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

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Alley here with Matt Williams.

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Speaker 1: And we'd say rainy Wednesday here in Pittsburgh, but lots

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Speaker 1: of stuff happening. The Steelers making their roster cuts to

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Speaker 1: fifty three yesterday, adding some practice squad players today, seasons

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Speaker 1: right around a quarter. You mentioned it's rainy. It's a

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Speaker 1: big day here. It's September one. You know, kids are

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Speaker 1: back in school. Um, for those that don't know, when

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Speaker 1: I come to the studio, I pretty much always have

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Speaker 1: a T shirt and like you know, it's usually flip

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Speaker 1: flops and always shorts. You're dress like a bum. And

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Speaker 1: I was chilly today and like this feels like football.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of wet and rainy. It's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: wet and nasty in this area the country at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But I'm loving it because it feels like fall for

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Speaker 1: September rolls in and preseason is done. You know, all

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Speaker 1: the moves we're seeing around the league are you know,

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Speaker 1: tweaks to rosters and some you know sort of big decisions.

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's interesting. I guess there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of waiver claims. I mean, people are building practice squads.

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Speaker 1: So this next two weeks I think will be kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting. And the other thing is, meanwhile, all the

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Speaker 1: coaches are getting two weeks to really dig into their

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Speaker 1: Week one opponent too. You know, so there's a lot

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Speaker 1: going on. There is a lot going on. Um, in

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Speaker 1: case you missed it yesterday, obviously if you're a Steelers fan,

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Speaker 1: you probably didn't. But they cut the roster. Yeah, anything

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Speaker 1: jump out to you about the final fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 1: I did a little synopsis on every player on the

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Speaker 1: We could do that if you want, I mean, or

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Speaker 1: every position group. I mean, to answer your question, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see b J. Finney coming. I didn't. That was

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Speaker 1: the one that kind of shocked me. The rest of them,

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Speaker 1: like I could kind of see, uh, you know that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you don't keep Quincy Rochet. That was no real surprise,

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Speaker 1: right right right? They were deep there. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see Finny. That one shocked me. Yeah, in terms

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Speaker 1: I have guessed there fifty three No, but I came

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Speaker 1: pretty close. Yeah, right, right right, And you know that

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Speaker 1: one was a tough one for me. Um, I'm worried

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Speaker 1: about the old line, to be honest, Um corner, I

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Speaker 1: wish there was a little more there to sink your

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Speaker 1: teeth in too. But we'll see. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the roster moves that they made, they kept eight defensive linemen.

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Speaker 1: Team usually only keeps six maybe seven. Um, they kept eight.

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Speaker 1: That's alls, and and they've they've now acknowledged just the

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Speaker 1: stuff on two. It's dealing with a knee injury. That's

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Speaker 1: he's got some soreness in his knee. So that's let's

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Speaker 1: just start there then, because they're not gonna line up

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Speaker 1: all those guys are three d pounders or more. They're

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Speaker 1: not like you know on some teams, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not like the Eagles keep ten defensive linemen and

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Speaker 1: the edge. Edge guys are a lot different than the

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Speaker 1: heart grave. You know, these are all big people that

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Speaker 1: will see three of them on the field at times,

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Speaker 1: you know, probably with some regularity, you'll see two most

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Speaker 1: of the time. Doubtful you ever see one but maybe

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Speaker 1: they have a NASCAR package where Ingram goes inside. So

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Speaker 1: that's why they usually keep six and on a rare occasion,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned seven and not all six are usually

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Speaker 1: even active on game day. So what that tells me?

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Speaker 1: And tell me if you disagree. They just really liked

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Speaker 1: those players, you know, the guys like bugs that people

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Speaker 1: part of the organization. Yeah, I mean there's some of that,

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Speaker 1: But I also think that the two at injury played

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Speaker 1: an outside shot he's not even active in Week one?

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Speaker 1: I could understand. Yeah, I think that that's a possibility.

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Speaker 1: They could weather that they play in Week one Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: He played thirty three snaps through three passes. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: like it hasn't changed. You know, they're gonna throw, and

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it'd be great to have to it. But

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Speaker 1: it's not a bad opening opponent to be without one

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Speaker 1: at this point, Hayward and Lulu maybe mix in some

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Speaker 1: anything with him? First of all, he's on a list.

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Speaker 1: He's not on any lists, so you know, until that happens,

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Speaker 1: I mean, ideally, I don't think you want eight fifty

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of time for those guys. Those guys

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Speaker 1: But which is why they initially started doing that with

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Speaker 1: blowing somebody into next week. Yeah, that there is more value.

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Speaker 1: There was a tackle. Mondu didn't get credit for the tackle,

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Speaker 1: block him like five yards backwards, just completely disrupted the return.

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Speaker 1: You know, those aren't the guys you want chopping your

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Speaker 1: And people don't think about this, but the coverage team

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. So both those guys, do those

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Speaker 1: squad at some point. But injuries will happen and happen,

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Speaker 1: and just obviously the problem is if you have eight

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Speaker 1: the other ones at cornerback, right, which aren't positions of strength.

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Speaker 1: can play, yeah, and I would imagine they're always active

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Speaker 1: not ready, then you've only got seven healthy offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: healthy enough for a week one. Absolutely, there's no one

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Speaker 1: first check. You at least get check. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a good way of looking at especially this year

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Speaker 1: with all that space in between. And really, if you're

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Speaker 1: not even active in Buffalo, you better be worried, right

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna add somebody after week one, you know,

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Speaker 1: and somebody's gonna get hurt. And it's just very fluid.

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Speaker 1: The bottom rosters are rough. Yeah, um, so you better

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Speaker 1: be able to play special teams. And I think to me,

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Speaker 1: looking at the Steelers roster and what they did. They

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Speaker 1: kept six inside linebackers. M hm, those are special teams,

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Speaker 1: special teams. That's a serious nod to special teams. They

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Speaker 1: kept you know, four running backs, including Benny Snell. Again

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Speaker 1: a nod to the special teams aspect of it. Um,

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Speaker 1: I expect to be pretty good on teams. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean they they're like their specialists, and I think Smith

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Speaker 1: is a really good coordinator. It doesn't get that type

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Speaker 1: of recognition that he should by Stealer Nation. If you

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Speaker 1: keep that many core type special teamers, you're giving him

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Speaker 1: what he wants. Yeah. I think that that was definitely

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Speaker 1: something that they looked at and said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: our coverage units were really good in the preseason. It

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Speaker 1: didn't matter who we put out there. Um, let's continue

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Speaker 1: to be really good at that. Yeah, keep a strength

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Speaker 1: and we'll figure out the rest of this year. As

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Speaker 1: this goes on. Maybe you had some guys here or there,

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Speaker 1: and you still have those two spots on game days

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Speaker 1: that you can activate guys off your practice squad. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've only got eight offensive linemen on the roster right now.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that they'll go in to get the

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Speaker 1: game on in Buffalo with eight seven have an extra

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Speaker 1: guy available, and it's not the end of the world

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Speaker 1: on game day. Typically that's what you keep act. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is peculiar to me that they have eight defensive linemen,

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Speaker 1: but I just think that that there were really good players,

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Speaker 1: maybe more so than they think that they have six

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Speaker 1: stud inside linebackers. We've been I've been saying all along

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Speaker 1: that one of their toughest cuts was going to be

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Speaker 1: on the defensive line question, and they ended up not

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Speaker 1: cutting any of them. Now, and you wonder they in

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Speaker 1: talks with the team to trade warmly or who knows potential?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's nothing potential. And you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: if all things being equal, let's say to it's available,

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Speaker 1: Well then okay, now you now you get a decision

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Speaker 1: to make. But you didn't. You didn't want to have

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Speaker 1: to make that decision until you had to make the decision.

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Speaker 1: And you've got to realize too. I mean, we keep

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Speaker 1: stressing this that this is a very short term fifty

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Speaker 1: three because you know, not only does week one, but

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Speaker 1: the coaches look at it this way more than the

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Speaker 1: personnel people, that what problems might we have building our

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Speaker 1: game day actives for Buffalo. Well, the lines a little questionable,

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Speaker 1: right now, Let's keep an extra so I can get

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Speaker 1: over that first hurdle of the race, you know, and

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Speaker 1: there's seventeen hurdles, you know. I mean it's you've got

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Speaker 1: to look at a short term, yeah, for sure. And

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Speaker 1: I think with the with the flexibility that the NFL

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Speaker 1: is giving, you know, sixteen guys in the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: including veteran right right, and you can protect some of

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Speaker 1: those names that they can't be signed off your practice

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Speaker 1: squad by somebody else. That roster really your fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster is it's really like a fifty nine to

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Speaker 1: sixty man roster exactly. Yeah. I think that's the way

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Speaker 1: people should look at it. And somebody could come pluck

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Speaker 1: one of those guys off your roster. That could happen,

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Speaker 1: But I mean they're not the best players in the

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Speaker 1: league or anything. No. I mean, if somebody signed somebody

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Speaker 1: off your practice squad, they get to put them on

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Speaker 1: their fifty three man roster and they have to be there,

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Speaker 1: I think for three weeks. I mean, teams like Houston

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Speaker 1: and Detroit should do that, you know. But um, what

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Speaker 1: was I gonna say with that. It's just I think

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Speaker 1: that the roster construction maybe last year took front offices

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Speaker 1: and teams by storm a little bit, like we didn't

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Speaker 1: plan for this, and I don't think anybody really knew

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Speaker 1: how do we best all those spots? And we talked

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Speaker 1: so much before about well, you better keep an extra

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Speaker 1: kicker because you can't get one on a plane, and

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Speaker 1: you know, like all these stenuating things in the world

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Speaker 1: that was going on. What if your partner goes out,

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Speaker 1: you know, oh no, you know, better keep one of those. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think people were kind of sunk in that we

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Speaker 1: just really have bigger rosters, the reality of a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys at our disposal that we may switch in

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Speaker 1: and out depending on the game and injury and who

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Speaker 1: were playing, and those type of guys. I know one

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Speaker 1: guy that they did lose something with the Giants was

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Speaker 1: Quincy Rochet. He was the only draft pick that they

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Speaker 1: didn't keep, and I didn't I didn't have them keeping

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Speaker 1: him on my final fifty three man roster. Jamir Jones

513
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Speaker 1: was better. Jamir Jones deserved it more than but not

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Speaker 1: that it breaks my heart. I mean, the sixth round pick,

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Speaker 1: but I would have liked Rochet to be a Steeler.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he showed enough to be worth it.

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Speaker 1: I could see why the Giants would get them. They

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Speaker 1: probably had a decent grade on them coming out of

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Speaker 1: school and nothing in the preseason changed their mind. They're

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Speaker 1: always looking for edge guys to uh. They're kind of

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Speaker 1: basically a three or four team too. So I wish

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Speaker 1: he was still around. Um B J. Finney's the other name.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was noteworthy. But as of right now,

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Speaker 1: he's not unemployed, right, I mean unless he got picked

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Speaker 1: up off waivers. I haven't nobody. You haven't seen any

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Speaker 1: news of him being but it wouldn't surprise me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's he's an NFL player. He's player, Yeah, he is,

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Speaker 1: and I mean I guess he's been. I mean the

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Speaker 1: last year hasn't been kind to him for his resume,

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Speaker 1: and if you don't know him or watched every snap,

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Speaker 1: but I mean I think he would be a backup

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Speaker 1: guard for somebody, somebody, Yeah, I don't think so. Um,

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Speaker 1: do you have any insight of why he's not around.

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Speaker 1: I just think they want They wanted to aid to

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Speaker 1: keep eight Lyne defensive lineman. Number part of it is

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Speaker 1: the numbers game that beer and simple. I think if

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Speaker 1: they had, you know, apples to apples there, they probably

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Speaker 1: keep him. But they just think Davis or Bugs or

539
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: whoever is better at football or younger and cheaper and

540
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Speaker 1: their backup center. Right, So, I mean all the backup

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Speaker 1: spots are dealt with. I know people are looking at

542
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: this and they don't have a backup interior offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: That's what Joe Haig does and say, hey, you can

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Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, but I bet their eyes are open

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Speaker 1: for one. Yeah, well there's no doubt, yeah, without question. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean the line is a little concerning. It's been

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Speaker 1: concerning all camp. Why should this be any difference here? Right, No,

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Speaker 1: you're right, I guess I guess it's just now that

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Speaker 1: there's a deadline, it scares me more. I kept thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of practice, chooks will look better,

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00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: Banner will get out there, you know, and they're not

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Speaker 1: getting any of those answers. So I mean I've see

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Speaker 1: it more and more damn more. Yeah, Uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally.

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