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Speaker 1: Iheartradios Live coverage out twenty twenty five Steelers Training Camp

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to campus, Pittsburgh Steelers Training Camp twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five edition. It's another special edition of the Drive. Here

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Speaker 2: West Schuler and Matt Williamson with you for the next

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Speaker 2: three hours. It is Training Camp number three, Well practice

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Speaker 2: day number three. I should say yeah yeah for your

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. As Chris Boswell is out here early drilling

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Speaker 2: him as he always does.

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Speaker 3: Matt, you'll get a specialists have been out there for

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Speaker 3: a while.

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Speaker 2: They have Yeah, you'll get a kick out of this

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Speaker 2: Chris Boswell kick. See what you get right this This

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Speaker 2: morning during walkthrough, you know, there was some some rain

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Speaker 2: and some things like that this morning. At one point

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Speaker 2: Chris Boswell came over here with his I believe it

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Speaker 2: was his son, and that's what that's what Max thought

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Speaker 2: as well too, and was kicking field goals with his

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Speaker 2: son and was making his son go and retrieve like

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Speaker 2: like elementary school. His son's down there running balls back

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Speaker 4: A good n fifty yard john with a big, heavy

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Speaker 2: It's also like, I can't wait to get to that

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Speaker 2: a rebounder. Chris Boswell had his son out there with

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Speaker 2: him today, so that was a lot of fun. Matt,

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Speaker 2: this is a.

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Speaker 3: Big deal, real quick. Just kids.

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Speaker 4: I just noticed, you know that he's kicking these field

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Speaker 4: you know, the crowd and whatnot. But the huge crowd

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Speaker 4: of kids that are just fighting for balls like it's

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Speaker 4: a you know, a foul ball that the right.

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Speaker 2: Like when you play five hundred in recesses that you

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Speaker 2: know you throw up the ball. Yeah, Jack Putt, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're all down there try to catch the ball and

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Speaker 2: throw back. Those are the cool things that you come

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Speaker 2: out the training camp for.

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Speaker 3: This place could be packed today, by the way.

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Speaker 2: And that's where I was going next. For a lot

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Speaker 2: of different reasons. Uh, you know, Matt. Throughout training camp,

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Speaker 2: there's like milestones. It feels like in the ramp up process. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: you've got the first day, You've got the day that

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Speaker 2: preseason game. You know, you know, there's there's that ramp

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Speaker 2: NFL's Welcome Back to Football day that they do across

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Speaker 2: all the teams in the National is like I think

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Speaker 2: camp welcome back to Football That's why Mike Tomlin at

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Speaker 3: Minute if you remember that, yeah, right, yep. And then

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Speaker 2: class twenty twenty five. Addition, and I tell you what

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Speaker 2: and then perhaps one of the greatest personalities, one of

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Speaker 2: Former Steelers coach as well too for four years.

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Speaker 3: Yep. It is a very cool thing. I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: Like, you know, the whole of honor didn't exist when

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Speaker 2: Might be twenty people, right.

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Speaker 4: You would be putting pumping in four every year and

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Speaker 2: We missed Ben. We were talking about all the people

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Speaker 2: was eligible. Yeah, that's that's kind of like you're you're

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Speaker 3: Right right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like you probably should have caught that one.

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Speaker 4: You know, we totally missed it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Matt, that's that's obvious. The big one this is,

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Speaker 2: you know, I believe the ninety third season of Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: in those ninety plus years with two quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Right, and Ben and Ben were responsible, right.

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Speaker 2: Ben is one of them, you know, when you get

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Speaker 4: That's what we called a point right, right. I mean

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Speaker 4: And frankly, I mean this is more Dale's gig than me.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know the qualifications. You know, how many

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Speaker 4: that adds up obviously, but great candidates. I mean, Porter's

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Speaker 2: Generation the day that he stepped into the league, right right.

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Speaker 4: So I know your buddies with Adam Crawley and back

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Speaker 4: in the day Pouncey's rookie year, Adam and I did

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Speaker 4: And I did it with Mike Pursuda last year. I've

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I remember pretty much as the

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Speaker 4: And people might remember early Pouncy because, to his credit,

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Speaker 4: But by no means of their grades, gospel or anything

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Speaker 4: like a tool to have. And I don't even know

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Speaker 4: and I laugh to this day, they wrote up Pouncy

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Speaker 4: and gave him a bad grade. They called him like

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Speaker 4: no one has more one on one blocks in the

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Speaker 2: Like the dexter Lawrences of the world. He's going one

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Speaker 3: Right, or the speed guys.

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Speaker 4: You know, like there's a wide variety of defensive linemen

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Speaker 2: Mean, Max Crosby exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all these guys and and we just found it funny,

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Speaker 4: The other ten play I mean He's such a force

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Speaker 4: Mentioned Guilden last year, Like how many edge pass rushers

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Speaker 3: But Harrison won Defensive Player of the Year, the best

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Speaker 5: Kevin Green is.

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Speaker 2: My goodness, in terms of longevity, in terms of consistency,

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Speaker 4: So the historian of the Steelers just walked in over

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's not disparaging Lloyd Green, Porter Guilden who's

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Speaker 4: Couldn't cover. They didn't try to make him cover. I mean,

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Speaker 6: There's not that that's different levels of ability, but there

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you what if Lloyd doesn't tear his pateller

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Speaker 3: Thought he was.

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Speaker 3: And he was a force like Harrison.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, well he was an attitude.

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Speaker 2: He's not here for his disposition.

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Speaker 6: Because I remember talking to Mark Malone after he got

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Speaker 6: and I asked him about the the concept of intimidation.

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Speaker 6: He said, take a guy like Greg Lloyd, he said,

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Speaker 4: Him and Harrison kind of were that same mold. Yes,

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Speaker 6: Long, right, and I mean the whole you know, James

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Speaker 6: Safety initiative. James Harrison never had a un sportsmanlike conduct

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Speaker 6: I mean one year it was dirty. One the year

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Speaker 2: Right Defensive Player of the Year the year before, two

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you brought responsibility though, because edge pass

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Speaker 6: And Joey Porter's let's see ninety ninety two thousand and one,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And then Sunday night game against Oakland, he had two interceptions.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, he was.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was like, there's there are adjectives I could use,

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Speaker 6: I mean you did not he did. You know, he

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Speaker 4: you know. I mean he's adequate at it. I mean

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and in the term in terms of not knowing

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Speaker 6: supposed to drop it. Yeah, he wasn't supposed to be dropping. Man,

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Speaker 6: it's you want to be the MVP. You're supposed to

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Speaker 3: There's no rules. I have to write this guy, this guy,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right, so.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that that that that to me, I think they're

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Speaker 3: If you don't know this off the top of your head,

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Speaker 4: But how many are in the Hall of Honor now

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Speaker 6: I mean the Steelers didn't go to the UH three

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Speaker 6: Yeah right, well, you know, uh, Lloyd and Green they're

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Speaker 4: Harrison's not right, No, Harrison is Okay, that's five at

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Speaker 3: That's pretty well with.

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Speaker 2: A another lock who's out here. Yeah, right now, Labs,

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals. You can't do this Hall of Honor thing

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Speaker 3: For it every year. You drive it pretty quick in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 6: Well, in that first class was a lot more than four,

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's up there. I mean, certainly he's up there.

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Speaker 6: I said, you know, but I mean, yeah, that was

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Speaker 6: win the game or something, you know, And Joey just

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Speaker 6: went off and again, I well, beyond that took the

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Speaker 6: pressure off everybody else. Nobody was asking Ben, hey, this

440
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Speaker 6: is your first super Bowl. Hey, this a right point.

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Speaker 6: Nobody else had to answer any questions.

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Speaker 7: It was all Joey, all the arrows all day long,

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Speaker 7: right right right, And I you know, I think that

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Speaker 7: was a part of that week, keeping everything I won't

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Speaker 7: say lose, but you know, nice and calm and as

446
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Speaker 7: normal it can't as it can be for a team

447
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Speaker 7: about to play in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Very cool. Yeah, that is a pretty great group that's going.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's a it's a fantastic group. I was joking

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Speaker 2: with Matt like it touches my millennial heart because these are,

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Speaker 2: you know, three that were front and center of my

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Speaker 2: best Steelers memories growing up as a kid and a

453
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Speaker 2: teenager here in western Pennsylvania. You know, Joey Porter in

454
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Speaker 2: that Super Bowl forty was my freshman year of high school.

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Speaker 2: You know, Ben and and those guys in Super Bowl

456
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Speaker 2: forty three was my senior year of high school.

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Speaker 3: So talking about your fanboy walking past Troy and the.

458
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Speaker 2: Max Troy and the Cafteria that was that was very

459
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Speaker 2: that was very humbling to have it high nice.

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Speaker 3: To meet you.

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Speaker 6: The same thing to me a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 6: I told this story on the stage. Today, I'll tell

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Speaker 6: it to you guys right now, because we're looking at

464
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Speaker 6: where it happened. Ben's rookie year two thousand and four.

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Speaker 6: He was still, you know, just a rookie night. So

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Speaker 6: he's playing. There was a Saturday afternoon practice, Saturday practice

467
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Speaker 6: in the afternoon, and I was standing down on the

468
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Speaker 6: right on the sideline with Touch. And I always like

469
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Speaker 6: to watch practice with Touch because you know, he would

470
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Speaker 6: either give you little tips or point little things out

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Speaker 6: of some insight, and I would take all of his

472
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Speaker 6: insight and intelligence and I would either re say it

473
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Speaker 6: on the radio myself or write it and I'd sound

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Speaker 6: like I knew what I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: Same thing.

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Speaker 6: So we're standing down there, it's eleven on eleven, and

477
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Speaker 6: you know, quarterbacks cannot get tackled during drills, but what

478
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Speaker 6: they would do is if the pressure got close, to

479
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Speaker 6: blow the whistle and stopped the play. So okay, So

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Speaker 6: it's as I said, eleven on eleven bends back to pass,

481
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Speaker 6: and he was getting a little pressure, and before he

482
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Speaker 6: let him get too close, he ducks out and he's

483
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Speaker 6: sprinting right.

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Speaker 5: At us.

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Speaker 6: At that age, right, Yeah, He's sprinting right at us.

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Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, he torqued his body

487
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Speaker 6: a little bit and he threw a laser. He was

488
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Speaker 6: outside the numbers. He threw a laser about twenty twenty

489
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Speaker 6: five yards down the field to the opposite hash to

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Speaker 6: a free agent rookie named Zamar Zamir cob ok He's

491
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Speaker 6: stuck in Zamir coboard nineteen put it right between the

492
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Speaker 6: one and the nine, okay, and I, you know, my

493
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Speaker 6: eyes got big, and I just looked at Touch and

494
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Speaker 6: Tounch looked at me and said, Brett Farv.

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Speaker 5: And Touch, you know, ended his career.

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Speaker 3: People walking the planet makes that the threat, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Right, Touch ended his career in Green Bay. So he

498
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Speaker 6: got to see that up close in nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, that was I mean, that's still something I'll

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Speaker 6: never forget. But just you know, it was wow, look

501
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Speaker 6: at look at that. I don't know anything about playing quarterback,

502
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Speaker 6: but I think that was good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could take eighteen years of that going forward here.

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Speaker 4: And it's a lot different. But even just mini camp

506
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Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago. You know, like you're watching

507
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Speaker 4: Rudolph and you're watching Howard and they look fine, they're

508
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Speaker 4: throwing the fall the ball fine, and then Roger shows up.

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Speaker 3: It's like bo that looks a lot different.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yesterday, I mean just yeah, yeah, the two screen passes.

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Speaker 6: He threw one sideline screen to Metcalf and one regular

512
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Speaker 6: screen to Caleb Johnson. The arm angles that he used

513
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Speaker 6: to get them the ball cleanly when you know a

514
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Speaker 6: traditional thrower might have gotten it batted down, or you

515
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Speaker 6: might have had the loft or too high, you know,

516
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Speaker 6: and then the defense can get that.

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Speaker 4: You're right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's again, it's different.

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Speaker 5: As I said, you just mentioned it again.

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Speaker 6: I don't know a whole lot about anything, but when

521
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Speaker 6: they're the quarterbacks, all four of them were doing the

522
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Speaker 6: same thing. Those drills where they all do the same

523
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Speaker 6: thing at the same time, I could tell you it's

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Speaker 6: the best.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to in that moment. I tell that

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Speaker 2: that one looks different.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of value, Like at the combine, just

529
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Speaker 4: watching all ten guys do the exact same drill and

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Speaker 4: like that guy's better than all right, yeah, just assembly

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Speaker 4: line scouting, I call it, you know, labs.

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Speaker 2: Last one, I've got for you to kind of put

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Speaker 2: a bow on this, and thanks for joining us here

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Speaker 2: for this first segment.

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Speaker 3: It is nice here.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome to hang all you want. Just for people

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Speaker 2: who are curious, like, when does the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: Hall of Honor process start for you all? Now? Twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five classes inaugurated today.

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Speaker 3: May okay, next May? Okay?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean there will be uh, you know, there's

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Speaker 6: a fan component of it. H Fans. Nominations are solicited

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Speaker 6: at some point. I don't know when it is or

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Speaker 6: you know, the organization handles that. And when we have

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Speaker 6: the when the committee as its first meeting, it's usually

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Speaker 6: in May sometime. You know, we're giving the the numbers

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Speaker 6: from the fan pull and you know that's that's considered

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Speaker 6: and everybody makes their nominations. You know, you nominate four

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Speaker 6: or five people and uh, then you're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna start lobbying for Craig wolf leet.

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Speaker 5: Then you get.

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Speaker 2: Another I think plenty of people will.

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Speaker 6: Be another three weeks or so, and then we come

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Speaker 6: back and vote, and that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 3: That's cool, very cool.

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Speaker 6: How many voters? Six or six people on the committee?

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Speaker 6: Art Runey the Second and let me calm him on

558
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Speaker 6: my finger so I don't leave anybody out.

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Speaker 5: Art Runey the.

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Speaker 6: Second, Andrew Stocky, Mike Pursuda, Tony Quatrin, longtime marketing director,

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Speaker 6: Joe Gordon, Uh, the best PR guy in the history

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Speaker 6: of Pittsburgh sports, and me And that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's cool, labs.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time to join us here. We

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Speaker 2: have got to get to a break. But more on

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Speaker 2: Hall of Honor, more on practice. Welcome back to football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Here Mike, Tom and will take the microphone at some

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Speaker 2: point on this first weekend practice, big crowd, great weather,

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Speaker 2: Matt and I will be with you here to describe

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Speaker 2: it all until five o'clock. It's all part of our

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Speaker 2: ongoing training camp coverage. Special edition of The Drive here

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Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Iheartradios. Live coverage Job twenty twenty five Steelers Training Camp

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Speaker 2: Back on campus here it is practiced day number three,

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Speaker 2: Saint Vincent College in a sunny, hot Latroe, Pennsylvania. As

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Speaker 2: we are just getting things underway here for this practice,

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Speaker 2: first Saturday, first weekend practice for your Pittsburgh Steelers, big

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Speaker 2: crowd out here with the weekend, the weather and all

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Speaker 2: of the different moving and shaking on campus today. But

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Speaker 2: right now in front of us, Matt, you know, we

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Speaker 2: talked a little bit, I think on the first day

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Speaker 2: about Cam Johnson and just his recovery and you know,

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Speaker 2: ten months ish about out from that injury and the

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Speaker 2: opener down in Atlanta. And I tell you what, he

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Speaker 2: does not look like a guy who's coming off of

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Speaker 2: a major injury. He is just out there booming the

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Speaker 2: ball in front of us.

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Speaker 5: He really is.

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Speaker 4: And we started this conversation off the air, going man

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Speaker 4: weightman looks really good. Yeah, and he does. And you

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Speaker 4: love the lefty punter thing too. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: we've ever had this conversation. It's like the Belichick thing.

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Speaker 4: Just because the ball spinds different, it's a little harder

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Speaker 4: on the returners. So he is that going for him.

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Speaker 4: But Johnson's just better and he's really really impressive in person.

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Speaker 4: We touched on this yesterday. Harvin was impressive here. You know,

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Speaker 4: it would boom off. His foot had some stinkers. But

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Speaker 4: late in the year when the weather hit and he

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Speaker 4: only had a fastball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: He could throw one hundred and three miles an hour

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Speaker 2: right or nothing.

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Speaker 4: And sometimes he hit the mask ont you know, but

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Speaker 4: here is like, whoa, that guy is impressive and he

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Speaker 4: has a big, thick lower body and all that one

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Speaker 4: punt aside, and I'm gonna give Johnson the benefit of

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Speaker 4: the doubt on this one. Maybe he was trying something

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Speaker 4: goofy because it went like fifteen yards on the next field.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he was trying to throw a

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Speaker 4: screwball and doesn't know how to do that or whatever.

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Speaker 4: But he's been really impressive. And I'm not sitting here

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Speaker 4: with the Stopwatch doing hangtime, but it's legit hangtime. And

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Speaker 4: they're consistently falling right around the five. And we talked

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Speaker 4: to us yesterday. I mean, like a golfer, he has

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Speaker 4: a lot of clubs in his bag.

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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You might be able to drive, but can you chip?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Right, you know you might be able to putt, but

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Speaker 2: can you hit it out of the sand or the rough.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a punning expert. I'll never watch Special Teams tape.

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Speaker 4: I'll never pretend to know hardly anything more than most

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Speaker 4: people listening about Special teams.

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Speaker 3: But punting's come a long.

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Speaker 4: Way, you know, like there's a a heavy Australian influence now,

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Speaker 4: you know where they'll drop it differently, and rugby punting

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Speaker 4: styles and knuckleballs and they'll punt the middle of the

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Speaker 4: ball or the you know, there's all these different just

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Speaker 4: like a golfer, and Johnston has it. I mean he

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Speaker 4: can spiral it and spin it with a lot of velocity,

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Speaker 4: or he can deaden it, or he can you know,

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Speaker 4: knuckle it or you know, all these different things.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, if you're here, don't just ignore the

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Speaker 4: punting stuff because there's something to gain by it.

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Speaker 2: No, there absolutely is. And if you're out here, listen.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of casual Steelers fans who

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Speaker 2: come out here because it's a fun day, it's nice weather,

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Speaker 2: it's a summertime, it's a chance to see the team.

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Speaker 2: But I think most of the people that make the

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Speaker 2: drive and sit out here for hours in this weather,

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Speaker 2: like you do want to see this kind of stuff

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Speaker 2: because when else are you going to get to see

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Speaker 2: the punters ever out here working on their craft.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, absolutely, it's very impressive.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 2: It really is.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, pet Peeve.

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Speaker 4: I'm not pet Peeve because actually I'm gonna do to

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Speaker 4: the opposite. There's several young men out here fielding the

657
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 4: punt that are twelve, I'm guessing something like that.

658
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: They're young middle schoolish shades.

659
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 4: Middle schoolish age, and it always makes me crazy as

660
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: a parent. I'm like, man, they should wear a helmet.

661
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 4: I mean, like, you know how hard it is to

662
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 4: field a punt. The hard death thing comes down.

663
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: It feels like you drop it a bowling ball from

664
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: you know, the top of.

665
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 3: A roof, right.

666
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I've had this conversation so many times with

667
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 4: many co hosts in different areas, like, oh, I could

668
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: catch a punt, No way, you'd break your teeth, your

669
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 4: nose would be bloody. Let alone it's raining or dark

670
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 4: out or the lights. But these young men are good.

671
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about him. I'm usually I'm.

672
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 3: Scared to death that they're going to get their face

673
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 3: smashed in by These guys are good.

674
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 2: They are, there's no problem. They've got some practice that

675
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: is impressive.

676
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 3: But you're right.

677
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 2: I think the average person thinks that they could do

678
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: pretty decently at it. No, if I could go down

679
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: there and I could catch one out of ten Cam

680
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: Johnson punts.

681
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 3: I'll buy all your drinks. And I think that's one.

682
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: Let alone have it, even if he kicks it right

683
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 4: to you. I'm not even saying like a center fielder

684
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 4: right right, And I'm not even talking about eleven angry

685
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 4: people screaming at you while you're keeping your eyes and

686
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 4: the and the sun's up in the air and today's

687
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 4: a beautiful day.

688
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 3: I still don't think you catch one out of ten,

689
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 3: I don't either.

690
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 2: That's what I was saying, Like, I would be excited

691
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 2: if I could catch one out of tight you know what.

692
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 3: I mean, civilians.

693
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure so people out there that played

694
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 4: in high school, like I could catch of course you could.

695
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 3: I mean I get that.

696
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 2: Maybe you're still college age and you're in really good shape.

697
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 3: Right right, or you did it when you were a

698
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: freshman in high school, so you at least have.

699
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: Some experience college football or something.

700
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if I just grab Joe blow out of

701
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 4: the stands catching one out of ten, let alone in

702
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 4: the stadium on Monday night football with the rain falling

703
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 4: in your eyes and seventy coming down to destroy.

704
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 3: Right.

705
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 4: So a lot of coaches will even be like, I

706
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 4: don't really care what we get in punt return the yards,

707
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 4: just don't mess it up.

708
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: And especially situationally.

709
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 4: We got a big lead here, you know, and once

710
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 4: in a while you put Antonio Brown out there when

711
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 4: you needed one back there when.

712
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: You needed one. But yeah, I'm with you. It is

713
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: a more of a minimize minimalizing miss as if you're.

714
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 3: Going to muff one out of twenty, you can't do

715
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 3: this job.

716
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Still now on the opposite

717
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: side of the field here, Now see that that's interesting.

718
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 3: That's like a knuckleball, right, that's an end over ender.

719
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: It's not spiral it, it's end Yeah, that's maybe.

720
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 4: Sometimes every which way a ball can spin. That's why

721
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 4: I gave Johnston the benefit of the dow for that

722
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 4: awful shank. I wonder if he was just trying. I'm

723
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 4: gonna try to kick this thing barely, you know, you know.

724
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: And again, this is the type of place to do it, right, right.

725
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 4: Don't do it against the Bengals in Week ten, you know,

726
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 4: but right, but if you can add one more club

727
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 4: to your bag, why not.

728
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 2: And it is like that. I think the golf analogy

729
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: really works like a pitcher in baseball, you know what, Yeah, yeah,

730
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: like the guys like the Paul Skins types, you know

731
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 2: what I mean that can throw one hundred and two

732
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 2: mile an hour fastball and then hit you with a

733
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 2: sixty eight mile an hour curveball, you know what I mean,

734
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 2: out of your shoe. Good luck, good luck trying to

735
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 2: hit that. There's that that rookie picture.

736
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 4: Just the way the ball they don't always nail at

737
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 4: one hundred percent, but just the way the ball rotates

738
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 4: in the air is all by design, you know.

739
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: It's the same difference of a fastball, of a curve

740
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: all of a splitter of a thousand and Again, I

741
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: don't think you and I were not I'm not gonna.

742
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: I can't be the baseball announcer that can sit there

743
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: and go, ah, curveball just outside just by looking at it,

744
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But you can see when

745
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: it's different.

746
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 3: That one's for distance, like that one he just killed.

747
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 2: He just killed that one out of the back of

748
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 2: the end zone.

749
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 4: There's that one's no touch. That one's all gas and

750
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 4: he's just killing it. And he crushed it like seventy

751
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 4: yards or something like that.

752
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: Impressive.

753
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 4: I have summer for hangtime, summer for placements. Some are

754
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 4: for difficulty in catching, you know what I mean, depending

755
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,280
Speaker 4: what the situation needs.

756
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 3: And he's got them all.

757
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 2: That's a hangtime one, right, that's a hangtime one.

758
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 3: That just kept climbing and climbing and climbing right, caught it. Body.

759
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 3: These kids are pretty good.

760
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 2: I wonder if those two kids down there are sons

761
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 2: of a former Steeler who are maybe.

762
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 3: I bet they play foot.

763
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 2: I bet they play. I always worry about that too.

764
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 2: It like the home run derby during the All Star Games.

765
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 2: They've got forty kids in the outfield, like.

766
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 4: They trip over each other, right, all right, that baseball

767
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge smash Right, Yeah, come on, man, maybe I'm

768
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 4: just not a good athlete, which I'm not, and I

769
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 4: would get hurt, but maybe they wouldn't.

770
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 2: They're doing a good job. They're doing a good job

771
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 2: down there in the end zone. You gotta you gotta

772
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: love it. We got another break a.

773
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: Small portion of training camp. But it's a fun one.

774
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 2: Hey, It's all I do too, because again, like how

775
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: often do we don't? We don't ever do this?

776
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 4: No, you know, like I'm hoping the team comes back

777
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 4: to one of these fields one of these days.

778
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 2: I'm assuming they will because they've got everybody on the

779
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 2: sidelines down here. And again, like I know, Mike Tomlin's

780
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 2: going to address the crowd at some point. Joey Porter

781
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 2: pr is on campus today, so I'm imagining that they'll

782
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 2: probably do a like congratulations to haul of honor and

783
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 2: duck the you know, Joey Porter and Smith. Yeah, and

784
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 2: they did it with Heath Miller a couple of years ago,

785
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: which was really cool because Mike Tomlin introduced him, and

786
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: you know, ten thousand people here going. So so we'll

787
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: we'll keep you, we'll keep you posted with everything.

788
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 3: Ben's here, but the other two are correct.

789
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 2: I don't know, if I know, I'm not sure what

790
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: Ben is not here he is, yes, not sure about

791
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 2: fifty three, but I haven't seen him yet to this point.

792
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: So but we will, Uh, they will be at some point, yes.

793
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And then they'll have the game where where they

794
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: all get honored obviously as well to the Hall of

795
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 2: Honor game, which I think maybe is in December if

796
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,479
Speaker 2: I'm remembering correctly. And then what's also gonna be pretty

797
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: cool Matt. Before we go to break here, Max was

798
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 2: reminding me today it's the twentieth anniversary of that Super

799
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: Bowl forty team, so they are having a reunion celebration

800
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 2: for one of the games. So that'll be I mean,

801
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 2: that'll be Max and Willie and Casey Hampton thereon Smith

802
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 2: and Paulamalu and Paz and Ben and Hines Ward and

803
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 2: Bussy and all these guys Alan Fanica. I mean, that'll

804
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 2: be that'll be a fun game when those guys. Max

805
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 2: was like, I already told because he does the college

806
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: football stuff for ESPN on Saturdays. He was like, I

807
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 2: already told my bosses whenever that Steelers game is, I'm

808
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: not working a college game that Saturday, because.

809
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 3: We'll have a big we'll have a big get together somewhere.

810
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: On Saturday night that I'm sure that'd be one of

811
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: those things you'd love to be a fly on the

812
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 2: wall for that, without a doubt.

813
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 3: Does look like they're heading this way.

814
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: By the way, they're heading this way, I think here

815
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 2: pretty soon. So we'll take it time, take a good time

816
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: to take a break. We'll keep you posted with everything

817
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 2: that's going on in front of us as practice rolls along.

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Speaker 2: Back on campus with a little seven shots happening in

828
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 2: front of us right here, Matthew.

829
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 3: Your boys in trouble.

830
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 2: And I tell you what the second day in a row,

831
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,959
Speaker 2: Zach Fraser with a bad snap on the first rep

832
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 2: of seven shots. So and this is actually a good

833
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: follow up from yesterday too, because remember we were kind

834
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: of confused because we were like, it looked.

835
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 3: Like eight shots.

836
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 2: They called a mullet. They called that bad snap, just

837
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 2: a mullegan, you know what I mean. They didn't count it.

838
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 2: I think they're doing the same thing. Here, Zach Fraser

839
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: comes out for a play. C J McCollum in Aaron

840
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: Rodgers over the middle of DK metcalf for a touchdown.

841
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: Then that was nice, Yeah, that was zen. Zach Fraser

842
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: came back in for for well what was the second

843
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 2: counted rep? Third one overall, and Aaron Rodgers found Darnell

844
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: Washington in the back of the end zone as a

845
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: nice pitch and catch there from honor But I don't know,

846
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 2: it looked close to the line.

847
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 3: It was hard to see.

848
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: Shocker, but defensive saying he was out offensive saying.

849
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 4: He was in I don't know what they're gonna call

850
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 4: that one.

851
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have it, I haven't I haven't seen I

852
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 2: haven't seen anything yet. But yeah, So the offense started

853
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 2: with two touchdowns, a little bit of a pushback from

854
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 2: the defense here, and now it looks like we are

855
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: going to have Will Howard under center here for the Steelers.

856
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 4: A couple of small observations, again, super small sample size,

857
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 4: and I don't think I'm like breaking secrets here because

858
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 4: you're allowed to talk about it. But seem to be

859
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 4: just the practices I've seen so far featuring Darnell Washington

860
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 4: a little bit more in these situations, which I love,

861
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 4: and not a lot of condensed formations, you know, spreading

862
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 4: the field horizontally a little bit more, you know, some

863
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 4: three receiver stuff. Maybe it's just what they're working on.

864
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean they're gonna do these things in the

865
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: regular season, but they're not coming out with like condensed

866
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 4: you know, a bunch of tight ends out there, you know,

867
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: tight formations.

868
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And it looks like seven shots.

869
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 3: Is uh letting Rodgers kind of pick and choose, Yeah.

870
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 2: Letting him maybe get a couple more reps in here.

871
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 2: Looks like they might take a see the first team

872
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 2: offensive line going back in. It looks like Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: running up to the line of Scribbatu here, So it

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Speaker 2: looks like we might have the offense going once again.

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Speaker 4: That is the ones across the board. It looks like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Austin's out there. I think they got three receivers on

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Speaker 4: the field.

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Speaker 3: I think they do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like they might be They trying to

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Speaker 2: huddle up again here to to figure this out. Or

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers has the boys. Yeah, Pat Myers in there

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Speaker 2: barking some signals around. It looks like we might finally

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Speaker 2: get a rep here.

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Speaker 4: Metcalfaloone on the left side. Who's the corner he's up against?

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Speaker 4: Is that Porter?

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Speaker 2: I believe so Rogers in the shotgun.

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Speaker 3: It's an interesting one on one. He's just staring him down, looking.

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Speaker 2: Just kind of Yeah. That one batted down might have

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Speaker 2: been a sack there. Good pressure from the defense.

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Speaker 4: Pressure from Harmon, I think a batted ball from herbig gotcha, yeah,

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Speaker 4: got you in a stunt.

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Speaker 2: Well, madam. Getting messages from from the PR team. They

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Speaker 2: want me to they want me to to make a

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Speaker 2: to make a to make a announcement here. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: they're waving at me from down on the field. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they realize them on air, but we need

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Speaker 2: to go to break here anyways. Uh So I could

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Speaker 2: get back on the microphone to tell these people to

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Speaker 2: put their cameras away and we will be back to

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Speaker 2: continue to break down practice for you. Two more hours

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Speaker 2: to go. Special edition of The Drive here on Steelers

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