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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steeler Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers
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Speaker 2: for the next three hours on this Tuesday, as another
Speaker 2: day of practice. The practice overall these second in pads
Speaker 2: is in the books. And Matt, it was a hot
Speaker 2: one today. It's hot out there right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems to be getting warmer, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't think when I came in watching
Speaker 3: practice it was scorching, but starting to heat up, starting
Speaker 3: to feel I'm not ready called the dog days or
Speaker 3: anything of that nature, but it is. You know, we're
Speaker 3: into this thing now and it's a padded practice, and
Speaker 3: it's no longer we haven't seen much. I can't you
Speaker 3: know before you know what this thing's will be over.
Speaker 3: We're near in the halfway mark.
Speaker 2: We absolutely are. It happens very fast, and not just
Speaker 2: the pace of the Mike McCarthy practices that are very fast,
Speaker 2: but certainly these three weeks that just always seemed to
Speaker 2: fly by. And it was another frantic practice today, high paced. Yeah, today,
Speaker 2: a lot going on, Matt, and I'd figure we'll start theirs.
Speaker 2: That's probably what we'll do now that we're into again
Speaker 2: more more substantial and lengthier practices. One hundred and ten
Speaker 2: minute practice today, so just a little under two hours
Speaker 2: and a lot of ground covered.
Speaker 3: I found out last night doing the Night Show with
Speaker 3: Jerry that that's an NFL rule. Yes, So it goes
Speaker 3: from acclimation to like yeah, yeah, to one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten and then I think they can go up. I
Speaker 3: don't know how many hundred and tens are allowed. Okay,
Speaker 3: if you go over, it's a violation or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I think at some point it can
Speaker 2: be like one hundred and thirty minutes or something you
Speaker 2: can get to.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what happened for that two hours.
Speaker 3: Well I'm there in this thing. Yeah, but there's different
Speaker 3: phases more than just pads and no pads.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, absolutely, absolutely everything is collectively bargained nowadays,
Speaker 2: it seems in the structures and the time allotment in
Speaker 2: practice is certainly no different, Matt. I had a couple
Speaker 2: of observations for you, in fact, three specific players that
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 4: All that's a good place to start that I.
Speaker 2: Thought really stood out today and have started to overall
Speaker 2: carve out good camps for themselves. Let's start first, we start.
Speaker 4: To that point, we'd be like, well, he's having a
Speaker 4: good camp, you know.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, six practices in. It's starting to become
Speaker 2: a trend, right, and one trend that I'm really liking, Matt.
Speaker 2: And I know all of our listeners will like this,
Speaker 2: and I know it warms your heart. But the first
Speaker 2: round pick, he's the first one I want to talk
Speaker 2: about here, mad Maxie Honacher looks the part. He already
Speaker 2: he there hasn't seemingly been any rookie moments, not only
Speaker 2: just in stature and watching him out there move around
Speaker 2: as he look the part, but we've the last two
Speaker 2: days seen him do a lot of one on one
Speaker 2: pass rush stuff with everyone you know, from TJ. Watt
Speaker 2: to Herbig and everyone in between, and man, not only
Speaker 2: has he holding his own, he's really standing out as
Speaker 2: a guy who might be one of their best offensive
Speaker 2: linemen already or at least real soon.
Speaker 3: Yes, and this is gonna sound loftier than it should,
Speaker 3: but just bear with me for a second. That because
Speaker 3: something that I repeated before I ever saw him any
Speaker 3: Steeler helmet or pads or mini camp or any of
Speaker 3: those things too. And everyone knows we were really high
Speaker 3: on this guy pre draft. But it's Greg Cosell and
Speaker 3: or I forget who else. It might have been Dane.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: There's two two of the analysts that I really like
Speaker 3: that that you know or super draft oriented, and they
Speaker 3: both said the same thing about Max and they said, hey,
Speaker 3: he's not this guy and maybe he'll never be like
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 4: And we know he doesn't played a.
Speaker 3: Ton of football in his career, but he looks like
Speaker 3: one of those elite and I don't use that word
Speaker 3: very often, elite offensive tackles like a Walter Jones.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. I mean like Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame type guys.
Speaker 3: Just the way he holds his body, the way he moves,
Speaker 3: what he was gifted with.
Speaker 4: You know, from the womb, the stuff you can't coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously he's worked on his feet and you
Speaker 3: know his size and strength and stuff too, and come
Speaker 3: out of the.
Speaker 4: Wom looking like that.
Speaker 3: But he has the traits, I guess is the way
Speaker 3: that the elite guys have. Now that's great. JaMarcus Russell
Speaker 3: had elite traits, right. It's a wonderful start, don't get
Speaker 3: me wrong. But just these last two days, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to overreact to two days, they've done those
Speaker 3: one on one line drills, which I think are the
Speaker 3: highlight of these practices. Thus far, we've not seen backs
Speaker 3: on backers.
Speaker 4: But that's a full go. He's looked.
Speaker 3: He's lived up to that, you know, just in terms
Speaker 3: of quickness off the ball, knee bend, ankle flexion, to
Speaker 3: be a real nerd, strength, stature, ability to redirect after
Speaker 3: he's you know, maybe beaten, on the first move quickness.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's.
Speaker 3: Faced several different players and today is no exception. And
Speaker 3: does he win every rep. No, But I haven't seen
Speaker 3: a true weakness in his game. You even see him
Speaker 3: lose like clear, you know, Sawyer often tries to go
Speaker 3: right through them. What yesterday tried to bull rush him
Speaker 3: right up the middle. None of that was, None of
Speaker 3: that's worked at all on him. He just squats down, sits,
Speaker 3: absorbs it, and then starts dishing out punishment with his
Speaker 3: hands and starts to manhandle him when he's you know,
Speaker 3: got got him in the middle of his frame. Guys
Speaker 3: that are beating him with technique like what I saw
Speaker 3: it once and then not again. Yep, her big with
Speaker 3: his speed and explosion and bend. Okay, he kind of
Speaker 3: pushed him up the arc on a rep, but it
Speaker 3: was high up the arc.
Speaker 4: And he was realized, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, you could tell that was a different type
Speaker 3: of challenge for him. Let's just say he looks the part, yes,
Speaker 3: And I couldn't be more excited.
Speaker 4: This is what I had hoped.
Speaker 3: And semi envisioned whenever we did a million mock drafts
Speaker 3: before he was ever a Pittsburgh Steeler, and I think
Speaker 3: they may go down in a week draft class and
Speaker 3: look at this and be like, how did that guy
Speaker 3: fall that twenty one first roun Yeah, I mean with
Speaker 3: the trades premium position in premium trade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. He's he's been very impressive. I
Speaker 2: unfortunately yesterday I shared this with everybody, and you know,
Speaker 2: you knew it. I was a little late to practice
Speaker 2: yesterday because my youngest daughter and we just had some
Speaker 2: stuff going on at home and you know, needed needed
Speaker 2: to wait, so kids happened, you know, you know things
Speaker 2: things happened when you have kids, and had to wait for,
Speaker 2: you know, for some reinforcements to get there before I
Speaker 2: could leave the house. So I missed that portion of
Speaker 2: practice yesterday. The defensive lineman did one on ones, but
Speaker 2: you would kind of painted the picture for me and
Speaker 2: for our audience about how impressive Max was at his
Speaker 2: first go round for that. So today I was all, uh,
Speaker 2: all ready to go, and all all eyes were on
Speaker 2: that drill for the for you know, the ten or
Speaker 2: twelve minutes that that was going on. There was a
Speaker 2: lot of other and you know, just in general, all
Speaker 2: those guys on the offensive line or I think very
Speaker 2: intriguing stories for their own reason, but especially Mad Max.
Speaker 2: Wanted to get my first real look at him in
Speaker 2: a contact, one on one situation and it did not
Speaker 2: disappoint man. He looks the part, and I think the
Speaker 2: Steelers might have an absolute stud on their hands. And
Speaker 2: in Big Mad Max.
Speaker 3: They did some team stuff as well, where he'd come
Speaker 3: off the ball in the run game.
Speaker 4: Didn't disappoint there either.
Speaker 3: And these aren't you know, low down the line guys
Speaker 3: playing again, I mean it's DJ Watt often, you know,
Speaker 3: because Max is going to rotate at this point with
Speaker 3: Cook at the right tackle position if people aren't aware
Speaker 3: of how that's going. But I mentioned the labs while
Speaker 3: we were watching this too. I'm like, sure, seems like
Speaker 3: Cook's getting more and more snaps on the left side.
Speaker 3: Is he in the process of becoming the swing tackle,
Speaker 3: which very well could be the case. Like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if Max knows's assignments. He's never been in the stadium.
Speaker 3: As coach used to say, you know what.
Speaker 2: I mean, seventy thousand people screaming right.
Speaker 4: Lights and right.
Speaker 3: I mean that doesn't mean that you can go to
Speaker 3: Baltimore and trust him and all those things.
Speaker 4: But I gotta think they have.
Speaker 3: To be considering just say Cook, you're the three and
Speaker 3: go from there or Broderick or whatever. But I mean
Speaker 3: they may have a pair of bookends that rivals like
Speaker 3: the Chargers.
Speaker 2: You know, that would be a good position to find
Speaker 2: yourself in. So that was the first guy specifically that
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about. Let's stay on the offense
Speaker 2: because two of them are offensive players, ones on the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, So we'll stay on the
Speaker 2: offense here. The other is Darnell Washington. Yeah, Mount Washington,
Speaker 2: who Matt. I want to be very careful when I
Speaker 2: say this, because it's not like he's walking around here
Speaker 2: and noticeably dropped a bunch of weight, But he does
Speaker 2: look like he's trimmed down just a little slightly, and man,
Speaker 2: I think, man, he's moving fluidly and getting out in routes.
Speaker 2: And again, not that he lost a ton of weight,
Speaker 2: not that he is like noticeably thin or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's not two forty, yeah, exactly right, exactly right,
Speaker 2: But he just looks a little more trim and a
Speaker 2: little more mobile, little more fluid out there, and he's
Speaker 2: looked he's looked really good running around, maybe a little
Speaker 2: extra burst to his game and and wow, I think
Speaker 2: he's going to just be a weapon and punish some
Speaker 2: people this season.
Speaker 3: So Brian Backo was just sitting there with us for
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes or whatever, and we kind of had this
Speaker 3: conversation while practice was going on. And to Brian's you know, credit,
Speaker 3: you kind of believe some of these things with a
Speaker 3: grain of salt, And he was the same way, and
Speaker 3: he's like, I guess he asked Washington, you know what
Speaker 3: you weigh and he's like, it doesn't tell you the
Speaker 3: numbers and all those things too. But also Washington said
Speaker 3: something along the lines of, more than any off season,
Speaker 3: I've been really working on my conditioning, which smells a
Speaker 3: lot like best Shape your life cliche, you know, right right,
Speaker 3: I mean that's what players his age.
Speaker 2: I'll buy it, though, yeah.
Speaker 3: Because I mean Rob's every practice I've watched with Rob,
Speaker 3: he says it over and over. He's like, he looks
Speaker 3: different to me. He looks skinnier, and just focusing on him,
Speaker 3: his waiste in particular seems trimmer, you know, like he looks.
Speaker 4: More ripped.
Speaker 3: I mean again, you know, like he's it probably got
Speaker 3: a little bit of the the baby weight off him,
Speaker 3: a little bit, some of the softness, and he never
Speaker 3: had like a gut or anything. He's just an enormous
Speaker 3: human being. But you could just see that he's a
Speaker 3: little more tapered. He's a little leaper. That's that's the
Speaker 3: word I was looking for for the last minute or two.
Speaker 3: And you're right, I think he moves better. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's never going to be fast by by tight ends.
Speaker 2: We're never going to call him twitchy.
Speaker 3: No, but there was times where his feet would stick
Speaker 3: in the g for a while. Bronosaurus steps on the
Speaker 3: end and takes a second to get going. Now he
Speaker 3: seems to open it up quicker, and we've all seen
Speaker 3: him open it up. His top speed is okay, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean he's again, he's offaly, just gonna run down
Speaker 3: the scene, pass safeties all day long. But I think
Speaker 3: he's moving in and out of his breaks a lot better,
Speaker 3: seems to control his body a lot better. And I
Speaker 3: was already impressed with those things for his size. You know,
Speaker 3: he's one of my favorite players on the team.
Speaker 2: Yes, No, he certainly is. I think anyone who's listened
Speaker 2: to our show over the last couple of years. Knows
Speaker 2: how fond you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're picking two of my favorites. By the way,
Speaker 3: I you know that the soft.
Speaker 2: Ball I might have I might have been thinking that
Speaker 2: on purpose or something around here. But yeah, he just
Speaker 2: he he looks like a guy who is really ready
Speaker 2: to take a big step forward in terms of his
Speaker 2: pass catching and offensive contributions, not just in the run
Speaker 2: game obviously, where we know that he excels, but that
Speaker 2: tapered look has me thinking that he's, uh, he's gonna
Speaker 2: cause some problems for some defenses this year for sure.
Speaker 2: So those are the two guys on the offensive side
Speaker 2: of the ball that I thought, you know, really throughout
Speaker 2: these six practices have stood out, but especially today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the last.
Speaker 3: I hope they're like long term fixtures, ten year stealer
Speaker 3: type guys. Way getting ahead of myself, but just got
Speaker 3: a contract I first round pick a couple months ago.
Speaker 2: And if you're set there at tight end in the
Speaker 2: offensive line for a long time with very high end
Speaker 2: players and guys that are tough to play against, and
Speaker 2: they're going to grow and learn and build together that
Speaker 2: chemistry and camaraderie that's a real strength.
Speaker 3: Man, those two mashing people on double team one yard,
Speaker 3: you know, runs off tackle and things of that nature.
Speaker 2: Have fun with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good lord.
Speaker 2: The last one man on the defensive side of the
Speaker 2: ball is a newcomer. He's a veteran, but we're getting
Speaker 2: our first look up and close at him. It's Jammel Dean.
Speaker 4: Oh right.
Speaker 2: I just feel like he is making plays in every
Speaker 2: single drill, every single team period. He is. He's always
Speaker 2: breaking up passes, he's always tightly contesting coverage. He's just again,
Speaker 2: you know, you get to this point in camp where
Speaker 2: it's like they keep noticing that guy, keep noticing that guy.
Speaker 4: That guy.
Speaker 2: It's like every every day Dean is flying around, getting
Speaker 2: his hands on footballs, making plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, couldn't agree more. Don't have as much to add
Speaker 3: on him. And I'll be honest, you know, from where
Speaker 3: we sit in the press box, it's harder to watch defense,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of team stuff that happens right
Speaker 3: in front of us. So early portions of practice, which
Speaker 3: again they didn't do a ton of the first half
Speaker 3: hour forty five minutes, they did a lot of indie
Speaker 3: stuff that wasn't real applicable to scouting a player necessarily,
Speaker 3: but he does get his hands on the ball. He
Speaker 3: runs really really well. His size is obvious and he
Speaker 3: plays big two, especially when the ball's in the air,
Speaker 3: when he's banging with receivers at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: I am curious to see what kind of player he
Speaker 3: is on outside runs things like that, which probably won't
Speaker 3: be till the regular season. He has a little bit
Speaker 3: of a history, and I always like to warn people
Speaker 3: on this because like if you look, if you pull
Speaker 3: up his profile on NFL dot com or ESPN or whatever,
Speaker 3: you'll be like, oh, he played fifteen out of seventeen games.
Speaker 3: He has a habit of leaving, you know, and I
Speaker 3: don't know why. Maybe it's just total coincidence. It's and
Speaker 3: I don't think it's like this, you know, moaning and
Speaker 3: belly aching about it is. He's has There's been many
Speaker 3: games that he has well, several games that he has
Speaker 3: started but not finished. But I think if you get
Speaker 3: the most out of this dude, you're gonna be really happy.
Speaker 3: And even if he does happen to miss some time,
Speaker 3: the depth of corner is really really good.
Speaker 2: No, we're feeling very strong about that position group and
Speaker 2: I think you've got a nice balance of guys at
Speaker 2: different points throughout their careers. You know, good point Joey Porter,
Speaker 2: Jude working on that second that second contract. You've had
Speaker 2: guys like Ecoles and Samuel's who aren't crazy long in
Speaker 2: the tooth but have certainly been around the league for
Speaker 2: a while. You've got some young rookie like Daylon Everett.
Speaker 2: You've got the savvy Vetts and Jamel Dean and Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 2: I really like.
Speaker 4: Think they look to Ramsey in that room.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would. I I think I really like the
Speaker 2: just kind of balance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Man, he really stood out last training camp.
Speaker 2: Boy did he ever? He's uh, he's he's an alpha
Speaker 2: out there, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: He plays hard and we'll.
Speaker 2: Be we'll be excited to get him back in the fold,
Speaker 2: hopefully here sooner rather than later. But yeah, those were
Speaker 2: the three Matt that, like I said, really over the
Speaker 2: course of these six practices, but especially today, I felt
Speaker 2: like those guys were standing out. And Yeah, just wanted
Speaker 2: a few minutes to talk about how much fun you
Speaker 2: and I really had watching watching mad Max and those
Speaker 2: one on one drills.
Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, impressive and I'm sure it won't all be
Speaker 4: that way. Sure there'll be some days like I'll have
Speaker 4: what he'll have rookie moments.
Speaker 3: I no question about it. But I don't know how
Speaker 3: you can't be excited about him from what you've seen
Speaker 3: or what you know about the player and the person
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: I told you this earlier, but you know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's the same way with you. We've all got our
Speaker 2: group chats with our buddies and all that stuff every
Speaker 2: single day out here so far to this point. You know,
Speaker 2: my friends are always like, Wes, what's going on? Wes who?
Speaker 2: Looks good? Wes who? And I'm like, guys, it's it's
Speaker 2: day number two. Like, yeah, yeah, they're they're in They're
Speaker 2: in helmets and shorts playing Patty Cake out here. All right,
Speaker 2: let's calm down.
Speaker 4: It's awesome that people were excited.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, But today I texted him and I
Speaker 2: was like, all right, boys, it's it's time for the
Speaker 2: first real uh, you know, Wes observation for you. And
Speaker 2: I was like, mad, Max is gonna be an absolute
Speaker 2: stud and I think he's gonna end up being one
Speaker 2: of the best right tackles in the National Football League
Speaker 2: here potentially in the next couple of years. If he is,
Speaker 2: If this is the starting point for him, then the
Speaker 2: sky is the limit. Without let's get to our first
Speaker 2: break here of the show this afternoon. We will catch
Speaker 2: up with our buddy Alan Saunders of Steelers now here
Speaker 2: in the first hour of the show. Plenty to get
Speaker 2: to as we roll along on another busy day. You
Speaker 2: also know, to start the five o'clock hour, we'll be
Speaker 2: hitting the tweets, So get those tweets in at wes
Speaker 2: Leeler at Williamson, NFL if you want to get involved.
Speaker 2: We met a couple of our loyal tweeters last night, Matt,
Speaker 2: A couple of people came up to us and said hello,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it was It was a lot of fun
Speaker 2: and it's been It's been good to uh to get
Speaker 2: to to put some faces to some of these some
Speaker 2: of these names that we interact with. You know, in
Speaker 2: the five o'clock hour, we'll be getting all your questions, comments,
Speaker 2: concerns and reactions if you want to get involved with
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Speaker 2: Back on campus here for this day number six, a
Speaker 2: practice edition of the Drive. Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson.
Speaker 2: With you, Matt, we have some we have some I
Speaker 2: guess extension news around the NFL from today, A couple
Speaker 2: couple of big pieces of business being done here with
Speaker 2: some of the names that we've been discussing throughout the
Speaker 2: throughout the offseason. According to Adam Schefter in ESPN. The
Speaker 2: Falcons and Bijon Robinson have reached a three year deal
Speaker 2: up to seventy five million guaranteed to make him the
Speaker 2: highest paid running back in NFL history. That includes fifty
Speaker 2: one million guaranteed.
Speaker 3: I had no problem with it at all. I think
Speaker 3: that's an easy one. I mean, you can have the
Speaker 3: argument back and forth, do you really want to invest
Speaker 3: big money in that position? Fine, but if you draft
Speaker 3: him where you do and he does what he did,
Speaker 3: you gotta do this. I mean, I think he's the
Speaker 3: best running back in the league. I think he's one
Speaker 3: of the absolute best players in the league. Let me
Speaker 3: say he's the most valuable. But the size speed combination,
Speaker 3: as well as all the other trades you have, which are.
Speaker 4: Kind of historic.
Speaker 3: That's where I'm going with this, because you know, like
Speaker 3: you know, I've started Matt stats and the Falcons are
Speaker 3: the first first opponent here. So I just pulled these
Speaker 3: things up for a different podcast I did. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's only one of three players including Ladanian Tomlinson, that
Speaker 3: in their first three years has the combination of thirty
Speaker 3: five hundred rushing yards and fifteen hundred receiving yards. He
Speaker 3: led the entire league in all purpose yards last year.
Speaker 3: I mean McCaffrey was the only running back with more
Speaker 3: receiving yards. Sure, I mean I think he had like
Speaker 3: the twelfth most yards from scrimmage in NFL history last year,
Speaker 3: played almost eighty percent of the snaps. I mean, since
Speaker 3: he's been in the league again only three years, only
Speaker 3: Barkley and Derrick Henry have more rushing yards. Right, I
Speaker 3: mean this is like a historic start of your career.
Speaker 2: Impressive really? Yes, in his three seasons, eight hundred and
Speaker 2: five carries for over thirty nine hundred yards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's well over that thirty five hundred I was
Speaker 4: talking about, right.
Speaker 2: One hundred and ninety eight catches for over seventeen hundred yards,
Speaker 2: thirty four total touchdowns in three years, two time Pro Bowler,
Speaker 2: first team All Pro this past season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again he may not even be hitting his prime.
Speaker 3: He's almost the consensus first overall first top two picks.
Speaker 4: In him and fantasy draft. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean some people might be like, why like that
Speaker 3: the Lions have an easier schedule and they have a
Speaker 3: better offense, But they're the top two, and you can
Speaker 3: split hairs, which one you prefer but he could have
Speaker 3: a Tomlinson Lake career. Like I'm older than you and
Speaker 3: played fantasy. Then it was like, whoever gets on one
Speaker 3: wants getting with Damian Thomlinson.
Speaker 2: What's God? Go ahead and punch that in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a no brain or twenty touchdown
Speaker 3: seasons and things like that could be in the horizon
Speaker 3: for Pjon.
Speaker 2: Another big extension announced today, and it's one in the
Speaker 2: AFC North Baltimore's two time Pro Bowl wide receivers Say
Speaker 2: Flowers reaching agreement with the racist that one four year,
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty million dollar extension matt one hundred
Speaker 2: and eight million dollars guaranteed. That now ties in with
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson as the fourth highest paid wide receiver in
Speaker 2: the NFL. Just JSN, Jamar Chase, and Drake London make more. Wow,
Speaker 2: it's a good player. But that might be great money
Speaker 2: for a good player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a big fan. I think he's vastly underrated.
Speaker 3: You know, like if I was doing just receiver ranks,
Speaker 3: not fantasy, he would be very high. He would not
Speaker 3: be fourth. But I mean that implies to me just
Speaker 3: how healthy the league is. Sure, you know they have
Speaker 3: a lot of money to throw around collectively these thirty
Speaker 3: two teams. Now, he's not as big as your prototype.
Speaker 3: He doesn't score a lot of touchdowns. You have his
Speaker 3: career touchdown receptions. I bet it's pretty low. But it's
Speaker 3: not even close who their most valuable receiver is in Baltimore.
Speaker 3: I mean, the the rest of that wide receiver room
Speaker 3: isn't very inspiring. Andrews is a good player still, but
Speaker 3: he's hitting the age cliff in a big way. Henry
Speaker 3: doesn't catch balls. They drafted two receivers, they drafted two
Speaker 3: tight ends. I mean, like he's going to be their
Speaker 3: target leader by far.
Speaker 2: He's had five touchdowns, four touchdowns and five touchdowns in yeah,
Speaker 2: so just fourteen touchdowns in three seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they look at Andrews and likely in some
Speaker 3: of their bigger bodies there more so, that's like the
Speaker 3: one chink in the armor. And it also correlates with
Speaker 3: not being the biggest, most physical guy in the league too.
Speaker 3: But he's dangerous. He's a really good player.
Speaker 2: He absolutely is, and he's being paid very adequately certainly,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure they'll be happy to keep him in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: And you know, Lamar Jackson will be happy to have
Speaker 2: him around.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A couple other I think notable part of me pieces
Speaker 2: of business from today. Jadavian Clowney, big name Matt of course,
Speaker 2: he signed with the Houston Texans officially earlier this morning.
Speaker 3: And you remember it was ten twelve years ago or whatever.
Speaker 3: They drafted him first overall, so he kind of goes home.
Speaker 3: I saw some quotes that he said he could have
Speaker 3: gotten more money out of somewhere else, but he wanted
Speaker 3: to be part of this.
Speaker 4: Which how could you not.
Speaker 3: I mean, he won't be a starting defensive end for them,
Speaker 3: that's for sure with Hunter and Anderson there, but he
Speaker 3: can also kick inside a little bit. He's a really
Speaker 3: good run player. He's still frustrating to watch. His recognition
Speaker 3: skills have never been great, but he's quite talented. Been
Speaker 3: a mercenary probably the last five or six years, you know,
Speaker 3: one year here, one year there, but kind of gives
Speaker 3: teams what they want, you know this time of year.
Speaker 3: You know, late signing. Didn't get the defensive end we
Speaker 3: wanted in the draft, or in Houston's case, I think
Speaker 3: it's just we'll take the embarrassment of riches here. We're
Speaker 3: gonna try to really make a run. I think they
Speaker 3: would be my vote for best best defense in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 3: including I.
Speaker 2: Mean it's hard to argue that. Yeah, I think they
Speaker 2: You just look at it. There's not a weakness anywhere. No,
Speaker 2: they've got speed everywhere. They've got the physicality and toughness everywhere.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: They've got the edge rushers, they've got the the defensive backs.
Speaker 2: They're adding some depth.
Speaker 3: At a big nose tackle in the middle too, to
Speaker 3: just kind of make free everybody up a little bit more.
Speaker 2: In the first round that had defenses impressive. Impressive certainly,
Speaker 2: and then Matt, uh that basically I think covers the
Speaker 2: majority of the of the business today in the National
Speaker 2: Football League. A couple of big contracts, a couple other
Speaker 2: you know, additional signings and things like that around the league.
Speaker 2: We do know as well too, Matt. You know, we
Speaker 2: always laugh. We get so jacked up and excited for
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame game, which is of course Thursday,
Speaker 2: Thursday night. I'll tell you this though.
Speaker 4: It'll be on the Sharkis and we'll pay some attention, and.
Speaker 2: Sure will, I think we'll pay even more attention now
Speaker 2: because the two starting quarterbacks have been named.
Speaker 4: I know pickets going is Kenny.
Speaker 2: Pickett for Carolina Carson Beck for Arizona.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm interested to watch back. Yeah, both those guys
Speaker 3: are noteworthy, lit right right right?
Speaker 2: Little something stuff in there, so names that everybody knows
Speaker 2: and certainly noteworthy to watch. Hey, they might only play
Speaker 2: five or six snaps, but it'll be some type of
Speaker 2: football in front of us on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: I did a Carolina breakdown today for our six Pack show.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize their quarterback depth chart is Bryce Young
Speaker 3: Picket and basically.
Speaker 4: Nothing else really. I mean, it's that things could get
Speaker 4: off the rails there.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 4: They've already been hit really hard with injuries.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say they have been. Their offensive line
Speaker 2: is the not the type of start to the year
Speaker 2: you want. The health department, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: I think they have the worst mojo in the league
Speaker 3: right now, just in terms of bad things happening to the.
Speaker 2: Panthers speaking of injuries, seems like nothing too serious. But
Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, the head coach of the Jets just saw
Speaker 2: this year, told reporters after practice that their rookie tight
Speaker 2: end Kenyon Sadik, suffered a little setback on the off
Speaker 2: season hernia surgery he had. He will now miss some time,
Speaker 2: but still hopeful that he'll be ready for the regular season.
Speaker 3: I mean, you never won first round picks and miss
Speaker 3: any time. They're dating to acclamate the other injury I
Speaker 3: heard today that isn't super serious, but they're starting to
Speaker 3: mount for the Niners because Pearce All's out for the year. Yep,
Speaker 3: Mike Evans got banged up again. They I mean, that
Speaker 3: receiver room's crazy because they they they're not counting on
Speaker 3: Ayuk at all. Obviously, I think he's still there.
Speaker 2: They probably should, but that's.
Speaker 3: Never going to happen again. But think about who they
Speaker 3: brought in. They brought in Evans, Christian Kirk, Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 3: and they traded out of the first round of the
Speaker 3: very early second for stribbling. Yeah, I mean that's for
Speaker 3: brand name dudes, Like I don't think Kirk has a
Speaker 3: ton less and Debo is just a one year deal.
Speaker 3: But you don't do those things if you're not concerned
Speaker 3: about your wide receiver situation, then Pierce All they can't
Speaker 3: count on he's out for the Year's not in the mix,
Speaker 3: you know, Like.
Speaker 2: They've just got a lot of older bodies too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can all those guys playing seventeen games and
Speaker 2: healthy for the whole season.
Speaker 4: And the other guys are pretty raw rookie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah. Maybe they could be in for another
Speaker 2: one of those.
Speaker 4: Kittle's coming back from an injury injury either.
Speaker 2: Maybe that could be one of those. It certainly does.
Speaker 2: It seems like San Francisco has a lot of times
Speaker 2: done a really good year. They'll win twelve games, and
Speaker 2: then the next year they'll come back and they'll lose
Speaker 2: twelve games, and then the following year they'll win twelve
Speaker 2: and then they'll lose twelve.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're definitely pushing their chips in, but I don't
Speaker 3: know it's working out well at least here in early August.
Speaker 2: That's a tough division to certainly to be pushing chips
Speaker 2: in for Matt.
Speaker 4: Let's say, ye go to break. We've got a guest
Speaker 4: coming up, we sure do.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to our buddy, Allan Saunders of Steelers
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Speaker 2: Hi Top. Chucknofield here rolling along on in the drive
Speaker 2: and joining us now. It's our buddy, Allan Saunders of
Speaker 2: Steelers now one of our favorites to catch up with
Speaker 2: here during training camp and the combine and all that
Speaker 2: fun stuff. Alan, thanks for taking the time, Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us, and uh what has been this really new
Speaker 2: training camp experience for a lot of us, right, I
Speaker 2: said to Matt at the beginning of camp last week,
Speaker 2: It's almost like if you ever change schools when you
Speaker 2: were growing up, you still knew you were gonna have
Speaker 2: math class and there was gonna be lunch and you're
Speaker 2: gonna have a locker. Right, you knew what school was
Speaker 2: all about, but it was going too the new school,
Speaker 2: meeting new people, new coaching staff, new teachers, that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. Different practice time, different practice pace to this point.
Speaker 2: But now on day six, you're starting to feel like
Speaker 2: you might have a little bit of a handle on it.
Speaker 2: And what's uh, what Mike McCarthy's trying to accomplish out
Speaker 2: here every day.
Speaker 6: I still feel like I'm learning a lot every day.
Speaker 6: I think there's a lot to learn. I don't think
Speaker 6: I still don't feel like I know enough about this
Speaker 6: football team right now.
Speaker 5: And that's that's interesting.
Speaker 6: You know, you get you get so used to the
Speaker 6: way things are, the way people will react to certain things.
Speaker 5: When you have my job, you.
Speaker 6: Get pretty good at predicting, Hey, this happens, so this
Speaker 6: is gonna happen. And now I don't feel like I
Speaker 6: know that, you know, when you're coming up as a journalist,
Speaker 6: you usually like move from beat to beat pretty quickly,
Speaker 6: or you kind of get that like new team feel
Speaker 6: where you It's been a while for me. I've been
Speaker 6: covering the Steelers since twenty nineteen. I haven't gone through
Speaker 6: that quite some times. So it's it's been different and
Speaker 6: exciting and fun in some ways and difficult in other ways.
Speaker 6: It's really hard to answer questions like people ask them,
Speaker 6: what do you think of the team?
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what to
Speaker 5: think of the team in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: So I think you've a really good scouting eye, and
Speaker 3: I want to bring up a lot of individual names
Speaker 3: of what you've see in these six practices. But I
Speaker 3: know you just put out a piece concerning Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: and how his teammates look up to respect, like enjoy him.
Speaker 3: Can you kind of reiterate some of the things you've
Speaker 3: dug up, you know? And I think this has been
Speaker 3: common for every stop he's been at.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't really know. I mean, obviously I wasn't
Speaker 6: in New York and Green Bay, but it seemed like
Speaker 6: there was a lot of fear when he came to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: that he was going to be this toxic teammate or
Speaker 6: a bad guy and boy like he has been exactly
Speaker 6: the opposite of that. He's poured himself into young people.
Speaker 6: He's been a great teammate to his his peers, He's
Speaker 6: been great to the people that are around the building.
Speaker 6: And you know, the guy's one of the richest athletes
Speaker 6: to ever live. He could big time all the big
Speaker 6: timers if he wanted to, and that would be fine.
Speaker 5: And I think.
Speaker 6: He's really built strong relationships. And I think the sort
Speaker 6: of reaction this week to the comments he made on
Speaker 6: the Pad McAfee show externally, you know, very divisive in
Speaker 6: the public sphere. Locker room loves the guy, and I
Speaker 6: think that's such a rare thing in our society today,
Speaker 6: where we find people that are able to sort of
Speaker 6: come together despite differences. I think it's what makes sports special.
Speaker 6: It's one of the things I've always really admired about
Speaker 6: being in the locker room and being around these guys
Speaker 6: that they're able to do that, and I think it's
Speaker 6: what's cool about sports. And I thought it really came
Speaker 6: in to focus this week with you know, I'm getting
Speaker 6: hate for just writing what Aaron Rodgers said. I didn't
Speaker 6: say this, I just wrote, but he said. I know
Speaker 6: he's getting a lot more hate than that. But his
Speaker 6: teammates love him, and I'm sure some of his teammates
Speaker 6: disagree with them, and yet there's still that love in
Speaker 6: that bond that I think is really special.
Speaker 4: And we're allowed to disagree.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Matt. Matt always says this, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of different personalities in that locker room. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: you think Aaron Rodgers is the only one that's an
Speaker 2: enigma and has his quirks, You're you're far from a
Speaker 2: far from politics.
Speaker 4: You might yet agree with Chances are he's not the
Speaker 4: only one.
Speaker 6: Sure, Sure, and and just hugely different. Look at the
Speaker 6: offensive line. Everybody talks about how tight this offensive line is,
Speaker 6: and it is. And you got a Polynesian from Las Vegas,
Speaker 6: the guy from the hills of West Virginia, Ben Anderson,
Speaker 6: grew up in the suburbs of Washington, d C. Like,
Speaker 6: you can't get more different backgrounds than what those guys
Speaker 6: had before they came to Pittsburgh. And yet they're all
Speaker 6: best of friends. And I think that's why I think
Speaker 6: that's why we love sports.
Speaker 5: And I felt like I wanted to shout that out.
Speaker 6: I want to a lot of a lot of hate
Speaker 6: mail I was getting.
Speaker 4: Oh, well said, so when can people find that article?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the top of the site Steelers now dot com.
Speaker 6: It's out right now and go check it out.
Speaker 2: Some good stuff in there from Pat Fryermouth. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: as well. I know I might step on Matt's toes here.
Speaker 2: But one of the guys that we obviously speaking of guys,
Speaker 2: speaking of guys with different backgrounds and unique stories, the
Speaker 2: first round pick pick, Maxie Honacher. I think we were
Speaker 2: all really waiting to see these past two days when
Speaker 2: the pads went on and you know, physicality was introduced there,
Speaker 2: especially with all those bodies in the trenches on both
Speaker 2: sides of the ball that we want to get a
Speaker 2: look at. I feel like he's held his own really well,
Speaker 2: not just held his own, but has stood out in
Speaker 2: a lot of those one on one drills.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you worry, is the moment going to be big
Speaker 6: for a young guy?
Speaker 5: Not at all.
Speaker 6: I mean I was super impressed with his makeup in
Speaker 6: those moments. Even the reps he lost were super competitive.
Speaker 6: He really made guys work to beat him. I have
Speaker 6: a Theorymount I want to run this by you. I
Speaker 6: think if you are a young offensive lineman who has
Speaker 6: outstanding footwork and maybe some other issues, and AX has
Speaker 6: some other issues, I think that might be the one
Speaker 6: the strength you want to have in terms of who
Speaker 6: I agree getting the trust to get an opportunity early.
Speaker 4: Because then you can recover when you screw up.
Speaker 6: Right right, He's gonna lose in slow motions sometimes and
Speaker 6: there's still losses, but it's not look out.
Speaker 4: It's not like the broaderick problem.
Speaker 3: For me, it's like when he lost, he lost bad,
Speaker 3: and he lost early. You know that that you can't
Speaker 3: have losing slows fine, And if his feet are enough
Speaker 3: to lose slow while he learns, I'm in.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think that's really what's what sort of took me
Speaker 6: from the watching him in one on one is that
Speaker 6: even though losses are not that bad, and that's I
Speaker 6: want to see more run blocking out of him.
Speaker 5: I don't. I haven't seen enough of that.
Speaker 6: And that can be something that it only takes one
Speaker 6: guy to screw up a run play and you can't
Speaker 6: be that guy over and over again. But I've been
Speaker 6: really impressed with what I've seen him from him so.
Speaker 3: Far, so I wanted to switch to the wide receiver
Speaker 3: room a little bit. There's been a lot of Roman
Speaker 3: Wilson buzz I like how Bernard another rookie looks out here,
Speaker 3: but I haven't seen a ton of plays being made yet.
Speaker 3: Metcalf seems to be still featured, and Pittman looks what
Speaker 3: I expected, but he hasn't had a wow moment that
Speaker 3: I remember. What do you think of the non Metcalf
Speaker 3: next three so far?
Speaker 6: I think the thing that stands out to me about
Speaker 6: Pittman is he's getting open. You know, a lot of
Speaker 6: training camp is first read stuff. I don't know how
Speaker 6: much of the time Michael Pittman is the first read
Speaker 6: in this offense, but I think he's very frequently the
Speaker 6: the get out of jail free card for the quarterback
Speaker 6: where something got screwed up. Let's let's get four yards
Speaker 6: right here. And you're not gonna do that in training
Speaker 6: camp very often, but that can be really valuable over
Speaker 6: the course of the season. I also thought he had
Speaker 6: a really nice block today to spring dk On on
Speaker 6: a little out and up and he got some some
Speaker 6: green grass there's some real weapons in terms of run
Speaker 6: after the catch there. If you've got good blocking wide receivers,
Speaker 6: that helps that a lot.
Speaker 5: I agree think Jeremy.
Speaker 4: Collectively, they're pretty good blockers to the receivers.
Speaker 6: Jeremy's been quiet, but he's very impressive. He doesn't do
Speaker 6: anything wrong. He doesn't make mistakes that you see from
Speaker 6: a rookie. I think I've only seen him drop one pass,
Speaker 6: which happened right after I wrote that. He hadn't dropped
Speaker 6: any way the way it usually goes. But you know,
Speaker 6: I just don't see those those reps where you know,
Speaker 6: the ball hits the ground and the quarterback standing there
Speaker 6: with his hands up, like what were you doing? That
Speaker 6: you usually expect from a rookie wide receiver. I haven't
Speaker 6: seen very much of that at all.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on Roman two?
Speaker 6: He's been so much better. Yeah, he looks so locked in,
Speaker 6: more confident coming in and out of his break. Really
Speaker 6: looks like he understands what his job is and what
Speaker 6: he's supposed to be doing and what it looks like
Speaker 6: at a different level.
Speaker 5: He's always had good hands. I don't think that's ever
Speaker 5: been an issue. He's tough, he goes into tight windows.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying he's going to be a superstar, but
Speaker 6: I think he looks poised to be a much bigger
Speaker 6: day diference maker this year than last year.
Speaker 3: I mean a couple months ago, I thought he was
Speaker 3: a borderline roster player. I agree, and I think he's
Speaker 3: way beyond that now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think Bernard. I'm really high on
Speaker 6: Bernard big picture, but Roman's done everything he could do
Speaker 6: to hold him off so far.
Speaker 2: A few more minutes here with our buddy Allen Saunders
Speaker 2: of Steelers now wanted to ask you about Darnell Washington
Speaker 2: as well, kind of sticking with some pass catchers in
Speaker 2: the offense here, Matt and I were looking for the
Speaker 2: right word to describe him, and I think Matt might
Speaker 2: have nailed it. He kind of looks tapered a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that he looks slim or
Speaker 2: like he lost a bunch of weight, but he looks
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 4: Body looks a little different.
Speaker 2: His body looks a little different, and he just he
Speaker 2: looks like he's a little more fluid, little more movement.
Speaker 2: I think he is is primed for a potential big
Speaker 2: year in this offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I really like how he's moving. I care a
Speaker 6: lot more about that than how much he weighs. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't care exactly right, Yeah, I really don't. And
Speaker 6: he's moving really well, really nice, like turn up field
Speaker 6: acceleration on a couple plays, which is what you need
Speaker 6: from him, because boy, once you get that going and
Speaker 6: you're in the secondary, there are not a lot of
Speaker 6: DB's that are gonna bring him down one on one.
Speaker 6: It's just a tough ask. And I you know, I
Speaker 6: think the size of their receivers across the board can
Speaker 6: be a real weapon for him. He's obviously just a freak.
Speaker 6: But there's other I mean, Pittman and Metcalf and Farmoot's
Speaker 6: big Wilson and Bernard are not bigger, but they're tough guys.
Speaker 6: Like there's not an easy tackle of anybody. And forget
Speaker 6: Warren and Dowdall, we didn't talk about them yet. Those
Speaker 6: guys are really really difficult guys to tackle. There's not
Speaker 6: an easy tackle of any Steelers receiver. They're really gonna
Speaker 6: make secondaries tackle and I think that's how you get
Speaker 6: big plays. Is one of those big dudes puts a
Speaker 6: stiff arm into somebody and all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 6: green grass.
Speaker 3: So I haven't seen them tip their hand on this yet.
Speaker 3: Maybe I just missed it. But do you expect a
Speaker 3: package with her Big, high Smith and Watt on the
Speaker 3: field together.
Speaker 4: I do, I do too.
Speaker 5: I do I expect it.
Speaker 6: And I bet Herbig to be the guy that is
Speaker 6: not in a traditional outside linebacker stance. And they were
Speaker 6: doing the offensive line defensive line one on ones yesterday,
Speaker 6: Herbig took two reps from.
Speaker 5: The a gap.
Speaker 4: I saw it from off the ball, and.
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, there's no reason for him to be
Speaker 6: doing that unless he's going to be doing that.
Speaker 4: I thought I saw Wat do it as well.
Speaker 6: What did one where he kind of looped in against
Speaker 6: a guard? And so I think there's to me that
Speaker 6: makes the most sense because Herbig, to me, is the
Speaker 6: is the most valuable chess piece there in terms of
Speaker 6: you could very easily give him man coverage assignments. You
Speaker 6: can drop him off the ball. You know, he is
Speaker 6: a really really hard piece for the offense to look
Speaker 6: at and figure out what he's going to be doing.
Speaker 6: And I know people are screaming about move water around, and.
Speaker 4: I don't care about that I don't.
Speaker 6: That doesn't bother me as much as getting all three
Speaker 6: guys on the field and finding a way to make
Speaker 6: them all dangerous. Like I saw what was up he
Speaker 6: was on the right side, was up against Still and
Speaker 6: Cook yesterday try.
Speaker 5: To spin move. It was.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think he still won the rep, but
Speaker 6: it was very like I don't know where to put
Speaker 6: my legs looking kind of thing. Yeah, you're not, you know,
Speaker 6: used to seeing TJ. Watt not, you know, look like
Speaker 6: he knows exactly what he's going to be doing out there,
Speaker 6: and it's just he said it yesterday. It's one thing
Speaker 6: to say, let's do this. It's another thing to be
Speaker 6: good at it. I don't know that they're good at
Speaker 6: these things yet, but I think they're gonna try.
Speaker 4: Them real quick.
Speaker 3: I don't really care about him in Highsmith's alignment. If
Speaker 3: you prefer the right and I prefer the left, let's
Speaker 3: stay there. But I do like the idea of dropping
Speaker 3: him in coverage. We've seen some of that, looping him inside.
Speaker 3: Don't just rush him to the outside shoulder of the
Speaker 3: tackle over and over and over. And they know exactly
Speaker 3: how to chip them. So I think the usages could
Speaker 3: be different, and I think it will be. I don't
Speaker 3: care about the alignment though. Yeah, he doesn't need the
Speaker 3: roam around on the second level or go to the
Speaker 3: right side.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the left right thing has never bothered me. If
Speaker 6: you can align left right however you want, Yeah, use
Speaker 6: them different ways. More more inside rushes for TJ. Get
Speaker 6: some more quick pressures. I think that is the NFL
Speaker 6: trend to find ways to get those quick pressures, And
Speaker 6: a lot of that comes on the inside. If you're
Speaker 6: going around the tackle, it's gonna even if you beat
Speaker 6: them a lot of steps blind, it's gonna take a
Speaker 6: couple of steps, and I think you can have a
Speaker 6: much quicker impact coming up the middle.
Speaker 3: Maybe, you know, put her big to his outside and
Speaker 3: overload that side. Just make things so he doesn't have
Speaker 3: to go through three guys all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Any any movement, Any updates on the contractual future
Speaker 2: of one Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 6: No, I haven't heard anything. Seems very quiet. You know,
Speaker 6: we're getting to that time where he usually seems like
Speaker 6: these things tend to get done.
Speaker 2: Coming close to the dog days, a couple weeks.
Speaker 5: Into training camp, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: But no, no, update, and then do you expect that
Speaker 2: we will see Jalen Ramsey at any point throughout this process?
Speaker 5: I would expect that we ought to.
Speaker 6: You know, what I was told is it's not a
Speaker 6: significant injury and that he should be I mean, he's
Speaker 6: been running off to his own, you know, with Joey
Speaker 6: and Dante Kent over there, So you know, I would
Speaker 6: think that at some point you're going to see him back.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's going to be before we
Speaker 6: break camp here, but I would think that you're going
Speaker 6: to get Jayalen Ramsey back for Week one at the
Speaker 6: at the very worst.
Speaker 3: Do you presume that when they have four defensive backs
Speaker 3: on the field, Ramsey remain out there and Briskers the
Speaker 3: odd man out just want to be able to see it?
Speaker 5: Man, I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I don't either.
Speaker 6: That's one of those that I don't think we've learned yet. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you could probably make an argument for doing it either way,
Speaker 6: and maybe it depends on who's out there for the
Speaker 6: other team what you want to do. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean I thought Mata McCarthy was pretty forthright in admitting
Speaker 6: that they don't really have a traditional free safety on
Speaker 6: this roster and that there maybe the answer is none
Speaker 6: of the above, and that there's some kind of external
Speaker 6: addition between now and then.
Speaker 2: A lot of fun, a lot of ground to cover
Speaker 2: with our buddy Alan Saunders. Make sure you're checking out
Speaker 2: all of his coverage on Steelers Now throughout these next
Speaker 2: couple weeks of training camp and into the preseason and
Speaker 2: the regular season and all that good stuff. Great stuff, dude,
Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time. We appreciate it absolutely, Thanks
Speaker 2: for having me on. That's a hour in the books.
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