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Speaker 1: Your tune's about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. West Shooler and Matt Williamson with you here

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Speaker 2: for the next two hours on this Wednesday. We have

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Speaker 2: got plenty to get into today. We're gonna talk fifth

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Speaker 2: year options around the National Football League for the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three draft class. Yea, and that happens really quickly.

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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable quick it comes. And it's a weird system

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Speaker 3: because you have to like do it before their fifth

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Speaker 2: You have to decide on their fifth year after their

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Speaker 2: third year, right and guarantee that money from Steed right

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Speaker 2: in the fifth season.

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Speaker 3: I know people were like up in arms and the

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Speaker 3: Steelers didn't pick up Nausey, But it's like, especially at

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Speaker 3: that position, with like the wear and Terry had on

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Speaker 3: his body, It's like, you may not even get the

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Speaker 3: whole year out of this guy. I mean, what condition

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Speaker 3: is you're gonna be in so a year from now

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Speaker 3: when it matters.

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Speaker 2: That's a really good example because say you would have

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Speaker 2: picked up Nause's option and now this is one of

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Speaker 2: those butterfly effect fings. He might have been completely healthy

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Speaker 2: and played seventeen games for the Steelers this year, as

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Speaker 2: though if he tore his achilles like he did early

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Speaker 2: entire year all that guaranteed money, plus he would still

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Speaker 2: for this upcoming season coming off of that occasion, actually,

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Speaker 2: and that will factor in. As we'll obviously talk plenty

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Speaker 2: of Roderick Jones. We're going to run through the gambit

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Speaker 2: of all thirty two first round picks, but we will

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Speaker 2: spend the most time around Broderick Jones. We'll catch up

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Speaker 2: with our buddy Chris Halleck here today in this first

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Speaker 2: hour to get all his thoughts on the ongoing head

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Speaker 2: coaching search and the other coaching moving and shaking around

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Speaker 2: the National Football League. We will do some best of

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Speaker 2: the West Stadium stadium food editions, but Matt, as we

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Speaker 2: will continue to do as long as this coaching carousel

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Speaker 2: is still run. And we'll start with the news of

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Speaker 2: the day, the topics. Dajore here to get us going

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Speaker 2: and I think number one on that set list for

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Speaker 2: me today is Andy Whitel. Reportedly, according to Jerry Dulac,

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Speaker 2: Mark Cabali, Mike the Fabo interviewing for the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 2: vacant GM job that would be in a off season

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Speaker 2: of change and loss and turnover for the Steelers. This

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Speaker 2: one wouldn't grab the headlines like Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 2: but it might be potentially one of the biggest pieces,

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Speaker 2: one of the biggest things to keep an eye on

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Speaker 2: for the Steelers here in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 3: Huge, and frankly, I think that day's coming one of

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Speaker 3: these off seasons, you know, because he's very, very good

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Speaker 3: at his job. He's been with really good organizations too.

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Speaker 3: I mean like you're with the Ravens, you're with the Eagles.

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Speaker 3: I mean you're with some organizations that are highly sawed

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Speaker 3: Omar is not a talent evaluator, but he was a

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Speaker 3: and all this stuff, that's not how Omar was brought

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Speaker 2: I always wondered what that is.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and Andy is more the talent evaluator. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's the right hand man right now. And the obvious

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Speaker 3: I would do all the grocery shopping for the Falcons.

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Speaker 3: So he would be a big loss, a huge one.

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Speaker 2: And I think when you look at how optimistic we

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Speaker 2: And you're right, just a a well regarded talent evaluator

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Speaker 2: Sure, And and you know that is like, this is

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Speaker 2: were we were looking. Uh. Actually, Mike the Fabo, who

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Speaker 2: from the New Orleans Saints two thousand media guide.

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Speaker 2: And within that media guide Mike McCarthy offensive coordinator. He's

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Speaker 2: in the fold now as a potential head coaching camp.

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Speaker 3: Heater on him right now.

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Speaker 2: Omark on football operations assistant. I remember a lot of

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Speaker 3: How about that? So that kind of they look a

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Speaker 2: Fall operations versus Combine scout. I think that kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't much to add, yeah,

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Speaker 3: And even like when I started scouting, i'd see him

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Speaker 2: You know, it depends on what side of the fencer

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Speaker 2: you know, more formal sit down interviews. But what we

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Speaker 2: do know here today, Matt, is that Mike McDaniel all

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Speaker 2: you know, to just other than crossing some t's and

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Speaker 2: McDaniel under Harbaugh, he goes out there to work with

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Speaker 2: Herbert to work with what will be a rejuvenated offensive

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Speaker 2: the more interesting relationships between two football dorks in Harbor

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Speaker 3: I've talked a lot about this today. I've done two

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Speaker 2: But fusion, right, it's confusion.

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Speaker 3: And this past year they did, you know, they got

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Speaker 3: Like I don't think he's They're not going to there's

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Speaker 2: But because harball' is the head guy.

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Speaker 2: like lifting weights and screaming and yelling, and McDaniel's like

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Speaker 3: And I'd love to be sitting in an offensive staff

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Speaker 2: Day here in the Euler Household, Matt I also wanted

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Speaker 3: But I remember having the game in Paris and Mexico City.

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Speaker 3: Now missed a third preseason game, no, yeah, and they'll

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Speaker 2: Right, And I don't think any local businesses and economies

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Speaker 2: All right, I've teased this with you guys a little

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Speaker 3: But if you haven't been there, it can't make the list.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just this year, the roads, the road trip

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good one that you We'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: Back on the drive here, it's time to have some

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Speaker 2: best of the West Stadium food power rankings, and I

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Speaker 3: So it's this is not nacho's that people who can fans.

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Speaker 2: Get exactly right, So it's not like all you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's what they It's the food that they serve us.

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Speaker 3: It's not for manies that you guys can go to or.

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Speaker 2: We have no choice over this. It's it's either I mean,

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Speaker 3: get that. Yes, Like often they'll give you like Chick

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Speaker 3: fil As you're walking.

436
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 2: On exactly right, like when we're when we've gone to

437
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 2: Buffalo in the past, like you'll get a box of

438
00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 2: a dozen wings when you're getting on the bus after

439
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:00,400
Speaker 2: the game.

440
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 3: But I the other press folks don't get that.

441
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:08,199
Speaker 2: Just team press, team employees doesn't count. This is press box,

442
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 2: broadcast booth only. Okay, I've got I've got these ranked

443
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 2: every preseason, the Dublin game, which I know technically was

444
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: a home game, but but you know, we got any

445
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,679
Speaker 2: anywhere that wasn't Akroschuer Stadium what they had. And and

446
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 2: I've got four different tiers here for you.

447
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 3: Matt, but you didn't.

448
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 2: I did not, and I think they'd be they'd be

449
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 2: like right about in the middle atrosure is. It's not

450
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 2: the best in the league, but it's certainly far from

451
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 2: the bottom of the barrel's it's right about league average.

452
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: Would say, I'm gonna start at the top because I

453
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 2: just think it's more fun in that regard the elite tier.

454
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 2: I have three in the elite tier. Number one is

455
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 2: l A and Sofi Stadium. I don't think that place,

456
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 2: and I don't think that's a surprise, but you get

457
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 2: there and.

458
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 3: It's that place just seems like money.

459
00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 2: It's the best, it's the best. You get there and

460
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 2: it is every type of candy and appetizer you could imagine.

461
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 3: So I've obviously had conversations with Dale and other over

462
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 3: the years and and you you can attest this better

463
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 3: than me. But well I used to go as a

464
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 3: scout and stuff too, But their love These places have

465
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 3: like big candy bars yeah right right, like and lots

466
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 3: of variety, you know, like yeah, and like here's a

467
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 3: you know, a little fun.

468
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 2: Sized bar exactly right. And then their food spread is

469
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 2: basically it's it's like if you could walk through the

470
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 2: line at Chipotle and build it yourself.

471
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 3: Wow.

472
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 2: I mean it's all these different rices and proteins and

473
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,959
Speaker 2: tortillas and sausas and guac and caso, except you go

474
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 2: through you want to make taco, burritochilados, whatever you want.

475
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,120
Speaker 2: It's like build your own Chipotle. It's incredible.

476
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 3: It's ok.

477
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 2: It's number one.

478
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's hard to be a close.

479
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 2: Number two was Carolina.

480
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: You're not gonna go like with the halftime stuff too,

481
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 3: because halftimes different. If something stands.

482
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 2: Out stands out, so like in La it's the enchiladas

483
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 2: at halftime. I'm pretty sure that is the halftime and

484
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 2: like a salad bar, which is really nice to do.

485
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually the halftime isn't as good as.

486
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: The Usually the halftime isn't as good.

487
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 3: But something it can be.

488
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 2: Pizza, can be hot dogs, it can be soft pretzels.

489
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: Look at something else in Philly. It's soft pretzels at halftime.

490
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 2: But they're like the good homemade Philly soft pretzels. They're delicious.

491
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 2: Like I like, save room for halftime because you want

492
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: some of those soft pretzels.

493
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Speaker 3: I don't know about you. When I was new to this,

494
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 3: I was actually kind of shocked that something else came

495
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 3: out at halftime, Like who's still.

496
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 2: You're still hungry?

497
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 5: That is?

498
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: It's amazing how much food.

499
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: An hour and a half ago. I just stuffed my face.

500
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 2: Carolina number two amazing barbecue spread, pull brisket, Carolina barbecue

501
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 2: in the preseason. And the Detroits is really good too.

502
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 2: I'll get to them in a second. But what gave

503
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 2: Carolina the edge at number two is two things that

504
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 2: really appeal to my heart. Carolina has a self serve,

505
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 2: soft serve station.

506
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 3: I've told you the Browns I hit that way too.

507
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 2: So at any time in Carolina, from the minute you

508
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 2: get to the minute you leave, you can go over

509
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: to the Soft Serve and then you and then you

510
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 2: go to the table and there's reeses and every topping

511
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 2: you can add. Unbelievable and Matt this is a personal

512
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 2: West thing. But they also have Blue Power Aid on

513
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 2: their fountain drink system there in Carolina.

514
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 3: How you'd like that?

515
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 2: And when you catch Wes a day after he's had

516
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 2: a few.

517
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 3: Beers, Yeah, night before you went out, night.

518
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 2: Before on the road we go out. Blue Powerade is

519
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: my that's my That's my healing elixir the day after

520
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 2: a night out. So those all you want, the Soft Serve,

521
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 2: self serve and the Blue Poweraid. Bottomless, I would definitely

522
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 2: hit the serve, put that at number two, but then

523
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: number three. The final one in the elite tier is Detroit.

524
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Speaker 5: Uh.

525
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 2: It was also barbecue. It was unbelievable. Amazing Lake Michigan,

526
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: same here I was. I was pleasantly surprised, though. Amazing

527
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 2: pulled chicken, some of the best I've ever had in

528
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 2: my life, really good pulled pork, which I'm very particular

529
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 2: on because I think I do amazing pulled pork myself

530
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: on my smoker And they had just some of the

531
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Speaker 2: best mac and che I've had great sides, great corn bread. Detroit.

532
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: Number three in the last one in the elite tier.

533
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 2: Now on to the really good tier.

534
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 3: TV wouldn't have brought me that sandwich. I'd be starving

535
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 3: right now.

536
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: Elevating now into the Weden's dinner. Can we get that

537
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: General sos and spaghetti a year right now? Now into

538
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 2: the second tier, the really good tier. Number four. Surprisingly,

539
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: they upgraded big time this year. It's the Cleveland Browns.

540
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 2: When I used to when I used to do this

541
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 2: exercise every year with motes in the past, they would

542
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 2: be towards the bottom. This year they were outstanding.

543
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 3: They had an back in my day, I don't remember

544
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 3: them being great.

545
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 2: They had an Omelet bar, fun like go up, make

546
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Speaker 2: your own omelet anything.

547
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Speaker 3: They had some people get there pretty early, like.

548
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 2: You exactly when you get there at nine in the morning.

549
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 2: That's money.

550
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

551
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: Omelet Bar, their signature broughts that they do with this

552
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 2: homemade mustard that is it's like the best mustard I've

553
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 2: ever had in my life.

554
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 3: Stadium mustard.

555
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would.

556
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 3: It's the best thing I ever I always have in

557
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 3: my fridge. That's the number one. You can get it

558
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 3: like a giant eagle, can you. Yeah, it's like tucked

559
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 3: away and there's it's unbelievable. I've gotten it on Amazon.

560
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 3: I always have Stadium Mustard at my house and it's

561
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 3: the best thing that came from my year in Cleveland.

562
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

563
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 3: I've had it on dogs and brods and cassi.

564
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: And yeah, really good brisket, a really good salad bar,

565
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 2: full ice cream bar. Spread. Cleveland bar is nice. Cleveland

566
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: maybe should be up in the elite tier to the

567
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 2: number four five New England. Not a crazy amount of

568
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: spread like some of these other places, but Matt ten

569
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 2: out of ten clam chowder, and that's that'sood. That's enough

570
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 2: to put them at number five.

571
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, they're not giving you a full lobster.

572
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 2: They had these bottomless pits of New England clam chowder.

573
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 2: I had five bowlers. I mean it was it was

574
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: ten out of ten clam chowder.

575
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 3: It was outside on any side. I'm just gonna eat

576
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: that the whole time.

577
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 6: There.

578
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: Number five, the number six, the.

579
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 3: New England clam chowder. Obviously the white one.

580
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: The white the real stuff, not that Manhattan sense. Last

581
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 2: of the really good tier and six overall Baltimore, you

582
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: would love. They've got the best coffee drink selection in

583
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 2: the league.

584
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 3: I remember you saying, there's one of these places has

585
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 3: like this awesome drink machine where you can.

586
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: Be like anything in the world you could imagine from

587
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: a coffee hydration, electrolyte, caffeine standpoint is that you can

588
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: get any type of coffee, Americano, espresso, latte, you name it. Yeah, yeah,

589
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: you can get any water flavored water, you can have

590
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 2: them add electrolytes to it. At like, it's just it's

591
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 2: unbelievable there.

592
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: I remember we talked about this on the app on

593
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 3: the air after you came back from Baltimore, and I

594
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 3: was like, that sounds.

595
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: Incredible, incredible, And they had a Cereal bar this year,

596
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: which that's.

597
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 3: Kind of fun.

598
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: It's kind of fun. I was like, this is different.

599
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 3: It sounds like cheapy, you know, bowl of milk with

600
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 3: but it was special k or whatever Cereal.

601
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 2: I was like, this is great.

602
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 3: If it's right in front of me, I'm like, yeah,

603
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 3: I'll fill up a ball or whatever.

604
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: And they have like an ongoing popcorn machine in Baltimore

605
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 2: that makes fresh popcorn. The whole game, and it's so

606
00:27:58,800 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: it's very good.

607
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 3: Every one should have that.

608
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 2: Everyone should have Every bar should have that too, every

609
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: single That's why we love Latrobe, that every bar has popcorn.

610
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: It's our one beef with sharkis we still love you?

611
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 3: COVID did a number on popcorn machines.

612
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That actually makes a lot of sense,

613
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: kind of like water fountains. So Baltimore the last of

614
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: the really good tier. They come in at number six,

615
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 2: then the fine okay tier, not not great, not not terrible.

616
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 3: Uh.

617
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: New York Met Life, it was like, so some of these, again,

618
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 2: it depends if it's a one o'clock game.

619
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 3: If it's a night game, sure, I'm sure Monday night's there.

620
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 2: But for the one o'clock games, like, it's nice when

621
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 2: they have breakfast and lunch options. New York, New York

622
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: at Met Life, for that one o'clock season opener, it

623
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: was all breakfast, which breakfast is a little rare, which

624
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 2: is not the worst thing in the world. It's fine, right,

625
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 2: but it's also.

626
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 3: Like, well, you got there at nine, and I'm hungry

627
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 3: again for twelve hours.

628
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: It's like when I go back at twelve thirty and

629
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 2: it's still eggs and bacon and sausage. Yeah, so fine, fine,

630
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: Like I'm not complaining, but it wasn't great. Jacksonville at

631
00:28:59,480 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: number eight.

632
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: He can't screw up breakfast. I'm sure it's great. When

633
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: you're going to move.

634
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 2: Eggs and sausage and toast, it's fine. Jacksonville at number eight.

635
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: Speaking of your fusion, it was like a text Mex,

636
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 2: like a Florida Mex, which typically is really good. But

637
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: for some reason, it was like it was all slightly overcooked.

638
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 3: It was all maybe I just.

639
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: Got him on a bad day, because when we were

640
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: in Jacksonville like two or three years ago for that

641
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: preseason game, they were towards the top of my list

642
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: that year, so I might have just got him on

643
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: a bad day, right spread. It was just everything was

644
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 2: a little dry, a little overcooked. It was their first

645
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: preseason game of the year. Maybe they were just knocking

646
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: off the rust. But but there at number eight. Number

647
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: nine is Cincinnati. It's like it's like Skyline chilis like

648
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,719
Speaker 2: Skyline chili dogs and mac and cheese. Again, it's fine, fine,

649
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: but it's just hot dogs and chili. It's fine. That's

650
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: number nine. And then the last tier, I called the

651
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 2: call John taffer Tier and that's Chicago and Dublin. And

652
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: that's because it was really just a lifeless. In Chicago,

653
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: we had nothing.

654
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 3: Was non existent. Basically both of.

655
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Speaker 2: These were in Chicago. We had nothing except for somebody

656
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: came into our broadcast booth at halftime with a box

657
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: of like cold, lifeless ham sandwiches with like lettucetce and

658
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: like a little pack of a mayonnaise, and you could

659
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: tell it was very pre made and the bread was

660
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: stale and soggy. It was like two pieces of ham

661
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Speaker 2: and one slice of American cheese and one slice.

662
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Speaker 3: Of the best ham out there either.

663
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Speaker 2: And same thing with Dublin. We got, you know, lifeless

664
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Speaker 2: sandwich post game and a little tiny bag and there

665
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: was there was no food pregame or halftime or anything.

666
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Speaker 2: In Dublin.

667
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Speaker 3: Say there's not a press box. There's not a press them.

668
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Speaker 2: At the end of the game, they came around and

669
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: just tossed us all a bunch of sandwiches, and.

670
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Speaker 3: Rob and I with Rob before the game is they

671
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Speaker 3: gave us tickets and we'd go out and we got

672
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Speaker 3: like burgers or hot dogs that they were grilling, you know,

673
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Speaker 3: for the fo We just stoodn't line with the fans,

674
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 3: and they gave us like these three tickets. Actually they

675
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Speaker 3: didn't give us tickets and were it's like they're like,

676
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 3: you can have them for free.

677
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 2: I was able to talk my way into some bangers

678
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: and mash from the uh yeah yeah, from the concession

679
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: stand because I needed something.

680
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 3: I was starving and it wasn't great, and it wasn't

681
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 3: great some of.

682
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Speaker 2: Those things, some of those things about the food and

683
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: some of those European areas.

684
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 3: Can't remember. Sure I got there. I'm like, what do

685
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 3: you mean there's stow food. I'm starving already, exactly right.

686
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: There's not even like a candy bar around or anything.

687
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: So there's your Best of the West food Power rankings

688
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty five season.

689
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 3: Okay, you sold them well.

690
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: La Carolina, Detroit, very well done. Cleveland. Catch him might

691
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 2: ing what you're doing, because again, like two or three

692
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: years ago, they were I think two or three on

693
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Speaker 2: my list, So maybe we just caught them on a

694
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: bad day. Everybody can have a bad day from time

695
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: to time.

696
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: So if you're like, if you did this for the Bengals,

697
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: you get the same thing every time.

698
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: Hmm yeah, not great, not great, not great at least.

699
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 2: I mean like you just you just plan to eat

700
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: before you get there.

701
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like them. I'm sick of these all right, right.

702
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: The one thing I will give Cincinnati is Condado Tacos,

703
00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: which there's a couple of them in the Pittsburgh area.

704
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: There really good that originated in Cincinnati. That's always their

705
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: postgame meal. So it's like it's like, grab all the

706
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: tacos you want, you know, chicken rice balls, which is

707
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: really good. But I will get so Cincinnati's like I'll

708
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: have a skyline dog or two and then I'll just

709
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: wait to get on the bus.

710
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 3: And you'll have once a year you'll talk twelve game

711
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 3: correct season.

712
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Speaker 2: Let's get back into the coaching carousel when we return

713
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: on the other side with Chris Halleck. He will join

714
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 2: us with all the latest. We'll do that when we return,

715
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Speaker 2: Yu'ler Williamson, it's the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network,

716
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Speaker 2: your tuns.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

718
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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Back on the drive here into the phone lines, we

720
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Speaker 2: go to talk to our buddy Chris Halleck. He's become

721
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Speaker 2: a regular here on our programming throughout the season, of

722
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Speaker 2: course covers the Steelers for dk Pittsburgh Sports. Chris pretty

723
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,959
Speaker 2: wild week plus here since the Steelers regular season end,

724
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: did a lot that we want to get into with you.

725
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: But I want to start actually with just your thoughts

726
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: on Andy Widel interviewing for the Falcons vacant GM job

727
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: and how much of a loss you know that would

728
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: be for the Steelers to lose a guy like that

729
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 2: in the organization right in the middle of kind of

730
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 2: the combine and the draft and the free agency process.

731
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Speaker 6: Oh man, that that would be.

732
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Speaker 5: I mean, Mike Comlin is a is a significant loss

733
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 5: just because you have to hire a new coach. But

734
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Speaker 5: when you talk about the next most impactful guy to lose,

735
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 5: maybe outside of Omar Kahan, Andy is right there. And

736
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Speaker 5: there are some valuable position coaches by the way that

737
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Speaker 5: I would put up there that man who would really

738
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 5: like he would suck for.

739
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Speaker 6: The Steelers if they if they left.

740
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Speaker 5: But Andy is like he puts the draft board together,

741
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: like he he is a charge of that. This is

742
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 5: kind of the time of year where Andrew Widel shines.

743
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 5: And to use him right as you're.

744
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 6: Getting ready to go into.

745
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 5: Like the Senior Bowlers next week, the combine will be

746
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 5: here before we know it. It would be a It

747
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 5: would be not just a big loss, but also right

748
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 5: when you're getting ready to go into the draft and

749
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Speaker 5: go in with a new head coach who's gonna bring

750
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 5: his own vision for like his own philosophy for how

751
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 5: the roster is going to be constructed, how the team's

752
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 5: gonna play. Yeah, it would be. It would be a

753
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 5: significant loss. But at the same time, if it were

754
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 5: to happen, if you at least do have like this

755
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 5: new coach coming in and he might have a new,

756
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,240
Speaker 5: fresh perspective, and it might help if he has somebody new.

757
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Speaker 6: In that role.

758
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, as well said, and we were talking about in

759
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 3: the first segment, said something along the lines of Andy's

760
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 3: probably going to be a GM someday. It's probably a

761
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 3: matter of when, not if. For Steelers perspective, you hope

762
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 3: it's later than sooner. For his perspective, you hope, but

763
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 3: sooner than later. I'm rooting for him. But he brought

764
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 3: up a good point though about the new coaching staff too,

765
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 3: so Andy included, but also all the scouts, Like I

766
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: went through with this in my year in Cleveland. When

767
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 3: there's a coaching change, a lot of the work you

768
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: did isn't useless, but it's not the same, you know,

769
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Speaker 3: Like Butch Davis, who I worked for, ran a very

770
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: strict four to three stack, you know, like the U.

771
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Speaker 3: You know, they had great athletes, where Romeo Carnell took

772
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Speaker 3: over and we basically threw all that stuff away. We're

773
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Speaker 3: playing a three to four. We want Will Fork and Seymour,

774
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Speaker 3: you know. So there's a lot of change here that

775
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Speaker 3: I hadn't really dug into until you brought that up.

776
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, either way, whether they hire an offensive coach

778
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 5: or defensive coach, you know, whatever it is, they are

779
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 5: going to bring their own philosophy.

780
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 3: And especially if.

781
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 5: It is if they continue to go with the molds

782
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 5: that they've gone with with Chuck Noll and Bill Kwer

783
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 5: and Mike Tomlin, it would then be a defensive coach

784
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 5: in his thirties with previous head coach experience, which means

785
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 5: a different perspective on that side of the ball, which,

786
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 5: like you said, like what happens so the three four

787
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 5: get completely thrown out? Do they go to a four

788
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 5: to three? Do they go to a situation, where is

789
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 5: it going to be now predominantly two high cover four match.

790
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 5: You know, whatever it is, it's going to be different.

791
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 5: And so if there's a time to have a shakeup

792
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 5: in the front office, it's when you're changing your head coach,

793
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 5: because the head coach ultimately has a lot more power

794
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 5: in the NFL than any head coach or manager in

795
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 5: other sports.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a lot to chew on at this point. Certainly,

797
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 2: it's just as you.

798
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 3: Need a right fielder, yeah, you know you need to

799
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 3: and this linebacker needs to be able to do this,

800
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 3: this and that, you know, right.

801
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 2: Key, key pillar of the organization. Absolutely, and Chris obviously

802
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: this is all going on while the Steelers are looking

803
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: for a head coach. There continues to seem to be

804
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: more and more momentum, more and more kind of you know,

805
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: where there's smoke, there's fire around Mike McCarthy, who will

806
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: have a formal interview I think it is today. Actually,

807
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 2: what's your kind of you know, your heat check, your

808
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: pulse of that. Does Mike McCarthy really feel like he's

809
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: a viable candidate? Is he kind of on that short

810
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: list of guys that you would say have a real

811
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 2: shot of landing this job.

812
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: And Chris, if he were to land a job, what

813
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: would your thoughts be on him?

814
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 5: Well, my initial thoughts on him are, he is the

815
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 5: antithesis of what they would normally hire. Right, Seuck, Noel,

816
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 5: Bill Kawer, Mike Tommins were all hired in their thirties.

817
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 5: They're all defensive coaches, and all of them had no

818
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 5: previous NFL head coach experience. Mike McCarthy is an offensive coach.

819
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 5: He's sixty two years old, and he has eighteen seasons.

820
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 6: Of experience as an NFL head coach.

821
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he is the exact opposite of the mold that

822
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 5: they've had for last fifty seven seasons. So I think

823
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 5: that would be a drastic change. My reservation on it

824
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 5: is I feel like it would be a little short sighted,

825
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 5: especially if it came with a reunion with Aaron Rodgers.

826
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 5: Now I'm not saying that they shouldn't try to bring

827
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 5: back Aaron Rodgers, but I know for a fact that Omar,

828
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 5: for a long time, predating this head coaching surgeon, has

829
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 5: made a long term option at quarterback a priority, a

830
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 5: top priority for the organization. To me, that has to

831
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 5: become the priority right now. Now. You might not get

832
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 5: that guy right now, like you might not be able

833
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 5: to draft that guy in the first round, but you

834
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 5: have to start putting the plan in place for how

835
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 5: that guy is eventually going to be chosen, whether it's

836
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 5: there's a draft acquired via trade whatever it is, or

837
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 5: signed via free agency, whatever it is. I don't know

838
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 5: that Mike McCarthy is going to be that guy now.

839
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 5: I understand that there's some reports out there saying that

840
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 5: there's that he's a strong candidate and all this stuff.

841
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 5: I also am wary of where those reports come from

842
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,479
Speaker 5: and how those reports are usually fed, and they're usually

843
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 5: been through agents, and so I you know, it could

844
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 5: just be Michae McCarthy's the agent really puffing him up.

845
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't feel like it's going to

846
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 5: be the move that they make. I just don't now.

847
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 5: I could be wrong on this. I just don't feel like.

848
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 5: I felt more along the lines of Chris Shula, Anthony Weaver,

849
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 5: something along those lines, maybe even Brian Flores. I just

850
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: don't think McCarthy is going to be that guy. And

851
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 5: if he is, what's the plan moving forward?

852
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: Because I highly doubt that he would coach the next

853
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 4: nineteen seasons if he is the next head coach, I

854
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 4: feel like it's a little short sighted.

855
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's a little crazy. I'm

856
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: not giving you a hard time, but like, does everyone

857
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: really expect the next guy to coach for two decades?

858
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 3: Like I just think that that shouldn't even be in

859
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 3: the parameters because it just doesn't happen in the league,

860
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 3: although it has happened here three times.

861
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 5: I get it, well, I understand, like when when you

862
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 5: look at the situations with with with what Bill Coward

863
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 5: inherited and with what Mike Comlin inherited. More so with

864
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin's success was expected pretty quickly, especially like I said,

865
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Speaker 5: especially with Tomlin he was inheriting Ben Roethlisberger in a

866
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 5: defense that was two years removed from winning a Super Bowl. Liked,

867
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Speaker 5: the expectations were pretty high right away. Not so much

868
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 5: with Bill Cower because he didn't have that quarterback right away,

869
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 5: and and so on and so forth. But I I

870
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 5: understand that. But what I want to see, I guess

871
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 5: from the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Is Listen, We've talked.

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Speaker 5: About it on this show, and I know Matt, Matt

874
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Speaker 5: and I have talked about this elsewhere. There needs to

875
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 5: be a refreshment in terms of in terms of how

876
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 5: the Steelers operate, both on and off the field. More

877
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 5: so on the field. I feel like the ex's and

878
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 5: o's have been a little bit behind, a little bit

879
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 5: lacking in terms of league trends and stuff like that,

880
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 5: and I feel like a younger head coach would be

881
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 5: able to bring a fresh perspective there. I don't know

882
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 5: what McCarthy would bring. It's not like.

883
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Speaker 4: He's like Kurt Signetti's sixty.

884
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Speaker 5: Four years old, but his approach, not just in Indiana

885
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Speaker 5: but a James Madison another stops, has been very very

886
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Speaker 5: new school. I don't get that McCarthy would be a

887
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Speaker 5: new school type guy if he were the higher That's

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Speaker 5: just kind of my perspective on it. And I'd be

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm I know this that if they hire McCarthy,

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Speaker 5: I am very curious to see, Like I'll be very

891
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 5: I'm always tuned in when I'm on the job, but

892
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Speaker 5: I'll probably be even more tuned in as like as

893
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Speaker 5: much as I possibly can, like maybe even like an

894
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Speaker 5: override a little bit to see everything that he has

895
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 5: to say in that introductory Props conference, because I would

896
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 5: want to know what the future of the organization would be,

897
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Speaker 5: because after the head coach is hired, the next priority

898
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 5: has to be getting that long term franchise quarterback, because

899
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Speaker 5: you're not going to.

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Speaker 6: Win if you don't have one.

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Speaker 3: You would hope he would then in turn hire a

902
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Speaker 3: young staff, or at least mostly a young staff.

903
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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, that's that's what I would I would think. Now,

904
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Speaker 5: I don't know what all is going to be out there.

905
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Speaker 5: You could, you could try to lure a Nate Shieldhouse

906
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Speaker 5: away from the Rams, but I don't know if that'll happen,

907
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Speaker 5: you know, if he's not going to be taken ahead

908
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 5: coach position. Kyle Shanahan's already said he's not gonna let

909
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Speaker 5: somebody else hire Klay Kubiak to be an offensive coordinator,

910
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Speaker 5: Like the only move, the only time he's gonna let

911
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 5: him leave is if he's taking it like taking out

912
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Speaker 5: promotion ahead coach position. So I don't know what what

913
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Speaker 5: the staff would even look.

914
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Speaker 6: Like on her.

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Speaker 2: Chris, last one I've got for you, buddy. We're gonna

916
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Speaker 2: spend the next hour of the show talking fifth year

917
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Speaker 2: options around the National Football League, and we'll Obviously we'll

918
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Speaker 2: cover all thirty two, but we're gonna spend the most

919
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 2: time on Broderick Jones. That decision is coming down the

920
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: pipeline for the Steelers. What would you do with Broderick

921
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Speaker 2: Jones's fifth year option.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how you can pick it up up

923
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 5: with with with with his play over the first three seasons.

924
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Speaker 5: Now he's coming off of a neck injury that that

925
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Speaker 5: ended his season. Like sometimes these stinger injuries and I'm

926
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Speaker 5: not saying that like I don't like, I'm not saying

927
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Speaker 5: I know anything when it comes to the nature of

928
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Speaker 5: the injury or anything like that. But we've seen guys

929
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Speaker 5: not be able to play again after this, So not

930
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Speaker 5: only the quality of play and inconsistency there, but then

931
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Speaker 5: also on top of that, like I want to make

932
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Speaker 5: sure the neck is okay before anything, and if there's

933
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Speaker 5: any kind of vestation on that at all, Like there's

934
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Speaker 5: no way because it's not just the fact that you're

935
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Speaker 5: committing another year, but it's how expensive that fifty year

936
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Speaker 5: option is an offensive liman and that's you're talking twenty

937
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Speaker 5: plus million dollars, Like that's that's outrageously expensive. When you're

938
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Speaker 5: gonna have Dylan Cook still on the roster on a

939
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Speaker 5: dime like making barely over a million dollars, So I

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Speaker 5: don't know how you can pick.

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Speaker 6: Up the here out.

942
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Speaker 2: Great stuff, great conversation as always with our buddy, Chris

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Speaker 2: Halleck of dk Pittsburgh Sports. Chris, buddy, thank you for

944
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Speaker 2: taking the time. Good luck in this crazy coaching carousel

945
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Speaker 2: world with all your coverage, and we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 6: All right, thanks for having me, guys, I appreciate it.

947
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Speaker 2: There, he goes. I tell you what, all of our

948
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Speaker 2: friends in that realm hallick a damn ski, I do

949
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Speaker 2: not envy them these couple weeks. No, it's like my

950
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Speaker 2: wife is already getting sick of me checking my phone

951
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 2: every thirty seconds. And if I was actually a reporter,

952
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 2: it's constant. You can never unplug from it until it's done.

953
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Speaker 3: Like your chefter.

954
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I God bless those guys.

955
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Speaker 3: Yeah. If you're just always on call, basically.

956
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 2: You are like an er doctor, just always just always

957
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Speaker 2: on call. Else can never fully relax. Hour of the

958
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Speaker 2: books another hour ago. We will jump into those fifth

959
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Speaker 2: year options for the twenty twenty three NFL Draft class

960
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Speaker 2: in hour number two and obviously plenty of Broderick Jones

961
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Speaker 2: conversation to follow. We'll do all that and more when

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Speaker 2: we return half way home here on a Wednesday, West Yueler,

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

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network