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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: What's going on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Drive here on the

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Speaker 3: Steelers Audio Network. West Shooler and Matt Williamson with you

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Speaker 3: on this Tuesday. A quick reminder for everybody out there, Matt,

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Speaker 3: no show Wednesday and Thursday. Right, you have got a

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Speaker 3: big family day tomorrow with moving your son into the

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Speaker 3: University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: A lot of driving, a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's a long day for you. That's a lot. I

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Speaker 2: hope you got some good podcasts, a couple of Zeppelin

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Speaker 2: tapes ready to roll.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be all right on that stuff. And I'll

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Speaker 4: be here traveling.

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Speaker 3: I'll be flying, of course of my kind of game

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Speaker 3: day broadcasting duties with the team to Charlotte, so it

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Speaker 3: works out well obviously. And then Thursday, being a game day,

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Speaker 3: I will be in Charlotte, So no show Thursday, but

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Speaker 3: we will be back on Friday to break down what

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Speaker 3: will be the final Steelers preseason game. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 3: know what, Matt, I think that's probably a good place

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Speaker 3: to start here today, agreed, is what would be your

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Speaker 3: approach and I think there's a couple you know, there's

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Speaker 3: already I think a couple things that we can safely

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Speaker 3: assume about the preseason game on Thursday night with participation

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Speaker 3: of a certain you know, short list of guys. But

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Speaker 3: then I think there's kind of a second tier of

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Speaker 3: would you or wouldn't you type players that is, you know,

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Speaker 3: probably substantial a lot of guys that you could throw

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Speaker 3: into that conversation of should they play a series, should

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Speaker 3: they play two series or a quarter or whatever. So

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Speaker 3: starting here, you know, broad broad picture, and then we'll

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Speaker 3: zoom in on some specifics, what would be your strategy

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Speaker 3: heading into Thursday night, the final preseason game, and you know,

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Speaker 3: knowing that you've got what set sixteen or seventeen days

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Speaker 3: until you'll play another one after.

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Speaker 5: This, Yeah, and you nailed it. So their schedule you

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Speaker 5: just touched on it. But their schedule is a little

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Speaker 5: odd in that those top guys that have not played.

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Speaker 4: In the preseason last Thursday, which will be a week.

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Speaker 5: They had a joint practice and that's the biggest thing

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Speaker 5: they've done since training camp or probably you know, this

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Speaker 5: year so far is probably the biggest thing that that

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Speaker 5: group of players has done. So if they were to

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Speaker 5: play this Thursday, they'd have a full week. And it's

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Speaker 5: not like they've been at the beach ever since. I

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Speaker 5: mean they've been practicing normal stealer practices on the south side,

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Speaker 5: not in the trow of course, So those guys should

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Speaker 5: be rested, ready to go. I mean, like if Rogers

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Speaker 5: would have you know, Rogers or cam or Watt would

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Speaker 5: have played Sunday, and then you're asking to play Thursday.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, I hate short weeks during the season. Anyway,

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Speaker 5: I'm not doing that to them. There's no chance I'm

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Speaker 5: doing that. And speaking of Thursdays, Thursday they play. The

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Speaker 5: following Thursday is nothing. The Thursday after that is AFL

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Speaker 5: opening Day, And as you mentioned, that gets you like

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Speaker 5: seventeen day break until you play Sunday.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty substantial.

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Speaker 5: It's a big deal. Yeah, so I don't feel super

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Speaker 5: strong about it, but I would lean towards playing my

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Speaker 5: an injury to happen. Obviously, I don't know that everyone

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Speaker 5: would get that call. Hayward comes to mind as a

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Speaker 5: probable no, and he probably wouldn't play anyway, considering his

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Speaker 5: contract situation. But I wouldn't mind Warren getting two carries,

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Speaker 5: guys that are good players but aren't superstars that got rested.

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Speaker 5: Maybe Watt doesn't play Rogers, I wouldn't mind him throwing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, six or seven plays, a couple first downs.

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Speaker 5: Real judicious with my play calls handed off, and.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a completion of DK yes to see the ball

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Speaker 5: Thing exactly, and I'd probably play him. But all in all,

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Speaker 5: if they rested everybody again, I would one understand it too,

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Speaker 5: and a lot of it's just feel for your team,

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Speaker 5: But I don't think it would hurt to get out

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Speaker 3: Yes, and by the time we finished this show today

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Speaker 3: we could have an answer. Mike Tomlin is speaking after practice,

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Speaker 3: so we'll kind of be like right along that line,

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Speaker 3: I would imagine, so we could potentially have a final

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Speaker 2: But I think that's where I've been at this whole time.

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Speaker 3: And you'll laugh, I mean, you do a lot more

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Speaker 3: think we both do kind of stuff from outside of

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of one of the things that I

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Speaker 2: always get asked about, is what would you do for

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Speaker 2: the preseason? What would you do for the preseason? I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's a right answer.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a right answer either.

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Speaker 3: This to me is similar in this conversation. Debate doesn't

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Speaker 3: happen as much anymore because now defenses in the National

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Speaker 3: Football League are so multiple and you're in your base

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Speaker 3: such a small percentage of the time. But I remember

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Speaker 3: like being in college and like a popular like barstool

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Speaker 3: debate amongst you know, boys that liked football, was like

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Speaker 3: would you rather run a three four or four to three? D?

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Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Like, to me, this is a similar conversation of if

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Speaker 3: there was a right answer, everybody would.

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Speaker 4: Do it right. If there was a perfect defense was right.

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Speaker 2: Perfect defensive scheme, everybody would run it.

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Speaker 4: If there was a perfect coverage or let's pack, everybody

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Speaker 3: Because a perfect way to deploy your personnel and eleven

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Speaker 2: Everybody would do it. This to me is another one

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Speaker 3: I think you got to know it's different from each team,

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Speaker 3: think the Cincinnati Bengals were wrong to play nobody over

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Speaker 3: I think it's fine that they've looked at that and

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Speaker 3: they've said, you know what, we've had slow starts.

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Speaker 2: Let's try something different exactly. You know, like I think

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Speaker 3: Can be ebb and flow to it, and it's not

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Speaker 2: These guys should play this much, yes.

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Speaker 5: You know, like the Bengals are a great example because

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Speaker 5: I don't want to speak out of both sides of

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Speaker 5: different outlets. And I've been critical of the Bengals for

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It's like you're not the

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Speaker 5: over the last five years. Well, we have enough results

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Speaker 5: here to change things up.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: It's not like Tomlin is a rest everybody at all

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Speaker 4: Corona.

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Speaker 5: The Rams are and the Rams have had a lot

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Speaker 5: much as the last year or so, but the Cardinals,

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Speaker 5: they've had a young roster. They're not particularly good, to

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Speaker 5: played everybody like crazy in the preseason. Now, I don't

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Speaker 5: They look like they got worn down quicker than other teams.

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Speaker 5: Well then I'd say, well, why don't you save your

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: So this seem to me doesn't have a massive trend.

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Speaker 5: But I do think the end of the years haven't

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Speaker 2: If not, and they to be hard, they've.

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Speaker 4: Be playing harder teams playing.

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Speaker 2: Really really tough schedule down down the stretch.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, And I also think too, like I

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Speaker 3: certainly think that that is is something too to address

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Speaker 3: a way to make that go in the opposite direction, Like.

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Speaker 4: I do, think they've had a lot of defensive depth.

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Speaker 3: In that in mind, that's the biggest unknown now is

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Speaker 3: they have really turned over a lot of that defense

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Speaker 3: and even just a depth behind current starters as well

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Speaker 4: In the past, especially the big people. You know, absolutely

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Speaker 4: keep Cam, Hayward, pressure, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But even but then again, when I do the

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Speaker 3: grand scheme of things, if Cam's a separate story now

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Speaker 4: Go, yeah, a perfect example totally healthy.

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Speaker 3: Play six play six or seven plays on Thursday night

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Speaker 3: to be a huge difference for their health in December,

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Speaker 3: you know, or.

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Speaker 5: The difference between him getting eighteen sacks and ten sacks, maybe.

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Speaker 3: We're probably not a dantic, a little too focused on

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great point. That's why I don't feel

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Speaker 5: super strong about it, Like they sit them all. I'm like,

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Speaker 5: I get it, you know, because they are the guys

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Speaker 5: that they're counting on playing meaningful snaps. This year is

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Speaker 5: an older group than it usually is too.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: Rogers is a different example too, though, Like wouldn't you

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Speaker 5: want him to play some with his teammates, you know,

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Speaker 5: But if he doesn't, is he not going to throw

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, because again, if I would play these guys,

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Speaker 5: it would be a series.

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Speaker 4: And that would they even know?

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Speaker 3: That's That's where I'm at to, Like, I take a

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Speaker 3: look at the Steelers schedule, and I think those first

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Speaker 3: three weeks are pretty important. You got good start to

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Speaker 3: a good start against the Jets. You know, Seattle, who

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Speaker 3: was okay last year, has been open. Yes, they've been

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Speaker 3: okay consistently, Like they can win nine or ten games,

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Speaker 3: you know, pretty pretty consistently, eight, nine, ten, wins New England.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think we are both fans, you a little bit

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Speaker 3: more so than me, but I think we're both fans

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Speaker 3: of Drake May absolutely, Like I do think New England

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Speaker 3: is taking the first couple right steps, but they could

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Speaker 3: still easily pick in the top ten again again this year. Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: obviously it gets very difficult. And then buy and then

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Speaker 3: bye week. Those first three games are pretty important to me,

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Speaker 3: and so.

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Speaker 4: Three and one would go a long way at the buy.

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Speaker 5: Because boy, they played those six snaps in that third week.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 3: We're all like scratching and itching and feening for our

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Speaker 5: And I can't stress this enough, and unfortunately I wasn't there,

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Speaker 4: That's real football stuff.

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Speaker 2: Again, timeline blurred.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it happens every year. I mean, I fall forward.

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Speaker 3: Nation Radio, Matt, it has I think we're fully in

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Speaker 5: or their version of a scornic, somebody that can, you know,

443
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Speaker 5: get your jersey dirty. You can't just wait for three

444
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Speaker 5: guys to get hurt to have any value but I

445
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 5: think there's a couple of ways to look at it,

446
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Speaker 5: and I'm with you is I don't want to compete

447
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Speaker 5: with another team for him if it's truly what you want.

448
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Speaker 2: Especially his former team was right, one of those unicorns,

449
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Speaker 2: a quarterback that.

450
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Speaker 4: You assume he enjoyed the time with.

451
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Speaker 5: You know, they're a contender, superstar quarterback, and I don't

452
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Speaker 5: want to have to pay more for them to keep

453
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Speaker 5: them than if it was a four million dollar deal.

454
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Speaker 4: And now is at six.

455
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Speaker 5: You know that that makes things a little hairy. But

456
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Speaker 5: a team that knows him extremely well, Buffalo must think

457
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Speaker 5: he's healthy.

458
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Speaker 2: Now, that's a good point.

459
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Speaker 5: That's what it was a positive I was thinking about it.

460
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Speaker 5: Of of course, the Steeler doctors might be looking at

461
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Speaker 5: him as we speak. They definitely will examine the knee

462
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Speaker 5: to no end while he's here, and I think that's

463
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Speaker 5: the biggest reason he's walking in the door. But maybe

464
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Speaker 5: multiple teams think, oh, he's ready to go now, you know,

465
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Speaker 5: so that might be a good thing health wise. And

466
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Speaker 5: it also is an agent trick, you know, like one.

467
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Speaker 4: Hundred percent yeah, like.

468
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Speaker 5: Right right right, I mean, I'm gonna throw it out there.

469
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Speaker 5: But hey, while we're in this neck of the woods,

470
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Speaker 5: we might as well catch a flight to Buffalo, and

471
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Speaker 5: we got to visit set up with those guys, So

472
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Speaker 5: don't let me out of the building. You don't know

473
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Speaker 5: what's going to happen, you know. So maybe there's yeah,

474
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Speaker 5: agents leak these things to the shifters.

475
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Speaker 4: Et cetera, etc.

476
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Speaker 5: It's all a game that And I'm not saying a

477
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Speaker 5: visit isn't set up. I'm sure it is.

478
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Speaker 2: But yeah, that looked like pretty credible reports.

479
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but they may have a deal

480
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 5: set up here anyway without that dus Yeah.

481
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

482
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 3: Also Jalen McMillan, of course, who we saw get injured.

483
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Speaker 3: Was it with on that collision with Pierre I want

484
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Speaker 3: to say, Yeah, just kind of a bang bang scary

485
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Speaker 3: play there where he ended up on his neck.

486
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Speaker 5: Uh.

487
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Speaker 3: Just reported that he is going to be going on

488
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Speaker 3: I R with a severely sprained neck and could be

489
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Speaker 3: out past the Bucks week nine bye week. So nothing

490
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Speaker 3: insanely credible here, but not from a bunch of Jabbroni's either,

491
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Speaker 3: suggesting that Tampa Bay might be interested in bringing in

492
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Speaker 3: Gabe Davis for a visit as well too, because they

493
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Speaker 3: still have Mike Evans on the pop list.

494
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Speaker 4: Godwin's far from ready right now?

495
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Speaker 3: Maybe sorry, Yeah, maybe I was getting confused. Godwin's on

496
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Speaker 3: the pup list.

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Speaker 2: Sorry yep.

498
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Speaker 5: So they've Buka and Evans right now the starters. They

499
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Speaker 5: also have Sterling Shepherd.

500
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Speaker 3: And they've got some good depth, like they might be

501
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Speaker 3: a wide receiver room that could some hits.

502
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Speaker 2: But now if you're gonna have two guys.

503
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Speaker 5: Out of them, might even try to trade a Shepherd

504
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 5: or a McMillan, but now no chance.

505
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Speaker 2: But again, I mean that is see them bring a

506
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Speaker 2: guy in.

507
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that might also all too kind of play into

508
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Speaker 3: some of the It's it's funny how these things work

509
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Speaker 3: and how the market can heat up all of a sudden.

510
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: You know, John Mechi's on the move, and so there

511
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 3: goes maybe a team that that someone thought could deal.

512
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 2: A wide receiver. It's not going anywhere now, And someone goes.

513
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Speaker 3: On IR and then there goes a team that maybe

514
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Speaker 3: somebody thought could could you know, deal a wide receiver,

515
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, the you know, couple people

516
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Speaker 3: that haven't been asked to dance yet it prom or

517
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 3: starting to look more attractive.

518
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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe we'll hear like Amari Cooper's name again or

519
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 5: something like that soon, and I would bet too. This

520
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 5: is about that time that the players are starting to

521
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,239
Speaker 5: get antsy too, like thee going, yeah, you're texting your

522
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 5: agent like I kind of wish I had home by now,

523
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Speaker 5: you know. And oh, by the way, the riggers of

524
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 5: training camp are done. I don't have to put up

525
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 5: with that stuff if you're a Mary Cooper and don't

526
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Speaker 5: want to deal with it or whatever.

527
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Speaker 4: And maybe all this is agent driven in.

528
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 5: That it's just all right, Steelers' we've been flirting with

529
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 5: each other now for a month. We have a deal

530
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,239
Speaker 5: pretty much in place. Put up or shut up on

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Speaker 5: this Tuesday. I don't want to have to.

532
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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to wait until next week.

533
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Speaker 5: Right, Let's put your feet to the fire a little bit,

534
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Speaker 5: you know.

535
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Speaker 2: I think that.

536
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Speaker 3: I mean again, all these things would make sense. These

537
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: are all things that we've seen before and a lot

538
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 3: of times too. There is I don't even know if

539
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 3: handshake agreement is the right way, but almost like the

540
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Speaker 3: Rogers timeline of like there's a conference. We don't have

541
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Speaker 3: an exact date or deadline in mind, but there's a

542
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Speaker 3: confidence between both parties that it will get done, and yeah,

543
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 3: that could be involved here and maybe you know, the

544
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 3: agent and the player trying to and I'm sure.

545
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Speaker 4: The knee was still a bit of an issue, which

546
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Speaker 4: makes sense.

547
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Speaker 3: It makes sense so like early November when he had

548
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Speaker 3: that knee injury, which would that yeah about early November,

549
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Speaker 3: and so yeah that's not you know, weeks seventeen.

550
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Speaker 5: But that's not work two either, right, that timeline adds

551
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Speaker 5: up timeline just getting healthy.

552
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Speaker 3: But I didn't think of that kind of final I

553
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Speaker 3: didn't think of that kind of final piece that that

554
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 3: you had discussed. But uh, maybe Buffalo wanted to get

555
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 3: a look at him too, is a good sign. Yeah,

556
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 3: maybe in terms of his health and you know that

557
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Speaker 3: guy being ready to go and be a real contributor

558
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Speaker 3: come September.

559
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Speaker 5: I never knew exactly how those things happened because like

560
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Speaker 5: the logistics of it all, because like Gabe Davis is

561
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Speaker 5: currently unemployed, but somebody's working on his knee and he's

562
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Speaker 5: rehabbing it somewhere, and I'm sure there's some doctor report,

563
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Speaker 5: X rays whatever, you know, MRIs whatever that they could

564
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Speaker 5: send teams to be like see, look, I'm I'm a

565
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Speaker 5: good shape you know. I mean, I assume the agent

566
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Speaker 5: has some sort of medical staff or his local doctor

567
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Speaker 5: or whoever. I just don't know how that exactly works.

568
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,040
Speaker 5: It's probably a short, easier answer than I know. But

569
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Speaker 5: I assume there's some kind of proof that I could

570
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,719
Speaker 5: send all these teams saying, look, it's better than it

571
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 5: was three months ago. You know, here's where it was torn,

572
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 5: here's my latest scan, blah blah blah.

573
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Speaker 3: You know.

574
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then teams are certainly like, oh, well that

575
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 4: mads up.

576
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 2: Come on in one hundred percent, and it's getting to

577
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Speaker 2: be about that time.

578
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is getting to be about that time.

579
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Speaker 3: And so this is another one that we will continue

580
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Speaker 3: to keep an eye on. I doubt by the time

581
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Speaker 3: we go off air, what a little over an hour

582
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Speaker 3: from now, I don't think we'll have a Gave Davis finality.

583
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 3: But by the time we get to Friday and get

584
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Speaker 3: back on the show, there there might be.

585
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 5: There might be, And I would like to see him signed.

586
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 5: I think it makes him a better football team. Yeah,

587
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 5: you know, that doesn't include a draft pick or anything.

588
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 5: You don't lose anything. But also if he leaves and

589
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 5: signs with the Bills, tonight. The world will keep spitting

590
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 5: to you know. I mean, you can find somebody else too.

591
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 5: You know he's it's not him or done.

592
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 2: You know it is not.

593
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Speaker 3: But as you and as you mentioned too, like you

594
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Speaker 3: want to make make sure you get the right guy,

595
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 3: because you're gonna get one swing at this.

596
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 4: That's the other thing we talked about that before too, Like.

597
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: You're not going to step into the batter's box a

598
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 3: few times now. You pretty much to play one time,

599
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 3: and you better.

600
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 4: At least right guy at the right price.

601
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: You better at least slap a single into the gap.

602
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 4: Right right, right right. If you think you've something else

603
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 4: lined up and you prefer it, well, then so be it.

604
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 4: You know that's fine, Yeah, no doubt.

605
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Speaker 3: Let's get to our another break here and we come

606
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Speaker 3: back on the other side. Some more kind of around

607
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Speaker 3: the league NFL news that I wanted to touch on

608
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Speaker 3: with you as well. Some another team with kind of

609
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Speaker 3: a prominent quarterback race named a name day starting quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into that some other news and notes from

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Speaker 3: across the NFL. To close down the first hour of

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Speaker 3: the show, Well Shuler, Matt Williamson, it is the drive

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Speaker 3: here on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network,

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Speaker 3: Your Tunes.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Final segment of the first hour here on this episode

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Speaker 3: edition show of the Drive, as we're getting closer and

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Speaker 3: closer to the final preseason dress rehearsal for the Steelers

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Speaker 3: Thursday night down in Charlotte against the Carolina Panthers. Before

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Speaker 3: we kind of reset at the next hour, Matt, maybe

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Speaker 3: some final kind of around the league things to kick

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Speaker 3: around for you here. And the Colts pretty substantial news

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Speaker 3: naming their starting quarterback. You know, we kind of talked

626
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Speaker 3: about this with the Browns yesterday, you know, going with

627
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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, the Colts tabbing I should say almost said nabbing,

628
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Speaker 3: but that would imply that, like they just signed him,

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Speaker 3: they've had him, tabbing Daniel Jones as their starter over

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Speaker 3: the young Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 2: Surprised a little.

632
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Speaker 5: I thought all ties would go to Richardson. Now maybe

633
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 5: they still would. And it's not a tie, you know,

634
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Speaker 5: I mean so, I think it's pretty uninspiring and not

635
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 5: what you want to hear as a Colts fan, because

636
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 5: Richardson was what the fifth pick in the draft. Yeah,

637
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 5: not that long ago. Really an experience coming out of Florida.

638
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 5: You knew he was going to take time, and he

639
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 5: hasn't progressed the way you want to say the least.

640
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 5: Now I feel for the kid. I said, it's on

641
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 5: different podcasts, Like I understand that I don't feel bad

642
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 5: for someone when they lose their job. You get beat,

643
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes you got to the lion eats the

644
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 5: antelope too, and you know the only one can survive

645
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 5: and all that kind of good stuff. You know, the

646
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 5: lion needs to eat as well. But in this instance,

647
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 5: I really feel bad for Richardson because he just can't

648
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 5: stay on the field. You know, it's injury after injury,

649
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 5: and right when he starts to show progress, something else

650
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 5: fails his body or whatever. And some of it's his

651
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 5: style play, and he took a big hit in the

652
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 5: preseason because he didn't recognize the blitz. So some of

653
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 5: those things are on him, but some of us just

654
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 5: bad luck. And he needs to play football as much

655
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Speaker 5: as possible. Yeah, why I say it's uninspiring?

656
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 4: Though? Is Daniel Jones?

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Speaker 2: To me?

658
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Speaker 5: I was never a fan coming out of school. I

659
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Speaker 5: wouldn't have resigned him when the Giants gave him a

660
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Speaker 5: big contract. I think he's a backup all day long,

661
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Speaker 5: and he turns a lot of plays down, you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot of guys coming open down

663
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 5: the field that he checks it down or runs or whatever.

664
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 5: And to me, it just doesn't give the team a

665
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 5: high ceiling at all. I mean, probably not even a

666
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 5: playoff type ceiling. And yes it raises the floor, but

667
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 5: and maybe they even will have a Richardson package, you know,

668
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 5: get him in there and he can throw bombs and

669
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 5: run the football and blah blah blah. But all in all,

670
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 5: him not winning the job or being the award of

671
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 5: the job is not what you want and probably means

672
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 5: that they will be quarterback market next year. And it

673
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 5: wouldn't shock me if they go back and forth three

674
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 5: times over the course of the year in a row

675
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 5: and then put Richardson in and then you you know,

676
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 5: it doesn't go well and Jones comes in and side

677
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 5: note on the Colts, we haven't brought this up, but

678
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 5: I think their offense is pretty stacked. I mean, Jonathan

679
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 5: Taylor's really good back. They have a good line, one

680
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: of the better lines in the league. It's not great,

681
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 5: but it's good.

682
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 4: Line.

683
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 5: They just drafted a first round tight end, but they

684
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 5: have four receivers I want.

685
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 4: Pierce is a.

686
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 5: Free agent after the year, and in a way, he's

687
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 5: a lot like Gabe Davis as a downfield long strider

688
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 5: type dude. And Pittman's a little expensive. But I wonder

689
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 5: if you could pry away a receiver from those guys,

690
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 5: especially if things go bad the first two or three

691
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 5: weeks of the year.

692
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 4: Who knows, you know, but I don't.

693
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 5: I just wanted to throw them out as another team

694
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 5: that might have an extra receiver for you. Yeah, I

695
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 5: drafted Mitchell Downs is really underrated and a very very

696
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 5: good player too. But as a Colts fan, I don't

697
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 5: think you're thrilled about this at all. You know, like

698
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 5: you want your young talented guy to be developing, and

699
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 5: it just hasn't happened at all.

700
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: No, it hasn't.

701
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: And again, I think in some situations, like you said,

702
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the National Football League, Like, there's

703
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: no there's no friendly, warm, fuzzy feelings. It's all about

704
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 3: the results that you produce. But I also think they

705
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: took him knowing that he was a project quarterback, you're better.

706
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 5: I mean, like when you're sitting there in draft meetings,

707
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 5: no one could have been like, oh, he's ready.

708
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: He wasn't Kenny Pickett like a four year, five year.

709
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 4: Start, right, He barely played that.

710
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: He's started fifteen games for the Colts so far in

711
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 3: his career, some of its injuries.

712
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 4: But you had to be patient with this guy, and

713
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 4: you have been patient with him.

714
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 3: You know, Daniel Jones has close to seventy starts in

715
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 3: the National Football League.

716
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: Okay, Like that to me is I would rather do

717
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: it the other way around.

718
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 3: I would rather let Anthony start the season off and

719
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 3: if we're going to make a quarterback change.

720
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: Then we'll go to Daniel Jones.

721
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, not like, let's go the set, because I think

722
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: you could certainly argue Daniel Jones has a higher floor

723
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 3: than Anthony. But I don't think that's how I don't

724
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: think that's how you approach the start.

725
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 4: Of the season or even this position in general.

726
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 5: You know, like when we start talking about the Steelers

727
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 5: next quarterback or whatever, I want guys with superpowers, I

728
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 5: don't want. That was my problem with the picket Pick

729
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 5: at the time, you know, was I just don't see

730
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 5: enough upside here.

731
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: If he hits, I don't want high floor. I want this.

732
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 4: I want to cling.

733
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 5: And that's why you give Richardson every every bit of

734
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 5: the benefit of the doubt, because if he hits, and

735
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 5: maybe it's a smaller percentage, I can then compete with

736
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 5: Josh Allen and these guys, you know, because he has

737
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 5: remarkable physical traits. So in a way, this move, though,

738
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 5: also kind of reminds me of the Browns Flaco move.

739
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 5: I think it's somewhat.

740
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 2: Of a maybe an insulation, a little bit save.

741
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 5: Your job to you know, like I as a coach

742
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 5: on the hot seat, I don't have time to develop

743
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 5: this dude, get me to seven wins.

744
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 3: I get out to a one and four, start right, I'm.

745
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 5: Here, and everyone's we call them for the young guy anyways,

746
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 5: and be out of my hands.

747
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 4: I don't have to put him in.

748
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 5: And I don't know, I mean, it's part of it

749
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 5: is just the Steeler DNA and me of job security

750
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 5: of a head coach. But I don't know that you

751
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 5: always make the right decisions for the franchise when you're

752
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 5: worried about your personal ability to keep a job, you

753
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Yes, you know what I mean, Like,

754
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 5: what's best for the Colts, what's best for the Browns?

755
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: No, you're just trying to win some games.

756
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to survive here. I'm thinking about what's

757
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 5: best for head coach.

758
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 3: And that to me is one of I think the

759
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: scariest places you can be as a fan. Yeah, right,

760
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: because you could say that about the Colts this year,

761
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: could say it about Kevin Stefanski and the Browns, Like,

762
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 3: are we really going to do what's best by figuring

763
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 3: out if one of these two.

764
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks can play?

765
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

766
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: Are we just trying to scratch a claw and win

767
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 2: seven or eight games and save a job just for

768
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: the old guy out there, you know, stable with the Giants?

769
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 3: Right Like, are we really going to do what's best

770
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 3: to see if Jackson Dark can be the guy? Or

771
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: are we just going to try and ryd Russell Wilson

772
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 3: to eight or nine wins and stay in the playoff

773
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: hunt and.

774
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 2: Save some jobs?

775
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 4: Right right? Right?

776
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: Like that's a tough place to be as a fan,

777
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: it is.

778
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 5: It's a tough place to be, and it's a tough

779
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 5: place to be as a coach. And you have kids

780
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 5: and you don't want to pull my get it.

781
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: That's the thing that people forget about sports all the time, right,

782
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 3: is because humans, they're they're they're humans.

783
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: With kids and families and job security.

784
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 3: They've got way less job security than the average person

785
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 3: in general, no matter what you do, no matter what,

786
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 3: no matter what, unless you are like they're the ultra rare,

787
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 3: you know, Mike Tomlin, right like they're ninety eight percent

788
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 3: of these guys are already moving jobs every couple of

789
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 3: years just because the nature of the thing.

790
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 5: It's really hard on the families, et cetera. And obviously,

791
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,959
Speaker 5: these head coaches will be a football coach somewhere next year.

792
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 5: It's not like the Cartneggie Mellon running back coach gets

793
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 5: fired and all of a sudden, I can't do this

794
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 5: for a living anymore, you know, right right, I mean,

795
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 5: they paid their dues to get to this point.

796
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: It certainly is part of the nature to make it

797
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 2: fun of the job too.

798
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 3: You know, you know that if you get into coaching,

799
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 3: that there's a real good chance that the longest you're

800
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 3: ever going to be in a spot is four, five, six,

801
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 3: seven years before you either upgrade and move elsewhere or

802
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 3: you get fired and are looking elsewhere, the whole coaching

803
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 3: staff gets let go those type of things.

804
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's interesting, like it.

805
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 3: Is not always the same kind of tunnel vision of

806
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 3: what gives us the best chance to get to the

807
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 3: playoffs and win playoff games, you know, like it is

808
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh.

809
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: Big picture, what's best for the organization stuff, you.

810
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 2: Know, exactly right, exactly right.

811
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 3: So that's another, you know, kind of one of those

812
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 3: things that plays into these decisions as well.

813
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 5: Certainly, now this is a real squint considering where these

814
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 5: teams are at. But when you look at the Steelers

815
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 5: in the AFC, there's a lot of formidable quarterbacks, to say,

816
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 5: the least two of them in your division. The four

817
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 5: best guys are all in the AFC. These moves, I

818
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 5: mean again, I'm really squinting here, folks, that chances are

819
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 5: their teams. Don't think should or or Gabriel or Richardson

820
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 5: is the next Mahomes, you know, like maybe that's two

821
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 5: land mines that you've avoided for now in the conference

822
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 5: that might not have a superpower quarterback, you know, like

823
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 5: Tennessee distracted on first overall, we don't know if he's

824
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 5: good or bad, but he might be great. You know,

825
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 5: if Richardson was thrown out there now, like I can

826
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 5: at least write a story where he's great. Him might

827
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 5: not be super believable today, but it's possible if he's

828
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 5: on the bench. He's not great that much.

829
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 4: I know.

830
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: Uh, this is yeah, that's it. It's again. There is

831
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 2: no right answer. There's no perfect night.

832
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 3: There's no perfect, easy blueprint blanket way to do this

833
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 3: or else everybody would do it. Yeah, that was just

834
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: that that caught my eye a little bit. That's that's appasing.

835
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 3: And I know, listen, I understand the cults. Even if

836
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 3: everything went as perfect as possible pie in the sky

837
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 3: for their quarterbacks situation, I don't think anyone's calling them

838
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 3: a super Bowl contender. No, But like that division is

839
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 3: also pretty wide open. I mean, I know Houston has

840
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: been solid the last year players. I don't think Houston

841
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 3: is like the turned into the the you know, perennial

842
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 3: contender slash favorite that a lot of people assumed they

843
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 3: would last year. That doesn't mean that they still can't

844
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 3: this year. But it's a pretty wide open division where

845
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 3: you know, nine wins might have had you in potential

846
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 3: ten wins certainly, Yeah, that'll be an interesting one to follow.

847
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: And of course, like you know, it's not early in

848
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 3: the season. It's what is it, week nine or ten?

849
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 3: I think when the Steelers host Indianapolis first weekend in November. Okay,

850
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 3: so four, five, six, seven, eight, it's week nine that

851
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 3: Indy comes to Pittsburgh.

852
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 4: And the Browns are week six.

853
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: The Browns are week six.

854
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: I would if I was Mike Persuda, you know, and

855
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 3: constantly on my sports book app and trying to get

856
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: some action, I think I would take the both of

857
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: those teams making a quarterback change by the time that

858
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 3: by the time they head to Pittsburgh.

859
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: I.

860
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 5: Think there's a better chance than not that Jones and

861
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 5: Flacco don't start against Steelers, yeah yeah, or that somebody

862
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 5: else has been in by then, especially both, Especially if

863
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 5: Flacco and Jones both start in Pittsburgh, I would be shocked.

864
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 5: And I think we went over the Browns first five

865
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 5: games of the year before they played Pittstard. It couldn't

866
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 5: be working there. And they're coming, they're all playoff tams.

867
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 5: They're at Detroit, they're at the Baltimore.

868
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 4: They opened with Stincy. It's brutal, and then they're there.

869
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bay is one of them, and and they also

870
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 5: play the Vikings week five overseas after the Vikings had

871
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 5: already been there.

872
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 2: After we'll be staying there already for nine or ten days.

873
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 5: And then Browns will get a buye after there. There

874
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 5: they come straight from England to Pittsburgh. Like they don't

875
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 5: even have a home game, they don't have a bye after,

876
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 5: and they don't have a home.

877
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 2: Man, that's kind of hot.

878
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 3: As much as much as my heart does not weep

879
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 3: for them, that's.

880
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 4: That's been a pretty hard, wonderful time to play the Browns.

881
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 5: I'm probably going to be going five with some other

882
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: quarterback weary from going over while you're coming off a bye.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'd say the NFL O the Steelers that

884
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Speaker 3: one after what they did down the stretch last year.

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Speaker 2: But man, that is if we were on Cleveland Nation

886
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: Radio just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

887
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Speaker 2: We would be rightfully talking about how we were hard

888
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 2: done by the schedule makers on that one.

889
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 4: The first six games. It's like somebody had it out.

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Speaker 2: For the Browns.

891
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Speaker 4: I mean it's bad, It's real bad.

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Speaker 5: Last note on Jones, dude, Like I'm sure he's the

893
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Speaker 5: more stable guy. He's a veteran, he's started a lot

894
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Speaker 5: more games. As you mentioned, he's.

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Speaker 4: Considered a pretty cerebral dude all in all, duke guy. Smart.

896
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Speaker 5: But Richardson's been in this system his whole life. Jones

897
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Speaker 5: just got there this year, you know. I mean it's

898
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Speaker 5: not like he's the old backup that's been there as

899
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Speaker 5: a ten year dude in the system.

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Speaker 2: No, he's a kind of on maybe his final final

901
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 2: career crossroads as well too, although as you mentioned, like

902
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 2: I do think he could stick on as a backup somewhere. Yeah,

903
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Speaker 2: he belongs on a roster of no, no question fair,

904
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Speaker 2: just his career crossroads as a starter.

905
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Speaker 5: But I bet both those teams are in the quarterback

906
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Speaker 5: market next year, and that's something we'll start talking about

907
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Speaker 5: a lot, probably in the off season, and I've even

908
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 5: done shows.

909
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Speaker 2: About it, like who's going to be in the quarterback.

910
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 5: Who of the Steelers competing with to get draftable quarterbacks?

911
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Speaker 5: And I bet the Colts and Browns are two of them.

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Speaker 3: It'd be nice if Cleveland took their name off that list.

913
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Speaker 3: As much as as much as we like to clown

914
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Speaker 3: the Browns in point and laugh.

915
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Speaker 5: It wouldn't be terrible if Shador showed enough to say

916
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Speaker 5: one they could do. I think you're right, like Gabriel

917
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 5: to me is a lifetime backup. I don't think picking

918
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Speaker 5: or flat Goos convincing anyone that boy.

919
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Speaker 2: We're going to turn the guy for the next.

920
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 5: Second quarterback in the draft. But maybe Sanders could. It'd

921
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 5: be nice to get some people off.

922
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: The It would be nice to get some people off

923
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Speaker 3: the list. That absolutely would And again.

924
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 4: I know, Richardsons the only way the Colts could come off.

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Speaker 2: Richardson's the only It'd be great if both of them

926
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Speaker 2: came Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And there's a lot of season left they could

928
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Speaker 5: Sanders and Richardson both might be inserted as starters.

929
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Speaker 4: We eate and finish the season.

930
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 5: Great and be like we're rolling with these guys, but

931
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Speaker 5: it's not promising right now that they won't be in

932
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Speaker 5: the market.

933
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Speaker 3: A great point by you that like, as soon as

934
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Speaker 3: we hit the off season, whenever that happens in January

935
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Speaker 3: or February, that will be one of the first things

936
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Speaker 3: we're all looking at all, Right, what's the draft order

937
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 3: right now? And how many of those teams in front

938
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Speaker 3: of the Steelers need quarterbacks.

939
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Speaker 4: Who's going to be shopping for quarterbacks this year?

940
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: Certainly that'll be something we keep an eye on. Not soon,

941
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 2: but soon, I'm right now without a doubt.

942
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Speaker 3: Maybe even like a bye weeks and things like that

943
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: when everybody needs talking points and content to fill. But

944
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Speaker 3: that'll do it for the first hour of the drive.

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Speaker 3: Second hour coming at you on the other.

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Speaker 2: Side, Matt. Interesting thing posted by the Athletic oh.

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Speaker 4: I saw that was pretty cool.

948
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Speaker 3: They pulled NFL personnel and asked them to rank their

949
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Speaker 3: best players in the NFL twenty five.

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Speaker 4: And under yes, Yes, I saw that.

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Speaker 3: That's very cool, pretty interesting list that I want to

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Speaker 3: get into with you, along with some other things as

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Speaker 3: we roll along here into.

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Speaker 4: I just break the mouse breaking here.

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Speaker 2: I think they probably definitely heard that one. Get picked

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Speaker 2: up on the microphone and just drop the mouse. We're

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Speaker 2: all good.

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Speaker 3: Still works one hour in the books, I'll be able

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Speaker 3: to click the buttons to get us on air for

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Speaker 3: hour number two.

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Speaker 4: If we don't show up for hour number two, you

962
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Speaker 4: know why we're going.

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Speaker 2: We're going.

964
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Speaker 4: We're broke over there.

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Speaker 3: If it's a if it's a twenty minute commercial break,

966
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: it because I'm running the best buy to get a

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Speaker 3: new mouse.

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Speaker 2: It's the Drive on Steelers station radio.