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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lolli here with Matt Williamson and Matt as we

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Speaker 1: typically do, especially when the Steelers play an opponent that well,

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Speaker 1: they don't play on a regular basis. So take a

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Speaker 1: look at the Jets roster and compare it to the

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Speaker 1: Steelers roster. Whether we think everyone a better feel kind

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Speaker 1: of jump off. I'm sure a lot of Steeler fans

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Speaker 1: are sitting around watching Jets games. I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 1: of Jets fans aren't sitting around watching Jets games. Not

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Speaker 1: not happily, No, not happily. Uh So, looking at their

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Speaker 1: wide receiver group, they got Corey Davis, Elijah Moore, Garrett Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Uh they also have Denzel Mims, who was a high

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Speaker 1: draft pick, and twenty Jeff Smith and then Braxton Barrios

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Speaker 1: at at the wide receiver position. Something's going on with Mims.

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Speaker 1: I mean he has not fit in there. They drafted

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Speaker 1: him in the second round, big tall, you know, combine

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Speaker 1: guy was intriguing. I'm surprised someone hasn't traded for him.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the Steelers, but they're in the same neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Wilson and More are going to

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Speaker 1: be one of the best duos in the league for

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Speaker 1: a long time. And I think Wilson has a chance

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Speaker 1: to be a true star. I love More and if

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Speaker 1: if Davis is your number three, that's not too shabby.

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Speaker 1: But I think I would give the nod to the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I wit as well. Um, you know, they've used the

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Speaker 1: first round pick on Wilson, in two second round picks

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Speaker 1: on Mims, and more money and big money to spend

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Speaker 1: on Davis. So I mean they've they spent money on

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Speaker 1: that position. Um, It's it's good, Um, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: strength of the team. Um. But Deonte is a little

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Speaker 1: more proven than any of those guys. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: why I gave him the edge, you know, like it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me of two years. So now Wilson is

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Speaker 1: better than Deonte, or More is better than Deonte or

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Speaker 1: or They're all the same, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: But I think, knowing what we know about him and

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Speaker 1: Claypool to a lesser extent, I have to give the

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Speaker 1: nod his dealers. Uh at tight end, it's Tyler Conklin.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned c J. A. Zolma, they have Jeremy

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Speaker 1: ruckerd and Lawrence Cager. Um muth is better than all

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Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, you know, I kind of liked Ruckert

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Speaker 1: coming out of school, so I forgot about him that

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Speaker 1: he was there. Um and Gentry to me is probably

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Speaker 1: the same as his alma. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. On

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, it's from left tackle to right tackle.

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Speaker 1: It's Connor McDermott Lake and Tomlinson, Connor mcgow McGovern. They

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Speaker 1: got Connor mc and Connor McGovern. McGovern's a center, Elijah

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Speaker 1: Vera Tucker and then Max Mitchell, the rookie at right tackle,

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Speaker 1: who's a fourth round pick this year out of what

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Speaker 1: the Louisiana. Louisiana kind of not super strong, was considered

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Speaker 1: a project and now they're starting the project. Rely, like

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Speaker 1: we're not counting Beck, then we're not counting fant back

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Speaker 1: in his career. Who knows where that's anyway. It's a

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Speaker 1: side note. Um, if we put all the offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: in a draft, Vera Tucker would be my first pick,

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Speaker 1: but then the next yeah, the next like four guys

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Speaker 1: might be stealing, right. I mean, like I think this

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Speaker 1: pair of guards is the top seven or eight pair

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Speaker 1: of guards in the league, something like that. But I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Steelers guards are bad by any chanch.

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Speaker 1: You know, I would take James Daniels over Tomlinson and um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the guards are pretty close to a wash.

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Speaker 1: The tackles are better for Pittsburgh. I know people won't

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Speaker 1: believe that, but it's just a great example of knowing

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Speaker 1: what's out there in the rest of the league. In

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Speaker 1: the centers are probably the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I think if you if you want to be

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Speaker 1: can get by a guard with just guys. Yeah, I would.

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Speaker 1: If I were investing in no line, i'd go left tackle, center,

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Speaker 1: right tackle, guard, guard. Yeah. I'm kind of surprised at

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Speaker 1: this point, given the injuries that they've had a tackle

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Speaker 1: they haven't bumped Elijah Vera Tucker out because he can,

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Speaker 1: because he can, he did it in college. But he's

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Speaker 1: I don't know what who would fill in behind him

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've gotten Naide herbig there who's played some

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Speaker 1: Dan Feeney. Um, he's been around. But it's probably easier

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Speaker 1: find a tackle. I mean, they just signed Cedrica week Way. Um,

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Speaker 1: find a guy like that, right. Uh, that might have

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Speaker 1: been a smart move. I hadn't thought of that angle.

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Speaker 1: I just figured while you got vera tackles a good guard,

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Speaker 1: leave mc guard. But he was attackle what you see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and some teams thought he might be able to still

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Speaker 1: he's a little shorter, he's six four. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: not ideal. You know, that's you know, not not a

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Speaker 1: deal breaker. No, no, no, that's that's interesting. But he's

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Speaker 1: a good guy to watch. He's a good player. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: what they have to do maybe. You know, that's just

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Speaker 1: kind of surprising that they're only carrying right now eight

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen. I mean I would expect that they'll bring

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Speaker 1: somebody up off the practice squad. On Sunday. I should

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Speaker 1: know this, but I don't know the extent of Fan's injury.

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Speaker 1: Is he back, He's done for the year, He's done

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Speaker 1: for the year, and they put him on and put

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Speaker 1: him on I arm Tuesday. I believe. Wow, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: that's yeah, I guess that they're gonna they're reaching critical master. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're really getting lean. I mean that doesn't help Wilson's development. No,

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Speaker 1: it does not. Running back, it's Michael Carter, It's Breest

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Speaker 1: put much stock in UM. It's too or it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like the wide receiver conversation, honest, I mean Hall

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Speaker 1: verse Harris. I think you have to give Nausey the

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Speaker 1: the nod because you've seen a year of it. Paul

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Speaker 1: is not even the starter yet. Where was granted that

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Speaker 1: from the second he was drafted and what they drafted

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Speaker 1: maybe fourteen picks apart something like that. Haul was a

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Speaker 1: really early second UM. I like Carter a ton and

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Speaker 1: I guess I would take him over. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I was. I mean, Warren's really good. I really

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Speaker 1: like Yeah, I mean, I it's a slight nod. The Steelers.

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Speaker 1: But I guess Warren's fourth for me. But that's by

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Speaker 1: no means a negative to him. He's he's a very

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Speaker 1: good player and a good find. I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: think the see as we find if he was a

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Speaker 1: starter for a while. How about quarterback, it's it's Zach

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Speaker 1: Wilson's show, Flacco, it's Mike White Steelers, especially if you

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Speaker 1: put some credit and pick it, like if they offered

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Speaker 1: you Wilson for Pickett, right, Wilson Pickett. I'd have to

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Speaker 1: wait till the midnight hour to make that. That't think

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Speaker 1: I could say yes to that deal after give him

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Speaker 1: what we know from Zack Wilson. We didn't love him

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Speaker 1: wouldn't make that trade. Didn't love him to begin with

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Speaker 1: and sorry, but hated him as a And I certainly

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Speaker 1: wouldn't trade, you know, Flacco right now for Trabinsky, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the way you need to look.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know that if I would trade Mason

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Speaker 1: Rudolph for Flacco at this point. No, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: one year Flacco and you know, right, I hear it? Um? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean Wilson has a chance to be great. I

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Speaker 1: mean the second overall pick we've seen zero to indicates

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Speaker 1: right right right, good point, right right right. There are

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Speaker 1: some similarities here. Yeah, um pick it's the most valuable

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Speaker 1: of the of all the quarterbacks on either ross. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you were drafting, who do you want, I'll take

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Speaker 1: Picket for largely because we haven't seen him. Well, I

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Speaker 1: saw it was looked good. Yeah, Wilson's never even had that, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: All he has was the pedigree coming into the league,

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Speaker 1: which pick it had as well. So I mean I

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Speaker 1: think we the nod to the is to the Steeler's offense.

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Speaker 1: They didn't lose any of the battles. Some of them

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Speaker 1: were closed, none of them were blowouts. None of them

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Speaker 1: were blowouts. But it's certainly they won every position. Yeah. Yeah. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: the Jets run of for three. So up front they

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Speaker 1: have John Franklin Myers before you start what they want

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Speaker 1: to do. Sala was the defensive corps. Nobody invest in

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman like the forty niners, and that he inherited.

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Speaker 1: Quentin williams Um became the year after that. They drafted

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Speaker 1: very little blitz, you know. And they were that that's

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Speaker 1: how they want the defense to be, you know, set up,

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Speaker 1: they're not they're not there yet. They're not the Niners front,

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Speaker 1: they Jermaine Johnson, who they drafted in the first round

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Speaker 1: Shepherd and Solomon Thomas. Okay, a lot of those guys

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Speaker 1: are drafted Prett high like Thomas and you know Shepherd

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Speaker 1: see why kind of, like I said about the depth,

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Speaker 1: they value that quite a bit. Um, Are we including

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Speaker 1: the whole Steeler defensive front? I mean, I mean you

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Speaker 1: kind of have to because it's because it's a yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it's a four three defense versus the three four,

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Speaker 1: So you have to look at the front four. Right,

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Speaker 1: I'll take the Steelers, but it's a good group. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by Johnson. I think there's more depth, especially

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Speaker 1: their edge guys right now with what being out for them.

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Speaker 1: I think Quentin Williams has a chance to be a star. Um,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't quite lived up to that. Like I thought

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Speaker 1: him and Jeffrey Simmons were two guys that are ready

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Speaker 1: has been that guy and Williams's good, you know, Like

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Speaker 1: I give their front definitely an edge over the Steelers

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Speaker 1: offensive line. You know, Like if I'm talking about the

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Speaker 1: Jets right now, I'm like, well, we're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: Trabisky you. We should be over control of the part

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Speaker 1: of attack. Our guys are more talented than their blockers,

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Speaker 1: but I still think Hayward high Smith Ogenjob you are

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Speaker 1: slightly better. Yeah, at linebacker. For them, it's Quincy Williams, C. J.

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Speaker 1: Mosley and Kwan Alexander are the starters there. Um, Mosley

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Speaker 1: and Alexander our household names, but I don't know that

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Speaker 1: they are. They're not what they were three years ago

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Speaker 1: or four years ago. I should be better versed on this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where Mosley is. He's missed so much

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Speaker 1: don't know if he's a player. If he's a player

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