1
00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,520
Speaker 1: It is continuing coverage of the twenty twenty six NFL

2
00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,879
Speaker 1: Combine by from Indianapolis on the Steelers Audio Network, presented

3
00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,320
Speaker 1: by First National Bank. Can your bank do that? Welcome

4
00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,640
Speaker 1: to FNB. Let's get started. Member FDIC iron Workers Local

5
00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,200
Speaker 1: Union number three. We don't go to the office, We

6
00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,840
Speaker 1: build it. Schneider Downs discovered the value of big thinking

7
00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,680
Speaker 1: with a personal focus at Schneiderdowns dot com, your neighborhood

8
00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,479
Speaker 1: Ford store. The Ford F one fifty is the official

9
00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,519
Speaker 1: truck of the Pittsburgh Steelers and by usteal Mine Melted

10
00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,920
Speaker 1: made in the USA.

11
00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,000
Speaker 2: Welcome back to our four of our continuing coverage from

12
00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:50,160
Speaker 2: the NFL Scouting Combine here at the Indiana Convention Center

13
00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,800
Speaker 2: and of course next door at Lucas Oil Stadium, my

14
00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,040
Speaker 2: favorite venue in the National Football League. Good afternoon everyone.

15
00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,320
Speaker 2: Jerry Dulac with you for the next two hours hours

16
00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,120
Speaker 2: along with Wes Kueller, who's just he's just here and

17
00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,120
Speaker 2: we can't get rid of him. He's stuck in that seat.

18
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,720
Speaker 2: King will be Prefontaine. I'm just running laps today, Jared,

19
00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,039
Speaker 2: exactly right, and I think you're leading the pack right now,

20
00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:14,840
Speaker 2: so you're a favorite for that gold medal.

21
00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,040
Speaker 3: Hey, I'll take it. Yeah, it's a timely, good time

22
00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:18,840
Speaker 3: to win a gold medal. Out hear, Rob King has

23
00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,080
Speaker 3: disappeared somewhere. I think he has some other obligations and

24
00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,399
Speaker 3: duties to attend to. But he's going to be scheduled

25
00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,120
Speaker 3: to rejoin us, and if he's not, I'm gonna go

26
00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 3: sign him down and make sure he does. Wes, you,

27
00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,560
Speaker 3: you should be a little gassed already. This is a

28
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:33,640
Speaker 3: four straight hours for.

29
00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:34,360
Speaker 2: You, huh.

30
00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,959
Speaker 3: I got an hour off in between there. But but yeah,

31
00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:39,720
Speaker 3: the first day is always a little bit of a

32
00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,200
Speaker 3: heavy lift because you know, Pursuda and Rob and yourself,

33
00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,120
Speaker 3: you guys got to talk to the GM, You got

34
00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,680
Speaker 3: to do your reporting jobs, and so Matt and I,

35
00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,480
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit more here on day number

36
00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,560
Speaker 3: one to kind of just help, you know, keep the

37
00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,640
Speaker 3: keep the train on the tracks. But the rest of

38
00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,400
Speaker 3: the week we'll have our normal programming. It'll be a

39
00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:57,800
Speaker 3: lot of fun.

40
00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll be here all three days un to two,

41
00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,560
Speaker 2: although Thursday might be preempted for a little bit. But

42
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,920
Speaker 2: always enjoy being here, man. I tell this story all

43
00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,720
Speaker 2: the time, Wes, long before you were coming here and

44
00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,799
Speaker 2: since you've been here you've been. You've just strictly over here, right,

45
00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,720
Speaker 2: and you see how big it is and it's funny.

46
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,600
Speaker 2: On the drive out, I was talking to Tom Bradley,

47
00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,799
Speaker 2: the former Penn State coach dealer assistant coach as well,

48
00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,079
Speaker 2: and I sess some radio stuff with us from time

49
00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,360
Speaker 2: to time, right, And I said to him, I says, Coach,

50
00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,239
Speaker 2: I go, do you remember when you and I would

51
00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,240
Speaker 2: be broadcasting from the hallway outside Lucas Oil Stadium. I said,

52
00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,800
Speaker 2: we were probably one of six radio stations at that

53
00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,840
Speaker 2: point broadcasting, and when I first started coming here, they

54
00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,600
Speaker 2: might have been just two in the hallway, and then

55
00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,000
Speaker 2: we joined in when there was probably like I said,

56
00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,640
Speaker 2: five or six. And now look at this, and I

57
00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,720
Speaker 2: think it gets bigger every year, and I didn't think

58
00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,280
Speaker 2: that was possible. And they've kind of repositioned us here

59
00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,280
Speaker 2: as well. They fun schuey it a little bit every year, Jerry.

60
00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,240
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's I think close to I want to say,

61
00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,920
Speaker 3: it's like eighty and tables, so really pushing pushing one hundred.

62
00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:03,800
Speaker 2: I believe in here.

63
00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,080
Speaker 3: And then you know, on the other side you have

64
00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,679
Speaker 3: the real network setups like NFL Network and CBS. They've

65
00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,560
Speaker 3: got their full stage and camera operations.

66
00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,320
Speaker 2: They're catered, and they're catered. They've got catering. Lucky for us.

67
00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,880
Speaker 3: For some reason, we have to you have to walk

68
00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,840
Speaker 3: about thirty seven minutes around charge. I brought a cookie

69
00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,600
Speaker 3: to get to the media room to get waters and coffees.

70
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,040
Speaker 2: Uh, you go outside or do you stay inside?

71
00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,639
Speaker 3: I go outside if I have to go. That's the

72
00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,680
Speaker 3: quickest one. But I typically, Jerry, I just I just

73
00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,800
Speaker 3: load up my backpack for the day and just you know,

74
00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:33,240
Speaker 3: just just keep it humming down here.

75
00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,280
Speaker 2: But it is an impressive operation.

76
00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,160
Speaker 3: It all comes together so quickly and then gets you know,

77
00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,560
Speaker 3: kind of teared down very quickly here too. But today

78
00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,920
Speaker 3: feels like this first Tuesday always feels like, maybe from

79
00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,839
Speaker 3: a media perspective, the biggest day, just because it's when

80
00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,440
Speaker 3: the head coaches and gmsp right right, and that brings

81
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,520
Speaker 3: a lot of national attention.

82
00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And of course once you get to the weekend,

83
00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,640
Speaker 2: h a lot of these tables clear out because they

84
00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,839
Speaker 2: want to have their own NFL people on there. Of course,

85
00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,360
Speaker 2: the whole purpose of the combine is to kind of evaluate,

86
00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,400
Speaker 2: get to know the collegiate players that are in the draft.

87
00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to talk about the quarterbacks. That's true every year,

88
00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,080
Speaker 2: even though west this class isn't It isn't what people

89
00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,919
Speaker 2: thought it would be. And I don't know where the

90
00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,279
Speaker 2: second quarterback is going in this draft. We know where

91
00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,159
Speaker 2: the first one's going, and we know it's not going

92
00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,080
Speaker 2: to go beyond the first pick, but after that, I

93
00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,760
Speaker 2: don't know who and when that second quarterback is going

94
00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,360
Speaker 2: to go in this draft. I don't know that it's

95
00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,479
Speaker 2: going to be the Kenny Pickett draft till the third round,

96
00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,640
Speaker 2: but I think it might it might bleed into the

97
00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:36,159
Speaker 2: second round.

98
00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ty Simpson feels like the only one who has

99
00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,000
Speaker 3: a chance to climb up in that conversation. And he's

100
00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,000
Speaker 3: just such an interesting case, Jerry, because he's a one

101
00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,520
Speaker 3: year college starters. There's not a ton to work with there.

102
00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,880
Speaker 3: He had a great first nine or ten games of

103
00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,760
Speaker 3: the season and then had a little injury and really

104
00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,920
Speaker 3: struggled down the stretch. And that's really all you kind

105
00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,400
Speaker 3: of have to go off of. Maybe some of these guys,

106
00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,640
Speaker 3: you know, because you mentioned this time last year, we

107
00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,000
Speaker 3: all thought the upcoming that this class, this twenty sixth class,

108
00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,440
Speaker 3: was going to be a loaded quarterback class. Everyone was

109
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,680
Speaker 3: talking about Club Nick and Nussmeyer and Aler, and everyone

110
00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,240
Speaker 3: assumed that arch Manning would would would be, you know,

111
00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,359
Speaker 3: have a great year and come out of Texas.

112
00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:15,760
Speaker 2: But that hasn't been the case.

113
00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,960
Speaker 3: Arch Manning's back, Aler had a major injury, Club Nick

114
00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,200
Speaker 3: and Nussmeier had down years, had injuries. It just didn't

115
00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,320
Speaker 3: come together for all of those guys the way they thought.

116
00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,800
Speaker 3: Can any of them come here and prove it was

117
00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,239
Speaker 3: just a one off health year. I'm still that guy.

118
00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,479
Speaker 3: I'm worthy of a top fifty pick. I think that's

119
00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,320
Speaker 3: certainly one of the storylines to keep an eye on.

120
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,200
Speaker 3: But you're right right now it is Fernando Mendoza clearcut

121
00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,120
Speaker 3: QB one, maybe as big of a gap as we've

122
00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,320
Speaker 3: seen in a long time between him and everybody else.

123
00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,039
Speaker 3: And then who can really start to in these next

124
00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,120
Speaker 3: two months beginning here, ascend in those conversations and on

125
00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:51,839
Speaker 3: those big boards.

126
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,760
Speaker 2: You know, the whole draft process and evaluation starting from

127
00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,520
Speaker 2: before even coming here. You know, the stealers come here

128
00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,600
Speaker 2: and they're aware of the prospects they like, and then

129
00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,479
Speaker 2: of course they'll they'll refine that and dial it in

130
00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,840
Speaker 2: even more at the pro days, so they come here

131
00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,200
Speaker 2: and you know, when as a player sometimes you have

132
00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,599
Speaker 2: those those workout warriors, not like the old days. Those

133
00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,920
Speaker 2: guys might improve their draft stock, but more importantly, what

134
00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,599
Speaker 2: they do is they prevent their draft stock from dropping.

135
00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,280
Speaker 2: And I think that's probably true with quarterbacks more so

136
00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,760
Speaker 2: than the others. But you'll see a cornerback who will

137
00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,680
Speaker 2: just you know, work out through the roof, or a

138
00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,440
Speaker 2: linebacker and that helps their draft stock. But the days

139
00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,919
Speaker 2: of drafting a workout warrior and shocking everybody in the

140
00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,640
Speaker 2: first round of the draft, they seem to be over.

141
00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,719
Speaker 2: And yet then every now and then somebody surprises you

142
00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,080
Speaker 2: and you go, what the heck is that?

143
00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,960
Speaker 3: Oh, Jerry, there will be somebody, you know it. There

144
00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,560
Speaker 3: will be somebody that we don't mention throughout this week

145
00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,880
Speaker 3: who ends up going in the first round. He has

146
00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,120
Speaker 3: a has you know, maybe a pretty good week here,

147
00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,480
Speaker 3: and maybe we mentioned his numbers briefly at one point.

148
00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,680
Speaker 2: But then you know, does the same thing at.

149
00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,000
Speaker 3: The pro day interviews very well, because that's always the

150
00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,800
Speaker 3: most I think underrated aspect of this.

151
00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,360
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, at this.

152
00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,800
Speaker 3: Point, Jerry, they're all they're all resumes on a piece

153
00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,880
Speaker 3: of paper. But now they get a chance to sit

154
00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,320
Speaker 3: down with them and really have the formal job interview

155
00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,000
Speaker 3: process and really get to hand them the dryer race

156
00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,000
Speaker 3: board and have them, you know, go up, have them

157
00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,440
Speaker 3: go up on the board and diagnose offenses and defenses

158
00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:31,760
Speaker 3: and how would you do this and what do you

159
00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,520
Speaker 3: see here? So right now, in a lot of ways,

160
00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,760
Speaker 3: these guys are their resume on paper, but now that

161
00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,280
Speaker 3: sit down formal interview part of the job process that

162
00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,400
Speaker 3: can really help your stock, that can really hurt your

163
00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,960
Speaker 3: stock as well, as we've seen from some of these

164
00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,720
Speaker 3: guys too. That's the I think real you know, obviously

165
00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,120
Speaker 3: none of us sit in those those rooms when they're

166
00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,560
Speaker 3: when they're having the meetings, but the reports leak out

167
00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,040
Speaker 3: and get shared of how things went. That to me

168
00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,080
Speaker 3: is a big part of this week too, is who

169
00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,800
Speaker 3: can who can be the person that inter use really well?

170
00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,480
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, every GM is like that

171
00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,960
Speaker 3: guy gets it. That guy you know eats, sleeps, and

172
00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,600
Speaker 3: breathes football. Which guy goes into an interview and oh man,

173
00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,200
Speaker 3: you know, we were thinking about him as a as

174
00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,680
Speaker 3: an early day two pick and now he's more day three.

175
00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,400
Speaker 3: That's a real key part of this process, aside from

176
00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,120
Speaker 3: the on field.

177
00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,120
Speaker 2: Work, one position that every year just seems to be stocked,

178
00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,720
Speaker 2: and maybe some years even greater so than others. But

179
00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 2: it's the wide receiver position to every single year. And

180
00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,920
Speaker 2: the other thing the converse of that is because college

181
00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,760
Speaker 2: has had to develop players to cover those wide receivers.

182
00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,200
Speaker 2: You see, the cornerbacks are usually better. But I bring

183
00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,559
Speaker 2: up the wide receivers because there's no question. If the

184
00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 2: Steelers don't take a quarterback, and I'm not sure that

185
00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,080
Speaker 2: that's going to happen, but that is their intent, not

186
00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,160
Speaker 2: saying it will happen, it's gonna be a wide receiver

187
00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,880
Speaker 2: because they're not going to go anywhere else. They've paid

188
00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,400
Speaker 2: attention to the lines of scrimmage. Doesn't mean they might

189
00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,720
Speaker 2: not draft somebody, you know, in Day two maybe, but

190
00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,760
Speaker 2: then their focus will be on as with Mike McCarthy

191
00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,440
Speaker 2: being more dynamic on offense the Green Bay Packers for years,

192
00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,520
Speaker 2: Wes would keep eight wide receivers on their roster. The

193
00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,200
Speaker 2: Steelers keep five, and they would just keep parading different

194
00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,000
Speaker 2: guys out there, and especially if there were injuries, and

195
00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,360
Speaker 2: I think that's the one area you will see the

196
00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,679
Speaker 2: biggest emphasis with Mike McCarthy. That is going to change

197
00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:27,680
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six.

198
00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,360
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I think you know we are. We're going

199
00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,480
Speaker 3: to go from an offense Jerry that love to live

200
00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,800
Speaker 3: in twelve and thirteen personnel with two and three tight

201
00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,079
Speaker 3: ends on the field, to one that loves to live

202
00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,719
Speaker 3: in eleven personnel with just one running back, one tight end,

203
00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,040
Speaker 3: and three wide receivers. And I do believe right now, correct,

204
00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,720
Speaker 3: you only have three wide receivers under contract currently, Dk Metcalf,

205
00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:52,520
Speaker 3: Roman Wilson, Ben s Kronick. So that absolutely feels like

206
00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,760
Speaker 3: we all know, unless you have the franchise quarterback, that's

207
00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,960
Speaker 3: your biggest priority. But you also can't just make your

208
00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,440
Speaker 3: franchise quarterback if he's not there in the draft, if

209
00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,320
Speaker 3: he's not there in free agency. That is what it is.

210
00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,839
Speaker 3: With these wide receivers, you can add and you need

211
00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,600
Speaker 3: to add. And as you mentioned, I feel like every

212
00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,200
Speaker 3: year this is the case, but certainly this so this

213
00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,319
Speaker 3: year or so, there's gonna be potentially ten wide receivers

214
00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,720
Speaker 3: taken in the top fifty sixty picks. Jerry, in this draft,

215
00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,120
Speaker 3: you got to get one of those guys, and then

216
00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:23,640
Speaker 3: I think you need to get one of the next

217
00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,120
Speaker 3: crop as well too. You know, those those wide receivers

218
00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,079
Speaker 3: in the eleven to twenty five range on everybody's big

219
00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,280
Speaker 3: boards in terms of the positional rankings you need, As

220
00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,720
Speaker 3: you just rightfully outlined, that's gonna, I think be the

221
00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,959
Speaker 3: biggest overhaul for this offense is we know that wide

222
00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,240
Speaker 3: receiver has been a need these last couple of years,

223
00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,960
Speaker 3: albeit on an offense where there wasn't a huge emphasis

224
00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,840
Speaker 3: on it. Now it's a need and there's a huge

225
00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,880
Speaker 3: emphasis on it. I feel like you need to add

226
00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,839
Speaker 3: at least two in this process, and probably one in

227
00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:53,840
Speaker 3: free agency as well.

228
00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,840
Speaker 2: You know, there was a point last year before he

229
00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,880
Speaker 2: got hurt that Calvin Austin was probably next in line

230
00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,040
Speaker 2: to get a contract extent, and now it's going to

231
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,559
Speaker 2: be a case, well they even resign him. I think

232
00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,080
Speaker 2: they will, but it won't be a priority like it

233
00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,199
Speaker 2: was probably looking that it could be prior to him

234
00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,000
Speaker 2: getting hurt, and he just didn't have the type of

235
00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,760
Speaker 2: season that they were kind of hoping. But I don't

236
00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,880
Speaker 2: think there's any question they would like to bring him back.

237
00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,840
Speaker 2: I don't know what he would fetch on the open

238
00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,800
Speaker 2: market of course, you never know with the desperation of

239
00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,120
Speaker 2: some NFL gms, but I would expect the Steelers to

240
00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,120
Speaker 2: almost draft two wide receivers among the first four picks,

241
00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,880
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't blame them at all. And I really

242
00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,000
Speaker 2: don't think they're going to do it in free agency

243
00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,040
Speaker 2: because they spend a lot of money on DK Metcalf,

244
00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,400
Speaker 2: So I really don't think they're going to go out,

245
00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,880
Speaker 2: even though they're in great cap shape, I don't think

246
00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,920
Speaker 2: they're going to go out and spend money on a

247
00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,840
Speaker 2: wide receiver make a nice splash to you know, some

248
00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,280
Speaker 2: of those guys, A guy Christian Kirk, who they you

249
00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,320
Speaker 2: know they danced with a couple of years ago and

250
00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,080
Speaker 2: were ready to make the trade until he got hurt.

251
00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,920
Speaker 2: You know, some of those guys. I don't think that's

252
00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,360
Speaker 2: going to happen. I'm not saying it won't, but it's

253
00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,160
Speaker 2: just more than likely they're going to stockpile that position

254
00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:09,120
Speaker 2: in the draft.

255
00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,880
Speaker 3: Which makes sense. This is a great year to do.

256
00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,880
Speaker 3: So you mentioned those picks, Jerry, I mean five picks

257
00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,400
Speaker 3: in the top one hundred. If you go first round pick,

258
00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,680
Speaker 3: second round pick, and then there are three third round picks,

259
00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,960
Speaker 3: you got five picks in the top one hundred. I

260
00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,560
Speaker 3: feel like you add a wide receiver early with one

261
00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,560
Speaker 3: of those, you add a wide receiver with one of

262
00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,240
Speaker 3: those one of those trio of third round picks as well.

263
00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,719
Speaker 3: I mean, and all of a sudden you could be

264
00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,360
Speaker 3: talking about a position that for two years we've discussed

265
00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,679
Speaker 3: your little light in the loafers. Maybe now all of

266
00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,760
Speaker 3: a sudden, if you add two pieces to DK Metcalf,

267
00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,319
Speaker 3: you might even start thinking that that's a position of strength.

268
00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,360
Speaker 3: And how does that relate to, you know, the next

269
00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,360
Speaker 3: quarterback and continuing to build a nest while potentially, you know,

270
00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,360
Speaker 3: putting the best product on the field for twenty six

271
00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,040
Speaker 3: I think that makes sense in a lot of different regards.

272
00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,679
Speaker 2: So you know the other thing too, Wes is I

273
00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,880
Speaker 2: am certainly not ready, and I don't think the Steelers

274
00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:04,959
Speaker 2: are eight. They're more important to dismiss Roman Wilson as

275
00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:12,640
Speaker 2: a possibility. You know, last year Arthur Smith wasn't It

276
00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,760
Speaker 2: was something about Roman that he wasn't crazy about it.

277
00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,640
Speaker 2: I don't want to say didn't like. And I don't

278
00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,000
Speaker 2: know that it had anything to do with his talent,

279
00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,040
Speaker 2: and I don't know that it had anything to do

280
00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,000
Speaker 2: with his playbook prep as much as it just did.

281
00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,839
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know his I don't want to say

282
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,400
Speaker 2: his personality because he's not that kind of guy. He's

283
00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,440
Speaker 2: not an abrasive guy. But there was some kind of

284
00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,439
Speaker 2: disconnect there between Arthur Smith and Roman Wilson as to why.

285
00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,679
Speaker 2: I mean, we heard Aaron Rodgers say early in the

286
00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,360
Speaker 2: season that he thought that Roman Wilson could be, in

287
00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:55,360
Speaker 2: his words, a big time NFL receiver. You could see

288
00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,680
Speaker 2: the athleticism. We saw some of those catches he's made.

289
00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,120
Speaker 2: We saw some of those moves he made to break

290
00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,880
Speaker 2: up passes, which I blame other receivers for not doing.

291
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,120
Speaker 2: And so I'm not ready to say that they're just

292
00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,400
Speaker 2: gonna go right past Roman Wilson either and again with

293
00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,480
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy, we'll see how it plays out.

294
00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,520
Speaker 3: I think he's one of the guys that, you know,

295
00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,440
Speaker 3: will be what do we want to say, reinvigorated, you know,

296
00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,960
Speaker 3: by a new coaching staff, blank slate, new opportunity. I

297
00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,440
Speaker 3: think you gotta put Caleb Johnson in that same conversation, too, right,

298
00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:27,680
Speaker 3: I mean, he was a third round pick just a

299
00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,880
Speaker 3: year ago, ten months ago, and he so was so

300
00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,000
Speaker 3: easily forgotten this past year, and particularly after that gaff

301
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,640
Speaker 3: on special teams early in the season against Seattle. We

302
00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,480
Speaker 3: saw him a little bit after that, but not much.

303
00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,600
Speaker 3: Those two guys for this offense still recent third round picks, Jerry.

304
00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,000
Speaker 3: If Mike McCarthy can can squeeze some juice and find

305
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000
Speaker 3: a way to make those guys part of the equation,

306
00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,880
Speaker 3: that's a huge added bonus for the offense for what

307
00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,120
Speaker 3: you're able to do this offseason. And then obviously for

308
00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,720
Speaker 3: those guys Roman Wilson and Caleb Johnson and just their

309
00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,760
Speaker 3: their time in Pittsburgh in their NFL careers.

310
00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,920
Speaker 2: You know, the Steam probably a lot of NFL teams,

311
00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,520
Speaker 2: even though they don't practice like people think they practiced.

312
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,440
Speaker 2: If people would, I've always said people would be shocked

313
00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,440
Speaker 2: if they went to a stealer practice to see how

314
00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 2: they practice. They go. Really that's it is that what

315
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,120
Speaker 2: they do. Yet they seem to put a lot of

316
00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,640
Speaker 2: stock in guys and their practice habits and how they

317
00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,480
Speaker 2: perform in practice. And I and I say that, and

318
00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,480
Speaker 2: I'm just prefacing what I'm going to say is that

319
00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,440
Speaker 2: I when I watch Caleb Johnson in practice, and I'm

320
00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,640
Speaker 2: not a guy who believes, Oh, look, I he was

321
00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,760
Speaker 2: terrific in practice, because it's practice. But I would see

322
00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,080
Speaker 2: I would I could just tell I could see the burst.

323
00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,680
Speaker 2: I could see the acceleration and at some point I

324
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,760
Speaker 2: didn't know who it was and I look, I, oh,

325
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,800
Speaker 2: that's twenty and you could just see that burst in

326
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,160
Speaker 2: the guy running with more confidence than you see in

327
00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,080
Speaker 2: a game. So I believe it's there for him. And

328
00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,720
Speaker 2: you know, it was just one year. I'm sure he

329
00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,040
Speaker 2: lost a lot of confidence being placed on a bench,

330
00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 2: but he never had an opportun with the way they

331
00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,400
Speaker 2: use those two guys. And so we'll see what happens

332
00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,960
Speaker 2: with Kenny Gainwell. It seems strange that the team MVP

333
00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:09,920
Speaker 2: might not be back. And I only say that because

334
00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,080
Speaker 2: he's an unrestricted free agent. And I don't know this,

335
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,680
Speaker 2: but I would not be at all surprised if Kenny

336
00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,160
Speaker 2: Gainwell wants to test the free agent market. I don't

337
00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,600
Speaker 2: think he's a big ticket item. I think he's a

338
00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,760
Speaker 2: I think the most he's going to get is a

339
00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,480
Speaker 2: Jalen Warren type of deal, you know, five and a

340
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,640
Speaker 2: half million a year. I don't think he'd get anything

341
00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,160
Speaker 2: more than that. I'd be shocked if he did, but

342
00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,280
Speaker 2: he may want to go out and test that. And

343
00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:34,960
Speaker 2: I don't know that the Steelers are going to pay

344
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,440
Speaker 2: him Jalen Warren money despite the fact he's their team MVP.

345
00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,600
Speaker 2: And a lot of it depends on how does Mike

346
00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,560
Speaker 2: McCarthy want to play. Yeah, you know, so that's gonna

347
00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,880
Speaker 2: be curious as well. And if that's the case, then

348
00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,200
Speaker 2: and let's say Kenny Gainwell moves on now all of

349
00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,040
Speaker 2: a sudden, that's a little more room for Caleb Johnson.

350
00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,160
Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, Okay, the question is where do

351
00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,880
Speaker 2: you fit in? Caleb Johnson? Right?

352
00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,640
Speaker 3: And I think you need as much as as we

353
00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,120
Speaker 3: all like Jalen Warren and and Kenny g and what

354
00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,360
Speaker 3: they were able to do last year, you need you

355
00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,320
Speaker 3: need a hammer to emerge in that in that backfield there,

356
00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,440
Speaker 3: Jerry like it would be you know, it would be

357
00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,720
Speaker 3: very nice to have it because because because Kenny and

358
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,920
Speaker 3: Warren are kind of similar body types, it'd be nice

359
00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,280
Speaker 3: to have that bigger Caleb Johnson tight back.

360
00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,400
Speaker 2: So if that guy, if that guy.

361
00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,920
Speaker 3: Can emerge for you here this season, uh, Roman Wilson

362
00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,240
Speaker 3: get back in the fold two man again, that would

363
00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,520
Speaker 3: be such an added bonus in this process in year

364
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,040
Speaker 3: one for Mike McCarthy.

365
00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,120
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Hammer, the hammer is back, Rob King,

366
00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,240
Speaker 2: the voice to this dale is has returned. I don't

367
00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,320
Speaker 2: know what his other duties were, but he's a busy

368
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,840
Speaker 2: man and he will be rejoining us after our break

369
00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,320
Speaker 2: gets our live coverage, wall to wall, day to day

370
00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,360
Speaker 2: coverage of the NFL Combine here in Indianapolis, will take

371
00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,439
Speaker 2: a break. We'll come back with a whole lot more

372
00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:56,240
Speaker 2: right after this.

373
00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,680
Speaker 1: This is live covera chump that twenty twenty six NFL

374
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,960
Speaker 1: Common Mine on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the

375
00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,720
Speaker 1: Steelers Audio Network.

376
00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,919
Speaker 2: Sorry do like along with Wes Euler, Rob King is

377
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,480
Speaker 2: back with us now the voice of this radio voice

378
00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,560
Speaker 2: of the Steelers. Rob. I was remarking to Wes earlier,

379
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,760
Speaker 2: and I know last year was your first year, correct,

380
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,600
Speaker 2: Sam second? Last year was your second year, first combine.

381
00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,280
Speaker 2: That's what I meant. No, No, That's what I'm talking about.

382
00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,960
Speaker 2: And so the scope of radio row to you. This

383
00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,240
Speaker 2: is what you're accustomed to, right. But as I was

384
00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,120
Speaker 2: saying to Wes earlier, it just blows my mind. When

385
00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,400
Speaker 2: I first came here, there were there were two tables

386
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,880
Speaker 2: set up outside the media room at Lucas Oil Stadium,

387
00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,520
Speaker 2: and then when we joined in, we were probably one

388
00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,920
Speaker 2: of just five maybe maybe six.

389
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,480
Speaker 4: And now look at it, Well, when I was a

390
00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,880
Speaker 4: kid growing up, I remember the draft being my being

391
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,919
Speaker 4: a you know, a football fanatic. The draft wasn't something

392
00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,040
Speaker 4: that a lot of people really got into, you know,

393
00:18:59,080 --> 00:18:59,960
Speaker 4: they really, they really.

394
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,119
Speaker 2: I think it was held in New York every year,

395
00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,600
Speaker 2: wasn't That's correct? Yeah, And uh it was it Radio

396
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,200
Speaker 2: City Music.

397
00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,840
Speaker 4: Music five thousand people in Radio City Music all or

398
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,359
Speaker 4: something like that, not certainly not five hundred thousand to

399
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,400
Speaker 4: seven hundred thousand like we're expecting in Pittsburgh. And uh,

400
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,520
Speaker 4: you know, just to watch the popularity, but the popularity

401
00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 4: of the NFL in general. I mean even in those days,

402
00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,080
Speaker 4: you know, you go back to the late seventies, early eighties,

403
00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:30,520
Speaker 4: even then, baseball seemed to be the one sport that

404
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:35,000
Speaker 4: really kind of kept some interest after the season, and.

405
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,080
Speaker 2: That petered out quickly.

406
00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,520
Speaker 4: But people there was a lot more attension in those

407
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 4: days to who won the Gold Glove and then you know,

408
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,400
Speaker 4: you had the Cy Young and the MVP and Rookie

409
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,040
Speaker 4: of the Year and they would parse it out and

410
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,760
Speaker 4: come out with it, and so they would extend it

411
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 4: into the middle of November and then you'd start, you know,

412
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,800
Speaker 4: there'd be some trade talks in December and January then,

413
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 4: and that was considered owning the off season. Well, take

414
00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,320
Speaker 4: a backseat, man, I mean, there is no offseason.

415
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 2: And they faced it up that way obviously deliberately. That's

416
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 2: why the combine, you know, super Bowl January to February,

417
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,480
Speaker 2: combine in February, owners meetings in March, the Draft in April,

418
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 2: Ota start in May, right through June, and the only

419
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,480
Speaker 2: dead time is at mid June two. The started training

420
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 2: camp one month, yeah, five weeks, right, five exactly. So

421
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:21,960
Speaker 2: my friend Jean Collyer has always said, he goes, you

422
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 2: could turn on ESPN any day of the year and

423
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 2: you're gonna get at least fifteen minutes of NFL tho. Yeah,

424
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 2: that's true.

425
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Gane the one that always one of my

426
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 4: favorite genie among many, Hey, Geen, who you picking in

427
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 4: the game today?

428
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 2: Steelers fifty fifty fifty fifty every single time. So every

429
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 2: every Friday, Mike Malarkey would walk off back when he

430
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 2: was the offensive coordinator, he'd walk off the field and

431
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 2: as you know, I've been doing the picks for years

432
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 2: and he would say to me, he would say, what

433
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 2: do you think? And I just go fifty to nothing

434
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 2: except every week. Don't ask silly questions, right exactly.

435
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 4: But it is interesting, you know that this is and

436
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 4: it's and it's wonderful too because if you love the NFL,

437
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 4: it's great to have this coverage all the time. But

438
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 4: you know you have this coverage leading up to the draft,

439
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 4: which comes after when you then evaluate your own players

440
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 4: and resign your own players and then go into free

441
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 4: agency and sign players, and so it almost feels backward,

442
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,400
Speaker 4: But I think it's a little bit like like studying

443
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 4: for a for a final, like you when you the

444
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 4: final exam is the draft in the offseason, but it

445
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 4: goes back to what you learned in week one at

446
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:38,479
Speaker 4: school right now.

447
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of that when you when

448
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 2: you talk about the draft and Wes the Stevens always,

449
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,680
Speaker 2: you know, the free agency speaks to what they will

450
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,120
Speaker 2: do in the draft. Uh. They like to lessen their

451
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: needs at a position by taking and signing somebody in

452
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 2: free agency, so they don't go into the draft thinking,

453
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: oh my god, we really need more corners. Or something.

454
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 2: They'll address that in free agency or whatever the position

455
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,639
Speaker 2: might be, address it in free agency and then and

456
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 2: then back it up if not exceeded in the draft.

457
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 3: Yes, that's that was the that was for so long,

458
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 3: the Kevin Colbert Blue President. That has now been the

459
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 3: torch has been passed to Omar Khan. You could go

460
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,159
Speaker 3: out and sign a Mitch Trubisky, but still draft to

461
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett. You know, you so rarely put yourself in

462
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 3: the position of we have to trade up and go

463
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 3: get a Devin Bush because it's such a position in

464
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 3: need and there's only two guys in this draft. That's

465
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 3: what the Steelers in large part do a good job

466
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 3: of avoiding. They want to get to that first day

467
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 3: of the draft on the north shore of Pittsburgh, which

468
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 3: I think is Thursday, April twenty third, correct, if I'm

469
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 3: remembering correctly, correct, and we could play a game. I

470
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 3: know I should have a tattooed on me, so I

471
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 3: don't forget baby. You know, if the Steelers had to

472
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 3: play a game Wednesday, April twenty second, they want to

473
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 3: be confident in doing so before they get to that

474
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 3: draft on the twenty third, and for in large part.

475
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 2: They've done a great job of that in recent history.

476
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 4: And here's something that I brought up with Matt Williamson

477
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 4: that I think is very plausible. So first of all,

478
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 4: you know, Jerry, you and I have had this conversation,

479
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 4: and I'm going to repeat this all week, and I

480
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 4: repeated a lot on my show with Max. I thought

481
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 4: much more of this Steelers roster than pretty much any

482
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 4: national pundit and a lot of local guys before the season.

483
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,719
Speaker 4: Before the season started, couldn't you and I had these conversations.

484
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 4: It mystified me a little bit. And I still feel

485
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 4: strongly about this roster, and I feel great about their

486
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 4: offseason because they've got twelve draft picks and forty five

487
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 4: million dollars in cap space, and I think that.

488
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 2: You know, as I look at it right now, most

489
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 2: among twenty twenty five playoff teams. Yeah, that's right, exactly.

490
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 4: So when they somebody did an evaluation I think was

491
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 4: on NFL dot Com of the teams that were in

492
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 4: the best position heading into the off season, and they

493
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,719
Speaker 4: were four NFL like the Raiders were first. Well, they're terrible.

494
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 4: They've got cap space and they got the number one

495
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 4: pick in the draft. Of course they're in good place.

496
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,160
Speaker 4: But you're right, they were the highest among the playoff

497
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 4: teams in that ranking. And I think it's it is.

498
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 4: What I'm going to lay out here is plausible. So

499
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 4: first of all, I will say this, I think wide

500
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 4: receiver is this year's defensive line. Last year, going into

501
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 4: the offseason, you knew they were gonna address defensive line.

502
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 4: You knew they were gonna address it aggressively. They signed

503
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 4: a Quale in free agency, they drafted two guys. I

504
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 4: believe wide receiver is going to be that position. But

505
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 4: let me just run down this scenario. Let's say Aaron

506
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 4: Rodgers decides he's coming back. Okay, there's your starting quarterback.

507
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 4: Let's say you bring back cmalo or in free agency,

508
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 4: you sign a guard. Okay, well, your offensive line is

509
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 4: in pretty good shape. Plus, you know you bring back

510
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 4: a mccollumn. Now you got dept. You also have depth.

511
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 4: You have Spencer Anderson's depth. You have McCollum is depth.

512
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 4: You have Broderick Jones when he's healthy, and Dylan Cook

513
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 4: battling for left tackle. You've got two tight ends. Now

514
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 4: maybe you signed Romeo Dobbs. Right now you've got another

515
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 4: wide receiver. And then on the defense, maybe you bring

516
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 4: back just a couple of your own in a Sante

517
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 4: Samuel and James Pierre. That means Jalen Ramsey is playing safety.

518
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 4: I ask you if you put a if I told

519
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 4: you those moves are going to happen, and I think

520
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 4: that's plausible. I don't think that's very far off from

521
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 4: what might in fact happen. What's your glaring need in

522
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 4: the first round of the draft? Glaring need?

523
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 2: Well, uh, the the whole focus of the organization is

524
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: to stop the revolving door at quarterback. So there's no

525
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: question that is priority. That is. Let mean, it's focus

526
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: number one. That doesn't mean it's going to happen because

527
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 2: I don't see them reaching because I don't want to

528
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: say they learned their lesson with Kenny Pickett. But I

529
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: think your cup is either leaking or overflowing. Yeah, I

530
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,719
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I don't know. It's like

531
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 2: it has a pump in you know, in general, too

532
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: much in it. My cup overflows, Yes it does, that's right,

533
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 2: and so but again that is their intention. That doesn't

534
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: mean that's what's going to happen. And after after that,

535
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 2: rub it is uh it is quarter excuse me, wide receiver. Yeah,

536
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: and it's not only in a first round. It's not

537
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: a I don't even it shouldn't even be up for debate.

538
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: And as they said to Wes earlier, I think there'll

539
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: be two picks. Uh, if not by day two, but

540
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: certainly by round four wide receiver. I agree. But let

541
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 2: me just go backward real quick to the point you

542
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 2: made about the roster. Yeah, I was just asked. I

543
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: was over doing the hit with my friends at Cleveland Radio,

544
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 2: my friend Tony Rizzo and Tony Grossi, and they asked me,

545
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: what do you think of the division? Who's the favorite?

546
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 2: And I go, well, I go, I think the Steelers

547
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: are the favorite because they've lost little. They were a

548
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 2: playoff team, they've been a playoff team. I thought last

549
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: year they were a wild card team. I thought the

550
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 2: Ravens were the division champs. I go, but why why

551
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 2: wouldn't it be the Steelers To your point about the roster,

552
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: because it's going to be basically unchanged, and they're gonna

553
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 2: add to it. They're gonna add. They're gonna add to it

554
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: because they have they have the cap space.

555
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 4: If they've been beautifully positioned to have the cap space

556
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 4: and the money to add to that, and we can

557
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 4: get we can circle back to the quarterback position. But Wes,

558
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 4: if I threw that that scenario out to you right

559
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 4: based off your point of what you're talking about, and

560
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 4: Matt and I were talking about this as well, the

561
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 4: plausibility of having a roster in which you don't need

562
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 4: to add a lot to it if you fill.

563
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 2: Those holes right now.

564
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,959
Speaker 4: If Simala walks, they probably need a left guard, you know,

565
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 4: they obviously they they need at least one more receiver,

566
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 4: and they're gonna need more than one receiver. But Dobbs,

567
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: you know, if you sign a Romeo Dobbs, he could

568
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 4: be your starter head a DK Metcalf. You feel pretty

569
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 4: good about that tandem, which means are they are they

570
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 4: going to draft a receiver?

571
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: Sure?

572
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 4: But who would they have to take in the first round,

573
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 4: And especially if you resign your two top corners to me,

574
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 4: that would open the possibility of saying, Okay, yeah, we'd

575
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: love to draft a receiver there, but we don't have to.

576
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 4: We could draft a receiver in two it's a deep

577
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 4: receiver class. We might be able to go out and

578
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 4: get a star level player at a at a position

579
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 4: that we don't identify as a position.

580
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 2: That we where who who would that be? I don't

581
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 2: mean the player, but what position.

582
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 3: I think there's a real chance that the in sideline

583
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: backer and this is a loaded class, say at that

584
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 3: position according to Matt Williamson. But I think the one

585
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 3: to really watch his defensive line or or safety could

586
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: be three first round safeties taken for the first time

587
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: in a decade.

588
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know. I don't know how they

589
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 4: value him. But that kid from Toledo, Like I'm I

590
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 4: don't think the guy from I don't think Caleb down

591
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 4: is going to be there, right, But if the but

592
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 4: if the kid from Toledo's there, or if he's within

593
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 4: a couple of spots, and you're thinking, we have the

594
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 4: we have the capacity to draft up and get this,

595
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 4: they don't lean towards this guy, and this guy could

596
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 4: be a star. I'm just saying, yeah, they're right. Who

597
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 4: are those players? I'm not a I'm not a scout

598
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 4: in the scouting department, but I think you would open

599
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 4: up the ability to draft somebody at a position.

600
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: So the uh uh.

601
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 3: The interior defensive line, the tackle the tackle from Arizona

602
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: State that everybody rags about it.

603
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 4: That sure, hey, a couple of years now, he could

604
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 4: be the top offensive tackle taken in the draft, and

605
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 4: you could get him at twenty one and know you

606
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 4: don't have to play him right away, but he could

607
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 4: be starting for you in twenty seven as you try

608
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 4: to bring in a young quarter back. And now you've

609
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 4: got a bedrock of an awesome looking offensive line. That's

610
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 4: appealing to me too. I'm just saying they have a

611
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 4: lot of they have a lot of different ways they

612
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 4: can go into.

613
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: Here's what I said to Wes earlier. The Steelers won't

614
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: go I don't won't. I don't want to say won't.

615
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 2: Probably won't go out and sign a wide receiver in

616
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: free agency because they have so much invested in DK Metcalf.

617
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: So they're not going to go give a big deal

618
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: to a wide receiver and free agency they might add

619
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 2: some guy possibly, but they're going to pay attention to

620
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: that in the draft with young guys and and so.

621
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: As for the defensive line, I've always advocated last year

622
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: the next two years should be defensive linemen. The only

623
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: thing I will say is they really like ya Black

624
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 2: getting him what fifth fifth round? Correct? And so to me,

625
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: Daniel Qualley is not the guy you want to sign

626
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: in free agency. They wanted the guy we had with

627
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: John a blank on his name, the guy from the

628
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: Jets who went to the Commanders, jayvon uh oh not McKinny.

629
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: What was his last name anyway, that's who they wanted

630
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: to signet. But the Commanders gave him a big deal,

631
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: more than they wanted and and so that's who they

632
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: But that's the type of guy they wanted. And I

633
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: could see that being the free agent type of guy

634
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 2: because Daniel Qualley is a nice player, but you know,

635
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 2: to me, he's Larry Ogunjobi. Nice players. But if you

636
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: want another big stud in there because Cam, if Cam

637
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: has one more year, that's it. And so that's a

638
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,959
Speaker 2: whole nother discussion to be had. So that's why I

639
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: don't see them signing a wide receiver and free agency,

640
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they, I mean a big time on

641
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: so uh, that's where I would think they would make

642
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: the move. But if you ask me, I think the

643
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: big free agent signing, the big one is going to.

644
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 4: Be a cornerback. Interesting, Yeah, that's what I think. And

645
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 4: that's you know what, I would have no problem with that.

646
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 4: And now you're probably gonna hopefully sign Joey Porter Junior

647
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 4: to a contract extent, you know, and then if you

648
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: do that again, there's there's a whole filled right, and

649
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 4: now you have I do think and I understand what

650
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 4: you're saying about the receiver position.

651
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: I could see. You know, people have talked a little bit.

652
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 4: You know, Jalen Naylor's name has been brought up because

653
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 4: because he was with Minnesota with the new offensive coordinator,

654
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 4: and a guy like that could.

655
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: Be you know, you're probably a big ticket item.

656
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 4: You're probably more comfortable with him as your third or

657
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 4: fourth so and then and then yes, then now now

658
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 4: that becomes and I do think it's most likely that

659
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 4: they would take a receiver.

660
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: In the first round.

661
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, there's so many different ways you can

662
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: go with the cap space they have that and the

663
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 4: draft picks they had that they could make a trade.

664
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 2: You know, listen, you.

665
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 4: Could trade and and you know, people talk about, like,

666
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 4: for example, last year, the George Pickens trade. Right, you

667
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 4: got a third round pick for George Pickens. He had

668
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 4: a very productive year. Well, there's nothing to say You

669
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 4: can't trade a third round pick for somebody else's productive

670
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 4: player if you like their cap number and he comes

671
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 4: in and becomes a very good player for you. They

672
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 4: just have a you know, are they they have twelve

673
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 4: draft picks? Are they gonna have twelve holes on their

674
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 4: roster that need.

675
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: To be filled? And yeah? No, And I think you're

676
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: gonna see. I'm gonna see you. I think you'll see

677
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: obviously those those picks being packaged. I think what I

678
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: would like the Sealers see the Steelers do though, in

679
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: free agency, is get away from signing these these thirty

680
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: something players with the idea is we need to win

681
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: a playoff game now and go back to what they

682
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: always have done. Get that guy going into his second

683
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: contract twenty five and twenty six, and you maybe get

684
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 2: five or six years or three, three or four really

685
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: good years out of them instead of bringing these guys

686
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: in one stop shopping one year, see you later, right,

687
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: you know, you know, ten million dollars for Darius Slay

688
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: at age thirty four, bad move, bad move, I think,

689
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 2: And that goes to the coaching staff who wanted.

690
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 4: Him, right, And I do think they're well positioned, much

691
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: better positioned to do exactly that than they have been

692
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 4: because they're not there. As these drafts have become more

693
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 4: and more productive over the last few years, and they've

694
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 4: built a like for example, look at the offensive line,

695
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 4: young group of starting players that hopefully is going to

696
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 4: mature and get better. Right, so you've added last year,

697
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 4: you added two defensive linemen in the draft. You know,

698
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 4: so again you're building a younger team as you go along.

699
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 4: I think people don't understand how difficult it is to

700
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 4: replace aging players or unproductive players with young draft picks

701
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 4: when you're drafting in the twenties and remain competitive. There's

702
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 4: a reason it's a record. There's a reason they have

703
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 4: a record for the most non losing seasons because.

704
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: It's hard to do. It's not easy to do.

705
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 4: And I think that they've really and I'm sure they

706
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 4: probably thought, this is going to take some time to

707
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 4: really do this right. Sure, could we get in there,

708
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 4: maybe catch lightning in a bottle and win a player, Yes,

709
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 4: But doing it the way they're doing it, which is

710
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 4: the right way, has lessened that number of holes. They

711
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: don't have the same amount of holes they've had in

712
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: the last couple of years. And they've got the assets

713
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: to be able to fill those holes in a way.

714
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 4: To your point, Jerry, that I think would be more

715
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 4: productive for the team in the long range. You don't

716
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 4: have to go out and get a corner and a

717
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 4: safety and an alignment, and you know that you might

718
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 4: be able to strategically say we're going to get one

719
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 4: or two guys because we have all kinds of we

720
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 4: have good players, and we have all kinds of cap

721
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 4: space or all kinds of draft picks.

722
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 2: And they have all that calf space because their offense

723
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: is so inexperienced, the offensive line doesn't cost them much

724
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: their ow rookie contract guys the quarterback position most importantly,

725
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: it seems funny that they two Hall of Fame quarterbacks

726
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: have been on this team the last two years and

727
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: they spend a total of under twenty million dollars for

728
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: them in two seasons. That's why you don't have a

729
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: big you know, you have so much calf space young

730
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: wide receivers. Now, of course, you know, dk metcalf costs

731
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 2: a lot, and Pat Farmouth is really just the kind

732
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 2: of modest to above average salary for a tight end.

733
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: But that's why their offense is so inexpensive, and why

734
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 2: they have so much room to converse, of course, is

735
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 2: that defense, which is the most highest paid mon.

736
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 4: And just real quick, I'll bring this to you West,

737
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 4: because you've been quiet over there in the corner a

738
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 4: little bit. But you know, if you can, if you

739
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 4: can reshape, continue to reshape this team.

740
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: And you know these.

741
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 4: Offensive line and some of these guys are gonna have

742
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 4: to be signed to contract extensions in the coming years,

743
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 4: all the more better of place. First of all, a

744
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 4: place with a really good team in place around a

745
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 4: young quarterback. You're not paying money for that. That points

746
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 4: to a really good position. If it's next year that

747
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 4: you're able to finally get that franchise quarterback.

748
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 2: That's the cheek code, right, guys.

749
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: I mean to drop, to drop the young capable quarterback

750
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 3: into a ready made situation, and then you've got four

751
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 3: or five years of that quarterback cost control to build

752
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 3: that thing up around.

753
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 2: Yep. Today one of the NFL Combine. It's day one,

754
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 2: an hour four of our draft coverage on Steeler Nation Radio.

755
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 2: We will take a break. Jerry do lac, Rob King,

756
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: and Wes Euler will be back right after this.

757
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: This is live Coverleach of that twenty twenty six NFL

758
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: Combine on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers

759
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: Audio Network.

760
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: Jerry Dolac, along with Wes Euler and Rob King, the

761
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 2: Voice of the Steelers, our four of our coverage from

762
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: the NFL scouting Combine. We're at the Indiana Convention Center,

763
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 2: right across the street from Lucas Oil Stadium West, my

764
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: favorite facility in the National Football t for the hour,

765
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,959
Speaker 2: I wanted to revisit that for several reasons. I love

766
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 2: the indoor with the glass and the air, but I

767
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 2: love the way it sits outside. It just sits majestically

768
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: by itself. When you're driving in. You know, it's not Detroit,

769
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 2: it's not Ford Field where it's nestled in among other buildings.

770
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: It just sits out there like a like a kind

771
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: of a warehouse, almost barn like, if you will. And yeah,

772
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: I just think it's tremendous. It's accessible from a downtown,

773
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 2: you don't have to go outside to get there, and

774
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: most importantly spoiled as I am as a media person,

775
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 2: they park us one hundred feet from the entrance to

776
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: the stadium, So that seals that seals the deal for me.

777
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stadiums. I like outdoor stadiums. I

778
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: think I like Tampa Bay the best, actually Raymond James Stadium,

779
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: But I like, I like. I've always liked Lucas Oil

780
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: the best, and it's my favorite.

781
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 4: Some people would say the food, right, exactly, what's your

782
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 4: best food?

783
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you do pretty good food. Yeah, but

784
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 2: you know what I'm trying to think. But I'll tell

785
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 2: you when the when the Rams were in Saint Louis,

786
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: that was man. They just kept bringing the food and

787
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 2: the snacks out. But yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, but yeah,

788
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't evaluate it for for that. But no,

789
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: I just I've always loved Lucas. I think it's the best.

790
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: It's certainly one of the more unique in the there

791
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 3: the way it's it's almost built like a big brick

792
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: warehouse from the ceiling. It's not really a dome, but

793
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 3: it can open up. It could it could close it.

794
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 3: It is pretty cool. And and the sight lines and

795
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: there are very good. It's nice, it's different, it's unique.

796
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I think it's tough to beat Sofi in

797
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 3: l A.

798
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say so when you look at

799
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 2: Sofi and when you go down on that field and

800
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 2: I'm done, when I'm done at doing pregame TV. I mean,

801
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 2: it is it's just unbelievable that scoreboards Sofi is a

802
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: special special player, no doubt about it. It looks like

803
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 2: a spaceship. Yeah, I mean it's uh did if you don't, Yeah,

804
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 2: yeah we did. We did the game against the Chargers there,

805
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: that's right.

806
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: Not a great result obviously, And and the other thing

807
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: is is that and I and I guess this has

808
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 4: become more and more of a trend is putting as

809
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: they build the newer stadiums. You know, they don't want

810
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 4: to lose those premium seats, which is where the locations

811
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 4: used to be for press boxes. And so now the

812
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 4: press boxes are getting more up or over. Up is fine.

813
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 4: Over is a little more difficult. That's in the corner.

814
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 4: Uh that that's that's deep in the corner. It's so

815
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 4: far and so I think probably I don't know how

816
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 4: you feel about it, West, but it's fun to walk around.

817
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: But then where am I calling the game from? Yeah,

818
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 2: that's that's what I want to know.

819
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: You know, Baltimore pulled the rug out from underneath of

820
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 3: us a couple of years ago. That used to be

821
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 3: maybe the best vantage point in the league. And then

822
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 3: they sold it for premium seating, like you said, and

823
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 3: put us put us up in the corner.

824
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

825
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 4: I was able to call a game there filling in

826
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 4: for Bill Hillgrove and when he had back surgery, so

827
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 4: I filled in for him and did a couple of games.

828
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 4: So I was able to call a game there before

829
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 4: they moved it. But it was a premium location. It's

830
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 4: not terrible now.

831
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: It's not terrible now, No, no, exactly, it's the press

832
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 2: box is a little bit a little more snug than

833
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 2: it has been. But no, it's not bad. Cincinnati has stayed.

834
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 3: Cleveland's is a good vantage. How about Chicago this year? Now,

835
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: that was weird because we were almost in a like

836
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 3: a war zone to me, Bunk, we were in a

837
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 3: we were in a cement bugger war zone by ourselves,

838
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 3: right in the middle of the Bears fans to manage

839
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 3: the Ulog twelve no bathroom, no bathroom, no water, no coffee,

840
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 3: no food was great, but did not have a Gulag Soviet.

841
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 3: The other one the other week about the Chicago or

842
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 3: we take you to leave?

843
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 2: The other one I hate is even though I think

844
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 2: it's a great venue to watch a game and it

845
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: is impressive itself. But again, uh, you know, personal reasons.

846
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: I hate New England. I hate you let stadium because

847
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 2: for me, I have to go out of the press

848
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: box and walk amongst the fans. Right. Uh you know

849
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: weather some of the weather sometimes too, to get to

850
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: your broadcast, and that broadcast.

851
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 4: You guys are on the opposite the press box, on

852
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 4: the opposite side.

853
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: Of the No, I'm on the same side. It's just

854
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: what's the what's the stadium we went to this year

855
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 2: withago Chicago. Chicago was the one. It was bad, and

856
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 2: New England is. Yeah, Chicago was terrible for for my purposes,

857
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: but same with New England. But no, we're in the

858
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 2: end zone and then but I have to come on

859
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: a level or two. But I have to walk out

860
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: amongst the fans. And then by the time I'm leaving

861
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 2: the booth, it's only half hour before the game. Get

862
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: a little crowded there. You know. I did spoiled, as

863
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 2: I am.

864
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 4: I did, and this is going to pain Steelers fans stities.

865
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 4: But I did love the stadium. In the setting of

866
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 4: New England there's no question.

867
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: And Denver.

868
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 4: Denver's another with the I've got a bit of a

869
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 4: you know, I'm a sort of been a walking an achronism,

870
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 4: you know, I've been I like black and white movies

871
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 4: and gold music and you know, uh so I love

872
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 4: the old school grass, open air stadium feel, which New

873
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 4: England had. The other thing, the other thing that's strange

874
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 4: about New England is we're driving in the bush. Where

875
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 4: did we say we stayed in Providence? We stayed in Providence.

876
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you could either stay in Providence or Boston.

877
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: So Providence is one of my favorite cities and I

878
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 2: should have got so under.

879
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 4: I made a huge mistake by not being hungry when

880
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 4: I got there. And the Federal Hill Italian we want.

881
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 3: The weather's amazing, it's beautiful, it's clean, there's live music,

882
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 3: there's a.

883
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 4: Tow But you're driving through and I'm like, looking out

884
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 4: my window, I'm like, where is it? You know, And

885
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 4: I'm driving through and there's like houses, i mean like

886
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 4: pretty houses and green lawns, and I'm like where. So

887
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 4: finally I gave we we go around there.

888
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: That's because they take you guys in the backway.

889
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: So they we go around the corner and there are

890
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 4: these people and there they got a beautiful lawn in

891
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 4: the back, nice beauty, big, big home. They're tailgating into

892
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 4: the front. They have gravel driveway. It's all very nice.

893
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 4: And all of a sudden, I'm like, we're here.

894
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 2: How buck are we? These people They're like, seriously, you could.

895
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: You could You could airbnb that place for a pre

896
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: weight when you could punk one and it would hit

897
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: the stadium for what this people's house was.

898
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 2: It was crazy, it was.

899
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 4: That was the most bizarre run up to a stadium

900
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 4: I've ever seen in my life.

901
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 2: Well see, and that is why that that that now

902
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: the way I come in, there is no neighborhood field

903
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: that stadium. But that's because they bring you guys in

904
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: the backway. Uh, That's why I always buffalo. The stadium

905
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 2: is a dump, let's face it. But I love the

906
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 2: fact it just sits on at the end of that neighborhood.

907
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: And have you been to Lambo yet? I have not.

908
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 2: If they're just special places and you know that it's

909
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: the original and it's you know, surrounded by a neighborhood

910
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: and those those two things I really love and appreciate. Yeah,

911
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: So that's uh.

912
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 3: I've been to Lambo, not for a football game, but

913
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: for long story short, my first my first job in

914
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 3: this business. I worked for a minor league hockey team

915
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 3: and the Green Bay Gamblers. They're a rink is right

916
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 3: next to Lambo, and so we got it. We got

917
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: a tour of everything. You didn't see a game there,

918
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 3: but I got to go out on the field and

919
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 3: locker room and everything. But I have not seen a game.

920
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 2: Pretty cool.

921
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a cathedral, Jerry, no question.

922
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 3: But they have that whole Packers Hall of Fame there

923
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 3: and the Lombardi statue.

924
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 2: It's really cool.

925
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: Real quick Croak Park in yeh Iral. Yeah, everybody walks

926
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 4: to the game and walks from the game and are

927
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 4: mystified as to why there's huge parking lots around stadiums

928
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 4: where people will bring their.

929
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 3: Grills tail game, bring your grill, stand around.

930
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 2: What do you do? Yeah, you got to leave it

931
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 2: outside the cow.

932
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 4: They don't get that because they all just like go

933
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 4: to a you know, they go to a saloon, they

934
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 4: have a couple of pints, they go.

935
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 2: I went to a I went to.

936
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 4: A My wife and I were on vacation in Spain

937
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: and we went to a real Madrid soccer game.

938
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was called.

939
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 4: We just went because it was a sporting event and

940
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 4: it was live and I could get tickets at stadium.

941
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 4: I'll I'll go to any sporting event, and so it was. Uh,

942
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 4: but it was just in a neighborhood. You're walking around

943
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 4: like where's Oh, there it is. That's how Crook Park was.

944
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 4: It was very and then walking we walked. I walked

945
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 4: with my family, uh, because my family was there and

946
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 4: went to the game. We walked to wherever they were

947
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 4: staying in Ireland. And you're just in the masses of

948
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 4: people just walking to and from the game. Very very cool,

949
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 4: different experience.

950
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really you know, looking back, I really enjoyed

951
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 2: my time there, and I really enjoyed the game. And

952
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 2: the's two things that's still and I have it on

953
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: video and maybe that's why. Maybe it's that's why I

954
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 2: videoed it. Maybe it's why I still embrace it. The

955
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 2: two things that I enjoyed the most was you could

956
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: play Renegade all you want in Hinzfield, but Renegade there. Yeah,

957
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: it was really cool, very cool, really cool, and and

958
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: then I think what was their name is Oliria singing

959
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 2: the Irish national and unbelievable, unbelievable, just an incredible voice,

960
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 2: and it just resonated through that stadium.

961
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 4: Was spectacular. And hearing our buddy Larry Richard, I'm a PA.

962
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 4: That was really cool. I'm like, wait a minute's Larry Richard.

963
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 4: I had no idea he was going to be doing

964
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 4: the PA from Croik Park. I mean it's yeah, that's right,

965
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 4: the PA guy from the Steelers. And of course everybody

966
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh knowes Larry Richard.

967
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fun stuff. Well that's going to do it

968
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 2: for our four We, of course, us US three will

969
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 2: be back for hour five of our wall to wall

970
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 2: Steeler coverage right here on Stealer Nation Radio and uh

971
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Pittsburgh nine seventy am Jerry Doulac along with

972
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 2: Wes Yuler and Rob King. Don't you dare go away?

973
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: We're coming back with a whole lot more from the

974
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 2: NFL Scout Dting Combine