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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale Lally. He is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt. The Senior Bowl practices have wrapped up

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Speaker 1: for the week, and of course the game will be tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But does the game matter quite as much as the practices, No,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. I mean, it's great to show up in

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Speaker 1: somebody along those lines. It's hard to show off of

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Speaker 1: being a good you know, Drone Bettis wouldn't look great

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Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl practices, but he looked good in

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Speaker 1: the game, you know what I mean. So there are

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Speaker 1: some and it matters. But I think we I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we've laid this out before or not. But

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Speaker 1: all the scouts they get there Monday or whatever, um,

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Speaker 1: watch practice Tuesday, watch practice Wednesday, watch pactice Thursday, and

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Speaker 1: then about an hour after the last practice, the airport

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Speaker 1: in Mobile is full of people exiting in the city. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: and they're all getting on these little planes and the

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Speaker 1: whole airport is swarming with scouts and coaches and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: And then they they're not gonna watch to walk through

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Speaker 1: on Friday, and then they'll watch the game maybe on

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Speaker 1: TV maybe not, but certainly the AL twenty two um afterwards.

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Speaker 1: But practice is key. You get to interact with them

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Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, You're you're making these guys

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Speaker 1: swim up stream on Tuesday as well, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you're just meeting everyone. You know, it's a really difficult evaluation.

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Speaker 1: But are they getting better on Wednesday? They're getting better

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Speaker 1: on Thursday? You know, like we mentioned, some of these

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Speaker 1: or a left tackle playing right tackle, or you know,

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Speaker 1: things along those lines. Like our boy John Michael Schmidtz

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Speaker 1: who's tearing it up. They stuck him a guard a

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Speaker 1: little bit today. You know, I'm sure he could do it,

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Speaker 1: but it probably won't have to in the pros. But

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Speaker 1: let's just see. Yeah, um, and so that that's a

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Speaker 1: big part of this whole process. Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: people were surprised, I'm you know, I'm leaving today to

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Speaker 1: come back to Pittsburgh, Like you're not staying for the game,

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Speaker 1: and like, nah, the game. I could watch the game

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Speaker 1: on TV. Yeah, I'm sure it's great to show up

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Speaker 1: big in the game, but yeah, this is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of a different type of EVOL. So let's

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Speaker 1: go down to the rosters here and we'll start with

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Speaker 1: the national roster. Some guys who helped themselves this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here, I get the defensive line first. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about Key on Light this week. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think he's really helped himself, showing that he can

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Speaker 1: I told somebody on Thursday, we're talking about him, I said,

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Speaker 1: he to me looks like a bigger version of Bud Dupree. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one, big rocked up power defensive end.

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Speaker 1: And because he is bigger, something that Bud didn't do

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Speaker 1: Bud when it's all said and done. I mean I

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Speaker 1: I think you know, watching Keanu Benton, the defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: that that was big for him. Uh. Same thing with

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Speaker 1: gonna call him Addie at a bare how about that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not bad. Um. We've talked about Benton. I think

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Speaker 1: call him the Northwestern guy. He's they call him an edge,

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Speaker 1: but he's six one eight five. His first step reminds

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Speaker 1: I mean he is just so quick, and I think

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Speaker 1: But he's he's six pounds. I don't know if he'll

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Speaker 1: a little bit later, but uh, I think he could

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Speaker 1: saw from Artavious Martin as well out of Illinois. Okay, yea,

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Speaker 1: Washington State, I both thought had good weeks just flying

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Speaker 1: And we're talking about this position, but I want to

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Speaker 1: Stanford wide receiver that's there. Wilson also is a cream

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours too. Yeah, that's a big deal. That's

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Speaker 1: a big deal, right, and get it on game day.

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Speaker 1: Looking at the offensive lineman here, now. Um. We talked

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Speaker 1: important for him because a year in the weight room

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Speaker 1: wouldn't kill him, right, yeah, still just twenty one. In fact,

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Speaker 1: what do you think in the Michigan Center, Um didn't

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Speaker 1: extremely smart. Um. He was the leader of the Joe

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Speaker 1: he's he's their leader. I don't know that he's a

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Speaker 1: Day two guy. I would say he's probably a fringe, third,

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Speaker 1: fourth round type of dude. He's a little undersized. Yeah yeah,

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