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It's the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.040 Weshuler Matt Williamson with you here for the next three hours. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.600 We are back on campus on this Thursday. Of course 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.600 you already know the drill Well trou Pennsylvania Saint Vincent 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.720 College Steelers Training Camp. Matt. Today the tenth day of 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:09.000 camp proper well, the seventh practice for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.280 third one in pads. As we are a week away 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.759 from the Steelers first preseason game, of course at home 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.640 at Akershuer Stadium against the Green Bay Packers. We also 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.440 have a little football tonight, Matt. It's your favorite time 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.920 of the year. It's the Hall of Fame game this evening, baby. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.280 Oh yeah yeah. And again it's the most anti climatic 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.560 thing of the year. But I'm gonna be doing a 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.800 night show at Sharkey's and probably hanging there after, and 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.880 it'll be on and I'll pay attention, and I kind 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.200 of want to watch Picket, and I kind of want 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.640 to watch Back. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.679 I was gonna say, we'll get at least a series 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.679 of Kenny Pickett, formerly of this parish. We'll get at 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.720 least a series I would think of Carson Back, of course, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.600 a rookie third round draft pick of the Cardinals. So 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.480 could be better, could be worse. Yeah, I'll take it. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.560 As we got the start of the preseason tonight, one 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.720 week away for the Steelers, and so plenty to get 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.480 to here from today, Matt, where we know that the 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.840 guys had practice off yesterday, Monday and Tuesday A practiced 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.160 at a pretty brisk, brisk pace. Pardon me if you will. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.560 Today seemed like it was a little more dialed back, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.840 not quite as frantic as the first two days we 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:15.520 saw in past. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.720 I would say so and it chocked me a little 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.800 bit because they're coming off a day off. First, I 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.360 was pretty toasty here, especially this afternoon. It should getting 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:24.320 warmer and warmer all day. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.040 I got all my stuff in the car. I'm worried 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.240 it's gonna just be melting into a puddle when I 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:28.560 get back. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.079 You don't have any like chocolate or anything in there, right. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:32.680 No, just a bunch of toilet trees and all it, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:33.720 all that kind of stuff. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.440 Yep. But I will say, Okay, so they practiced. I 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.920 think a little over the one hundred and ten minutes 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.520 or I think they're able to ramp it up. I'm 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.000 not don't quote me on that. I'm not one hundred 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:43.600 percent sure. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.560 For some reason, I think it was one hundred and twenty. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.560 I thought it was ten minutes longer. Yeah. Yeah, I'm 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.800 not super dowed in on that stuff. But anyway, practice 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.240 I think was a little longer than usual. I wanted 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.120 to say over the first hour, Bob Labriola and I 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.560 were hanging in here and it was like, man, they're 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.840 not this is very ota ish. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:03.399 Yeah. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.120 Yeah. In that first hour plus, there was one session 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.160 of team and it was one play, but Rogers threw 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 a strike to Metcalf. They were in a three by 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.880 one set, and I found it interesting he was not 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.480 on the far far side. He was the second guy in. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.200 He was the number two receiver and a three you know, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.760 three by one and broke over the middle deep down 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.120 field like a deep dig. Rogers drilled it right in 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.519 there in front of the safeties, behind the linebackers. It 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.080 was like, boy, I'd love to see a lot of that, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.000 you know, but there's one play. The rest of the 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.160 period was fine, but that first hour or so was 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:45.200 a lot of fundamental stuff. A lot of individuals, you know, 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.520 broken up in your group, working on different things, but 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.600 all fundamental things that weren't even team oriented. Then we 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.000 got the uh, the big guys one on ones, which 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.040 has been my favorite thing of camp so far. But today, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.400 you know, we describe just before they've had kind of 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.880 what I've been calling the varsity and the jv both 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.000 in the end zone, and today they combined it onto 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.080 one so you only take one rep at a time, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.520 so it was half of the work. Yeah, but there 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.280 was more of Rubio and some of those type of 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:22.400 rookies yeah, yeah, yeah, undrafted guys exactly. And Max did 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.880 not take part in that. I guess he got dinged up. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.479 A little bit, unfortunately, I think so. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.320 Yeah, I think Eccles got dinged up in that period 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.160 that I was discussing the team drill, and looked like 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.880 it was. I don't want to like get people alarmed, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.880 but it looked kind of bad, you know, just you know, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.760 he got up and then he went right back down, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.000 but then he stayed on the field quite a while. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.760 Haven't heard anything on either one, but they would have 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.840 definitely taken Eccles up immediately if it was, you know, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.760 super bad. But who knows. I guess we'll get word 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.680 of that as the evening goes on. And then the 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.440 rest of practice was spirited, you know, the last half 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:01.599 hour or so, but overall it was pretty dowed back, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.520 I would say, considering day off yesterday and all those 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.480 good things. But we do have a stretch here coming 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:07.960 of a few in a row, so maybe they're just 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.760 pacing theirselves, and we know this staff looks at it differently. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.000 No, absolutely, I concur with everything you said there. So 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.800 let's cross some of those t's and dot some of 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:23.080 those eyes. Brandon Eckles was, as Matt mentioned, kind of 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.960 limped off the field after a play out here earlier today. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.040 He stayed down for a fair amount. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.080 And then he had a massive rap on his left 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.720 ankle and his day was done. So, you know, Matt 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.599 and I, we are not doctors. We are not privy 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.600 to any inside information. We're not going to just sit 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.640 here and speculate. But I think that that's notable. When 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.760 he leaves practice, not only leaves practice, but leaves with 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.680 a big kind of wrap around his ankle on his 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.440 lower left leg, left ankle. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.159 I would think at a minimum he's gonna miss some time. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.560 Yes, I would think so. And then according to our 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.880 friend Alan Saunders was on the show with us on 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.279 Tuesday here of Steelers Now, it appeared to be some 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.920 kind of neck or shoulder issue for Maxie Honachure. He 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.760 kind of hung out down there for a while after 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.960 if like, he kind of took his helmet off and 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.919 was hanging out around team drills still, which gives me 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.760 some hope maybe it was just a stinger or something 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.080 minor and they're just being extra cautious at this stage. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.359 He did walk up the hill eventually during practice with 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.800 a trainer, but as we've noted too, I think anytime 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.720 that a guy's not carded off, that's another one of 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.240 those things, along with the Hall of Fame game that 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.800 you and I always laugh about. I think it's encouraging 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.719 news that he was not carted off, that they thought, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:36.240 you know, he was fine to just walk up the 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.760 hill and go back to the locker room. But Matt, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.440 after what the first six practices of you know, knocking 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.479 off wood being pretty fortunate in that regard, two guys 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.440 certainly that you don't want to see go down again. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.080 We don't know the extent of it. They could be 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.880 back tomorrow really fine, but just that I think was 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.400 kind of the biggest thing that I took from practice 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.240 today was after a few days of good luck in 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.800 that fortune, and you had a couple guys get a 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:00.760 little banged up today. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.680 And as we've reiterated many times, this coaching staff is 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.120 really going to stress getting the guys as healthy as 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.400 possible for the marathon that is the season. So I 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.600 would think if there's any what we could call small 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.800 it's not our bodies, you know, small injuries, they are 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.760 going to keep them out for the rest of practice. Plus, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.480 you know, if there's any concerns particularly equals he's a veteran. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.800 But remember, I mean, Ramsey's not in the mix. So 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.920 those your top two slot options right now are not 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.800 available presumably. But again, we'll get more information on both 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.480 and people will tell stuff and it'll come across. But 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.800 my early thoughts are, yeah, I doubt either is like 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.600 season enders or you know, it's where I are, any 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.560 of that kind of stuff, you know. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.920 I think. So I'm cautiously optimistic that even if those 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.680 guys miss a couple practices, it won't be anything long term. Matt. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.960 We also today know Eli Heidenreich at practice today. He 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.080 missed Thursday's practice with an undisclosed injury. Not really, not 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.680 really much more, no updates, but it was. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.040 There was a ton of Libo. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.920 You talk about bad timing, man, I mean, it'd be 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.280 like if I had to miss a show while the 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.760 Mars Fighting Planets were. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:12.440 Out here exactly. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.560 Yeah, Eli's alma mater, Mount Libo, was out here today. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.920 They were one of the other Steelers youth football squads. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.080 There's one or two of those represented every here day here, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.880 every single day on campus. It's one of the cool, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.240 many cool things that the Steelers do. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.520 Another Libo joe Maganelo was here too, was he. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.720 Yeah, boy, Joey Manganello. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.200 Libo is representing. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.520 Well, he's living back in the area, isn't he. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.080 Yeah, he's back in Mount and I think left left. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.720 The Southern California Hollywood dream in his back in his 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.800 hometown and taking things easy. Yeah. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 Unfortunately taking pictures and autographs around him. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.800 That's awesome. Yeah, unfortunate for Eli to miss practice, and 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.719 I think especially when when some of the kids from 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.439 his former high school squad were out here. But again, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:54.920 hopefully that's something that. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.360 Is just Blue Devils represent themselves well today though, and 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.440 we are as we speak. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.400 Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Matt Williamson. There must 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.439 that's in the it's in the bylaws of Steelers Nation 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.920 Radio that there must always be a Mount Lebanon and 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.319 a Mars Grad as hosts on this network. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:10.760 We currently have to think I'm doing a night show 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:11.480 with another Mars. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.920 We currently have two between yourself and of course Tom 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.040 Aferman and then myself and Chris Danski as the as 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.760 the Mars guys. But yeah, bummer for Hide and Reich again, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.000 though hopefully that's something that is just minor, just procedural 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.400 and UH, and we'll keep an eye on his status 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.000 going forward. And then kind of last thing on this 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.920 injury and health forefront. Matt Mike McCarthy did speak UH 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.839 today and was asked about Joey Porter Junior and Jaalen 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.000 Ramsey and their kind of time frame to return to practice. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.360 He said that there's no high concern about either, but 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.040 doesn't have a time frame for their return. So I 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.040 think that's kind of a status quo, but just a 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.160 lot of anytime the head coach uh, you know, uh 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.080 addresses it directly, I think it's it's worthy of mentioning. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.840 Here and again slam on that wood like you're saying, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.760 but I mean, like for where we sit, what ten 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:05.000 practices are ten days in ten practice, not seven ten days. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.839 You'll take it from a health perspective, you know, in 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.760 terms of where this team is overall, I think you're 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:11.640 in pretty nice shape. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.120 And I'll tell you this. When you start to see it. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.680 Think is the only one seems like it could be 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.080 a while, could be a little yeah. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:17.480 I'll tell you what though, when you start to see 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.720 some of these guys in the secondary continuing to go 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.880 down or just not be available. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.080 It seems so deep and now all of a sudden 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:23.880 it's like a little thing. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.040 But at the same time too for a Santa Samuel Junior, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.280 for Dayalen Everett, here's your opportunity. Here's your opportunity. Boys. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.679 It's great out there. Let's see what you got. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:31.240 Great point. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.320 So that's kind of I think the the moving and 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.800 shaking from today, if you will. Yeah, and uh and 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.400 again not some of the greatest updates that you want 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.840 to hear, But I think not time to panic fotball 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.640 exactly right. This is just the way it goes. It's 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.960 not a matter of if. It's a matter of win. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.680 As the former head coach would have said, injuries are 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.400 as much a part of football as blocking and tackling. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.800 And unfortunately we all know that that's the case. Matt. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.920 We've got plenty of of ground that we want to 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.640 cover today. I did want to get your thoughts on 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.679 two just kind of notable news stories around the league. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.040 The first being the Washington Commanders have signed wide receiver 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.240 Stefon Diggs. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.800 Long overdue. I mean, they've been rumored to be linked 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.680 to Brandon Ayut quite a bit. Diggs is from that area. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.120 That makes a lot of sense as well. I still 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.200 think he's got plenty in the tank. Not as dynamic 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.120 as he was, but more of a chain mover, big 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.160 time professional route runner. I know he has some off 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.160 the field stuff and all that, but I think he's 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.640 good for a young quarterback. Showed that with Drake May. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.320 A lot of the reports, I mean, these are just 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.280 things you read and heard, were that he was really 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.480 influential in a good way to a young Patriot receiver room. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.840 They've got to get a lot of young guys outside 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 of McLaurin. But more than anything, I mean, I didn't 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.320 think people were talking enough about how poor the skill 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.000 positions were with a commander. I mean, low end running backs, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.120 low end tight ends outside of McLaurin, some real reach. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.040 So this was very. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.040 Needed, Yes it was. And you're trying to make life 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.200 easier on Jayden Daniels. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.920 Not halfy yeahthing, not ask him to do everything. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.400 One year, ten million dollar deal. We're worth up to 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.959 twelve million with some incentives. Last year he cut eight had. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.760 A hard time finding the numbers, That's what I right though. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.839 That's via Rapaport and Schefter. Last year Cut eighty five 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.160 passes little over one thousand yards four touchdowns and helped 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.520 that Patriots team win the AFC and make it to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.480 a Super Bowl at Stefan Diggs, now back to his 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.840 hometown his home area, of course, played college football at 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.840 the University of Maryland. I meant to send this to 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.959 you last night. I was scrolling the old Twitter feed 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.200 and you know how there's those accounts that are like 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.880 old time football or classic college football, you know. Yeah, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.360 and there was one and they posted a like a 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.880 three minute highlight package and it was twenty twelve. It 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.560 was Maryland in Morgantown against WU and Tavon Austin had 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.079 like seven hundred yards and seven touchdowns. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.320 And he was a phenom in college his year. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.280 It was like the eleventh overall pick I think, and 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.280 Stefan Diggs had like five hundred yards and five touchdowns. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.680 So it was a fun clip of, you know, of 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.760 those two going back and forth on a on a 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.080 college football Saturday. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.480 Nobody was stopping either one of them. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:10.280 No, they were not. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.640 And then I still think he's a high quality number 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.080 two though. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.719 I think so, yeah, yeah, if he he's not a 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.160 number one anymore, but no, like if if Terry mccluuran 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.120 was still Terry McLaurin, then that would be a perfect edition. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.680 Yeah yeah, but they're still They've gotten much better with 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.280 the U with the addition of Diggs needed and then Matt. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.120 Some big news with a little bit of a local 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.199 tie here, Aaron Donald has officially worked out for the 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.360 Rams as a potential comeback looms. He had a workout 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.080 with his former employer. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.440 So I found that interesting. It's like, I wonder what 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.439 that workout entailed. Is the workout just saying. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.439 Is it more of a physical you know? Like that that. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.520 Would totally add up. You know, you should you're gonna. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.040 Have to take Let's just make sure that you know 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.760 you're still healthy enough and well enough to do this. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.160 I envisioned the workout being like the D line coach, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.320 the de coordinator and McVeigh while he's out there in 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.439 shorts and T shirt saying please come back, please come back, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.959 please come back. I don't care what you do, but 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:05.760 let's get your vitals. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.880 Let's make sure you're healthy and can pass a physical year. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.400 And then I think there's story about it. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.000 Walking and breathing right, yeah, please come back. You're still 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.400 breathing right, come on back. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.320 That's gonna be crazy. Man. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.320 I think it's gonna happen. I thought it's gonna happen 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.040 every step of the way. I mean, if you're him, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.040 there's only two negatives, and one of them is just 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.680 you're just delaying your Hall of Fame time. But you're 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.480 gonna go either way. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.680 But it's not like the Philip Rivers delay delay, not 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.840 a five year delay. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.440 And I guess you could tarnish your unbelievable legacy if 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.480 you come out in your average or yeah, he didn't 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.120 do any he ends up with two sacks this year 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.880 or something like that. But I don't think it will 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.040 even be a full time player. Their other defensive tackles 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.280 are good, right, you know, I would think he's out 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:51.240 there and situational, closing out games, playoffs, you know, keep 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.040 him fresh. It's pretty appealing. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.960 It's very appealing. Just turn thirty five a couple months ago. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.520 Not a spring chicken anymore. But he's he's not long 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.760 in the two either. There's still obviously a lot of 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.120 high level guys in the trenches at his age in 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.000 the in the NFL. So yeah, man, that's gonna. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.360 Be the Odell Mike Evans draft class. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.320 Yeah, yeah, yeahha, which is you know, kind of be 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.320 very interesting to keep an eye on this story in 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.560 what all kinds of signs are pointing to the return 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.160 of one of the best defensive players, point blank period 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.360 in NFL history. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.680 No doubt, and with all respected Joe Green. If I 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.800 had one defense tackle, I think that's my pick. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.840 Don't tell anyone Are those the two those? Is there 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.120 anyone else in the conversation, like sap or No, No, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:34.880 Bob Lilly. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.000 But he's a little I mean, that's going back too far. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.560 I always kind of start things with the Super Bowl era. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.920 I mean, he was considered the best before Green arrived, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.800 and I have to say I don't know as much 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.440 about him, never saw him play. Not a Pittsford guy. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.320 There's others, don't get me wrong, but Donald's the bottom 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.560 line is Aaron Donald's as good as any tackle that 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.680 have ever roamed the earth, without doubt. If you call 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.160 JJ Watt a tackle, I guess you could put it 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.040 in a conversation. In a conversation too, you know, like, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.680 if I'm building a four man D line, I think 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:05.880 JJ's on it somewhere. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.440 Man, that'd be a tough task to do. You'd almost 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.600 have to break it into like twentieth century and twenty 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.080 first century, because yeah, we're starting to get to the 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 point man, where you know, like my my friends and 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.720 I were having that conversation like a week or two ago, Matt, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.320 and it would have been fun to you know, one 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.560 of those conversations that you I think would have would 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.520 have been at the forefront and the very involved in. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.280 But like, at what point do we now, what do 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.720 you consider the modern era? You know, because like it's 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:32.240 like we've been. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:33.800 Talking about thousands break point. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.280 We've been talking about the modern era of sports now 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.720 from what feels like twenty years you know, since around 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.280 like when Ben was a rookie, right, and Manning and 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.640 Brady and those guys were you know, on the scene. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.280 But I think you're right. I think now I bet 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:46.560 your your group. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.160 Of buddies would look at the different than my group 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.840 of buddies. Yeah, just from the age difference, right, right. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.520 We said we said about nineties ish, like some point 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.800 in the nineties to now is probably moder But you're right, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.520 I think we're getting close a few years away from 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.920 the point where you kind of can start drawn all 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.200 in sports history of the twentieth century in the twenty 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.240 first century, because we're about to be three decades into 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.560 the into the twenty first century. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.720 I mean this sounds makes me sound really old, but 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.480 like I always found it funny when I would hear 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.840 something on DVE for the first time, being like Guns 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.000 and Roses is classic rock? Now it's right, well, you know, 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.560 it blows me when I hemember when Apathite came out. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.920 When I hear like Blink one eighty two and Green 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.399 Day and an Oasis, So. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.920 To me, that's new. That's brand new stuff to me, right, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.520 that just came out like a year ago. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.680 In my mind, Like, oh no, not the nineties music 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.479 I grew up. That can't be classic rock, not yet. No, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.000 that's still Zeppelin and the Beatles, baby, and how about 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:36.879 the Rolling Stones? Give me some can't you hear me 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.600 knock it on the on the dve here? 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.800 I mean, like the seventies are hard to compare to now, obviously, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.440 I think, I mean, it's almost every sport court looks 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.479 so different. But I think this league is changing, just 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.600 like the world. And just like you know, the Internet 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:55.000 age from ninety two to ninety three isn't as big 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.080 a difference as twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. Correct, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.880