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

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Speaker 1: n R Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson, and it's time

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Speaker 1: for us to do our Friday mock draft. Well conclude

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Speaker 1: our week. We're about what are we three weeks out

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Speaker 1: away from opening night? It's a good question. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let me get a calendar, okay, because we're coming to

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Speaker 1: Easter here, you can pull look up a calendar. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell people what we're doing here. We got uh draft run.

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Speaker 1: This is the twenty nine through May one. That sounds right,

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Speaker 1: So four weeks out or four weeks out before weeks

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Speaker 1: out from day two? Fun, and I assume you and

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Speaker 1: I will be on the air a ton a lot

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Speaker 1: like we was, like we have been. Yeah. Uh so

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Speaker 1: we're doing our mock draft today on the Draft Network,

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Speaker 1: which does not allow us to make trades. We've had

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Speaker 1: a request. How about you don't trade? You know, so

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Speaker 1: there will be no trades. Um, here's what they list

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Speaker 1: the Steelers needs as okay, and again this this takes

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Speaker 1: you to to that okay, drive by media kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Here conversation with Mike pursued in an earlier say their

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Speaker 1: number one need for the Steelers is cornerback. I see

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Speaker 1: the thoughts. I don't see it being the number one need.

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Speaker 1: Offensive tackle, running back, interior offensive line, linebacker, edge, interior

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Speaker 1: They basically take all the positions and put them in order.

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Speaker 1: So obviously, I mean, at least they get quarterback being

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Speaker 1: a hard time prioritizing their needs. And it's certainly tougher

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Speaker 1: we are, or then most are um depth at both

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Speaker 1: true starting experience. That's the one spot on the roster

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Speaker 1: biggest need. If you don't wait whatever running backs worth

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Speaker 1: I think that's the worst room right now. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: the pick is up at all. Right, here's some of

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Speaker 1: the guys available. Travis A t n a Zzo, Glariquity Pay,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Moig, Javante Williams, Jason Oa, Greg Newsome, Caleb Farley.

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Speaker 1: M that's a tough, real quick two second answer. Would

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Speaker 1: medical It depends on your situation. Do you need them

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Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt is good? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: And that's not that's not knocking Newsom at all is

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Speaker 1: a good player as well. He's a special prospect. Three

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, we're talking about Farley in contention to be

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Speaker 1: the number one cornerback, taking in the top ten pick. Right.

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, right, at least a perennial Pro Bowl guy, right, right, right.

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Speaker 1: I would strongly consider him a twenty four. But that's

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Speaker 1: doctor saying don't take them jam and Davis. Interesting, Nick

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Speaker 1: this Pro day today. The Bolton is definitely third. I

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Speaker 1: think Bolton is now third in that list. Yeah, especially

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Speaker 1: back to the Lawrence Timmins uh conversation where, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: don't fit in this defense. They're not three four outside linebackers,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Keith Miller is a lesser example, but you

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Speaker 1: But question, I don't think this the back thing is

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Speaker 1: test well, didn't test. Davian Nixon an interior defensive. I

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Speaker 1: one that tested really well. Right. The wide receiver Jitalen

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Speaker 1: Dardell Dardens still available. Usually I'd be great with that,

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Speaker 1: but as is k Johnson. Wow, they might be the

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Speaker 1: best players available. They might be Jamar Jefferson available with

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Speaker 1: the safety. No, they're running back from Oregon stage taking

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Speaker 1: the Indiana safety. Um, if you wait to take a

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Speaker 1: running back, do you take two and do like the

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Speaker 1: pent like the Packers did when they took you know,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, the year they took three and got Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones is the second one that they picked. Jamal Williams

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Speaker 1: was one of the other ones. They just threw a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys at it and said, Okay, one of

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Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be our back. Who's the back

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Speaker 1: that you would consider doing that with? Is Michigan guy available?

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Speaker 1: So I want this guy to be more of a

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Speaker 1: swing for the fences. Upside athlete receiver. Here the top

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Speaker 1: guys available, Jamar Jefferson, Chris Evans, who you just mentioned

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Speaker 1: that Michigan. We're Keem Boyd from Arkansas, Jared Patterson from Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell interesting from Louisiana. Yeah, um, you know Jefferson, Evans, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Evans and Mitchell will be my favorite of those three.

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Speaker 1: Put two in there and you know, two dogs, one bone.

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Speaker 1: Situation might be might be five dogs and two bones.

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Speaker 1: You throw a bunch of stuff with a fan and

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Speaker 1: it sticks. I mean, maybe McFarland steps up and beats

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Speaker 1: out all these guys, or we we talked about keeping

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Speaker 1: an extra one on the roster. I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: I like that the packer analogy, which wouldn't you down

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Speaker 1: for them? I think gotta go Evans. Okay to me,

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Speaker 1: Here's the problem with Evans is he's not been the

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Speaker 1: guy necessarily. He's had some issues. He's had some issues

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Speaker 1: where Mitchell I've seen be the guy. Yeah. Do we

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Speaker 1: need a guy though? We might guys? I mean we

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Speaker 1: would like to have We'd like to have a guy.

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Speaker 1: And if somebody emerges, he's going to be the guy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think Evans just has higher upside than we'll take

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Speaker 1: We'll take Evans, we might take a third. They all

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Speaker 1: they all went okay, Okay, so we linebacker we could run,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt. But they seem to be few and far between.

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Speaker 1: Our rankings seem a lot very similar to this website's rankings.

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Speaker 1: We're not finding guys. We can't believe we're still there,

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Speaker 1: still twos. We have two more picks. Okay, the top

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Speaker 1: guys available. Oh, I don't know if we can keep

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Speaker 1: passing on these guys, Jalen Dardin and caged Ahnson. I

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Speaker 1: think we grab K Johnson, Um, which one do you

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Speaker 1: like better? There? Definitely Johnson is a bigger They both

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Speaker 1: can be slots, but Dardens skinny. Darden's faster. Johnson k

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Speaker 1: Johnson's pick. Oh, it's a great value. Yeah, it might

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Speaker 1: be my favorite pick in our draft. Right right, I

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Speaker 1: mean he might not do a thing this year. But

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Speaker 1: Washington Andrew, you might not be back right. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: back up here at to fifty four. Um, we still

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Speaker 1: haven't taken a hit and run linebacker, be nice, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know we're gonna find one here. We could

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Speaker 1: take another cornerback and guess what. All those cornerbacks are

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Speaker 1: still there, nobody, So it still it's take Allen, Marco, Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Cameron buying him, Tray Norwood, DJ Daniel, Chris Wallcox. I'd

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Speaker 1: roll the dice on Wilson. Just an athlete. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: just a big athlete. He's also more outside, but I

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Speaker 1: don't really care. I mean, he's six ft, He's not

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Speaker 1: like he's a monster, but he ran like a four

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Speaker 1: three forty unbelievable. John jumped and yeah, I did all that,

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Speaker 1: and I'll roll the dice on an athlete there, let's

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Speaker 1: do it. I mean, Farley might not be ready opening day,

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Speaker 1: and maybe this guy is in the mix and the

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Speaker 1: helmet on the game day. I don't know. All right,

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Speaker 1: So here's our draft. In the first round, we got

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Speaker 1: Caleb Farley. We rolled the dice on Caleb Farley. No

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Speaker 1: one's gonna mow and grow in his glass if he

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Speaker 1: turns into a Pro Bowl with them, No, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. At fifty five, we took Quinn Miners.

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Speaker 1: At eight seven, we took Walker Little Okay, at we

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Speaker 1: took Killing Hill running back at the Mississippi State. So

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Speaker 1: the one I think that we kind of look at

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Speaker 1: and be like we had to. Yeah. One forty we

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Speaker 1: got Patrick Johnson, the edgett of Tulsa or Tulene, I

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Speaker 1: should say, at too six team we doubled down at

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Speaker 1: the running back position, took Chris Evans. I like that

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Speaker 1: move considering how the draft was. At two forty five,

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Speaker 1: we took a value pick in k Johnson, the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver at of South Dakota State. We'll be happy about

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Speaker 1: that next year. And then the two fifty four we

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Speaker 1: took Marco Wilson, the cornerback at A Florida. Uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't have two cornerbacks two running backs. It's a little wide.

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Speaker 1: You can be walking a little in the third round, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean between him and Miners, the old line might

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Speaker 1: be solved for the long term. I just don't know.

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Speaker 1: If Farley is ready to play in four in four

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Speaker 1: months and is ready for the start of training camp,

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Speaker 1: there's a good chance that he's the starter, yeah for

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Speaker 1: eight years. Yeah, I mean, and if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: then this draft is a is a could be a

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Speaker 1: home run because you just got a top ten talent

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Speaker 1: at twenty four. Even if he's not ready or needs know,

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Speaker 1: he's good enough that if if when he's healthy, you're

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Speaker 1: putting him in, you're putting him in the starting lineup. No,

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Speaker 1: he's not staying the sideline. Ever. I kind of like

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Speaker 1: this draft more and more. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of swings, including the seventh rounder Nick Miners. Miners in

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Speaker 1: the second round is a swing. He doesn't played football

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Speaker 1: in two years. We're judging every everybody's judging what he

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Speaker 1: can be off of a week of Senior Bowl practice.

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Speaker 1: Little played one game in two years. Little played all

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Speaker 1: our top three picks, didn't play this year, didn't play football.

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Speaker 1: That's problematic. I don't know that that's going to happen

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Speaker 1: for this I don't know if the Steelers are gonna

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Speaker 1: make that move. I don't know if you could take

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Speaker 1: that approach to the draft. I mean, that's really that's

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Speaker 1: not punting for this year, but it's saying, boy, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna build something that that's that's saying college football season

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Speaker 1: really didn't matter. I hear you. I don't hate that

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Speaker 1: draft though. I don't hate boy. It's it's we're making

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Speaker 1: some leaps to faith. I mean, if one or two

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Speaker 1: hit great, Ky Johnson didn't play this year, I guess

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Speaker 1: he did. I mean, the Backs don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of experience between him either. Chris Evans was a part

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Speaker 1: time player this year, like oh Man. Yeah, there's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps of recent film for that. Crew

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Speaker 1: Dale Lolly the journalist, what if I'm with that assessing

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Speaker 1: this draft would rip the Steelers for this drift. Now,

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Speaker 1: there will be some guys Okay, this is a high

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Speaker 1: upside draft, but boy, they're they're taking some chances. They're

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Speaker 1: taking chances. I don't hate it, though it's not my favor. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we've we've done better. I mean, think what

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Speaker 1: their pass rush would be like if Farley is a guy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I love Farley. He was my number one

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Speaker 1: when we did that, when we did there our triple takes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was my number one cornerback. I think he has

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Speaker 1: more upside than Certain. I think Certain might be better

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Speaker 1: right now. I think he's a more polished player. But

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Speaker 1: Farley's got the upside. It's just like he's bigger, he's

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Speaker 1: he's faster, he's you know, the whole deal takes the

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Speaker 1: ball away. I'm sure people, I don't remember the Heath draft,

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Speaker 1: but I'm sure you guys had fun tearing that one

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Speaker 1: up to like really, yeah he was, I mean he

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Speaker 1: was the number one tight end available that year and

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Speaker 1: number one corner. He might be the number one corner

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Speaker 1: you got him at twenty four. Yeah, and not all

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Speaker 1: these guys are gonna hit, but and we're putting a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of trust in our coaching staff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: bringing in our medical staff in the medal. The medical

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Speaker 1: staff is gonna have to because Walker Little is a

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Speaker 1: guy that's had some Yeah, I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 1: hate it. It's a very different approach than our usual

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Speaker 1: though it doesn't help our running back room a whole lot.

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Speaker 1: Though it doesn't we might have to if if things

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Speaker 1: go this way, you do have to go re signed

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Speaker 1: James Conner and then you got seven guys after a

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Speaker 1: bone or six guys after. That's fine because four of

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00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: those guys wrestling for that bone didn't show me a

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Speaker 1: whole lot last year. And I'm not gonna mind cutting.

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Speaker 1: That might be Benny Stell, that might be he and again,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people throughout the season could get carries

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, not ideal, not ideal at all, But

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this edition of the Drive

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. So for my partner partner Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: for Jacob brickt here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lillly and we thank you for listening to

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