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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: show on your twenty four to seven home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale

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Speaker 1: LOLLI he is Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. And well, it being the Monday before

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Speaker 1: the draft, it is our final mock draft Monday Madness Day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we will roll through a little mock draft here.

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Speaker 1: We're going to use the Pro Football Focus drafter here. Again.

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Speaker 1: I made it more of a national board as opposed

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Speaker 1: to just going with their rankings. And well, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be up here at seventeen in a second.

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Speaker 2: And here we are cam on this one though. We

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Speaker 2: should tell the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I stuck today. Since the last few times we've

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Speaker 1: done this we've traded pick seventeen. We would not do

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Speaker 1: that today. We'll stay at home and make a draft pick.

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Speaker 1: We only have one trade offer as it is, and

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Speaker 1: it's with the Giants at twenty five, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a possibility. I think the Giants. I could see

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Speaker 1: the Giants wanting to come up and get somebody.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind going back that far either.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's not a bad spot, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Banks or you know right, yeah, not a bad spot.

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Speaker 1: So here we are at seventeen. The players taken ahead

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Speaker 1: of us, Bryce Young, c J. Stroud, Will Anderson, Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Carter, Tyree Wilson, Will Levis, Devin Witherspoon, Christian Gonzalez,

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Speaker 1: Jackson Smith, and Jigbut to the Eagles, how about that

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Speaker 1: Peter Skarnski, Broderick Jones, Paris Johnson, Miles Murphy. But Jean Robinson,

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Speaker 1: Darnell Wright. So really the players still available that we

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Speaker 1: would look at here, well, Dalton Kin Kaid's available, Nolan Smith,

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Speaker 1: Elijah Cancy, Brian Branch, Deontay Banks, Michael mayor, Joey Porter. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Brise is still there. Branch and Bris are both there.

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Speaker 1: You want to try you want to try this with

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Speaker 1: Branch and see how it looks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's do that, all right. I mean I

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Speaker 2: have all the normal names written here. I have Porter, Banks, Breze,

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Speaker 2: and Branch. Let's just try the Branch. Let's see what

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Speaker 2: that looks like.

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Speaker 1: Let's take Branch. Okay, so Brian Branch is to pick.

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Speaker 1: Now we are back up. Wow, we have this is

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this many trade offers before. We have

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Speaker 1: eleven trade offers at thirty two.

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Speaker 2: Wow, eleven, that's crazy, but that goes to eleven. No,

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Speaker 2: it's an We were only going to be allowed to

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Speaker 2: trade once.

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Speaker 1: So the team's on the phone. The Arizona Cardinals would

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Speaker 1: pick thirty four, The Indianapolis Colts would pick thirty five,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks at thirty seven, the Saints at forty, the

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Speaker 1: Jets at forty two, the Lions at forty eight, the

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Speaker 1: Chargers at fifty four, the Giants at fifty seven, the

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Speaker 1: Broncos at sixty seven, the Vikings at eighty seven, and

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers at ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: I think those late ones, I think they can go away.

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Speaker 1: I want to say anything after forty we're not interested in.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, that's not about right board.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, well let's go down there. So let's look

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Speaker 1: and see who got picked after our pick. So Nolan Smith,

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Speaker 1: Joey Porter, Lucas van Ness, Zay Flowers, Deontay Banks, Elijah Cancy,

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Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid, Quinton Johnston, Michael Mayer, Brian Bursey, Osirus Torrance,

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Speaker 1: Anton Harrison, Emmanuel Forbes, Will McDonald.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think the three no brainers, Bresee, Banks and

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Speaker 2: Porter all went.

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Speaker 1: All went. So here are the guys. Some of the

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Speaker 1: guys still available. Jordan Addison, Daywon Jones.

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Speaker 2: I bet everybody wants to Adison.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, could you imagine video on Friday talk

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Speaker 1: radio in Pittsburgh off Jordan Ada. They gotta take Jordan Addison,

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Speaker 1: uh Felix and Duque Isoma, Jamior Gibbs, John Michael Schmidz

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Speaker 1: also gimms.

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Speaker 2: Being in the real world, somebody people want to get

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Speaker 2: the thirty two for.

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Speaker 1: I can see that as well, Like I don't want

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Speaker 1: to pay him the fifth round option and say that

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Speaker 1: he was the first run up, but I'll use the

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Speaker 1: first rip pick of the second round on him. Darnell

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Speaker 1: Washington is there, Josh Downs, Jack Campbell, Cam Smith, Steve Avila,

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Speaker 1: Sam Laporta, Tyreek, Stevenson. There's Hendon Hooker still there. That's

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Speaker 1: the guy everybody wants to come.

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Speaker 2: Up and get. I think we got to move.

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Speaker 1: I think people want to come up and get the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be honest. There wasn't a lot of names

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Speaker 2: wouldn't mind moving down ten spots and getting a third

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Speaker 1: You know, let's so the Saints are on the phone

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Speaker 1: at forty Let's see what the Saints would offer us. Here,

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Speaker 1: they have forty seventy one one fifteen, one forty six,

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Speaker 1: I know the Saints want to come up and get

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Speaker 1: ask more from them than I typically like somebody else want.

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Speaker 1: So I want forty, I want seventy one for thirty two.

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Speaker 1: They're saying that that there's an eighteen percent chance that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounded rich, And I don't think of throwing

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Speaker 2: in a seventh rounders gonna get us very far.

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Speaker 1: How about thirty two and one fifteen I'm sorry, forty

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Speaker 1: and one fifteen for thirty two? They would they would

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent do that. Yeah, well, then I want

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Speaker 1: give me next year they got they have a one

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Speaker 1: to two of four five six and two six is

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Speaker 1: next year. I went the four.

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Speaker 2: I was an ask for three, but they don't have one.

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Speaker 1: They don't have one. Well, they'll absolutely one hundred percent do.

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Speaker 2: That, all right. And in addition to that. Let's move

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Speaker 2: our seventh to a fifth this year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so two fifty one for one sixty five mm hmm,

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Speaker 1: eighty nine percent chances will do that. They got one

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Speaker 1: forty six as well. Let's see if they'll give up that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's an eighty four percent chance still do that.

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Speaker 2: That's enough stuff for me to move back, considering who's

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Speaker 2: on the board.

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Speaker 1: Done all right, and they accepted it. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good haul for the thirty second picking. We

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Speaker 1: got forty one to fifteen, one forty six and next

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Speaker 1: year's fourth rounder for thirty two and two fifty one.

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Speaker 2: But if you're them and you love Hooker, that's nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's nothing to give up if you think he's your

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Speaker 1: future quarterback right right, and he sits behind up here.

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Speaker 1: Let me see, they didn't even take Hooker. They took

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Speaker 1: key On White. In fact, Hooker did. Hooker wasn't picked. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thirty two thirty, we're back up a forty. Hooker is

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Speaker 1: still there.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're not on trade anymore.

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Speaker 1: We're not, but we do have three trade off on

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Speaker 1: the board. So the top guys available, we've got forty

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Speaker 1: forty nine, eighty one, fifteen and two forty one remaining

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Speaker 1: nice in Duque is Oma, Darnell Washington, Josh Downs, Jack Campbell,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's some dudes there.

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Speaker 2: I didn't love any of them, though, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: tight ends are my favorite, and we have a lot

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna load up the positions that we still. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so we right now we have Brian branch Right, I'm

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Speaker 1: still gonna list corner I'm still gonna list cornerbacks there.

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Speaker 1: I'm still gonna list offensive tackles. I'm still gonna list

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Speaker 1: defensive interior guys. Should put linebackers in that group as well. Sure, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So just siphoning through that that group. Campbell's the highest

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Speaker 1: rated player, followed by cam Smith, Tyreek, Stevenson, DJ Turner,

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Speaker 1: Cody match, Keanu, Benton, Dayon, Henley Clark Phillips, Matthew Burser, On,

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Speaker 1: Julius Brents, Trevius Hodges, Tomlinson, Darius Rush, Trenton Simpson, Corey Trice.

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Speaker 1: They're really down on Trenton Simpson, by the way, he's

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Speaker 1: down to seventy seventy first rated player on their board.

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Speaker 2: Didn't sound like any tackles of notes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Bursun's the best offensive tackle unless you consider

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Speaker 1: match can. If he can play, Benton would be a

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Speaker 2: I think Benton's the pick, Keanu Benton.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got no problem with that. Keanu Benton's to pick.

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Speaker 1: So we've got a corn a nickel corner in a

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Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman. All right, we're back up at forty nine.

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Speaker 1: Now we get a little bit of a we have

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Speaker 1: forty nine, then we don't pick again until eighty. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Josh Downs, Steve Avila, Sam Laporta, Tyreek, Stevenson, Nathaniel Dell,

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Speaker 1: DJ Turner, Luke Musgrave, Zach Charbonnay Cody match still there,

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Speaker 1: Tolle Tupolo two, Antonio Johnson, Luke whipler O, Jelari Dayon,

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Speaker 1: Henley Clark, Phillips, Nick Herbig, Matthew Bergeron's still there.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a pick.

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Speaker 1: I think you take Bergeron.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be hard to land to

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Speaker 2: tackle if.

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Speaker 1: People will be going nuts about this unless unless you

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Speaker 1: went like much.

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Speaker 2: Better, not not for the Steelers, not for Yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Think I think he's an interior guy, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bergeron is the pick now in this scenario, people will

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Speaker 1: can't believe the Steelers haven't taken a true cornerback. I know,

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Speaker 1: but this draft is so deep. I guarantee you there's

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Speaker 1: somebody here at eighty. There probably would be somebody at

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Speaker 1: one point fifteen who maybe he's not a surefire guy,

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Speaker 2: We also didn't eliminate that need, but alleviated it, you know.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna have more defensive backs on the field.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be easier to double or roll coverage

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Speaker 2: to our weaker corners on the outside if needed. I mean,

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Speaker 2: our defensive backfield improved.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna list here. We're up at eighty

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Speaker 1: the positions that I'm listing here at cornerback, safety, linebacker,

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Speaker 1: and edge. Anything else that you want to see added

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Speaker 2: I would like to look at tight ends.

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Speaker 1: You always want to look at tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the top guys available, Trevius Hodges, Tomlinson.

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Speaker 2: He's on an outside guy though, I mean, we got it.

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Speaker 1: We have our Yeah, we have our Nickel, Sidney Brown,

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Speaker 1: Marey Trice. He's Worseen Jordan Battle to Marvi and Overshown,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Johnson, Luke Scoon Maker, jar Tavius Martin, Isaiah Maguire.

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Speaker 1: I think jar Tavius Martin can play outside cornerback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL AM I crazy to think that, like, not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. He to me, is

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Speaker 1: much like Cam Sutton. I'll take that guy and I

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Speaker 1: could put him in different spots and maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's never grated any of them, but he'll be

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Speaker 1: pretty good. And Cam Sutton grew into us, but at

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Speaker 1: the point where he was pretty good, you know, pretty

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Speaker 1: good cornerback for the Steelers. Yeah he could. He can.

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Speaker 1: Kind of. He's kind of like Branch where I got two.

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Speaker 1: I now have two guys that could do a little

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Speaker 1: bit of everything in the back.

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Speaker 2: Into my defense, I know, I just think he's too redundant.

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Speaker 2: Like so I wrote down the name Trice. You know

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Speaker 2: right right right off the bat, he's an outside corner.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's big, and you and I am sure

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Speaker 2: agree that Martin would have a higher grade than Trice.

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Speaker 2: But it's the Agel question. Do you take Trice over Martin?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean, because he's not ranked quite

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Speaker 1: Heandrew Coburn blame me for Hoko, my guy again, Hoko,

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Speaker 1: I don't hate it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at her steels really need two edges

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Speaker 1: I'll take Forjko there, why not yeah, yeah, I know

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Speaker 2: I like that one.

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Speaker 1: The grades are in, Matt. We got an A an

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Speaker 1: No, at forty we took Keanu Benton. We get a

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Speaker 1: We got an A for Dorian Williams.

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Speaker 1: At one twenty we took Zach Kuntz. That was kind

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Speaker 1: At one forty six we got a C. Tyson Badget

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Speaker 2: My point was, you know, the whole hall. There might

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Speaker 1: You know, just looking at that, I see a path

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Speaker 1: Hey, Krince might be an outstanding special teams player for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Burger ons your developmental tackle. Obviously, Benton

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