Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lilly. He is Matt Williamson, and it is
Speaker 1: time for mock draft Monday madness, and we will get
Speaker 1: through a mock draft here today. This will be our
Speaker 1: own mock draft. We won't be talking about somebody else's.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna start this for using the NFL
Speaker 1: mock draft database today. Matt. Okay, so this is a
Speaker 1: new one. So we'll see what they turn up here,
Speaker 1: see if this one is any good. Um, I've been hit.
Speaker 1: I've tried this on a few times and been a
Speaker 1: little hit and miss at times in terms of guys
Speaker 1: who are still available in the Steelers picking, Like there's
Speaker 1: no way that guy is gonna be available, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so in this instance, Anthony Richardson is still available. Okay,
Speaker 1: there could happen possibility on this one. Uh yeah, so
Speaker 1: you got Michael Mayer. There are trades. Michael Mayor is
Speaker 1: also available, Jackson Smith and Gigba, Brian Breesy, Roderick Jones,
Speaker 1: Cam Smith, Kaylee Ringo, Lucas van ness O, Cyrus Torrence
Speaker 1: Trent and Simpson, Jamir Gibbs, Clark Phillips, Jalen Hyatt, Isaiah Fosky,
Speaker 1: Drew Sanders, A Flowers, Nolan Smith, Anton Harrison. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go any farther down than that. Anybody jumping out
Speaker 1: there on you and that one, well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how realistic the software is or the site is,
Speaker 1: but I think people would be calling for Richardson right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's after him. It's just such a big
Speaker 1: gap I have. Yeah, I'm with you. I think that
Speaker 1: they could definitely get at this point something for Richardson. Now.
Speaker 1: We could look at that and say, you can offer
Speaker 1: trades on this one. Okay that they don't want to
Speaker 1: say five teams are offering us to trade. They don't
Speaker 1: do it that way. No, Actually, I think they might left.
Speaker 1: You might just last week. I don't know, the left
Speaker 1: tackles a glaring, glaring need. But the names you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Jones from Georgia is my favorite. Here's my theory on this, Matt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers feel comfortable with the offensive line
Speaker 1: that they have built. I feel like they feel they
Speaker 1: think that these guys are all young, getting better playing
Speaker 1: together playing together. Um, I think if they take an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman or two in this draft, it's going to
Speaker 1: be in the middle rounds, not at the top of
Speaker 1: the draft, unless there's just somebody there that they just
Speaker 1: can't possibly overlook pass up. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: Roderick Jones is somebody look and go, oh, that's that's
Speaker 1: our starting left tackle for the next fifteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. And he may not even
Speaker 1: start Week one, right, you know what I mean? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm up for offering deals though, because the group
Speaker 1: that was sitting there did not make me do cart wheels,
Speaker 1: and I think somebody would want Richardson. Say so, the
Speaker 1: teams behind us are Detroit, can Umpa, Seattle, the Chargers,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens of the group, I think Tampa or
Speaker 1: Seattle looking to trade up for a quarterback. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get I'm gonna got on the phone. Here are myself,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give Tampa a call. All Right, they
Speaker 1: got nineteen fifty two, they got a bunch of picks.
Speaker 1: What if what if we let them keep their second?
Speaker 1: Right we take nineteen. I wouldn't mind picking up something
Speaker 1: in that You know that that one to one six
Speaker 1: range where they have four picks, I wouldn't mind picking
Speaker 1: up two picks there, like if you've got two and
Speaker 1: one of those they're saying right now, that's too much. Okay,
Speaker 1: even the cheapest of those picks in that everyone, let
Speaker 1: me see you're so nineteen. We're gonna throw in our
Speaker 1: always throw in our last big Yeah, we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: into forty three. We're gonna ask for eighty two. They
Speaker 1: would do one, nineteen, they would do nineteen and eight, two, four, seventeen,
Speaker 1: and to forty three. I guess only moving down to spots,
Speaker 1: only moving down two spots. So if we pick up
Speaker 1: a third for a seventh, yeah, man, that's good value.
Speaker 1: I mean we're getting reading two potential starters. We're only
Speaker 1: moving down two spots. Yeah. I'm in on that too.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. And we're moving on further than that.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. So we moved down to spots. Roderick
Speaker 1: Jones is still available. Okay, what are the other names though?
Speaker 1: Um you got on the list or the best corner
Speaker 1: in the LISTA is camp Smith or Kaylee Ringo. I
Speaker 1: think I'll take Smith over Ringo. Let me look, let
Speaker 1: me look at see what other corners are available. Here
Speaker 1: might be So you got Cam Smith, Kayley Ringo, Clark Phillips,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes, Deante Banks, Tyreek Stevenson, Julius Brentce, Cat You Blue, Kelly,
Speaker 1: DJ Turner, Eli Ricks or the corner is still available.
Speaker 1: Not a bad group, but they're gonna go quick. A linebacker,
Speaker 1: Trent Simpsons, Drew Sanders still available. Sanders is an interesting guy.
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna tease this and we both did
Speaker 1: it and along with Mike Purseudo did mocks and I
Speaker 1: left him out of the first round and I kind
Speaker 1: of regret it. He kind of reminds me of He's
Speaker 1: not Michael Parsons, but he's no one is. But he's
Speaker 1: kind of that Timmins Parsons, big guy that can come
Speaker 1: off the edge too, and there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that he does. Yeah, he's expected to run sub four four. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've already foolishly have just assumed they're going
Speaker 1: to sign a linebacker and never had a linebacker is
Speaker 1: one of my targets. But we don't know that. I
Speaker 1: mean it's February, you know. I mean, he's a good player.
Speaker 1: At a probably the biggest need as it stands right now,
Speaker 1: I would I would say it is. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that and maybe a safety, you know, depending again that
Speaker 1: they don't sign anybody, which I expect that to happen,
Speaker 1: but I think it's cheaper to sign safeties into his linebackers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you line up and say, okay, this guy's uh,
Speaker 1: we take Trent Simpson here and we when we line
Speaker 1: them up next to Miles Jack. Yeah, and then maybe
Speaker 1: next year is the year that you know Jack has
Speaker 1: gone and you go with the two young guys or
Speaker 1: something like. I think Simpsons is extremely intriguing. I think
Speaker 1: I might prefer Sanders though. Well there's that too. I
Speaker 1: mean they're both they're both good players, right, they're both
Speaker 1: Camp's best. Intriguing too. I mean his first round corners
Speaker 1: a nice situation. We've never gone linebacker though, that corner,
Speaker 1: that corner spot is deeper though. Yeah, and we picked
Speaker 1: up an extra pick. What else? What else do we? Uh?
Speaker 1: If we're looking here, because I really think the Steelers
Speaker 1: first round pick is going to be a defensive player.
Speaker 1: M I just think that's where they're that's where they're
Speaker 1: they're leaning towards um. That's where the biggest need is
Speaker 1: at defensive lineman. Too early for any of those guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: if they were an edge he got van Ness there,
Speaker 1: but he's not a full time player. Foskey is there,
Speaker 1: Nolan Smith is available, key On White is available, Derek
Speaker 1: Calls available. They're all fine. I just don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's that's not the glaring need that you know. The
Speaker 1: two spots are either like I think that. I think
Speaker 1: there's basically two linebackers in this draft that are immediate starters.
Speaker 1: And that's fine. I prefer Sanders just because of the size.
Speaker 1: We could take Sanders. That's fine, all right, we moved back,
Speaker 1: we got something and we take Drew Sanders. We've gotta
Speaker 1: be plus for that. By the way, we got a
Speaker 1: third round picking them, and we got a third round
Speaker 1: pick ev and now we picking in at thirty two.
Speaker 1: We did get a trade offer for thirty two. The
Speaker 1: Jaguars are on the phone. They're offering fifty pick, a
Speaker 1: fourth round pick, which is first round pick and round pick.
Speaker 1: This is the beauty of having that thirty second pick.
Speaker 1: Somebody is going to be on the phone with you
Speaker 1: Friday night, Saturday morning, making you all kinds of offers.
Speaker 1: I mean, a future first is wonderful. Who's on the
Speaker 1: board that we love though, Well, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at it. I'm gonna close that for now here. And alright,
Speaker 1: so Cam Smith is still available. That's a home run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a home run. Yeah. Uh could
Speaker 1: be pretty late too, yeah, also available as Anton Harrison, Um,
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones, all the tight ends basically not named. So
Speaker 1: you must Grave and and and those guys. But I
Speaker 1: think you, I think you take Cam Smith here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for the offer, Jack. That one got an A
Speaker 1: plus grade. Yea, if we if we have flip flop
Speaker 1: those we have been. We're back up at forty nine
Speaker 1: and we have three trade offers, Matt, all right. The
Speaker 1: Bills are on the phone. They're offering one that's way
Speaker 1: too low and the second rounder, which again is probably
Speaker 1: going to be pretty low. The Bears are offering a
Speaker 1: fourth round pick, first round pick, round pick, and a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick for two nine. Yes, I knew you would.
Speaker 1: I knew you would say that. The Colts are on
Speaker 1: the phone as well. They're offering three seventy nine by
Speaker 1: their fifth round pick this year and a twenty two
Speaker 1: first round pick for They have a chance to be
Speaker 1: pretty bad too, they do. I think the Bears will
Speaker 1: be worse than the Colts though, But we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna give up. We're moving back a hundred spots in
Speaker 1: this draft. Oh, I get it, moving back for the
Speaker 1: third first round pick. We're moving back thirty spots for
Speaker 1: the Colt's first round pick. I just think, I just
Speaker 1: think for the sake of of good radio, we reject
Speaker 1: those offers and make the pick. Okay, that's one of
Speaker 1: my faults for good radio. Part is if you're gonna
Speaker 1: give me future first, I'm just gonna say yes and
Speaker 1: yes and yes. Well yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 1: We're oh hey, we we came out of this with
Speaker 1: the with the Bears first, third, and six round picks
Speaker 1: next year. Okay, but that doesn't that doesn't fill our
Speaker 1: radio time here. We're not taking any players and talking
Speaker 1: about them. We got someone in the fourth round is
Speaker 1: all we brought in this year. Realistically, if somebody called
Speaker 1: you up and offered you a US round pick for
Speaker 1: your second round pick this year, you probably take it,
Speaker 1: Especially a bad team like the Colts are. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Okay, so we're back up here. Let's
Speaker 1: make another rule though. Okay, we already traded down. I mean,
Speaker 1: the chances of a team trading down more than once
Speaker 1: in a draft is probably pretty slim unless you're the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Unless you have Vikings. So most won more trade but
Speaker 1: maybe none. Yeah, I'm with you. That's what works alright.
Speaker 1: So the top player available here at nine, the top
Speaker 1: players Darnell Washington, Derek Hall, Mazie Smith, Noah Sewool. We're
Speaker 1: not taking another linebacker, k Sewn Butte, Cody Malchklijah Cancie,
Speaker 1: Deante banks Well McDonald, Devin A. Cane, Irvan Dexterandre Carter,
Speaker 1: Keian new Benton, Matthew bergeron. Um, that's what we're looking
Speaker 1: at here. See, I didn't have a problem taking a
Speaker 1: once you've made your first two picks and they're both
Speaker 1: defensive guys at fort nine, I wouldn't have a problem
Speaker 1: taking an offensive lineman. I wrote down three names. Okay,
Speaker 1: it might be a five position player, he might be none.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a little short armed. Cody Mush Yeah
Speaker 1: that here, the North dakost State. Yeah, yeah, um Washington,
Speaker 1: the tight end from Georgia. I mean, the Chiefs just
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl playing tons of twelve personnel and
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel. He's a rare dude. We have an extra pick.
Speaker 1: I know, it's kind of a luxury. McDonald the edge guy,
Speaker 1: is also a bit of a luxury, but we have
Speaker 1: the extra pick and he probably would have one of
Speaker 1: the highest grades. And Benton from Wisconsin the detackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like Derek Call a lot too. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be Stondald now I think about I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be available at fort nine.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think he goes in the first round somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he goes to the combine and runs a sub um,
Speaker 1: he might be the best player on board in terms
Speaker 1: of in my eyes, I think he is um. I like,
Speaker 1: I like the idea with Washington there, especially since we
Speaker 1: got you know, I do think that again, he's six
Speaker 1: seven and can block and can catch the football and stretch.
Speaker 1: Like you could just live him in twelve personnel, all right,
Speaker 1: that would be my my thought. You know, it's right.
Speaker 1: It really alleviates your receiver need. I can live with Miller, Austin,
Speaker 1: whomever is my third guy if he's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the field like fifteen snaps the game exactly exactly what
Speaker 1: Washington brings compared to Gentry is night and day, just
Speaker 1: in terms of weaponry, you know, the ability to affect
Speaker 1: the game. You would do it. Yeah, let's not like
Speaker 1: your whole call, but Washington me was would help more.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got an A for that pick. Wait
Speaker 1: does we got a B plus and A plus and
Speaker 1: a A. So I think we're getting an A in
Speaker 1: this draft thus far. A Uh, we're cruising down here.
Speaker 1: We got picks eight and eighty two. That's which is
Speaker 1: why we meet that trade. So we are back up here.
Speaker 1: The top players available. You're gonna love this. The top
Speaker 1: players available. Elijah Cancy, Will McDonald, Gervin Dexter, Tucker Craft,
Speaker 1: Henry two to, Chris Smith, safety at Georgia, Jack Campbell,
Speaker 1: the linebacker out of Iowa, Zach Harrison, the edge rusher
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State. Jacqueline roy uh defensive lineman out
Speaker 1: of l s U. He's an interesting guy we haven't
Speaker 1: talked a lot about yet. All right, big body, nose tackle,
Speaker 1: he fits them. Old um, you said, I'm gonna love this.
Speaker 1: I like the McDonald you know, still being there situation
Speaker 1: right here. You say a no lineman though, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: we can look and see what's there at the at
Speaker 1: the old line you're looking at, uh some kind of alignement.
Speaker 1: Jared Patterson out of Notre Dame, Andrew Vorhees out of USC.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the interior guys right now. Uh Ola,
Speaker 1: what Teamy in the center out of Michigan. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a top interior guys on the outside. You're looking at
Speaker 1: Nick Broker, Why, Wayne and Morris, Ryan Hayes, Jackson Kirkland's,
Speaker 1: Zion Nelson, Trevor Reachs. So that's that's dried up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, it has. We kind of missed a
Speaker 1: boat there. Um, I'm fine with Roy. We'll get another
Speaker 1: pick here in two pigs. I think I think you
Speaker 1: take McDonald here and hope that nobody takes Like there's
Speaker 1: one Detroit's up next. Were the chances that Detroit takes Roy?
Speaker 1: I think they might take McDonald do it? I mean
Speaker 1: we talked about him around ago, and we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about Roy around to go. Yeah, let's take him. It's
Speaker 1: a gift we got an ad for that one. Look
Speaker 1: at us UH defensive line, Jacqueline Roy is still there.
Speaker 1: Do we take him? Yeah? We didn't start worrying about
Speaker 1: offense here at some point, but all right, the rest
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, the rest of the draft
Speaker 1: can be offense. We still need a safety, but I
Speaker 1: think we address that. We got an a for taking
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Roy. So we got two picks left one and
Speaker 1: two thirty six, So these basically kind of have to
Speaker 1: be offensive. Flaman. I guess I think the next pec
Speaker 1: has to be a line. Yeah. I don't even look
Speaker 1: at the other stuff. Something you like and not do it.
Speaker 1: We did get another trade offer here for four one
Speaker 1: t the Chiefs. Well, this isn't realistic. The Chiefs are
Speaker 1: offering us for a fourth round pick. There are five
Speaker 1: seven to seven seven to first round draft pick and
Speaker 1: its twenty round back draft picks. That's not realistic. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals are offering UH second round draft pick and round
Speaker 1: draft pick. Yeah. I don't think that's where you're not
Speaker 1: getting a You're not getting a second round for a
Speaker 1: future second for a fourth round pick. But obviously there's
Speaker 1: somebody here that they like. We'll call Brooks is available. Um,
Speaker 1: I like Brooks, but we just took We just took it.
Speaker 1: We just took a notice tackle. Uh, interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: Jared Patterson still there, Andrew Voorhees still there? Ola what
Speaker 1: Teamy the center out of Michigan, Still there? Mhm. Bradford
Speaker 1: Anthony Bradford from l s U, Brandon Daniels from Utah
Speaker 1: umpeting done as some lower rated guys. Uh at offensive
Speaker 1: tackle you're looking at Nick Broker from Mississippi, Janya Morris
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma, Ryan Hayes from Michigan, Jackson Kirkland from Washington,
Speaker 1: Zion Nelson from Miami. Nelson and Kirkland have been on
Speaker 1: list forever. Yeah, I'd like to take a tackle here.
Speaker 1: I would too. I think if the tackle is a
Speaker 1: bigger need, you'd like to have a young tackle available.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the crop to pick one,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Well, let's take Jackson Kirkland then, Okay,
Speaker 1: I heard good things about his Shrine Bowl appearance. We
Speaker 1: gotta c plus for that pick. All right, now we
Speaker 1: need a tackle. Now we get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a wait here. So right now we've got Drew Sanders,
Speaker 1: Cam Smith, Darnell Washington, Will McDonald, Jacqueline Roy, and Jackson Kirkland. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know we have to go any direction here.
Speaker 1: We could probably just take best available, best available with
Speaker 1: this next one might even be a quarterback. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna you're gonna need a third quarterback right
Speaker 1: as you're taking off to the board here. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be again the the tough part of the Steelers draft.
Speaker 1: But if they made this, if they did what we
Speaker 1: did at this point, they ended up with a six
Speaker 1: of the top hunter twenty players that would have ended
Speaker 1: up Okay, Yeah, which you take that all down round
Speaker 1: now I'm warming up to the idea of trading back
Speaker 1: in the first round. All Right, we're back up again.
Speaker 1: Pop players available. Bryce Ford Wheaton, the wide receiver out
Speaker 1: of West Virginia, the Mario Douglas, the wide receiver out
Speaker 1: of Liberty, tie On Evans, the running back out of Louisville.
Speaker 1: Justin Shorter, wide receiver out of Florida. Brandon Daniels, the
Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman out of Utah, Michael Wilson, the wide
Speaker 1: receiver out of Stanford, Robert Beale Jr. And edge rusher
Speaker 1: out of Georgia. Mike Jones Jr. The linebacker from l
Speaker 1: s U. Jerome Carbon offensive tackle out of Tennessee. Cavon Merryweather,
Speaker 1: the safety out of Iowa. M Mars Shawn Ford, tight
Speaker 1: end from Louisville. Auprey Miller Jr. The linebacker out Jackson State.
Speaker 1: I know we took Drew Sanders. He was impressive, though,
Speaker 1: but I liked him a lot, a lot a lot.
Speaker 1: If I knew he was gonna be there, I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't taken Sanders in the first round. You know, I
Speaker 1: probably taken um This is kind of a shortcut and
Speaker 1: the highest graded dudes were. There were a couple of receivers,
Speaker 1: which I'd be fine with. I don't know much about
Speaker 1: Daniels the interior alignment, but he was like the third
Speaker 1: or fourth highest rank guy that you named off. I
Speaker 1: think grab grabbing a guard slash center here would make
Speaker 1: some sense. Brady Daniels. Yeah, Okay, grade isn't great on
Speaker 1: those guys in this neighborhood, but you know there's there's
Speaker 1: a need. There is a lot for him. If you know, Um,
Speaker 1: I I have tough time passed on Hubery Miller. I
Speaker 1: think at the very least you're getting a stud special
Speaker 1: teams guy. Yeah. I don't think it would really be
Speaker 1: there after the Senior Bowl week, but let's just take him.
Speaker 1: You'll take him. Yeah, same thing with Merryweather for that matter.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a good scene. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: could see, I could see. I mean, you could make
Speaker 1: this kind of like the two thousand seven draft when
Speaker 1: they took Lawrence Timmins and said, well, he might play
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker, and then they took Woodley with the
Speaker 1: next pick in the second round and said, Okay, Tim
Speaker 1: is gonna go inside, Woodley is gonna be outside. You
Speaker 1: can you can take Yeah. I mean you're you've you've
Speaker 1: increased your linebacker depth exponentially. Yeah. If one of these
Speaker 1: guys can bounce inside and outside, if he's not gonna
Speaker 1: play right now, if if Abur Miller is not going
Speaker 1: to play right away, say okay, Aubrey, we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna start you inside, then we're gonna put you outside
Speaker 1: and learn that as well. Well you're well you're a
Speaker 1: special team demon. Yeah, and fighting Mark Robinson really for
Speaker 1: that role, right, I know everybody's penciling Mark Robinson in
Speaker 1: for for like this huge role, and I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's not going to be the case. I mean,
Speaker 1: but we still haven't seen him go backwards yet. No, No,
Speaker 1: I would I look at him ideally as breaks or
Speaker 1: goes into camp as your three, right, you know, or
Speaker 1: fighting Spillane for the third spot, because you know what
Speaker 1: Spellane is, and you're hoping and hoping and hoping that
Speaker 1: he goes right past Baline in no time, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna pick Aubrey Miller here, just best player,
Speaker 1: best player available. We gotta b plus for Aubrey Miller
Speaker 1: there there, Like you told me in real life, you
Speaker 1: can get Aubrey Miller with his pick. Would you trade
Speaker 1: that pick for it? And I said, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Okay,
Speaker 1: So our draft, we got Drew Sanders, Cam Smith, Darnell
Speaker 1: Washington at remember we also traded back. We got Will
Speaker 1: McDonald at eighty, which is a steel, Jacqueline Roy at
Speaker 1: eighty two, that was a pick we traded for Jackson
Speaker 1: Kirkland at one twenty, and then Aubrey Miller at two
Speaker 1: thirty six. Um really defensive oriented obviously, but yeah, but
Speaker 1: we're really surprised him, no, And we really kind of
Speaker 1: beefed up our bench, beefed up our special teams. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'd be in the market for maybe bringing
Speaker 1: back Scott at tackle or Davis or you know, a
Speaker 1: veteran O lineman. I'd be on the phone with half
Speaker 1: of the draft probably. But then you can get those
Speaker 1: guys relatively cheaply. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: could probably get those two names will probably still be
Speaker 1: available after the draft. That's the other thing we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about yet. Matt, and I know this is mock draft,
Speaker 1: nay madness. Um, but if you know people are looking
Speaker 1: at the Steelers salary cap right now, how could they
Speaker 1: be under the or over the cap right now? Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So when I call it these uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just calling out spot track as we're sitting here,
Speaker 1: and I hit managed roster. Mhm Okay, right now they
Speaker 1: have estimated three They're estimated minus uh four point two
Speaker 1: million dollars four point three million dollars. Well, if I
Speaker 1: release William Jackson, now I've got seven point eight million
Speaker 1: dollars to spend. Um, if I release a killow weatherspoon,
Speaker 1: which I expect to happen at some point, now I've
Speaker 1: got eleven point nine million dollars to spend. I'm cutting
Speaker 1: Generosowski as well. Okay, that frees up. That gets us
Speaker 1: a third teen point eight million dollars. I think there's
Speaker 1: another name anymore. War two. I'm keeping trabisky. I know
Speaker 1: that everyone. Yeah, but you gotta go. If somebody overwhelms
Speaker 1: me and I want to trade, it's risky. Oh I'm interested.
Speaker 1: That's different. You know, if somebody says I will get
Speaker 1: and my my price tag four, I think a four
Speaker 1: gets it done. Yeah, that lits into a five. But
Speaker 1: I think a four gets it done. Like the four's reasonable.
Speaker 1: But I don't need to cut anybody else. I'm at
Speaker 1: thirteen point nine and I can still. I can still
Speaker 1: restructure t J. Hayward or t J. Watt, Cam Hayward,
Speaker 1: Making Fitzpatrick, Deante Johnson, Chokes, James Daniel Mason, Cole, Chris Boswell. Well,
Speaker 1: those are guys that are all gonna be on my team,
Speaker 1: right right, right right? Why would those are easy restructures?
Speaker 1: I mean you could dig up ten million in no time,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of flexibilities just by making those those couple of moves
Speaker 1: those couple of cuts, three cuts with thirteen point nine
Speaker 1: million dollars. Mhm. Now I bet when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done, they end up with thirty is to spend.
Speaker 1: They could do that really easily, like a simple restructure
Speaker 1: on let's pick one. Who do you want to restructure here? Um?
Speaker 1: I think Boswell is a super easy one. But that's
Speaker 1: not gonna get you as far. It's not gonna get
Speaker 1: you as much. Yeah, but his cap figure is five
Speaker 1: point six four million this year, right, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: could get it down to two or something. Let's do minka,
Speaker 1: he just signed his deal. Is he's an eighteen right now,
Speaker 1: simple restructure cuts him down to seven point nine million
Speaker 1: next year, and now you're at twenty three point nine
Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space. That's one restructure, one restructure
Speaker 1: and a guy who's going to be for a twenty
Speaker 1: five year old player who's going to be on your
Speaker 1: on your ruster for the next three seasons. And how
Speaker 1: much more to what that? What'd that get us to? Total?
Speaker 1: That gets us to twenty three point nine right, and
Speaker 1: you could easily do what you could easily do. We
Speaker 1: could do chokes. Let's let's throw chokes in there. He's
Speaker 1: twenty six year old, right tackle, he's gonna be on
Speaker 1: your roster. That gets you to twenty six point four million.
Speaker 1: M h. The cap is gonna keep going up. It's
Speaker 1: not like, oh man, they're maxing out their credit cards.
Speaker 1: If you if you restructure t J, it's going to
Speaker 1: kick the can down the road. Restructuring t J gets
Speaker 1: you to thirty nine million. Yeah, I think they'll do
Speaker 1: all those or several of those. Why would you not, right,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, so it's it's not this dire need.
Speaker 1: They could restructure Mason cole Hm. That gets you to
Speaker 1: seven million dollars twenty almost twenty eight. I mean these
Speaker 1: are easy moves, very easy moves, right, Yeah. I expect
Speaker 1: several of those to happen soon. I think that I
Speaker 1: think you know, the releases will happen first, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's because you know, you have to be under the cap.
Speaker 1: And then if they want to do you know, if
Speaker 1: they wanted to make some signings, if they get through
Speaker 1: into free agency and start looking at some stuff, lout,
Speaker 1: well we want to sign this guy. We don't have
Speaker 1: the cap space to do it. Okay, now we restructure. Mhm,
Speaker 1: But it's not that hard. You're probably already in touch
Speaker 1: with t J and make a you know, those guys
Speaker 1: agents say, well you probably you know when you when
Speaker 1: they had them signed these deals, he said, hey, we're this.
Speaker 1: This is why you know, the Levy on Bell situation
Speaker 1: that he didn't understand how the Steelers structure their deals. Okay,
Speaker 1: they may not give you the money up front, the
Speaker 1: guaranteed money, but they were going to restructure him the
Speaker 1: next year and you get guess what, you get guaranteed
Speaker 1: money because when you restructure, that money becomes guaranteed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the players love the restructure absolutely foundational. Guys. You get
Speaker 1: the money in March that you would have gotten in
Speaker 1: you know, over the course of the season, and it
Speaker 1: becomes money that you don't have to get back right
Speaker 1: right right, not to mention they're gonna give they're gonna
Speaker 1: invest it somewhere and it's gonna turn into more money.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make your team better and right. So but
Speaker 1: that's uh, you know, no, they got people for people
Speaker 1: who don't understand that that's the situation right now. They're
Speaker 1: they're they're quote unquote over the cap right now with
Speaker 1: just a couple of easy moves, they will be well
Speaker 1: under the cap. Yeah yeah, very easy moves, so they'll
Speaker 1: have lots of money to spend. But that was Matt
Speaker 1: and nice Uh mock draft from Mock Draft Monday. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll be back. We have a special show tomorrow. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: actually all day long, Steelers Nation Radio will be all
Speaker 1: broadcasting all of our shows from the Steelers Museum at
Speaker 1: hines Field. Um, Matt hasn't been there yet, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be an exciting day for him. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to spend the entire day over there, uh, hanging out
Speaker 1: doing our shows. I know West Rulers doing his show
Speaker 1: their stand Uh. Savereign's doing his show there. Uh, Stan,
Speaker 1: Bob and I will do a special Steelers look Back.
Speaker 1: Our our topic this year is the nineties, So you
Speaker 1: may not hear that one tomorrow, but you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: that one down the road on Steelers Nation Radier. You
Speaker 1: might hear tomorrow. I think they may play that live. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Matt and I will do our show uh
Speaker 1: at our normal time from four to five thirty from
Speaker 1: the Steelers Museum at hines Field. So looking for forward
Speaker 1: to that one. That's going to do it for our
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