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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 2: Bowyer for Wednesday, January the fourteenth, and as predicted on

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Speaker 2: this Yere podcast yesterday, Mike Tomlin's tenure in Pittsburgh is done.

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Speaker 2: It's over a great nineteen year run. Tomlin decided after

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Speaker 2: that playoff butt kicking at the hands of the Texans, no, Moss,

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Speaker 2: I've had enough. I don't want to deal with Aaron

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Speaker 2: Rodgers and he stepped down. Now, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he bashed Rogers, but it sounds like he was just

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Speaker 2: like kind of spent and he could see the writing

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Speaker 2: on the wall that this franchise has been kind of

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Speaker 2: on that hamster wheel of nine to eight, ten and

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Speaker 2: seven mediocrity. Hasn't won a playoff game in I mean, hell,

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Speaker 2: I think it's twenty sixteen was his last playoff win.

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Speaker 2: It's been bad. Seven straight playoff losses, all by digits.

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Speaker 2: It's a nice accomplishment to get to the postseason, but

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Speaker 2: getting smacked. Come on, I'm not surprised by this at all.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people, I guess it was more of

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Speaker 2: like a is it really gonna happen. Oh, yeah, it happened.

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Speaker 2: That was more of the vibe like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that Harball getting fired. I think was

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Speaker 2: a little more surprising than this. The interesting thing to

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Speaker 2: note here before anybody gets crazy, Oh, Tomlin's got his

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Speaker 2: eyes on another job. He has two years left on

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Speaker 2: his contract, okay, and he ain't going anywhere. If he

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Speaker 2: were to try to go somewhere else, that team would

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Speaker 2: have to trade for him, i e. Give up draft compensation,

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Speaker 2: pick players, whatever it is, and the Steelers retain his

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Speaker 2: coaching rights if he tries to return to the NFL

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Speaker 2: sideline before the end of the twenty twenty seven season.

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Speaker 2: So two seasons, that's interesting. A lot, I mean a

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Speaker 2: lot can happen in two seasons. Mike Tomlin's still a

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Speaker 2: relatively young guy. He had a really nice run in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: He's obviously highly thought of. He's a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: I mean we're talking about a guy who's fifty three. Like,

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Speaker 2: if you were to come back in two years, that's

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Speaker 2: not a big deal. You look around at some of

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Speaker 2: these older I mean, John Harbaugh's got in by like

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Speaker 2: eight years. Pete Carroll just got a job. He's in

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Speaker 2: his seventies, Like it's Tomlin could easily come back, but

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Speaker 2: the job's got to be right. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to sit here and spend a lot of

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Speaker 2: time breaking down the Mike Tomlin career. You could. I

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Speaker 2: just don't think there's a huge appetite for that. Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 2: great coach, had an awesome run. Okay, let's move on.

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Speaker 2: Here's what's interesting to me. You start seeing all this

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Speaker 2: stuff about oh, Pittsburgh. Wow, that's a great job ownership. Amazing.

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Speaker 2: They barely have any coaches over the last you know,

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Speaker 2: fifty years. I think they've wont five coaches over the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years. That's incredible. Oh that everybody's gonna want

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Speaker 2: that job. And that's what I'm like, Oh, let's hold

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Speaker 2: the phone, folks, let's slow your role. I mean, so

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Speaker 2: to Tomlin was nineteen years, Bill Cowher was sixteen seasons. No,

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Speaker 2: I can't do math. Fourteen seasons, Chuck Dole was twenty two.

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Speaker 2: So you go back like sixty years and they've had

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Speaker 2: three coaches. Pretty impressive. You gotta respect that. What's interesting

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Speaker 2: is everybody's like, well, see, if you got major security,

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Speaker 2: if you take that job, and I'm like pumping the brakes.

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Speaker 2: That guys just chill. When Cowher handed the baton to Tomlin,

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Speaker 2: Tomlin gets gifted Ben Roethlisberger, who had already won a

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl and been to the playoffs multiple times. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he knew the locker room, the team, everything. It was

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Speaker 2: a genius hire by Pittsburgh. That being said, let's take

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Speaker 2: a look at the roster now, because I'm just telling

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Speaker 2: you right now, there ain't no blue chip talent on

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Speaker 2: this roster. I went through it and I'm gonna go

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Speaker 2: through some of it for you. It's just not pretty.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's nine jobs open as we were this

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Speaker 2: right now. Nine. I don't know how you would rank them,

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Speaker 2: but I would have Pittsburgh in the seven eight nine range.

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Speaker 2: I honestly think Tennessee is a better job than the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. Tennessee has more blue chip talent on their roster, barely.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Arizona has more talent, but their ownership is

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Speaker 2: a mess and the division is brutal. And now this

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Speaker 2: will come down to, oh, Jay Mack, you're just being

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Speaker 2: hot takes. Come on, you don't like the Steelers, No,

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Speaker 2: not at all, that's not the case. I didn't like

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Speaker 2: didn't think they were good last year. But just because

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Speaker 2: went through the All Pro players. They were announced what

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Speaker 2: like a week ago. So first team All Pro offense,

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Speaker 2: the Steelers had none defense, First team none, Special teams,

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Speaker 2: first team none, Second team offense zero, Special team zero.

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Speaker 2: They had one second team or on defense. His name

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Speaker 2: He turns thirty seven years old in March. That's not

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Speaker 2: He's had an amazing career. He's a great spokesman in

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Speaker 2: the locker room. You can't really build around him. So

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Speaker 2: where's the talent. I mean, you start a quarterback. What

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Speaker 2: are we working with here? I mean, we both assume

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Speaker 2: Rogers is cooked. He ain't coming back. First of all,

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Speaker 2: he was maybe gonna consider it if Tomlin state. But

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Speaker 2: then you're like, oh, well Tomlin's gone, what the hell's

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Speaker 2: he coming back to? So now you look at the

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Speaker 2: other quarterbacks on the roster. You got Will Howard. Now,

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Speaker 2: if you listen to the Daniel Jeremiah pod last week,

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Speaker 2: he thinks that they're going to give Will Howard a look.

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Speaker 2: You've got Mason Rudolph, who's a veteran in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: You've got Skyler Thompson who played in a playoff game

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Speaker 2: with the Dolphins. But bottom line is you don't have

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Speaker 2: your future quarterback on the roster. Maybe Will Howard shows

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Speaker 2: them something. The Ohios date quarterback who won a Natty.

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Speaker 2: He didn't play a snap all season, but it's possible

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Speaker 2: after this. But I mean you look at their wide receivers. Guys,

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Speaker 2: this is Scotch tape and putty glue. I mean, listen

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Speaker 2: to these Listen to this wide receiver room. This is comical.

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Speaker 2: Scotty Miller, Ben Scarronic, Roman Wilson who Aaron Rodgers cannot

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Speaker 2: and Metcalf obviously is decent, but that is arguably a

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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm an idiot. I don't know anything

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Speaker 2: what can we get for TJ? Y? Well, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: So Jalen Ramsey just turned thirty one, he's already moved

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Speaker 2: I do think high Smith the edge Rushers, probably one

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Speaker 2: because he's good but not amazing. And you guys, see

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Speaker 2: the point I'm getting to like I like friar Mouth

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Speaker 2: as a tight end. Is he a top five tight end?

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Speaker 2: with that. The offensive line is interesting because Broderick Jones

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Speaker 2: and he hasn't really broken through. It just hasn't happened.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it can happen. It just hasn't.

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Speaker 2: linemen you like a few, we'll go with a few,

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Speaker 2: and Broderick Jones is a maybe. But you don't have

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Speaker 2: a quarterback. So you know, when you make these big

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Speaker 2: decisions in life, I e. Take a coaching job, somewhere,

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Speaker 2: you've got to decide and you got to break things down.

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Speaker 2: As I've talked about before, you know, before we moved

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Speaker 2: to California, we sat down and we did this little

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Speaker 2: like pros and cons chart about making the decision to move.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't easy, but we were young and the kids

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Speaker 2: I tried right now to move my family elsewhere, and

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Speaker 2: I don't see how that would work.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we try to try to make it work,

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Speaker 2: but it's difficult. Pros and cons. You know, you do

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Speaker 2: the list and I'm just saying, like, if you're doing

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Speaker 2: this list for the Pittsburgh Steelers job, pros, ownership, amazing,

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Speaker 2: Gotta love the ownership group right after that, there's just

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Speaker 2: not much. There's no quarterback skill position, guys, week defense old.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I didn't even mention this second oldest

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Speaker 2: roster in the NFL. They do have cap space, but eh,

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Speaker 2: So honestly, I'm seeing some takes like, Okay, we could

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Speaker 2: Malik Willis. I totally disagree because I will remind you, guys,

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Speaker 2: Robert Kraft, and I'm gonna remind you Robert Kraft tried

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Speaker 2: to keep a guy from Belichick's roster of his coaching staff,

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Speaker 2: Gerrod Mayo. He tried to keep him after Belichick left.

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Speaker 2: How'd that work out? Mayo was a train wreck. Didn't

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Speaker 2: think Drake may was the best quarterback on the roster started.

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Speaker 2: I think it was Brissett. May ended up coming on

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Speaker 2: because you know, he's way better. And Mayo got run

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Speaker 2: do that, you get a stopgap guy for a year.

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Speaker 2: I know that no coach wants to think of himself

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Speaker 2: you go, you know, four and thirteen and you get

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Speaker 2: the number one pick and you get I don't enter

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Speaker 2: whatever quarterback you think is the number one guy next year.

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Speaker 2: So in all honesty, maybe you just give a shot

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Speaker 2: to Will Howard and you say, well, you're our guy.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what you can do. You got the full season,

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Speaker 2: and it's a soft tank, and you do kind of

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Speaker 2: that sounds comical. Why would the Steelers, a model organization,

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Speaker 2: do anything that je Jets do because the Jets are fools. Well,

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Speaker 2: the Jets soft tanked. They got Justin Fields. They didn't

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Speaker 2: Besides Mike Tomlin, I thought the craziest story I saw

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Speaker 2: feels like in college Sellers, Oh my gosh, a kid

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Speaker 2: of South Carolina's got a long way to go. Arch

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Speaker 2: Manning's got a long way to go. I think Simpson's

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Speaker 2: making the right move leaving. Here's the problem. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's a top ten pick, and I don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear the argument, well, there's no quarterbacks you have

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Speaker 2: to take. What really do you want to go? Look

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Speaker 2: at the last five years, how many quarterbacks were taken

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Speaker 2: in the top ten and flopped? Who guys who weren't ready?

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Speaker 2: Trust me, I'm as a Jets fan. I know my guy,

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Speaker 2: the Mormon in my home, Zach Wilson. I was stoked

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Speaker 2: he had one season and was like, oh, you gotta go,

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Speaker 2: You're hot. It's weird because I do believe in the

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Speaker 2: strike while the iron is hot. You know, like you're

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Speaker 2: a if you're a hot coordinator and everybody wants you, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: go take ahead, coaching Jet, Now make sure you take

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Speaker 2: the right one, because the longer you stick around, next thing,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's like, oh, I don't know, maybe he's

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Speaker 2: not that good. Oh it gets fired. This stuff happens

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Speaker 2: so fast. So I think Simpson's making the right decision.

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Speaker 2: I can't make a case as of now for him

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Speaker 2: going in the top ten. I don't hate the idea

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Speaker 2: of the Jets drafting him with their second pick in

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Speaker 2: the first round. Maybe someone trades up to grab him.

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Speaker 2: And I know what you guys are gonna say, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if JJ McCarthy can go in the top ten, no, man,

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Speaker 2: people are desperate. And oh, by the way, we don't

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Speaker 2: know if McCarthy works. But starting at the Chiefs at nine, well,

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Speaker 2: actually you can start at Washington with seven. Let's start there.

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Speaker 2: Washington is not taking in quarterback at seven. The Saints

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Speaker 2: they love Tyler Shuckton not taking a quarterback at eight.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs are not at nine, Bengals are not at ten.

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Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins could at eleven, Let's see what happens

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Speaker 2: with their head coaching situation. I would say less than

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Speaker 2: fifty percent the Dolphins do. Given the too a contract,

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Speaker 2: Dak is fine. Dallas is not doing that. At twelve

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Speaker 2: the Rams unless Stafford tells him he's retiring. I don't

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Speaker 2: see a world where the Rams go quarterback at thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore fourteen not happening, Tampa fifteen definitely not happening. Jets

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Speaker 2: at sixteen could kind of sort of be in play.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen Lions nope, eighteen Vikings nope, nineteen Panthers nope, twenty

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Speaker 2: Cowboys nope. Twenty one Steelers possibly, So once he gets

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Speaker 2: past the top six, barring a trade, you're looking at

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Speaker 2: maybe eleven, maybe sixteen, maybe twenty one. And I in

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Speaker 2: my mock, I had Steelers at twenty one going Ty Simpson,

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Speaker 2: because of course I have a crystal ball, and I

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Speaker 2: saw that Tomlin and and Rogers were gonna leave obviously.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, listen, I like Simpson, I don't love him.

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Speaker 2: If you try to make him your franchise savior, it

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Speaker 2: ain't gonna work. But good luck to say Simpson in

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Speaker 2: the NFL, He's gonna make a lot of money again.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan of his work. I'll take him with

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Speaker 2: the Jets at sixteen, but I ain't doing it at

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Speaker 2: too See tomorrow