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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive by him,

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Speaker 1: Dale Lolly, he is, Matt Williamson and Matt. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: there was a huge trade in the NFL as Jayalen

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Speaker 1: Ramsey goes from the Rams to the Miami Dolphins and

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Speaker 1: what was it a third round pick or something like that?

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Speaker 1: Was it a third or fourth? And Hunter long, Hunter long. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If people looked in looked at that said, oh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, there are rumors out there that the

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Speaker 1: Steelers were interested. They were not. Right, Jaylen Ramseys makes

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Speaker 1: his cap hit right now as we sit here is

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Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars for the Miami Dolphins. Right. Well, guess what,

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Ramsey's going to want a new contract with his

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Speaker 1: new team that just gave up stuff to get him.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's twenty eight, eight or twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old. I think he's twenty nine. Yeah, So you're

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be paying Jalen Ramsey basically for what he's done,

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Speaker 1: not for who he is now. Yeah, I mean he

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Speaker 1: is now still a good cornerback very much, but he's

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Speaker 1: probably I don't want Pam twenty million dollars. No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins are fascinating. Well, first, I don't

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Speaker 1: start the Rams. I mean, there's been many reports that

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford could be had, which that guy is a

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Speaker 1: really good player, don't get me wrong, but he's old,

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Speaker 1: injured and expensive, you know, and coming off an injury.

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Speaker 1: You know, like, are you gonna get much from Matthew Stafford?

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Speaker 1: Now they've already said Alan Robinson can shop his wars.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he was taking him either. Do

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Speaker 1: you move Cup and Donald? They're the two? I just

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Speaker 1: don't know what the You know, I think I would

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Speaker 1: trade Cup in this market what you get for wide receivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he's coming off an ankle injury that required char

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Speaker 1: you know, you can ill trade him, right, so that

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Speaker 1: the gutting everything. Maybe it goes back to, well, y'all

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Speaker 1: in for to win the Super Bowl. You won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, But now you might stink for the next decade.

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Speaker 1: You might or you might turn these guys into picks

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Speaker 1: and hit on a quarterback. And I mean, but it's

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Speaker 1: all you got back for that guy. Was a third

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Speaker 1: round pick in David Long, I would say, I mean

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Speaker 1: you need to get a first round pick. No, I

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Speaker 1: mean then you would for Cup and Donald. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you would for Stafford. But it's gonna be ugly

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Speaker 1: for a while. I mean to me, if you're the Rams,

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Speaker 1: it's worth it. I mean, anything's worth winning a super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But this kind of reflects on the Steelers too, like

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Speaker 1: they don't want to be that all in team, bottom

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Speaker 1: out team. They want to be in it every year.

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Speaker 1: And if you get some bounces or health or you know,

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Speaker 1: your young quarterback takes a big step forward, you're in

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Speaker 1: the hunt. And I'm more that way. You know, if

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Speaker 1: I was an owner, then sell your soul and hope

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Speaker 1: you get the super Bowl because most of the time

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Speaker 1: you don't, you know what I mean. And not take

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Speaker 1: anything away from the Rams, but that year, I'm not

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Speaker 1: even sure they were the best team in the league

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Speaker 1: that year, you know, and you look at the box too,

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Speaker 1: they're about to go through the same thing. You know

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Speaker 1: that they got a Super Bowl, so great, it's all

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Speaker 1: worth it, just like the Rams. But you know, it's

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Speaker 1: gutting time for both those teams. Yeah, and the problem

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Speaker 1: that I have with that is this, So, if you're

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Speaker 1: the Rams, you share a stadium in your city, a

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Speaker 1: city in which you are, you're kind of you're both

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Speaker 1: newcomers back to the city. And did you create enough

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Speaker 1: fan goodwill winning that one super Bowl that five years

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Speaker 1: later when you're when you're going three and fourteen, are

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Speaker 1: people still going to care? Yeah? And frankly, their fan

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Speaker 1: Bays or many others, of course. But I also thought

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Speaker 1: the other side of that coin was they kind of

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Speaker 1: had to do that star's route team just to get attention, period,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, yeah, they average roster,

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Speaker 1: looking here at their salary cap situation. It's got to

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Speaker 1: Now they're going to release Byron Jones. We know that,

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Speaker 1: Zavian Howard counts ten million dollars against your cap. Now,

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Speaker 1: Hey what about me? I want a new deal. He's

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Speaker 1: already shown he's that guy. They're basically the same age.

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Speaker 1: have to pay the Christian Wilkins and Phillips and Holland.

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Speaker 1: studying your top two receivers. Are you doing? That's where

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Speaker 1: you don't spend money. If you're gonna go with Hill

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Speaker 1: I was going with this. Though it is Miami, they

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Speaker 1: cap pit is Emmanuel Ogbot seventeen point two million. He's

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Speaker 1: paying Jerome Baker twelve point eight million dollars. The other

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Speaker 1: which may or not be happening today. They better win it,

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Speaker 1: I guess, is my point, and to a better stay

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb goes up to twenty six point nine million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Xavian Howard's twenty five point nine million dollars two is

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Speaker 1: that's a that's one hundred and fifty million dollars in

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Speaker 1: five players. Basically, Tireek's great, Ramsey's great, but those they're

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Speaker 1: all depreciating assets except for maybe two. I mean Armstead

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Speaker 1: Randy Hill probably had their best day in the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: As you said, they better win it better when because

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins are clearly in it to win it this year. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are in it to win it every year.

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Speaker 1: That's their plan. Well, if you even just focus on

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Speaker 1: the AFC East, I mean, I'm sure Jets fans are

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Speaker 1: work out, We'll get Jimmy Well, right, you don't have

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Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things? For what were six

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Speaker 1: or seven teams to do this every year? To go

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Speaker 1: like you like you're a drunken sailor on lead for

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Speaker 1: the first time in six months, but only one team

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Speaker 1: gets to win it, right, And then you got to

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Speaker 1: you know, doing those kind of things. Again, there have

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Speaker 1: legal tampering period. So for my partner Matt Williamson, I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lally. We thank you for listening to this

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