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Speaker 1: Wilson, Step through.

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Speaker 2: Town. Welcome to Pittsburgh. First of all, take me through

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Speaker 2: the meeting you had last Friday with coach Tomlin, Omar Khan,

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Speaker 2: Art Rooney the second and just everybody, and why when

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Speaker 2: you left it you decided coming to Pittsburgh was for you.

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Speaker 1: It was a no brainer. I think that when you

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Speaker 1: think about coach Tomlin and his success and all the

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Speaker 1: things that he's done with the amazing players that he's had,

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Speaker 1: and the coaching staffs and the people. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to win as as often as he has and

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Speaker 1: he's one of the greatest to ever do it. And

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Speaker 1: to be around him, his energy, his culture that he

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Speaker 1: has here, it was super exciting for me. I was

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Speaker 1: a no brainer for me. And then also, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking to Omar about the vision of what he wants

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Speaker 1: to bring and continue to add to this already great

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Speaker 1: football team and how we want to get there. It

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Speaker 1: was so important for me because you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to be able to win, you know, a couple more

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls the next you know, a few to five

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Speaker 1: years or so, and so you know, it's having that

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Speaker 1: mentality every day, you know, and the players that you're

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Speaker 1: bringing one you want to make sure they match the

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Speaker 1: character of the team that you already have and then

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Speaker 1: as we continue to grow, what that looks like. And

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Speaker 1: so that was really cool to hear. And then meeting

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Speaker 1: you know, mister art ruining himself the second it was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool because you know, he loves this team so much.

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Speaker 1: You can tell that, you know, and we spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time just talking about, you know, what I

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Speaker 1: would bring to the table and vice versa, and the

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Speaker 1: love of this team and where he wants us to go. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, the best part too was walking down the hallway.

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Speaker 1: When you walk down this hallway and you see six

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Speaker 1: trophies and you see the all time greats of this game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have played here and brings chills to you.

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Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to win one and I got got

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Speaker 1: a few more to get and so that's you know,

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Speaker 1: you want to go to a place that that's that

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Speaker 1: cherishes that and knows how to win, and coach Tomlin

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Speaker 1: definitely knows how.

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Speaker 2: Through this organization right up to being that it's a

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Speaker 2: one year deal, do you look at this as a

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Speaker 2: fresh start, approve year or how would you characterize it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at it as as an opportunity. Number one,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a blessing, you know because really for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you think about it to be released,

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Speaker 1: but then to come here and to know that you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna cost very much. And also to the

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Speaker 1: best part about it as we get to add more

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Speaker 1: players and do more things and really, you know, go win,

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Speaker 1: go win now, and that's our focus. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's a cool thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: to be a part of this. I to answer your question, though,

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Speaker 1: I see it as a long term you know goal.

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Speaker 1: I want to be a part of the Pittsburgh community

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Speaker 1: for a really long time and I'm really excited about that.

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Speaker 1: And and hopefully we can add some more championships here.

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Speaker 2: What's it like getting to know some of your new teammates,

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Speaker 2: starting that chemistry, that building.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the best part is is that we got

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Speaker 1: to you know, fellowship together, you know, Big Cam and

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Speaker 1: and Connor and and Friarmoth and I all got together.

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Speaker 1: We had some had some dinner last night, and then

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Speaker 1: to be around some other players and talk to guys

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Speaker 1: like TJ and Minka and spend some time with those

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Speaker 1: guys on FaceTime and and kind of asking them and

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Speaker 1: talking to them a little bit about you know, the

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Speaker 1: culture here and the vision of winning and how their

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Speaker 1: work ethic and vice versa. It was really cool. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just we just bonded right away and that was really fun.

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Speaker 1: And then I think, I think the part of it

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Speaker 1: is too, just being around the city, you know, and

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Speaker 1: me and Sierra got to come in and just look

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Speaker 1: at schools and look at you know, look at places

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Speaker 1: to be and just you know, you know, have dinner

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Speaker 1: and just get to be around some amazing people in

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Speaker 1: the city. And it's definitely a city that I relate to.

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Speaker 1: I saw my parents work really hard, you know. I

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Speaker 1: saw my parents. You know, my mom was at er nurse.

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Speaker 1: You know, she worked late at night, you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of times. And my dad he had to work

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Speaker 1: two jobs at different moments, and just it just it

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Speaker 1: was a hard working, you know family. You know. I

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Speaker 1: just see my parents do everything that they could. And

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Speaker 1: so for me, all I know is hard work and

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Speaker 1: I think the city does too, and that's exciting for

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Speaker 1: me just to be around a lot of like minded people.

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith is new to the Steelers but has a

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Speaker 2: great track record in the National Football League. How does

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Speaker 2: your skill set fit into an Arthur Smith offense?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the multiplicity of what what Arthur calls

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Speaker 1: and what he does and the schemes and the thought process.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been I've been around a lot of

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Speaker 1: great offenses, and the multiplicity what we would do was

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Speaker 1: very extreme in the intellect and how to get to

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and call a place from the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage as well, and do all those different things.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know Arthur is going to do that great.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that also too. I think the physicality,

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Speaker 1: you know, of how we want to play. We want

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Speaker 1: to be a physical football team, and we want to

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Speaker 1: be able to run downhill at these guys and and

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Speaker 1: be a physical team that we can beat them in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and you know, and and win the

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Speaker 1: game late and uh, something that fortunate to know how

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Speaker 2: For a little while. When you were talking about Menka

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Speaker 2: during your press conference, was he letting you in on

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Speaker 2: just how crazy and physical practices can get because of

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Speaker 2: the defense and just that mentality of the competition coach

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Speaker 2: Tomlin sets up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the competition, the edge of

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Speaker 1: the physicality as you mentioned, you know, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: definitely real. And that's when you play the fisio Fer

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Speaker 1: Steel as you feel it in the game. You know

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Speaker 1: what that what that looks like. You know it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a long four quarter you know, try to

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Speaker 1: win in at the type game, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad I get to be, you know, wearing the black

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Speaker 1: and gold and doing that with these guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Yeah, appreciate you