the way that it's not supposed, to bend, You 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.080 know and for that, to happen, you know on the 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.200 first day of camp when it's obviously We know cincinnati, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.280 that defense they need all hands on deck and they 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:35.640 need something out. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.160 Of him it's not a great start For. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.000 The Bengals so i'll just talk about the player. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.520 Real Quick, is again he was a rookie, last year 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.120 so his combine his testing. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.760 Over a year ago was out of. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.600 THIS world, i mean he is a big body defensive 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.880 End that cincinnati has coveted up until. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:55.240 This year. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.640 They drafted howe IS another A and m guy this 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.000 year in the second round who's a very undersized, speed 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.240 ball much better production than what he looks like walking in. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:10.320 The room stuart is, body beautiful, testing beautiful and to, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.440 be kind was a project coming out. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.639 Of school it was still the twelfth. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.760 Overall, pick YES and, I thought i'm just. BEING honest 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.240 i thought he was horrendous as. A rookie i mean 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.440 really really bad run, recognition stuff really. Really bad just 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.960 people wuld run right, by him didn't, se it, you 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.879 know didn't know what gap, to fill didn't steel polars. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:31.439 Coming, at him things of. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.080 That nature watching him rush the pass or It was 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.080 i'm gonna go a thousand miles an hour off, the 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.400 snap AND if i don't beat, HIM immediately i got 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.159 nothing ELSE and i don't know what. To do and 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.480 he's Not von miller off the, Snap Either he's he's 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.040 two hundred and seventy, five pounds so. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.840 They he really needed to take a step forward to. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.159 Make that even to, Be honest i'm not saying this 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.120 Because the bengals of the thirty two first round picks, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.199 last year he was the worst one for where he 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.320 got picked, for sure and maybe the worst. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.720 One overall like, You, said mad you could you could 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.600 add any of these Eyes, Of steelers i'd, BE like i don't. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:07.200 Want to he's my. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.399 Last choice and they don't have a good history of 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.160 developing those. Players either so he was already very disappointing 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.560 a year into, this thing as we've talked about With 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.439 like kent to start, the show who was a seventh. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.760 Round pick guys that start, their seasons, you know, like 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.720