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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Stealer Nation, It's the drive here on a

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Speaker 2: busy Monday, West Shooler. Matt Williamson with you for the

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Speaker 2: next two hours. And Matt, it is happening. It is

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Speaker 2: happening quick, it is happening heavy. It has happening often

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Speaker 2: one of the busiest days around the National Football League.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's a great day. I mean it's I love

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Speaker 3: this whole week, but Monday gets better and better every year.

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Speaker 3: It's the first day of the new year that I

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Speaker 3: actually wore shorts into the into the studio.

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Speaker 2: It's like lovely outside.

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Speaker 3: It's just like a totally new dawn is upon us.

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Speaker 3: It's warm, it's it's spring. They're fledgling, you know, flowers

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Speaker 3: and everyone Bunny's running around. It's Eastern times.

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Speaker 2: The neighborhood exciting. The neighborhood kids are out riding their.

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Speaker 3: Bikes exactly right. What couldn't be more excited? No, it is.

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Speaker 2: It's awesome. The weather has us in a good mood.

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Speaker 2: It's sunny as seventies here in Pittsburgh. And of course

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Speaker 2: the Steelers are busy. There's a ton going on around

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Speaker 2: the NFL as the negotiating period opened this afternoon at noon, Matt,

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Speaker 2: We're going to get into a million different reports and

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Speaker 2: signings Steelers related and around the league. I'll say this now,

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Speaker 2: I will probably say this again. These are all reports,

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Speaker 2: these are all agreements, These are all expected to be.

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Speaker 2: None of this is official until it is official Wednesday

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Speaker 2: at four o'clock. And we have seen in the past

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Speaker 2: where things have changed. I don't know if Steelers fans remember,

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Speaker 2: but during this day, during this little stretch here, a

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Speaker 2: few years ago, five six years ago, it was reported

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Speaker 2: by everybody in the business, Tyson Alu Alu is going

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Speaker 2: back to the Jacksonville Jaguars on a two year whatever,

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Speaker 2: sixteen million dollar deal. And then a day later, Tyson

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Speaker 2: Alualu changed his mind and actually ended up signing with

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Speaker 2: the Steelers and not coming back to Jacksonville. So this

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Speaker 2: stuff is not written in stone.

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Speaker 3: I think that was a COVID year, like it'd a

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Speaker 3: hard time getting a flight or something, and there was.

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Speaker 2: Some there was some stuff that. Yeah, But so these

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Speaker 2: are all reports, these are all expected to be. These

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Speaker 2: are all kind of waiting in the queue until Wednesday

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Speaker 2: when they can become official. So I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: preface that.

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Speaker 3: And every year, there'll be one thing across the league

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Speaker 3: that changes in the next twenty four to forty eight

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Speaker 3: hours or so. It just happens every time. Because it's

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Speaker 3: not official. You won't find this stuff on Steelers dot

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Speaker 3: com or they are not officially in the books yet,

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Speaker 3: but we have to comment on it. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: going on, and that's how the league is set up

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Speaker 3: exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And so maybe I'll make that disclaimer again at some

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Speaker 2: point in hour number two, but we always have to

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Speaker 2: state that from the jump here, Matt. A lot of

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Speaker 2: Steelers related news, but I think probably the biggest, or

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Speaker 2: at least the most headline grabbing, is the Steelers have

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Speaker 2: once again traded and extended a wide receiver around the

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Speaker 2: National Football League, acquiring Michael Pittman, a name that we've

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Speaker 2: mentioned and brought up in these hypothetical conversation the last

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Speaker 2: few weeks wide receiver from the Indianapolis Colts for a

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Speaker 2: late round pick swap, and with that a new three year,

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Speaker 2: fifty nine million dollar deal for Michael Pittman.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I mean, my final two non stealer

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Speaker 3: and they're different, you know, different levels of risk and

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Speaker 3: all that good stuff. When they signed Pierce, I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 3: now I think you can actually get that. I think

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Speaker 3: they locked I'm talking about the Colts locking up Pierce. Fine,

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Speaker 3: they chose Pierce over Pittman. I understand that youth. He's

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Speaker 3: coming off his best year, so be it. That doesn't

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Speaker 3: diminish at all with Pittman brings to the table for me.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you get them for nothing. It's a late

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Speaker 3: pick swap. That's great. I mean you're basically just buying

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Speaker 2: Especially when you look just look at what the Buffalo

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Speaker 3: Way of looking at it. I mean, and I expected,

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Speaker 3: And I would rather just have Pittman on game day

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Pittman's six four two twenty five ish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's not much smaller than Metcalf and

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Speaker 3: he plays actually plays bigger. I mean he does all

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Speaker 3: the dirty work. He'll block, he goes over the middle.

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Speaker 3: He's not a deep threat and never really was, but

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Speaker 3: he has you know, long completions in his career. I

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Speaker 3: didn't see the extension coming, you know, when they made

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Speaker 3: the trade, I'm like, okay, you run him for one year,

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Speaker 3: eat up his salary. See it goes from there. But

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Speaker 3: the money they they got or the money they added on,

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Speaker 3: seems very team friendly.

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Speaker 2: Under twenty million.

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Speaker 3: Considering today's wide receiver market, therese gonna be someone people

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Speaker 2: To me twenty eight years old, right in that kind

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Speaker 2: less than ideal quarterback situation. I kissed six years in Indianatos.

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Speaker 3: Say, have you seen that? I actually retweeted something from

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Speaker 3: Warren Sharps and you know all his his quarterbacks. It's

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Speaker 3: what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: And despite that, the production jumps off the page. He's

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Speaker 2: had multiple thousand yard seasons, a nine hundred yard season,

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Speaker 2: sixty nine receptions, eighty receptions. Matt in his six year

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Speaker 2: NFL career, he's missed five games due to injury. And

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Speaker 2: that's it.

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Speaker 3: That's it. I mean, he takes hits and he's not

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Speaker 2: You know it checks a lot lot of boxes for me.

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Speaker 2: You were on this early. I mean, this is something

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Speaker 2: you've been bringing up since before we went to the combine.

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Speaker 2: Is I don't think the Colts have enough money to

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Speaker 2: when everyone was kind of talking about Alec Pierce, you

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Speaker 2: and it's the complete opposite. It feels like to me

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Speaker 2: we've been jonesing for some wide receiver movement and news

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Speaker 2: this right off the bat. Good business, smart business, good

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Speaker 2: player fits the bill of what you're looking for. I'm

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Speaker 2: with you with kind of what you said a few

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Speaker 2: minutes ago when we started like I love this.

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Speaker 3: I think I love it.

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Speaker 2: Of all the scenarios that we laid out, this I

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Speaker 2: think would have been towards the top of the list. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and you get it done for a very minimal cost.

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Speaker 3: It's just your cap I mean, it's just the amount

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Speaker 3: of money you're spending and paying him cap wise, you know,

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Speaker 3: and you move that around a little bit. I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure exact details, but I assume by extending him you

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Speaker 3: you can still take a first round receiver. I think

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I'd love to add a twenty

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Speaker 3: But here's that list. Like people might be like, oh,

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Speaker 3: he probably played with Luck and all those guys. No,

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Speaker 3: Matt Ryan. Twenty twenty three, he plays with rookie Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 2: He had eleven hundred yards that seasons.

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Speaker 3: Okay, And then in twenty twenty four Richardson again and

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco it was a shall of himself. And this

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Speaker 3: past year, Daniel Jones Riley Leonard and yes, Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 2: I mean twenty and fifteen Matt Ryan, not two thousand.

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Speaker 2: So it's exciting. Yeah, And I think it's a great fit.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's a great move to address that

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Speaker 2: of that obviously, if not today, certainly this week. I

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Speaker 2: think the other thing that everyone's talking about Matt another

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Speaker 2: thing that we discussed adding to that secondary and the

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Speaker 2: Steelers getting that done. Jamel Dean three years, thirty six

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Speaker 2: point seventy five million contract reported by Mike Garoffalo and

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Speaker 2: a lot of the the NFL insiders. Matt he's not

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Speaker 2: necessarily twenty seven years old, like the kind of speculated,

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Speaker 2: but man, he's coming off of an outstanding season, and

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Speaker 2: I think clearly now you can start to see how

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Speaker 2: they envision the secondary coming together.

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Speaker 3: Yes, with the only exception of I just don't know

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Speaker 3: where Ramsey fits in today, you know, four o'clock on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Is he the starting free safety and they're just leaving

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Speaker 3: them there? Or is he the starting slot? And then

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Speaker 3: you're basically done in the corner room. So they signed Samuel,

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Speaker 3: you know, Sante Samuel was the first move I saw

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Speaker 3: from his cler perspective early today. Yeah, I'm like, one

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Speaker 3: year deal, that's solid. If he's your three fine, if

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Speaker 3: he's your two fine. And at that point, I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: they're probably still talking to Pierre or maybe Stokes from

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Speaker 3: not see this big move following that. Now there's two

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Speaker 3: negatives to Dean. He is twenty nine, but he signed

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Speaker 3: a three year deal. I assume they can get out

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Speaker 3: these deals are. Very few free agency the last year

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Speaker 3: of their deal period. And he's had an injury history,

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Speaker 3: but he had two small injuries last year. He messed

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Speaker 3: also logged a ton of snaps in his career though, too,

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Speaker 3: And I didn't know this until basically on the ride here.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't count against the compit game, which is really

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Speaker 3: I Mean, if you thought the Steelers are just gonna

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Speaker 2: You know, the Dolphins have done some crazy things today.

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Speaker 2: That's just the that's just the appetizer there are. There

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Speaker 2: It's all happening here on the first day of the

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Speaker 2: calendar year, and Matt and I still have plenty to discuss.

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Speaker 2: We talked about Michael Pittman, JUNR. We talked about Jamal Dean.

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Speaker 3: Real solid piece. Yes, let's stick with that just for

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Speaker 2: There have been some exports too. Kenneth Gainwell Steelers team MVP.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know this is all so new.

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Speaker 2: It's something you should have in your mind as part

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean, maybe they wait for running back to

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Speaker 2: Yes, So good for Kenneth Gainwell. Much deserved payday for

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Speaker 2: It sure did. And I think it's like I was

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Speaker 3: there's some Minnesota Stealers Pierre connection there, and I don't

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Speaker 3: know it off the top of my head, but I

432
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Speaker 3: think there is familiarity.

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Speaker 2: There, Matt. The Miami Dolphins have been pretty busy here today.

434
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Speaker 2: The first big move I think that everyone expected would come,

435
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Speaker 2: but man, the numbers are still jarring. Set to release

436
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Speaker 2: Tua taga Viola, of course quarterback there for the Dolphins,

437
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Speaker 2: and we'll take on an NFL record ninety nine million

438
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 2: dollars in dead cap money split over two years. But

439
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Speaker 2: he has still owed fifty four million dollars from the

440
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Speaker 2: Dolphins this season. It'll count nearly one hundred million split

441
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Speaker 2: over two years against their cap for them to part

442
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 2: ways with Tua. Again, I think we all knew this

443
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 2: was going to be the case, but the numbers are

444
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Speaker 2: the numbers are still daggering.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had to do it. He doesn't fit

446
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 3: the new system as well. He was a McDonald guy

447
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Speaker 3: at all, if anything, but to this point he's not

448
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Speaker 3: a starting caliber quarterback. He needs to go somewhere and

449
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 3: you know, go to the car wash a little bit.

450
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Speaker 3: He's already yeah, he's already been linked to Atlanta, which

451
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Speaker 3: I don't think is a good fit at all, but

452
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Speaker 3: he's out there. I originally thought, and I still do,

453
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Speaker 3: that Miami was as tanking as any team in the league.

454
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Speaker 3: Not because they want to, because they have to.

455
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Speaker 2: They surveyed their landscape and said, we don't have much

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Speaker 2: to work.

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Speaker 3: We got nothing, and they traded Minka, they signed Willis,

458
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Speaker 3: so two other big moves for them. Their defense has nothing,

459
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Speaker 3: but the offense isn't in that bad of shape. They've

460
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Speaker 3: drafted O line lately. Center's a stud, a chan waddle,

461
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Speaker 3: I mean, so it's not a terrible offense, but two

462
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Speaker 3: had to go. Everyone knows I have a infatuation with Willis.

463
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Speaker 3: I was shocked he's I thought he'd be a little

464
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Speaker 3: pricier than that too, you know.

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Speaker 2: I thought he would be. So let's let's go there

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Speaker 2: before we talk about the mink of Fitz pack of trade.

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Speaker 2: Malik Willis to Miami three years, sixty seven and a

468
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Speaker 2: half million dollar deal, forty five of it fully guaranteed.

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Speaker 2: So that's what that's about twenty a little twenty three

470
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Speaker 2: million a year. It's kind of like the Justin Fields

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Speaker 2: deal with inflation.

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Speaker 3: With inflation plus yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean so,

473
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Speaker 3: but I just did. I didn't think Miami would be

474
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Speaker 3: the landing spot for him either. I just didn't think

475
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Speaker 3: they'd have the money. And they're looking at the same way.

476
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Speaker 3: Is we're going to give him every chance to sink

477
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Speaker 3: or swim. You think they'll keep a chain and waddle? Yeah,

478
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Speaker 3: I think, I mean at least through the trade deadline

479
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Speaker 3: or you know, going to the season with those guys.

480
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Speaker 3: I would imagine and maybe we found our quarterback that

481
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Speaker 3: was my home infatuation with him, And you might find

482
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Speaker 3: your quarterback without having to give up picks or any

483
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Speaker 3: you know, you might which is.

484
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Speaker 2: A great place to be, great place to ask. Ask

485
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Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right, So they might have found them, and

487
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Speaker 3: if they did, they're probably picking in the top five anyway,

488
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Speaker 3: and maybe it's somewhere in between. And the Steelers make

489
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Speaker 3: him an offer a year from now, you know, like

490
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Speaker 3: he could be trade baited a year from now if

491
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Speaker 3: he's good not great, and arch Manning sitting there they

492
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Speaker 3: have to take.

493
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Speaker 2: Or he's good, not great. You still draft the arch

494
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Speaker 2: Manning type, and then you have a year where it's

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Speaker 2: kind of the passing of the two out.

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Speaker 3: Right, right right, Yeah, that's why I like the you know,

497
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Speaker 3: from a Steeler perspective too, from anyone Arizona, I just

498
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Speaker 3: thought he was alluring. I know that the sample size

499
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 3: is very small and he might fall in his face,

500
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Speaker 3: and people like Matt, you're dumb, like, so what didn't

501
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Speaker 3: even hurt them? It's Jets.

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Speaker 2: Jets aren't crippled by the Justin Fields contract. No, no,

503
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Speaker 2: And in fact, the Jets getting a little busy here

504
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Speaker 2: with the Dolphins. You don't see that very often.

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Speaker 3: That just means he was gonna get cut.

506
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Speaker 2: And yeah, yes, so the Miami Dolphins sending formerly of

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Speaker 2: this parish, Mega Fitzpatrick to the New York j e

508
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Speaker 2: p S Jets, Jets Jets in exchange for a seventh

509
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Speaker 2: round draft pick, and with that the Jets giving Menca

510
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Speaker 2: a three year, four million dollar extension.

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Speaker 3: Yeah so really this is the same as the Pittman deal.

512
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Speaker 3: So I'm sure some people are like, Minka's shot. He stinks,

513
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Speaker 3: you know, No, he just signs too big a deal,

514
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Speaker 3: and they're not going to go anywhere this year. When

515
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Speaker 3: originally I heard this, I thought, maybe the Jets are

516
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Speaker 3: just gonna rent him until the trade deadline. You know,

517
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Speaker 3: give up a seventh round pick. Now, eat his money

518
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 3: because they get a ton of cap space. Flip him

519
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Speaker 3: at the deadline. Maybe the stealers, you know, and get

520
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Speaker 3: a fourth round pick out of it, you know, increase

521
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Speaker 3: their investment in terms of draft picks. I think mak

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Speaker 3: It can still play. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Now I don't understand exactly the details of the extension,

525
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Speaker 3: but it makes me think that they're in it to

526
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Speaker 3: stick around with the I mean that they're not just

527
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Speaker 3: renting him, you know, they're not just using their cap space.

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Speaker 3: I thought they might be doing that Breese Hall too,

529
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Speaker 3: franchise them trade him at the trade deadline. Now they

530
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Speaker 3: could do that with all these dudes, because what they

531
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Speaker 3: have going for him is we can handle the money.

532
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Speaker 3: We want picks. Yep. But they did some weird stuff too,

533
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 3: like the Mario Davis. I mean, he's one of the

534
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Speaker 3: old linebackers in the league.

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Speaker 2: Like maybe it is like a preemptive they realize how

536
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Speaker 2: many draft picks they're gonna make in the next couple

537
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Speaker 2: of years. Yeah, and no matter how bad we think

538
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Speaker 2: we are or that this is clearly a rebuild, we

539
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Speaker 2: still need some veterans in the room who know how

540
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Speaker 2: to be pros, who knows that can can teach these

541
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Speaker 2: guys how you work day in and day out and

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Speaker 2: last in this league.

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Speaker 3: And Davis and make are perfect, perfect examples of that.

544
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Speaker 3: And their seat is also unbelievably hot too, Like we're

545
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Speaker 3: gonna get fired if we don't, we may lose some games. Yeah,

546
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Speaker 3: we lose two games to get the first overall pick.

547
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Speaker 3: Arch doesn't do us any good because I'm not working

548
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 3: here anymore, so I'm looking for a job, right. But

549
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Speaker 3: their whole approach has been curious, But I guess I

550
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Speaker 3: kind of get it. Miami's I totally understand. Yeah, you

551
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Speaker 3: knew that was common.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's been a busy, busy one there in the UH

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Speaker 2: in the AFC East for for for sure. Some more

556
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Speaker 2: moves that we have to get to. Some other significant

557
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Speaker 2: news around the league. Tyler Lynn Bam has a new home.

558
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips has a new home. Some other big deals,

559
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Speaker 2: some big names on the move that we will discuss

560
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 2: as we kind of continue to go around the league

561
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Speaker 2: and just react to all the different moving and shaking

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Speaker 2: that has transpired here in the last four to so

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Speaker 2: hours since the negotiating period began in the NFL. This afternoon,

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Speaker 2: West Ruler Matt Williamson, It is the Drive Steelers Nation

565
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Speaker 2: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 4: What's up, NFL fans. The NFL Draft is finally here,

567
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Speaker 4: and while you might not know who your team is

568
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 4: drafting this year, you do know your watch party's number

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Speaker 4: one pick. Bud Light, the clean, crisp taste that has

570
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Speaker 4: all the scouts talking. Guess that's why it's been the

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Speaker 4: group's go to draft beer season after season. Be sure

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Speaker 4: to order around for the table before your team's on

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Speaker 4: the clock. Bud Light, easy to drink, easy to enjoy,

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Speaker 4: enjoy responsibly. Anheuser Busch bud Light Beer, Saint Louis, Missouri, your.

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Speaker 1: Tuned about drive on your twenty four to seven home

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal.

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Speaker 3: Steelers Nation RADI.

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Speaker 2: Imports and Exports season fully underway. Matt Williamson. Here the

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Speaker 2: second week in March. It is a beautiful day in

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Speaker 2: western Pennsylvania. The sun is shining, the kids are outside playing.

581
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 2: The Steelers have some new shiny toys. We've had to

582
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Speaker 2: say goodbye to some some familiar names and reminder more

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Speaker 2: to come. These are all just reports at this At

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Speaker 2: this point, all these deals are waiting in purgatory until

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Speaker 2: Wednesday at four o'clock when they can become official, and

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Speaker 2: so there can still be changes in movement not so.

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Speaker 3: There's no deadlines or times that matter. Tomorrow. Today was noon,

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00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 3: it started, Yes, Wednesday, it's four. It becomes it becomes

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00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 3: official when these men start to get just more like today,

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00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Like technically John news Smith is still a Steeler.

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00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: Were four o'clock on Wednesday?

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00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 3: Timeline the NFL.

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00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, So that's kind of the way it's all

594
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: laid out with that, Matt. We're we're just getting started.

595
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: But you remember Billy May's legendary, legendary public service announcement infomercial,

596
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: Guy Billy Mays here Oxy Clean Billy Mays. Matt, we

597
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: had speculated a lot about where Tyler Linderbaum could end up.

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00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 2: We didn't think it would be Baltimore, you know, talked

599
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: about both the Harballs, talked about we hardly.

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Speaker 3: Talked about like DJ Moore and Max Crosby. We've not

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Speaker 3: even talked about Max Crosby. That seems like it happened

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00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: three weeks ago, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even mentioned Max Crosby. Who the you know what,

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Speaker 2: Let's start there, okay, because I guess this kind of

605
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: bomb is a little bit of a ripple effect over

606
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Speaker 2: the weekend, Max Crosby heading from the Las Vegas Raiders

607
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: to the Baltimore Ravens. Two first round draft picks for

608
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Speaker 2: mad Max. That's a significant that's a big swing for Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: It is. And like my son, he's like, yeah, but

610
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: they're late picks. I'm like, no, they aren't. This one's

611
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Speaker 3: like thirteen, And do we know that they're a powerhouse

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden. No, I mean, I totally get it.

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Speaker 3: Crosby's awesome, and I would say this on Ravens Nation Radio,

614
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Speaker 3: But I do think the Bills and the Ravens are

615
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Speaker 3: showing a little bit of desperation with these two moves.

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Speaker 2: I would think that's a fair way to put it.

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Speaker 3: He gave up big picks. I mean Dj Moore for

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Speaker 3: a two was a whoa Crosby for two? First not

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Speaker 3: deep in the twenties necessarily. First one definitely is not if.

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Speaker 2: They were picking twenty eighth or twenty ninth this year,

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Speaker 2: it's different conversation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I mean, you had a real setback year

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Speaker 3: to think that he's the only thing keeping you from

624
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Speaker 3: being the best team in the league. And both teams

625
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Speaker 3: have outstanding, unbelievable quarterbacks from the same draft class that

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Speaker 3: were battling for MVP and are still as good as

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Speaker 3: they ever were. They also have new coaches yep.

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Speaker 2: You know, like they've also got a lot of needs

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Speaker 2: that they have to fill. And now, I mean, if

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Speaker 2: you're Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: The interior line is a disaster.

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Speaker 2: A disaster. You've got no first round pick.

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Speaker 3: No, and they're losing other people left and right. Linderbaum likely.

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Speaker 3: You know, guys, we expected them to and you don't

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Speaker 3: have a first round pick. I guess it makes you better,

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Speaker 3: but it could go wrong.

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Speaker 2: I think it addresses your biggest need, which was pass

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Speaker 2: rush for Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like they're pressure rates and things like that

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Speaker 3: with them, and the.

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Speaker 2: Colts were just really really flying out for pass rushers,

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Speaker 2: especially off Yes, yes, but with filling that void, you

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Speaker 2: might have I used this analogy last week, you might

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Speaker 2: have robbed Peter to pay Paul a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you definitely did.

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Speaker 2: Because your defensive line got much better, but your offensive

647
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: line is getting worse.

648
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 3: It's getting worse. They're still pass catchers away too. I

649
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 3: think they definitely need a receiver. Plus I know that

650
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 3: Don that bigger fish. They're a hard fish to fry.

651
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: But I would get another running back for sure. I

652
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 3: mean the supporting cast around Lamar all of a. Sudd

653
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 3: isn't great. They don't have the deep. They lost two

654
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 3: tight ends today. I still think the defensive tackle situation

655
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 3: is very tenuous. Now. I wonder do they know Matta

656
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: Bouquet is going to be back? Maybe they do, and

657
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 3: then they're like, Okay, now we're we can get a

658
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 3: little more aggressive. Yeah, we're loaded on defense, and we'll

659
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 3: just draft offense like crazy for their sake. I hope

660
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: that's where they're at, because if they need to find

661
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 3: his replacement and an entire interior line, good luck, Yeah,

662
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: good luck. But Crosby is awesome and the Steelers will

663
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 3: hate playing against them twice a year or three times

664
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 3: a year. He's awesome.

665
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: Is there anybody more upset about that trade than Joe Burrow?

666
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: A good point.

667
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: He's like, look, at it. It's like, look at these

668
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: pass Russ line up with six times a year. I

669
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: got Wanton, high Smith and cam and Pittsburgh.

670
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 3: They're about to lose Hendrickson.

671
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: I got Miles Garrett. Now I got Max Crosby and

672
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson's thanks.

673
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they're the least the only people less happy

674
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: than Burrow or the Bengals offensive tackles, nob Brown.

675
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: And Tyler lind Obaum as we had speculated, is leaving

676
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: Baltimore and he ends up landing with the Raiders.

677
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: The a lot of center movement there always is at

678
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 3: the beginning of free agency because teams just want to

679
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: know who their guy is, you know, like the Bills

680
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: locked up there, dude, yep, you know the Bills were

681
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: we're gonna lose one of our guard or our center.

682
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: Let's lock up the center. We have a great offensive

683
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 3: line coach that retired a new head coach. We can't

684
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 3: change centers. You know, Center's gold Man. I mean people

685
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 3: know that. I mean Pouncey Dirt Webby Frasier, you know,

686
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 3: and nobody knows that better in Pittsburgh.

687
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: And if you're the Raiders, you just put your money

688
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: where your mouth is. In that regard, three years eighty

689
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: one million dollars for Tyler Lonabaum, highest paid center in

690
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: NFL history for the three time pro bowler. Matt I

691
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: think two things are true and maybe three things are true.

692
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: One Lindenbaum's really good, top five center in the league,

693
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: great player.

694
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 3: I was gonna say that too. I would say three

695
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: things too.

696
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: Two, that's that's a little bit of an overpay.

697
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 3: That's right. Other thing on the list.

698
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: Three if you're the Raiders, who cares you can afford it.

699
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 3: It's for them, it's worth it totally. All that matters

700
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 3: is Mendoza. I mean, that's all that matters, because you're

701
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 3: gonna take powers Johnson, move him full time, moving the

702
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 3: guard yeap, which probably fits him better. He's like three

703
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 3: twenty and put put Linderbaum right in the middle. And

704
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 3: that's who I want my first overall pick, taking snaps

705
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 3: from for the next five years or whatever. But they

706
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 3: overspent on a very very good player. But they probably

707
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 3: should have. Absolutely true. Yeah, listen, you got the money,

708
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: spend it. Yeah, And it makes a It makes a

709
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 3: ton of sense as to why the Ravens couldn't match

710
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 3: that deal. It makes a ton of sense as to

711
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 3: why the Raiders gave him that deal.

712
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 2: I got to imagine Zach Fraser's agent was licking his

713
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 2: chops a little bit seeing that. But that's a conversation,

714
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: that's a conver that's a conversation for next year. Yeah,

715
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 2: But for for Mendoza, for for the for the Raiders,

716
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: for Bill, you're you're rarely gonna get an opportunity to

717
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 2: sign a three time Pro Bowl offensive lineman who's twenty

718
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: five years old, right in the middle of his prime.

719
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 3: And you're on the open and you should for him,

720
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 3: but you rarely have the opportunity to do that. That's

721
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 3: a good way of putting it, you know. Like sometimes

722
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 3: like I got all this money in capital, but I

723
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 3: can't use it on the things I want to use

724
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 3: it on. I can't just go get my homes off

725
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 3: the other market. Right. If I have enough money, I

726
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 3: can buy the nicest vehicle out there. NFL teams can't.

727
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: No another A bunch of more big moves here than that.

728
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips, who was part of the Dolphins, I guess

729
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 2: kind of the beginning of the fire sale for the

730
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: Dolphins at the trade deadline went to the Eagles, He

731
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 2: has signed a four year, one hundred and twenty million

732
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 2: dollar deal with the Carolina Panthers. Eighty million of that guaranteed.

733
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think he's passed the durability hurdles. I mean,

734
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: he had substantial stuff, but this is several teams that

735
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 3: have had no hesitation investing in him, either with draft

736
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 3: picks or a contract. He's a great player. I mean,

737
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 3: he's a great player, and I think that completes the

738
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 3: Panthers front. Derek Brown's kind of the anchor in the middle,

739
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: and now you have a compliment on the outside. They

740
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 3: drafted two defensive ends I think in Round three last

741
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: year as well, so the defense might actually have some

742
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 3: things to hang their hat on. And I mean I

743
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: can kind of make fun of the Panthers, but they

744
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 3: did win their division last year.

745
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: They did, right, they got better. Let's see here the

746
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans, another one of those teams that we knew

747
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: had some money to spend.

748
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: Another name that we discussed.

749
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 2: In kind of our big free agency previews over the

750
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: last few weeks, former Saints cornerback Alonte Taylor. He was

751
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,280
Speaker 2: one of those guys. He was one of those guys, Yeah,

752
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: that we talked about right in that kind of twenty

753
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 2: seven year old sweet spot three year, sixty million dollars

754
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 2: deal for him, heard that to go to Music City.

755
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 3: He was on my Steeler list, but I thought it

756
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 3: was a little pie in the sky because I thought

757
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 3: he'd be fifteen ish million twenty. Wow. He's good inside,

758
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 3: he's good out.

759
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 2: They needed they also the Titans also signed Cordel Flott

760
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 2: three year, forty five million dollar that is, and they

761
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 2: went they went shopping for two cornerbacks today.

762
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 3: Nice and they got Wandale Robinson too. It was the

763
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 3: last news I heard from them, which is the Wandell

764
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 3: Robinson one is interesting to me just because he's a

765
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: young quarterback's best friend. He's easy completions, you know, he's layup,

766
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 3: throws over and known and that that's exactly what you need.

767
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 2: Forward John Franklin Myers to the Titans. The Titans have

768
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: maybe been the busiest of anybody today. Yes, put him

769
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: next to you were singing John Franklin Myers praises last

770
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: week and how underrated he is. Three years, sixty three

771
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 2: million dollars.

772
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 3: So they have a new coaching staff, of course, and

773
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 3: they had the most caps based in the league. Well

774
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 3: maybe the Raiders did after the Crosby trade, but as

775
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: of two weeks ago, they the most they move on

776
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 3: from the trade Sweat for Jermaine Johnson because it's really

777
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 3: a four man, four down and go type of defense.

778
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 3: It's not in those tackle slow played Sweat didn't fit

779
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 3: at all. So now they have two defensive tackles that

780
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: are in their prime to go with Johnson to be

781
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 3: picked up a Bear to play against. Yeah, that front's

782
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 3: good and they got corner. So their past defense is

783
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 3: probably top half a league, which pretty good from where

784
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 3: they were.

785
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 2: Tell you what they know. The draft and cam Ward

786
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 2: takes a step forward, they're gonna, yeah, they'd go in

787
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: the right direct. We're definitely moving in the right direction.

788
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 2: Another name formerly of this Parish linebacker Devin Bush, three year,

789
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: thirty million dollar deal with the dub Bears the Chicago Bears,

790
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: twenty one million of that guaranteed. Edmunds is gone.

791
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: I forget who he signed with. But here's the day too.

792
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 3: There's the replacement. There's a replacement. I mean, they're very different.

793
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: One of them said five on five to five almost,

794
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 3: but it's easy to kind of be like boy Bush

795
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 3: he's terrible, you know, and he didn't work out here,

796
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: but he's coming off a great year, and he's coming

797
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 3: off a great year, and good for him. I mean,

798
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 3: of course, you'd want every Steeler that ever wore the

799
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 3: black and gold of their best years here, but that's

800
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: not the way the world works. So I root for

801
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 3: them all to go on and have success. And he

802
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: definitely had a lot of success with the Browns last year.

803
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: I'd much rather see him having success with an NFC

804
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: team than the Cleveland Browns.

805
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: Sure sure, Uh.

806
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 2: Mike Evans on the move, huge, huge dy Hall of fame,

807
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: one of the all time Tampa Bay Buccaneers, signing a

808
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 2: three year deal.

809
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: Oh really for one year deal. I won't see all three.

810
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: He certainly won't, and I'm sure there's some void years

811
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: yeah there with with what they're gonna do. But Mike

812
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 2: Evans going from the Florida coast to the California coast

813
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: and signing with the Niners.

814
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 3: The Niners are a weird team because they I woke

815
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: up this morning to Trent Williams could be on the

816
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 3: trade block and who knows what's going on with that.

817
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: All their studs are coming back from like major injuries

818
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 3: Kittle blew out his achilles late in the season, and

819
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 3: Bosa and Warner. But they're always going to be They're

820
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 3: never gonna be like, let's just take a step back,

821
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 3: you know, They're always gonna be attractive landing spot. I

822
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 3: could see why Evans wants to play for him. It's

823
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 3: a good spot for him. I mean, he'll get the

824
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 3: ball a lot. Your saws a guy like quite a bit.

825
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: But Kittle's not gonna be in the mix for a while,

826
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 3: you know, so I get it.

827
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he'll he'll flourish in that offense is always

828
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 2: a s healthie. I meant to bring this up when

829
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 2: we talked about the Raiders, speaking of wide receivers, speaking

830
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 2: about names that we've discussed in the last few weeks.

831
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor also yeah to Las Vegas three years, thirty

832
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: five million dollars, twenty three of which guaranteed, which.

833
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 3: At this point doesn't affect the Steelers at all. I mean,

834
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: once we make the Pittman trade, any ab or even

835
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 3: maybe C level free agent receiver, I think you're out

836
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 3: on if somebody that's like the Calvin Austin neighborhood is

837
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 3: still sitting out there in a week. Okay, I'll give

838
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 3: you a one year, four million, five million dollar deal. Maybe,

839
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 3: But I think Naylor was off the table the second

840
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 3: the Pittman deal happened. I like it for the Raiders.

841
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 3: I mean again, gent Bauers. Yeah, first, overall quarterback. We

842
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 3: talked about the interior of the O line. Colton Miller's

843
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 3: on that team. Still more most importantly, new coaching staff.

844
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 3: Their offense could be respectable. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Matt. Speaking

845
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 3: of respectable offense, I think the Chiefs will get back

846
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 3: to doing that in twenty twenty six Super Bowl.

847
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: Maybe I buried the lead. Maybe I should, Maybe I

848
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 2: should have started with this one at the once we

849
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: got off Steelers and into league wide stuff. But Super

850
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 2: Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, running back, has agreed to a

851
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 2: deal with the Kansas City Chiefs three years, a little

852
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 2: over forty three million dollars, about twenty eight and a

853
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 2: half of that guaranteed. Via Adam Schefter.

854
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: It sounds like Kelsey's coming back. They lost, they traded

855
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 3: McDuffie and then they lost Watson, both of whom to

856
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 3: the Rams either secondary. But I think they looked at it.

857
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: So I'm going to tie this some of the couple

858
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 3: ones the Saints signed atn who is an LSU dude,

859
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 3: that's just a New Orleans guy. Yeah, and as well

860
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: as they signed a guard. But I wanted to talk

861
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Speaker 3: about running back landscape just for a minute. Everyone in

862
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Speaker 3: the world has the Saints or Chiefs taking love at

863
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: what nine and ten or eight and nine, whatever it

864
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Speaker 3: is in the draft. I think both of them just

865
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Speaker 3: looked at it like, there's no chance he's any get here.

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Speaker 2: He's not making it that far.

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Speaker 3: He's not getting past Tennessee and Washington and the Giants.

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Speaker 3: No chance. So let's just sign our guy. And I

869
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Speaker 3: think Walker to the Chiefs makes tons of sense. I

870
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Speaker 3: mean they've kind of ignored that position for a long time.

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Speaker 2: I think one Patrick Mahomes is going to be very.

872
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Speaker 3: And he's coming back from injury. Let's make Pat's life

873
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Speaker 3: a little easier as opposed the other way around, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, yes, yes, Also, Matt reports flying now that JK.

875
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Speaker 2: Dobbins is going to be returning to the Broncos that

876
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: they're close to and agree he.

877
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Speaker 3: Was someone I would have had an eye on. Four

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Speaker 3: for the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: That from Zach Stevens, who who covers the Broncos for

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Speaker 2: d n v R, which is which is one of

881
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Speaker 2: the media outlets out there, so that.

882
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 3: He was really good for him while he lasted.

883
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 2: One of the kind of themes of noticing today is

884
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: his running backs are flying off the board pretty quickly.

885
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, how years is going to Arizona, which, now that

886
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 3: I think twice about it, I'm sure Connor gets cut

887
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: and I wouldn't mind bringing in Connor And maybe that

888
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 3: is the answer. Maybe it's Connor Warren Johnson in a

889
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 3: fourth round pick. I wouldn't hate that, wouldn't hate that. Yeah,

890
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Speaker 3: AlSi was a guy in I on Dobbins.

891
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 2: Cowboys agreeing to a three year deal with safety Jalen Thompson.

892
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Speaker 2: He's another name that that we had discussed in the

893
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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. Three years, thirty three million dollars.

894
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 3: He was Again, there was about five safeties. Cook just

895
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 3: went to the Bengals. He was another one on my list.

896
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Speaker 3: But a couple of them are still out there. So

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Speaker 3: I think the next twenty.

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Speaker 2: Four hours, oh, there'll be a second wave of a

899
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Speaker 2: free agentcy Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think we'll know though. Is

901
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 3: Ramsey a safety or a slot here probably in the

902
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 3: next twenty four hours or so, maybe Theaman's their first

903
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 3: round pick. Now, I mean like that, that's that door

904
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Speaker 3: open back.

905
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Speaker 2: Let's you know, let's have that maybe what let's have

906
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Speaker 2: that conversation an hour or two? What to do? What

907
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 2: what pick twenty one looks like? Now it's going to

908
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: continue to move because again, the Steelers could could make

909
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Speaker 2: another signing tomorrow. Of course for that right real quick here, Matt,

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Speaker 2: we got like a minute or two left, just one

911
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: or two more of these that I wanted to run

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Speaker 2: by you. Boye mafe signing a three year deal with

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Speaker 2: the Bengals sixty million, sixty million dollars, three years, sixty

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Speaker 2: million bucks for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Champe they had to cook and Mafay. Yes, they're both

916
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Speaker 3: about the same age and they need money on that deal.

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Speaker 3: I think that's I'd rarely compliment them for their free

918
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Speaker 3: agent or off seasons, but that's a good start.

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Speaker 2: So boy A Mafey to Cincinnati, O Dafe o Way

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Speaker 2: four years, one hundred million dollar deal to the Washington Commanders,

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Speaker 2: sixty eight million of that guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I mean he's peaking at the right time of

923
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Speaker 3: his career. Super talented was really good with the Chargers.

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00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 3: It was a huge need for the Commanders and they've

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Speaker 3: been rumored to be LinkedIn with a lot of guys

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Speaker 3: that they kind of like came in second on, so

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Speaker 3: they they got money to spend their an aggressive organization too.

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Speaker 2: We've got some more news coming across the timeline here

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Speaker 2: of signings from Adam Schefter and Jeremy Fowler. We also

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Speaker 2: mat have the NFL's compensatory draft picks for the upcoming

931
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Speaker 2: draft have been released. We know exactly what the Steelers

932
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Speaker 2: got in comp picks for this year. We'll get to

933
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Speaker 2: all of that in our number two Christian Kotz Steelers

934
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Speaker 2: long snapper podcast ex Shorden Air is going to join

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Speaker 2: us as well. He's working on a really cool podcast

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Speaker 2: series on the history of football in Western Pennsylvania. You know,

937
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Speaker 2: he's a shar Tiers Valley guy, grew up here, played

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Speaker 2: college FOOTBA at Ducane and has had himself a successful

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Speaker 2: podcast over the last couple of years. He's going to

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Speaker 2: join us in hour number two to talk about some

941
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Speaker 2: of this history of football in Western Pa that he's

942
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Speaker 2: been working on. And we'll continue to react to all

943
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Speaker 2: these moves across the NFL halfway home here on a

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Speaker 2: busy day, our number two on the other side, West Yeuler,

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. It's the Drive Steelers Nation Radio on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.