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

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Lollly. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: This is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and Matt

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Speaker 1: Dan Kansas has put out the power rankings NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: We'd go through these during the season in the Officeason

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Speaker 1: anytime they update them. Yeah, so that we've done that

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Speaker 1: in a while. We haven't talked about these things. And

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Speaker 1: some things have changed around the league affected some things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so let's go ahead here and look at number thirty two.

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Speaker 1: We got a new number thirty two right now, number

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Speaker 1: thirty two. The Chicago Bears down two spots. Yeah, Roquan

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Speaker 1: Smith now wants out. That's problem. I mean, that's one

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Speaker 1: of the problems with that. It's the guys you count

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Speaker 1: on are all of a sudden this broke, Like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be put waste a year doing this

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Speaker 1: two or three or two or three. There are lines bad,

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Speaker 1: their weapons are bad. Poor fields is gonna have to

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Speaker 1: survive the season. I don't know if the defense will

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Speaker 1: keep up, you know, being able to counting on the

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Speaker 1: kill area to be a contributor right now he's out

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Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah, thirty one now is down two

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Speaker 1: spots as well. The Atlanta Falcons. The Atlantiversa bears a conversation.

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Speaker 1: You know, it sounds like Mariod is gonna be the

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Speaker 1: starter until further notice. Shouldn't shock anybody. Thirty up a

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Speaker 1: spot are the Jacksonville Jaguars. I would have them higher,

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean, this time a year, a lot

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Speaker 1: of these bad teams look much improved. But I think

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Speaker 1: they're much improved. I mean they have real receivers, very

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Speaker 1: talented quarterback. I don't think their lines terrible. They've remade

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Speaker 1: the defense to some degree. I mean I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're great, but I would put him over Houston. Well,

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Speaker 1: Houston is next on here up three spots, but there

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Speaker 1: was the West. Uh there now twenty nine. I guess

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Speaker 1: they're they're looking at the people are saying, oh, Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills might be okay. I think Davis Mills is okay.

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Speaker 1: I think he's an NFL starter. Um, it's not huge

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Speaker 1: news in terms of power ranks, but you know, Matchi's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be around. Um. Yeah, I think the offense

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Speaker 1: is legit, though it was kind of laughable for people

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Speaker 1: are all over Nico Collins. Yeah, I think he's kind

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Speaker 1: of a sleeper, you know, a talented second your breakout, big, strong,

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Speaker 1: down two spots. The Washington commanders, I haven't heard good

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Speaker 1: things about Wentz. Wentz is struggling with his accuracy. That's

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Speaker 1: the latest clip. You know. They got weapons in an

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Speaker 1: O line too, and I think their defense will be

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Speaker 1: better this year's This time of year is tough for

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Speaker 1: power ranks because there's nobody that's oh and three and

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Speaker 1: had lost their starting. Injuries and things like that have

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Speaker 1: started to okay this this seems a little rough on

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Speaker 1: Washington to be twenty eight because I can picture a world,

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Speaker 1: not predicting it, where they actually get into the playoff,

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Speaker 1: I mean, win nine games and get a bounce or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't look at them as a bottom feeder where

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Speaker 1: those other teams were. Picture a world where Washington it's possible.

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Speaker 1: Twilight seven holding steady the Detroit Lions, any qualms with

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Speaker 1: them verse Washington. I think the conversation, I think some

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Speaker 1: people might be getting ahead of themselves a little with detroits.

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Speaker 1: This year's Bengals are I don't think that's the case.

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Speaker 1: But I really like people are gonna they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: on hard knocks. Everybody's gonna be all fired up about them,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, they're gonna love the coach and yeah that's

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Speaker 1: great an entertaining guy. Yeah, they've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun players. Twenty six up, two spots of the Giants.

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Speaker 1: What have the Giants done? I don't know how anyone

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Speaker 1: would do power ranks, they would never be the same.

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Speaker 1: So I get how that that that kind of stuff works.

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Speaker 1: Like I get somebody dropping here and I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest follower will We'll get to her here in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Um because of stuff that's happened. But I can't see

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Speaker 1: a team jumping considerably. Boy, I feel so much better

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Speaker 1: Would you put the Jets over the Giants? They have

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Speaker 1: is why, Like, the Forts are not going to just cut.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna hold on them as long as they possibly

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Speaker 1: for that to happen. Right, We're right, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: trade them to Seattle. They're not gonna trade them to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: But no, I think the Seahawks are very bad. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three up two spots the Carolina Panthers. The news

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Speaker 1: shopping Donald. I've seen that they'll get nothing for nothing.

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Speaker 1: I mean they gave up get nothing and like it, right,

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Speaker 1: they gave up nothing to acquire Baker, and Baker is

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Speaker 1: better than Donald even less so with the exact same contract.

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Speaker 1: But whatever. That's another team that I don't think would

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Speaker 1: be insane to think could make a wild card in

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Speaker 1: the NFC. Yeah. Here they are the team with the

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Speaker 1: biggest fall, the Cleveland Browns, down eight spots from their

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Speaker 1: way too lofty status of fourteen. Are the Browns are

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Speaker 1: when they were fourteen because it's like, do you think

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Speaker 1: Watson's not going to get suspended, you know, a month ago?

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Speaker 1: So this is with him suspended just six games? Yes,

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Speaker 1: like what happens when he suspended for ten or twelve whatever?

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Speaker 1: Where do they fall to? That's my question to you,

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Speaker 1: all Right, hypothetical Watson gets a dozen games, which is

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Speaker 1: exactly what the Browns don't want because screws up there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm definitely putting Carolina Washington Seattle about the

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Speaker 1: he should have thought about this before he signed his deal.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was about to say that I'm running

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Speaker 1: with out of this because I don't touch a ball enough,

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Speaker 1: who's beaten down their door for six million dollar running back?

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Speaker 1: him picks? Maybe Miamio trade for another back. They seem

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Speaker 1: to be at twenty one holding steady the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 1: and he writes the idea of Kenny Pickett Day one

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Speaker 1: starter continues to loose team in Pittsburgh. Where is this

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Speaker 1: coming from? That's not listening to a single word or

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Speaker 1: That's been a national narrative and it's completely utterly false.

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Speaker 1: Zero indications other than Team X used the first round

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Speaker 1: start because history shows they will. It's not the plan.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean he's never going to start a game

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Speaker 1: this year, but that's not the plan. He is not

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Speaker 1: first season. It's so, but it's clear he still has

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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do to earn Mike Tomlins trust.

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Speaker 1: All part of the process. No, this was all part

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Speaker 1: I'm saying you guys and national guys were saying Kenny

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Speaker 1: with a clue. Now, there were some there were some

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Speaker 1: he's he had a far better career than Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure ownership, front office, coaching staff, no one in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. You leap frogging the Vikings over the Steelers

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Speaker 1: same tier. Yeah, I mean, I think they're the most

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Speaker 1: average team in the league, and that's not good. That's

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Speaker 1: not bad. They would probably be a little higher than

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Speaker 1: me than twenty. Steelers versus Vikes is a conversation. They

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Speaker 1: they've got some guys. Rookie head coach scares me though,

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Speaker 1: at nineteen Speaking of rookie head coaches, are the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: I would have the Steelers over the Dolphins. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: like some things they have there, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty. They feel to me like this year's Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns team. Everybody's kind of anointing them, Oh they're gonna

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Speaker 1: that old line needs the gel maybe. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: everything goes well, could they win ten games? You name

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Speaker 1: anybody on their defense outside of Byron Jones and Xavian Howard, Well,

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Speaker 1: Watkins or Wilkins. I just said there's a great non

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Speaker 1: household names. No. I like Phillips, I like Holland. You

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Speaker 1: to five coverage. Pretty impressive of the Steelers here from

423
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah, you're not gonna get that anywhere else.

424
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: That's a lot right at you. And again I'm excited.

425
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 1: Did I wonder who got to do the play by

426
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 1: play today? Then? Was that Wolf and Starks that we're watching? Yeah,

427
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 1: so I'm sure they focused on a lot of offensive

428
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: line play. I would imagine I'm gonna go back and

429
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: listen to that one too, what they picked up on. Yeah. Um,

430
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: of course there are for a couple of former offensive

431
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: lineman getting it done there. But the the offensive line,

432
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: to me, man of the Steelers still a bit of

433
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: a concern. It's still a major concerns. Yeah, I just

434
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: don't have much of a better better this group because

435
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,959
Speaker 1: just the defensive line of Steelers defensive front is one

436
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: of the best in the league, especially in rushing the passer,

437
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: and so you're going against that every day because they

438
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: look bad at times. That's that's the reality. Like the

439
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: Steelers old line of the seventies was great, but I

440
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 1: bet they lost out here more than they won, you

441
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know, but it's also difficult

442
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: to judge an old line just in practice and a

443
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: running game, and overall, I think games will be very

444
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: telling for the old line. It's also a very young group.

445
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: It also doesn't have a ton of continuity ether some

446
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: new pieces. The encouraging thing to me, if there is

447
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: one so far, is the Green might be taking that

448
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 1: job at left guard. Yeah, and I felt like Dotson

449
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna lose it. Green was gonna win it. And

450
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: that's encouraging that maybe he's really taken a step forward

451
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: and it's found his home. Yeah. Absolutely, that is something

452
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: that keep a eye. I know, people, um, you know

453
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: in the one on ones I was, I've been able

454
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: to watch the one on ones the last couple of

455
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: days here, and you know, one thing that you always

456
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: note in those situations is that the defense is a

457
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: big advantage. Sure if it's run, if it's one on

458
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: one run blocking, you're like, okay, the the defensive player

459
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: knows it's going to be a run. He's not gonna

460
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: get that too far upfield. Yeah, he's not gonna you know,

461
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: he's not gonna explode out and just try to you know,

462
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to to maneuver you where he wants

463
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: you to go. And then conversely, when it's one on

464
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: one pass blocking, they they were running, they're rushing to

465
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,719
Speaker 1: a spot. So it's not like you know, okay that

466
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks gonna roll out and so and there's so

467
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: there's no real play. It's just a one on one.

468
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: Keep the guy out of that spot, don't let him

469
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: get to that spot. And it sure helps a guard

470
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: if he's got to tackle to one side and a

471
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: center to the other. There's a lot less room. The

472
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: ball comes out quicker, you know, the play called the

473
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Speaker 1: defense doesn't know. And one on ones. I think there's

474
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: a ton of value for coaching staff to valuate players

475
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 1: as long as you look at it through the lens

476
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Speaker 1: of MYO guys in trouble here, you know. And I mean,

477
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: but I still have concerns about the line. Yeah, I

478
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 1: mean I saw a couple of line rankings that came

479
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: out lately and they all had them in the bottom

480
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: five ish, and from I don't know how you can

481
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: judge that though this time of years. As I say,

482
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: if also if I was from a national perspective, they're

483
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: not a lot of household names, and I would probably

484
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: do that as well. Subject to change that this group

485
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: might be getting better, and we talked about that over

486
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: the weekend. I texted you on Sunday because we do

487
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: that on our days off. We tably missed each other,

488
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: and I saw that there was an offensive line rankings

489
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: out there, um that had the Browns. I think we're

490
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: fourth overall, but they had them like what was it?

491
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: They had them like the number three or three versts

492
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: of passing bad against the run there in the twenties

493
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: against you know, in terms of run blocking. I'm like that, right.

494
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: I don't see them as a great pass blocking offensive line.

495
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: So I mentioned a couple of line things will come

496
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: out lately. I don't if I've sent you all of them.

497
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: One of them was that ESPN thing. I read it,

498
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: you know, cover to cover yesterday. I didn't agree with

499
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: much of it. I don't know if they're metrics broken.

500
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: I'd just see things differently than them, but they have

501
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: a metric that they plug in, and a lot of

502
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: their stuff didn't make a ton of sense to me,

503
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: very honestly. I don't know if our listeners are familiar

504
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: with Brandon Thorne, though to me, he's the best O

505
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: line guy out there, and I subscribe to his service.

506
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: It's like no thirty bucks a year or whatever, and

507
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: he sends an email every couple of weeks. And he

508
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: came out with his O line rankings and he had

509
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: the steel of thirty second, which blew me away. And

510
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, his write up was basically, this is subject

511
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: to change. But I you know, I don't know where

512
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: the high end talent is here. Um, they could easily

513
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: be five spots. He had like five or six of

514
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: them that were on the same tier, and they happened

515
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: to come and last. But that one shocked me. I mean,

516
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be thirty second for me. But I have

517
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: center questions, you know, I mean off the air. You

518
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: and I've have mentioned the name J. C. Treader like

519
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: that's an NFL starting center out there, and I guess

520
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: he's got a back and or more injuries and that's

521
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: the reason he's out there. But if he's right, and

522
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: that's not really a slap to Mason Cole, but I

523
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: if I can go back to making him the better

524
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: version of BJ B J. Finney, like we always said,

525
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: as opposed to the new pouncy you know what I mean,

526
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: then then everything looks a little Rosier. I'll say this

527
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: that you know, yesterday's practice which I mentioned, was you

528
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: know a lot of short yard and stuff. They were

529
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: moving some people and they did rip off some runs

530
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: in that situation. They did convert Benny Snell on third

531
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: It was the third and one runs that they were

532
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: they were working on and Benny Snell got a sixteen

533
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: yard run. I heard good things about him between and

534
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: it was it was behind. It was you know, in

535
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: the uh, I don't know the gaps. Um a's are

536
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 1: next to the center. B it was through the it

537
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: was through the a gap between left left guard and center.

538
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: And um that's why to see some interior runs. Yeah

539
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: you know. Uh yeah, he also had a nice it

540
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: was about a seven yard running in a third and

541
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: one situation. Again the defense knows you're running the football there. Yeah,

542
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: a running drill. Um. So yeah, that was that was promising. Um.

543
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: You know, they won seven shots and uh they didn't

544
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: win seven shots yesterday, but they won the goal line drill.

545
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: The offense did, uh seven shots they could have won yesterday.

546
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: Today they did five to two and there were a

547
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: couple of runs in there. Um, you know, so the

548
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: running is getting better. Um, I mean when I left,

549
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: seven Shots was way more competitive when we started here.

550
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean they were, they were ugly there for a while. Yeah.

551
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: They went like four straight you know, the first team

552
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: offense I think, went four straight practices without scoring in

553
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: seven Shots. Yeah. Um, and then people were panning Mitch

554
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: Robiskie looks like garbage, and well that's that's changed. Yeah,

555
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: it's definitely, you know, missing a couple of days at

556
00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: training camp. Um, things, you know, things change out here quickly.

557
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: It does away from the run game. And I'm not

558
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: avoiding the old line conversation because I still think it's

559
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: a good one, but it's more incomplete than conclusive right now. Um,

560
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: I very much. I said a podcast on this the

561
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: other day. I think the running backs not named Nausey

562
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: are all better than I expected. Yeah, you know, especially

563
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: the you know, it's really Snell and McFarlane. You mean

564
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: the undrafted guys. Yeah, and we've talked about them, But

565
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: the dudes they've drafted the last couple of years look

566
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: better to me. They look quicker, they look better in

567
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: the passing game. And I'm not saying they're D'Angelo Williams

568
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: to Levy on Bell, but I have a lot more

569
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: faith in the stable backs than I did a month ago.

570
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: I do too. Yeah, this little machine that they got

571
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: here is pretty nifty. The biggest hair dryer in the world,

572
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: the biggest hair dry and the thing about it is

573
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: just like it rotates back and forth. So he just

574
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: went that. We're watching a guy blow water off of

575
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: the tarp here. Give you a little play by play

576
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: on this. So the guys out there, he's he's got

577
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: the cart out there pulling this this little hair dryer,

578
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: massive hair dryer out there, or maybe it's a hand

579
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: uh handwarmer or you know the hand Yeah, the hand

580
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: dryer jet um. So he went from right to left

581
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: and the thing was pointed towards us. He's pushing everything

582
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: in right, pushing over the again. So when he turns

583
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: here and I watch this thing. So he just went

584
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: back left or right and the thing turned and now

585
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: it's turning again here as he goes, he'll turn it

586
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: around and that thing's going to turn around with him here. Okay,

587
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: that's a nifty little like it reminds me of my snowblower. Yeah,

588
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: what kind of crank that and each other direction? What

589
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: uses to people have for this kind of stuff other

590
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: than sports teams. There isn't. I don't think there is.

591
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: Like it's kind of a small menu item, right, I mean,

592
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: I guess there's enough athletic fields in the world. It's

593
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: flipping over there, I see. Do you think he pushes

594
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: a button that does that? Either that or it's it's

595
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: somehow attached does I can't just know it doesn't. Just

596
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: can't just know, right right right? That would be freaky. Yeah,

597
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: that's too much. AI, too much. It's gotta be some

598
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: good of button they pushes that flips that thing around.

599
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: There's a cord running from the uh the front of

600
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: the beat pushes a little button, then goes from left

601
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: or right. Get that. That's pretty neat. Yeah. That shoots

602
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: a lot of water off there, and that's gonna rain

603
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: in five minutes. Yeah. Well, the fact that they're out

604
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: there pushing the water off of this thing tells me

605
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: that they think that it's not going to rain anymore.

606
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: I imagine. But all this water has to go somewhere.

607
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: I assume we'll just go deep into the sidelines here,

608
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: just off the wall. Yeah, we're far enough off the field.

609
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: And as we mentioned there, they didn't cover spots in

610
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. They covered off the edges

611
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: a little bit because that those edges where the water

612
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: runs down on here are getting really soft. I was

613
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: down there today for practice. There's a couple of corners

614
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: that are real. They get an unbelievable amount of rain

615
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: out here Friday. Yeah, I mean it was like four

616
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: inches in four hours, like just like even the best fields,

617
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: and these rain pretty well all in all. Yeah. The

618
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: one year, So for people who haven't been here, they

619
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: have three fields here on the bottom head in the

620
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: middle of St. Fencer College and they have them all

621
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: lined up for for football. Here they go. They go

622
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: left to right, left and right. So the one year

623
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: when they first did these three fields, I don't know

624
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: how this happened, but it did. They put the fields

625
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: in this way long instead instead of putting them instead

626
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: of putting them from left or right here, they made

627
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: them uh straight, you know, like straight ahead from there

628
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: from prependicular they are now so the crowns so that

629
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: the field so they were still shaped like this. Yes, yes,

630
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: they lined it wrong, and so that the field every

631
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: time it rained, the waters laying like right in the

632
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: middle of the So if I remember correctly, that was

633
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: the year that they also had the field up behind

634
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Speaker 1: us here Um the Dorm, the Field of Dreams. It

635
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: was in the middle of a corn field, and so

636
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: they kept having to go up there to have practices

637
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: and you know, monumental mistake that I don't know how

638
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: it happened. They left it that way. But then they

639
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: put the drains in finally, so they have they do

640
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: have drains in between each of these fields to kind

641
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: of let them, you know, get the water off because

642
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: they are crowned. Each field is crowned. I get a

643
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: kick out of watching the grounds crew in general, like

644
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: a good job they do. I mean they're really well coordinated.

645
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: My mind doesn't work that way. I really learned something

646
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: every time watching them, and they brave the elements. Man,

647
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: it was poor in here, and they were trying to

648
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: get these tarps on right but right before we were

649
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: going on the air, and no one's out there, and

650
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: even like rain gear or anything. You know, they're just

651
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,239
Speaker 1: getting drenched, just getting the job done and getting these

652
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: things exactly what they need to be and weights on

653
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: them and all that stuff, and there's always somebody doing

654
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: something here. You know. It takes a lot of work

655
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: to keep these fields in shape because you get a

656
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: lot of big bodies out there running around these fields

657
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: every day that are worth a lot of money. And

658
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: again in a day like to day where this thing

659
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: gets wet and then the sun comes back out, it's

660
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: burning the grass up. So they gott Yeah, they do

661
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: a nice job. Um, we're gonna take another break, Matt.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Ally. You're listening

663
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Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radial. We are

664
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Speaker 1: live from St. Vincent College where the Steelers completed their

665
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: early practice today at ten thirty. They're gonna have a

666
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: walk through at some point this afternoon. I'm assuming that's

667
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: why they're getting this field ready for the walk through.

668
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: Usually they do the walk through though over on the

669
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: other fields. They're just keeping the water off of these

670
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: things too, Uh, keep the water off of them. That

671
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: doesn't get too much. But yeah, we'll again, but we'll

672
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Speaker 1: be back with more on the Drive right after this.

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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

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00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm d l Ali here with Matt Williamson and Matt.

676
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: We are live as you know very well from St.

677
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: Vincent College. Uh, but Aaron Rodgers said playing a series

678
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: in the preseason for him would be a waste. Wow,

679
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: a series. He's an odd dude. He is an odd cat. Yeah.

680
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: And the old psychedelic stuff that was coming out lately too,

681
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: And he's had an odd offseason. He looks like he's

682
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of magic mushrooms on some mountains somewhere.

683
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: And uh, he really's like an old man that just

684
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: doesn't care what anyone thinks anymore anymore. They really really doesn't.

685
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: And he's great at what he does, but he's really eccentric,

686
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: and like, I'm excited someday his football life for thirty,

687
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: for thirty. I bet there's gonna be a lot of

688
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: crazy stuff that he does behind the scenes that we

689
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: get privy to someday. Hopefully it's not too crazy, you know, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

690
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: Uh Um. It leads me to, you know, to the question,

691
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: you know, if you're Mike Tomlin, how much do you

692
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: play the offense in this first preseason game one Saturday.

693
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: I want to see some of it. I want to

694
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: see some of it. I'm not playing nausey, no, but

695
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: I want Trabiski and the top line probably friar Mouth

696
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: and about and Deonte is dealing with a little bit

697
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: of a hip issue. I don't need to see Deonte.

698
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: I don't need to see Deonte to see if if

699
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: the O line can Yeah, but I also don't want

700
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: Trabisky out there with nobody. No, no, I mean I

701
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: think I'm giving them everyone but Deonte and Nagy, Yeah,

702
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: and maybe a quarter like Yeah, if they go out

703
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: and they go right down the field, it's a ten

704
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: ten play touchdown drive, all right. I don't need I

705
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: don't know that I need to see anymore. Maybe not.

706
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: And plus it gets it's great for morale, and you know,

707
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: get him out of there. But the pony you just

708
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: whipped them, you know. Yeah. But you know, if they

709
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: go out there and go three and out, three and out,

710
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: then okay, I want to see another one, you know,

711
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: I want something positive out of it. What's interesting to

712
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: me about this whole preseason situation is there's only three games,

713
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: but there's a big gap after Week three until a

714
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: week one of the regular season. So I'm curious how

715
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: teams will handle that third week. Do you think the

716
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: third week is like the third week used to be

717
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: where the ones get a fair amount, or is it

718
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: more like a week four used to be in the

719
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: preseason where it's kind of a throwaway week, you know,

720
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: guys fighting for rosters, rookies, because there's a big gap there.

721
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: I mean, if the first two games don't go to plan,

722
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: the play Trobiski a lot in that third one. You know,

723
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I mean, I don't remember how

724
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: teams did it last year. I don't know if that matters,

725
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: because last year was the first year that this was

726
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: really the case. I think there was a lot of

727
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: different teams doing different things last year, trying different stuff

728
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: to be before everyone kind of handled the same way. Yeah,

729
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't know. Last year,

730
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: if you remember, were still a COVID year as well,

731
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: so or some of that. Right, So this is the

732
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: first time where we're back to some kind of normalcy here.

733
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: And it's not normal because you have three preseason games

734
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: instead of four. It's the first year of it being normal.

735
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: That's not normal because no one has a precedence, you

736
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Plus the Steelers had four last

737
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: year too. Yeah, if we're just gonna talk about this team.

738
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Mike Tomin will have his press conference on Thursday. Uh,

739
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: that would be a big topic for that press conference,

740
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: like how he handles this with this group and how

741
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: much will he tell you. I'll tell you's gonna start

742
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: the game, I'm sure, Yeah, And I think he'll give

743
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: us a general feeling about what you know, but I

744
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: guarantee say, well, a lot of that stuff has yet

745
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: to be decided. But they have a hunch. They have

746
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: a hunch on when they're leaning, and I think that

747
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: they're leaning, Like I don't play anybody on defense, except

748
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: I might play like Bush next to Splaine or something

749
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: like that, an inside or you know, but I'm not playing.

750
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: I'm not playing. I'm not playing what I'm not playing Hayward,

751
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm not playing Fitzpatrick. Um, you know, so playing playing

752
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: half the starters? How about an Edmonds or an Ogan

753
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: job Year the Ogan Joe he's not playing in this

754
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: week and he just came back to practice this week. No,

755
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: I don't need to see that. Lulu won't play in

756
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: this one. Lululu is not gonna play in Man won't

757
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: playing this, right, Watt and Cam won't playing this Yeah,

758
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: so that gives you some idea. Yeah, I mean you're

759
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: you're keeping Jack off the field. High Smith. Those could

760
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: go either way to high Smith is out right now

761
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: with it with the rib injuries. It is, so it

762
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: might be enough to keep him. Yeah, I don't need

763
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: to see some of those guys. I want that defense

764
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: to hit the ground running into because you know, so

765
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: it's your whole goal for defense for the three free

766
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: season games, not just this one, is just get him

767
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: the starting line. Yeah, okay, Yeah, there's not much I

768
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: need to figure out. No, No, I don't. I don't

769
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: think so maybe you're starting. Maybe you don't play Cam Sutton,

770
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: but you play Levi Wallaceon and Kellow Weather. It's funny.

771
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: I was about say the same thing is maybe the

772
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: two corners and knock on Wood, they're gonna be a

773
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: little less contact oriented, you know, they're less likely to

774
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: get their bell rung or broken bones type of thing. Um,

775
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: maybe I would leave those two out there with Millette

776
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe Sutton doesn't play money. Maybe it's

777
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's CAZy and Edmonds on the back end

778
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: for you know, a couple of series. I mean a

779
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: lot of Norwood guys that I like that they're gonna

780
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: make the team guys who are well, you know, that's

781
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: an interesting situation safety, Okay, because okay, you're gonna keep

782
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: four what do you consider a guy like Norwood? Is

783
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: he another slot? And so is he accordant to he

784
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: can look at it more and more. I used to

785
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: look at it like they'll keep five corners and four safeties.

786
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: Now I kind of look at it like they'll keep

787
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: nine or ten defensive backs. You could get that. You

788
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: could get the ten defensive backs. You can get the

789
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: nine real quick, real easy. Especially if I mean you

790
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: think Killer Brew makes his team and he's been out, yeah, right,

791
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: but he's he's a special team's ace right now. He's

792
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: probably your fourth safety, right that's in terms of making

793
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: the team. You know, make a CAZy and Edmonds and

794
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 1: then he's probably fourth. In terms of job security, it's tough.

795
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm not moving on from Norwood, though, I don't know

796
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: how I make it work, even if it means cutting

797
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: Killer Brew, which I don't think is in the cards.

798
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: But nor would making this team for me. He showed

799
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: me enough as a rookie and enough versatility that he

800
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: made that I don't know that you can stick him

801
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: on the practice squad for one thing, and I think

802
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: he fits today's modern NFL. Well, yeah, he was one

803
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: of the other guys when I mentioned that that Millette

804
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: did the uh, the one on one run drills with

805
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: the linebackers they did have, Nora would do something that

806
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me because he's a

807
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: bigger slot slash safety. You know, he's a player. Millett

808
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: was way better attitude. Yeah, that tackling in the open

809
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: field is not his not his bag. I wouldn't have

810
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: known that about him, But that's interesting to know because

811
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: that's a problem. I mean, you don't want him in

812
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: deep center steel then he's probably more of the middle

813
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: of the field player. I mean, assuming I've never thought

814
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: him unwilling to tackle. No, I don't think that's good.

815
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: Yeah right, um, yeah, but that that drill again, you know,

816
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: some of these things you have to look at and

817
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: say with that favors the offensive, favors the defense. I mean,

818
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: this is just a both guys start, you know, ten

819
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: yards away from each other and okay, their backs got

820
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: a quarter of the field to work with here in

821
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: terms of the width of that he can go to

822
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: come on the ground and then you're going against Anthony

823
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: McFarland or something like that. Yeah, right, right right, which

824
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: is exactly the kind of way McFarland wants to play

825
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, I mean he wants to be in

826
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: space held. Derek Watt was not great at that. When

827
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: Derek Watt was gonna lower his shoulder and run through somebody, right,

828
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: that's not his drill. Real quick update on the Giant

829
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: hair dryer. They're making some real progress. They are there.

830
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 1: They're more than halfway through. I caught the driver goes

831
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: to his right, hits the remote, and then the bugger spins.

832
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of like a old cowboy remote

833
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: or you know, the flips it over. But it's much

834
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: cleaner too. It was really filthy, and I didn't realize

835
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: how dirty it was. Blowing all this nasty water. It's

836
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: gonna look a lot better when it rains on it again.

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00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: It's very white, very white, very white. There you go.

838
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: That's the update from the grounds crew. There you go.

839
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: Looks like they got stuff going on though there. Do

840
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: you think they'll do the walkthrough here? Is that what

841
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: you're leaning towards? Um? Maybe they're just taking it off

842
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: because it's not gonna rain, in which case that looks

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Speaker 1: good for tomorrow's practice. If they're taking to get they're

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Speaker 1: going to take the covers off. It changes every three seconds.

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Speaker 1: But I hit the weather app a minute ago and

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Speaker 1: it looks like we're in the clear here and it

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Speaker 1: looks a little nicer than it used to. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: looks like a regular practice tomorrow. That'd be great, It

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Speaker 1: would be nice. But we're gonna take another break. Matt.

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for our two. We'll be back with

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Speaker 1: our three of the drive here right after this. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally. We are alive

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Speaker 1: from St. Vincent College where the steal was completed their

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Speaker 1: practice earlier today. We will be back with more from

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Speaker 1: Latrope right after this