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

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

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly, he

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. And Matt grig Rosenthal put together, as he

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Speaker 1: does every year, the nfl GM Power rankings, and well

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Speaker 1: it's a little different this year for the Steelers. Every

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Speaker 1: other year, Kevin Colbert's usually in the top three somewhere,

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Speaker 1: but this year, because well, Omarkon is brand spanking new

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Speaker 1: but still he ends up being in one of the

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Speaker 1: guys who is too new to judge at this point,

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Speaker 1: because remember this draft will be the first draft for

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Speaker 1: other newer guys, like the rest of the guys who

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Speaker 1: guys who've already gone through a draft. Yeah, people don't

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Speaker 1: con So what's interesting to me is, unlike you we

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Speaker 1: and because the bodies of work were so extensive, I

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Speaker 1: also think I could get a lot. I feel a

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Speaker 1: lot more comfortable judging a coach after watching him, you know,

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Speaker 1: coach for one rookie season as a coach than a

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Speaker 1: bigger body work to judge gms than I do head coaches.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like you need to see a couple of drafts,

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Speaker 1: a couple of off seasons. What are the trends? You know,

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Speaker 1: what what does this this? You know, institution value? You know,

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Speaker 1: like Philadelphia obviously loves Lineman, you know, I mean things

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Speaker 1: in regards to the Steelers general manager position. Um, there's

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing how this works. You. I mean, Art Rooney,

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Speaker 1: he the buck stops there. So when you talk about

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Speaker 1: that's a that's an organizational philosophy, not not somebody that

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Speaker 1: like mister Rooney had a lot to say with should

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Speaker 1: mister Rooney or he said every day. That's he has

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And it is the family business. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure the Rooney's family has other financial interests, but they

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Speaker 1: Right now. This is not something that they do just

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Speaker 1: I says former general manager Kevin Colbert, who always ranked

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Speaker 1: Cornerback Patrick Peterson and linebacker Cole Holcomb are the type

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Speaker 1: of mid market veterans the Steelers have signed in recent

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Speaker 1: off seasons, and they make a lot more sense. Avoiding

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Speaker 1: free agency entirely is not a winning strategy anymore, and

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Speaker 1: the Steelers recognize that. And I think that's a that's

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Speaker 1: You're not trading for a twenty eight year old. You're

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Speaker 1: trading for a twenty two year old. Yeah, And that's

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Speaker 1: can it's it's having Mahomes is almost a cheat code

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Speaker 1: for that exactly. I mean, I bet I could coach

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Speaker 1: different than trading up from Mahomes. Oh. Absolutely, Holmes wasn't

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Speaker 1: they've done some shrewd things considering they're not massive spenders.

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Speaker 1: right right, number four is Brandon Beans slash Sean McDermott. Really,

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Speaker 1: a good way putting it, you know, like Belichick will

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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna Tomlin's you're gonna you're gonna stick

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Speaker 1: Colbert both thought, I want this guy, you want that guy,

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Speaker 1: I think they've built quite a team. Yeah, well, they

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Speaker 1: story the other day. Everybody's looking for the next brock Purty, really,

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Speaker 1: everybody's looking for the next Duck Hodges. Number six, less

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Speaker 1: he should be low. Yeah. Twenty five is George Peyton

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the huge black market. And then and

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Speaker 1: then hand picked Nathaniel Hackett to be the head coach,

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Speaker 1: a lot of those guys have uphill climbs. You don't

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, But I think I would feel better one

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Speaker 1: Like a year from now when Rosenthal does these ranks

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Speaker 1: Right now after a year, you know, Darren Waller played

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Speaker 1: now a free agent and they you know, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: it could go bad quick. Yeah, hey yeah, you could

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