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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation, and welcome again to this campus

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Speaker 3: of Saint Vincent College here in Lake Trow, Pennsylvania. Freddie

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Speaker 3: fourth Training Camp Practice for your Pittsburgh Steelers of this

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five Steelers training camp. It is a special

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Speaker 3: edition of the Drive. West Shuler and Matt Williamson with

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Speaker 3: you here until five o'clock, three hour edition of the Drive.

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Speaker 3: And you already know the drill we'll have practice. It

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Speaker 3: is getting underway on the.

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Speaker 2: Farther third field, the fourth the fourth field, Yes.

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Speaker 3: The turf, the only one of the four that is turf.

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Speaker 3: And you know Matt just saves the field to yeah

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Speaker 3: to again paint the picture. It saves the fields in general,

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Speaker 3: because you've got ninety five guys that are out here

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Speaker 3: practicing on these football fields, especially on days like today

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Speaker 3: where we had a nice heavy dose of rain for

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Speaker 3: probably close to an hour or so today. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: so you also, those fields are gonna get torn up enough,

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Speaker 3: down to the turf field for the first portion of practice.

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Speaker 2: Especially when you're walking through and you don't have to

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Speaker 2: Our buddies, the groundskeepers that we always talk about in

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Speaker 2: the third hour, are very appreciative that they're on that field.

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Speaker 3: Yes they are, they absolutely are. So they will make

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Speaker 3: their way over in this direction at some point. We'll

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Speaker 3: give you some some thoughts and some observations from practice.

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Speaker 3: We are also Matt anticipating speaking with Omar Khan at

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Speaker 3: some point in this two o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully that'd be great.

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Speaker 3: And I should tell this to our producer Justin on

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Speaker 3: the fly now that i'm thinking about it, I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure if he's coming up here in the booth or

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Speaker 3: if he's going to call in at some point. So

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Speaker 3: just if Justin could have the call screen or ready

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Speaker 3: in case it is a call.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get on.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll get a text whenever that time comes,

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Speaker 3: but we will. We've been told we will be speaking

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Speaker 3: to Omarkhan at some point during this hour. And then today,

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Speaker 3: Matt is actually a pretty cool anniversary for the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: and one that relates to what's going to be a

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Speaker 3: pretty cool weekend this season. Today's the twenty eight year

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Speaker 3: anniversary to the day since the Steelers played a preseason

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Speaker 3: game against the Chicago Bears in Dublin, Ireland at Corona.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I did know that one where.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers, of course, will be playing a regular season

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Speaker 3: game against the Minnesota Vikings at the end of September

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Speaker 3: at that same eighty thousand plus seats.

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Speaker 2: How many years ago you said.

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Speaker 3: In Ireland twenty eight years okay, okay, yep, So I

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Speaker 3: mean the pictures as you can see, and I know

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Speaker 3: and all these different things from you know, that was

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Speaker 3: Part of me into Dublin and that was that was

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Speaker 2: For people from Pittsburgh go to just a.

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Speaker 3: Few absolutely, and you know, like I've got I've got

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Speaker 2: Are they you know, so not just Pitts rare opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's crazy, right. I mean again, not only

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Speaker 3: With that, We've got some cool things today. You remember

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Speaker 3: He might be calling into the four o'clock hour today. Yep,

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Speaker 3: To plan some stuff out for you today, mister Williamson.

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Speaker 3: You know, as as we are and what is Listen,

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Speaker 3: every day out here is exciting, every day out here

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Speaker 3: is important. Every day out here matters. There's something to take,

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Speaker 3: there's something to learn, there's something to deduce.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, it's the end of the

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Speaker 2: and frankly, talking to a lot of you guys last

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Speaker 2: joking for three days straight that weather change is awfully

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Speaker 3: The first Saturday practice is always one of the craziest

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Speaker 3: I mean, Friday night lights is the one, but that

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Speaker 3: joining us now Steelers general manager Omar Kahn. Omar, thank

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Speaker 3: you so much for taking the time.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, some guys, How are you fantastic? It's

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Speaker 4: good to be in La Trobe.

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Speaker 3: It is good to be in La Trobe. Weather a

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Speaker 4: About today right now.

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Speaker 2: It sounded terrible, but.

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Speaker 3: I just looked now and it said thunderstorms only twenty

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Speaker 4: So we'll take that a little beautiful.

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Speaker 3: You've had You've had the heat elements, you had some

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Speaker 3: that's that's part of being out here, right, You've got

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, how about our fans, How awesome are they?

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Speaker 2: Unbelievab That's what I was saying to the Great as

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Speaker 2: we were walking in, like I've never seen anything like yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't get really, it was nuts. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: And obviously yesterday hall of Honor class that I think

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Speaker 3: it's a Hall of Honor class and a pretty pretty

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Speaker 5: How how awesome is that? Every one of those guys

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Speaker 5: very very deserving obviously, And you know, I had the

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Speaker 5: I was here with Ben and Penalty from beginning to end,

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Speaker 5: and uh, you know when I got hired here, Joey,

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Speaker 5: There were juniors here who drafted him.

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Speaker 3: Twenty fifth birthday yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he he is.

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Speaker 5: Those guys are all well deserving and I can't wait

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Speaker 2: Just chatting with a couple of the voters, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to mention their names. There wasn't a lot

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Speaker 2: So I want to talk a little football with you.

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Speaker 2: Of course, recently made a roster move Chuck Clark Georgia

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And the other component of it is he's been

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Speaker 4: So he was out there and he was interested.

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Speaker 2: It just made sense, absolutely, and I wanted to bring

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Speaker 2: But the way I interpreted the trade is so many

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Speaker 2: people talk about positionless football, which I don't one hundred

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Speaker 2: have a wide range of skill sets. I mean they're

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Speaker 5: You know, position flexibility is always intriguing. You take Jalen Ramsey,

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Speaker 4: And he just gives you the opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Some uh some do some cool, cool things with and

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Speaker 5: then with John New the same thing. I mean, if

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Speaker 5: you guys go look at us the snaps where he

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Speaker 5: lined up at tight end. You can do several things

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Speaker 4: There's not there's uh, there's a lot to be said

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Speaker 3: I think you have some of that same flexibility along

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, busy off season for you, busyfe day.

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Speaker 3: And you know the drill. We are live at Training

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Speaker 3: As we've got some special teams going on in front

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Speaker 2: what a great resource. So I'm sure there's some sort

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Speaker 2: of familiarity with this particular young lefty kicker and give

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Speaker 2: them a chance. You know, yes, yes, but it is weird.

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Speaker 3: It's just different. It's it's not something you see very often.

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Speaker 3: And I may never Yeah, I don't. My eight years,

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Speaker 3: I know you've got a few more than me here

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Speaker 3: in terms of training camps, and even back when you

442
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Speaker 3: were a young kid with your binoculars up on the hill,

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Speaker 3: I can't remember seeing any any left footed kickers here

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Speaker 3: in camp.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember any being a league. I mean, this

446
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Speaker 2: this might date me because I'm so far from baseball,

447
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 2: But like in Little League, if you were lefty, you

448
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,560
Speaker 2: couldn't be a catcher, right, there's no lefty catchers. They

449
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Speaker 2: don't even make it. I assume they make them now.

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Speaker 3: But notable left footed kickers in National Football League history,

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Speaker 3: according to Google dot com Sebastian Kankowski.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, first round pick though, like he was

453
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Speaker 2: one of the best college kickers ever. If you're the Raiders,

454
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Speaker 2: you're like, this guy's good enough. I mean, you can't.

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Speaker 2: We took him in the first round. That's a bad move,

456
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Speaker 2: even though he had a great career. But still they

457
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Speaker 2: loved them enough that whoever our holder is will change

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Speaker 2: for Sebastian.

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Speaker 3: Uh, it looks like a Mason Crosby left footed as

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Speaker 3: well too. Graham Gano left footed as well?

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Speaker 2: Are they according made up to me?

462
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Speaker 3: It does sound made up to me as well too?

463
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 3: I don't according again, this is all off off of

466
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Speaker 3: hastily done Google searches here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's AI acting up.

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Speaker 3: I think it might be like, what do we can

469
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Speaker 3: we get this? Can we get this out of this?

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest. Dale makes on me all the time

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Speaker 2: because I don't know most teams kickers and punters, like

472
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Speaker 2: even as much fantasies I do. I don't know who they.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's something that's a slop. I don't think

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Speaker 3: Crosby was either.

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Speaker 2: But Geneikowski, Yes, Janowski's a yes right, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but again he's he's a first round pick. He's

477
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Speaker 3: a first round sixty yard field goals in college, he

478
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Speaker 3: was a weapon.

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Speaker 2: Like a tank out there. I mean, that's kind of

480
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Speaker 2: what I said before when we started the conversation, is

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Speaker 2: if you're super we're super special, and you're gonna be

482
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Speaker 2: a really high pick, and you're gonna change as a

483
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Speaker 2: team what you do. Okay, this guy's good enough to

484
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Speaker 2: change for. But if you're a borderline draftable guy, do

485
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Speaker 2: I even want to bring him to camp and deal

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Speaker 2: with it?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Correct? But like lefty punters, kind of like lefty pitchers,

489
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Speaker 2: if you're a twelve year old, Hey, you get the

490
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Speaker 2: benefit of doubt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And that's a good that's a good thing

492
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Speaker 3: to have. Yeah. Yeah, you need that lefty in your

493
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Speaker 3: rotation to throw everything, to throw everybody off once a

494
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Speaker 3: week type.

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Speaker 2: He's not quite as good as the righty, but he's

496
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Speaker 2: getting the job because he's different.

497
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Speaker 3: Right, And then sometimes you get like just those dynamic lefties,

498
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Speaker 3: you know, like the Clayton Kershaw types who like just

499
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Speaker 3: become a become a problem for everyone. I believe Randy

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Speaker 3: Johnson the Big Unit was left handed as well too,

501
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Speaker 3: if I if I am remembering correctly as a yes,

502
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Speaker 3: still relatively quiet here at practice today. More going on

503
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Speaker 3: on the far side field. Sounds like a similar practice

504
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Speaker 3: script to yesterday's. So we'll have something, We'll have some

505
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Speaker 3: fun seven shots, we'll have some fun team period stuff.

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Speaker 2: Rain holds off, we very beefy practice.

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Speaker 3: Long as long as the rain holds off, we should yeah,

508
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Speaker 3: beefy practice. I think since it's the last one of

509
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Speaker 3: the acclamation period and last one before they have a

510
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Speaker 3: day off tomorrow is as well too, just an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to David David Acres.

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Speaker 2: My buddy aj Is texted me he must be listening.

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Speaker 3: Thank you a j appreciate you listening. I'm always glad

514
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 3: to know that somebody other than my mom is listening

515
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Speaker 3: to the shows that we do here on Steelers Radio.

516
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Speaker 3: But yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

517
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Speaker 3: But again, as you could tell from this exercise, very

518
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Speaker 3: few and far between is the is the point that

519
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Speaker 3: we're making here, and you better be a pretty stinking

520
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Speaker 3: good You better be like an exception to a rule

521
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Speaker 3: type guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly to our If I'm gonna change what we do,

523
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Speaker 2: it's gotta you gotta make it worth it for me

524
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Speaker 2: because you're that good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Fans lining up here today, Matthew, despite us some rough

528
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Speaker 3: weather earlier, still a nice crowd here today as people

529
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Speaker 3: are kind of moving around and some people going over

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Speaker 3: to the fart side field over there as the weather

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Speaker 3: is holding off for now. Like I said, I was

532
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Speaker 3: saying with uh with with Omar when when he was

533
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Speaker 3: jumping on with us in the previous segment, it does

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Speaker 3: look like there's a potential for some a little bit

535
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Speaker 3: of stuff around four o'clock. But hey, if you.

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Speaker 2: Can we can avoid that long, be great.

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Speaker 3: If you could avoid it that long and get the

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Speaker 3: majority of the practice in, that would be fantastic. Anything specific,

539
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Speaker 3: like what final day today, right before things really get

540
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Speaker 3: ratcheted up a level next week? What is kind of

541
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Speaker 3: the onus today? Is it like, hey, you better look sharper,

542
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Speaker 3: You better look more comfortable than you did on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: You better not be making the same mistakes. That is

544
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Speaker 3: it just like a buttoned up type thing out there

545
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Speaker 3: today or it's a great question.

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Speaker 2: And my first thought was kind of like what you

547
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Speaker 2: said was all right, no mental stuff anymore, you know.

548
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to be correcting you on

549
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 2: the same things over and over as a position coach,

550
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Speaker 2: you know, by now, because it's only it's more stressful

551
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Speaker 2: as it's going to be physically, makes it harder on

552
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Speaker 2: you mentally, and you're gonna be more fatigued late in

553
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Speaker 2: practice or later in drills. So it's only gonna harder

554
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Speaker 2: from here physically, So I need your mental to be

555
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Speaker 2: as as strong as possible. Another aspect of it that

556
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: no one talks about enough because you just assume all

557
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Speaker 2: these guys are in shape, and they are compared to

558
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Speaker 2: me and you and everybody else, but compared to who

559
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Speaker 2: you're playing, being in peak physical shape, I mean, an

560
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Speaker 2: A plus as opposed to an A minus is extremely

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Speaker 2: extremely important.

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Speaker 3: Big deal.

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Speaker 2: And really that's not even the team's jobs as much anymore.

564
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Speaker 3: Like it's not the six week training camp back the day.

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Speaker 2: I'll go to training camp and get in shape.

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Speaker 3: But you know, wait, you it's funny you and I

567
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Speaker 3: like it seems like almost every show together at some

568
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Speaker 3: point we reference Mariyo Lemieux because he was like your

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Speaker 3: childhood guy, growing up as a kid in Lebo. Oh

570
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Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and you like our listeners know that I

571
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Speaker 3: that I love the sport of hockey as well too.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever heard his famous line about training camp?

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Speaker 3: No one year? It was probably his third, fourth, fifth

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Speaker 3: year in the like, so still established, established is great,

575
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Speaker 3: but still relatively young.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he come back to Pittsburgh for the start of

578
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Speaker 3: training camp and he's doing the media scrum thing, you

579
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Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like it might have been Stan

580
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Speaker 3: Savergn or Paul Staggerwald, one of those guys is like, Mario,

581
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Speaker 3: what do you do to get ready for training camp?

582
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Speaker 3: And he said, when I go to the country club

583
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Speaker 3: for lunch, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

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Speaker 3: That was the mentality back in the day. All right,

585
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Speaker 3: I'll stop eating fried food for a couple of days

586
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Speaker 3: before camping.

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Speaker 2: And if you're that talented, you could kind of get

588
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Speaker 2: away with him too. Yeah. Right, he had a few

589
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Speaker 2: advantages on the I but the.

590
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Speaker 3: Days of like I remember being young and following this

591
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Speaker 3: team and watching this team and it would be like, well,

592
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Speaker 3: Casey Hampton still has a practice passed the conditioning test,

593
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Speaker 3: so he can't practice today. You know what I mean,

594
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Speaker 3: That stuff doesn't happen anymore.

595
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Speaker 2: No, it can't. It can't, and there's no reason for too.

596
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Speaker 2: The money's big. There's so many private workout people or

597
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Speaker 2: quarterback coaches or I mean all these guys, maybe not

598
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Speaker 2: the undrafted free agents, so they don't pay money in

599
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Speaker 2: the bank yet, right, I mean, any established NFL player,

600
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Speaker 2: they're insane if they don't has people that they are

601
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Speaker 2: paying outside the organization. I mean like Sames Harrison famously

602
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 2: had acupuncturists, and you know, I mean all kinds of stuff, like,

603
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: you're crazy if you don't Motes.

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Speaker 3: Motes has told me that if you are in the

605
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Speaker 3: National Football League, he said this before on on these airways,

606
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Speaker 3: if you're in the National Football League and you're not

607
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Speaker 3: spending at least six figures on your body and your

608
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Speaker 3: health every year, you're not investing enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes all the sense.

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Speaker 3: At least nutrition, at least six figures. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

611
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Speaker 3: an assage person. He said, a lot of a lot

612
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Speaker 3: of the best players in the league are set. He's

613
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Speaker 3: like you know how much money Antonio Brown spent on

614
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Speaker 3: his on his body and health. And you know how

615
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Speaker 3: much Debo and those guys spent on their on their body. Again,

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Speaker 3: you're you're nutritionist and your massus and your and your

617
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Speaker 3: chef and all those different things. Acupuncturist like you.

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Speaker 2: I don't know this, but I bet Aaron Rodgers flew

619
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Speaker 2: a chef in here from Green Bay to New York

620
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Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh. Or he definitely flew in people, you know

621
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Speaker 2: what I mean, that he's worked with his whole time.

622
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Speaker 2: It's not like I left New York or when he

623
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Speaker 2: left Green Bay, I just won't call Johnny any or

624
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Speaker 2: I'll ask who's good in New York or who's good

625
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. I'm sure that's not the case, you know,

626
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Speaker 2: especially his stature, economic situation age, he needs it more

627
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Speaker 2: than ever. You know, like there's no way that he's

628
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Speaker 2: just like, ah, I'll find someone in Pittsburgh, No.

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Speaker 3: Way, totally and again you could you see that play out?

630
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Speaker 3: You know, Like we talk about the Antonio Brown types,

631
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Speaker 3: the Tom Brady types, right, who are so obsessed with

632
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 3: greatness it just it bleeds all over the place when

633
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Speaker 3: you're out here, you know what I mean? Yeah, not

634
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: notice it?

635
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Speaker 2: Like those are these stories of Tom Brady and Giselle

636
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: when they were together on some unbelievably beautiful beach and

637
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: he brings his shoulder pads in a football just to

638
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: go through the motions and work on his stroke a

639
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 2: little bit, you know, like crazy stuff, you know. And

640
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you watched any of the Netflix

641
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 2: series Quarterback, the second series, the second season just came

642
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 2: out pretty recently, and another Lebo guy, a friend of mine,

643
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: Keith Cosro, is the one that does that. But they

644
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: show a glimpse, but not even probably more than ten

645
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 2: percent of what these guys are doing behind the scenes.

646
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: Mahomes was in the first season, Cousins was in both

647
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: Burroughs in there, like all the individual they stuff they

648
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 2: do for their bodies, for their careers, for their health,

649
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,719
Speaker 2: for their nutrition away from the team, right, you know,

650
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 2: it's it's not just the team's job anymore.

651
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Speaker 3: No, And that's another thing that Motes could explain, well,

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Speaker 3: it has explained well, Like think about it, if you're

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Speaker 3: one of these, if you're one of these guys out here,

654
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 3: there's ninety five guys out here at camp. Sure, right

655
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 3: like they have they have open trainers, open massuses every day.

656
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: Oh of course their resources are unlike any of ours.

657
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 3: But what if you get there and there's twelve other

658
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 3: people waiting in line to see a couple of massuses,

659
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 3: you know, like you're not gonna get done in before practice, right.

660
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: Right, right right? So, I mean even like the year

661
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 2: I worked with the Browns, like there was a once

662
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: or twice or I think it was only once. I

663
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 2: had a cold, you know, I had the sniffles. I

664
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: just had it, like this common cold and nothing big.

665
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 2: And my one of my bosses is like, I feeling

666
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: well huh. He's like go downstairs, like all right, and

667
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,719
Speaker 2: they they're like take this or this or this, and

668
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: like next day I was like, let's go. It wasn't

669
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: like illegal or anything, but it was here's the best

670
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: stuff in the world to get even Williamson healthy, you

671
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: know what I mean.

672
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 3: Come on, it's funny you say that we had a game.

673
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 3: I want to say it was two seasons. Okay, you

674
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 3: know how all this stuff blends together and all that,

675
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: But we had a game. I know we were in Cleveland.

676
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 3: I remember we were in Cleveland, and I think it

677
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: was like in November one of these past couple of

678
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 3: seasons that we were in Cleveland and I just had

679
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 3: something going on with my stomach that was right, you know,

680
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: I don't know on the road, I don't know exactly

681
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 3: what it was, if it was something food related, if

682
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 3: it was something stomach.

683
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 2: Bug related, like any other human.

684
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 3: Just like any other human, I had one of those

685
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: days where something was off with my stomach and it

686
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: was on a Sunday game day where I've got a

687
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 3: twelve hour work day, you know, and then got to

688
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: travel back home, like not an ideal time, and you.

689
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: Might not be able to run to the nearest facility,

690
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: you know.

691
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 3: I kind of would work when the game's going on.

692
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 3: I got a lot of different responsibility that are.

693
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: Holding back at twenty minutes, is it gonna cut right?

694
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, I do the halftime show,

695
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 3: so it's not even like I get to fifteen minutes

696
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 3: and halftime. Here's a bucket with so I'm kind of like,

697
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 3: I'm kind of like lamenting a little bit, and Missy

698
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: Matthews went down into the trainer's rooms. Yeah, got me something,

699
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: and I took it in. Fifteen minutes later, I felt

700
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: like a million bucks.

701
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: It's not the pep doo you bought it seat, Yes,

702
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 2: everybody else has either, right, Yeah, it's like it's the

703
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 2: best stuff out there.

704
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 3: I was like, I just need a I just need

705
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 3: a bottle of this for myself.

706
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: We're about to get some seven.

707
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Matt, Yeah, things getting close over here,

708
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: so let's take a break and we'll bring it all

709
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: to you on the other side. It's a special edition

710
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Speaker 3: to drive here on Steelers Nation Radio on a Steeler's audio.

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Speaker 3: Steel Things picking up here on the fourth and final

719
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 3: day of acclamation period for your Pittsburgh Steelers. I think

720
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 3: pretty impressive seven shots period here so far, particularly from

721
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 3: the first team offense.

722
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, two things stood out to me on the first

723
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 2: two plays from the offense. Well, three things. We'll talk

724
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: about all three of the ones versus ones. I know

725
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: that he's not a typical tight end, and I've said

726
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: people should look at John H. Smith as a big

727
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: slot as much as they look at him as a

728
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: traditional tight end. Maybe more so like a big slot.

729
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: But for someone that you get his football card and

730
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: it has te on it, very few of them can

731
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: run the route that he just did. I mean, breaking

732
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 2: towards the parallel line of scrimmage, sticks his foot in

733
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: the ground, completely changes direction, loses the defender, and a

734
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Speaker 2: heartbeat and Rogers puts it on him exactly on time.

735
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: I mean it's only a two yard play, but that's

736
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: a lot of motion and a lot of stops start

737
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: and adjusting your body. That was all the way they

738
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: executed it. I was like, man, that's close to indefensible.

739
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: I'm not sure who's guarding that play in that when

740
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: you only need two yards to go. And the next

741
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: play was a going away throw to Metcalf and it

742
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: wasn't completed, But I was really impressed with Rogers because

743
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 2: the coverage was great. It did hit Metcalf in the

744
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: hands but was kind of knocked away with but the

745
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: coverage too. I'd love to watch it again. Unfortunately for

746
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: these things you can't rewind. Yeah, you know, but there's.

747
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 3: No replay with thirty different four k care.

748
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 2: Right, and I'm sitting here thinking, Man, that's a gutsy

749
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: throw by Rogers. I mean, because if that if that

750
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: corner reads it, he takes it to the house, you know,

751
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: he takes it a ninety nine yard I mean, he

752
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: throws it on time to a spot. It was a

753
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 2: beautiful throw, but it was a gutsy, veteran throw. It

754
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: was what stood out to me, you know.

755
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and hey and hey, it's practice. You see that

756
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 3: around here, and it's practice. And it's a four to

757
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 3: three win for the defense, as kind of like we've

758
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 3: seen a little bit over the past couple of days.

759
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: There was a three to three tie at the end.

760
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 3: First teamers go back in to settle it and Aaron

761
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: Rodgers looked for Roman Wilson in the back of the

762
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 3: end zone, but good coverage by Deshaun Elliott and it

763
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 3: falls incomplete. And so the defense they won first seven shots.

764
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 3: Two days ago, in the offense and then the offense

765
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 3: won yesterday back to the defense now today. So that's

766
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 3: I remember a couple of these year.

767
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: Defense was yesterday? Right?

768
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 3: It was defense? Did I do that backwards? Was it offense?

769
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 2: And then because I remember going to the calf going,

770
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 2: oh wait, why do steak and crab legs? And I'm like,

771
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 2: oh no, this is a defense. I don't play defense.

772
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 3: You look like you could maybe, I mean, yeah, so

773
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 3: that'll be something to something to keep an eye on. Absolutely,

774
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 3: but another that's why I like to see all these

775
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 3: seven shots have been contested, like like Titan contested. I

776
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 3: remember in some of these post Ben Roethlisberger years, Matt,

777
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 3: it'd be like six to one for the defense.

778
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: Every day and again and one versus one, right.

779
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 3: That's where all the money is, and you know that it's.

780
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: A good defense offense.

781
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: The offense was crazy young at that point. But it's

782
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 3: nice to see the back and forth between the two

783
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 3: units so far and seven shots now.

784
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: I also wanted to throw out the third play because yeah,

785
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 2: I don't know if they didn't block Cam Hayward or

786
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: if he just ripped through somebody. Again, I could can't rewind,

787
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: but he was in Roger's face now right up the middle,

788
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 2: looking like the Cam that everybody expects. So of course

789
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 2: he's not going to splatter the forty two year old

790
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 2: quarterback that's his teammates, correct, But they did throw a

791
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 2: touchdown to Friarmooth. And again I was torn, was did

792
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: Rogers get it out just in time or did Cam

793
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 2: have to slow up? You know what I mean, because

794
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: it was two basically Hall of famers lighting it up

795
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: in real tight quarters.

796
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 3: Now now you know, and again I mean, I know

797
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 3: that they're not when the pads go on on Tuesday,

798
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: They're still not going to hit Aaron Rodgers, right of course,

799
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 3: But like I'm still excited to see what all that

800
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 3: looks like when the pads do go on and there's

801
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 3: obviously real physicality and violence in the trenches in front

802
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: of Aaron Rodgers and everything else that the offense is

803
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 3: trying to do, we'll get some better evaluations of the

804
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 3: run game. Obviously at that point is we've got Cam

805
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 3: Hayward working on some stuff by himself in the end

806
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: zone down here, while it looks like the rest of

807
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 3: the defensive line is defensive front maybe getting a little

808
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 3: bit of rest over there during this portion offense on

809
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 3: the far side of the football field. We got getting

810
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 3: a little shade special teams going on in front of

811
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 3: us here right now. Matt, who are you? And this

812
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 3: is a very open ended question, and there's probably a

813
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 3: dozen different people that we could come up with his

814
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 3: good answers. But who you most excited to see on

815
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 3: Tuesday when the pads go on?

816
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: Hmm? Caleb Johnson in protection I was immediately goes to

817
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: backs on backers. Yeah, yeah, I bet they'll challenge him quickly.

818
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: Who else are we thinking here?

819
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 3: Roger Jones for sure, Troy Faltanu, the two.

820
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: Yes, those are easy ones and good ones. Washington too.

821
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: They'll ask him to do some tackle stuff, you know,

822
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: that pass set against Hi Smith, you like, and he

823
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 2: can do it, which is pretty remarkable, John new because

824
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: that's not what he's good at. Like, I'm not expecting

825
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 2: him to look good. But if he does, okay, but good,

826
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So that's an interesting one

827
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 2: that I mean on pass plays, he's not going to

828
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 2: pass block. Maybe only gets two reps in backsports backers.

829
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: The other thing about bat when backs on backers is

830
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 2: taking place, It's hard to see here, but the one

831
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: on ones of the defensive linemen are going on in

832
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: the far field, right. You know, it just doesn't get

833
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 2: as much pub it's not as easy to see, correct,

834
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 2: But I mean it's just like the Senior Bowl where

835
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 2: there's three individual drills going on at once. There's corners

836
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: going against receivers one on one.

837
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 3: Full speed, So you can only watch so much of

838
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 3: the time.

839
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 2: It's hard.

840
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 3: And like you said, we don't have we don't have

841
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 3: a clicker where we can rewind watch something something else.

842
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know mentioned it that Omar. You know

843
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 2: in that first segment, Boy, they got a lot of

844
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: d linemen. Can a couple of those guys that we

845
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 2: don't talk about much, you know, the Logan Lee's and

846
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: those type of guys, Can they start distinguishing themselves and

847
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 2: start to get a pecking order of the borderline roster

848
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: guys because they got too many to make the roster,

849
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: because they got a lot of them.

850
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, yeah, no, I I I completely that's

851
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 3: that's a good point, and it is that. I do

852
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 3: think that's one of the biggest things we'll be keeping

853
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 3: our eyes on Tuesday. We'll be we'll be all over

854
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 3: the place we'll yeah, yeah, you know when you watch.

855
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 2: Like Metcalf versus three corners would be awesome, right.

856
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 3: Like the young guys on the defensive line, Derek harmon

857
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: Ya Black. We're gonna be like Matt, you know when

858
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: you you.

859
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: Know what I mean. This actually should be the short answer,

860
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 2: but your your question was what are you most looking

861
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: forward to or who are you most looking forward to

862
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: when the pads go on? For real line, they're losing

863
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 2: right now, and they're losing to a really good group,

864
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: but they're losing time and time again. And it's not

865
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 2: just the twos and again they're playing great football players,

866
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 2: but who are the twos? Is good and a keeper

867
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: they need to go looking for more. Is this starting

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Speaker 2: group able to deal with an elite defensive line? You

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Speaker 2: know there's other good defensive lines in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah that that will absolutely be at the forefront,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be like Matt, you know. What will be

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Speaker 3: like is like when you watch a tennis match on

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Speaker 3: TV and the crowd.

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Speaker 2: Is like, oh yeah, yeah, it's hard to keep.

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Speaker 3: Up, like whooping back and forth with with with the

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Speaker 3: little green tennis ball. That's what we're gonna be like

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Speaker 3: out here on Tuesday, trying to cat and see and

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Speaker 3: describe everything for you as it happens. I will say, Matt, So,

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Speaker 3: this is the first year that I've been up in

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Speaker 3: the booth during practice train of camp, so that's where

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Speaker 3: I was going. So normally my duties are from ten

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Speaker 3: to two, right, I would do locker practices, locker room stuff,

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Speaker 3: and then and then show with motes, and then you

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Speaker 3: and Dale would take over and I would go down

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Speaker 3: onto the field for practice, and there might there was

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Speaker 3: probably a couple of times I sat up here with

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Speaker 3: you or like I might go down for an hour

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Speaker 3: and then come back up here type thing. But one

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Speaker 3: of the times that I always liked going down there

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Speaker 3: was for the first day of backs on backers.

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Speaker 2: It's way better when you're on the field right.

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Speaker 3: To hear the pads popping, to hear Mike Tomlin calling

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Speaker 3: out the matchups that he wants teammates, like if he

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Speaker 3: if Jack Sawyer takes a rep and Tomlin doesn't like it,

895
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Speaker 3: and he'll go thirty three run that back. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like I want to see that again,

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Speaker 3: like or.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a great one, like, oh I want to

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Speaker 2: see that again. Correct, No, one won, you know.

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Speaker 3: Or like, you know, there were some of those time,

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Speaker 3: like you know, Jalen Warren and Alex high Smith earlier

902
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Speaker 3: in their careers, just two bulldogs going at it in

903
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Speaker 3: a great rep and Toland's like trying.

904
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Speaker 2: To prove themselves.

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Speaker 3: Let's do that. Let's let's run that back and see

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Speaker 3: that one more time.

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Speaker 2: You know, those type's great about that stuff. State of

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Speaker 2: who he picks, how he motivates them, doesn't mind embarrassing

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Speaker 2: people if they get whipped, you know, like sure, that's

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Speaker 2: that's what it's all about.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The line that he uses with those guys is I

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Speaker 3: don't make I don't create the news. I just reported. Yeah,

914
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Speaker 3: like it like when he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Create the news because he picks who goes.

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Speaker 3: Right right right, That's right. I guess on game days

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Speaker 3: he doesn't create the news, right reports put in this setting,

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Speaker 3: he kind of right right a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't shock me at all if it's Faltau

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Speaker 2: against Watt for the first one. Like, Okay, Troy, we

921
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Speaker 2: think you're gonna be a really good player. Deal with

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Speaker 2: the the guy that's the highest paid non quarterback in

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Speaker 2: the league. That is you know that we obviously have

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Speaker 2: walk into the Hall of Fame right right in the year,

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Speaker 2: you know, right, yeah, can you handle it? And then

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Speaker 2: we'll give you Miles Garrett in week three and then

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Speaker 2: we'll give you Trey Hendrickson in a week six, and

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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, absolutely, that's the kind of level player

929
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Speaker 2: we expect you to be.

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Speaker 3: And you've got you've got some of those guys that

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Speaker 3: you just mentioned that are in that upper echelon of

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Speaker 3: edge rushers in this National Football League, in your division.

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Speaker 2: Three of the best are in this division.

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Speaker 3: Three of the best are in this division, and you

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Speaker 3: know you're fortunately you got one of them, but you're

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Speaker 3: gonna see the other two at least a minimum of

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Speaker 3: four times.

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Speaker 2: It's just kind of dawned on me. But I mean

939
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Speaker 2: that the most expensive positions in the league are quarterback

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Speaker 2: in the edge rushers, and to me, there's four elite

941
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks walking the planet. Two of them are in this division. Yeah,

942
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Speaker 2: there's about six edge rushers watching that are elite edge rushers.

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Speaker 2: Three of them are in this division. Great, Fortunately the

944
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Speaker 2: Steelers have one of the edge rushers, but correct, right.

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Speaker 3: Correct, and maybe closer still at his age of forty one,

946
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Speaker 3: not in that same unicorn has been, but he has

947
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Speaker 3: been and hopefully he's just a level up from what they.

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Speaker 2: Had last ye, right, they need maybe there's a little

949
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Speaker 2: of that still stuck in him in a little bear.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 3: I think you know, I think that top four, you

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Speaker 3: could put it in whatever order you want, right, believable

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Speaker 3: Mahomes Alan Burrow Lamar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But then after that, if if, if by the time

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Speaker 3: we get to the end of the season, you're having

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Speaker 3: a legitimate conversation about Aaron being in that next group.

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Speaker 2: Spot because they haven't anyone in the group below that, right, Right,

959
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Speaker 2: if we're if he's a tier three guy, that's a

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Speaker 2: that's the best guy they've had, the.

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Speaker 3: Eighth to twelfth best quarterback in the league they've had.

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Speaker 3: Sin If the second tier is like Matthew Stafford and.

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Speaker 2: Daniels and those guys, Yeah, yeah, if you're in that category, o, stay,

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Speaker 2: this is the best experiment.

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Speaker 3: But even if you're like towards the front of the

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Speaker 3: third tier, right, you're still leveled up at court.

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Speaker 2: If you're at the mayfield, you know, leveled, boy, that's

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Speaker 2: so much better than they've bet Right.

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Speaker 3: Matt I got to go make another PS my friends

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Speaker 3: Steelers Department. Yeah, I know, listen, I time and a

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Speaker 3: half of them. I'm gonna start invoice and Kinger here certainly, Ye,

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Speaker 3: we'll be back all his pirates responsibilities with our number

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Speaker 3: two of the drive. His practice rolls along here on

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