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Speaker 2: looking here at Trevor sickahema, I should sick. Yeah, on

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Speaker 2: the Pro Football Focus was on the show. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: joined us at the at the Combat the Combine.

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Speaker 3: He's basically a draft guy, but then he does other

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Speaker 3: stuff at same here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he has gone through and ranked the thirty

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Speaker 2: two presumed starting quarterbacks. Yeah, in the league. Let's go

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Speaker 2: ahead and take a look at how Crever has that. No,

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Speaker 2: obviously he's going to use a lot of the Pro

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Speaker 2: Football focused stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he also watched these guys in college and

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Speaker 3: you know, has that background.

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Speaker 2: So at thirty two he has the Denver Broncos with

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Speaker 2: Jared Stidham bo Nicks. You think of the Raiders last,

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Speaker 2: he thinks that's the worst.

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Speaker 3: Although you can make the argument Minshew's better than right

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Speaker 3: this minute, is better than any of those guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I get it. I don't think Stidham's terrible, though.

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Speaker 2: I mean Minshew, get you. I'd take Minshew over Stidham.

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Speaker 4: I would too.

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Speaker 2: I mean, to win one game, I would take him

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Speaker 2: over anyone on the Raiders or Denver.

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Speaker 4: Here's what he is. I mean, I think Nick should

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Speaker 4: go past him, hopefully goes past him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I hear you, I don't. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to fight him too much on that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And thirty one is Sam Donald and JJ McCarthy with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fair. I mean that's fair. I mean it's.

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Speaker 3: I would have loved I don't want party to get hurt,

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Speaker 3: but I would have loved to see Donald for a

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Speaker 3: month with the Niners, just to see is he.

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Speaker 2: With those weapons now? By the same time the Vikings

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Speaker 2: have the weapons. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean that could

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Speaker 2: be a successful situation. Yeah, but there's two unproven quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Donald still remarkably young. We had a good

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Speaker 2: conversation about an hour ago about fields. I mean Donald

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Speaker 2: him any favors except for the Niners need to get

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Speaker 2: round of Aid O'Connell and Gardner Minshew. I just don't

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Speaker 2: see the upside there. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 2: that'd be the quarterback room I would want the least.

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Speaker 2: Minshew's the best player right now of that group.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he might be better than Donald or probably McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a huge Minshew fan, but right

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Speaker 2: he is at least a proven that he you know,

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Speaker 3: A ship going in Indie last year. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I was called Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's going to play for

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Speaker 3: ten teams, and he's in the last twenty years and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Twenty nine Daniel Jones with the Giants, and.

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Speaker 4: I do think he's the starter.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's some stuff came out of Mini camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the Tier seven Okay, guys. Tier six,

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Speaker 3: With Will Lovis good. I think that's rightfully where he belongs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Is Jacobe Brissette Drake May with the Patriots?

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Speaker 3: he doesn't ruin games. He's just not worth what they

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Speaker 3: paid for him, you know. I mean he's been kind

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's bob Ma barrel for a guy who's yeah,

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Speaker 2: Here's what he has to say. Wilson's past two years

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Speaker 2: the moonshot when it's there. Despite ranking just twenty first

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Speaker 3: I like what Trevor says there is it's almost impossible

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Speaker 3: I mean him and Peyton were oil and water, and

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Speaker 3: mentioned this Monday, him and Fields were the most pressured

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the league, but they weren't like the worst

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Speaker 2: You know. Twenty one is Derek Carr. It's put up

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Speaker 4: For me, it seemed like he kind of lost his team.

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Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah. Twenty is Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 2: We talked about it. As he points out here, overall,

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Speaker 2: Mayfield was erratic, no kidding, he always is. He had

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Speaker 2: twenty five big time throws last year and twenty two

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Speaker 2: turnover worthy plays. I didn't know he's a turnover worthy

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Speaker 3: Ah, okay, this is just like the middle class. This

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Speaker 2: I guess. So you're looking at Caleb Williams with the Bears.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventeen is Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 3: all said and done. Priory deserves to be now after

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Speaker 2: See yeah, sixteen Jared Goff, I'd probably have him a

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Speaker 3: I mean I mentioned that pressure stuff that all came

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Speaker 3: but no one had a bigger gap of pressured versus

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Speaker 2: At fifteen, Kirk Cousins, who's better of those two? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think golf right now because he's healthy.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I like golf better period.

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Speaker 2: Goff's actually won wins big games.

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Speaker 4: I think he's a little more talent.

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Speaker 2: Does he doesn't win big games? You want to talk

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Speaker 2: about a quarterback who doesn't win big games, it's Kirk Cousins. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean even like primetime game.

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Speaker 2: I mean? Yeah, at fourteen to a Tago Vailoa, they're.

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Speaker 3: All the same to me, Yeah, they're all yeah, thirteen

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Speaker 3: the party should be right there with them. That they're

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Speaker 3: system quarterbacks sound so terrible, but they've built their system

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Speaker 3: good execution.

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Speaker 4: I take party over to you know.

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Speaker 2: Twelve is Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 2: his negative throws aren't great. No, he had twenty four

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Speaker 4: He's that good. Yeah, he really is.

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Speaker 2: And sticking with the pro football focused theme there theme

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Speaker 4: A harder reject to make on the quarnerback thirty.

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Speaker 3: Two, right, I mean the guys in the twenty five

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Speaker 3: my list to keep tabs on. Like he's old and

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Speaker 4: I think that's fair. I think that's the neighborhood he

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Speaker 3: I mean, Godwin's right behind him. I think that's a

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Speaker 4: And he can move up.

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Speaker 2: This list, Well that's out the window because in number

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Speaker 2: awesome and that it doesn't mean Picking stinks by any means.

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Speaker 2: But I got so much feedback. How could you possibly

442
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 2: think London's better than Pickens. He's a really, really good player.

443
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 3: And I just think he is. I mean, he was

444
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,360
Speaker 3: in the same draft. He went noticeably ahead of him.

445
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 3: Pickens could be better in the year from now.

446
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Speaker 2: Twenty five is Malik neighbors same thing with the same thing. Yeah,

447
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 2: I mean, Harrison's gonna be on there too, I'm sure.

448
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,120
Speaker 2: Twenty four Dk Metcalf.

449
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Speaker 3: I think I'd rather have like a lave and London

450
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 3: Metcalf is really special. But he's really specialized too, you know,

451
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 3: and he talks himself in the yet.

452
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Twenty three Jaylen Waddle.

453
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Speaker 3: Yes, but like his Bama teammates, if he were the one,

454
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 3: would it be better or worse? And I don't think

455
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 3: we know, I mean just production wise, it's a little

456
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 3: easier to be Robin it is.

457
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Speaker 4: But I like Wattle a lot.

458
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Speaker 2: Twenty two Keenan Allen.

459
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Speaker 3: Still Yes, Yeah, but he doesn't he's Michael Jordan at

460
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Speaker 3: the end shooting jumpers. He's not a tongue hanging out

461
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 3: from the free throw line anymore.

462
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did have twelve hundred and forty three yards

463
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Speaker 2: last year, thirteen games.

464
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Speaker 3: Thirteen games, and they're nickel and dimes stuff, but he's

465
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Speaker 3: a master of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Twenty one Marvin Harrison, Yeah, getting the rookie. Maybe

467
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Speaker 2: twenty Mike Evans.

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Speaker 3: Him and Allen had awesome years last year. Yeah, Like

469
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Speaker 3: I avoided them in fantasy. They're getting old and Allen

470
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Speaker 3: doesn't have an old man game. I mean he's down

471
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Speaker 3: the field.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Nineteen Amari Cooper.

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Speaker 3: It'd be a little lower for me. I'd rather play

474
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Speaker 3: against Mary Cooper than Allen er than Evans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen Terry mcclaury.

478
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Speaker 4: Like I think Waddle's better Hooper, Yeah.

479
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Speaker 2: I think so, I think. Yeah. Eighteen is Terry McLaurin.

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Speaker 3: He's a favor of mine. I mean, he seems to

481
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Speaker 3: have lost a little of his luster and he's older

482
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 3: than you think, but it's not a whole lot helping

483
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Speaker 3: him lately.

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Speaker 4: No, he could bounce back big this year.

485
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Speaker 2: Seventeen is DeAndre Hopkins. Hmmm, I can't. I don't know

486
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Speaker 2: if I have him that high.

487
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Speaker 3: The highlight plays are less and less. He never was

488
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Speaker 3: a separator and he separates, he doesn't get open like

489
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Speaker 3: I would take Evans and Allen over him. I mean

490
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Speaker 3: they're all the same era age wise. I think he's

491
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Speaker 3: definitely third of those.

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Speaker 2: I think it's easier to take him out of a

493
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Speaker 2: game than any maybe anybody else.

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Speaker 4: On this list.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I had this far and I don't need

496
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Speaker 2: to roll a ton of coverage over to do it,

497
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Speaker 2: you know. H Sixteen Davonte Smith m hm.

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Speaker 3: Really good player, I mean quality. I mean AJ Brown's

499
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Speaker 3: on their side, and of course that helps, but I

500
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Speaker 3: think Smith and Wadda would stand alone pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen Nico Collins ooh too early, Monster Year, Monster Year. Like.

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Speaker 3: I think Tyreek was the only one that had more

503
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 3: yards per route, run really good on like inbreaking routes.

504
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Speaker 2: Like he's an old school go over the middle. Yeah,

505
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Speaker 2: I love.

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Speaker 4: Him to see. I mean it's hard to move up

507
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Speaker 4: the receiver pecking horn.

508
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Speaker 2: I think we drafted him like three straight years in Fantasy.

509
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Speaker 2: I think a lot, a lot. Uh. Fourteen Garrett Wilson.

510
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Speaker 2: I think he's better than the Lave and Waddle and

511
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Speaker 2: Smith and some of the other smaller guys. Yeah. Thirteen

512
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Speaker 2: Pooka Nikua A little early, Yeah, little early.

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Speaker 4: I mean I do think he's real.

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Speaker 3: I think he his numbers are inflated by McVeigh in

515
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Speaker 3: an injured cup, but I think he'd be a high

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Speaker 3: quality player on Carolina.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like, I think he's good.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, twelve is dj Moore, so the Bears

519
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Speaker 2: do have three on this list.

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Speaker 3: You had a great year too, he really did. I

521
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Speaker 3: don't think he's special, but I think he's really good,

522
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Speaker 3: good enough to catch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Eleven is Stefan Diggs. He'd be lower for me now, Yeah,

524
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's that guy.

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Speaker 3: The second half of the season was rough, and some

526
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Speaker 3: of it wasn't his fault. The coordinator change didn't help.

527
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Speaker 3: But I heard a really good comparison on Diggs, and

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Speaker 3: I don't mean this is a negative. Well, I do

529
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Speaker 3: compare to what he was. Diggs was more of a

530
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Speaker 3: Antonio Brown guy on his best day, not as good.

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Speaker 4: Now he's more of the Keenan Allen guy.

532
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Speaker 3: Like he's more of the intermediate route runner.

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Speaker 2: He's just not as scary ten Deebo Samuel. It's a

534
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Speaker 2: little high for me too.

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Speaker 4: He's a certain type of guy.

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Speaker 3: He's hard to play against I mean, you do not

537
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Speaker 3: want to try to tackle him.

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Speaker 4: He's his zone destroyer. But being a ten, I mean

539
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Speaker 4: that's over some really good player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you got to be I mean you got to

541
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Speaker 2: be a guy that no matter what you're ten, no

542
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Speaker 2: matter what team you go to, you're the number one. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I mentioned that in the conversations number one and

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That, Like, like I mentioned, I did that podcast a

546
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Speaker 3: while ago and quote number one receivers, and he was

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Speaker 3: not a number one for me. And I think how

548
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Speaker 3: I defined it was this player can consistently beat Man

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Speaker 3: or Zone at all areas.

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Speaker 4: Of the field.

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Speaker 2: I think it was like one sentence, you know, like

552
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Speaker 2: can consistently win. You know, like doesn't mean you're gonna

553
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Speaker 2: get open every snap, but ab you know what I mean,

554
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Speaker 2: Like I can beat you with Nicol and Dimie, I

555
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Speaker 2: can take you down the field.

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Speaker 4: I could be Man, I can be Zone.

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Speaker 3: The whole world knows it's coming on third and eight

558
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Speaker 3: and DeVante Adams converts, you know, like that stuff's hard.

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Speaker 4: That's not debo.

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Speaker 2: Number nine is Cooper cup. I still think he has it,

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Speaker 2: but I would bet the arrow is pointing down. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thirty one years old. Yeah, the season begins.

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Speaker 3: I think you said the other day though, like if

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Speaker 3: he was on the market, he was available, I'd go

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Speaker 3: get him.

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Speaker 4: Yeheah, it'd be a great seiler.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Eight Brandon Ayuk, tremendous year.

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Speaker 4: I think he is a true number one.

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Speaker 3: Does it all that he's exactly that definition I mentioned?

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Speaker 2: Seven a monro Saint Brown.

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Speaker 3: I think his production in fantasy is a little bit

572
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Speaker 3: better than the reality. But he's a great player. I

573
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Speaker 3: don't know that he should be the highest paid receiver

574
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Speaker 3: in the league. Great player, tough, Heinez Wardish really yeah,

575
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. You'd love to have him,

576
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Speaker 3: But I don't know. He was my fringe number one

577
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Speaker 3: because that definition I just said. Can he always get

578
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 3: a bucket for you most of the time? But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean we can pretty much always get to the rim,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: Six Devonte Adams, Yes, maybe declining, but I don't think

582
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Speaker 2: I mean he is a handful. Yeah. Five is aj Brown. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean he's a physical marvel, big, powerful, strong and can.

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Speaker 4: Do more than that too.

585
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Speaker 2: For Cede Lamb as good a.

586
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Speaker 3: Year as just about anybody last year. I don't think

587
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Speaker 3: he's as explosive as probably I think we can figure

588
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Speaker 3: out who these next three are. They're all more explosive

589
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 3: than Lamb, but he's a high quality guy that should

590
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 3: last a long time.

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00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: Three is Jamar Chase, Ye, two is Tyreek, and one

592
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: is Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: Tyreek's the only one I think that could compete to

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Speaker 3: be number one. Like I really think I don't want

595
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 3: Tom watching my kids, and I don't think he's necessarily

596
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 3: a great person. But in the history of wide receivers,

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00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 3: I think he should go down as one of the

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Speaker 3: best ever because I think if you if you I'm

599
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 3: not say he's Randy Moss, but if you asked defensive coordinators,

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Speaker 3: who do you not want to play against?

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Speaker 4: It's that guy.

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00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: I mean, he keeps you up at night, Randy Moss did.

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Speaker 2: That's why I brought Moss just he can change the

604
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: game and a heartbeat and he's more than just speed. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then he's coming off right here too. Wouldn't want

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00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: of them babysitting kids. It's a good way to put that.

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00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: That was the pro football focus. Why do we receive the

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00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 2: rankings coming into this season?

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Speaker 4: Pickens will be higher or lower next year.

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Speaker 2: That's a hard list. To climb. It's a hard list,

611
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: but some of those guys are going to start to

612
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 2: decline a little bit, the Allens and yeah, yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 2: But maybe the Neighbors and Harrisons are at one and two,

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Speaker 2: or maybe they don't hit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe they don't hit right, you know?

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Speaker 2: So no, I think the targets, so they're gonna you know,

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Speaker 2: you get three Chicago Bears on that list, right, are

618
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Speaker 2: there gonna be enough targets in Chicago to carry that?

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Speaker 3: I don't think any of them will be on my

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Speaker 3: fantasy team. No, that doesn't mean they're not great players,

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Speaker 3: but it's just too Yeah, and pickings at more targets

622
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Speaker 3: than probably all three of.

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Speaker 2: Those Bears, I would think. So, I mean the way

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Speaker 2: it's structured down. Yeah, anyway, let's get to a break.

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Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening

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Speaker 2: We are back. I am Dale Lolli.

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Speaker 4: He is the Williamson and Matt.

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Speaker 2: One thing that these Steelers have gotten here in these

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Speaker 2: first couple of days of the OTA's heat. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure Coach Allman always loves that. And it makes me

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Speaker 2: think of the trope and hotter the better and wear

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Speaker 2: the black jerseys.

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Speaker 4: And all that good stuff. You say what you want.

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Speaker 3: I mean these helped you get in condition a little bit.

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Speaker 3: You do football stuff against football players. It's different than

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Speaker 3: being on a treadmill or working out with your private

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Speaker 3: coach and good weather.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think you can get more.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you want rain and sloppiness for these either,

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Speaker 2: because you want to get some precise stuff down and

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Speaker 2: you know, teach rookies and all that too.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you want that to be in the indoor.

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Speaker 3: So no, I'm sure they're happy with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, you get a little bit of

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Speaker 2: acclamation there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you get the ten makes a good environment,

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Speaker 3: nice day, yeah right. These aren't the end all be

653
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Speaker 3: all of practices and two a days in the sun

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Speaker 3: and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and it's not one hundred degrees out there.

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Speaker 2: I mean they can all hand and it and.

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Speaker 3: A lot of these guys are coming from the South,

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Speaker 3: they probably think it's Chili for the first time. But

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Speaker 3: now I think you want beautiful days and good environments.

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned, you know, the other day there was

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Speaker 3: all Troy and Hampton and a bunch of old school

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Speaker 3: Steelers there, So it just makes her a better environment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I find it interesting too. Russell Wilson brought up

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Speaker 2: when we spoke to him that he had taken a

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Speaker 2: bunch of guys out the San Diego with him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's interesting, you know, Calvin Austin and Pat Fryarmouth and

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Speaker 2: so you know, I think he said the two new

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Speaker 2: guys were there as well.

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Speaker 3: No earlier, Yeah, Jefferson and Qus Watkins wat there too,

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Speaker 3: because this is probably before they signed Miller. Yeah, at

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Speaker 3: that point. No, I think that kind of stuff pays

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Speaker 3: off too. I mean, it's just camaraderie, and it sure

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Speaker 3: seems like Wilson's taking that side of things very seriously,

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Speaker 3: very conscientious of it.

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Speaker 2: Then I think there's something to be tide for that too. Again,

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Speaker 2: that goes back to what you know, Tomlin talked about,

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Speaker 2: you have some comfort in your own skin to be

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Speaker 2: able to step into a new situation and just say hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna lead here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know how much truth there was

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Speaker 3: to it, but there was a lot of negative connotation.

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Speaker 2: When he got to Denver.

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Speaker 3: He had his posse, and he had this area of

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Speaker 3: the facility was his, and he thought he was, you know,

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Speaker 3: big man on campus and all those type of things.

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Speaker 3: And I honestly don't know if that's true or not.

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Speaker 3: And if it is, I would blame the team as

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Speaker 3: much as the player. Like that wouldn't fly around here,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean.

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Speaker 3: And I bet he did realize, Hey, I've changed teams

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Speaker 3: twice now in my career. I might do this one differently,

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Speaker 3: you know, no matter right or wrong. And again I

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Speaker 3: don't know what all happened in Denver, but it wasn't

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Speaker 3: you know, a glowing recommendation that he's bonding with the

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Speaker 3: people and all that stuff and getting to know his

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Speaker 3: receivers and he was more about his brand at least

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Speaker 3: that's the reputation. Sure doesn't seem like that here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right now, he's done and said everything the right

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Speaker 2: way and reached out to and tell you talked to

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Speaker 2: the Cam Haywards, talk to the make and Fitzpatrick, so maybe.

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Speaker 3: Some him in the community and you know, like he's

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Speaker 3: he's been on camera fair amount and you know stuff

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Speaker 3: like you know, just being seen and you know, getting

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Speaker 3: to know his new environment. Yeah, yeah, right, And there's

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Speaker 3: some politics to this. I mean, I'm not gonna saider

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Speaker 3: and pretend like he doesn't know what he's doing, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, whether he wants to or not, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: he wants to. But it's smart to endear yourself to

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Speaker 3: your community, no matter where you're at, if you're going

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Speaker 3: to be the starting quarterback and the town like this

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Speaker 3: that lives and breathes Steeler football and have seen the

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Speaker 3: Bens and Bradshaw's and all those guys and in history,

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Speaker 3: you know, Wilson's not gonna be too far off of

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Speaker 3: those guys, you know, in the pecking order of any

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Speaker 3: quarterback that's ever played.

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Speaker 4: So go out with the.

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Speaker 3: Bang kind of thing or and hey it's you don't

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Speaker 3: have contract after this year either. He has a lot

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Speaker 3: more than just his legacy. He's got more to play

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Speaker 3: for him. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, So that's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we we won't have a show on Friday, right, and.

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Speaker 4: Just to this week, just to this week.

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Speaker 2: We're hopeful that we can be back on the air

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Speaker 2: next week. I say hopeful because I have a little

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Speaker 2: issue right now that I have to get dealt with

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Speaker 2: with some surgery. I'm hopeful to be back in the

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Speaker 2: saddle here next Monday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so as well, I'm sure all the well wishes

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Speaker 3: of course to you and your family. Get that all

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Speaker 3: taken care of and we'll be back at it in

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Speaker 3: no time and all good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we do here. Yeah, let me try

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Speaker 2: to keep plugging away. But for my partner Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: for CJ woofly here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 2: I'm Dale Allie. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 2: edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio