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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Stealer Nation. It's the drive on the Steelers
Speaker 2: Audio Network. Here on another day of practice, third practice
Speaker 2: of this twenty twenty six training camp at Saint Vincent College.
Speaker 2: In the books, Another absolutely gorgeous day here today, Matt
Speaker 2: and a little.
Speaker 3: Bit toastier, but still beautiful.
Speaker 2: Little little toastier. Absolutely, we're pushing into the pushing into
Speaker 2: the eighties here today. But it is another gorgeous day.
Speaker 2: They got work in today before it really got scorching
Speaker 2: earlier practice today, Matt, and a little bit of a
Speaker 2: different one with a mock game out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly things are different than a year ago. And clearly,
Speaker 3: I think because it's the acclamation period, that's what everyone
Speaker 3: seems to be focusing on. Is just the structure of practice,
Speaker 3: how they approach getting better between, you know, enduring while
Speaker 3: they're out here, something I've never witnessed before, you know,
Speaker 3: but it makes some sense, you know. I mean, if
Speaker 3: that counts as an acclamation practice, I think there's wisdom
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 2: First. You know, we were talking to our buddy Chris
Speaker 2: Adamski at lunchtime and he had a kind of joke
Speaker 2: of like, I think that was the first time I
Speaker 2: can ever remember seeing the Steelers practicing without helmets out here.
Speaker 3: He's at the first one in in La Trobe history
Speaker 3: that they didn't come out with helmets.
Speaker 2: In sixty some years of practice in here, and not
Speaker 2: a walk through, you know, because they obviously come out
Speaker 2: without helmets for the walk. Yeah, this is different, but
Speaker 2: for an actual practice, yes, certainly a little different today.
Speaker 2: Little mock game today here on acclimation day number three,
Speaker 2: earlier proceedings, even today than we had seen the past
Speaker 2: couple of days. So obviously one more of those acclamation
Speaker 2: practices tomorrow, and then day off on Sunday, and then
Speaker 2: finally the pads go on on Monday.
Speaker 3: Monday, right, so we'll be doing, like to reiterate this,
Speaker 3: we'll be doing shows tomorrow, We'll be off Sunday, we'll
Speaker 3: be back Monday. I expect Saturday and Monday to be
Speaker 3: really hopping from a fan perspective, and and I think
Speaker 3: the guys will come out real fired up on Monday.
Speaker 3: You know, day off, you got those four ey of
Speaker 3: the way ready to do some hitting, but not Tomblin
Speaker 3: level hitting, but I mean it definitely will have a
Speaker 3: different feel to it. But oh on all, I think
Speaker 3: that there's a lot to be gleaned from practice thus far.
Speaker 2: Now, there certainly is. And one thing you know from
Speaker 2: today that I wanted to discuss with you was and
Speaker 2: it's it's something Aaron Rodgers talked about and it's something
Speaker 2: that I think, again we always say this at the
Speaker 2: start of camp, but grain of salt, small sample size,
Speaker 2: but I certainly think we've seen the actions back up
Speaker 2: the words, and it's more work for the quarterbacks under center. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's that's something that it felt like was kind of
Speaker 2: a big talking maybe not a big talking point, but
Speaker 2: was certainly a talking point this offseason. Yes, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: discussed that I can't remember it was today or yesterday,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of like a light bulb thing
Speaker 2: for me. And it really seems like you when you
Speaker 2: are just sitting in here observing practice. I told you yesterday,
Speaker 2: it felt like a lot of footwork specific drills for
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks. Also seems like they're doing a lot under center,
Speaker 2: and that that's not coincidence or by accident.
Speaker 3: No, And it's also a league wide trend that I
Speaker 3: don't think you and I have talked about. And maybe
Speaker 3: i'll when I get back to the hotel, I might
Speaker 3: take a peek at some of the not with with
Speaker 3: them too, because rich Reebar from Sharp Football did a
Speaker 3: lot of research on this, and we remember like when
Speaker 3: we were kids, even when you were kids, it was
Speaker 3: a lot of under center, you know, normal drop, three
Speaker 3: step drop, five step drop, and then the shotgun got
Speaker 3: very very prevalent, and then you saw some pistol pistols
Speaker 3: like split in the two and pistol's kind of gone away.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not gaining enough advantage see in the
Speaker 3: field all those things, and a lot of us as
Speaker 3: quarterback preference, like Joe Burrow wants to be in a
Speaker 3: shotgun and survey the scene from there. Rogers has done
Speaker 3: a lot of both, but the league over the last
Speaker 3: couple of years has got into more and more behind center.
Speaker 3: I don't one hundred percent know the reasoning behind it,
Speaker 3: but play action definitely works better under center. You know,
Speaker 3: it just sells better, and the numbers reflect that as
Speaker 3: well when you look at the advanced analytics, and I
Speaker 3: think Rogers is probably very comfortable with it. You mentioned
Speaker 3: McCarthy's dressing. Footwork not the footwork doesn't matter. How the
Speaker 3: shotgun You're not just standing there like a statue and
Speaker 3: throwing it, you know, but it's certainly more important with
Speaker 3: the rhythm of the routes and all those things from
Speaker 3: under center as well. And I think you just sometimes
Speaker 3: you just get a different I'd love to really talk
Speaker 3: to a quarterback about it. Some might not care one
Speaker 3: or another. I know a lot of them definitely have
Speaker 3: a preference. Some of them, I think, love to see
Speaker 3: that there's a couple of inches between their offensive linemen
Speaker 3: and their defensive line. Yeah, and really like you know,
Speaker 3: get the smell and feel of the game and really
Speaker 3: see the gaps to attack and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: And you probably hear a little bit better when Ray
Speaker 3: Lewis's barking signals. And it doesn't sound like a big deal,
Speaker 3: But there are definite trends in the league right now
Speaker 3: that are pushing towards more under center.
Speaker 2: There absolutely is, And you have done a good job
Speaker 2: of breaking down some of those just cyclical things around
Speaker 2: the league, and it's all it's you know, you go
Speaker 2: from heavy defense is to lighter defenses, You go from
Speaker 2: heavier off lighter offensive personnel to heavier offensive personnel. You
Speaker 2: go from under center to in the gun to pistol usage,
Speaker 2: like you mentioned. I wonder, though, Matt, how much of
Speaker 2: that specifically for the Steelers is what feels like an
Speaker 2: onus to finally kind of crawl out of the bottom
Speaker 2: of the barrel of play action success. I was wondering,
Speaker 2: I wonder how much directly for this team, For this team,
Speaker 2: this new coaching staff that I'm sure has looked at
Speaker 2: the numbers over the past couple of years, were what
Speaker 2: were the Steelers doing well? Where were they struggling all
Speaker 2: that stuff that they do during the off season, and
Speaker 2: as you and I have outlined many times, for a
Speaker 2: portion of time, it was just thought, Yeah, the Steelers
Speaker 2: are very low in play action usage, very low in
Speaker 2: play action success. But that's because it's a Ben thing.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like to do it. He doesn't like to
Speaker 2: turn his back to the defense. But there's been four
Speaker 2: seasons now without Ben Roethlisberger and a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in those four seasons, and we've seen those numbers and
Speaker 2: those struggles remain. I wonder how much of that for
Speaker 2: this new coaching staff is directly tied to we got
Speaker 2: to have more success in the play action game.
Speaker 3: Now, I would think, and I would think you also
Speaker 3: want to, you know, be a McCarthy's been a heavy
Speaker 3: pass verse run play caller over his career, but I
Speaker 3: also think he's showing some adaptability to the way he
Speaker 3: sees the game from an offensive perspective. I expect them
Speaker 3: not to just live in eleven personnel. You're paying Darnell,
Speaker 3: you're paying Friarmouth. I think they'll be out there a
Speaker 3: fair amount by themselves that this team has had success
Speaker 3: with heavier personnel, So I think that he does probably
Speaker 3: want to amp up the run percentage as opposed to
Speaker 3: other years. Also, time and possession was a huge problem.
Speaker 3: Last year. I'm going to say it for thee hundredth time.
Speaker 3: Fourth quarter defense was horrendous. So maybe if you can
Speaker 3: be a better run team or a little more run
Speaker 3: first than he has been and use play action off
Speaker 3: that in a traditional manner, you could set yourself up
Speaker 3: for more success. And I know a lot if you've
Speaker 3: heard this many times, but what Wes was referencing to,
Speaker 3: which is just really odd, is league wide it's the
Speaker 3: gap isn't as wide as it was five years or
Speaker 3: so ago, but when throwing the football, you have more
Speaker 3: success off play action than not. I mean, that's still
Speaker 3: a league wide trend by a yard or two. It
Speaker 3: used to be a two or three yards. Defenses are adjusting,
Speaker 3: but so weird. For ten years in a row, the
Speaker 3: Steelers were better not using play action then using it
Speaker 3: despite it kind of being a cheat code for the league.
Speaker 2: And again, if it was one or two years where
Speaker 2: you're kind of bucking all the trends, yeah, you can say, hey,
Speaker 2: outliers happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're not the only team that were better
Speaker 3: at it every year, but they're the ones done it
Speaker 3: multiple years in a row.
Speaker 2: But when it's multiple years in a row, it's multiple
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in a row, it's multiple offensive coordinators in a row,
Speaker 2: it just seems like an overarching issue of not being
Speaker 2: able to make it up.
Speaker 3: It's just a Tomlin thing. I know. There's some people
Speaker 3: are like, well, there's one trend that's the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a head coach. Well, the former head coach.
Speaker 3: But I don't think he was a bad play action
Speaker 3: head coach.
Speaker 2: That would be that'd be a very specific niche, especially
Speaker 2: for a defensive mind and head coach. Just that that
Speaker 2: one's always confused me. It has back to the end
Speaker 2: of the Ben Roethlisberger tenure, when you.
Speaker 3: Had used to more play action, more play action.
Speaker 2: When you had weapons to like a b and juju. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tavis Bryant and Heith Miller and Lev Bell and I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, more play action, more play action. Especially they
Speaker 2: really in those kind of final year or two of
Speaker 2: that Killer Be era. The you know, the Steelers offense
Speaker 2: went back and forth all the time from being really
Speaker 2: successful in the red zone or really struggling in the
Speaker 2: red zone. Now certainly, but that felt like something absolutely.
Speaker 2: And you know that just once you get into the
Speaker 2: red zone, particularly once you get into goal to go situations,
Speaker 2: the space just shrinks so much. Play action might give
Speaker 2: you the extra half a step, you know, extra half
Speaker 2: an inch that you need, freezes that.
Speaker 3: Line backer for half a second, or he takes one
Speaker 3: false step forward someone slips behind him.
Speaker 2: Right, yep, exactly right.
Speaker 3: I always described the red zone like this, like when
Speaker 3: when I was in grade school and they were teaching
Speaker 3: us about molecules when you heat them up, you know,
Speaker 3: like the molecules in a balloon. If it gets hotter
Speaker 3: and harder, they bounce around faster and faster. Like that
Speaker 3: to me is like the red zone. You're like, the
Speaker 3: temperature turns up and all those molecules are in the
Speaker 3: same space, but they're just bouncing a smaller bunch of
Speaker 3: smaller you know, area to handle. And some quarterbacks are as.
Speaker 2: Good at It's like a tire pressure on your vehicle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: get out the heat like this and that tire pressure starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it means more.
Speaker 2: You get those those weeks like we had in January.
Speaker 2: It was single degree temperatures for for three straight weeks.
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, that air starts slowing down.
Speaker 3: I drive the radio station every day. It's like tire
Speaker 3: pressure low, Like I'm not doing that about it. Come on,
Speaker 3: it's cold out, I'm not hopping.
Speaker 2: I get out of the car like every couple of
Speaker 2: days and here we go again, swing by, get go
Speaker 2: or sheets for some free air. But yeah, no, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's just that that's an interesting kind of just other things,
Speaker 2: you know, just starting with things every day that we're
Speaker 2: kind of pulling from practice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your center thing, because I want to pay more
Speaker 3: attention to that, and I might do a little little
Speaker 3: homework when I get back and see why the trends
Speaker 3: are pushing as strong as they are, because I do
Speaker 3: think the Steelers are starting to get in line with
Speaker 3: some of the league wide trends with that.
Speaker 2: Yesterday it felt like a lot of footwork specific stuff
Speaker 2: for the quarterbacks. Today, a lot of under center work.
Speaker 2: We'll see what Saturday has to bring here, as we
Speaker 2: will have our final day of acclamation tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And tying into Rogers. He's done both and he's going
Speaker 3: to be comfortable doing either. He's been in the league
Speaker 3: for two decades. I mean so, but the other thing
Speaker 3: about him, which probably goes without saying, back to the
Speaker 3: play action thing, he sells it very well too. Ben
Speaker 3: used to do as well. I mean Ben did in
Speaker 3: love turning his back to the defense to sell the
Speaker 3: play action. But his ball fakes were good, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean his ball handling and rogers are quite good too.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
Speaker 3: And some quarterbacks kind of go through the motion.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know, no, you gotta have that. It's it's
Speaker 2: like the art of the pump fake and basketball, right,
Speaker 2: like anybody could pump fake, but some of those guys.
Speaker 3: Are like Ben's pomp pump fake in the in the pocket.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody bit everybody bit on that. Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 2: get off your feet and that's a good one. That's
Speaker 2: a good one. Fun show planned for you here today,
Speaker 2: on this beautiful Friday, as the the afternoon will roll
Speaker 2: into the evening.
Speaker 3: Rose this year.
Speaker 2: By the way, I was just thinking, like, are these
Speaker 2: Baltimore ravens.
Speaker 3: Murder of crows have been noticing it? I never noticed
Speaker 3: crows here before, but every day I've seen more and more.
Speaker 2: One hey, growling Poe hanging out here.
Speaker 3: I think it is coming straight in from Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Coming straight in from Baltimore. A lot of crows flying around.
Speaker 2: They got the sprinklers out on the field. Now that's
Speaker 2: the thing, Like send a crow to yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: send the raven to Send a raven to uh to
Speaker 2: wester Ross.
Speaker 3: They released one from the Baltimore facility.
Speaker 2: Send this raven to the troube. Mike McCarthy opens it up,
Speaker 2: but it's like raven. He crumbles it up and throws
Speaker 2: it down, sends Steely mcnehan back with a message of
Speaker 2: his own. Yeah. No, A lot, a lot to get to.
Speaker 2: Just listen, you know, Baltimore Ravens got spies. They got
Speaker 2: spies everywhere. They're trying to figure it out. We have
Speaker 2: got plenty to get to. On the show today, we're
Speaker 2: gonna do a fun roster exercise in the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: kind of comparing where the Steelers were last year at
Speaker 2: this point to where they are now. We are gonna
Speaker 2: have a little fantasy football conversation today as we'll start
Speaker 2: doing more of that as we get closer and closer
Speaker 2: to draft season. We have two guest scheduling updates for you,
Speaker 2: Matt before we got a break here. Okay. The first
Speaker 2: is our our buddy, Michael McQuaid from from the Steelers Ireland,
Speaker 2: from NFL Ireland. He's gonna join us on the show
Speaker 2: here in about twenty minutes. He just got to Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: this morning. He's been doing like a whole training camp
Speaker 2: tour of coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's just Steelers, not just Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done like I think, like Seattle in San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and I think he did Minnesota, and he's been done
Speaker 2: a bunch of other training camps. So it'll be fun
Speaker 2: to talk to him about what he's seen so far.
Speaker 2: He's here on campus. Oh yeah, he told me he'll
Speaker 2: be he'll be here around three forty, so we'll uh
Speaker 2: so we'll I think he's grabbing some lunch now and
Speaker 2: finishing up, you know, some some video stuff. We'll get
Speaker 2: his thoughts on the Paris game and and all that,
Speaker 2: and just uh you know, kind of some some stuff
Speaker 2: from the from the Dublin game as well, and then
Speaker 2: we are efforting. We might really finally make it happen,
Speaker 2: getting someone from the grounds crew up here to talk
Speaker 2: to us for a couple of minutes. We got our
Speaker 2: guy TV on it. Tyler V's on it. He's been
Speaker 2: texting back and forth with with us. He thinks we
Speaker 2: can make it work. So we'll I don't know about today, okay,
Speaker 2: but sometime during camp. Sometime during camp, I would I
Speaker 2: would love to, uh to love to work it out.
Speaker 2: Maybe tomorrow would be a good day because they have offs.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's like the way to do it is do
Speaker 2: it when they have an off day the next day,
Speaker 2: because then there's probably not as much urgency with what
Speaker 2: they have going on there when they have a little
Speaker 2: time for the field to rest and breathe. But we
Speaker 2: do have some ineras you know it. We do have
Speaker 2: some encouraging developments in that regard and might be able
Speaker 2: to get one of these, one of these grounds crew
Speaker 2: guys to share some of how the sausage is made
Speaker 2: with us before we get out of here. What about
Speaker 2: two and a half weeks from now, So plenty of
Speaker 2: ground to cover today as we roll along. Just getting
Speaker 2: started here for the special three hour show, our final
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Speaker 2: Ring along here on day number three of training camp
Speaker 2: practice for your Pittsburgh Steelers. As we were laughing while
Speaker 2: we were in break, a couple of the people from
Speaker 2: the Saint Vincent facilities here came in and they're testing
Speaker 2: all the microphones and all the gear for tomorrow, because
Speaker 2: tomorrow is a big day on camp, a big day.
Speaker 2: The Steelers Hall of Honor class will be unveiled tomorrow
Speaker 2: at ten am. I believe, I believe it's ten am.
Speaker 2: I think so, tenor ten or eleven am.
Speaker 3: And of course we'll be usure right before practice.
Speaker 2: Yo, y, that's exactly right. So I think it is
Speaker 2: ten to eleven, and then practice, you know, begins begins
Speaker 2: shortly after. We'll be carrying all of that here on
Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio. Of course, it'll be uh, you know,
Speaker 2: team President Art Rooney, the second Bob Labriola, and then
Speaker 2: I'm not sure there's usually somebody else with him. Maybe
Speaker 2: it'll be pomp. I think it's been like I think Mary,
Speaker 2: I think Merrill Hodge has been one of the hosts
Speaker 2: in the in the past. But that'll be fun tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And then with that there's usually you know, they'll bring
Speaker 2: one or two of the Hall of Honor guys out
Speaker 2: here and give them the microphone, and you know Mike
Speaker 2: Tom's at least not more right, Yeah, And sometimes the
Speaker 2: coach will address the crowd for the first Saturday of practices,
Speaker 2: so he quite a few times, right, Yeah. So they
Speaker 2: were in here testing out all the microphones and the
Speaker 2: PA system stuff while we were while we were in
Speaker 2: break is better work, better work? Hey, it's uh, it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's.
Speaker 3: If you hear something in the background, it might be
Speaker 3: the PA.
Speaker 2: Stressful time for all of us this time of year,
Speaker 2: certainly you know, Matt, but we are we are going
Speaker 2: to have some fun here with our buddy Michael McQuaid
Speaker 2: from from Ireland. Uh in this hour. But before he
Speaker 2: steps into the booth here and joins us, Matt, you
Speaker 2: know it is getting.
Speaker 3: Closer closer to down there? Something else?
Speaker 2: What is this? We got a tweet from somebody I
Speaker 2: don't know if you saw it, that said that they
Speaker 2: loved our our commentary of the ground's crew work and
Speaker 2: the grass sam Boni. There's like a dress like a drone.
Speaker 3: It's like a robot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guess you're right. It wouldn't be a drunk Yeah.
Speaker 3: Soon there's a remote control for it somehow. Is it
Speaker 3: mowing anything? What's it doing?
Speaker 2: Is it seed?
Speaker 3: It's running away from everybody?
Speaker 2: Is it like is it like putting seed down? Maybe
Speaker 2: it's like yeah, it's like a little grass robot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 2: If it's putting down seed, I would like to get
Speaker 2: one of those that could put down salt for me
Speaker 2: in the driveway in the wintertime.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's good for a year round.
Speaker 2: Now. Look now, one of the equipment guys is running
Speaker 2: over to it. Let's see what he does. He's going
Speaker 2: to intercept it. He's at the fifteen, he's at the ten,
Speaker 2: he's at the five. Go oh the way finally forced
Speaker 2: out at the eight yard line. Oh man, it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun taking it all in here and hopefully we'll
Speaker 2: get a chance. Like it looks like they are.
Speaker 3: They're going along the goal line with it.
Speaker 2: Now down the goal line. It looks like he's got
Speaker 2: some kind of remote.
Speaker 3: Oh he's painting. Oh my goodness, so it's happening.
Speaker 2: It is a painting robot.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is cool. That's I've never seen the lines
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: That's what They probably look a lot straighter than when
Speaker 2: you used to do them back in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they brought the paint. I mean, obviously it's
Speaker 3: paint time because they brought the paint cans and all that.
Speaker 3: But these must do perfectly straight lines. I would add things.
Speaker 3: Badass dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 2: It is a it's a tiny little green you know, almost.
Speaker 3: Like a lawnmower without the handle.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it looks almost like a lawnmower without the handles,
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger, lime bright lime green, and it
Speaker 2: is painting the lines in the end zone right now.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Enough for tomorrow, because there of course
Speaker 2: tomorrow as welcome the pa. In the background, you might
Speaker 2: have just heard our guys from Saint Vincent College testing
Speaker 2: out the microphone back there.
Speaker 3: Oh that thing's cool.
Speaker 2: Here's what I want to know, Matt, is when this thing.
Speaker 2: So it's doing the it's doing the goal line right now,
Speaker 2: repainting the white spray.
Speaker 3: Paint, almost done, going across the goal line.
Speaker 2: I wonder when it gets to the end here, is
Speaker 2: it going to stop? Is it gonna that's going to
Speaker 2: kill it? I thought the guys, guys aren't That's what
Speaker 2: I was going to say. I thought the guy in
Speaker 2: the white bucket hat had like a remoter or an
Speaker 2: iPad or something.
Speaker 3: He's got something in his hand.
Speaker 2: But they're like, they're very laissez faire about it. They
Speaker 2: trust this, like they trust this thing and it's all
Speaker 2: under control. All right. It's getting to the corner here,
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. It's gonna turn the corner.
Speaker 3: Okay, it makes the right angle. Looks beautiful, It looks beautiful.
Speaker 3: Oh look at this. Now it's going to the five yards.
Speaker 3: It's gonna do the whole fields. So it's on the
Speaker 3: right it's not coming out like the back of it.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it's not doing any of the hash marks,
Speaker 2: and it's not doing the sidelines. But it did the
Speaker 2: entire goal line.
Speaker 3: That guy gave him a little pat on the back,
Speaker 3: like that job.
Speaker 2: Good hustle, sun job. So it did the It did
Speaker 2: the whole length of the goal line that came up
Speaker 2: five yards pivot.
Speaker 3: Oh, I bet it does every five yards.
Speaker 2: How long can we keep this going here of doing
Speaker 2: play by play of the line paint probably wearing our
Speaker 2: welcome line painting robot.
Speaker 3: Have you never seen this creed?
Speaker 2: You know? The only thing that bothers me about that, though,
Speaker 2: is that's just another example of a robot taking a
Speaker 2: human job, right that this is one of the things
Speaker 2: that I think robots should do for humans. Paint lines
Speaker 2: on a football field. That's good.
Speaker 3: They can move my lawn too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't need robots. I don't need robots like
Speaker 2: driving cars and doing surgery and replacing teachers and some
Speaker 2: of this crazy stuff. But yeah, they can paint lines
Speaker 2: in eighty some degree heat. At the end of July and.
Speaker 3: Summer, we had the lawnmowing conversation way back when, like
Speaker 3: lawnmowers have never changed in my lifetime. Like they've gotten
Speaker 3: a little better. But lawnmowing technology for the Joe average homeowner, yeah,
Speaker 3: it hasn't progressed nearly as fast as like the internet
Speaker 3: or age.
Speaker 2: But I will say though, like a few years ago,
Speaker 2: I bought an electric powered yeah push mower, and it's
Speaker 2: a game changer. Okay, Now I don't have a very
Speaker 2: big yard. If I had a big yard, i'd probably
Speaker 2: still go gas because I don't know. You pull a
Speaker 2: handle and you push the thing, don't though, You just
Speaker 2: press the start button. Wow, fair enough, Okay, you don't
Speaker 2: have to do gash. You eno have to do oil.
Speaker 2: You just plug the battery in. Yeah, it's it's nice.
Speaker 2: But I guess you're right walking behind this thing pushing it. Well,
Speaker 2: I think they do have like robot type thing. By
Speaker 2: the way, this is we Shuoler and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 2: Lawn Nation Radio. Yes GNR not guns Roses Grass Nation Radio.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you're right, aside from the gas
Speaker 2: to electric portion of it.
Speaker 3: See, I think before long and some listener may be
Speaker 3: you know that from Carnegie mellon the Technical Department might
Speaker 3: listen to this be Like, that's a great idea, Matt.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna invent that, and keep in mind when you do.
Speaker 3: I bet when my kids are my my grandkids, I
Speaker 3: think will push a button and a laser will cut.
Speaker 2: Every blade of grass, like real quickly.
Speaker 3: Well, yep, you'll say I wanted it inch and a half. Boom,
Speaker 3: It'll come up like a sprinkler and it'll just laser everything.
Speaker 3: And you got to make sure your dog's not out
Speaker 3: at the time or something, you know, or the mailman's
Speaker 3: walking through. And I think all the grass is from
Speaker 3: real and it just gets done nobody. You don't even
Speaker 3: just watch it from your window.
Speaker 2: That would be pretty cool, except for like what if
Speaker 2: someone's standing out there and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a lower chop stream or the alarms go
Speaker 2: off or you know, at the ankles. Oh my goodness, Matt,
Speaker 2: I was planning on doing a beefy fan. And how
Speaker 2: it's at the ten, so it's dead on the whole
Speaker 2: goal line, down the five yard line, ten yards.
Speaker 3: I mean they are, that's gonna do the whole field.
Speaker 2: There's four members of the Steelers grounds crew out there
Speaker 2: and they could not be less concerned with this robot,
Speaker 2: like they are very confident that it is.
Speaker 3: Bet they do the sidelines too. I bet it does
Speaker 3: all the stuff that's perpendicular to us. And then I
Speaker 3: bet it does and in the back of the end zone. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 3: we will keep you posting. Trust, don't worry, don't. I
Speaker 3: don't think the hashes are coming now, or the numbers.
Speaker 2: Or the numbers. I think painting the numbers right now
Speaker 2: because that would be very difficult to get a robot
Speaker 2: to do the numbers.
Speaker 3: I guess the hashes, so we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2: It is so funny though, because all four of the
Speaker 2: guys are down there working and that robot is just
Speaker 2: chugging along like no one's like babysit, no problems, no babysitting.
Speaker 2: They're just giving a nice paddle the butt from time
Speaker 2: to time. Good hustle kid, good hearts.
Speaker 3: Fill it with paint.
Speaker 2: I wonder like, yeah, if at some point, I'm sure
Speaker 2: it will stop and like beep beep in the yeah,
Speaker 2: over and refill it. But I'll tell you what, that's pretty.
Speaker 3: Maybe they know a whole field you can do and
Speaker 3: x amount of I'm sure they do know. Whatever the paint.
Speaker 3: You know, this thing holds. Oh maybe that gets you
Speaker 3: to the fifty or maybe that's the whole field. Whatever
Speaker 3: it is, this seems cool. That's definitely a new creation.
Speaker 2: That was not a right Brett tweets us and says,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's been more invigorating experience as a
Speaker 2: Steelers fan over the past seven months, beating the Ravens
Speaker 2: to get into the playoffs or hearing Matt and West
Speaker 2: talk about the paint robot at camp today.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. Yeah, I bet they don't do field
Speaker 3: number two.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so, But then again, who knows. Now
Speaker 2: they have been running the sprinklers over there too. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you want to paint lines right after
Speaker 2: you run the sprinklers. That seems a little counterintuitive.
Speaker 3: These next couple of hours became a lot more entertaining.
Speaker 2: They sure did, at least for us. Maybe not for
Speaker 2: our listeners, but at least at least for us.
Speaker 3: What's awesome is you don't have to like pick this
Speaker 3: thing up and line it up each time it does
Speaker 3: it knows exactly five yards when they make that turn again.
Speaker 2: This is the type of things that I like to
Speaker 2: see robots and advanced technology used for exactly this is
Speaker 2: the type of word they should be doing, peyton lines,
Speaker 2: cutting grass, cleaning out grease traps at restaurants. Yeah, don't
Speaker 2: be doing doctor stuff or driving stuff, or you know,
Speaker 2: things that are gonna things that are gonna take non
Speaker 2: grunt work jobs away from human beings. Matt Angry Bike
Speaker 2: Lane tweets us and says prediction. You know about the
Speaker 2: Steelers Hall of Honor class that we just mentioned, when
Speaker 2: will Cordell Stewart enter the Steelers Hall of Honor. He's
Speaker 2: one of the guys. So I feel like we do
Speaker 2: this every year. I try and find, you know, some names. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I haven't given much thought, but it could be that
Speaker 2: could be up here.
Speaker 3: And I don't know. The Courtell's guaranteed anything.
Speaker 2: I don't know the Courtell's guaranteed anything. I feel like
Speaker 2: at some point he.
Speaker 3: Quick note on the grass, so he just did the
Speaker 3: two in the twenty. I assume he didn't do the
Speaker 3: zero because there was about to get run over. Oh
Speaker 3: see what I'm saying. The wet paint across like.
Speaker 2: The wheel of the road. Listen, sometimes man must stop
Speaker 2: machine from making the grass.
Speaker 3: It's actual pretty cool watching them do the numbers too.
Speaker 2: Actually pretty good. It's one of those very satisfying Yes,
Speaker 2: you missed this. I don't know, maybe you got a
Speaker 2: little bit of it because your kids are a little
Speaker 2: bit older. But were your kids like big into YouTube
Speaker 2: and stuff when they were growing up. All the kids
Speaker 2: now love YouTube because there's these random they call them,
Speaker 2: like a S m R Videos. Okay, and it'll be
Speaker 2: like unboxing toys, or it'll be like cleaning up a
Speaker 2: kitchen and it's just all sights and sounds like satisfying. Yes,
Speaker 2: like cutting the grass, kind of painting, painting the wall. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this would be pressure washing. Pressure washing is a very
Speaker 2: very popular one. Yes, this would be a good one.
Speaker 2: This would be a good one.
Speaker 3: This is a good one.
Speaker 2: Now, I bet he doesn't do the zero because of
Speaker 2: the wheels, because the wheels.
Speaker 3: Is going to come around and he drag it, so
Speaker 3: I think he has to wait.
Speaker 2: Look at matt Is the golf cart and lawn science
Speaker 2: management and all that good stuff here.
Speaker 3: But the humans are ahead of the the robot in terms.
Speaker 2: Of I will say the robot's very slowly paced. But
Speaker 2: that's good though, But.
Speaker 3: His job's more I mean his job's harder of the
Speaker 3: two too.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the robot is you know, the robot is is
Speaker 2: doing the John Wooden thing. It's it's quick, but it's
Speaker 2: not hurry right painting and listen, that robot. You don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about it's forty hours a week, or
Speaker 2: its healthcare benefits or overtime pay. It can stay out
Speaker 2: here as long as as long as it needs to
Speaker 2: to get the job done. Matt. Last year's Hall of
Speaker 2: Honor class, Ben Roethlisberger, Marquis Poutsy, and Joey Porter seniors ride.
Speaker 2: That's a h That's a pretty big trio there. For
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, here's the names that are mentioned. You know,
Speaker 2: I did kind of a quick just looking at some
Speaker 2: of the Yeah, I haven't done any different articles and everything.
Speaker 2: David de Castro is still not in. I think he
Speaker 2: definitely will go one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl MVP wide receiver Santonio Holmes is still not in.
Speaker 3: I like his chance. I'm not saying on Saturday, but
Speaker 3: I like his chances.
Speaker 2: I think. You know, again, Steelers all of Honor, This
Speaker 2: is not the this is not Canton, you know, this
Speaker 2: is spurg Steelers all of honor, and for a guy
Speaker 2: who was a Super Bowl MVP and part of one
Speaker 2: of the more iconic moments and wins in Steelers history.
Speaker 2: I would think san Antonio Holmes gets along as Steeler
Speaker 2: I want to say, probably five or six years.
Speaker 3: I think the contract structure was the same where he
Speaker 3: was a first round pick. Do you pick up a
Speaker 3: fifty year option.
Speaker 2: Do you sign another deal? Then you get trade the Jets.
Speaker 2: He was a Sixer for four years. Really, I thought
Speaker 2: it was more than that, but it was.
Speaker 3: It doesn't help us his case though, it does not,
Speaker 3: but man, he was.
Speaker 2: Pretty stinking good. And it was in those four years
Speaker 2: and then four years with the Jets and then one
Speaker 2: year with the Bears. Gary Anderson could still Oh he
Speaker 2: should go. He should definitely go in the Steelers Hall
Speaker 2: of Honor.
Speaker 3: He's really one of the best kickers of all time.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best kickers of all time.
Speaker 3: I do believe numbers won't be as good as these guys,
Speaker 3: but for his era he was Him and Morten Anderson
Speaker 3: were the top two.
Speaker 2: I still think he is the Steelers all time leading
Speaker 2: point scorer, right. I know Boss is close, but I
Speaker 2: don't think Boss has passed him yet, Like I think
Speaker 2: he will here pretty early in the season. But I
Speaker 2: still think Gary Anderson is the guy that has scored
Speaker 2: the most points for the Steelers in franchise history. Yeah
Speaker 2: he should. We could debate kickers in the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame all day, but kickers in your Hall of honor. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Chris Boswell should be in there. He someday, absolutely strong.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people have mentioned Cordell Stewart as
Speaker 2: a candidate.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Some have mentioned Ryan Clark as a candidate. That's an
Speaker 2: interesting one. He was another one who wasn't here for
Speaker 2: very long but was a part of some really good defenses.
Speaker 2: Antonio Brown is still out there, although I don't think
Speaker 2: he didn't finish his line. Run out of paint. They're
Speaker 2: looking at the iOS. Something's happening, folks, I have never
Speaker 2: seen Matt Williamson is intrigued by something by this painting robot.
Speaker 2: Help he's on the loose.
Speaker 3: There's all that paint over there. That's probably what's happening.
Speaker 2: They said. Now, you know what would be really cool
Speaker 2: is if there was like a gas station for this
Speaker 2: thing and it would fill up automatically, Like if he
Speaker 2: just or like an I robot, Like another robot comes
Speaker 2: out C three po comes out and fills them up. Here.
Speaker 2: Here comes our t D two too.
Speaker 3: But he definitely ran out of pain.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna lose. Now, I'm gonna lose man for
Speaker 2: the next five minutes here while he figures out how
Speaker 2: this thing, how this thing? You know what? Though? In
Speaker 2: terms of the paint, so he did one, two, three, four,
Speaker 2: five six almost, so about about six and three quarters
Speaker 2: of lines here.
Speaker 3: That's about fifty five yards each.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good for uh so, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 2: just a.
Speaker 3: Fair amount of pain. We're pushing one hundred lines.
Speaker 2: Pushing four hundred yards of paint here at this point
Speaker 2: that he just now he's going here to refuel. I
Speaker 2: was hoping it was gonna be like an I robot
Speaker 2: machine where they like mount and recharge, like he just
Speaker 2: mounted into something and it dispensed paint.
Speaker 3: No, he's got the pit stop and now they're grabbing.
Speaker 2: Now they're grabbing the hose. Here is this guy and
Speaker 2: is the overheating a little bit? Does he need a
Speaker 2: little little cold water?
Speaker 3: Maybe? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's like a jet ski where you have to
Speaker 2: like pump water through it when you're done, to keep
Speaker 2: the engine clean. I'm not sure, but all I know
Speaker 2: is all I know is that I've lost Matt here
Speaker 2: for the next five minutes until we figure.
Speaker 3: Out, I'll try. I can give you Ryan Clark, I
Speaker 3: don't think. I don't know, like a Ferrier Kirkland.
Speaker 2: What about Ryan Clark versus Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 3: How many years was Cordell the starting quarterback?
Speaker 2: Though? Only a couple?
Speaker 3: Yeah, only a couple, I mean really dynamic players.
Speaker 2: This is a different This is a different conversation, like
Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: But still, I mean, like I might put Neil in ahead.
Speaker 2: Of him, maybe, maybe, But I mean.
Speaker 3: There's my bar is pretty high for this organization. This
Speaker 3: is not the Arizona Cardinals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, just think of the three guys they
Speaker 3: put in last year. Sure, I mean, like they're not
Speaker 3: Cordell's not Ryan Clark's not close to those guys, you know, right,
Speaker 3: They're They're good. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: Those are the player names that I've seen mentioned most often, Matt.
Speaker 2: I also think there's some names that we have to
Speaker 2: mention that could could get into this conversation. That are
Speaker 2: not played because we know there there's also coaches, there's contributors,
Speaker 2: there's broadcasters in this thing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna steel your thunder. You mentioned Bill Hillgrove. I
Speaker 3: immediately thought.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Bill Hillgrove because and hey, we're we're all
Speaker 2: shaped by our experiences, right. But Wolf is going to
Speaker 2: get into the Steelers Hall of Honor one day, I
Speaker 2: thought last year, and he won't. He won't be here
Speaker 2: to receive those flowers unfortunately, right.
Speaker 3: I would think he's got a good chance.
Speaker 2: We'll be on Saturday. I think so. I think so.
Speaker 2: I again, I know Wolf will get in at some point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope it's I hope it's soon. But whenever it is,
Speaker 2: Wolf won't be here to receive those flowers. I would
Speaker 2: like Billy to have his moment. Billy Hillgrove deserves that
Speaker 2: moment in front of the fan base. Guys healthy, yes, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to be crass, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know he's up in age and he's retired. He
Speaker 2: I would I would love to see Billy get his
Speaker 2: flowers while, you know, while he can and really appreciate
Speaker 2: that moment and feel that love from the fan base.
Speaker 2: That he gave so many memories to over thirty. He's
Speaker 2: definitely going to go. I think he's I think he's
Speaker 2: definitely gonna go. And then I don't know, like I
Speaker 2: wonder about someone like a Stan saveregn because I know
Speaker 2: he never.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that counts.
Speaker 2: I know he never broadcasted. Well, he did host, you know,
Speaker 2: pregame and postgame shows for the Steelers.
Speaker 3: I mean like he was on I do, but I
Speaker 3: mean he was on this. I don't know if he
Speaker 3: ever was an employee of this. That's a good point.
Speaker 2: I know he was on the Hall of Honors committee
Speaker 2: for a long time. Is myron In Myrons myrons In?
Speaker 2: He was part of the inaugural class.
Speaker 3: He's sure, but he's like kill Grove. I mean he broadcasted, yes,
Speaker 3: and that's different.
Speaker 2: And he also invented the terrible Friggin' tal baby.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love Stan. I went on a show
Speaker 3: weekly and there's my maybe one of my favorite radio
Speaker 3: hits I've ever done on a routine basis.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if he qualifies. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: a good that's a good point.
Speaker 3: I a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. Here are a couple of other names to throw
Speaker 2: at you. Plexico Buris is still not in, Larry Foote
Speaker 2: still not in, Willie Gay still not in. Jeff Harding's
Speaker 2: still not in, Merrill Hodge, Chris.
Speaker 3: Hulk other than the football too.
Speaker 2: I mentioned Santonio Holmes, ho about Ernie Holmes is still
Speaker 2: not in.
Speaker 3: No one's blowing my doors off on that list.
Speaker 2: Brett Keezel. I like his chances, Leavon Kirkland.
Speaker 3: Leave Leavin was a wonderful player. I think Kirkland was
Speaker 3: better than most of these players you met.
Speaker 2: Mike Taylor should definitely be in at some point. I guess, yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: Lawrence Timmins, Lamar Woodley, Dwayne Woodruff. And then there's obviously
Speaker 2: some other names that that we already talked about, like
Speaker 2: the you know, the Craig wolf Lees and the Santonio
Speaker 2: holmes Is and those type of guyss like Louis lips In.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think he's not coming up on
Speaker 2: any of these lists of who of who could could
Speaker 2: possibly be in.
Speaker 3: Like remember we did that fantasy segment, you know, like
Speaker 3: Louis lips was a lot better than you thought, and
Speaker 3: things like that. You know, it's individual years, but I
Speaker 3: was just trying to think sort of who are the
Speaker 3: best players during the down years in the eighties too.
Speaker 3: That can be easy to overlook just because they don't
Speaker 3: have rings. Yeah, really a lot of success touches in,
Speaker 3: touches in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and deservedly so. Uh but yeah, that'll be that's
Speaker 2: always obviously.
Speaker 3: To wolf for a combination of player and post player time.
Speaker 2: Yes, correct, they had made.
Speaker 3: That really makes some strong cases.
Speaker 2: Three four decades with the organization. Those guys were, those
Speaker 2: guys were a fabric of of everything here, and we
Speaker 2: were standing on the shoulders of some giants in the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh broadcasting industry. Certainly, and yeah, I think sooner rather
Speaker 2: than later, Craig Wolfley and Bill Hillgrove will both being
Speaker 2: that in that Steelers Hall of Honor and and and
Speaker 2: deservedly so. The castro is another one though, if you
Speaker 2: made me ask, if you made me maybe put my
Speaker 2: I don't want to say because then I'll be wrong,
Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, maybe me put my life.
Speaker 2: Pick one, pick one person to put your life. Bet
Speaker 2: you're okay, let's not do that. Let's do the mortgage.
Speaker 2: Bet you bet the mortgage on one person who goes
Speaker 2: in tomorrow. I think I'm gonna say David DeCastro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a strong bet.
Speaker 2: In terms of all the players he feels he feels
Speaker 2: like the strongest candidate still available. There's also I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's some there's some coaches that deserve to be in
Speaker 2: this conversation that we probably I think and is uh.
Speaker 2: I think Leo is in. I bet I wonder, like
Speaker 2: someone like Bruce Arians if he would ever get it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, it'll be interesting, it would be really interesting.
Speaker 3: Who was the when does Tomlin go a couple.
Speaker 2: Of couple of years?
Speaker 3: I think now, I guess coaches have to wait the
Speaker 3: same different rules and you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean, really good question. It's a really good
Speaker 2: question because you know he's go. Oh absolutely, but like
Speaker 2: if he starts getting back into coaching, then he's going
Speaker 2: to be busy this time of year. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I wonder if John Mitchell would be I don't think.
Speaker 2: I wonder. I'm trying to figure out if he's in.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think. I don't think he's in.
Speaker 2: Kind how about Munch is a good one too, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: I mean these guys were Mitchell was a d line
Speaker 2: coach for a very long time, for a long time.
Speaker 2: For he was you know before Carl Dunbar right, for forever,
Speaker 2: won two Super Bowls with the team.
Speaker 3: Mitchell played for Bear Bryant.
Speaker 2: Yes he was. He was the first ever black football
Speaker 2: player at Alabama. Right, Actually imagine what that was like
Speaker 2: for him. Yeah, yeah, but he was the first team
Speaker 2: All American, first team All SEC.
Speaker 3: Two times coach for a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. He
Speaker 2: was a NCAA Football National champion as a coach in
Speaker 2: seventy three with Alabama, two time Super Bowl champion as
Speaker 2: a coach with the Steelers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as assistant coaches like not even non court position coaches.
Speaker 2: His cases, his case is very very strong. That was
Speaker 2: when I when I started thinking about coaches. That was
Speaker 2: one of the first ones that came to mind. Kevin
Speaker 2: Colder break call tomorrow, definite to go. We'll go see
Speaker 2: if we can find Dan Colbert over in the cafeteria
Speaker 2: and ask him, Hey, your dad, dad going in tomorrow
Speaker 2: or what's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be around tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Here comes the robot back out onto the field. So
Speaker 2: that means we need to get to a break because
Speaker 2: Matt's going to be distracted here for the next few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Closing down the first hour of the show. The painting
Speaker 2: Robot is back. It has finished up the thirty yard line.
Speaker 2: It is now all built up. Matt. It's like it's perfect.
Speaker 2: That line is as straight as an arrow, baby, and.
Speaker 3: Uh they correct a little bit where we're stopped and
Speaker 3: picked up.
Speaker 2: Oh I can, I mean, I can understand they're.
Speaker 3: Still human involved here, involvement in here.
Speaker 2: They are just robots. After Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: That rope he's skipping the thirty five. He's got a
Speaker 3: mind of his own. The forty.
Speaker 2: That robot, that robot, I tell you what Matt has.
Speaker 2: It's got good hips. That thing turns the way to turn, triggers,
Speaker 2: triggers those hips like Chase out there turning like Jamar.
Speaker 2: Chase turns the opposite of the Titanic.
Speaker 3: I tell you the thirty five to get neglected. Not
Speaker 3: even he's not doing the forty either.
Speaker 2: You know what you mentioned. No he is. It's just
Speaker 2: you know what, it's weird that pain is not is
Speaker 2: now it's stopping again. I wonder if there's an issue
Speaker 2: with the new paint. That paint's just not as.
Speaker 3: Rope spot robots. That's the thing. Okay. Interesting.
Speaker 2: You know what one piece of lawn technology that you
Speaker 2: didn't mention was the zero turn. The zero turn mowers
Speaker 2: are pretty pretty pretty dynam This thing, this robot has,
Speaker 2: has zero turn capabilities. We'll continue to keep you updated
Speaker 2: on all the things happening out here on the grounds,
Speaker 2: say Vincent College of course, high A top Chucknolefield, Matt
Speaker 2: and I are here in press box. Yeah, well hey, listen,
Speaker 2: see you know this is why you can only rely
Speaker 2: so much on humans or on robots and technology. Pardon me,
Speaker 2: uh Berg Sports for his name on Twitter is your
Speaker 2: mom's house. Burg Sports for says, could you guys start
Speaker 2: doing fantasy segments in the drives daily lineup? Ask and
Speaker 2: you shall receive. Yeah, there's actually a few different fantasy
Speaker 2: football things that I wanted to get to with you today.
Speaker 3: Let's do it to start building my official list here.
Speaker 3: Maybe over the weekend when I'm home.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll start. We'll start getting to those soon. Mike
Speaker 2: Clay of ESPN dot Com put together his playbook Your
Speaker 2: Plan for a Winning Fantasy Football Draft Strategy, and he
Speaker 2: kind of took the major positions and how you should
Speaker 2: approach them, and I'd like to get your thoughts on this. Okay,
Speaker 2: state of the positions basically for fantasy football. For quarterback,
Speaker 2: he said, it's Josh Allen and then everyone else. You know,
Speaker 2: last year there was this talk of this big four
Speaker 2: were with Josh Allen Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, and Jayden Daniels,
Speaker 2: where truly only Josh Allen was the Josh Allen was
Speaker 2: the only quarterback from a fantasy football perspective that performed
Speaker 2: at an elite level last season.
Speaker 3: So he basically is like the best fantasy quarterback in
Speaker 3: the history of the league. I mean, Cam Newton was close,
Speaker 3: but Alan's doing it even further. Newton was like first
Speaker 3: or second like five years in a row, but it
Speaker 3: was only five. I think Allen's basically top three every
Speaker 3: year he's been the starter, except his first year when
Speaker 3: he was kind of terrible. Now he gets DJ Moore.
Speaker 3: I don't see any reason to think that they're gonna
Speaker 3: slow down on his rush attempts or I mean, he's
Speaker 3: just an immense touchdown producer air and ground. That being said,
Speaker 3: and I agree with what Clay said here that it's
Speaker 3: him and then you know everybody else. I don't think
Speaker 3: I would pay the price for Allen because there's so
Speaker 3: many dudes. I think I'm definitely going to be like
Speaker 3: the guy that takes my quarter my first quarterback last
Speaker 3: in the draft, Like you can get Kyler Murray twelve
Speaker 3: rounds later than an Alan or Malik Willis, guys that
Speaker 3: don't sound great, but they run like crazy. And Allen's
Speaker 3: a sure bet and like, so I'll throw my buddy
Speaker 3: even under the bus, even not my man. Sab is
Speaker 3: not the strongest fantasy player, you know, he's busy.
Speaker 2: It's like one of your boys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we graduated to one of my best friends. But
Speaker 3: he's not going to monitor his team like I am sure.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Right, he's kind of a set it and forget it guy.
Speaker 3: And everybody has those dudes in the league. And I
Speaker 3: tell him every year I'm and now he just does.
Speaker 3: I'm like, take Josh Allen, yeah, because you're not gonna
Speaker 3: be because you could, you're gonna be streaming quarterbacks. You're
Speaker 3: not gonna be doing that in week ten. We all
Speaker 3: know it's a take Josh Allen five picks earlier than
Speaker 3: you should, and you know then you're happy.
Speaker 2: Crock Pott it baby, just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Running back,
Speaker 2: here's the state of the position. You better stock up
Speaker 2: early or else you're gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 3: That's always true.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's yeah.
Speaker 3: But I think it's a little less true than people
Speaker 3: than most years. You know, like I can live with
Speaker 3: if I'm loaded everywhere else, I can live with Warden
Speaker 3: Warren or Dowdell or Javonte Williams or I could probably
Speaker 3: go on and on swift. You know, dudes that are
Speaker 3: mid round picks that are gonna touch the football a lot.
Speaker 3: You know, Like I'm old enough that almost everybody. When
Speaker 3: you know, our league was a twelve team league, and
Speaker 3: twenty years ago, ten of those first rounders were running
Speaker 3: backs every year of course, and if not, and then
Speaker 3: there also be like ten in the second shot, I
Speaker 3: mean like they were gone quick.
Speaker 2: Like you better have your two starters by the third round. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're in trouble.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's the case. Like if you
Speaker 3: were to go Jamar Chase, Josh Allen and then running
Speaker 3: back running back, you could be okay. I think you
Speaker 3: could piece it together, you know.
Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of those interesting guys like the
Speaker 2: Omari and Hampton's, the Breis Hall, Yeah, Win, Shawn Jenkins,
Speaker 2: Bucky Irvik's still only twenty four years old. You know,
Speaker 2: Genarium Price is an interesting one. So there are I
Speaker 2: mean there is kind of that.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of names. Yeah, yeah, a little bit
Speaker 3: more than I think people give give that position credit for.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think that I had a name on
Speaker 3: the tip of my tongue. I'll probably come up with it.
Speaker 3: A couple of those names you mentioned, like Hampton, are
Speaker 3: going really high. I mean that you got to use
Speaker 3: the second round pick on those dudes. But like, here's
Speaker 3: a great example. That's what I was thinking of.
Speaker 2: JK. Dobbins. JK.
Speaker 3: Dobbins gets hurt every year, but he's also really productive
Speaker 3: when he's not hurt. He's not hurt now, Denver