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

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Speaker 1: your twenty four seventh home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: SR Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson and this is to drive on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio and Matt. Signings have continued across the

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Speaker 1: league right now. As we mentioned Terrell Edmond signing with

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, you mentioned DJ Chark signing with Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Mike Clay who does good work for ESPN, right study, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the other state, other side of the state, dude, Yes,

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Speaker 1: put out his list of available, his rankings of remaining

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Speaker 1: free agents, who's still out there at the different positions,

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Speaker 1: and it's probably a little deeper than a lot of

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Speaker 1: people think. Oh yeah, I mean I recently wrote an

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Speaker 1: article just looking at who's out there, and you know,

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Speaker 1: from a Steeler perspective, and you can get guys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of unemployed NFL players right now that

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Speaker 1: are going to start to come pretty cheap. Yeah, these

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be on teams in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of who and where how cheap

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Speaker 1: you can get him. Speaking of which, the contract information

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Speaker 1: on James Pierre is out. He signed a one point

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Speaker 1: three million, one year deal, which is essentially half of

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Speaker 1: what he would have gotten if the Steelers had picked

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Speaker 1: up his restrictive free agent offers. Okay, so I mean

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Speaker 1: you get you save one point three million dollars by

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Speaker 1: doing that. It's a gamble, but it was one that

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Speaker 1: they player, right, Yeah, I think he's a good player.

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Speaker 1: So at the quarterback position, the guy's still out there.

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Speaker 1: These are, of course, Mike Clay's rankings. Carson Wentz, Teddy Bridgewater,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. Wentz won't be an opening day starter, right, No, No, okay,

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Speaker 1: he's in science Robiskie deal. I don't none of these

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Speaker 1: guys are going to be starters. Well yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think he's the only one I even thought about bringing up. Yeah, Bridgewater,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco, Brian Hoyer, Mason Rudolph, Playing Gabbert,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon, Nathan Peterman, Brandon Allen, Jeff Driscoll, Nate Sudfeld,

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Speaker 1: Josh Johnson, Chase Daniel Trace, McSorley, John Wolford, Tim Boylett, Rippion,

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Speaker 1: and Bryce Perkins. Now that list is pretty well picked over.

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Speaker 1: It is will any of them be a stealer. I

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Speaker 1: could see a situation where they bring Mason Rudolph back again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean if this goes and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not signed by anyone through the draft and they

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Speaker 1: don't you know, they don't get one in the draft,

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Speaker 1: or they're you know, the the only guy they get

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Speaker 1: in the draft is after the draft they signed somebody.

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Speaker 1: You bring back Mason Rudolph and say, hey, Mason, we

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Speaker 1: want you back, and I give him a two year deal.

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Speaker 1: I thought about say, I'd even consider give him a

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Speaker 1: two year deal because Mitch only is one more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we like you. You know you're gonna be You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be the backup. We'll put you in the mix again

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Speaker 1: this year to to you know, battle for that backup spot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and if he happens to win it, he wins the

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Speaker 1: backup spot, and then you can do something with miss

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Speaker 1: Rubisky and save that money. Yeah, and you even know

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Speaker 1: what he is anyway. I mean, right, we've talked much

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Speaker 1: about Trubisky, but if you signed Rudolph today to a

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Speaker 1: two year deal, I'd be even more open to offers

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Speaker 1: for Trubisky. I'm not cotting them, but yeah, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's interesting that you mentioned as well, because you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked to Cole Holcombe yesterday, the Steelers new inside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons he signed in Pittsburgh was because

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Speaker 1: of miss Rubisky. Oh really they were. They were roommates

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Speaker 1: in college. Huh okay. They live about ten minutes away

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Speaker 1: you know, look, I Mitch and I talked about it.

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Speaker 1: We always wanted to be teammates. Again, Rubisky's not He's

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Speaker 1: people who were saying Trubisky was gonna demand the trade

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Speaker 1: You know, he's making pretty good money to be the

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Speaker 1: feel for him one bid at running back. And this

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Speaker 1: is a this is an interesting group here, k Zakie Elliott,

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Speaker 1: but there is baggage. There's baggage, for sure. Some owners

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Speaker 1: into some guys here that may not play this year. Giovanni,

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Speaker 1: on the tires. First off, I'm disappointed that you said

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Speaker 1: you've never mentioned his name without saying that before in

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Speaker 1: the history of the Drive. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: wear and tear on that list. Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know a guy like Dontrell Hilliard doesn't

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Speaker 1: because there's so many backs in the draft. Well that's

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Speaker 1: the that's the problem right now. But you know the

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Speaker 1: I would say special teams is a huge key too.

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Speaker 1: You know Snell wasn't a special team or Kentucky he

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Speaker 1: their feature back for three years. You need to learn it.

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Speaker 1: And he turned into a great one. Yeah, uh, wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: He spenttioned DJ Shark's sign today. This is a little

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Speaker 1: who the heck is that Chosen? It's he changed his

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Speaker 1: Richie James, Kenny Galloway, Chris Moore, they're Crent, Kenny Galladay,

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Speaker 1: I should say, nikkil Harry, Marquis Goodwin, Cole Beasley, Marquez Callaway,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing the Steelers kick the tires on.

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Speaker 1: would love a Hayward based special team guy. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: would fit in with what they've done this offseason. He's

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Speaker 1: got a couple of rings. Yeah, yeah, good point. You

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Speaker 1: but Miles Boykin is still out there. Iron Pringle. I

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Speaker 1: well the Jets signed Jake Kumero now, Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem bringing Gentry back, but offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: to you know, push Dan Moore. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: pushing Dan Morris. I don't know what Taylor Lawan can

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Speaker 1: it's just that's that's what you're gonna get because teams

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Speaker 1: don't let their good tackles get to free agency. No,

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