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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: On your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

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Speaker 2: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And we are back here on the Drive on Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson. We are live from Saint

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Speaker 3: Vincent College here in beautiful lay Trope, where the Steelers

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Speaker 3: just wrapped up while we're in break there. Their practice here,

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Speaker 3: practice number three is in the books of training Camp

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four and well, we got one more day

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Speaker 3: of unpadded practice here Matt tomorrow, and then the Steelers

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Speaker 3: are off on Monday, and then they come back Tuesday

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Speaker 3: with the first padded practice of the season. Yeah, which

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Speaker 3: is a big deal.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think the tempo, obviously the physicality will

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Speaker 4: be way different Tuesday than what we've seen thus far,

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Speaker 4: including what's going to happen tomorrow. I was like this

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Speaker 4: environment too, you know, right after practice there's still a

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Speaker 4: lot of players on the field just working on little things.

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Speaker 4: We're not even to the point where you know, you

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Speaker 4: ran that wrong route, let's go run it a hundred

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Speaker 4: times type thing yet, But I mean there are linemen

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Speaker 4: out there working on technique, you know, uh, even Wilson's

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Speaker 4: throwing a little bit, you know, just to be part

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Speaker 4: of things. And you know the guys are out there

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Speaker 4: without pads, and you know there's still things getting accomplished,

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Speaker 4: a lot of fans, a lot of media, all that

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Speaker 4: good stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: To absolutely, yeah, you see a lot of work out there.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell who the media is gathered around. No,

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Speaker 3: he got swarm pretty heavily.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who that would be here. We'll figure

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Speaker 3: it out. But there's a whole bunch around them, a

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Speaker 3: whole bunch.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I can't quite tell who that is in the middle

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Speaker 3: of that big scrum, but there's a lot of guys there,

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Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of people Pickens maybe, Oh

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Speaker 3: it is it is George is it?

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Speaker 6: Ok?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a thing today where where he uh,

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Speaker 3: just see the top of his head, he presented, uh,

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Speaker 3: there's there was a young man who was here on

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Speaker 3: the sidelines, and I believe yeah, that's it was just

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Speaker 3: going on. They presented him with the season tickets and

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Speaker 3: George Pickens is his favorite player. So Pickens delivered the

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Speaker 3: tickets to the young man. So so that then the

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Speaker 3: little moment went to the media scrum, right Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: a moment for him and getting an opportunity to do that.

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Speaker 4: So, as I mentioned, Russell Wilson's out there throwing with

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Speaker 4: Friar Mooth, like, guys, don't worry, He'll be fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, no reason rush it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've had people, oh my, he's already hurt. Look,

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson's missed four games in his career. He's been

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Speaker 3: around a long time, guys of injury.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he draft the same year he got draft the

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Speaker 4: same year as Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin the third. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: put this in perspective, and he's missed that many games,

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Speaker 4: you know, and he's been started everywhere he's gone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm not concerned about him and all. In fact,

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Speaker 3: he's doing a little bit more like yesterday he was

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Speaker 3: taking snaps under center and just kind of like not

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Speaker 3: dropping back or anything like that. Today he's actually taking

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Speaker 3: some taking some mock snaps here and going back and

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Speaker 3: actually shuffling back.

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Speaker 4: A big deal if you don't know, but do you

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Speaker 4: know if it's a right or left calf, don't know,

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Speaker 4: don't off the wanders the plant foot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's out here working with Pat Friarmouth. Is

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Speaker 3: that Roman Wilson too, he was throwing too at the

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Speaker 3: thirty five? Yeah too? Yeah, Oh no, that's not that's

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Speaker 3: not Wilson. That's uh, that's actually uh Van Jefferson.

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Speaker 5: Oh is it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So going through some basics here though, it looks like

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Speaker 3: Roman Wilson's over here working down here with well Nick,

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Speaker 3: is that Nick Currbig throwing on the ball?

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Speaker 7: Is?

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Speaker 3: No, that's Kyle Allen. Okay, Kyle Allen the ball there. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we got a lot of little pow wows around here though. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's lots of lots of good work being done, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Earlier today, the Steelers announced their twenty twenty four Hall

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Speaker 3: of Honor class. The newest inductees would include linebacker Jason Gilden,

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Speaker 3: nose tackle Casey Hampton, defensive coordinator Dick Lebox, and running

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Speaker 3: back Willie Parker. A strong group, A strong group, A

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Speaker 3: younger group than Yeah, I guess so then we've seen,

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Speaker 3: you know, none of the older type guys there, but

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Speaker 3: guys you know, with Hampton, Lebau, and Parker who were

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Speaker 3: big parts of a Super Bowl winning team. Gilden, the

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Speaker 3: course was gone by the time that ninety five season

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Speaker 3: or two thousand and five season rolled along. But for

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Speaker 3: a long time he was the Steelers all time leading soccer.

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Speaker 4: And the thing with Guilden and in the LIBA thing

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Speaker 4: as well. People forget I mean he was the all

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Speaker 4: time leading soccer. I'd love to know the percentage of

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Speaker 4: pass plays when he was on the field that he

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Speaker 4: dropped into coverage, because it's not like today. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 4: TJ drops in the coverage here and there, and so

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Speaker 4: is high Smith, et cetera. But pass rushers rush the passer.

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Speaker 4: You know, in that defense, they were much more linebackers

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Speaker 4: than they are now. You see a lot of them

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Speaker 4: covering the flats and just a lot of opportunities of

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Speaker 4: sacks he could have tallied and you know, maybe would

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Speaker 4: end up a twenty more something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of the course of his career. But he's a

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Speaker 3: great player. Yeah, ten seasons he had seventy seven sacks,

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Speaker 3: which show was number one all time until well, he's

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Speaker 3: been passing out by James Harrison, TJ. Watt and Cam

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Speaker 3: Hayward of all passed him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, which makes sense, And sack numbers are going up

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Speaker 4: and passing's going up to but Hampton, to me, is

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Speaker 4: one of the most underrated greatly appreciated by his peers

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Speaker 4: type guy out there. I mean, the consummate nose tackle

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Speaker 4: that is never going to put up stats, but was

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Speaker 4: just so good at his job that I'm sure if

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Speaker 4: you asked lebou, who are some of the most important

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Speaker 4: defensive players.

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Speaker 3: You ever had, he'd be really near the top.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean does he creates the stats for others,

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Speaker 4: And I mean, not only is the demand double teams,

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Speaker 4: but we sometimes beat them.

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Speaker 3: You know. It wasn't like they could just handle him

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Speaker 3: with two guys well, and he was the reason. You know,

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Speaker 3: if you look at it, if you think back to

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Speaker 3: like Jason Gilden and Casey Hampton. It was a feudal

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Speaker 3: to running on them. You couldn't run, Yeah, you couldn't run,

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Speaker 3: and so you know, to get the Steelers out of

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Speaker 3: that kept Casey Hampton standing on the sideline, and you

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Speaker 3: know it's just.

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Speaker 4: So in some ways you could kind of neutralize him

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Speaker 4: by scheme, but then the whole then you lose the

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Speaker 4: element of surprise, right, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: I can remember going to Casey. You know after some

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Speaker 3: of those games the teams tried to do that and

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Speaker 3: he played fifteen snaps in a game and be like,

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Speaker 3: I can rush the passer.

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Speaker 4: I was about to say, I think an underappreciated I

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Speaker 4: think there's two things that are underappreciated by about Hampton.

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Speaker 4: Is he still would push the pocket or could beat

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Speaker 4: in protection in the passing game. And you'll remember better

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Speaker 4: than I do, he made a lot of plays outside

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Speaker 4: the numbers too. I mean he was not slow. I

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Speaker 4: mean on a screen that was slow develop and he

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Speaker 4: scrimmage and be a part of it. He wasn't just

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Speaker 4: a blob in the middle that couldn't move. I mean

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Speaker 4: he was a first round pick and a heck of

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Speaker 4: an athlete.

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Speaker 3: No, he was more a blob that you couldn't move, yeah,

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Speaker 3: right right exactly, trying to move him out of that.

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Speaker 3: Wilson's thrown some deep balls here. Yeah, he's trying it down.

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Speaker 3: I bet we see him sooner than later. Yeah, I would.

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Speaker 3: I would expect maybe tomorrow's another day off and then

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Speaker 3: he's maybe back. It would be nice part of practice.

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Speaker 3: He could be back tomorrow. We'll see. But again, no

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Speaker 3: reason to rush it. When you're not you're not really

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Speaker 3: doing anything. He was at all of the OTA sessions

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Speaker 3: and everything, so and I'm pure. People are like, he's new,

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Speaker 3: he should be out there. He's not new to the league. No,

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Speaker 3: he's He's played the game quite a bit. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if Kirk Cousins is out there slinging

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Speaker 4: it or anything, but they're the same age, and you know, yeah,

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Speaker 4: they don't need to.

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Speaker 3: Be and with with will Wilson, and now he is

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Speaker 3: working with the Roman Wilson.

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Speaker 6: There.

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Speaker 3: With Wilson, you're talking about a guy who's got almost

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Speaker 3: two hundred careers. If he had his playoff games in there.

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Speaker 3: He does have two hundred starts. Okay, so does have

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Speaker 3: shoes on. It's a lot of football.

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Speaker 4: Roman Wilson does not have shoes A lot of Wilson,

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Speaker 4: A lot of Wilson's, a lot of Allens and Wilson's

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Speaker 4: you mentioned before, there's a lot of Allens.

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Speaker 3: He still throws a nice, pretty deep ball.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's I think he's testing things a

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Speaker 4: little more, loading up and throwing some deeper ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he must be feeling decent tours a very pretty deep ball.

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Speaker 4: It goes goes up and down very nicely.

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Speaker 5: Here.

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Speaker 3: You can try one to the left side here now, No,

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Speaker 3: he's going back to the right now.

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Speaker 4: He's slowing a fifty yards down field pretty effortlessly and

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Speaker 4: doesn't seem to be in any kind of pain.

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Speaker 3: One thing I like here is like you see a

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Speaker 3: guy like Van Jefferson when he's out there doing these things,

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Speaker 3: keeps the helmet on. I think that's smart.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think you see the field differently

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Speaker 4: through and practice as much as you possibly can, like

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Speaker 4: you play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a big thing that receivers should

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Speaker 3: do more of.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's no reason to take your helmet off

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Speaker 4: because you're gonna play with a helmet on, you see

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Speaker 4: the field a little different. I remember, like it sounded crazy,

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Speaker 4: but when Antonio Brown was with the Raiders and had

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Speaker 4: all his complaints about his helmet. I bet he's such

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Speaker 4: a perfectionist it mattered to him, you know, like you

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Speaker 4: just there's different lines of vision with different face masks

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Speaker 4: and helmet you should wear it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you may have a helmet that encloses

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Speaker 3: your face just a little bit more. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 4: You never feel vision is affected, like I gotta turn

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Speaker 4: my head just a smidge more or less to find

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Speaker 4: this deep ball or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So back to the Hall of Honor stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I very much believe that if there was a wing

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Speaker 4: and I know he's.

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Speaker 3: Already in the Hall of Fame, Dick Clobo.

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Speaker 4: I mean as a player, he went in before any

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Speaker 4: And we haven't brought up Willie Parker, but what a story.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'd be like, last month, he had learn more

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to The Drive

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Speaker 3: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly. He is the

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson. We are live from Steelers training camp here

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Speaker 3: at Saint Vincent College, a Steelers just wrapping up their

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was. This was pretty good. And there's still

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Speaker 3: There's an ab I get a nause Harris down there,

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Speaker 3: another just all kindses of it. Cam Hayward over there,

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Speaker 3: Joe Green ye oh, you get all ages. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: a pounce you way down there too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I've never seen this. I'm not sure what receiver

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Speaker 4: that is that's catching on the drugs machine. But those

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Speaker 4: balls have white tips on the tips, yes, yeah, And

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Speaker 4: I wonder if that's to try to catch Is it

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Speaker 4: a hand thing to try to catch just the white

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Speaker 4: I believe it is.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we want to get the hand on that white end.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen that approach before too.

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Speaker 4: That is Van Jefferson. There's a Van Jefferson. Not surprising again,

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Speaker 4: that's work ethic is not going to be a problem

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Speaker 4: with him.

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Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. And I do believe that.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are selling him short

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Speaker 3: of what he You're talking about a guy who was

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Speaker 3: a second round pick who had over eight hundred yards

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Speaker 3: his second season with the RAM not that long ago, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's the system, and I mean he's gonna be

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Speaker 4: an asset in some way, shape or for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a bigger receiver, you know, not a speedster

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Speaker 3: like some of the other guys, but I think he's

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Speaker 3: I think he's more well rounded than most of them. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 3: You can see that. He definitely puts the work in

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 4: Again, I keep going back to his dad is a

466
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Speaker 4: very very accomplished wide receiver coach, and you see it

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Speaker 4: in his game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, his releases, you know, his routes doesn't round things off. Frankly,

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's super super gifted, but he gets

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Speaker 4: the most out of what he has. Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, but I you know, I've not been disappointed

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Speaker 3: or looked at the receivers thus far in this training

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Speaker 3: camp and gone, but yeah, they boy, they really need

476
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Speaker 3: to go get another receiver here. Like it's a nightmare. No, No,

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Speaker 3: you know, guys are getting open guy and Again, we

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Speaker 3: haven't seen Russell Wilson out here, but I've watched this

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Speaker 3: team throughout, throughout the OS and the mini camp here,

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Speaker 3: and we know that the Steeler pass defense should be

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Speaker 3: pretty good. I sure think so. And the guys are getting.

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Speaker 4: Open, yeah, I mean again, it has an ota feel

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Speaker 4: to it until Tuesday. And I never want to the

484
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Speaker 4: Calvin Austin the world should be good in that, you know,

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Speaker 4: I never want to overreact to guys getting open, not against.

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Speaker 3: Air, but with a lot no pass rush. They know

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Speaker 3: they're not getting hit and they're not gonna get hit.

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Speaker 4: But I do think it's one of the most intriguing

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Speaker 4: things that we'll talk about these coming weeks is the

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Speaker 4: wide receiver pecking order, or Watkins had a big day

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Speaker 4: this day, Austin had a big day the next day, whatever.

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Speaker 4: But I mean it's going to be an ever changing

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Speaker 4: and very topical story.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I've liked what I've seen from Scotty Miller. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's making he makes plays, makes some plays.

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Speaker 4: Yep, keep bringing up Austin though, I do think Austin

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Speaker 4: it's prime to take a step forward in the little

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Speaker 4: I've seen, and again he should in this environment but

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Speaker 4: still he I think he's the most likely breakout of

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Speaker 4: those groups, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: The guy takes a big step forward this season. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would agree with that. We're gonna get to another break.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're

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Speaker 3: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Pittsburgh. Were live from Saint Vincent College here

507
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Speaker 3: where Steelers just wrapped up practice session number three this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: They'll be back on the practice field tomorrow at the

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Speaker 3: same time. What is that two fifive Of course that

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Speaker 3: is open to the public, so come on out. They'll

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Speaker 3: be done around four o'clock again, and then of course

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Speaker 3: off on Monday. But you can hear Matt and I

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Speaker 3: from three to five tomorrow as well. We'll be back

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Speaker 3: with more right after this twenty twenty four of here

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Speaker 3: it's the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamsons on.

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Speaker 2: Your twenty four to seven home of the Black and GOLDNR.

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. This is

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Speaker 3: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and Fox Sports Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 3: Matt earlier today, the Steelers introducing their twenty twenty four

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Speaker 3: Hall of Honor class, that being Casey Hampton, Dick Lebou,

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Speaker 3: Willie Parker, and Jason Gilden. They had the ceremony just

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Speaker 3: over here to our right. Yeah, very cool, very good

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Speaker 3: stuff here of course. Yeah, those guys got introduced here

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Speaker 3: to start a practice and well, let's hear what that

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Speaker 3: ceremony sounded like today.

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Speaker 8: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Saint Vincent College right

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Speaker 8: here in the heart of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. This is Steelers

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Speaker 8: Training Camp twenty twenty four. We have a live audience

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Speaker 8: here at the Rogers Center at St.

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Speaker 6: Vincent College. We also have people watching.

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Speaker 1: From all over the world.

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Speaker 8: On Steeler digital platforms. Were welcome here to a very

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Speaker 8: special presentation. The Steelers are getting ready for their twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty four season. By the way, the first preseason game

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Speaker 8: is coming up basically in less than a week and

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Speaker 8: a half as Texas Houston Texans come to town on

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Speaker 8: August the ninth. We'll get into that as we move

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Speaker 8: forward here in the days ahead, but right now we

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Speaker 8: have a very special presentation. This is the reveal of

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Speaker 8: the Hall of Honor class of twenty twenty four on

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Speaker 8: stage joining me right now, Art Rooney, president of the

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Speaker 8: Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as Bob.

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Speaker 6: Labriola, a team historian.

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Speaker 8: Both of these guys of course on the Hall of

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Speaker 8: Honors selection committee. Art, I know this is always a

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Speaker 8: fabulous date. You came up with this back in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 8: It has been wildly popular and successful. Let's talk about

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Speaker 8: every year though, you have a lot of candidates be

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Speaker 8: as successful as this franchise has been. So it's tough

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Speaker 8: to come down with a class every year. Tell us

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Speaker 8: about the process.

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Speaker 5: It is tough. Every year.

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Speaker 7: We work hard to come up with the best four

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Speaker 7: candidates we can get and it's always a tough one.

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Speaker 7: And of course we get a lot of suggestions from

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Speaker 7: our fans Steelers. Steelers Nation chips in and makes a

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Speaker 7: lot of great suggestions. So this year was no different.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a great class. But there was some

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Speaker 7: arm wrestling to narrow down to the finalists.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll get into that as we go along. Back

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Speaker 8: in twenty twenty two, the Hall of Honor Museum opened

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Speaker 8: at Actresser Stadium, and judging by the number of people

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Speaker 8: who've come down there, it's been wildly successful as well.

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Speaker 8: We have this ball here, and this is a gift

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Speaker 8: that originally was given to your grandfather by US Steel.

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Speaker 8: Tell us the history and why that's so central in

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Speaker 8: the museum.

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Speaker 7: Well, as far as we know, this is the only

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Speaker 7: solid steel football in the world, and US Steel and

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Speaker 7: the United steel Workers gave it to my grandfather in

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Speaker 7: nineteen eighty two on the occasion of the Steelers' fiftieth season.

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Speaker 5: And when we.

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Speaker 7: Decided to create the Hall of Honor and induct our players,

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Speaker 7: we thought that a replica of this ball would be

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Speaker 7: an appropriate memento of them becoming members of the Hall

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Speaker 7: of Honors.

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Speaker 5: So each of the members.

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Speaker 7: Of the class every year get a replica of the

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Speaker 7: steel football, and those aren't solid steel.

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Speaker 5: This is the only solid steel one.

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Speaker 7: But it is a great representation of the franchise and

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Speaker 7: what it means to be a Steeler.

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Speaker 8: And it's a tremendous exhibit. If you've never been there,

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Speaker 8: you owe to yourself to get down there for sure

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Speaker 8: at Akrosher Stadium. All right, gentlemen, are you ready?

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Speaker 6: It's time.

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Speaker 8: It's time to reveal a Hall of Honor Class of

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty four and here to do that is Larry Richard.

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Speaker 9: The Hall of Honor is the home to the legacies

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Speaker 9: that have defined what it means to be a Pittsburgh

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Speaker 9: Steeler franchise. Pillars forever immortal for their indelible mark left

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Speaker 9: on one of the league's most illustrious organizations.

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Speaker 3: Gets to the collage stapt.

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Speaker 9: Men of character and class players of immense talent and

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Speaker 9: toughness Steelers that have shouldered the success of the past

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Speaker 9: ninety one seasons. Fifty three steel Footballs have represented the

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Speaker 9: lasting memories left by each member of the Hall of Honor,

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Speaker 9: and this year's class adds countless more. First for induction

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Speaker 9: is Casey Hampton, the former first round pickout of Texas

603
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Speaker 9: anchored the middle of the Steelers defense for twelve seasons.

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Speaker 2: That's Casey Hampton, fired through and tuppenham.

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Speaker 9: A premier run stuffer, Hampton lived up to his nickname

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Speaker 9: Big Snack by devouring double team blocks and ball carriers.

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Speaker 3: You know he has arms like legs and legs like people.

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Speaker 9: The Steelers co team MVP in two thousand and five,

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Speaker 9: Hampton was highly regarded as an elite talent in Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 9: three four scheme as shown by his five Pro Bowl appearances.

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Speaker 9: It's the big snack he gets half that sat he's

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Speaker 9: dropped by Casey Hafton. The two times Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 9: is also one of three interior defensive linemen named to

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Speaker 9: the Steelers seventy fifth Anniversary team, along with Ernie Stattner

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Speaker 9: and Joe Green. Also to be inducted is Jason Gilden.

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Speaker 9: Primarily a special teamer in his first two seasons out

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Speaker 9: of Oklahoma State, Gilden replaced Kevin Green in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 3: Six and never looked back.

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Speaker 9: His seventy seven sacks, fifty eight tackles were lost, and

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Speaker 9: eighteen forced fumbles are all still top ten marks in

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Speaker 9: team history.

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Speaker 6: I want to miss Vava Britton.

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Speaker 5: I miss name.

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Speaker 6: Look it back and look back.

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Speaker 9: The three time Pro Bowler went over double digit sacks

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Speaker 9: on three separate occasions, including the two thousand and one

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Speaker 9: season when he racked up twelve sacks and was named

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Speaker 9: first team All Pro. Kilden carried the torch of Steelers

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Speaker 9: linebackers that came before him and set a news standard

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Speaker 9: for those to follow. At Jason Kilden six the SEC

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Speaker 9: record for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Yes he passes L. C.

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Speaker 1: Greenwood.

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Speaker 9: If you blink, you might miss the next player in

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Speaker 9: this year's class.

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Speaker 6: Were the football for.

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Speaker 3: The first down as the fast Whiley Parker, that boy

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Speaker 3: is extra fast.

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Speaker 6: There is no substitute for speed.

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Speaker 9: Speed was Willie Parker's game, and the former undrafted rookie

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Speaker 9: used it to amass his five three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 9: eight career rushing yards, which is third all time in Steeler's.

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Speaker 6: History bookhim back foot booking back flu.

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Speaker 9: Also ranks third in one hundred yard rushing games with

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Speaker 9: twenty five, seven of which came in Parker's historic two

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Speaker 9: thousand and six campaign.

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Speaker 6: Willie Parker a masterpiece.

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Speaker 9: Parker set a single season team record with sixteen total

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Speaker 9: touchdowns en route to his first of two consecutive Pro

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Speaker 9: Bowls thirty yard today.

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Speaker 6: You heard it right.

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Speaker 9: He became the only player in team history to have

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Speaker 9: two two hundred yard rushing performances in the same season.

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Speaker 9: Of all his records, the one Parker set in Super

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Speaker 9: Bowl forty might be his greatest of all.

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Speaker 6: And they handed to Willie Parker finds a lad, He's

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Speaker 6: on his way.

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Speaker 3: Look out futbreak forty five. Willy touchdown Willy Parker seventy

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Speaker 3: five yards and this place is a Steeler Lady X paper.

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Speaker 9: The final inductee was the mastermind behind the zone Blitz scheme.

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Speaker 3: Good body, focus in It settled Down.

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Speaker 9: Dick Lebaux coached sixteen seasons in Pittsburgh, first as a

663
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Speaker 9: defensive back coach, then coordinator during the height of Blitzburg.

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Speaker 9: Lebaux would return in two thousand and four to call

665
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Speaker 9: the defense for the next eleven seasons. During his time,

666
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Speaker 9: the Steelers had a defensive renaissance, boasting a top ten

667
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 9: defense eleven of his thirteen seasons as coordinator. Under Lebou's tutelage,

668
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Speaker 9: the team produced sixteen Pro Bowlers, six First Team All Pros,

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Speaker 9: and three Hall of Famers. His defenses were the cornerstone

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Speaker 9: of two Super Bowl winning teams.

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Speaker 3: At Super Bowl forty three.

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Speaker 9: As with Free, Lebau will always be remembered for the

673
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Speaker 9: love shared between him and his players. These four men

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Speaker 9: have represented the traditions of wearing the black and gold

675
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Speaker 9: for men of Steel. Added to the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall

676
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Speaker 9: of Honor.

677
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Speaker 8: What a class Four legends of the game tell us

678
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Speaker 8: about the process at that's had to be You have

679
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 8: so many others too, so well as these guys are special, it's.

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Speaker 5: A special group.

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Speaker 7: And uh, you know, coach Lebau a little unusual for

682
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Speaker 7: an assistant coach to have as much influence as he

683
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Speaker 7: had over the years.

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Speaker 5: So great to see him going in.

685
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Speaker 7: And of course the other players just all great, great players,

686
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Speaker 7: deserving and we're excited to welcome into the Hall of

687
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Speaker 7: Honor this year exactly.

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Speaker 8: That'll take place in December, and more details on that

689
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Speaker 8: in a minute. But let's bring in Bob Labriola, team historian.

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Speaker 8: You have a lot of stories, a lot of stuff

691
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Speaker 8: you've watched over the years. Let's start with Jason Gilden

692
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 8: and just you know, a third round pick, you don't

693
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 8: see many who elevate their game to that level, especially

694
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 8: he had to do a lot of special teams early.

695
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 10: On, right, you know, a third round pick came to

696
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 10: the Steelers in nineteen ninety four, eighty eighth overall in

697
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 10: that draft. And that was a very interesting time for

698
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 10: the NFL because the system of free agency tied to

699
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 10: a salary cap really wasn't implemented until the nineteen ninety

700
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 10: three season, and a lot of teams were trying to

701
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 10: find their way, you know, how they going to manage this,

702
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 10: you know, mixing free agency with the draft and the

703
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 10: salary cap, all that kind of stuff. And one of

704
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 10: the very early free agent signings for the Steelers was

705
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 10: Kevin Green, who a Hall of Fame player in his

706
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 10: own right, also a member of this Hall of honor. So,

707
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 10: you know, Jason Gilden came along, and as the video explained,

708
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 10: he was relegated to special teams early because of the

709
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 10: linebackers when he came into the league with Greg Lloyd

710
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 10: on one side and Kevin Green.

711
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Speaker 5: On the other.

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Speaker 10: So, but Jason Gilden showed enough to the coaches in

713
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 10: the play time that he got how he was serious

714
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 10: about special teams and quickly made himself a core special

715
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 10: teams player, so that when Kevin Green's contract was due

716
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 10: to expire after the nineteen ninety five season, there was

717
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 10: enough confidence in Jason Gilden's ability to step up and

718
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Speaker 10: fill it with what is a key position on the

719
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Speaker 10: Steelers three to four defensive alignment. And so you know,

720
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Speaker 10: Kevin Green was allowed to, you know, go on to

721
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Speaker 10: further a career, as I mentioned, ended up in the

722
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Speaker 10: Hall of Fame. And then Jason Gilden, you know, certainly

723
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 10: lived up to those expectations or hopes by the Steelers

724
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 10: and became the all time sack leader at one point

725
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 10: left the team with seventy seven career sacks, which was

726
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 10: the franchise record for a long time until James Harrison

727
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 10: came along and broke it later.

728
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 8: It's amazing the tradition art of outside linebackers. They all

729
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 8: look the same because they come at you with the ferocity.

730
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Speaker 8: He played opposite of Greg Lloyd, and I'm sure you

731
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 8: could tell the evolution of his game as the years

732
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Speaker 8: went on.

733
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, Jason came in at the time when,

734
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 7: as Bob said, you know, we were trying to replace

735
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 7: a Hall of Famer and really weren't quite sure what

736
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,959
Speaker 7: we had And for him to come in and set

737
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 7: the Steelers sack record at that point, just a great career.

738
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Speaker 7: And as you say, you know, part of a long

739
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 7: list of linebackers that we've been fortunate to have, and

740
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 7: it's a great history of linebackers.

741
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Speaker 8: People talk about the sacks, but fifty eight tackles for

742
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 8: losses too, those are just as big. Maybe they don't

743
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 8: get the cachet that a sack does, but when you

744
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 8: tackle guys behind the line of scrimmage are changing down in.

745
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Speaker 6: Distance, it's huge.

746
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Speaker 5: It's like a sack.

747
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 6: Yep, ye, same concept.

748
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Speaker 8: All right, So Jason, we'll give you fifty eight more sacks.

749
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Speaker 6: How about that.

750
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 8: Let's talk about Casey Hampton, the big snack and Bob

751
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 8: you mentioned three four defenses. You need someone to be

752
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 8: the man in the middle. We saw that video where

753
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 8: you know, Eddie George is running and then next thing

754
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 8: you know, Eddie George is out. There's you know, you

755
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 8: put him out of the game at that point. He

756
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 8: had that ability to just completely suffocate the inside part

757
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Speaker 8: of the game.

758
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Speaker 6: How big was he to the outside linebackers?

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, Casey Hampton was huge, as you mentioned

760
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 10: to the run defense. And still that when Casey Hampton

761
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 10: came into the NFL in two thousand and one, that

762
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 10: was still an error in the league where teams ran

763
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 10: the ball on first.

764
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Speaker 6: And second down.

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Speaker 10: I mean, it's not like it is now where go

766
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 10: throw anywhere from anywhere at any time, regardless of the

767
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 10: score or anything. So yeah, you know, Bill Coward defense,

768
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 10: if you couldn't stop the run, you couldn't play. But

769
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 10: another thing about those teams and Casey Hampton was a

770
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 10: huge part of this as well. Was the social fabric

771
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Speaker 10: within the long room. Okay, now, Casey Hampton came from

772
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 10: the University of Texas two thousand and one draft pick

773
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 10: two thousand presidential election. George Bush was elected president. Before that,

774
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 10: he was the governor of Texas. Soill Casey, you know,

775
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 10: he gets in the steel a long room and he's

776
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Speaker 10: telling his teammates he knows.

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Speaker 6: The president the thirty shield. But I'm sure there was

778
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Speaker 6: a lot of that.

779
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 10: So the Steelers go on and win the Super Bowl

780
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 10: in two thousand and five, and at that time, you know,

781
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 10: you go to the White House. The super Bowl winning

782
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 10: team goes to the White House. So it was sometime

783
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 10: in two thousand and six we go to the White

784
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 10: House and in that for that visit, it was in

785
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 10: the East Room of the White House. So the players

786
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 10: are all aligned up on the stage and there's people

787
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Speaker 10: sitting in the there were chairs set up, so all

788
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 10: of a sudden, you know, everybody stands up. George Bush

789
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 10: walks into the room. The president. So he's walking across

790
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 10: to where he was going to speak, and the players

791
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 10: were behind him, and he walks by and he looks over.

792
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Speaker 6: He goes, Hey, Hamp, how you doing.

793
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Speaker 10: So at that point, Casey was legitimized in the locker

794
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 10: room as a guy who actually did know the President

795
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 10: of the United States and who was recognized by the

796
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 10: President of the United States.

797
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 6: In the East Stroom of the White House.

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Speaker 10: And I'm sure that Casey Hampton had a few things

799
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 10: to say to his teammates about that afterwards.

800
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 8: He still talks about it, Hamp, not just Hey r

801
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 8: exactly Camp.

802
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 10: He knew each other from the time they were but

803
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 10: the president then President was the governor of Texas. They

804
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 10: would work out together in the same facility at Austin.

805
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 8: In Austin, he had the same impact. I mean, those

806
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 8: guys who play alongside of him got a lot of

807
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 8: the statistics because of what Casey did. You know, Guys

808
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 8: like Aaron Smith, Brett keesold those guys they appreciate the

809
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 8: work that goes unnoticed at times.

810
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Speaker 7: Hamp was a space eater. I mean, he just was

811
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 7: a solid rock in the middle there. And and that

812
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 7: group really was probably the only group that rivaled the

813
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 7: Steel Curtain in terms of being able to stop the run.

814
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 7: They were just an incredible group against the run.

815
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Speaker 8: Now I don't even recognize him. He hasn't been snacking

816
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 8: the big snack.

817
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 5: A little different. He does great, Yeah for him.

818
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 8: All right, Coach Lebau, this is one of those special

819
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 8: guys who fifty nine years in the National Football League

820
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 8: playing days were incredible with Detroit. I don't know what

821
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 8: fifth round pick. He was a later round pick, and

822
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Speaker 8: he ends up with sixty some interceptions interceptions, and then

823
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Speaker 8: he goes into a coaching career.

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Speaker 6: Tell us about Dick Lebou. Well, you know, Dick Lebow

825
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 6: is associated with Blitzberg.

826
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Speaker 10: I mean, you know, his zone blitz scheme is often

827
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 10: remembered for the pressure that it put on the quarterback.

828
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Speaker 6: And you know those during the seasons that.

829
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Speaker 10: Dick Lebow was the defensive coordinator for the Steelers, the

830
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 10: team averaged thirty eight and a half sacks a season,

831
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Speaker 10: but also thirty six.

832
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Speaker 6: Point six takeaways a season.

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Speaker 10: And I remember Dick Leabou telling me one time, you know,

834
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Speaker 10: when everybody was all excited about the sacks, you know,

835
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Speaker 10: pressure in the quarterback, blitz quarter everybody's you know, like

836
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 10: the nickname, and Steelers fans.

837
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Speaker 6: Loved that quarterbacks going on the ground.

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Speaker 10: But he said, you know, sometimes it's more important to

839
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 10: make the quarterback feel pressure than to actually sack him.

840
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 10: Because we make him feel pressure, sometimes it'll force him

841
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 10: into a quick decisions and that will that's when he

842
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 10: throws you the football. Okay, now, everybody think, go back

843
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 10: to Super Bowl forty three and to the first half,

844
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 10: first and goal of the one yard line.

845
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 6: What happened.

846
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 10: Kurt Warner felt a little pressure through James Harrison the

847
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 10: ball and what ended up was the most dynamic defensive

848
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 10: player in Super Bowl history. The Steelers went on to

849
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 10: win that game for the sixth championship in franchise history.

850
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 10: So you know, a lot of times it's not necessarily

851
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 10: the most important thing to put the quarterback on the ground,

852
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 10: though fans love it and it's exciting and everything. Sometimes

853
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 10: you can use that pressure to make him make a mistake,

854
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 10: which often.

855
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 8: Can be more critical unbelievable success there Art he's known

856
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 8: as the father of his own blitz, but he's also

857
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 8: in that locker room was sort of a father figure.

858
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 8: I mean the night before Christmas. We hear this every year,

859
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 8: where you get those players around. You see all these

860
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 8: big six foot five inch guys looking at him and

861
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 8: reading the night before Christmas. I imagine that, you know,

862
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 8: that sort of ability that he had to get to

863
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 8: his players, not just as a player, but as somebody

864
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 8: he really cared about, made a difference.

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Speaker 7: Now, it's remarkable if you talk to any of those players.

866
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 7: And I had a chance, so Troy Paulamala was here

867
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Speaker 7: this week and Ike Taylor and I was talking to

868
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 7: them a little bit about coach Lebo coming into the

869
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 7: Hall of Honor, and they were.

870
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 5: Just so excited.

871
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 7: They his players just loved him, Like I mean, there's

872
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 7: a lot of coaches that have great respect from their players,

873
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 7: but the players love Coach LAbau with an unusual person

874
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 7: and just a great, great football coach.

875
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 8: Fifty nine years in the National Football League all total.

876
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 8: An amazing person and amazing career. And now we get

877
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 8: to fast Willie Parker. And I love stories where you

878
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 8: get undrafted players, nobody really gives them a chance. A

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Speaker 8: lot of you young kids, Jalen Warren falls into that

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Speaker 8: category for you. But Willie Parker was a guy who

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Speaker 8: came out on the scene, Bob quickly, and I use

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Speaker 8: that because that's how he did everything quickly. But tell

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Speaker 8: us about why he got the opportunity and not only

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Speaker 8: to make the roster, but become who we became.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, Willie Parker really was a bottom of

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Speaker 10: the depth chart guy. In two thousand and four, the

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Speaker 10: Steelers were looking for you know, I hate to use

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Speaker 10: this term for training camp bodies. You know, you need

889
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 10: so many players at every position to run practice and

890
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Speaker 10: get you through a training camp. At a preseason Willie

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Speaker 10: Parker had forty eight carries as a senior at the

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Speaker 10: University of North Carolina for a team that was two

893
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Speaker 10: and ten. Okay, so you're taking a running back from

894
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 10: a team that's stunk, and he wasn't even the star

895
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Speaker 10: of that team.

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Speaker 6: So I got to.

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Speaker 10: Believe that expectations around him, maybe not within the team,

898
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Speaker 10: but certainly you know, when you learned about where he

899
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Speaker 10: came from, you know, this guy's you know, nobody from

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Speaker 10: the ore. But very quickly, to use your pond kind

901
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 10: of very quickly, Willie Parker showed himself to have some

902
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Speaker 10: dynamic speed and burst during training camp practices. But there

903
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Speaker 10: were two things about Willie Parker that Dick Hoke, a

904
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Speaker 10: long time running backs coach, told me that set him apart.

905
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Speaker 10: Dick Hope was always as a coach a big believer

906
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Speaker 10: in what He always would yell at them, hit it

907
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Speaker 10: up in there, because a lot of times running backs

908
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 10: were fast. We're always looking to bounce outside, bounce outside.

909
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Speaker 10: They think they can outrun you know. That's what they

910
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Speaker 10: probably did through high school, maybe in college, and so

911
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 10: they're trying to do it in the NFL. And you

912
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Speaker 10: can't outrun NFL defenses that way. But Willie Parker once

913
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Speaker 10: was that was explained to him. He very quickly adapted

914
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Speaker 10: and you could see Willie Parker running between the tackles

915
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Speaker 10: during training camp. Now he would still hit it with

916
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 10: the same speed and burst, but he wasn't.

917
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Speaker 6: Always looking to bounce outside.

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Speaker 10: The other thing that separated Billy Parker pretty quickly during

919
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 10: that training camp was his willingness to stick his nose

920
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Speaker 10: in during pass protection. And Willie Parker when he came

921
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Speaker 10: to the Steelers was not a big guy. But during

922
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Speaker 10: drills during eleven on eleven, Willie Parker would step up

923
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Speaker 10: and block for the quarterback. And so Dick Hoke I

924
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 10: remember him telling me, he said, you know whoever his

925
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Speaker 10: coach was in college and didn't do a very good

926
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Speaker 10: job of evaluating, because this is a guy who will

927
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Speaker 10: run between the tackles with speed and also will block.

928
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Speaker 10: He wasn't really great at it right away, but you

929
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Speaker 10: could see the willingness. And once you have you bring

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Speaker 10: the willingness and the toughness, then that can be coached

931
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Speaker 10: into you as well. And so yeah, Willie Parker, a

932
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Speaker 10: lot of his statistics are still among the team leaders

933
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Speaker 10: in a bunch of different categories. And anybody who saw

934
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Speaker 10: Super Bowl forty or was there will never forget that

935
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Speaker 10: seventy five yard.

936
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Speaker 8: Round still is the longest run in Super Bowl history.

937
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Speaker 8: And there's a lot to said about mindsets of guys

938
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Speaker 8: who aren't number one picks or high picks. You know,

939
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Speaker 8: Willie Parker was one of those guys who knew he

940
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Speaker 8: had to do everything to impress coaches, and I think

941
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Speaker 8: all those guys in that category have to do that

942
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Speaker 8: in order to get the opportunity that others may have

943
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Speaker 8: ahead of them.

944
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Speaker 7: Well, it's always great to see a guy who's undrafted

945
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 7: come in and have that kind of success, And we

946
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Speaker 7: have a few guys in the Hall of Honor that

947
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 7: came in as undrafted players. And my brother Dan, who's

948
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 7: been a scout for a long time, was really the

949
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Speaker 7: one that brought Willy here. And then you know, Jerome

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Speaker 7: Bettis actually took Willy under his wing and really kind

951
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Speaker 7: of showed him the ropes. And I think Jerome and

952
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Speaker 7: Dick Hoke deserve a lot of credit for developing Willy

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Speaker 7: into it.

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Speaker 5: You know, a great NFL player. That was pretty.

955
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Speaker 7: Unusual for a guy to come from where he came

956
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Speaker 7: from to be what he became.

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Speaker 8: No question, thirteen hundred yards one of his best seasons,

958
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 8: thirteen touchdowns in that season, all for a guy who

959
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 8: is basically discarded. Nobody thought he could do it, and

960
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Speaker 8: he proved everybody wrong. That's what makes football so special

961
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Speaker 8: when you hear stories like this. Ladies and gentlemen, let's

962
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Speaker 8: hear it once again for the Hall of Honor class

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Speaker 8: of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 6: Those are your here, good.

965
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Speaker 8: So that was inspiring. Thank you guys for participating in that.

966
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Speaker 8: We'll come back to you, Bob in a second, but

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Speaker 8: right now, we also want to tell you that there's

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Speaker 8: a training camp going on. It's a beautiful day. Those

969
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 8: of you here know that it's been great. So if

970
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Speaker 8: you have an opportunity to come out here to Saint

971
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Speaker 8: Vincent College, make sure you do so until August the fourteenth,

972
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Speaker 8: the final day. We're going to get a little preview

973
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Speaker 8: right now of Steelers' training camp live. Mike Pursuita is

974
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Speaker 8: standing by up on the hill with a big crowd

975
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Speaker 8: getting set for practice.

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Speaker 3: That was the Hall of Honor introduction and share mooney

977
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Speaker 3: from earlier today. That was good stuff. Congratulations to that

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Speaker 3: class and well deserved. But the Matt that's going to

979
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Speaker 3: do it for our show today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just like to get back in the fold here.

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Speaker 4: We're back at you tomorrow, same time.

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Speaker 3: It's just the same bat time, same bat station. Indeed,

983
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Speaker 3: for my partner, Matt Williamson, for Justin Miller back on

984
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Speaker 3: site keeping us on the air, which he has done

985
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Speaker 3: with all these shows all day long. Yeah, he's doing

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Speaker 3: some yeoman's work back there. I'm Dale Lolly. We thank

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Speaker 3: you for listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 3: Radio and Fox Sports Pittsburgh.