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

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold, our Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Booooooooo. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly

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Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson. It's a lovely Friday the Steelers

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Speaker 1: rookie minicamp today. It was a beautiful day out there

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Speaker 1: to watch some minicamp practices and uh I got to

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Speaker 1: see our our first look at the Steeler rookies. Um

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Speaker 1: live and in person. Um little jealous. I would like

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Speaker 1: to have been sitting down there. I mean, just a

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Speaker 1: nice day, like you said, nice day, decent environment. You

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Speaker 1: know those guys first exposure, good stuff. Not that they

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Speaker 1: did a whole lot, but you know, I mean again,

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Speaker 1: you get an opportunities yet before we get started though, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just I was scrolling through Twitter here Matt, and

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Speaker 1: there's a thing here that says what animal could you

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Speaker 1: beat in a fight? Compared to women, men feel most

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Speaker 1: able to take medium sized dogs and geese. Geese are

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Speaker 1: a little nastier. And you think the question was which

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Speaker 1: the following animals, if any, do you think you could

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Speaker 1: beat in a fight if you were unarmed? Unarmed? Just

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Speaker 1: a rat? Yeah, I like my chances. A house cat. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of wounds from my cats. But

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Speaker 1: in the end, a goose. They're nastier than you think.

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Speaker 1: They're nas than you think. But yeah, i'd grab him

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Speaker 1: by the neck. Gonna be over a medium sized dog. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they might get a bite in, but I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: lose an eagle. No, I mean they have a trump card.

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Speaker 1: I can't match flying well. Thirty percent of men think

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Speaker 1: that they can take an eagle. It's just a bad

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Speaker 1: match up, you know. I mean, you know some coaches,

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Speaker 1: where's the game being played at? Where? Whose home field

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Speaker 1: is it? Right? Yeah? I mean if it was in

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Speaker 1: a phone booth, I like my chances. I'd end up

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Speaker 1: bloody in the mess. But only of women think they

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Speaker 1: can take an equal thirty percent of men. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean men are a little tougher, no offense, ladies. But

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Speaker 1: you know a large dog. Percent of men say that

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Speaker 1: they could take them, I guess, or a boxer or

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Speaker 1: something like. I men't even a pitbull or a notoriously

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Speaker 1: tough dog. They would get their bites. They wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: something they win. Sometimes they just think I would win

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Speaker 1: in the end. Here's where we get crazy death. From

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Speaker 1: that point on, it gets kind of crazy. Okay. A

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Speaker 1: king cobrae percent of men think that they could take

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Speaker 1: a king cobra. They have a trump cards, bad matchup, bad,

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Speaker 1: it's over, it's over, it's done right. You lose that

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Speaker 1: bad eight percent of women, because women are smarter in

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Speaker 1: this capacity. A chimpanzee. Tent of men think they could

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Speaker 1: take a chimpanzee. I'm sorry, folks, you're wrong. You're wrong

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Speaker 1: on that one. They will bite your face off. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to think about my plan of attack is like,

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna sit in a ring and box. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's coming at you, and he's he's faster

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Speaker 1: than me, he's meaner than me, he's than you. He's

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Speaker 1: get the same weapons ey jungle tested, actually more weapons

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Speaker 1: and to have big teeth. Yeah, and you can swing

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Speaker 1: and from you know, with his tail, and they're stronger

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Speaker 1: than you. People don't realize that, think they're oh they are, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt. Yeah. I was a biology major for

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Speaker 1: three years. A pitch on st well, that doesn't qualify you.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you have to land a Tyson haymaker

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Speaker 1: not even face it. They might not be enough, right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: A kangaroo seventeen percent of men, So they could beat

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Speaker 1: up a kangaro They could beat a kangaroo. You'll lose.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's your plan of attack? I mean you

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Speaker 1: gotta like choke him out or wrestle him. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: No chance. A wolf sixteen percent. Wolves are big. Wolves

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Speaker 1: they're vicious. That's that's much different than fighting the German shepherd.

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Speaker 1: A crocodile. Ten of men think they can take a crocodile.

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Speaker 1: This is not We're not talking to an alligator here.

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Speaker 1: We're talking a crocodile. Some of them are like eighteen

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hurt him. I need like a knife or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how I heard him a gorilla. No,

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Speaker 1: My percentage actually thinks they went that one. Nine. Come on,

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Speaker 1: if we're walking around the mall and you just pick

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Speaker 1: out random ten dudes, including like seventy year old men

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Speaker 1: none of them beats up a gorilla. Nobody beats up

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Speaker 1: the gorilla. Gorilla nobody you saw it? Mini camp beats

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Speaker 1: up to the grilla. No, no, right, And that's more

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Speaker 1: because there's two actually that have lower than it. An elephant.

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Speaker 1: How do you win? You know what I mean? Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you win that? I don't know what's your

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Speaker 1: when you poke his eye again unarmed the idea here's

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Speaker 1: right with a large elephant rifle. I got a shote,

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Speaker 1: you know, with a knife. Why we invented guns, right,

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Speaker 1: you can get a sword and spears and swords and

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Speaker 1: things of that nature because we didn't have We weren't

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Speaker 1: equipped the handle those battles. Right A lion zero eight?

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Speaker 1: Say they could beat he? Come on, what would you?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a bears on this list too, Say they

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Speaker 1: those big claws. The final one is the grizzly bear. Seven.

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Speaker 1: Think they could beat a grizzly bear? How I don't? Again,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's got weapons you don't. He's got weapons

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Speaker 1: you don't. Clud even similar style fighter about ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: That's like Bama playing Duquesne. So I I used to be.

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Speaker 1: So I got invited to go on a from the

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Game Commission invited me to go out to a

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Speaker 1: bear tagging event. What you do for a bear tagging

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Speaker 1: because the cubs are actually active while mom's sleeping, didn't

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Speaker 1: they they'll move around recently, Yeah, they'll move around a

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Speaker 1: do things. Mom's out cold, okay, always yeah, can you

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Speaker 1: That's the one way to do it. Yeah, Like hold

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Speaker 1: I think it was three or four weeks old. Much

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Speaker 1: black bear, which are relatively black bears compared the grizzly

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Speaker 1: They're afraid of Like when when we have black bear

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Speaker 1: a fight to a black bear, yes, every day, every

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Speaker 1: depends on the size. Grizzly bears, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: probably kick him around a little bit. My point with

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Speaker 1: didn't know is where that battle was going to be

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Speaker 1: and and good NFL team will win In this year,

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Speaker 1: home would be certainly within the you know, you would expect.

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Speaker 1: we gotta go at least seven. You'd like to win

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Speaker 1: them all. And Thomla's history, home games against good opponents

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Speaker 1: So you go over two months without without really stressing yourself.

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Speaker 1: You get on a plane, wants to go to Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: That's it. The other the other road game is a

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Speaker 1: have been in Buffalo. Of course, put tough game, but

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Speaker 1: short trip, short trip Buffalo, Green Bay and Cleveland. Okay,

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Speaker 1: how many center snaps had he had he performed with

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Speaker 1: really the only time we ran with the quarterback under

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Speaker 1: center was on quarterback sneaks there. So yeah, there seems

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Speaker 1: to be like this this idea that the Steelers have

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Speaker 1: quarterback under center. I get asked that all the time,

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Speaker 1: like that's the only way you can run the football.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's insane. Like most of the

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Speaker 1: we get to run the I formation. What's college football, folks.

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Speaker 1: The quarterbacks are in the shotgun of the time, right,

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Speaker 1: and teams run the ball just fine out of it.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a little bit different angles and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll see some pistol you know where they split

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Speaker 1: the difference a little bit. Peyton Manning was a big

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Speaker 1: time under center quarterback, went the pistol late in his career,

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Speaker 1: you know, because he couldn't get out of the corner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't get it back as as well. Um Benz,

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Speaker 1: I canna be under center traditional you know Bradshaw, Rocky

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Speaker 1: love if you did that. Yeah, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: do that to to run the football or even operate

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Speaker 1: under play action. You can still play action, yeah that

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Speaker 1: you don't have to turn your back to the defense.

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Speaker 1: And you know the things have advanced. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: all about the the r P O s and he

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Speaker 1: is there a run to the pass option? You know

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Speaker 1: it can't be just pass option. But then there's no options, right,

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Speaker 1: and then Steelers and give themselves enough options last year

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Speaker 1: or take advantage of enough options last year. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: But I just thought that was interesting. I saw that.

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Speaker 1: Can you beat up thinking of a bunch of animals too, Ostrich.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a tough one horse. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of the ones you can't hurt. Yeah, they're not

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Speaker 1: gonna win that battle. I was asked this today too,

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Speaker 1: and it's something I harp on a lot. Is I

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Speaker 1: do think this Steeler offense now can hurt its opponents

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Speaker 1: a lot more ways than they used to. Is having

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Speaker 1: a running game matter? So much? As last season went on,

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Speaker 1: they couldn't hurt their They didn't have enough weapons. You know,

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Speaker 1: they don't have daggers and swords and guns, you know.

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Speaker 1: They they didn't have the deep ball and everyone knew it.

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Speaker 1: And they didn't have the running back to make things

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Speaker 1: was talking to stand today too, I mean, even just

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Speaker 1: a simple thing. You know, if you have Ebron and

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Speaker 1: strong safety. You know, it's just the numbers. Now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now you're asking your running back instead of asking him

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Speaker 1: to make one guy miss two or three and they're

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Speaker 1: not backed off the line of scrimmage, and they weren't

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Speaker 1: good enough runners to do it, you know. So, I

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Speaker 1: mean even if Naja Harris um, you know, averages three

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Speaker 1: point eight yards to carry or something like that, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't bother me. I mean if he's still getting chunk

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Speaker 1: runs and keeping them honest, you know, and opening things

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Speaker 1: up for the other rest of the team. They didn't

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Speaker 1: have that last year. They really didn't. And uh, just

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Speaker 1: just getting that that first look at Nausea Harris today, Um,

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Speaker 1: he looks apart from you, I would not want to

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Speaker 1: tackle that guy. No, I'm excited to see him in person.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Nausea is a specimen. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was watching him go through sometroels and actually posted

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Speaker 1: some video of him on on Twitter taking some reps um.

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Speaker 1: Just the body type look like Martavis Bryant. When I

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Speaker 1: just look I looked at the long arms and in

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Speaker 1: the physique, I'm like, this guy's put together and he

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Speaker 1: just looks. It just looks athletic. People that haven't seen

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Speaker 1: Bryant and I haven't seen Harris yet, but I know

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Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about. Like I saw Terrell Owens

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Speaker 1: in person, your carte, your cartoon character. People probably think, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's not what a running back should look like. I'm

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Speaker 1: scared now. No. I mean Eddie George like a Greek god.

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Speaker 1: I just look different than most running backs. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you see him in person, um looks like you know,

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Speaker 1: they look like they were chiseled out a stone, and

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Speaker 1: they look different among people that look different than you

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Speaker 1: and I depend with, you know, I mean there's I

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Speaker 1: always find that interesting that the heights and weights you

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Speaker 1: see on paper don't really do a lot of these

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Speaker 1: guys justice. Even like one of the first camps I

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Speaker 1: was at with Flozell close L was listed at like

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Speaker 1: six seven three thirty, but he made everyone else look

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Speaker 1: small five you know, yeah, you see, you see, you see,

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Speaker 1: you know, ten helmets in the in the in the huddle,

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Speaker 1: but one was much higher than the rest of the Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, un how you carry the weight,

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Speaker 1: how you you know, you distributed and all that too,

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Speaker 1: you know. My six five isn't exactly like Aaron Donald. Alright,

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Speaker 1: well we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly. We want to thank Jacob Redford keeping

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Speaker 1: us on the air, and we want to thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening to this edition to the Drive on Steelers

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