WEBVTT - HR3: Live from Training Camp 2026 Day 3 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.720 This is live coverage of the twenty twenty six Steelers 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:10.000 training Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bud Light, 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.240 Easy to Drink, Easy to Enjoy, and brought to you 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.919 in part by your neighborhood Ford Store Creator, Pittsburgh Community 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.320 Food Bank, First National Bank. Let's Get Started Member FDIC 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:29.080 West Shore Home Remodeling Reimagine by Leecom Digital, Donz Appliances 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:34.760 Visit Donzappliances dot Com guaranteed lowest prices, free next day delivery, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.760 CGR Wholesale and by Hoss's Steak and Seahouse hass Is 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.839 is hospitality. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.120 Good evening Stealer Nation. How we doing well? That's good 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.199 us too. It is the five o'clock hour, so that 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.760 means it's the bonus hour here on the drive, our 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.600 final hour of coverage for today, day three, on the 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.800 campus of Saint Vincent College of Course high atop chuck Nolefield. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.720 But we are just getting started here with our proceedings 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.679 for the next few weeks, and we continue to monitor 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.080 the situation of the line painting robot in front of 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.920 us and all the things going on with the grounds 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.840 crew here. John tweets us and says listening back to 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.360 Thursday's show and loved hearing the play by play of 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.120 the field Zamboni. We need more play by play of 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.600 the field Zamboni with some Caddy shack commentary. Well, you 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.440 didn't get the field Zamboni today, but you got the 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.920 photos the field line painter. And again we are efforting. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.880 You know, we don't want to over promise and under deliver. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.560 You want to do it the other way around, right, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.119 But we're a little excited. We are efforting a member 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.759 of the Steelers grounds crew to potentially from us here 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.520 over the next two weeks or so while we're out 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.400 here for training camp. Are our guy TV doing a 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.240 little bit of doing a little bit of help for 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.600 us in the background. Let's see a bunch of a 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.760 bunch of tweets here to get to for today. Actually, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.080 Ian says, it's Friday. What's the move tonight? Number one, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.440 rush out of training camp to beat the traffic. Number 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.320 two stay in, head to your local watering hole. Or 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.240 number three head to meadows to get some ice cream 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.200 with Aaron Rodgers. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.040 Nice. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.680 Also, guys, what's your favorite type of luxury vinyl flooring? 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.720 Remember and this flooring it definitely is the new. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.079 Flooring, new flooring up here at the press bos. It's 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.480 at college. We're not rushing out of anywhere because we 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.639 got we got shows tomorrow ian you know, like it's 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.560 tomorrow Saturday, but it's a workday now Tomorrow, after the shows, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.640 we'll be rushing out of here to go home exactly 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:26.840 and spend Saturday night. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.520 And see you laid this out the other day. Day 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.800 of the week doesn't matter at us at all. I 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.200 mean sometimes you have different responsibilities, like I do different 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.360 podcasts on during the week, but whatever, I mean, it 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.560 only matters if they practice or not. So this is 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.840 really no different than yesterday, you know, right, so local 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.240 water so local watering hole. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.320 It is local watering hole. It is my favorite type 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.720 of luxury vinyl flooring is whatever they put down here 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.200 in this book, in this beautiful Chucknolefield press box on 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.919 the campus of Saint Vincent College in sunny Latrobe, Pennsylvania. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.480 Angry Bike Lane tweets us and says, well, the Steelers 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.640 utilize the middle of the field more this season, I 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.480 would imagine, I feel like that's something we get asked 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:08.240 this time of year. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:14.400 Oh yeah, now this scheme will utilize the middle of 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:19.000 the field more with inbreaking wide receiver routes. But that 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.520 also sells Arthur Smith a little short. I mean Arthur 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.600 Smith is not throw the ball outside the numbers only. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.960 This is more of a quarterback thing. And I know 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.680 people be like, well, they've been thrown over the field 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.160 for years, Well it's because Russell Wilson didn't throw over 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.600 the middle fields doesn't throw over them. They just happened 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.800 to bring in quarterbacks that don't throw over them. These 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.280 are quarterback things, not coordinator things. And that includes Aaron 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.880 you know. I mean he even in his best day, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.200 he's always been and this is a compliment, extremely aware 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.880 of risk aversion. I mean his interception numbers were always Yes, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.320 TD interception numbers are. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:00.960 I think believable. I think it's the best in the NFL. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.760 It's like him and Mahomes in terms of after you've 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.800 qualified and made so many pass I. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.640 Mean there's years he threw forty touchdowns in five interceptions. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.200 I mean, crazy stuff like that, and more bad things 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.280 happen between the numbers than outside of the numbers. It's 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.719 more bodies tip balls overthrows, end up doing bad things. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.320 But he has become reluctant to use the middle of 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.520 the field. I'm hoping that it goes up. But and 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.719 this is true for Ben, this is true for Breeze, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.760 it's true for Brady Manning. Great quarterbacks, when they get 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:40.279 to this age, they are not real subject to change. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.760 Like dude, I put a Hall of Fame career the 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.200 way you do, and yeah, put yourself in their shoes. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.520 I'm just going to reinvent myself and you know, do 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.200 what I haven't done lately. And so has great success. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.000 So I hope so, or at least I hope there's 0:04:55.040 --> 0:05:00.320 more of a threat there. I hope so. Yeah. And I 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.760 also think between Pittman that helps those two tight ends. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.800 They're nice middle to big Bernard. He's a good in 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.200 breaking route out of the slot. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.840 Maybe you know I meant to tell you this when 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.680 we had our two on Calvin Austin. Yeah, yes, when 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.800 I meant to tell you this on Monday, when we 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.760 did our first show back after our our kind of 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.240 two weeks siesta. During one of those days when you 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.480 and I were off for two weeks, I was at 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.640 home doing some work and it's one of those like 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.560 let me find something to throw on the TV in 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.520 the background and I found on one of the you know, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.719 ESPN Classics or ESPN News or SEC Network maybe it was. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.279 They had on the SEC Championship game between Georgia and 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.800 Alabama from this past season, and I thought, I'm going 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.360 to put this on, you know, I want to kind 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.720 of see what Ty Simpson did. I remember that Georgia 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.400 won pretty comfortably, but I was like, I want to 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.640 see how Ty Simpson looked. I know, he really struggled 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.719 down the stretch, and only put this on. And Jeremy Bernard, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.360 I obviously wasn't really thinking, but then quickly I hear 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.400 his name on the broadcast and I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.159 to watch Jeremy Bernard. He made an unreal play in 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.960 the second half that was really the only moment of 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.839 the game where it felt like Alabama was in it 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.920 or had a chance, where he caught a four yard 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.440 screen pass from Ty Simpson, I mean over the middle 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.360 of the field, four yards from the line of scrimmage, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.440 and he took it like twenty five thirty yards to 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.000 the house, made a couple of Georgia Bulldogs miss broke 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.120 a tackle, So I think he's gonna have something to 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:22.640 say there too. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.640 Yeah, I think you're right on, And that kind of 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.400 leads me to when things got off the rails for 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.960 Bama and Simpson and who is it Ryan Williams. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.279 He was like the starry but now it's Ryan Williams 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.600 something and he's hyphenated. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.200 But yes, Bernard was like the only thing they could 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.880 count on for a while there. He was stretched and 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.440 things weren't going well, and then. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.440 That is it was a lot of that kind of 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.520 st in that game. It's like it's like third quarter 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.919 and they're down twenty one nothing and they got nothing 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.840 going for him, and he just makes a couple of 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.919 guys miss takes it thirty yards to the house, and 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.120 like I said, that was really the kind of only 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:53.480 moment that they were in that game. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.000 I know people throw out Deebo Samuel comparisons, who just 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.600 signed with the Niners, by the way, but that's not fair. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.119 Every draft someone's like, oh, this is this year's debo. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.400 Well that's not fair. But I do think him as 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.520 a tackle breaker and after the catch is something I'm 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.120 really looking forward to in the preseason and when the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.600 pads are really on, you know, he's good at it. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.800 Good questions here from Smooth Dave. Smooth Dave says Patrick Graham, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.880 traditionally plays a lot of zone coverage. How does that 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.040 mesh with the heavy man corner personnel the Steelers have Also, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.720 the Steelers were all in on zone blocking schemes, but 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.880 McCarthy traditionally does not run zone. Do we have the 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.160 right personnel for what McCarthy wants to do? So, I 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:33.840 guess one question. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.280 I think so with the run game, I'll start there, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.280 since that's the most recent one. Like I thought, say, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:45.320 we wanted about Matt Canada, but late in the Canada era, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.080 they really weaponized the man blocking scheme, getting this Roder 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.239 Jones in particular, getting them polling on the move lineman 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.000 getting downfield, you know, on the running not just moving 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.720 in Unison, And there's a lot of carry over with 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.240 the offensive lineman. And I do think McCormick's a good 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.120 puller and Fraser can play anything. Faltanu I think can 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.560 handle the man stuff as well. So I don't know 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.800 that they just scrapped in terms of O line building 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.560 when they went zone heavy. I didn't love that considering 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.240 how good demand stuff was working under Canada, and I 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:32.000 don't think they went exclusively zone lineman either. Also, where 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.200 I'll fight you at is the first part of the question, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:40.240 because over Graham's career, every team runs a lot more 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.200 zone demand. If you're running man at a thirty five 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.960 percent clip, that's high now, So yes, everybody runs more 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.600 zone demand. But I think over Graham's career and his 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.360 DNA is man heavier than zone, is more man heavy 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:01.240 than most coordinators. Last year. You can cherry pick what 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.440 Graham did last year and say the good stuff is 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.920 his and the bad stuff's Pete Carroll, and that's not 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.200 fair to either one of them. But they played a 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.800 lot of old school zone cover three Pete Carroll stuff 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.600 that I don't think Graham put his stamp of approval on. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:16.840 That. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.760 He just got over. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.000 The way your boss wanted to. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.720 Right, and that was zone heavy. So I do money talks, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.280 personnel moves talk. You brought in a bunch of man 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.240 coverage corners, and I think you're about to pay your 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.559 best man coverage corner. I think they're gonna play a 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.280 lot of not only man, but old school press man 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.560 with big people Steelers. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.559 Burner says, do we think the Steelers bad fourth quarter 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.280 defense was a little bit due to some of the 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.120 previous regime and Mike Tomlin and Tarol Austin's kind of 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.000 bend but don't break, you know, allow yards but not 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.040 points defense. I feel like the extra snaps from that, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.120 along with uh some you know some turnover issues may 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:58.760 have gassed our guys by the fourth. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.040 Quarter part of it. I wouldn't put them at the 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.400 top of the list, but I would put them fourth 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.120 or fifth on the list. You know, again, any whatever 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.640 happens if to a defense, if you're playing more snaps, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.319 it's bad, no doubt. Too much defense is bad or 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.720 bad defense is too much defense. And if that's because 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.000 of you know, not being off the field because of 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.160 a ben Bert not breakstyle, or your offense doesn't. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.600 Along gating enough drives, Yeah, that all. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.600 Of that absolutely contributed. I also don't think they made 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.400 great defensive adjustments late in games too. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.960 You know it all worked in symphony Matt to have 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.839 a concert that was not very good in the. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.120 Fourth No, no, I can't talk about that enough. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.440 One or two more here before we close down this segment. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.800 Pittsburgh Conversation says, all right, what are the chances or sorry, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.200 all right, what chances do you give that Mike Tomlin 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.480 ends up coaching after this season and the Steelers get 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.560 a draft pick, is it likely? Unlikely? Highly likely? Boy, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:56.520 that pick would be nice. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.360 Yeah, and it would be I'd say fifth fifty, you know. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.480 Like I know, John Payton did a year and then 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.640 missed it so much and they traded for him. I 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.240 think that it's a much more comfortable job than he's 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.240 had the last two decades here. And I could see 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.520 any human being being going, Man, I'm making good money. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.920 I'm still on the spotlight. I not disappeared off the planet. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.439 I'm still doing really cool football stuff. I may never 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.000 coach again. I mean, yeah, you go back there John Madden, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.280 like put him in the booth. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.800 They'll cower, right, you know. There's yeah, there's examples both ways. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.240 I think of people like Madden and Bill Cower, where 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.960 the general consensus was they'll take a year or a 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.520 couple of years off and then they'll be back, and 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.679 they never were. Then the Sean Payton types, where I 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.440 think people thought, oh, there's a good chance he's going 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.240 to do this for a while, and it was one 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.000 year and then back to coaching. Matt I can It's almost. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.360 Like when you graduate call or high school and they say, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:51.960 I'm just gonna take a year off before I go 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.200 to college. Like how many of them actually do fifty? Right? 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:56.760 Like this year off' is kind of fun. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.040 This is another one of those. If you would have 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.200 asked me a week after the announcement was made that 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.360 Mike Tomlin was leaving the Steelers, I would have said, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.480 he's coming back. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.200 Yeah, I thought he might even coach this upcoming season 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:09.200 at that point, right. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.559 And I just I continue to get some mixed signals. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.880 I think sometimes I think fifty to fifty is an answer? 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.240 Is is a cop out for this stuff? But I 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.040 think that's spot on. Like, you know who Mike Florio is. Obviously, 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:25.360 he's Pro Football Talk on NBC. He's a West Virginia guy, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.079 Mike Florio is, And so he was on one of 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.440 the WVU podcasts that I like a couple of weeks ago, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.200 and they asked him, what's it been like working with 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.480 Mike tom with NBC. Have you gotten to meet him yet? 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.280 Have you been around him much at all? And Florio 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.839 said yes, And they kind of asked him a similar question, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.439 what do you think his next move is? And Florio 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.240 was like, I have not been told anything. I have 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.160 not even talked about this with Mike. I want to 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.480 be very clear. This is just all me. This is 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:51.040 just all my. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.120 Speculations, observations from afar. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.400 He goes, I think Mike Tomlin's gonna be done coaching. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.240 I think He's gonna love this. I think he's gonna 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.680 be good at it. I just like just He's like, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.520 that's just my total hunch. He's like, Mike might hear 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.120 this and text me and tell me I'm an idiot. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.920 But he's like, I think he's gonna be done coaching. Now, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.400 that's just one person's opinion, but you're starting to hear 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.800 more of that than you did three months ago. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.080 Now. I think that's very possible. But I've also heard 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.560 many people that have worked shoulder to shoulder with him 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:26.040 in this junkie But like anybody, you could have burned 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.080 out over the last year or two and be like, man, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.000 that was hard on my body, and I'm not seeing 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.400 my family. And now my kids are grown and I 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.439 got a pretty good gig and I can go to 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:35.320 the beach once in a while. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:37.120 Football circles. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.640 It's interesting, yeah, but the draft pick would be nice. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.800 It sure would because it would be a first round 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.120 or baby, I would think last one of the day 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.520 goes to Nate. He's oh, he's got two questions. He's 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.559 trying to stir up some trouble with the last one. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.319 He says, what do you guys think about Gadson and 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.800 fantasy football this year? As a late round tight end? Also, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 which school has produced better athletes all time? WU were 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.920 pit with the he's got the smirk in there. Football 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.280 is not even close. Every other sport though it's WV. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.320 I wouldn't know, but I believe. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.880 Well the logo of the NBA is a WVU. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.760 Guy definitely put out better pro basketball players. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.720 Men's and women's. Definitely, Definitely Baseball WVU guy is about 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.480 to win NL Rookie of the Year in JJ Weatherholt 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.000 and Gavin Kelly. Our catcher might be the first overall 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.080 pick in the draft next year. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.920 I'm not even a pit defender. But I don't know 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.320 what other sports they're great at. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.760 It's a good question. They're great volleyball, right, yeah, right, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.520 but I don't know is there a pro for that? 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.960 There's Olympics, but you know the WV rifle team, we 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.800 got kids winning gold medals. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.760 Every like a historically good program where we. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.640 Might be like a you know, like we're like, yeah, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.640 we have the most national titles of anyone, and then 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.080 right in pew pew baby in rifle. So yeah, football 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.840 it is, without a doubt Pit. I think Pitt has 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.640 ten or eleven in the Hall of Fame. W WVU 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:57.120 has three. But basketball, men's and women's baseball, anything else, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.560 I'll I'll take WV without a doubt. H Gadson in 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:01.680 fantasy football this year. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.880 I think he's a little bit of fools gold because 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.400 they want to play with heavier personnel. They brought in 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.280 a full back, they brought in the Joku, they brought 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.480 in Cohler, So Gadson is not a blocker at all 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.680 as a tight end, and he had a really nice 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.640 stint there as a productive fantasy option for you. But 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.200 I think they're going to play with a lot more 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.640 heavier personnel and Harbaugh loves that stuff and bang, yeah, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.080 I don't think there'd be a lot of receivers on 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.200 the field. I don't think that there's going to be. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.840 They brought an alex Ingold to full back, you know, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.400 so I think he'll get drafted, probably not by me 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.400 in most fantasy leagues, because he did show glimpses and 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.760 he's a really good receiver, but he doesn't block a soul, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.000 And I think they want big body people real quick. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.880 I would assume the answer is yes. But if Aaron 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.200 Donald comes back, that resets his five year clock for campus, I. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.760 Assume it's just like Rivers. I would but last year, right. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.280 Because that did for Rivers? Right, that even just a 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:58.080 couple of games is. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:58.720 A lot to give up. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.080 That's a lot to give up, Pillen Rivers a lot 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:01.600 to give up. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.320 They come in and look okay for a two. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.960 Games, Aaron Donald, it's a whole season and you've got 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.200 a shot to win another Super Bowl. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:08.840 You're going to like the best team in the league. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.480 But I do think that I was thinking about that 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.520 the other day. How many years has he been gone? Too? 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:13.640 Like? 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.480 I think Philip Rivers would have been up this year. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:16.640 I believe you're right. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.280 I mean he would have been competing with Ben. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.600 Yes, Aaron Donald has been out the last two seasons. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.800 Okay, so he retired three years out of his he 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.040 waits three years longer. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.120 Yes, yes, not much for a chance to win a 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.880 Super Bowl. I think that's probably a fair. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.600 And I don't know if Rivers was going for sure, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.800 Donald's going for sure for sure Donald's first ballot. Rivers 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.040 would get my vote, but he's it's a debate Donald. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.640 Donald is Donald is first ballot? Or what the heck 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.960 are we doing here? Yeah, Matt Robot stopping for some maintenance. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.640 We're going to do a quick pit stop for a 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.640 for a break here as well too. We'll continue some 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.760 conversation on the other side. We've been talking a lot 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.520 of tight ends today, some interesting comments from Darnell Washington 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.440 that we'll get to, and a whole bunch more as 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.000 we roll along here in our bone, our West Ruler, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.000 Matt Williamson. 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It's always a lot of fun, always a 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.200 lot of high energy on campus here for that first 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.399 Saturday practice. And I know somebody that all of Steeler 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.240 Nation wants to see this year is, of course, Darnell Washington, 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.439 won a Matt's Favorites, the big Guy, the tight end. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.480 We spent some time, a decent amount of time today 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.760 on the show from a fantasy football perspective and then 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.159 just an overarching perspective talking about tight ends. Here's what 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.760 the Steelers big man, Mount Washington had to say after practice. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.000 Offense, Miss Kenny Ginnell and how do you think the 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:47.040 running backs that have been. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.399 Brought in will off set that? 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.200 I mean, I miss him, but I feel like, yes, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.880 I know, well I'm not gonna say no, but yes, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.560 everybody know KG. You know, he was you know, a 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.920 stule last year, and I mean he's gonna continue to 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.080 be that, but then we brought in new talent. Not 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.040 going to compare those two kind of guys, but you know, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:08.840 we brought in new talent. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.160 So you've been through some injury stuff. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.720