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Speaker 2: And welcome back to the Drive here on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. I am Dale Lolly. He is the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: And you know.

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Speaker 2: By the imposing music, yes, that the Dean of Doom,

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Speaker 2: the Lord of living in his fears, is now joining

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Speaker 2: us on the Justin Miller Hotline. How you doing labs?

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Speaker 4: Okay, the Dean is taking charge here up of this segment. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I have a question for both of each of you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Oh, bring it on, great, Yes, all right, you.

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Speaker 4: Are picking for the Steelers, and you have the first

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Speaker 4: overall pick, so you can add any player who is

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Speaker 4: eligible and availab well, obviously they're all available. Any player

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Speaker 4: who is eligible for this draft to add to the

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Speaker 4: current Steelers roster to help them for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: five season. Who you got?

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Speaker 3: Take it away? I know both of our answers.

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Speaker 2: We kind of we just get to, you know, just

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Speaker 2: in our top twenty one in the opening segment, and

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Speaker 2: you're probably gonna disagree with this, but I'm taking cam

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Speaker 2: Ward just ahead of Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 3: And I'm taking Hunter just above cam Ward because I

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Speaker 3: think receiver and corner are minor needs. And I frankly

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Speaker 3: think he's a very very special prospect. And I'm a

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Speaker 3: Ward fan, but I will dip my toe in the

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Speaker 3: quarterback market next year.

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Speaker 4: Okay, interesting, interesting.

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Speaker 2: Who you taking?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna you know, I don't know enough about

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Speaker 4: am Ward. You know, I've watched a little TV. I

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Speaker 4: watched Miami some. You know, he was interesting. I mean

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Speaker 4: I enjoyed watching the Hurricanes play. I mean that's my

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Speaker 2: Let's put it this way, Bob. We've gone through with

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Speaker 2: unquote experts or gurus or whatever you want to say.

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Speaker 2: And the comp that keeps coming back on cam Ward

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Speaker 2: is he sawed off Ben Roethlisberger, which.

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Speaker 3: I think is a little rich.

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Speaker 2: Though might be a little rich. But if you give

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Speaker 2: me Ben Roethlisberger, give me eighty five nine Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 2: And Okay, because I was gonna say, what what what

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Speaker 2: does saw off mean? He's short, He's a shorter Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 3: He's got small hands. I think he's six y one,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean, if that's the case, I'm taking

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Speaker 4: my deficiencies in the talent evaluation area every year because

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Speaker 4: I don't see anything except you know, when I'm watching

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Speaker 4: kind of a victim of who's ever on TV. So,

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Speaker 4: but you know, the Travis Hunter pick to me is interesting,

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Speaker 4: So where's he playing?

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Speaker 3: There would be some juggling. I would mostly play him

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Speaker 3: at receiver for a stealer for the Steelers. I think

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Speaker 3: he's basically an equal prospect at both. And he's the

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Speaker 3: best corner and the best receiver in this draft. So

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Speaker 3: even if he can't do both, I think you'd be

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Speaker 3: least get him out there on offense third and longs

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Speaker 3: yeah two many. You know, when there's too much left

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Speaker 2: See, i'd play m a cornerback because I would to

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Speaker 3: I didn't mean that I would I played more to

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Speaker 2: If I had If I were the Steelers and I

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Speaker 4: No, No, that wasn't That wasn't that weren't That wasn't

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Speaker 2: As it is now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Genie comes out of the bottle and says, you

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Speaker 2: Well, then I would also consider asking Genty there.

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Speaker 3: I would take both those guys over Genty.

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Speaker 2: Saying that helped the team. Now, I would still take Ward,

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Speaker 2: If that's the exercise, we're just trying to put together

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Speaker 3: Well, you add them to the roster. It's not like

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Speaker 3: you just got granted the first overall pick right in there.

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Speaker 2: How you understand nobody. I'm still taking Ward, but I

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Speaker 2: would consider genty because I think he's special.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think he's pretty great.

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Speaker 4: But you wouldn't. You wouldn't consider the depth of the

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm still saying I would take Ward over over Genty,

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Speaker 2: but Genty would be in my I would think about genty.

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Speaker 3: Let me complicate things, lab Do we still have picked

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Speaker 4: No? No, that's your that's your only first round pick. Okay,

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Speaker 4: the only thing you can't do because I think that

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Speaker 2: Obviously.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would field.

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Speaker 4: Off because I think he end up with you get

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Speaker 4: this year's one, and I think you get another one

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Speaker 2: Probably and probably somebody's next year in somebody's two in

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Speaker 4: Didn't I didn't want to add trading to.

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Speaker 2: The mad Our head spin.

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Speaker 4: Right, Well, and that's that's way too you know, there's

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Speaker 4: way too much projection in that. I mean, there's a

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Speaker 4: not interested in Abdul Carter.

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Speaker 3: No, not not. I mean he'd edge guy. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he'd be fighting Smith for snaps. I'm just good enough there.

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Speaker 2: And he's got he's got some injury stuff that kind

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, I think Travis Hunter helps more

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Speaker 4: I really believe that you've got to get somebody like

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Speaker 4: if I could add right at top of the depth

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Speaker 4: want to do. Maybe it frees up your free safety

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Speaker 4: your pressure package has become much more effective.

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Speaker 3: Labs. We were actually talking about that yesterday. And I'm

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Speaker 3: not ripping on Dante Jackson, but his inability to really

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Speaker 3: be a man coverage corner I thought hurt this defense

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Speaker 3: for all those reasons. You know, like I bet they

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Speaker 3: have fifteen more sacks if they have that corner you're

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Speaker 3: effect of a man coverage corner would have massive effects

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, interesting, I agree, I'm agreeing with it. It's

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Speaker 4: on what you want to talk about. I'm satisfied with

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Speaker 4: my contribution.

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Speaker 3: What would your thoughts on should or Sanders be at

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Speaker 3: twenty one? And I know you haven't broke down his

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Speaker 3: You don't live under a rock, and you know who

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Speaker 3: his dad is and all that. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna be honest

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Speaker 4: here too. When I watched Colorado the last two seasons.

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Speaker 4: is just in sufferable, insufferable and I and well, let

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Speaker 4: me say this too, in fairness to Dion, I think

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Speaker 4: a lot of it has to do with the way

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Speaker 4: the media fawns all over him. You know, this coach

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Speaker 4: prime crap to me is that's not your name. So

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Speaker 4: I'm calling you by your name, Coach Sanders if you want,

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Speaker 4: or Dion or Sanders or whatever. But that whole coach

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Speaker 4: prime genuflection that was going on every time he was

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Speaker 4: going to acknowledge that a lot of I watched Colorado

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Speaker 4: certainly am throwing out pretty much everything he did when

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Speaker 4: he played at Jackson State, because at that level, you

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Speaker 4: have him, you have.

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Speaker 2: The best player in the country. Is he was voted

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Speaker 2: the best player in the country last year. For this

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Speaker 3: And you're an NFL quarterback playing at Jackson State.

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Speaker 4: And the other thing was, you know, he got sacked

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Speaker 4: a lot, But was that because he was holding onto

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Speaker 4: or was that his offensive line just stink?

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Speaker 3: I think it's about yeah, well.

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Speaker 4: See because and that's what I mean. I don't know

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Speaker 4: a number one pick or not. I just don't.

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Speaker 3: Laughs. Correct me if I'm wrong. But I remember when

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Speaker 3: lot of people thought Dion was the best corner and

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Speaker 3: he didn't tackle. I just remember him being not popular

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Speaker 4: And what's the Woodson being Steeler had a lot to

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Speaker 4: do with that. And I was always love I love

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Speaker 4: this story. When Dion was a baseball player and Kurt

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Speaker 4: Shilling I believe was pitching for the Red Sox or

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Speaker 4: Dion a couple of times in a game and after

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Speaker 4: the game, he was asked, weren't you concerned that Dion

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Speaker 4: Sanders might charge the mound, and Shilling's answer was, what's

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Speaker 3: He'd be fast getting to the mound.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yeah, see, I always the physicality that

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Speaker 4: it was important to the way that Chuck Will wanted

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Speaker 4: I never saw Delon take Jerry Rice out of the game.

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Speaker 2: Rob was just a more complete player.

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Speaker 2: I know I know exactly what play you're going to

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Speaker 4: I'm just talking about the whole game. Yeah, well, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Rice caught a couple of touchdown passes, but Woodson had

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Speaker 2: He baited Steve Young into into throwing that that pass

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I I you know, you can say Rice

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Speaker 3: He also got punts like he was a center fielder,

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Speaker 2: But you've covered a lot of these drafts, as we

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Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you this. Tony Dungee told me

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Speaker 4: never he's not going to be there for them when

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Speaker 4: That's just the waste of your time. So that was

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Speaker 2: Was not just the Browns, because if you look at

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Speaker 2: that eighty seven draft, I was getting there, the only

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Speaker 4: I mean in that top nine picks, then the Saint

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Speaker 2: It was Vinnie Testaverdi Cornelius Bennett, Alonso high Smith, Brent Fullwood,

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Speaker 3: It was a two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Cornelius Bennett was a good player, you know, for

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Speaker 4: No. And I remember, you know, as that draft was unfolding,

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Speaker 4: That was a done deal. That was like Reggie Rogers

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Speaker 4: That was a that was an accepted you know people,

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Speaker 4: that was an expected pick. It turned out to be

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Speaker 4: you know, I remember sitting in that room at three

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Speaker 3: A very good player.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think either one of them would have

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Speaker 2: My favorite pick in that draft went two picks after

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Speaker 4: Who went on to star in movies.

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Speaker 2: He took him after the movie.

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Speaker 3: Did the Olympics scare people off with Woodson? Because I

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Speaker 4: He was, I know this, I know this that that

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Speaker 4: Dan Rooney and said, we better start taking this track

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Speaker 4: stuff seriously. This guy could go to the Olympics and

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Speaker 3: It was real.

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Speaker 4: Became yeah, it became real. And you know, Woodson didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now when did you put him in the Superman costume?

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Speaker 4: That was that was maybe nineteen ninety, Okay, I think

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Speaker 4: I think it was USA Today first that said something about,

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Speaker 4: you know, Mike Fabous, God rest his soul. The photographer

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Speaker 2: So he had to walk there in the Superman costume.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no change.

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Speaker 3: There was a little there was a phone booth, yeah,

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Speaker 4: So the amount of ribbing i'll use that word, that

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Speaker 4: They just superimposed my head on that photo, which, hey whatever,

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Speaker 2: Much more believable today than it would have been back

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Speaker 4: You know. And again they made his teammates may have

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Speaker 2: No, not at all, not at all. Anybody else stand

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Speaker 2: or can't believe that guy was that was the pick there.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't didn't think he would still be on.

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Speaker 4: The board, not not the jumps, not not the jumps

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Speaker 3: Uh, maybe the Paula Malu trade up.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that was a month once because once the

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Speaker 4: there was no it was more about the trade that

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Speaker 4: was wow, because that was the first time in franchise

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Speaker 4: history the Steelers ever did that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they moved up a bunch, like they came

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Speaker 4: Twenty seven to sixteen. Yeah, you know it's interesting too.

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Speaker 4: I I throw this out a lot too. You know,

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Speaker 4: a second round pick. Well, you know when the Steelers

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Speaker 4: flop picks obviously, you always do that, right, But they

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Speaker 4: So while you know, the trade down thing sounds good

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Speaker 4: and hey, maybe it works out. I hope it does.

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Speaker 4: But the assumption that you're going to trade down but

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Speaker 4: two pick out of it. I just don't think is realistic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it is either. I think you're

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Speaker 4: Maybe that'd get right, Maybe that's worth a two. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: But you know, I just don't think that a team

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not.

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Speaker 2: You're not trading into the top ten.

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Speaker 4: Bottom third of the first round.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I hope there's a team out there dumb enough

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Speaker 2: Well, our guest has been Bob Larbola, the Dean of Doom,

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Speaker 2: how many drafts is this going to be for you labs?

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Speaker 4: Oh god, let's not talk about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, what was your what was your first year.

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Speaker 4: First year, well, working for the Steelers was nineteen eighty eight,

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Speaker 4: but I was at I was there in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 4: two and they picked Walter Abercrombie. Yeah, so there's that.

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Speaker 2: So it's been a while.

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Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what you're gonna be living in

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Speaker 4: your fears still, you know, because you got writing to do,

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Speaker 4: like I do. And if that's if Thursday, if tomorrow

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Speaker 4: good luck coming up with something to right that day.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I uh, I could live with that.

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Speaker 2: I could write about the trade. There's there's all kinds

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Speaker 2: of things you can you can you can find to

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Speaker 2: write about. And I'm also gonna have to be talking

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Speaker 2: at the same time, so I got to talk and

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Speaker 2: write at the same time, which is always fun too.

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Speaker 4: Oh Okay, I love draft Day. I'd like I'd like

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Speaker 4: them to make a pick that.

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Speaker 2: Would be good. I would I would enjoy that. Yes,

443
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Speaker 2: And they just say they they've never done They don't

444
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Speaker 2: trade out of the first round anymore. They haven't done

445
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Speaker 2: that since the sixties, other than trading for micka Fitzpatrick

446
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Speaker 2: trade actually trading, yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean right, and actually it was sixties early sixties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't expect that to happen.

449
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Speaker 4: But before before Dan Rooney accepted Buddy Parker's resignation.

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Speaker 2: Quote, anyways, we'll let you go, labs. I know you

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Speaker 2: get a lot of busy stuff here to get to

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Speaker 2: but uh, we appreciate you stopping by as usual.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt

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Speaker 2: and now will be back with more right after.

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

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. And well the last one, the last one

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Speaker 2: is here, okay, and the picture in all right. Twenty

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Speaker 2: one we're using theprofootballnetwork dot com mock drafter today. They

464
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Speaker 2: seem to give us more realistic trade offer to things

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Speaker 2: a little bit more. We are up at twenty one

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Speaker 2: and the players available Derek Harmon, Good Malachi Starks, Nick

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Speaker 2: em Youwari, Josh Simmons, Tyler Booker, Walter Nolan, Gray's Abel,

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Speaker 2: Nick Scourton and Egg Buka, James Pearce, Jackson, Dart Amari

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Speaker 2: and Hampton, Donovan, Azeriku, Kenneth Grant, Luther Burden.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I would certainly field offers then the lot to

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Speaker 3: pick from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have offers. The Cardinals who traded back with

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Speaker 2: the Browns. Oh, this is interesting. Our offering for pick

474
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Speaker 2: twenty one and one fifty six picks thirty three and

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Speaker 2: forty seven.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's an interesting build. Yeah, I'd strongly consider that.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Buffalo is offering picks thirty and fifty six were

478
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Speaker 2: picks twenty one and one eighty five?

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Speaker 3: What's a better deal? I would have to look be looking.

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00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 2: At the well, thirty three and forty seven is as

481
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Speaker 2: opposed to thirty and fifty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay for the same two picks, right.

483
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: Uh for twenty one Arizona on's twenty one and one

484
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Speaker 2: fifty six and what was Buffalo Buffalo's twenty one?

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Speaker 3: Consider similar?

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Speaker 2: Similar, And the Chargers are offering picks twenty two and

487
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Speaker 2: two fifty six per pick twenty one.

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Speaker 3: I always think that's a little bit cheating. Yeah, I'd

489
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Speaker 3: consider the other two.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna reject that one. I want to

491
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Speaker 2: look and see what Arizona has other than those two picks,

492
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Speaker 2: because I I one, I'm still very interested in making Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we usually get good players there.

494
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know that I want to trade

495
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Speaker 2: out of the first round. You know, it's in name

496
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Speaker 2: only give it is thirty three, but there's mean it's

497
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Speaker 2: an early early. There's players there that I like and

498
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Speaker 2: I want, And if we get all the way down

499
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Speaker 2: to thirty three, I don't know if they all make

500
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Speaker 2: it that far. Oh I understand, right, I like trading

501
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Speaker 2: away from a good player. That's one thing that both

502
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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin and omar Con said yesterday, like, Hey, we're

503
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Speaker 2: not going to trade away from a that we like.

504
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: We're players that we like.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I might like the Buffalo angle better.

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Speaker 2: It's a higher pick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the Cardinals have thirty three, forty seven, sixty seven,

509
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Speaker 2: seventy eight one fifteen one fifty two two twenty five.

510
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Speaker 2: That's why they can offer they picked up they got

511
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Speaker 2: extra pick from the Browns. Yeah, obviously I don't want

512
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Speaker 2: to straight out of the first round.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well then tell though, yeah you want to talk

514
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Speaker 3: to Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let's see, I'm going to reject Arizona's called Buffalo

516
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Speaker 2: is at thirty and fifty six for twenty one and

517
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Speaker 2: one eighty five. If we go to thirty in sixty two,

518
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Speaker 2: which they also have, Oh, they got two and don't

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00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 2: give them and give them two twenty nine instead of

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Speaker 2: one eighty five.

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Speaker 3: I'd be just as fine with that.

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Speaker 2: I would rather do that. Okay, I don't need fifty

523
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Speaker 2: six necessarily, no, but I think that I think when

524
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Speaker 2: we've drafted at one eighty five, if we found players

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Speaker 2: that we like in that spot. Oh, I know, when

526
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Speaker 2: we drafted two twenty nine, it's.

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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So if I can get a pick that's actually if

529
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Speaker 2: I one more real pick, one more real pick in

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Speaker 2: this particular draft as well. Yeah, where I'm going to

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Speaker 2: get guys in the.

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Speaker 3: Fourth future starting guard right right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as opposed to twenty nine. And I'm like, I'm

534
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Speaker 2: just gonna take a guy who might be a.

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Speaker 3: Special teams player, some safety. It might not maic the team.

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Speaker 2: You know, That's the only way I want to do

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Speaker 2: this deal. And I'm going to propose that to them

538
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Speaker 2: and see they may not accept it. They did, all right,

539
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Speaker 2: So they came up to get Derek Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I had a feeling they might want to do that.

541
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Speaker 2: Walter Nolan just went, Trey Amos just went, Gray's Abel

542
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Speaker 2: just went. Lost a bunch of guys that were on

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Speaker 2: the list. We're not We're not trading again here. So

544
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to reject all that. And so now

545
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Speaker 2: you're looking at thirty Nick Emuori and that gag Buka,

546
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Speaker 2: James Pearce, Jackson, Dart Amari and Hampton, Josh Connerley, Luther Burden,

547
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Speaker 2: Kenneth Grant.

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Speaker 3: Well, going back to segment one, I would take Grant,

549
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Speaker 3: you would take Hampton. Yeah, so how do we split

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Speaker 3: the I would just say it's the last show. You

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Speaker 3: want to flip a coin, let's ask our our. I'm

552
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Speaker 3: sure nobody has a coin on them because nobody I

553
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Speaker 3: want to.

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Speaker 2: So what would this is? This is a consent. This

555
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Speaker 2: is how this works. You sitting sitting here, Okay, go

556
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Speaker 2: to the area, scoutch we got we got Hampton, we

557
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Speaker 2: got and Grant. We got Hampton and Grant on the board. Guys,

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Speaker 2: what are we what are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Nice? They see in here they split, they split labs.

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Speaker 2: We should ask labs.

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Speaker 3: Does something something that could flip around here? Does it

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Speaker 3: change your credit card over?

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Speaker 2: Does it change your opinion though that we're taking Hampton

564
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Speaker 2: at thirty as opposed to twenty.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely because we picked up something else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that now we can get that defensive tackle. We

567
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Speaker 2: might get tylerk Williams in the second round and be

568
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Speaker 2: equally as happy because.

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Speaker 3: We have a second round, or let's do Hampton.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just think that makes more sense. Like if

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna move down it, it does change the I'm

572
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: gonna get a premium running back premium round. I don't

573
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Speaker 2: have to wait and maybe miss out on Judkins and

574
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Speaker 2: Johnson and those guys in Travon Henderson.

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Speaker 3: Funny you said this because I'm not trying to like

576
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Speaker 3: cover my butt, but I meant to say that in

577
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Speaker 3: the first segment about the top twenty one that if

578
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Speaker 3: you have different picks, my twenty one list would change

579
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Speaker 3: a little, right, you know, like, oh, now I have

580
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Speaker 3: a second. Well I'm operating here that I don't have

581
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Speaker 3: a second. My next pick's eighty might go.

582
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Speaker 2: When I built that list, I might get a Mario

583
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Speaker 2: and Hampton and Alfred Collins and be like yeah or

584
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: Williams Yeah, or Williams and be like, Okay, all right,

585
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: right now we're cooking with gas.

586
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it and see how it works out.

587
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 2: Okay, Marion Hampton, Okay, is the pick Travon Henderson did

588
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 2: go thirty two?

589
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 3: Now we want them to yeah, that makes us happen.

590
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got a Marion Hampton here, we got

591
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: our running back room is awesome, great, we're fantastic.

592
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 3: Our line room is not. It's not.

593
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: We might have to go D line D line here.

594
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 3: I would love that. It was actually going to be

595
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Speaker 3: my suggestion.

596
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Speaker 2: If it works out as opposed to quarterback, I'm fine

597
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: with that too.

598
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no problem ignoring quarterback this year.

599
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: I don't either. I don't either. All Right, we're coming

600
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: out here at sixty two. We're not trading rejecting rejecting now.

601
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: As it worked out, Caleb Johnson was still there, but

602
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: we didn't know that. Jaln Milrose there, Jalen Royals, Marcus

603
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: bow Oladaijo from UCLA, Alfred Collins from Texas, defensive tackle,

604
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 2: Jayden Higgins the wide receiver from wide receiver from Iowa State, Okay,

605
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 2: Braden Swinson, ed rusher out of LSU, Darien Porter, cornerback

606
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: Iowa State, Andrew mccouba, safety from ten exs. Kyle Williams

607
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: the wide receiver from Washington. I don't know I need

608
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: to go all that much deeper than that.

609
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Speaker 3: I mean, I like, don't love Collins, but I probably

610
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Speaker 3: would go that direction.

611
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: I would consider Higgins there.

612
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 3: I would say Higgins being there's clouding my judgment a

613
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah, I don't want to go two skill

614
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 3: guys and not draft the defensive lineman immediately. But we

615
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 3: do have extra picks.

616
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 2: We don't have extra pick.

617
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Speaker 3: Better.

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00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have better picks.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's that third round the lineman is going

620
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 3: to be. Maybe there's a Turner or Robinson, but it's

621
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Speaker 3: probably a nose And I don't know if Collins is

622
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 3: a big enough difference maker. Though I like him, I

623
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Speaker 3: don't love them. I wish he was a little twitchier.

624
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 2: Think you're got of stuff to run really well though.

625
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's just look and see what other defensive

626
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: tackles are available before we make the pick. So Collins

627
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 2: is there, Omar Norman Lott is there, Schamar Turner is there,

628
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: Robinson is there, Josh Farmer is there, Diomane Walker, C. J. West,

629
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Speaker 2: Jordan Phillips, Jamari Calbwell JJ Pigisee.

630
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Speaker 3: This is it's good. But it's good. Hit pretty hard

631
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Speaker 3: so far.

632
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is I mean, all these a bunch

633
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,959
Speaker 2: of these nose types are there.

634
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I might even take Turner over call.

635
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask you, do you go with

636
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: a guy like Turner.

637
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 3: I had Turner two spots ahead of Collins outside my

638
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 3: twenty one but in my top thirty, kind of for

639
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 3: the same reasons why we had Grant behind Nolan and Harman.

640
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: Because he's an end I think I'd go Turner.

641
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: I get it.

642
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 3: I STUDI him the more I think he's a Steeler fit.

643
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's.

644
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: Playing temperament's nasty, he's long.

645
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that, all right, Turner here, Yeah,

646
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 2: I can't go receiver running back with my first two picks.

647
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 2: That's your second round pick. Originally you sent for the

648
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 2: DK met for DK Metcalf, that's your second round pick. Yeah,

649
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 2: y is a bonus pick.

650
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 3: I mean, Higgins being there probably been my I graded player. Yeah,

651
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: but you know in that instance, maybe somebody would have

652
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 3: given you something good for Higgins, right, don't you know?

653
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 2: All Right, so we're now down to eighty three and

654
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 2: the player is still available. Ty Robinson probably don't want

655
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: to do both those, but I like both of them.

656
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: Josh Farmer, maybe Dean Walker, No, No, CJ. Westward I'm

657
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: just looking at the defensive tag right now.

658
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 3: CJ.

659
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 2: West, Jordan Phillips, Jamari Caldwell, JJ Pegeese.

660
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 3: Oh, we both consensus. I'm not one hunderdercent sure, but

661
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 3: several times in the last couple of weeks we have

662
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 3: taken Caldwell over Farmer. Yeah, and I would have said

663
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: a month ago we would have taken Farmer over Caldwell.

664
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: Coldball's more nosy, I know, yeah.

665
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 3: Rounder, Yeah, I think I have called well ahead of them.

666
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: Here's a little curveball to throw at you.

667
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 3: But we don't have to go back to back.

668
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 2: Top player available right now, Jaylen Milroe. I like that

669
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 2: at eighty three. Do we think that's realistic?

670
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 3: Probably not. Let's not do it. I don't think he

671
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 3: gets out of the second round.

672
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: Okay, So the other players still available then, Marcus and

673
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: bow Barrett Carter. These are in their rankings. Emrie Jones

674
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 2: the offensive tackle out of LSU, Chris Paul the linebacker

675
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: from Ole, Miss, Tyler Schuck, quarterback from Louisville. Latham Ransom,

676
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: safety from Ohio State, Jacob Parrish the cornerback from Kansas State.

677
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 2: Ashton Jillette, edge rusher from Louisville. Kyle Cannard, the edge

678
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 2: from South Carolina, Cameron Williams, the offensive tackle from Texas.

679
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 2: DJ Giddens, the running back from k State. See, that's

680
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: the argument that I have for taking Omary and Hampton

681
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: or Travon Henderson in the first round.

682
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 3: If that I don't love like Giddons.

683
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, the running backs that you're going to have available

684
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 2: in the third round, if you go from twenty one

685
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: to eighty three, well, there's a chance that a lot

686
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 2: of peop. Yeah, these guys might be good, But I

687
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 2: know these other guys are gonna be good, Like I

688
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: have a pretty good The bust rate is much lower

689
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: that way. Hhmm, I'm just looking at Charles Grant is there? Uh, well,

690
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: Howard is there? No Williams is there.

691
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd consider Shock, I'd consider Noel Williams. I'd

692
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 3: consider my bow and a nose. There's a bunch of

693
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: noses still avail.

694
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: Now.

695
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm thinking we can wait, I think we can Hmmm.

696
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 3: I think my bow's your starting left guard next year,

697
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 3: and a good one. Yeah, and maybe a tackle fits

698
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 3: a scheme. Really good mover. Noel Williams is a good

699
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 3: player too.

700
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: I think you're take him Bow. I don't think you

701
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 2: ignore the offensive line in this draft. Yes, all right, Bow,

702
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: It is okay, and we are now cruising down. We

703
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 2: have our next pick here at one twenty three. Thus

704
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 2: far we have gotten Omari and Hampton, Shamar, Turner, Marcus

705
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: and Bauk, So we filled running back, defensive tackle, offensive

706
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 2: wish yeah, guard tackle, whatever it may be we got.

707
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 2: We've got three picks left, one twenty three, one fifty six,

708
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 2: one eight five.

709
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 3: Is Noel Williams or one of the noses.

710
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 2: Still sitting there now we almost have to go there.

711
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: The nose is going to be take the president.

712
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're cruising down here to it, and we are

713
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 2: up and the nose tackles still available. They ain't get

714
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 2: touched really, which I could kind of see.

715
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 3: Right, and they're not. Everyone's in the market forum, right.

716
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh Farmer, Jordan Phillips, Jamari Callball, JJ Pageese all

717
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: still there.

718
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 3: Maybe between Farmer and Caldwell for me and neither be fine.

719
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: That's a that's a tough call, it is. That's a

720
00:39:59,080 --> 00:39:59,720
Speaker 2: tough call.

721
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: Of Farmer's length. I think he's really strong, but Caldwell's

722
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 3: really active and a little more nosier, you know.

723
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they brought both guys in.

724
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: I bet they both. They like them both.

725
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, hmmmm mm, that's tough. That is a tough call.

726
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a wrong one.

727
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 2: I don't think there is either.

728
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 3: I think that.

729
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: I mean that's I would again, you'd have to get

730
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 2: these guys in a room and sit them down to

731
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: talk to them, and.

732
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 3: I mean we don't have that advantage. To me, that's

733
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 3: a true coin flip too, Like they're both fine and

734
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 3: you get that in the fourth round.

735
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Mmm, I think I think Caldwell is more nosy.

736
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 2: I think you go with Caldwell since you since you

737
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: already got your end.

738
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 3: Okay, I think Farmer can do all the above.

739
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do too, But I want a true nose.

740
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 2: If I'm gonna if I'm gonna go for a nose,

741
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: I want a true nose. No, he is Yeah, Farmer

742
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: to me is more Keanu Benton. Yeah, like yeah, where

743
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 2: he can play nos but he also might be might

744
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: be better.

745
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 3: I'm not sure he's the same anchor, you know.

746
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has longer arms, longer arms, right, Yeah, all right,

747
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 2: we got two picks left, one fifty six and one

748
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: eighty five.

749
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 3: Corner wouldn't break my heart.

750
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 2: Corner wouldn't break my heart. Probably want to take a

751
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,760
Speaker 2: quarterback with one of these picks. Maybe, Yeah, if somebody

752
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: presents themselves, we're up top players available. Dante Thornton, wide

753
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 2: receiver out of Tennessee. Somebody asked him, he's intriguing to

754
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 2: me too. Somebody asked me about him today on the

755
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: on yesterday's show on the message board, and I said, look,

756
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 2: he They said, isn't he like Martavis Bryant? Like, yeah,

757
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: he's Martavis Bryanton that he can run deep, but he's

758
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: not built like Martavis Bryant was. Mart Davis Bryant was thick.

759
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 3: Martas Bryant was a free Yeah, I mean he was.

760
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 3: He blew me away with how gumby issue was and

761
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 3: how well he bent. That's not a fair comparison. That

762
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 3: doesn't mean they both run fast.

763
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 2: They're tall, right, but Dante Thornton's one hundred and eighty

764
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 2: five pounds in six or four change pencil thin. I

765
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: think he's gonna have trouble getting off press coverage, and

766
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: I think.

767
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 3: He needs a year, especially coming ont of that weird offense.

768
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 2: And they said well, could he be a replacement for

769
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: George Pickens. Yes, he would be one of three guys

770
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: that would have to replace George Pickens.

771
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he might be your number three someday, you know. Yeah,

772
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: he's not George Pickens. Yeah.

773
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: Danny Stutsman the linebacker out of Oklahoma. Aronde Gadson, the

774
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 2: tight end from Syracuse. Jalen Travis, the offensive tackle from Iowa.

775
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: H savi On Jones, he had Drus rusher from LSU.

776
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: Johnny Cornelius, offensive tackle from Oregon. Riley Mills the defensive

777
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: tackle from Notre Dame. Dylan Gabriel the quarterback from Oregon.

778
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: Doesn't do it for me. Thomas Fadona the tight end

779
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 2: from Nebraska. Cal mcgonagay Mononagae running back from Rutgers. It's

780
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 2: a little picked up over here. I'm cal McCord is

781
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: still there. Josh Gray the guard, but we already took

782
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:05,479
Speaker 2: a guard.

783
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 3: McCord would be fine, But what corners are available? Usually

784
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 3: this is a pretty nice area for us.

785
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they saw Frasier, Upton Stout, Jalen Smith. It's pretty well.

786
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 3: Picked Oh yeah, ZOFH. Fraser is kind of interesting. You

787
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 3: want to go m a Cord.

788
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, so Dylan Gabriel, calm Accord, Curtis Work,

789
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: Max Brosberg, Brady Cook. The quarterbacks have gotten pretty well

790
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 2: picked over. I think I get quarterback here.

791
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fine with it. I was hoping somebody would

792
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 3: blow our doors off at a different position.

793
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 2: It didn't happen there.

794
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 3: Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

795
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, we got one pick left here at one

796
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 2: eighty five, and this is what we gain from, not from.

797
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have the late throwaway type pick. Yeah,

798
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 3: there should be something quality.

799
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: There should be somebody here that we think is either developmental.

800
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 3: I mean, something that's like pretty much guaranteed a roster spot. Yeah,

801
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: you know you're happy to have him, you know. All right,

802
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: So we are up here at one eighty five. The

803
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: players available, Riley Mills from Notre Dame, the defensive tackle

804
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 3: the Jalen Lane, the wide receiver from Virginia Tech. That's intriguing.

805
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack Kaiser, linebacker from Notre Dame. Simeon Barrow defensive

806
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 2: tackle from Miami, Brishard Smith, the running back from SMU

807
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: Anias Peebles defensive tackle from Virginia Tech, Jamon Dumas Johnson,

808
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: the linebacker from Kentucky, Kitan Crawford, safety from Nevada. Mitchell

809
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: Evans tight end Notre Dame.

810
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 3: I kind of like him.

811
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 2: I like him, Yeah, saw Frasier still there.

812
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 3: I like Evans, I like Fraser, and I like Lane

813
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 3: the receiver.

814
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, those three are they.

815
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 3: Were all intriguing picks. Ferguson can block. I mean he's

816
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 3: a typical Notre Dame. He can block. He's he's never Evans. Yeah. Evans, yeah,

817
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 3: him and Ferguson.

818
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 2: But he'll be a guy that sticks in the league

819
00:44:59,360 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 2: for ten years.

820
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 4: Yeah.

821
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 3: If that's your third tight end, I think you're in

822
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 3: really good shape. Yeah, but I don't know if we can.

823
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: Take that over zaf Fraser though. Over the traits, that's

824
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 2: a tough one. The RAS score nine point three six strong.

825
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: It's a strong, strong RAS score, whereas Evans is seven

826
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: point twenty five Jalen Lane is nine point nine point

827
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: five six he is.

828
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: They're both big time and I know why you bring

829
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 3: that up. I mean, especially with these late picks the

830
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 3: last two years, they have taken shots on athleticism and

831
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 3: I love that approach. My only problem with Lane is

832
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 3: he's five to nine oh yeah, I know he's tiny.

833
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 3: That's my problem too, is he's a little redundant with

834
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 3: Austin and Wilson. He's explosive though, and he's a heck

835
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 3: of an athlete. I think it takes Fraser.

836
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: I think you take Fraser zoff Frasier cornerback utsa.

837
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 3: If he can turn into a long man coverage corner,

838
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 3: if it's two years from now that if.

839
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: He turns into a gunner, if he displaces James Pierre, great,

840
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 2: if he's guys Trice, it's almost worth it. Yeah, right, yeah,

841
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: you give me a lot of those. You know, we're

842
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 2: talking about a six round pick here. So what we

843
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 2: came out of this with was one trade back to thirty.

844
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 2: I don't know if they want to go to thirty

845
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 2: or not, but they we did in this block draft.

846
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 3: I didn't love that the Bills came up for a dtackle.

847
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 2: No, I didn't love that either, But we got Amar

848
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 2: and Hampton at thirty. At sixty two, which we took

849
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 2: instead of taking fifty six, which was nearest initially offering.

850
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 2: We got Shamar Turner, the defensive tackle out of Texas

851
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 2: A and m he'll play end for us.

852
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very happy.

853
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 2: At eighty three, we got Marcus Abau, the offensive guard

854
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 2: aligneman from Purdue. At one twenty three, Jamari Calbwell, defensive

855
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: tackle from Oregon, at one fifty six, Cal McCord quarterback

856
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 2: at A Syracuse, and at one eighty five Zaf Frasier,

857
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 2: the cornerback from UTSA. Just to show you the difference here,

858
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: the pick at two twenty nine, if we'd have stayed there,

859
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: ended up being let's see your worst. Two twenty nine

860
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 2: ended up being yep, skipped the skipped on me. There

861
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 2: it's round seven, picked two twenty nine the Bills took

862
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 2: Where are they at? Yeah they are Isais Waxter, cornerback

863
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 2: out of Villanova.

864
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 3: First I've heard him. Yeah, Yeah, that's what you look.

865
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 3: That kind of suffs a big deal. Yeah, I talk

866
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 3: about all the time. Omar has a great history of

867
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: these two years, of almost every trade he's made, there's

868
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 3: a late round pick swap that helps the Steelers.

869
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to go back as far. You

870
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 2: keep staying that right right as best as you can

871
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: do in terms of in that particular draft.

872
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 3: Especially during the COVID drafts, the seventh round was a

873
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 3: real throw away time yeah, it's getting better now.

874
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: This one's not as bad. This is really the last

875
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 2: like COVID COVID year, and so it's a deeper draft.

876
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 2: All the guys that stayed in school are now coming

877
00:47:58,800 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: out and that's why this.

878
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 3: There was a couple of drafts or once you get

879
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 3: past the fifth round us.

880
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 2: There's gonna be some good udfas this year. I think, oh,

881
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 2: running back, running backs, Maybe find a defensive tackle that

882
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: no one find, like a tight end that's useful. You know,

883
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: it's pretty deep. That's Russia that Yeah, I took one already.

884
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 2: I can't find a spot for this guy.

885
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

886
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, but not bad, No, not bad, not maybe my

887
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 2: favorite home.

888
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 3: I would say I would go fish. I would rather

889
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 3: see how it plays out these next three days. But

890
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 3: I don't know.

891
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: I will say this, so if if if we hadn't moved,

892
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 2: if we had just stayed where we were at, and

893
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 2: you took Amari and Hampton at twenty one, Chamar Turner

894
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: at eighty three, mm, Marcus Abou with your fourth round pick,

895
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Jamari Cobo with your fifth round pick. Uh,

896
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: Kyle McCord and zaf Frasier with your six and seventh

897
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 2: been really happy with that.

898
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 3: Right now, I hear you. If we were stuck, we

899
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 3: probably would have taken Harmon or Nolan, yeah, you know.

900
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 2: And then but then when I've settled at running back

901
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 2: or yeah, whatever, we'd end up with DJ Giddons probably

902
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 2: for someone of that probably, yeah, not picking again.

903
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 3: To eighty three. Yeah, I don't think Johnson.

904
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 2: Gets eighty three. I don't think he does either, which

905
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 2: is a big line there.

906
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

907
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think there's a lot of good

908
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 2: backs in this draft, but I do think there is

909
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 2: a line there right between those guys.

910
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 3: And if I don't get those above the line, the

911
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 3: Johnson and Ohio State dudes, I might take two. Yeah,

912
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 3: I'm if I'm ahead of.

913
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 2: Them, make sure I get one right, right right. Somebody

914
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 2: that's going to contribute so anyways, might.

915
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 3: Be one to seventh round, or it might be a

916
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 3: text attack kid or something. Yeah, somebody that shouldn't still

917
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 3: be there.

918
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: Let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

919
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: I am Dale, Lolly. You're speak listening to the drive

920
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,000
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921
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,279
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922
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 2: the weekend throughout the draft. As the Steelers make their

923
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 2: picks in this year's draft, you can also most times

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929
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00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 2: You'll get all the videos, all the stuff. We'll do

931
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Speaker 2: our final mock draft on the Steelers the YouTube channel tomorrow,

932
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Speaker 2: right right before the draft. He'll be part of the

933
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Speaker 2: Draft Extravaganza show that we put together.

934
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Speaker 3: We got a lot going on.

935
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Speaker 2: We got a lot going on, and you know, leave

936
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937
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Speaker 2: We appreciate that. But we'll be back to finish up

938
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Speaker 2: the show right after this.

939
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Speaker 3: At least.

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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

941
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942
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943
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Speaker 2: They get the drums in there. Welcome back. I am

944
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 2: Dale Lolly. He is the Matt Williamson and Matt when

945
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 2: we come back on Monday. Yeah, regular drive time, regular

946
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 2: draft time. We're back on Monday. What do you expect

947
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 2: the Steelers to have accomplished this weekend?

948
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 3: Well, I do think Steelers aside. I think this first

949
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 3: round is going to be chaotic and wild, especially the

950
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 3: second half. I think there could be a lot of

951
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 3: trades late and maybe including the Steelers, quite possibly including

952
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 3: the Steelers, and maybe in I'm gonna go crazy. I

953
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 3: bet they make two draft day trades, maybe a trade back,

954
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 3: and at some point you use a future pick to

955
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: move up at some point maybe you know, I can't

956
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 3: believe that guy's there. You move up ten spots in

957
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 3: the fourth round, and I cost you a sixth next

958
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 3: year or fifth next year. You know, I could see

959
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 3: not looking like a lot of the marks we've done

960
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 3: because you're not picking in the spot.

961
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: In those spots.

962
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

963
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 2: I do think, and well, just because it's what we've done,

964
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 2: I think he come out of this draft with two

965
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 2: defensive line that would be great, a running back, and

966
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,720
Speaker 2: then everything after that is kind of gravyous. Those things

967
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: have to.

968
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 3: Happen a d lineman and a running back.

969
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: I think defensive linemen would be a running back.

970
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 3: I know that they've signed some people that aren't household names. Fine,

971
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 3: but you need to get younger. That to me, younger

972
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 3: and more talented Isaya louder Milk with all respect doesn't

973
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 3: move the needle to do they sign for the Patriots

974
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 3: doesn't move the needle. That's fine, that's step through camp

975
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 3: and maybe somebody stands out. But in a D line

976
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 3: rich draft, that is my number one priority is attack

977
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 3: of D line. Yeah, and the running back will happen.

978
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 2: And it's kind of a carryover of what they have

979
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 2: done in the last two drafts in which Omar Khan

980
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 2: and Andy Widhell have been setting the board and all

981
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 2: that stuff. They've taken five offensive linemen in the last two.

982
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 3: Years, right, I mean.

983
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 2: Year, and they took three last year, three in the

984
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 2: first four rounds last year.

985
00:52:59,480 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 4: Oh.

986
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 3: They're intentions are very clear, and their plan is very clear.

987
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 3: It's a it's just wasn't created overnight. It's a three year,

988
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 3: four year plan to really get this roster sort of

989
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: looking like the Eagles. You know what you're looking for here.

990
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 2: And I don't think, regardless of what some of the

991
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 2: fans feel out there, I don't believe this roster is

992
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 2: has as many holes on it as I don't either

993
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 2: as some would lead you to believe. I think it's

994
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 2: a pretty solid roster. But the two holes are at

995
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 2: defensive line and at running backs. Yeah, I mean really

996
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 2: running backs, not even a real whole hole, because you've

997
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 2: got to quality and right.

998
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you really start looking at the depth chart

999
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 3: of you know what, where could you put bodies to

1000
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 3: truly help? I mean, yes, you could upgrade anywhere. I mean,

1001
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 3: but you're not going to get drel Reeves and put

1002
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 3: them over play. I mean, like, and you're realistic, who's

1003
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 3: my fifty three when it's all said and done, et cetera.

1004
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 3: There's not as many spots as thin and I don't

1005
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 3: think they need to make ten picks. Yeah, I mean

1006
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 3: kind of quality over quantity, but too, d Lineman would

1007
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 3: be a nice quantity.

1008
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 2: I think that's been like in all the mock drafts

1009
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 2: that we've done. If there's a prevailing sentiment or prevailing

1010
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 2: idea through throughout the whole thing is that. I do

1011
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: think that again, quality over quantity is the is the

1012
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 2: biggest thing. Yes, there's been some mock drafts where we

1013
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: all right, let's we're going to acquire some extra picks here.

1014
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1015
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you start looking at it and going, Okay,

1016
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 2: how many of these guys are actually going to make

1017
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 2: the team?

1018
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and how can they? What's their path to helping?

1019
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 2: And having all those picks is nice, it is, and

1020
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 2: it's fun for mock drafts, but in reality you probably

1021
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 2: don't have that many roster spots.

1022
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 3: Sometimes you get down the end and be like, I

1023
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 3: guess we'll take a safety because he helps on special teams. Yeah,

1024
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 3: five safeties are probably to make the team, you know, right,

1025
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 3: I mean, like, how does that really work? Yeah?

1026
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 2: And you know, I still believe that Aaron Rodgers is

1027
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 2: very much in play here in Pittsburgh. I think he's

1028
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 2: going to play football in twenty twenty five, and I

1029
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 2: think it's going to be for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1030
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 3: I lean that way too. And maybe when we're down there,

1031
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 3: it'll kind of just be everyone just assumes it. Who knows.

1032
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, having been down there, right right right,

1033
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 2: there's a prevailing sentimentally that's going to happen. So, you know,

1034
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 2: people guessing about this stuff, and you know, the national

1035
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 2: you know, they're they're not guessing on what they think

1036
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is going to do, right, they've been in

1037
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 2: constant contact with Aaron Rodgers. They have a really good

1038
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 2: feeling that Aaron Rodgers is going to sign. I don't

1039
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 2: care what he said on the McAfee show. I don't

1040
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,479
Speaker 2: care what somebody said who talked to him once five

1041
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 2: years ago on a sideline somewhere, doesn't matter to me.

1042
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 2: That's a guess from them. People are trying to interpret

1043
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 2: what Aaron Rodgers said. They've talked to him directly, and

1044
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: they're interpreting their conversations to say that he's going to

1045
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: play football this season, and he's going to do it

1046
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 2: in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform.

1047
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 3: They're not hoping in prey. No, oh boy, I hope

1048
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 3: Aaron says yes. I mean no, I mean they think

1049
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 3: he's going to say yes, right, and they're gonna get

1050
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 3: this thing done.

1051
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 2: I assume he's told them, hey, yeah, I'm gonna do

1052
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna do something here once I get my stuff

1053
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 2: taken care of here in my personal life is that

1054
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 2: rights not under contract with anybody, right right.

1055
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 3: He can do whatever he wants, absolutely, but.

1056
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 2: We shall see.

1057
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 3: We return when the drive returns, We're gonna be see

1058
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 3: each other a lot. But when the driver returns, let's go.

1059
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 2: We will start breaking down these newest Steelers and have

1060
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 2: fun doing all that. What the roster then looks like plenty.

1061
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 3: Of stuff to get to agent, all kinds of stuff, right.

1062
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 2: And then next thing you know, ota start to kick

1063
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 2: off here and all the fun starts.

1064
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 3: And I do think across the league, maybe even as

1065
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 3: soon as next week, some more free agents will start signing.

1066
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 3: Oh they'll be.

1067
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 2: They'll be free agent signings maybe starting Sunday, maybe even.

1068
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 3: Saturday night Sunday. And yeah, some guys maybe JK. Dobbins

1069
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 3: or somebody goes to a team or whatever.

1070
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 4: You know.

1071
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 2: I think, if I remember correctly, I think the Steelers

1072
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 2: signed Demonte k Z Saturday the draft wrapped up and

1073
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 2: we've we've signed Damante k Z. Oh they didn't get

1074
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 2: a safety in the draft, so they went safety. Yeah,

1075
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 2: that's the way that works anyways. For my partner Matt Williamson,

1076
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,280
Speaker 2: for Justin Miller here on site running the Justin Miller

1077
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 2: hotline and helping us make our first round pick. There

1078
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 2: getting up Bab Labriola today for Tyler Viittmeyer making sure

1079
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 2: our video gets out there on the YouTube. Give us

1080
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 2: a thumbs up. On that leave us your comments. I

1081
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 2: am Dale, Lolly. We thank you for listening to this

1082
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 2: edition of the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.