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

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly, he is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt we're just having a conversation off the

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Speaker 1: air here um before we start to show here. I

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Speaker 1: was watching uh NFL Network this morning and they were

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Speaker 1: talking about dynasty's and I asked you the question because

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Speaker 1: they raised the point that if the Chiefs would win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and Andy Reid could be considered a dynasty, Like that's

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Speaker 1: two when they last they went their last one, so

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Speaker 1: it's been if there's a little bit of a gap there,

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Speaker 1: I said, by that standard, then are the Steelers from

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Speaker 1: two thousand five through two thousand ten a dynasty? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting question because it's a there aren't rules,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you're in and there's some obvious ones. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I countered that by saying, well, the great Patriot Belichick

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Speaker 1: Brady teams really are not a twenty year dynamo. There

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Speaker 1: are two different dynasties because there was a twelve year

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Speaker 1: gap between and the teams. I mean, the only constants

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Speaker 1: were the owner, head coach in quarterback, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Now, Kansas City to me counts, but there's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of change there too, But they gotta

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Speaker 1: win another one. They went. If they win this year,

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Speaker 1: I would say, okay, And certainly with the ability to

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Speaker 1: stack more on top of that, you're still in your prime. Um.

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Speaker 1: And where I mentioned too was they go the SC

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Speaker 1: Championship game every year. Be different if there's a bad

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Speaker 1: year and there, or you know, a subpart season or

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Speaker 1: a new quarterback or something like that, there's a least

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Speaker 1: a high standard of excellence all the way across there. Now,

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Speaker 1: forgive me, I know we're on Steer Nation Radio. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember the Steelers stretch as well as I remember

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Speaker 1: the Chief stretch that's going on as we speak. So

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Speaker 1: prove your case here. Well, super Bowl in two thousand five,

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Speaker 1: super Bowl and oh eight with a new head coach, right,

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Speaker 1: uh and then going to the head coach changes matter.

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Speaker 1: I don't think, not for the franchise. I think not

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Speaker 1: because I'm sitting here thinking. Because if I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you think about after Wall, yeah, when you talk about

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you don't,

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Speaker 1: you don't build it. Yeah, Berry Switzer won a championship,

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Speaker 1: right right right? You know, I mean Dungee handed it

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Speaker 1: over to Groodeno, Niner and Cowboy examples because they had

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Speaker 1: super bowls before, and in those cases I think they

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Speaker 1: went backwards with the head coach. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't hold that against the quote dynasty. So they went

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Speaker 1: to they went to three Super Bowls in five seasons. Um. Now,

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Speaker 1: they did have two seasons in there in OH six

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Speaker 1: in OH nine after the post super Bowl seasons where

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Speaker 1: they didn't go to the playoffs. Yeah, I think that

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Speaker 1: hurts her cause a little. But they did go in

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Speaker 1: in ohseven Tomlin's first season, and obviously they went to

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Speaker 1: the third one and lost it. Um. But that's three

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Speaker 1: conference championships in five seasons in two Super Bowl wins.

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Speaker 1: So if we looked at it, take the word dynasty

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Speaker 1: out of it. If we just took five year periods

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Speaker 1: in NFL history, you know what are the best five

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Speaker 1: year stretches ever? I mean early Packers, certainly Steelers of

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Speaker 1: the seventies, those Niners and Cowboys teams we mentioned. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there's Patriot runs in the Patriot run of the

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Speaker 1: early two thousands city might be in that conversation if

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Speaker 1: they win it this year too. Is the Steelers five

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Speaker 1: year run the best ever in NFL history? You can

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Speaker 1: make that argument, but it never gets talked about that interesting.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get mentioned. Even at OH eight defense, which

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Speaker 1: was so dominant, um and one of the best of

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Speaker 1: all time, doesn't get mentioned with the great defenses of

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Speaker 1: all time. Right, No, it's true. It's almost like the

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Speaker 1: Steeler's best defense of the seventies is the one that

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Speaker 1: doesn't get mentioned enough, you know, and that was in

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Speaker 1: the heart of their dynasty and they had two rings already,

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Speaker 1: you know, So this is terrible to say. Too much

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Speaker 1: is put on winning. You know, Marino never won a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you know. I mean I used this example

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Speaker 1: that when Mahomes lost the Brady a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago in the in the Super Bowl, Well, his career

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Speaker 1: never gonna be as good as Bradies. Now, No, he

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Speaker 1: might not ever win seven, but losing the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and Brady lost some of those games too. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: You can't hold that against a coach or a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Is losing the Super Bowl. It's remarkably hard to get

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Speaker 1: to yeah, I agree. That just came out. Just we're

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Speaker 1: just talking about it. There be an interesting, uh little conversation.

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Speaker 1: Also will be an interesting conversation is Daniel Jeremiah has

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Speaker 1: released his initial mock draft. Okay, you very what much

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Speaker 1: did on NFL dot com. So I thought we'd run

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Speaker 1: through that here real quick. It's only been a couple

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Speaker 1: looking at Dane Bruglers. He put out a two round

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Speaker 1: mock draft for the Athletic and I found it really

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Speaker 1: He had five tight ends going in the top five,

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Speaker 1: the top fifty, so I'm curious. I have not seen

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Speaker 1: DJs at all. Okay, so he has Jalen Carter going

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Speaker 1: number one overall to the Bears. It's interesting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I assume he's not doing trades. I assume no trades.

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Speaker 1: So he picked Carter over Anderson, which I find interesting.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young at two to the Texans. Okay, real quick

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Speaker 1: on that though their GM Cassario is very much a heightweight,

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Speaker 1: speed guy, you know, like I know he's not writing

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Speaker 1: this in stone or anything. We're not as Steeler fans

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Speaker 1: do we care if Young's one or two, nothing matter,

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Speaker 1: really doesn't. He's gonna be gone, So I don't know

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Speaker 1: that they'll go the little guy though. Uh will Anderson

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Speaker 1: at three to Arizona. This is why, folks, when people

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Speaker 1: were talking about the Steelers getting a chance at Jalen Carter,

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Speaker 1: Willie Anderson wasn't going to happen. They're going five at

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Speaker 1: the latest, the latest if someone falls in love with quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Four to the Colts. Will Levi us Dane had him

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Speaker 1: going to Okay, wildly and consistent with traits. At five,

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Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson, the edge rusher out of Texas Tech to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: They do like those edge rushers. I've heard many people

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Speaker 1: say that they think he's the third best non quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Stroud in there where you want. And so he's gaining steam.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be relevant for this game. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy who's gaining a lot of steam as well

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Speaker 1: as six Devin Witherspoon, cornerback out of But I get it.

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Speaker 1: You and I reference Pro Football Focus, and you know

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Speaker 1: I pay attention to it. Their coverage grades and things

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Speaker 1: that take with a grain of salt. But they released

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Speaker 1: their cornerback rankings today he was number one, and it

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Speaker 1: like broke their charts in terms how good he was.

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Speaker 1: That he played more man defense than anybody else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I had a tremendous year. Was a little skinny.

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Speaker 1: It's seven. The Raiders take Pete Scuransky, the offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: him anyway. That makes perfect sense. At eight, the Falcons

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Speaker 1: teak Lucas fan Nest, the edge rusher from Iowa. That

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Speaker 1: multiple clay. From what I understand, best has yet to

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Speaker 1: come type of guy. At nine, the Panthers take C. J.

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Speaker 1: shocked if he fell that far. Yeah, that could be

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Speaker 1: to get him, very very accurate. At ten, the Eagles

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Speaker 1: take Miles Murphy, the defensive end from Clemson. The comparisons

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Speaker 1: I was here with him are Treyvon Walker? Is he

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Speaker 1: You can do a lot of stuff. Eagles like that.

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Speaker 1: At eleven, the Titans take Paris Johnson, the offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: if you consider Scross, I'm sorry I forgot him. At twelve,

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Speaker 1: the Texans take Joey Porter Jr. Cornerback from Penn State.

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Speaker 1: A nice pairing with Stingley. Yeah, I mean they need everything,

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Speaker 1: Maybe even gets traded, you know who knows. At fourteen,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots take Brian Branch, the defensive back from Alabama.

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Speaker 1: comparisons with this guy does it all? Obviously there's Obama

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Speaker 1: Patriot connection that makes a lot of sense. At fifteen,

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Speaker 1: the Packers take Nolan Smith, the edge rusher out of Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Smaller guy, but really dynamic. Um No receivers yet, right, No, receivers.

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Speaker 1: Patriots pass on receiver. It's sixteen. The Commanders take Christian

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Speaker 1: Gonzalez cornerback out of Oregon. My hunches he's going to

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Speaker 1: But he just looks like the first overall corner. At seventeen,

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Speaker 1: he has the Steelers taking o Cyrus towards the Guard

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a masher. He's three fifty run behind him.

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Speaker 1: He would fit the town and the way the Steelers

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Speaker 1: played offense last year. I just think they're two starting

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Speaker 1: guards mixed with Cole or more. They're finding guard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are some other guys here are still available, and

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Speaker 1: I would rather take it. If things fell this way,

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Speaker 1: I would go corner or other directions. Before that, Well,

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Speaker 1: there's one defensive lineman it's still available that I would

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Speaker 1: seriously consider. At eighteen, Detroit takes Trent and Simpson, linebacker

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Speaker 1: Forbes cornerback from Mississippi State. He's starting to get a

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Speaker 1: corner markets really interesting. It's pretty deep. It's really deep. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At Seattle takes Will McDonald the fourth, the edge rusher

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Speaker 1: that would be two edge rushers for them. They the

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Speaker 1: first pick. Yeah, okay, okay. At one, the Chargers take

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Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid to tight end out of Utah. Would the

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Speaker 1: first tight end off the board? Everyone is Michael maybe

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Speaker 1: was the first one off the board. This guy is

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Speaker 1: a little more dynamic though, means again, I did a

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Speaker 1: listening to Dane's podcast talking about boy there's five of

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Speaker 1: them in the top fifty of him and lancerline talking

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Speaker 1: about it. This was Lance's tight end one and he

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Speaker 1: if you want to do it all, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's whatever flavor you like. So that's great for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: At twenty two, he has the Ravens taking Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback of Florida. Well, DJ spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time working for the Ravens. By the way, does that

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Speaker 1: imply he doesn't think Lamar's back or Lamar's franchise and

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Speaker 1: this is a successor. This is the bigger version, bigger,

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Speaker 1: much rawer version. Much. At twenty three, the Vikings take

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Speaker 1: Tyrek Stevenson, cornerback out of Miami. Okay, I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: him rank quite that high either. It's interesting, but he's

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