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Speaker 1: Your two weeks about drive on your twenty four to

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation, How we do it? Well, that's

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Speaker 2: good us too, our number two here on the drive

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Speaker 2: as we roll along on a Wednesday with plenty to

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Speaker 2: get to, Matt, what do you say we do a

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Speaker 2: little best of the West here too? Uh yeah, enough

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Speaker 2: to lead off our number two. And this is ah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it kind of relates to again, I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to find different things to bring into the Best of

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Speaker 2: And I thought, with us going to Sofi Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I forgot we were gonna do this week, Okay.

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Speaker 2: In honor of this weekend. My ten favorite stadiums arenas

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Speaker 2: parks that I've ever been to for a sporting event.

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Speaker 3: It has to be a sporting event, though. Can't be

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Speaker 3: like Red Rocks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you said that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it

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Speaker 2: has to be for a sporting event. Can't just be

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Speaker 2: a concert venue. Can't be Red Rocks out in Colorado, which,

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Speaker 2: funny enough, I've been there, but not for a concert.

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Speaker 2: I did friggin' Sunrise yoga there one time. With my wife.

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Speaker 3: Wow though it was great. Yeah, yeah, we were.

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Speaker 2: We were out there like three or four years ago

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Speaker 2: we do Sunrise Yoga, red Rocks. I was like, you said,

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Speaker 2: red Rocks? Sure, Sure, I got up early and you know.

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Speaker 3: But the Sphere is not gonna be on this list.

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Speaker 2: The Sphere is not going to be on this list.

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Speaker 3: Although I tell you what to sign, I bet I

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Speaker 3: can get you started there.

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Speaker 2: Someone who's seen four shows at the Sphere I would

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Speaker 2: highly recommend. And also can't be Pittsburgh or WVU based.

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Speaker 3: Good good, No PNC Park familiar.

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Speaker 2: No PNC Park, no WVU Coliseum. All right, so here,

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Speaker 2: so here we go.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm gona have many comments on these,

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Speaker 3: so take it away.

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Speaker 2: I I yeah, you might not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some honorable mentions here for you. First, funny Enough

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Speaker 2: Memorial Stadium. That's Nebraska's football stadium that I just talked

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Speaker 2: about talking about USC was there was there back in

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Speaker 2: our league in Lincoln, Nebraska got to go there once.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Has that been the same stadium since? Like the eighties.

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Speaker 3: They were awesome with Yeah, Tommy.

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Speaker 2: But I love I love old historic stadiums that have

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: They still have the history and the tradition element, but

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Speaker 3: Okay, I love those. I'm not a car guy, but

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Speaker 3: if I had a bazillion dollars, I'd get an awesome

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Speaker 3: muscle car from the seventies. Yes, that has been That

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Speaker 3: is air conditioning again.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, So some honorable mentions. Memorial Stadium would be one.

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Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium would be one. I'm not a I'm not

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Speaker 2: a big baseball guy, but the history in there is

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Speaker 3: And then before Yankee.

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Speaker 2: Memorial Stadium, Nebraska Nebraska's football stadium. And then hinkelefield House,

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Speaker 2: which is the Butler University basketball arena. It's where they

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Speaker 2: It was awesome and I actually got.

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Speaker 3: The Colts game.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Mike's ever gone there.

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Speaker 2: It was a game, You're right, it was the Steelers

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Speaker 3: It's new and awesome, right, it's new.

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Speaker 2: It's awesome. It looks like the Death Star. I mean

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Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool. Number nine The Big House in

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Speaker 2: an Orber, Michigan. Don't let Mike Pursuda hear me say this, right,

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Speaker 2: I went there for a Michigan Notre Dame game. One year.

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Speaker 2: The atmosphere is not as crazy as you would expect

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Speaker 2: They're not the They're not the down in Morgantown, you know,

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Speaker 2: That's number nine.

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Speaker 3: But that one I can contribute to a little. I

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Speaker 2: You walk in on the go down. It is pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: The history there is awesome. That's that, Matt. I was

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Speaker 3: At the Big House. Nice Okay.

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Speaker 2: I'll be surprised if you ever even heard of this one,

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Speaker 2: But if you heard of the Palestra, no, okay. It

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Speaker 2: a what's the capacity here?

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Speaker 2: Just under nine thousand people. Yes, And there's five Division

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Speaker 3: Now there's some serious high school teams.

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Speaker 2: Big basketball in Philadelphia is a huge deal, right, huge deal.

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Speaker 3: Because like brokick story, like my son's one of his

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Speaker 2: I think Penn plays their home games there as well too.

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Speaker 2: But it's matt It's from the outside it looks like

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Speaker 3: Oh right up your alley then, and it's cool. It's

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Speaker 3: it's historic, but not crappy.

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Speaker 2: Eight exactly right, eight thousand seats right on top of

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Speaker 2: Number seven. The camp. Now it's Barcelona's Stadia.

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Speaker 3: You said there's going to be some soccer, be some.

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Speaker 2: Soccer stuff on here. So Barcelona, of course, one of

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Speaker 2: Mercedes Benz Stadium. Really I love it, Okay, It's so cool.

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Speaker 2: It's very nice. It's easy to get around. The roof

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Speaker 2: to you before, but I've worked three games there now

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Speaker 2: I want to just go to, like next summer when

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Speaker 3: And yet it's like a palace. It's so nice. So

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Speaker 3: we visited friends in Atlanta a couple summers ago and

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Speaker 3: but it was very impressive. It's really I'm a fashion

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Speaker 3: on them. But it'd be cool if they had better fans.

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Speaker 2: It'd be very cool if they had a better if

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Speaker 2: You want to talk some history. These next couple are

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Speaker 2: very historic. Number five Lambeau Field. How can you know they?

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Speaker 2: Of course, especially since the renovations that they've done to it.

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Speaker 2: It's it is another one of those blend of history

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here on a Wednesday, I'm down

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Speaker 2: the home stretch Westuler and Matt Williamson with you, and Matt,

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Speaker 2: you sent me well. To be fair, you send me

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Speaker 2: a lot of interesting stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is funny. I always love it. I could

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Speaker 2: through nine in the National Football League. So how many

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Speaker 2: total points you're gaining through turnovers? How many total points

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Speaker 2: you're gaining on special teams?

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Speaker 3: Matt?

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Speaker 2: The Steelers are like in a stratosphere of their own.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I just cutting paces from Pro Football for Focus.

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Speaker 3: I mean they they're they're titles on there. I'm not

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Speaker 3: trying to I don't create graphs or anything like that,

443
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Speaker 3: but I cut and paste them as well as anybody else.

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Speaker 3: And our listeners can't see it. But it's actually on

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Speaker 3: my Twitter feed at Williamson NFL. If you just want

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Speaker 3: to see the graphic, because the graphic makes you go, whoa.

447
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Speaker 3: You know, you're like the best in the league in

448
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Speaker 3: both categories.

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Speaker 2: They're like an extreme outlier in both categories.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I did an entire podcast on this today.

451
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Speaker 3: And to be honest about this time of the year,

452
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Speaker 3: every year they're right there. Like it's not Tomlin voodoo

453
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Speaker 3: or this magic. You know, it's like they really stress

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Speaker 3: these areas and they're great at it. And it turns

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Speaker 3: how do you have a winning record every year in

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Speaker 3: a row? And well, you're really good in the kicking game,

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Speaker 3: and you're really good on turnovers, you know.

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Speaker 2: And you know who is kind of a nice to say.

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Speaker 3: Look at the other opposite end, the Chargers are like

460
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Speaker 3: the worst combination combination not a good company to keep.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not. And this is you're absolutely right when

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Speaker 2: you look at the consecutive winning seasons, when you look

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Speaker 2: at the record and one score games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this when you're great on special teams.

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Speaker 2: Stuff like this. When you're great on special teams, when

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Speaker 2: you're great on points off of turnovers, that's how you

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Speaker 2: raise your floor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're undefeated this year in games they won the

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Speaker 3: turnover battle four No.

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Speaker 2: And you know, they as long as they've had Chris Boswell,

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Speaker 2: except for that one year where he was injured, it's

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Speaker 2: felt like special teams has been a net positive. But

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Speaker 2: I also think it's a hunt every year. They always

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Speaker 2: say sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Give Danny Smith a lot of credit. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 3: also think organizationally they stress it at least as much

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Speaker 3: as anyone else. You know, like since I've been paying

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Speaker 3: attention to analytics in any form, football outsiders was like

479
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Speaker 3: way ahead of the curve. They've been around since like

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Speaker 3: the early eighties, and they would always do They pretty

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Speaker 3: much always said special teams every year is very random,

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Speaker 3: Like if you're good on special teams last year, who

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Speaker 3: knows if Shelby or not. But during like the there's

484
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Speaker 3: about a fifteen year stretch there when every year the

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Speaker 3: Ravens and Patriots are in the top five, they're the

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Speaker 3: only two. Belichick stressed it like crazy. Harbaugh's a form

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Speaker 3: or special teams coach. He had Tucker, the Patriots had

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Speaker 3: good kickers too, But now the Steelers are in that

489
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Speaker 3: category two where if you want to bet on who's

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Speaker 3: going to be DVOA top five special teams next year,

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Speaker 3: not even knowing who's on your roster. Steelers should be

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Speaker 3: your first bet. You just absolutely should. And I think

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Speaker 3: Dave Smith is un doing it really good kicker, which

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Speaker 3: is huge. But they also do things like bring up

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Speaker 3: two running backs off off the practice squad who aren't

496
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Speaker 3: ever going to touch the football just for one game

497
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Speaker 3: for special teams, right or keep kill a brew And

498
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Speaker 3: I know Hayward does more than that, But Pierre and Hayward,

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Speaker 3: I think they more than any team in the league,

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Speaker 3: or as much as these five spots on the roster

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Speaker 3: or for special teamers that can get us out of games.

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Speaker 3: But they're here for one you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: They value that.

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Speaker 3: They value that.

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Speaker 2: You and I talk about it, Dale, We would talk

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Speaker 2: about this every training camp. How the Steelers devote more

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Speaker 2: time to those special teams periods than just about anybody

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Speaker 2: that's I.

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Speaker 3: Said that today on the on the other podcast I

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Speaker 3: did was I don't want to I don't watch other

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Speaker 3: teams practices. Of course I'm not at the Chargers practice

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Speaker 3: the Packers practice, but I know the Steelers dedicate a

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Speaker 3: lot of time to it too.

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Speaker 2: Yes they do, and it's shown up and it's it's working.

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Speaker 3: That was They've used a lot of like seventh round

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Speaker 3: picks on pure special teamers too.

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Speaker 2: They just did with Matt Before we go to break here,

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Speaker 2: we'll close down with a couple of tweets. On the

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Speaker 2: other side, I have to ask you one of our

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Speaker 2: weekly Wednesday questions. It's time to pick a player from

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Speaker 2: the Chargers roster to add to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now

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Speaker 2: there's a couple very obvious, Herbert, we're just taking quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Out of the too easy to easy and with him, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Are we going to I think it becomes more fun

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Speaker 2: if we kind of like consider health And.

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Speaker 3: That's why this one's really interesting to me.

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Speaker 2: Like, and I didn't worry that properly, But should we

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Speaker 2: do it as if Rashaun Slater and Joe Alt are healthy?

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Speaker 3: No, you have to have exactly with them today?

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Speaker 2: Well, is it bad to say that I would probably

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Speaker 2: still take Joe allt and just I think I would too,

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Speaker 2: like I knew he wasn't gonna play for the rest

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Speaker 2: of this year.

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Speaker 3: I would love my team doctor to evaluate Slater and

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Speaker 3: Alt and be like, or either one of these a

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Speaker 3: total reject, because that's who I'm taking. Sure, if there's

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Speaker 3: two weeks ago, I'd say it's Alt for sure, because

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Speaker 3: he was healthy and awesome. McConkey would come into the

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Speaker 3: mix a little. It's an interesting he was much more

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Speaker 3: than just a slot folks. And he's cheap, he's honest,

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Speaker 3: you know, and he's healthy. He can help me win,

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Speaker 3: right now, No one on defense, not that their defense

543
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Speaker 3: is bad, but there's not someone there.

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Speaker 2: It's like, you're not gonna pay Derwin James that much.

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Speaker 3: I don't see one guy that would just like make

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Speaker 3: you so much better. I think it's still Alt.

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Speaker 2: I think it is too. Yeah, it's a premier position.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: You'd still have him on his rookie contract for a

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Speaker 2: couple more years.

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Speaker 3: It'd be nice if I knew that he's ready for

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Speaker 3: training camp next year. Yes, that's all I really need.

553
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Speaker 3: Just check that box for me, and I'm ready to roll.

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Speaker 3: I am, and that's in. Sorry, Broderick, but I'll take

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Speaker 3: all over, you know, you know? Left that right, Matt.

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Speaker 2: If it's a year or two from now and Joe

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Speaker 2: Alt is the like consensus best tackle in football, I

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Speaker 2: don't think that would surprise.

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Speaker 3: Any of us. No, no, right, I mean he's that

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Speaker 3: good absolutely, Like every draft class, I do this little

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Speaker 3: exercise in my head too to get in there. We're

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Speaker 3: a weird world of Matt Williamson, and like, who would

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Speaker 3: I pick out of this class?

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Speaker 2: That sounds like a fun off season of content weird

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Speaker 2: world of Matt Williamson once a week.

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Speaker 3: And like when the draft comes out, though, I look

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Speaker 3: at me, like, who is the best chance in this

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Speaker 3: draft to be a Hall of Famer?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: And I think all was. He was definitely one of

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Speaker 3: my finalists because guys like that play a long time,

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Speaker 3: and I mean, you get twelve years of that dude,

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Speaker 3: that's the Hall of Famer, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Left that I'm putting this in my notes on my

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Speaker 2: iPhone right now, weird World of Matt Williamson. I'll remember

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Speaker 2: what that what that means when the time, when the

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Speaker 2: time comes. Yeah, I I I just think even if

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Speaker 2: you were not going to have him for the rest

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Speaker 2: of this year, it's it's still and you won't relatively, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so be it right, still relatively a no brainer for

581
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Speaker 2: me that.

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Speaker 3: You drop that guy out of the sky in the

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Speaker 3: off season and add them to your line. Oh, you

584
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Speaker 3: get the best line of the league, unbelievable, And assume

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Speaker 3: he does a long term and Slater wouldn't be bad. No,

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Speaker 3: Slater's a great left has Joel's still twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he hasn't even turned twenty three yet. Wow, or

588
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: maybe it did. He maybe just turn twenty three.

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Speaker 3: But regardless, pop right like the second season.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean most teams, So I'd be thrilled

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Speaker 3: to take Slater. Slater to me as a top five

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Speaker 3: left tackle when healthy too.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Yeah, I would take I would happily

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Speaker 2: take either. Ah, Joe all buddy, same birthday as me,

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Speaker 2: February twenty eighth. Nice, all the cool kids are born

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Speaker 2: in February. Joe Alt will not even turn twenty three

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Speaker 2: until February. Wow, good lord. Yeah that's the guy.

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Speaker 3: Daddy was a tackle. He was like bred to be

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Speaker 3: a tackle. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You think Joe Alt wants to hang out on our birthday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I ever tell you the Kenny Picket story? I

603
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: think So we're about June and six, are you? And

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Speaker 3: that was Mini Camp? Yeah? Yeah yeah yeah. Every year

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Speaker 3: during my we're always broadcasting right down there.

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Speaker 2: We're always at the Combine for my birthday and always

607
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Speaker 2: at Mini Camp and OTAs for your birthday.

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Speaker 3: And I remember going in there, and there's this huge

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Speaker 3: birthday cake on June sixth, first for QBY at the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I kept joking on the air, I'm like, you

611
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 3: guys didn't have to do this for me, you know, right?

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Speaker 2: All right, one more segment, that's funny. One more segment

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Speaker 2: to go on the other side. We'll close this thing

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Speaker 2: down with a couple of your tweets before we get

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Speaker 2: up out of here. West Jeweler, Matt Williamson, it's the

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Speaker 2: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: The final segment here on a Wednesday, Matthew, what do

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Speaker 2: you say we close it down with some tweets?

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Speaker 3: All right, I love it.

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Speaker 2: Let's get after it. As always, you can tweet us

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Speaker 2: anytime of the day. If they're good, I'll book mark

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Speaker 2: them and we'll get to them. Or if we just

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Speaker 2: you know, need some content from time to time as

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Speaker 2: well too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can fill a segment.

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Speaker 2: At Wesley Yuler at Williamson, NFL is where you find

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Speaker 2: the duo of the Drive on Twitter. Steel Curtain tweets

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Speaker 2: us and says you guys were talking about Dak yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Would like to know what you think of him potentially

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Speaker 2: being a Pittsburgh Steeler.

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Speaker 3: I've linked him to Steelers for three years now.

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Speaker 2: You talk about this a lot last off season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love him. I think he's so good above

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Speaker 3: the neck and it's such a cerebral good player that's

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Speaker 3: playing great right now. But coincidentally, I do a show

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Speaker 3: Locked on Dynasty, just every Wednesday, and one of the

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Speaker 3: other co hosts is Marcus Mosher. He actually was on

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Speaker 3: with Dale and I like a year ago. I think

641
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Speaker 3: we forget why we had him on Dallas. He also

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00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: just locked on Cowboys, so he's he is a Dallas.

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Speaker 3: He lives in Erie, but he he covers the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: amongst many other things he does. Anyway, I was chatting

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Speaker 3: with him before we recorded this morning about the Quentyn

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Speaker 3: Williams trade and he said, what he thinks the Cowboys

647
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Speaker 3: are doing isn't trying to like it's on a win

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Speaker 3: now move. Quinn Williams is gonna make us win the

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl this year. It's for next year because there

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Speaker 3: they are. And I asked him, like, are they all

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Speaker 3: in on Dak or are they just gonna they just

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Speaker 3: want picks. He's like, no, they're all in on Dak

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Speaker 3: for next year. So I don't think he's going anywhere.

654
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Speaker 3: Lamb's under under contract, the whole lines under contract, Williams

655
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Speaker 3: and Clark, the two defensive.

656
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Speaker 2: Tas probably sign picks.

657
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Speaker 3: They'll probably keep Pickens, and then they have all these picks.

658
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Speaker 3: The's gonna draft defense, youth, speed and take their shot

659
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Speaker 3: next year with Dak. So I don't think he'll be

660
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Speaker 3: in the I don't think he's going anywhere. But if you,

661
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Speaker 3: if you told me right now Rogers retires, Dallas says,

662
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Speaker 3: give us your first round pick for Dak. Yes, I

663
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: mean not even a first rounder. I mean at his age,

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Speaker 3: get three or four years out of him and draft

665
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Speaker 3: one in four years instead of then he'd be a

666
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 3: pretty good team. I love them.

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Speaker 2: I think if Aaron Rodgers retires and you're not able

668
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: to get one of these top two or three quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: out of college, I would be very interested.

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Speaker 3: I'd be very interested. I just don't think he's going

671
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Speaker 3: to be on the block.

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Speaker 2: The way you lined it out there, laid it out there,

673
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Speaker 2: makes sense. Brad tweeted us and said, hypothetical it's the

674
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty sixth draft. Okay, Yeah, omar CON's got all

675
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Speaker 2: these picks, but not enough to get up and nab

676
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Speaker 2: one of the top quarterbacks that he wants.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what would you do?

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Speaker 2: Would you potentially trade up and try and grab a

679
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 2: stud at another position? Do you stay pat and just

680
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: follow your big board? Do you maybe trade any picks

681
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Speaker 2: from twenty six to try and get better capital in

682
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Speaker 2: twenty seven?

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Speaker 3: I would trobably do at least one of those moves.

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00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: And it might not be a colossal move where you

685
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Speaker 3: get future first or anything, but if you have an

686
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 3: extra third, if you could turn into a second next year,

687
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Speaker 3: I'm all years on that because it's the thing people

688
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: don't think about. It's like, it's great to have a

689
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 3: ton of picks, but sometimes you don't have a foster

690
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: space for it from all to make a team. Even so,

691
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind combining picks once or twice during the draft,

692
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Speaker 3: where you take two fifths and you move up to

693
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Speaker 3: the front of the fourth, or you take a fourth

694
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Speaker 3: and you turn into next year's third. So that would

695
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Speaker 3: be in the cards for me. Maybe I would take

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Speaker 3: a shot on the third round quarterback, but I don't

697
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Speaker 3: think I think I want to go bigger, goone the

698
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 3: next quarterback. Like when that just fell out of my mouth,

699
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Speaker 3: I'm like.

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Speaker 2: I want to buy it. I want to buy a

701
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 2: Rolls Royce or nothing exactly.

702
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 3: I am swinging for the fences, and if I miss,

703
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 3: I'm gonna swing the next year. You know, and I

704
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 3: already got Howard, you know, like, I don't need another

705
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 3: young guy just to have another young guy. But even

706
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 3: if Prodert Jones is awesome and you pick up his

707
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: fifth year option, I'm drafting at least one lineman, if

708
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: not too for depth, a tackle and an interior guy

709
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: because you have picks and that's a hard place to get.

710
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 3: And one of the things I said about the whole

711
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 3: court wide receiver trade deadline stuff is well, if you're

712
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 3: gonna need a receiver next year, why not get one

713
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: now ahead of the deal if they're under contract. So

714
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Speaker 3: maybe my first round pick would be a wide out.

715
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Speaker 3: Maybe also you build that nest ye.

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Speaker 2: Whoever your next quarterback.

717
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 3: Is man coverage corners another thing to look at, absolutely,

718
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: you know, I mean someone that can be three years

719
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Speaker 3: four years younger than Porter, that has first round traits,

720
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 3: so not killing anyone the organization. But these are facts.

721
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 3: It's been six or seven draft classes Porter aside, they

722
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 3: have not drafted a corner in the first six rounds.

723
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 3: Every corner they've drafted besides Porter is a seventh round

724
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 3: or it's Kent, it's.

725
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: Probably Cam Sutton was the last one before Joey Porter game.

726
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, And frankly, they weren't real successful at It was

727
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 3: like lane.

728
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Speaker 2: And that's the one thing that that would always because

729
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 2: people would always they can't develop corner steelers, can't draft corners.

730
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: The track record was not there, right, But they were

731
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 2: all in the fifth and sixth and seventh round. It's

732
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: not like they were whiffing on the twentieth overall pick

733
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Speaker 2: at corner exactly.

734
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Speaker 3: And frankly, that's one of the problems. That's why you

735
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 3: can't get tackles late. Either the good ones are gone as.

736
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Speaker 2: Or luxury position.

737
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Speaker 3: Yeah you're you're not bad.

738
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Speaker 2: It rolls Royce and Mercedes Benz and.

739
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not bad enough to take Sauce, Gardener and Stingley.

740
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Speaker 3: It's not like they wouldn't, You're just they don't last

741
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Speaker 3: till the twentieth pick. So they've had a lot of

742
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 3: call them retreads, veterans or whatever. That's what they've done

743
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 3: at Corner. And you know, it's not great. I mean

744
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: it's not terrible, but it's not great. I don't think

745
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 3: it's an organizational philosophy. But I wouldn't mind another high

746
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 3: pedigree draft pick Corner.

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Speaker 2: I concur and speaking of that, Christopher tweets us and says,

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Speaker 2: at what point does the around Campus segment start looking

749
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Speaker 2: at other draft allible positions, namely wide receivers or corners,

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Speaker 2: which is seeming more likely now Christopher, as soon as

751
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: the season ends, buddy.

752
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll throwing INXT week or whatever. Yeah. Right.

753
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 2: I kind of started the around campus with the college

754
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 2: you know, quarterbacks, one to bring some college football conversation.

755
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 3: Into the show, which I like. Yeah.

756
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Speaker 2: Two, because of the direct parallel of when you have

757
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 2: a forty one year old quarterback, there's a really good chance, yeah,

758
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 2: to be drafted one And because there were so many

759
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 2: big names from big programs this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but don't worry. We will.

761
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Speaker 2: You know, we will do all of our position groups

762
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 2: and start really deep diving into all that stuff in January.

763
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Speaker 3: And I promise everyone, as I learn more about the draft,

764
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: I will tell you guys more about the draft. I

765
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: have a hard time studying. I know, like the top

766
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: fifty players, but I can't tell you the eighth best

767
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 3: guard in the draft right now, you know correct.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this though. The best tackles in the

769
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 2: draft might be both of those guys from Utah. My goodness,

770
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Speaker 2: are they incredible.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a what I have picked up on.

772
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 3: It's another good tackle draft if you happen to need one.

773
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Speaker 3: And if it's not gonna be the year you get

774
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 3: your quarterback and you decide not to pick up Roderick, you

775
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: might have to go back to that. Well. And a

776
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: lot of folks that I trust did not come in

777
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: this year particularly excited about the receiver class, and they

778
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: are changing their mind in a hurry.

779
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Speaker 2: I really like that kid from USC. Yeah, well we'll

780
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: talk some more.

781
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe we'll Louisvel's got a guy. I mean, like,

782
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: there's there's more than your thought.

783
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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll maybe we will add some wide receivers to

784
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Speaker 2: the conversation here before the season ends. We'll see how

785
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: we can make that all work out. Last one, Matt,

786
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Speaker 2: let me get out on an optimistic note here from

787
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 2: Jeffrey he says, Let's remember the Steelers beat the current

788
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 2: one and two seeds in the AFC, lost to the

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Speaker 2: current number one in the power ranking Seattle Seahawks. It

790
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: would have been nice to add another wide receiver at

791
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: the deadline, but I think this team just needs to

792
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: play discipline football and they'll go out to LA and

793
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 2: beat the Chargers thirty to nineteen. And the early score

794
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: prediction from Jeffrey here this week.

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Speaker 3: I do think it's noteworthy that the Patriots lost the

796
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 3: Seattle law or they didn't. They beat the Patriots, beat

797
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 3: the Patriots. Patriots when the Colts win and the Seahawks

798
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 3: loss look a lot better now than the day they happened. Well,

799
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Speaker 3: not the Colts, the co Colts was recent. Yep, losing

800
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 3: the Seattle is there's nothing to hang your head about.

801
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: Especially away from home, because all they do is win

802
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 2: on the road.

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Speaker 3: They do. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Matt, good stuff today. I enjoyed it. We were kind

805
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 2: of a lot of touched on a lot of different

806
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Speaker 2: bases today and I enjoyed the variety of the Wednesday show.

807
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Speaker 2: But tomorrow it will be back to Charger stuff, back

808
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: to Chargers stuff. We'll deep dive into Matt's stats, we'll

809
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 2: catch up with Bob Labriola. We'll do all of our

810
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: early scouting, practice reports, injury reports, all that good stuff,

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Speaker 2: and all of our early scout out of course, two

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Speaker 2: of those Los Angele's chargers. But that'll do it for

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Speaker 2: us today. Big thanks to Chris Hallick for joining us,

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Speaker 2: and of course our video producer mister tv Tyler v

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Speaker 2: Form making sure we look handsome on YouTube for Matt

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Speaker 2: Williams and I'm Wes Heler. Take care, everybody, we'll talk

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