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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. 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: I just want they touch on some things here. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not, but

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Speaker 1: Dion Sanders who is now the head football coach at Colorado,

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Speaker 1: and I can't call him coach Prime because I think

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Speaker 1: that's stupid. In fact, if you know, he made a

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Speaker 1: big deal out of it a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: when somebody when reporters were calling him Dion. Hey, dude,

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Speaker 1: that's your name. Your name is Dion, that's your dame.

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Speaker 1: You know, I call Mike Tom and Mike that's his name.

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Speaker 1: Don't call him coach. He's not my coach right right

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Speaker 1: right now. So no, I'm not going to call you

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Speaker 1: coach Prime. Your name's going to be Dion. That's what

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Speaker 1: your name is, not coach Prime. Hey.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, Yeah, he got on he got on his I

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Speaker 3: don't know much about that, but I'm assuming he does

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Speaker 3: it for recruiting reasons. Social media.

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Speaker 2: Yah, DA or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he jumps from Jackson State, which is a

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Speaker 1: historically black college and is now yeah and is now

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Speaker 1: at Colorado, and brought a bunch of transfers with him

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Speaker 1: and you know, from Jackson State and including his sons

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Speaker 1: and things of that nature. Uh. So he then comes

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Speaker 1: out after the draft and said and said he's embarrassed

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Speaker 1: that there was only one historically black or one player

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Speaker 1: selected in this draft from historically black colleges, and that

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Speaker 1: that's a problem in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you look at this year's draft in particular, yes,

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Speaker 1: a lot of players from those historically black colleges did

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Speaker 1: exactly what those kids who went from Jackson State and

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Speaker 1: transferred to college with him did. They was a smaller

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Speaker 1: school to a bigger school deyond money.

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Speaker 3: I mean, didn't coach Prime do the same thing?

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Speaker 2: Like what are you talking about? Like, if the guys

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Speaker 2: are good enough, they're going to draft them.

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Speaker 1: If they aren't good enough, guess what, they're not going

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Speaker 1: to get drafted.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty simple. I mean, we saw a lot and

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Speaker 3: unfortunately I'm not big on it. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: Osirius Torrance goes down Louisiana to Florida and tears it

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Speaker 3: up and improved his draft stock. You know, he goes

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Speaker 3: higher as a Gator than he would have as a

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Speaker 3: raging Cajun or whatever they are, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I just think if you're a smaller program, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: pump about less pros every year, now, you know, or

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Speaker 3: smaller conferences because everyone's gonna know there's not gonna be

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Speaker 3: many the Tyler Croft or Craft. He supposedly turned down

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Speaker 3: or South Dakota State. Okay, but he's one of a thousand.

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Speaker 3: I mean, everyone else is going to take the Bama

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Speaker 3: about I guess where I'm going with this is I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I might again, I might add Dion himself

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Speaker 1: left Jackson's State and took a job at Colorado, right right, right, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's what people do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's what people do. So let's not kill

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Speaker 2: the NFL over this.

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Speaker 1: Let's not kill the kids for transferring.

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Speaker 3: They did what thay like, there's a conversation to be

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Speaker 3: had here if you're dion, but blame the NCAAA. Don't

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Speaker 1: They're fostering this situation where kids are transferring because they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think one of them were doing it,

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Speaker 3: or the conversation we had earlier today about man, some

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Speaker 3: of these kids that usually come out, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: stay another year, enhance my stock, take a couple of

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Speaker 1: You absolutely absolutely, I don't know if you saw this.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what the are yeah, uh so he

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Speaker 2: That they've got, if they've added.

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Speaker 1: To the equation six thousand, six thousand, six thousand. My

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Speaker 3: North Well, I whipped out the calendar or the calculator

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Speaker 3: real quick. That's three hundred and fifty three yards game.

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Speaker 3: And when's the last time he played seventeen games? Right?

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Speaker 3: not gonna do that. I mean that's a number.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but a broken down Odell Beckham I never

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Speaker 1: never done anything. Rashad Bateman, as much as I liked

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Speaker 1: but they've still got the fourth best pass group of

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Speaker 3: North Oh, I don't think that's true. I think the

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Speaker 3: Browns are worse.

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is better than any better than anybody at

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Speaker 3: Agreed, But then I think there's a lot of Ravens

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Speaker 2: Cooper carries a lot of weight from me.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's a star, though.

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Speaker 2: He better than anybody the Ravens have.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as much as I gain, much as I

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Speaker 1: like Andrews, he gets nicked up quite.

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Speaker 3: A bit, no, I know, and Odell gets hurt all

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Speaker 3: the time and all the time heard all the time too.

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Speaker 1: I expect neither one of those guys to get through

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I mean, I think it's the best Lamar's

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Speaker 1: But I would have maybe that's why he's a little

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Speaker 2: Six thousand yards.

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Speaker 3: Six thousand yards is crazy. I mean, maybe maybe he

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Speaker 3: I mean, three fifty three game is probably.

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Speaker 1: Not in your So the Browns receiving corps Mari Cooper.

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Speaker 3: Too, and I like more a lot.

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Speaker 1: Donovan Peoples Jones as his moments. They added Marquise Goodman

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Speaker 3: I think it's close. I mean, I think Andrew's over

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Speaker 3: then I probably go Zay and Beckham second and third.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I like Bateman still too, but the

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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I can't say that Odell Beckham

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Speaker 3: Career, Yeah about anything?

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Speaker 1: Is he anything? Is he any different right now than

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Speaker 1: Marquise Goodwin?

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Speaker 2: I bet, Michael.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're sorry.

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Speaker 3: Where's the versus Allen Robinson? Right now?

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Speaker 1: They're the same guy, as I say, same draft class.

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Speaker 3: They've actually Robinson has done more right, people better, but

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Speaker 1: People are killing the steel. Oh my god, they signed

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Speaker 1: Beckham has played football in three years.

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Speaker 3: I no, No, I mean he's more named, don't get

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Speaker 2: And they gave him fifteen eighteen million dollars whatever it was.

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Speaker 3: I think that's insane. I mean, to me, of all

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Speaker 1: And this is from a smart organization. I just don't

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Speaker 3: No, I mean I think they're bending to not Beckham,

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Speaker 3: and it's growing to better people than he did. I

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I want to see. Is is

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Speaker 2: You think you think more of Todd Monkin than I do.

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Speaker 3: Well, I just think it's what they did is what

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Speaker 3: I think badly of, not what they're going to do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I look at Todd Monkin and as

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Speaker 3: I mean as an organization, though, I hope this just

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Speaker 1: A lot I think they're telling us that, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know that either. I just think that

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Speaker 3: there were so many offensive coordinator changes, probably half of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, I do think that

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Speaker 1: I just don't know that Mon was the absolutely Hey

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guy here.

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Speaker 3: It's not like Hirr and shanahaner. I mean, it's not

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Speaker 2: No, I mean it was bad, you know.

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Speaker 1: And they traded much much like you know when we

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Speaker 1: talked about the the Patriots doing the things that they

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Speaker 2: All right, you're surprised.

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Speaker 3: Why what happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And to your surprise, should you be shocked if you

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean like you guys have been hurt

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw this about that team.

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Speaker 3: Some of those guys might be waiting to get over

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Speaker 1: Shaquille Griffin the cornerback, he's twenty eighth. Jadeveon Clowney is thirty.

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Speaker 3: Maybe. I mean, he's proven to be a mercenary time

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't given him any money now. Forty one

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Speaker 1: He's the yanked youngest guy on that list.

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Speaker 3: So but quick, you know, look at reality that safeties

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of how you have to look at

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Speaker 1: Of course, the schedule will be released next week as well,

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