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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Ali here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: We are live at Steelers Minicamp here at Heinz Field.

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Speaker 1: You can hear us also of course on ESPN nine

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Speaker 1: coverage here from Steelers Minicamp all week long as it

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Speaker 1: takes place to Steelers on the field right now, kind

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Speaker 1: of finishing up their second day practice as a little

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Speaker 1: spirited session again today that's been They've all been pretty spirited. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed myself the last two days being down here,

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Speaker 1: and the weather certainly helps. I mean, it's just a

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Speaker 1: beautiful day here in Pittsburgh. I mean it really is.

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Speaker 1: The sun's out, but it's not too it's not hot.

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Speaker 1: You know, you are actually sitting in the seats a

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Speaker 1: sure you weren't roasting at all. Um, and just seeing

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Speaker 1: day for the Steelers to practice, and then they'll be

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Speaker 1: gone until training camp. That's about what five or six weeks.

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Speaker 1: In between five five weeks they'll start up somewhere around July.

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Speaker 1: That would put them about two weeks before the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame game earlier and everybody else, folks, you gonna

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Speaker 1: be a busy summer. It is like once things things start,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna happen here. So planned your vacations

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Speaker 1: over the next five weeks. I mean, I am. I

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Speaker 1: fun marathon with a lot of absolutely And of course

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Speaker 1: you can always get your information here on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 1: Radio or ESPN nine seventy. Why would you want to

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Speaker 1: be anywhere else. We're bringing you the information right from

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Speaker 1: the source. But Matt um, if you've watched a couple

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Speaker 1: of practices, mm hmm, what has you uh, what has

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Speaker 1: maybe you hadn't seen these guys in uniform yet this year,

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Speaker 1: is there's something here that you've seen you to go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's not that's that's different than what I expected, or

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Speaker 1: Sign of a kind of a trick question because there's

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Speaker 1: things that I'm not allowed to say yet. You know

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Speaker 1: I mean, some of it's just how does some of

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Speaker 1: You know, things like that, and the draft class in general,

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Speaker 1: You know, you get excited or you get optimistic, I

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Speaker 1: our friend and colleague, Bob Labriola, editor of Steelers Digest

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Speaker 1: and Steelers dot Com. Bob, how are you good? You know? Um?

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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do this and everything, but that's

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Speaker 1: those are just words. But if if you can, but

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Speaker 1: if the three of us are caught in the roster

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Speaker 1: from three, right, and there's two guys that you know,

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Speaker 1: really this guy can go to meetings and this guy can, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, so the tibreaker there's right, there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: decisions made um based on a lot of factors. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I uh, well, you know what Mike Comlins

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Speaker 1: said yesterday about the Steelers and his to his understanding

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Speaker 1: are at the top of the league, you know, in

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Speaker 1: terms of you know, getting vaccinated, good good get that

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Speaker 1: you don't want that to be a distraction. You went

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Speaker 1: through enough with it last year. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear about it all in camp by the time Campbell's around.

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Speaker 1: That should be done. If if any team had a

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Speaker 1: good look at what COVID situations looked like last year,

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Speaker 1: it was the Steelers with with their games being postponed

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Speaker 1: and games moved and this guy tests positive and like

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Speaker 1: playing a Thanksgiving that game to fall bowing Wednesday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: most of them. I mean, if there was a team

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Speaker 1: that was more affected by it last year, I don't

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Speaker 1: know who it was. I mean there were some teams

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Speaker 1: that had you know, was the Raiders lost. Some teams

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Speaker 1: lost more players players, but nobody, nobody had to have

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Speaker 1: their complete, their their whole schedule torn up like the

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Speaker 1: Steelers had last year. And I thought, I thought it

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Speaker 1: had an effect on him down the stretch. Um, I don't.

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Speaker 1: It had an effect on me definitely did, know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. And I'm not a player and I'm not

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Speaker 1: so Uh, I can't see how it couldn't have that,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, but again, uh, I am very happy

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Speaker 1: that the league got the schedule in. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: they had a championship game, they handed out a trophy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, all of the people who are

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Speaker 1: in that business, we're able to you know, maintain their jobs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that a lot of the facility,

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Speaker 1: the buildings, the stadiums, and a lot of those people

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Speaker 1: were impacted, but I'm talking about you know, secretaries and

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Speaker 1: you know, those kind of people all were able to

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Speaker 1: you know, get through the year at least with their jobs.

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Speaker 1: And you know that that makes me happy. Um, So

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Speaker 1: you know again, I but I still think that at

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Speaker 1: this point, the league needs to let some people know

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Speaker 1: or make some decisions because the teams that wanted to

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Speaker 1: go away had to submit plans. Well, okay, rule on

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Speaker 1: the plan, you know, rule make a decision so that everybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, I understand that you're you're rooting for one

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Speaker 1: decision over another, and I get all that, but at

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Speaker 1: some point you just gotta tell, you gotta If it's no,

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Speaker 1: it's no, But tell me no. Don't don't string me

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Speaker 1: along until um because you know, as I said, there

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Speaker 1: are so many facets of a National Football League team

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Speaker 1: that people really don't even think about. What about the

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Speaker 1: grass up there? Yeah, I mean you wanted to be

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Speaker 1: NFL caliber. I mean they did a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to prep for you. Do you have you know, do

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Speaker 1: you have your Hines Field people, because that's who does that.

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Speaker 1: Despite whats um, you know, you've got to order this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, uh so, you know. And here's the thing

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Speaker 1: that people need to understand about the NFL. I remember

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Speaker 1: this came up a couple of years ago when the

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Speaker 1: Mark Tavis Bryant suspension was was hanging, the reinstatement was

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Speaker 1: hanging over his head. The league office is essentially shut

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Speaker 1: down for the month of July. That's when they all

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Speaker 1: take their vacations. So they better come up with a

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Speaker 1: plan here within the next week or so because after

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Speaker 1: that they're all gone for a month. Um. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it should be coming sooner rather than later. I know

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Speaker 1: we're all looking forward to that and finding out. We

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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what we're doing, of course, And even

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Speaker 1: if they don't go to St. Vincent's, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be something somewhere. They got to prepare to

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Speaker 1: the South Side. Right as I said, the video people,

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Speaker 1: the equipment people, the training staff, the weight room, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna pack all that up and moving and where are

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Speaker 1: they're moving it? And how much how far away is

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Speaker 1: it going to be? You know, do we need to

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Speaker 1: pack things? As an example, you know, equipment where um,

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Speaker 1: you can't. You can't have this an hour and a

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Speaker 1: half away from where we are, but it maybe could

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Speaker 1: be twenty minutes away. Okay, I'd like to go out

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Speaker 1: on the limb. Now. I'm gonna offer my backyard. They can.

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Speaker 1: They can hold training camp in my backyard. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to go to Washington. It's all very interesting. It's

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Speaker 1: all something that that's gonna happen here within the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks. But the Steelers on the field today, wrapping

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Speaker 1: up day two of their mini camp here at Hinesfield.

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Speaker 1: Prediction for YouTube guys tomorrow, I am gonna go out

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Speaker 1: on the limits say no, I'm gonna say yes. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna say yes yes. I think that this is this

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Speaker 1: is um setting the tone kind of thing. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know that it's going to be, you know, overly

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Speaker 1: strenuous or but I think that, um, you you send

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Speaker 1: a message yeah, practice, I'm kind of with you. And

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this on the way down here.

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Speaker 1: How could a team like the Houston Texans, I mean,

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Speaker 1: of all teams cancel this. They didn't even do this

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Speaker 1: this year because they they decided they're going to cancel it.

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Speaker 1: Like they brought in thirty new free agents, they don't

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Speaker 1: have a quarterback, they have a new coach, and they're

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Speaker 1: just not gonna do this. Like, what are you thinking? Well,

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Speaker 1: some of the I don't care if you box some

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Speaker 1: some of the decisions that have come out of the Houston.

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Speaker 1: You get questions are curious. Yes, um, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense, but it's not necessarily surprising. Um, why would

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Speaker 1: you cancel this event? And this is important because you

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Speaker 1: want your players when they you know we were talking

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Speaker 1: earlier about you want them to come to St. Vincent

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Speaker 1: or wherever training camp is in shape for what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: The other thing you want them to UH is where

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Speaker 1: wherever training camp is. You want them to come with

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Speaker 1: a decent understanding of the framework of your systems so

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Speaker 1: that they can practice without having to overly think too

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Speaker 1: much or relearn a lot of the basics or you

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Speaker 1: know those kind of things. You want them out there, um,

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Speaker 1: as they say, playing fast so that you can evaluate

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Speaker 1: them and they are in a good position, UH to

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Speaker 1: be able to showcase their skill sets. Uh to give

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Speaker 1: you a really good chance to evaluate them. And uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't want them out there bumbling around about where

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Speaker 1: am I supposed to? Last thing you want to do

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Speaker 1: is cut Johnny Unitus right, but didn't give him a chance.

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Speaker 1: What tempo do we practice at? You know? I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: how fast do we actually play at? Practice? Practice? Fights?

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Speaker 1: You know? Want you know any of that stuff and

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Speaker 1: a lot of that you know, fundamental um and by fundamentals,

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about blocking and tackle other fundamental parts

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Speaker 1: of being a professional. This this is how this is

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Speaker 1: done here. And uh so, yes, I'm gonna say that

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Speaker 1: there is Okay, we'll find out tomorrow, but we're gonna

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Speaker 1: let you go now. Bob. We appreciate you stopping by.

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Speaker 1: As always, we get to go to break. So he

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Speaker 1: is Bob Labriola, editor of Steelers Digest and Steelers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: You can read him there. He can always hear him

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Speaker 1: on these air waves. And I'm Dale Ali here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. Will continue right after this. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: this break here. You're listening to Steelers live coverage ongoing

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Speaker 1: from Hinesfield of the Steelers minicamp. We'll be back here

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Speaker 1: on ESPN nine seventy and Steelers Nation Radio. Right after this.

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Speaker 1: This is live coverage about one Steelers minicamp by from

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Speaker 1: hines Field on your seven home for the Steelers SNR.

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back on Dale Lally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. You're live. We are live at Steelers mini

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Speaker 1: camp here at hines Field. And uh, we we referenced

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Speaker 1: this in the previous segment there with Bob Labriola. We

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Speaker 1: stought we thank him for stopping by. Tom Pellisoro of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Network put out a whole bunch of a

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Speaker 1: new league vaccine. Uh. Might be, yes, might be quite influential. Here,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of these things. Here they have

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Speaker 1: the testing cadence for the camp and preseason. Uh. They

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Speaker 1: have the players split into different categories. Here you have

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Speaker 1: your fully vaccinated individuals. That would be Tier one which

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Speaker 1: includes players, Tier two which is the support staff, Tier

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Speaker 1: two M which is the media since the M, and

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Speaker 1: then Tier three individuals. Um. These they have to be

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Speaker 1: fully These are people who are fully vaccinated, meaning fourteen

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Speaker 1: days past the individual's last dose of aplicable vaccine. UM.

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Speaker 1: So if you got to depending on who shots you

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Speaker 1: got happy fourteen days after your last shot. UH. These

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Speaker 1: individuals must test once every fourteen days via b R

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Speaker 1: whatever this thing is. PCR test on the day of

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Speaker 1: the club's choosing during the weeks they are entering the

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Speaker 1: club facility. The individual does not need to wait for

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Speaker 1: results to return prior to entering the club facility. So

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Speaker 1: if you've had that, if you've had the shots once

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Speaker 1: every fourteen days, are going to retest you just to

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Speaker 1: make sure and then you're good. Not fully vaccinated. Tier

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Speaker 1: one including players and Tier two individuals. You notice there's

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Speaker 1: no Tier two M or Tier three individuals. If you

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Speaker 1: if you're a Tier two M person or a Tier

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Speaker 1: three person and you're not vaccinated, don't even bother trying. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: you're here. You can't be here. UH. Pre entry testing

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Speaker 1: beginning with the start of training camp, all Tier one individuals,

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Speaker 1: including players and Tier two individuals. Individuals who are not

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Speaker 1: fully vaccinated and are entering the club facility for the

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Speaker 1: first time must undergo the following entry testing. Day one,

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Speaker 1: you have to do a MASA test and b r

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Speaker 1: L PCR may not enter the club facility until negative

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Speaker 1: MASA test results return. Day two the MASA test you

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Speaker 1: have to do again, may not enter the club until

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Speaker 1: negative test return. Day three the MASA test. Once again,

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Speaker 1: you may not enter the club facility until negative tests.

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Speaker 1: They also take to negative tests on these. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: they're because because they know the incubation period now much better.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go five days of testing before you before

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Speaker 1: you do anything testing there after every day re entry,

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Speaker 1: any Tier one or two individual including players who is

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Speaker 1: not fully vaccinated, who misses a day of testing must

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Speaker 1: undergo the following re entry testing those five days. You

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Speaker 1: gotta repeat that all five days again. Makes it hard

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Speaker 1: to be great at your job. I mean, like Labs

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Speaker 1: was saying, it's hurt yourself. You're just hurting yourself here,

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Speaker 1: and he does get worse. Um, he had some other

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Speaker 1: stuff that he tweeted out. Discipline for violation of NFL

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Speaker 1: p A, NFL, NFL p A, COVID nineteam protocols. We

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Speaker 1: talked about this, and the NFL manposed discipline upon any

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Speaker 1: player who refuses to cooperate or who knowingly provides misleading

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Speaker 1: or incomplete information during a contact tracing interview conducted by

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Speaker 1: the NFL, NFL club or pursuant to the NFL, NFL

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Speaker 1: p A Club COVID nineteen protocols. The maximum fine for

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Speaker 1: such discipline shall be equal to one week's game check

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Speaker 1: up to fifty dollars. They're not messing around here. I

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Speaker 1: mean so legally they can't tell you have to get vaccinated, right,

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Speaker 1: but they're telling you can push you in this pretty

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Speaker 1: strong man they're making this. Do you want to be

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Speaker 1: an NFL player? Uh? Yeah, I mean it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: very very like last year work. We saw some teams,

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Speaker 1: you know, Uh, this guy, this strengthen conditioning coach for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens didn't wear his his tracer in in the

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Speaker 1: in the facility facility and they got in trouble for that. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's that's all required. And if you don't do it

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Speaker 1: and you get you're in trouble. You're big trouble. Do

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Speaker 1: you think me and you in the public will know

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Speaker 1: who is and who isn't? I mean, I know you're

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Speaker 1: not largely Well, here's the thing, uh, whatever protocol modifications

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Speaker 1: for vaccinated individuals. If you're here, we go. So if

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Speaker 1: you're fully vest vaccinated, there's no daily testing required, just

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Speaker 1: once the season starts. Uh. If you're not fully vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: testing required every day. UH. If you're fully vaccinated, vaccinated

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Speaker 1: masts are not required at the club facility or during

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Speaker 1: team travel. If you're not fully vaccinated, you must remain

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Speaker 1: physical or you must you're required to wear a mask

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Speaker 1: at club facility during d during travel. Uh. That's the

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Speaker 1: worst thing in the world. But fully vaccinated, no physical

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Speaker 1: distancing required in the club facility with other vaccinated individuals. UH.

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Speaker 1: If you're not fully vaccinated, you must remain physically distanced

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Speaker 1: from others in the club facility. So I wonder if

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Speaker 1: there would be like a locker room area for non right. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're over in the corner by yourself, you know. UH.

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Speaker 1: If you if you're fully vaccinated, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: have quarantine after high risk exposure to COVID. If you aren't,

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Speaker 1: you do have to quarantine. Uh. You have no travel

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Speaker 1: restrictions on you if you're fully vaccinated. If you're not

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Speaker 1: fully vaccinated, travel restrictions are in effect. UH if you're not.

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Speaker 1: If you are vaccinated, they don't have any capacity limits

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Speaker 1: on the weight room. There's a fifteen player limit if

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Speaker 1: you if it's unvaccinated players, So it'll be two different times.

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Speaker 1: Here's a big one. If you're vaccinated, you you can

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Speaker 1: eat in the cafeteria with other fully vaccinated individuals. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't been vaccinated, players must be physically distanced in

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Speaker 1: the room, may not eat with teammates. Staff who are

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Speaker 1: not vaccinated must grab and go. No meals in the cafeteria.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. I mean, how much more work it is

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Speaker 1: now for the strength coach, the trainers that set up

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Speaker 1: the locker rooms, the food prep people for two different

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Speaker 1: groups to like, we're past this and we'll get back

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Speaker 1: to usual, which is busy enough. And now I gotta

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Speaker 1: deal with three or four guys that can't be around

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Speaker 1: with others. Here's the big one. If you're fully vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: you can interact with vaccinated family and friends during team travel.

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Speaker 1: If you're not vaccinated, you may not leave the team

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Speaker 1: hotel to eat in restaurants. You may not interact with

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Speaker 1: anyone outside of team traveling party during team travel. Is

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Speaker 1: going to be a deal breaker. Yeah, I think people

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Speaker 1: are gonna get I think the guys are gonna get

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Speaker 1: vaccinated unless you have some rapid problem, especially now because

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Speaker 1: they don't not doing football, They're not gonna have the

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Speaker 1: ramifications after the second. We're gonna go do it now.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna taken care of and and everything will be good.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it's gonna work. So we'll see how

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Speaker 1: this works. They're pushing them hard, but we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break here. Uh he is Matt Williamson. I'm the finale.

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