Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Triple Tank,
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Speaker 1: Steelers dot Com and the Steelers Audio Network, joined on
Speaker 1: the far left by Matt Williamson from Steelers Nation Radio
Speaker 1: and Steelers dot Com. The guy in the middle. I'm
Speaker 1: sure everyone recognizes the great Rob King play by play
Speaker 1: voice and the Steelers interviewer extraordinaire.
Speaker 2: Rob Welcome, Thank you, glad to be here.
Speaker 1: Rob is here because Dale Lawllie, who's usually a part
Speaker 1: of these programs with Matt and myself, is a little
Speaker 1: banged up. We've got Dale on the reserve injured list. Now, Matt,
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. We have two weeks to
Speaker 1: get him to talk and write, and then if we
Speaker 1: like it, we reactivate him. If we got a lot
Speaker 1: of faith in Dale, we are here to provide for
Speaker 1: you mock Draft two point zero. And before we get
Speaker 1: to that, I want to remind everyone that the opinions
Speaker 1: expressed here in are the opinions of myself, Matt, and
Speaker 1: Rob King, not the Pittsburgh Steelers. But we do have opinions,
Speaker 1: and I'm really interested in getting to those, But first
Speaker 1: got to take a minute. Both of you guys were
Speaker 1: lucky enough to attend the combine. Yeah, and I'm curious,
Speaker 1: Matt will start with you, just your observations. Did it
Speaker 1: play out the way you thought it would? Were there
Speaker 1: any major surprises or anything really gets your attention.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I always make the joke when I'm
Speaker 3: at the combine, I don't get to watch the combine,
Speaker 3: you know, so I catch up with it when I
Speaker 3: get home. A lot less participation lately, you know, a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys aren't running shuttles and three cones
Speaker 3: and things like that. Only three quarterbacks ran forties, so
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys are holding it for their
Speaker 3: pro day. And I don't know, maybe that's the reflection
Speaker 3: of the playoff system.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Some of these guys are going later into the season,
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of guys aren't in the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 3: Just seemed like there was less buzz in the combine
Speaker 3: than usual, but that's still very buzzy spot.
Speaker 1: Rob, you split a fair amouney your time in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: talking to some pretty important people here with the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun to talk to Omar Khan and
Speaker 2: Sheldon White and Dan Colbert get their insights on what
Speaker 2: the team is trying to do in the off season.
Speaker 2: And also, this is the first time I've been to
Speaker 2: a combine. This is like Combine Royalty right here. Matt Williams,
Speaker 2: he's going around the room. He's he's getting guests. People
Speaker 2: are hauling him onto shows. He's bringing people onto our shows.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows who he is. We're seeing all these guys
Speaker 2: are like, Hey, Matt, I don't want to age you here,
Speaker 2: but hey, I used to listen to you when I
Speaker 2: was a kid. Were getting to that age, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but when we get my granddad loved you, right, and
Speaker 2: then we're getting up there. But but no, it was
Speaker 2: great being with Matt and the rest of the crew
Speaker 2: and Max Starks and West and Dale and and learning
Speaker 2: a lot and just you know, kind of getting the buzz.
Speaker 2: It was an exciting time.
Speaker 1: Now to Omar Sheldon or Danny revealed to you who
Speaker 1: the Steelers intensive.
Speaker 2: Drift, Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wouldn't tell us if they had was.
Speaker 2: Done by they had told me that now that they
Speaker 2: didn't tell them.
Speaker 1: The format is the same as we've been running for
Speaker 1: a while here on Steelers dot Com. We take the
Speaker 1: first round in segments of ten. I know there are
Speaker 1: thirty two picks and it doesn't quite work out that way,
Speaker 1: but it's basically divvied up in the thirds. So we
Speaker 1: will give you one by one what we think for
Speaker 1: a further review. Second look, the first round might wind
Speaker 1: up looking like in Matt Let's start with you many
Speaker 1: changes on this initial or second Excuse me top ten.
Speaker 3: Not to take the low hanging fruit, but I'm feeling
Speaker 3: stronger and stronger that the first player selected is going
Speaker 3: to be cam Ward. Now I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: going to be the Titans. It's select them. We're not
Speaker 3: allowed to do trades raiders. One of the New York
Speaker 3: teams could certainly get to one, but history shows that's
Speaker 3: almost always a quarterback. And the other one I wanted
Speaker 3: to touch on too is I feel really strongly at
Speaker 3: eight the Carolina is going to be really aggressive, trying
Speaker 3: to improve their defense. You know, last offseason they build
Speaker 3: around their first overall quarterback. This is the offseason. I
Speaker 3: think it's time to get the defensive side of the
Speaker 3: ball in.
Speaker 1: Order you have any changes from last time.
Speaker 3: Here and there not a ton in the top ten.
Speaker 1: Rob Let's take a look at your one through ten.
Speaker 1: Now this is your first crack at it. What do
Speaker 1: you feel strongly about here