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We don't go to the office, We build it. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.640 Good afternoon, Stealer Nation. It's the drive on the Steelers 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.000 Audio Network. Here on another day of practice, third practice 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.560 of this twenty twenty six training camp at Saint Vincent College. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.199 In the books, Another absolutely gorgeous day here today, Matt 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:06.240 and a little. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.920 Bit toastier, but still beautiful. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.000 Little little toastier. Absolutely, we're pushing into the pushing into 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.320 the eighties here today. But it is another gorgeous day. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.400 They got work in today before it really got scorching 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.200 earlier practice today, Matt, and a little bit of a 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.559 different one with a mock game out there. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.200 Yeah, certainly things are different than a year ago. And clearly, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.080 I think because it's the acclamation period, that's what everyone 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.600 seems to be focusing on. Is just the structure of practice, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.720 how they approach getting better between, you know, enduring while 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.000 they're out here, something I've never witnessed before, you know, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.959 but it makes some sense, you know. I mean, if 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.920 that counts as an acclamation practice, I think there's wisdom 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:48.120 in that. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.480 First. You know, we were talking to our buddy Chris 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.760 Adamski at lunchtime and he had a kind of joke 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.480 of like, I think that was the first time I 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.560 can ever remember seeing the Steelers practicing without helmets out here. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.040 He's at the first one in in La Trobe history 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.600 that they didn't come out with helmets. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.840 In sixty some years of practice in here, and not 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.720 a walk through, you know, because they obviously come out 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.519 without helmets for the walk. Yeah, this is different, but 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.920 for an actual practice, yes, certainly a little different today. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.919 Little mock game today here on acclimation day number three, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.080 earlier proceedings, even today than we had seen the past 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.520 couple of days. So obviously one more of those acclamation 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.280 practices tomorrow, and then day off on Sunday, and then 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.040 finally the pads go on on Monday. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.160 Monday, right, so we'll be doing, like to reiterate this, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.880 we'll be doing shows tomorrow, We'll be off Sunday, we'll 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:42.120 be back Monday. I expect Saturday and Monday to be 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.320 really hopping from a fan perspective, and and I think 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.120 the guys will come out real fired up on Monday. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.040 You know, day off, you got those four ey of 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.280 the way ready to do some hitting, but not Tomblin 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.280 level hitting, but I mean it definitely will have a 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.359 different feel to it. But oh on all, I think 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.200 that there's a lot to be gleaned from practice thus far. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.880 Now, there certainly is. And one thing you know from 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:09.480 today that I wanted to discuss with you was and 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.840 it's it's something Aaron Rodgers talked about and it's something 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.960 that I think, again we always say this at the 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.200 start of camp, but grain of salt, small sample size, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.320 but I certainly think we've seen the actions back up 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.520 the words, and it's more work for the quarterbacks under center. Yes, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.720 that's that's something that it felt like was kind of 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.960 a big talking maybe not a big talking point, but 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.440 was certainly a talking point this offseason. Yes, Aaron Rodgers 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.760 discussed that I can't remember it was today or yesterday, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.000 and it was kind of like a light bulb thing 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.880 for me. And it really seems like you when you 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.800 are just sitting in here observing practice. I told you yesterday, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.800 it felt like a lot of footwork specific drills for 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.000 the quarterbacks. Also seems like they're doing a lot under center, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.520 and that that's not coincidence or by accident. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.560 No, And it's also a league wide trend that I 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.320 don't think you and I have talked about. And maybe 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.080 i'll when I get back to the hotel, I might 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.240 take a peek at some of the not with with 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.200 them too, because rich Reebar from Sharp Football did a 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.040 lot of research on this, and we remember like when 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.640 we were kids, even when you were kids, it was 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.240 a lot of under center, you know, normal drop, three 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:18.400 step drop, five step drop, and then the shotgun got 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.200 very very prevalent, and then you saw some pistol pistols 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.039 like split in the two and pistol's kind of gone away. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.960 I mean, you're not gaining enough advantage see in the 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.320 field all those things, and a lot of us as 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.520 quarterback preference, like Joe Burrow wants to be in a 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.560 shotgun and survey the scene from there. Rogers has done 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.279 a lot of both, but the league over the last 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.920 couple of years has got into more and more behind center. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.080 I don't one hundred percent know the reasoning behind it, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.680 but play action definitely works better under center. You know, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.400 it just sells better, and the numbers reflect that as 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.359 well when you look at the advanced analytics, and I 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.320 think Rogers is probably very comfortable with it. You mentioned 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.760 McCarthy's dressing. Footwork not the footwork doesn't matter. How the 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.960 shotgun You're not just standing there like a statue and 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.680 throwing it, you know, but it's certainly more important with 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.920 the rhythm of the routes and all those things from 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.159 under center as well. And I think you just sometimes 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.080 you just get a different I'd love to really talk 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.400 to a quarterback about it. Some might not care one 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.440 or another. I know a lot of them definitely have 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.440 a preference. Some of them, I think, love to see 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.280 that there's a couple of inches between their offensive linemen 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.359 and their defensive line. Yeah, and really like you know, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.560 get the smell and feel of the game and really 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.080 see the gaps to attack and things of that nature. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.800 And you probably hear a little bit better when Ray 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.640 Lewis's barking signals. And it doesn't sound like a big deal, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.039 But there are definite trends in the league right now 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.119 that are pushing towards more under center. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.600 There absolutely is, And you have done a good job 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.440 of breaking down some of those just cyclical things around 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.560 the league, and it's all it's you know, you go 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.160 from heavy defense is to lighter defenses, You go from 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.880 heavier off lighter offensive personnel to heavier offensive personnel. You 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.839 go from under center to in the gun to pistol usage, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.520 like you mentioned. I wonder, though, Matt, how much of 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.520 that specifically for the Steelers is what feels like an 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.120 onus to finally kind of crawl out of the bottom 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.800 of the barrel of play action success. I was wondering, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.280 I wonder how much directly for this team, For this team, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.880 this new coaching staff that I'm sure has looked at 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.800 the numbers over the past couple of years, were what 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.400 were the Steelers doing well? Where were they struggling all 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.720 that stuff that they do during the off season, and 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.960 as you and I have outlined many times, for a 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.680 portion of time, it was just thought, Yeah, the Steelers 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.120 are very low in play action usage, very low in 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.480 play action success. But that's because it's a Ben thing. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:46.960 He doesn't like to do it. He doesn't like to 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.480 turn his back to the defense. But there's been four 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.479 seasons now without Ben Roethlisberger and a lot of quarterbacks 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.440 in those four seasons, and we've seen those numbers and 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.880 those struggles remain. I wonder how much of that for 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.720 this new coaching staff is directly tied to we got 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.679 to have more success in the play action game. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.599 Now, I would think, and I would think you also 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.720 want to, you know, be a McCarthy's been a heavy 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.360 pass verse run play caller over his career, but I 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.760 also think he's showing some adaptability to the way he 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.120 sees the game from an offensive perspective. I expect them 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.800 not to just live in eleven personnel. You're paying Darnell, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.320 you're paying Friarmouth. I think they'll be out there a 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.640 fair amount by themselves that this team has had success 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.880 with heavier personnel, So I think that he does probably 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.600 want to amp up the run percentage as opposed to 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.600 other years. Also, time and possession was a huge problem. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.640 Last year. I'm going to say it for thee hundredth time. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.080 Fourth quarter defense was horrendous. So maybe if you can 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.360 be a better run team or a little more run 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.520 first than he has been and use play action off 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.480 that in a traditional manner, you could set yourself up 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.320 for more success. And I know a lot if you've 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.960 heard this many times, but what Wes was referencing to, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:08.040 which is just really odd, is league wide it's the 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.120 gap isn't as wide as it was five years or 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.800 so ago, but when throwing the football, you have more 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.320 success off play action than not. I mean, that's still 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.720 a league wide trend by a yard or two. It 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.080 used to be a two or three yards. Defenses are adjusting, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.880 but so weird. For ten years in a row, the 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.800 Steelers were better not using play action then using it 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.040 despite it kind of being a cheat code for the league. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.280 And again, if it was one or two years where 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.480 you're kind of bucking all the trends, yeah, you can say, hey, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.320 outliers happen. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.200 Yeah, because they're not the only team that were better 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.320 at it every year, but they're the ones done it 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:43.520 multiple years in a row. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.360 But when it's multiple years in a row, it's multiple 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.200 quarterbacks in a row, it's multiple offensive coordinators in a row, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.040 it just seems like an overarching issue of not being 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.600 able to make it up. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.560 It's just a Tomlin thing. I know. There's some people 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.960 are like, well, there's one trend that's the same. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.559 Yeah, it's a head coach. Well, the former head coach. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.839 But I don't think he was a bad play action 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:03.559 head coach. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.480 That would be that'd be a very specific niche, especially 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.800 for a defensive mind and head coach. Just that that 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.000 one's always confused me. It has back to the end 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.040 of the Ben Roethlisberger tenure, when you. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.520 Had used to more play action, more play action. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.800 When you had weapons to like a b and juju. Yeah, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.800 Tavis Bryant and Heith Miller and Lev Bell and I mean, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.839 you know, more play action, more play action. Especially they 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.680 really in those kind of final year or two of 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.600 that Killer Be era. The you know, the Steelers offense 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.280 went back and forth all the time from being really 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.960 successful in the red zone or really struggling in the 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:46.199 red zone. Now certainly, but that felt like something absolutely. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:47.839 And you know that just once you get into the 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.080 red zone, particularly once you get into goal to go situations, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.240 the space just shrinks so much. Play action might give 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.600 you the extra half a step, you know, extra half 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.760 an inch that you need, freezes that. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.920 Line backer for half a second, or he takes one 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.360 false step forward someone slips behind him. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:05.280 Right, yep, exactly right. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.240 I always described the red zone like this, like when 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.760 when I was in grade school and they were teaching 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.200 us about molecules when you heat them up, you know, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.440 like the molecules in a balloon. If it gets hotter 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.760 and harder, they bounce around faster and faster. Like that 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.480 to me is like the red zone. You're like, the 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.480 temperature turns up and all those molecules are in the 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.880 same space, but they're just bouncing a smaller bunch of 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:29.760 smaller you know, area to handle. And some quarterbacks are as. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.760 Good at It's like a tire pressure on your vehicle. Yeah, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.800 get out the heat like this and that tire pressure starts. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.040 Yeah, it means more. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.320 You get those those weeks like we had in January. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.319 It was single degree temperatures for for three straight weeks. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.520 Then all of a sudden, that air starts slowing down. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.520 I drive the radio station every day. It's like tire 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.679 pressure low, Like I'm not doing that about it. Come on, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:51.200 it's cold out, I'm not hopping. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.520 I get out of the car like every couple of 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.320 days and here we go again, swing by, get go 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.240 or sheets for some free air. But yeah, no, it's uh, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.120 it's just that that's an interesting kind of just other things, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.160 you know, just starting with things every day that we're 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:06.280 kind of pulling from practice. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.480 Yeah, your center thing, because I want to pay more 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.880 attention to that, and I might do a little little 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.839 homework when I get back and see why the trends 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.800 are pushing as strong as they are, because I do 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.360 think the Steelers are starting to get in line with 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:19.960 some of the league wide trends with that. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.360 Yesterday it felt like a lot of footwork specific stuff 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.440 for the quarterbacks. Today, a lot of under center work. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.600 We'll see what Saturday has to bring here, as we 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.840 will have our final day of acclamation tomorrow. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.920 And tying into Rogers. He's done both and he's going 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.720 to be comfortable doing either. He's been in the league 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.320 for two decades. I mean so, but the other thing 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.679 about him, which probably goes without saying, back to the 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.200 play action thing, he sells it very well too. Ben 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.480 used to do as well. I mean Ben did in 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.000 love turning his back to the defense to sell the 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.599 play action. But his ball fakes were good, you know. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.920 I mean his ball handling and rogers are quite good too. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:57.840 Yes, it is. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.600 And some quarterbacks kind of go through the motion. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.120 Yeah you know, no, you gotta have that. It's it's 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:04.720 like the art of the pump fake and basketball, right, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.199 like anybody could pump fake, but some of those guys. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.880 Are like Ben's pomp pump fake in the in the pocket. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.360 I mean, everybody bit everybody bit on that. Yeah, no doubt, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.120 get off your feet and that's a good one. That's 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.640 a good one. Fun show planned for you here today, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.920 on this beautiful Friday, as the the afternoon will roll 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.120 into the evening. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:21.880 Rose this year. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.640 By the way, I was just thinking, like, are these 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.760 Baltimore ravens. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.319 Murder of crows have been noticing it? I never noticed 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.280 crows here before, but every day I've seen more and more. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.840 One hey, growling Poe hanging out here. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.760 I think it is coming straight in from Baltimore. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.600 Coming straight in from Baltimore. A lot of crows flying around. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.160 They got the sprinklers out on the field. Now that's 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.360 the thing, Like send a crow to yeah, yeah, oh yeah, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.640 send the raven to Send a raven to uh to 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:50.320 wester Ross. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.200 They released one from the Baltimore facility. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.640 Send this raven to the troube. Mike McCarthy opens it up, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.640 but it's like raven. He crumbles it up and throws 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.240 it down, sends Steely mcnehan back with a message of 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.520 his own. Yeah. No, A lot, a lot to get to. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:13.360 Just listen, you know, Baltimore Ravens got spies. They got 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.640 spies everywhere. They're trying to figure it out. We have 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.920 got plenty to get to. On the show today, we're 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.960 gonna do a fun roster exercise in the four o'clock hour, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.000 kind of comparing where the Steelers were last year at 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.280 this point to where they are now. We are gonna 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.080 have a little fantasy football conversation today as we'll start 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.080 doing more of that as we get closer and closer 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:39.320 to draft season. We have two guest scheduling updates for you, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.560 Matt before we got a break here. Okay. The first 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.280 is our our buddy, Michael McQuaid from from the Steelers Ireland, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.360 from NFL Ireland. He's gonna join us on the show 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.240 here in about twenty minutes. He just got to Pittsburgh 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.280 this morning. He's been doing like a whole training camp 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:55.880 tour of coverage. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.520 Yeah, so he's just Steelers, not just Steelers. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.160 Yeah, he's done like I think, like Seattle in San Francisco, 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.360 and I think he did Minnesota, and he's been done 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.319 a bunch of other training camps. So it'll be fun 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:07.920 to talk to him about what he's seen so far. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.160 He's here on campus. Oh yeah, he told me he'll 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.360 be he'll be here around three forty, so we'll uh 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.240 so we'll I think he's grabbing some lunch now and 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.480 finishing up, you know, some some video stuff. We'll get 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.720 his thoughts on the Paris game and and all that, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.840 and just uh you know, kind of some some stuff 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.760 from the from the Dublin game as well, and then 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.120 we are efforting. We might really finally make it happen, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.480 getting someone from the grounds crew up here to talk 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:33.920 to us for a couple of minutes. We got our 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.480 guy TV on it. Tyler V's on it. He's been 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.400 texting back and forth with with us. He thinks we 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.280 can make it work. So we'll I don't know about today, okay, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.680 but sometime during camp. Sometime during camp, I would I 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.080 would love to, uh to love to work it out. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.640 Maybe tomorrow would be a good day because they have offs. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.120 Maybe that's like the way to do it is do 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.720 it when they have an off day the next day, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.840 because then there's probably not as much urgency with what 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.480 they have going on there when they have a little 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.560 time for the field to rest and breathe. But we 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.400 do have some ineras you know it. We do have 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.560 some encouraging developments in that regard and might be able 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.440 to get one of these, one of these grounds crew 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.720 guys to share some of how the sausage is made 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.000 with us before we get out of here. What about 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.320 two and a half weeks from now, So plenty of 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.200 ground to cover today as we roll along. Just getting 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.840 started here for the special three hour show, our final 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.640 programming of the day here at Saint Vincent College. Of course, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.760 we are in Latrobe High atop Chucknolefield. It's all part 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.800 of our ongoing training camp coverage Steelers Nation Radio on 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.040 the Steelers Audio Network. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:42.320 This is live coverage OPT twenty twenty six Steelers Training 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:47.160 Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bud Light, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.320 Easy to Drink, easy to enjoy, and brought to you 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:55.000 in part by your neighborhood Ford Store creator, Pittsburgh Community 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.720 Food Bank first the National Bank. 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I believe, I believe it's ten am. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.360 I think so, tenor ten or eleven am. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.440 And of course we'll be usure right before practice. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.720 Yo, y, that's exactly right. So I think it is 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.280 ten to eleven, and then practice, you know, begins begins 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.800 shortly after. We'll be carrying all of that here on 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.680 Steelers Nation Radio. Of course, it'll be uh, you know, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.680 team President Art Rooney, the second Bob Labriola, and then 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.560 I'm not sure there's usually somebody else with him. Maybe 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.920 it'll be pomp. I think it's been like I think Mary, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.800 I think Merrill Hodge has been one of the hosts 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.280 in the in the past. But that'll be fun tomorrow. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.400 And then with that there's usually you know, they'll bring 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.000 one or two of the Hall of Honor guys out 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.919 here and give them the microphone, and you know Mike 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.720 Tom's at least not more right, Yeah, And sometimes the 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.240 coach will address the crowd for the first Saturday of practices, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.480 so he quite a few times, right, Yeah. So they 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.000 were in here testing out all the microphones and the 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.480 PA system stuff while we were while we were in 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.200 break is better work, better work? Hey, it's uh, it's 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:38.720 you know, it's. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.119 If you hear something in the background, it might be 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:40.760 the PA. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.760 Stressful time for all of us this time of year, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.399 certainly you know, Matt, but we are we are going 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.600 to have some fun here with our buddy Michael McQuaid 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.159 from from Ireland. Uh in this hour. But before he 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.760 steps into the booth here and joins us, Matt, you 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:55.760 know it is getting. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.760 Closer closer to down there? Something else? 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.159 What is this? We got a tweet from somebody I 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:02.280 don't know if you saw it, that said that they 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.920 loved our our commentary of the ground's crew work and 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.919 the grass sam Boni. There's like a dress like a drone. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.760 It's like a robot. Yeah. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.480 Oh, I guess you're right. It wouldn't be a drunk Yeah. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.000 Soon there's a remote control for it somehow. Is it 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.360 mowing anything? What's it doing? 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:17.400 Is it seed? 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.040 It's running away from everybody? 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.480 Is it like is it like putting seed down? Maybe 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.200 it's like yeah, it's like a little grass robot. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:24.280 Yeah, I tell you what. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.239 If it's putting down seed, I would like to get 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:27.960 one of those that could put down salt for me 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.240 in the driveway in the wintertime. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:30.720 Maybe it's good for a year round. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.520 Now. Look now, one of the equipment guys is running 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.560 over to it. Let's see what he does. He's going 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.600 to intercept it. He's at the fifteen, he's at the ten, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.399 he's at the five. Go oh the way finally forced 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.400 out at the eight yard line. Oh man, it's fun. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.639 It's fun taking it all in here and hopefully we'll 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.520 get a chance. Like it looks like they are. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.200 They're going along the goal line with it. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:55.879 Now down the goal line. It looks like he's got 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:56.600 some kind of remote. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.280 Oh he's painting. Oh my goodness, so it's happening. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:01.560 It is a painting robot. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.280