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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation, How you doing well? That's good

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Speaker 2: us too. Our number two here of the Drive on

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Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven Home of the.

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Speaker 3: Black an Gold.

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Speaker 2: We Matt Williamson, and we are going to get to

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Speaker 2: some of your tweets. We are going to get to

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Speaker 2: some more pre draft conversation, but we have to close

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Speaker 2: down what we were talking about in the first hour

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Speaker 2: of the show. Division winners from last year and if

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Speaker 2: they will repeat, or if we're taking the field and

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Speaker 2: we have one left and it's our very own the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC North.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Matt, this is a tough one.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It's it's one of the more fun if we were,

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Speaker 2: if we were going to be we were a neutral

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Speaker 2: Nation Radio, we'd.

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Speaker 3: Be like, this is a fun one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Because the Steelers and the Ravens, the two teams

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Speaker 2: that have kind of run things for the most part,

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Speaker 2: both have new new coaches, new new eras you know,

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Speaker 2: new coaching staffs. The Bengals are the lone one that's

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Speaker 2: kind of running it back, and they obviously have a

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Speaker 2: loaded offense, but can the defense be good enough? I

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Speaker 2: do think we could probably rule the Browns out for

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Speaker 2: for the sake of this conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're one of the stinkers, you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're there, the Cardinals, you know, Jets level

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Speaker 4: team that I don't see many wins in their future

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Speaker 4: unless Shador becomes a superstar or something crazy happens. A

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Speaker 4: lot of coaching changes, you know, That's what that's weird.

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Speaker 4: Three of the four have new coaches.

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Speaker 3: Nuts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it'd be like Harbaugh's gonna keep it

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Speaker 4: in the Tomlin's gonna keep him minute.

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Speaker 3: They were the two longest tenured coaches in the league.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and now they're really what you were. You know. Again,

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Speaker 4: I'm trying, and I am being as impartial as I

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Speaker 4: possibly can be. And I'll be the first to recognize

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Speaker 4: I'm slightly not impartial because.

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Speaker 2: We grew up here, we work here, right, we wear

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Speaker 2: black and gold glasses, but we do do our best.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to be we don't want to be

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Speaker 2: unapologetically Homer, right.

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Speaker 4: And I have so much respect for Lamar and Burrow too.

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Speaker 4: I mean those two are a massive advantage. Speaking of which,

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Speaker 4: I want to open this segment with I'm operating as

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Speaker 4: if Rogers is a quarterback.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm not going to be like this conversation

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Speaker 3: we need to.

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Speaker 4: I'm it's I'm not going to operate like Howard. It's

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Speaker 4: going to start week one. I mean, that's that's not

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Speaker 4: the way I'm gonna address this converse. I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: It shocked me. I think this traded. I think this

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Speaker 4: has changed pre Wattle trade. But Baltimore had the shortest

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Speaker 4: odds to go to the Super Bowl, to go in

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Speaker 4: the AFC. I just didn't see that. I still think

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Speaker 4: Baltimore has got as many questions as they have answered,

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Speaker 4: and Lamark would win the MVP and they could win

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Speaker 4: fourteen games again, I mean, I think that is definitely

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Speaker 4: in the realm of possibility for them. And I don't

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Speaker 4: think but I don't think the draft's going to solve

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Speaker 4: all their problems. I still think they have a lot

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Speaker 4: of problems since the I fear I think there is

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Speaker 4: something too. I don't think he's the greatest coach in

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Speaker 4: the world, but I think being the incumbent coach has

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Speaker 4: and the stadiums and the quarterbacks and all that. And

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Speaker 4: I think their offense is awesome. I mean it might

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Speaker 3: I think that's undeniable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it might be the best in the league.

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Speaker 4: It's a pretty awesome unit. But Steels one's won the

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Speaker 4: division last year, and I think their roster is noticeably better,

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Speaker 4: pick the Steelers to win the division, you know, as

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Speaker 4: it's with Rogers as it stands today. Not to mention

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Speaker 4: they're gonna get the most help in the draft. I

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Speaker 4: would think they're on the earliest pick, but they get

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Speaker 3: Do you want to know the Vegas odds?

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Speaker 4: I got them here. Yeah, I bet there are twenty

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Speaker 3: They're actually the second odds on favorite behind Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet that's even better odds.

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Speaker 3: Than the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: So the Steelers, according to Vegas, the third most likely

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm not shocked by that.

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Speaker 2: We actually, when we're done with this conversation, we should

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Speaker 2: run through, just a real quick the rest of these

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Speaker 2: odds to kind of piggyback off the conversation that we had.

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Speaker 3: So we're rolling out Cleveland. I think everyone is on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, with the Vision winner.

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Speaker 2: Yet with the other three teams, I think each has

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Speaker 2: a clear pro and a clear con.

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Speaker 2: For the Bengals, the pro is, well, maybe there's kind

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Speaker 2: division that has head coaching continuity.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know how much of the weigh that,

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Speaker 2: I and we could even argue if that was a

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Speaker 2: smart or a dumb decision by Cincinnati, But I think

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Speaker 2: at least out the gate, that gives you some slight

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: For the Ravens, the the pro is you've got one

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Speaker 2: of the best quarterbacks in the world. A lot of

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Speaker 2: recent success and a lot with a lot of reason success.

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Speaker 2: The con is I don't think your roster's nearly as

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Speaker 2: Derrick Henry is a declining product. He should go to

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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame one day. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's what thirty two or thirty three year old running back?

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Speaker 2: He's so, I don't their run games not as potent

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Speaker 4: And I'll be honest. I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: I've ever mentioned it since we've done shows, but like

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Speaker 4: betting on rookie coaches head coaches is not real smart.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's hard. There's no manual for how to

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Speaker 4: be a head coach. I think it's a really good

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Speaker 4: I mean, like even if you like even if you

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Speaker 3: You like that higher more than Mike McCarthy. McCarthy's been

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Speaker 3: a head coach in the NFL before.

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Speaker 4: Yes, there again, he's there's no look at guidebook to

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Speaker 4: parent You make mistakes.

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Speaker 3: You know whether there is no guidebook to parenting?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: I got a funny story about that I should tell

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Speaker 2: you guys in our in our tweet segment from this morning, uh,

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Speaker 2: look at very like do you think Rabel would have

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Speaker 2: had that success hitting the ground running in New England

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Speaker 2: if it was his very first time ever being a

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Speaker 4: No, right, right, He.

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Speaker 3: Needed that Tennessee experience. Sure, so I think that's.

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Speaker 4: Why I think there's learning to be an NFL head

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Speaker 2: And then for the Steelers, I would say the pro

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Speaker 2: is I think of all these teams, your roster hasn't

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Speaker 3: At the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: The con to me, though, Matt, is I think at

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Speaker 2: best you have the third best quarter At best you

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Speaker 2: have the third best quarterback play in the division. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And this one's so tough for me because I think these.

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Speaker 4: I was certain to have the third best almost almost sorry,

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Speaker 2: Year almost almost certain unless Deshaun Watson comes back and

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Speaker 4: All over again, you know, just assuming everybody says stays healthy. Yes, right, But.

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Speaker 2: I the quarterback evaluation for again, assuming Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 2: tough for me because I think his weapons got better

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Speaker 2: he's a year older and he had his limitations last year.

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Speaker 4: So do we think he's going to be better nor.

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Speaker 3: I would be willing to bet a lot of money

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Speaker 3: he's not better.

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Speaker 4: But system might help him.

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Speaker 3: If the system and.

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Speaker 2: The wide receivers and around him are better, his numbers

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Speaker 2: Certain, Yeah, yeah, so this one, this one's tough.

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Speaker 3: It's hard for me not to take.

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Speaker 4: The field pressure, no, he you know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: things like that, like if you break down each.

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Speaker 2: And standing in the pocket and not checking down the

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Speaker 3: It's tough.

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Speaker 2: It's tough not to take the field. But I don't

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Speaker 2: depends upon what Aaron Rodgers really looks like, because if

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Speaker 2: he is, if he plateaus, I think the Steelers are

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Speaker 2: takes half a step back, that that could be a

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Speaker 2: massive difference. It could or Matt just he played sixteen

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Speaker 2: out of seventeen games last year, seventeen out of eighteen

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Speaker 3: What if he misses four or five this year. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Burrow La Margs.

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Speaker 3: Don't have the greatest you know right.

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Speaker 4: You can't just be like, what if cam Haberg gets hurt,

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Speaker 4: one of Tomlin or Harball was back?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that would change everything.

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Speaker 4: Like if if the Ravens had Harball right now, I'd

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Speaker 4: be like, I'd probably that would probably be enough for

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Speaker 4: me to pick Baltimore to win the division. I agree,

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Speaker 4: if the Ravens didn't have Harbor and the Steelers had Tomlin.

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Speaker 2: I'd say Steelers have the coaching continuity advantage.

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Speaker 4: I doubt they're gonna be I don't have a losing

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Speaker 4: season exactly. That puts you in the right. And I

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Speaker 4: don't think McCarthy's gonna win five games. And he has

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Speaker 4: a pretty good track record too, but he's new around here.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's this is again.

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Speaker 4: This is the hardest division.

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Speaker 2: It might be, especially when you consider the turnover at

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Speaker 2: the coaching spot.

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Speaker 4: But nobody agrees with those because the top two teams

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Speaker 4: in Vegas, balt on the planet would say the field.

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Speaker 4: I just think the Steers are gonna be in it.

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Speaker 2: I think the Steelers are going to be in it.

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Speaker 2: But I also think as we sit here today, the

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Speaker 2: field is the smart bet.

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Speaker 3: Oh it is.

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Speaker 2: We've gotten so many tweets.

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Speaker 2: A lot of draft questions, a lot of Steelers questions,

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Speaker 2: I think it's you hire Robert Sala, You know what

446
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 2: to expect with your defense. Yeah yeah, Mike McCarthy, you

447
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 2: know what to expect with your office.

448
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the go a point.

449
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,719
Speaker 2: Mister steel City tweets us and says, with the draft

450
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,199
Speaker 2: being a month away. How far along are team's currently

451
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 2: in building their draft boards?

452
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 5: Uh?

453
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 2: And would you know, would it be safe to us

454
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 2: assume that the Steelers are much further along with say

455
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 2: their wide receiver draft board than their center positional rankings.

456
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Speaker 3: I think absolutely to the second part of it. Yeah,

457
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 3: but I don't even know or is it just all

458
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 3: done in one.

459
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Speaker 4: I don't even know if there's magnets on a board yet.

460
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 4: I think all the grades are basically in. But I

461
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 4: mean the post curtain I did one year and now

462
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 4: they're still doing.

463
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 3: Pre draft visits too, so that's gonna yeah.

464
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 4: I mean we really buckled down for like two weeks,

465
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 4: twelve days something like that. Today was safety day. You know,

466
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,919
Speaker 4: you walked in there on safety day and there's a

467
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 4: huge board and the safety.

468
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 3: Coaches watching this on YouTube.

469
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 4: So yeah, Matt, it's a big war room, right, and

470
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 4: there's magnets. You know, obviously somebody has it on computer too,

471
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 4: but you move the magnets around all.

472
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Speaker 3: They still do that?

473
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they should. You know, it's just a

474
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 4: good visual. Yes, But the O line coach isn't in

475
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 4: there on safety day, the offensive coordinator is not in there,

476
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,880
Speaker 4: but the DC is your secondary coach. The line coach isn't,

477
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 4: but every area scout is, GM head coach, everyone the

478
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 4: decision makers of course. And you spent at least an

479
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 4: entire twelve hour day. That's say, take an hour lunch,

480
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 4: go work out, get out of here and get your

481
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:44,239
Speaker 4: mind right.

482
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

483
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 4: Just you know we're going to be here long time.

484
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Speaker 4: And we were talking of safeties for twelve hours where

485
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 4: we would build our vertical board, just safeties. You know,

486
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 4: who's our favorite safety? Okay, it's downs. We're not going

487
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 4: to fight too much about that, but now we're going

488
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 4: to fight about two. And the later you get, the

489
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 4: more you fight.

490
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

491
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Speaker 4: You know, fourth rounders verse fifth rounders are not downs

492
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 4: versus the field, you know what I mean. So that

493
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 4: was not happening yet. I mean that was closer to

494
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 4: the draft than now. I think they won all the prota.

495
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're getting close to that point, but not quite yet.

496
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Speaker 4: We were talking about this on my other podcast, like

497
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Speaker 4: I think the Beast comes out every year April first,

498
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Speaker 4: because I think the last Pro day is like right

499
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Speaker 4: before that.

500
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Speaker 3: I think the last Pro days are this Friday, aren't they?

501
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Speaker 4: That sounds about right? Yeah, I think you're right. I

502
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 4: think you're right. I think so, I know it's.

503
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Speaker 3: Right a little before a couple days later.

504
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good point, good point. Yeah. Now, when you build

505
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 4: your vertical board of safeties, that doesn't mean that those

506
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 4: magnets are set in stone. I mean you could come

507
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 4: back a week later and be like, this one's really

508
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 4: bugging me. Let's talk it out again. You know. But

509
00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 4: I'm sure they've done more research on wide receivers than centers. Collectively,

510
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 4: as a scouting staff coaching staff, wide receiver coach has

511
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 4: definitely watched way more wide receivers than the center or

512
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 4: O Liones coach watched centers. But that's always the case.

513
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 4: There's three of them on the field compared to one.

514
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Speaker 3: March thirty first is the final pro day for.

515
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 4: Because that's like a week from today.

516
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:19,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a week from today.

517
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think today's twenty fourth. So I don't know

518
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 4: if I'm answering that perfectly, but I'm trying to think

519
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 4: when you actually buckled down for the war room days

520
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 4: early April, I would imagine, yeah, but I don't think

521
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 4: it's yet.

522
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 3: Not yet. They've got some semblance of that going on, obviously.

523
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 4: But they have a really strong feeling of what positions

524
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 4: are strong and where you know we're going to attack

525
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 4: receiver in round two, We're gonna you know, we can

526
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Speaker 4: wait to the fourth round or safety, et cetera, et cetera.

527
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Speaker 4: But the board's far from set.

528
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Speaker 2: A couple questions here from one of our loyal tweeters,

529
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Speaker 2: Sudesh he has a couple okay, couple fourths these are good.

530
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Speaker 2: First one along the lines of the JSN conversation yesterday

531
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,239
Speaker 2: we met you. I think it was you, Matt who

532
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,959
Speaker 2: said he's not my wide receiver number one, but he's close.

533
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 2: Sudsh wonders like, just curious who your wide receiver number

534
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 2: one would be, Chase.

535
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 3: I had a feeling that was gonna be yours.

536
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 4: Maybe Jefferson. Still, that poor guy had no help from

537
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 4: quarterbacks at all last year, and I don't think he

538
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 4: got any worse. And I think they were neck and

539
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 4: neck last we saw his numbers just fell off, but

540
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 4: I don't think it was his fault. Like to me,

541
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Speaker 4: those guys are like really strong Hall of Fame cases,

542
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 4: you know, like almost to like the equivalent of a

543
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 4: Mahomes or TJ or you know somebody that's just been

544
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 4: has the Hall of Fame resume since day one and

545
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 4: have kept it up and are in their primes. That's

546
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Speaker 4: not JSN to me. Even though I mean JSN the

547
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 4: KUPA had the best years. I don't know that I

548
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 4: would rather line up. I'd rather play against JSN than

549
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase for sure, yes, and they are all awesome,

550
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 4: but I still think Chase is the best.

551
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 2: Second one from sudesh is what are your thoughts on

552
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 2: the linebacker edge rusher from LSU, Harold Perkins Junior.

553
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Speaker 3: I don't talk too much about him.

554
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: I know yesterday I was gonna say that some of

555
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Speaker 2: those LSU guys with their Pro Day as themselves good days.

556
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Speaker 4: We were talking Miami and LSU Pro Day today, so

557
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 4: this is actually on my mind. The lane ran really well.

558
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 4: He ran like a four three five. Now, some of

559
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 4: these Pro Day ones sometimes you gotta be careful where

560
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 4: you get them from.

561
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Speaker 3: That's also on stay thirty nine yard track.

562
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Speaker 4: It's also one of the beauties of the Beast is

563
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 4: he gets verified Pro Day numbers, which is hard to do.

564
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Speaker 4: But the lane was only one hundred and eighty three pounds.

565
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 4: I mean that's lean for first corner off the board

566
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Speaker 4: type guy Perkins. I don't know who the Steelers visits

567
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 4: are rumored to be, but I think he's one of

568
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 4: them because I've gotten tweaked about him. Tell me about

569
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Speaker 4: It's why Perkins names keeps coming out.

570
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, well we could. We can dig

571
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Speaker 2: into that. I'll do a little research on that.

572
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow.

573
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 4: We'll tell Yeah, I'm gonna do some research tonight too.

574
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 4: I'm a little behind, but he's a really interesting player.

575
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 4: He I thought he was gonna come out a year

576
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 4: ago because he was. He's got a ton of sacks.

577
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 4: He's only two third, you're only two hundred twenty pounds.

578
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 4: He's under six feet tall. I know this because I

579
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 4: looked at his Protator results this morning. So he's under

580
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 4: six feet tall, he's only two hundred twenty pounds. But

581
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 4: he's a demon off the edge. I mean he started

582
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 4: as like a defensive end for them, as like a

583
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Speaker 4: pure pass rusher, just running past tackles in the SEC

584
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 4: for a lot of sacks, and then I think they

585
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 4: did him a favor and said, let's make you more

586
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 4: of an off the ball linebacker, because there's no chance

587
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 4: anyone's going to draft you just to be a defensive

588
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 4: end at two hundred and twenty pounds under six feet tall.

589
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not gonna happen. Yeah, And he's been good.

590
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 4: He ran a four to four flat. He flies around

591
00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 4: the field. But there's a difference between being verse at

592
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 4: all as a player, like, oh, he can do a

593
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 4: lot of different things, or is he homeless? He might

594
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 4: be homeless like everyone wants the next emory.

595
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 3: That's like the it's similar to the Kyle Lewis conversation.

596
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 4: Similar, but Lewis is more safety to linebackers opposed to

597
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 4: end a linebacker. But they're both the same size basically,

598
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 4: and they're small for linebacker, so they have to play

599
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 4: in space. They have to kind of be big slots. Yes,

600
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 4: you'd love to blitz them a lot, but what's that

601
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: five times a game? You know? Can I put him

602
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 4: out there? And when he blitzes, is he gonna beat

603
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 4: Trent Williams like he did, like he ran around everybody else?

604
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 4: So he might be a man without a home. But

605
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 4: he's interesting and he's been really productive. And there's been

606
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 4: some of those, like way too early draft lists where

607
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, he's going in the first round, like

608
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 4: he's not going anywhere close to the first round, but

609
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do with them. There's a

610
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 4: lot of speculation there. He better be an awesome special

611
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 4: team or right off the back just to hang around,

612
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 4: you know.

613
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 2: Last one from Sudesh his favorite sporting events the super Bowl,

614
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup, the Draft.

615
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 3: And WrestleMania. Wres is one of those that'd be fun

616
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Speaker 3: to go to. I would, I would. I feel like

617
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: I would enjoy going to that one.

618
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 4: They call it a sports entertainment.

619
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 3: Sports entertainment. Yes, that's right.

620
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see here, let's do one. Let's do one

621
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: more before we go to break team act.

622
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 4: WrestleMania be a blast.

623
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Speaker 3: Now the only thing.

624
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 4: And I'm not like, yeah, but I do in this sports.

625
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: So WrestleMania now right TV is two days long. Yeah,

626
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 2: I don't love that.

627
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 4: I want to.

628
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: WrestleMania one event, blow it out, all the big fights.

629
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 4: One.

630
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: I don't want to spread over two days, but you

631
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: can sell the tickets, sell the tickets. The NFL Draft

632
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: is spread over three days, Matt, I wish that was

633
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: just one.

634
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 4: Day too, and we would only buy one ticket separate.

635
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: So if you want to for the draft. I believe so.

636
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 4: But again though the draft is we'll know more about

637
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 4: that being here.

638
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 3: But yeah, the draft.

639
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: The draft ticketing is even tickets for the draft, No,

640
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 2: there is, but it's like Latrobe training camp, like you

641
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: have to you have to register a ticket ahead of time.

642
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 3: But it's free.

643
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, WrestleMania is not free, and both both days

644
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: will cost you a pretty penny. But I would that

645
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 2: would be something I would be down to do once. Certainly, sure,

646
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: I bet it's quite the environment I heard. I hear

647
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 2: they like to stay hydrated at those events. T mac

648
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: tweets and says, I feel like you need to draft

649
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: a quarterback just because you may you may have a

650
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: fish and Will Howard that you turn into something doesn't

651
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 2: mean you stop fishing. You keep fishing until you get

652
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 2: the big game winner. Plus, if we if we want

653
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: to bet on the twenty twenty seven draft, you know,

654
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 2: it feels like you just need to restart completely.

655
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: I listen. I I understood.

656
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 4: There's both sides of fence to the drafting quarterback.

657
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: I see both sides of the You can't develop to

658
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: it once, so why throw somebody else in there?

659
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: But I also see and I.

660
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 4: Don't know how if you can't develop to it once

661
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 4: you're going to cut into twelve picks, and what if you.

662
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 3: Can't move the draft capital as much as you would

663
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 3: like to.

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Speaker 4: And you really like a kid.

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Speaker 2: And it's the sixth round and someone that you had

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Speaker 2: a fourth round great on is still it's a fourth round.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, the North Coast state kids there, and you

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Speaker 4: really like him and you think he might be a starter. Now.

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Speaker 4: I hate to quote Jerry Doulac directly because I didn't

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Speaker 4: see it, but Jerry knows the stuff. And somewhere on

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Speaker 4: Twitter someone made it, pointed it out to me that

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Speaker 4: Jerry had reported, and Jerry I apologized I'm wrong, but

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Speaker 4: that the Steelers would only be interested in a quarterback

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Speaker 4: this year if they thought he had more upside than

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Speaker 4: Will Howard. And I think that's a decent way of

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Speaker 4: looking at it, Like if you think his ceilings how

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Speaker 4: higher than Howard, we're interested. Like, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: they're just grabbing a seventh round or camp arm a

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Speaker 4: Lululu Kawn guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, if they if they look at someone like

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Speaker 2: Nuss and say, we think his ceiling could be a

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Speaker 2: lot higher than Will Howard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that then we'll consider taking that's a great call.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you'll pay the price to get them.

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Speaker 3: Plenty more of these tweets to get to and we

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Speaker 3: have a.

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Speaker 4: Hard time using us that second round pick on one

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Speaker 4: of the quarterbacks. I would be shocked, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean. That's a receiver or no lineman or putting

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Speaker 4: their hand in the one of the three thirds or

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Speaker 4: two fours. I get it, you know, right, all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden, you still have a couple needs checked. Then

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Speaker 4: it's a little.

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Speaker 2: Easier, especially if maybe the first and second round fall

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Speaker 2: how you would like.

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Speaker 3: Them to fall.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, the guys you like.

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Speaker 3: You know, one more segment to go.

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Speaker 2: We will pick up where we're leaving off here, getting

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Speaker 2: through as many of your tweets as possible before we

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Speaker 2: get out of here. On this Tuesday, Weshouoler, Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 2: It is the Drive Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network.

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Speaker 5: What's up, NFL fans? The NFL Draft is finally here,

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Speaker 5: and while you might not know who your team is

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00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 5: drafting this year, you do know your watch party's number

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Speaker 5: one pick. Bud Light, the clean crisp taste that has

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Speaker 5: all the scouts talking. I guess that's why it's been

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Speaker 5: the group's go to draft beer season after season. Be

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Speaker 5: sure to order around for the table before your team's

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Speaker 5: on the clock. Bud Light easy to drink, easy to enjoy,

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Speaker 5: enjoy responsibly, and Huyser Busch bud Light Beer, Saint Louis, Missouri.

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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 2: Radio segment here of the Drive on this Tuesday evening.

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Speaker 2: And we are going to continue to get through as

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Speaker 2: many of these tweets as we can get to smooth.

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Speaker 2: Dave tweets us and says the master plan hinges on

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Speaker 2: getting the franchise quarterback in twenty twenty seven. We all

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Speaker 2: know that many teams want twenty twenty seven draft capital.

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Speaker 2: With that said, would you be willing to lose value

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Speaker 2: this year in order to get more in twenty twenty seven?

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Speaker 2: For example, would you trade one of the third round

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Speaker 2: picks and a fifth this year to get a third

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Speaker 2: next year? No?

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Speaker 3: I mean again, I think it depends on how the

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Speaker 3: first couple picks go.

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Speaker 4: I mean, who's sitting there when you're on them? I

729
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 4: mean you have to be on the clock and be like,

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Speaker 4: I hate all these dudes.

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Speaker 3: Right now, right, someone's calling, and right, yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Got fourth round grades on all these dudes. All the

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Speaker 4: wrong dudes fell off the board.

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Speaker 2: This is going hold in the safety that we wanted

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Speaker 2: in the early day in here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe if if horror struck Now. I think

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Speaker 4: there's a misconception because I think it's becoming less true

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Speaker 4: in general that if you trade a fourth this year,

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Speaker 4: you should get a third next year. If you trade

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Speaker 4: a fifth this year, you should get a fourth next year.

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Speaker 4: And I think that'll be even less true this year

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Speaker 4: because I think the discrepancy or general opinion of the

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Speaker 4: discrepancy of draft classes, like next year's running back class

744
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 4: supposed to be a lot better. It's not just quarterback,

745
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Speaker 4: it is worse. But I don't think you go one

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Speaker 4: for one, like I'm not giving you a third this

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00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 4: year for third next year. I mean, maybe, if I

748
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Speaker 4: feel like my roster's full when I have two sevens,

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Speaker 4: trade them both for a six next year or something

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Speaker 4: like that, and you probably lose on the trade value

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Speaker 4: chart or whatever. But it's like I can't bring this

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Speaker 4: many people to sure camp.

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Speaker 3: Only got so many seats at the table.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to do a draft, get another running

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Speaker 4: back or you know what I mean. So, no, I'm

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Speaker 4: not taking a massive discount, but I might take a

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00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 4: little less discount than people might think, Like I don't.

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Speaker 4: It's real easy for us to sit here today or

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00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 4: a lot of these days and be like, well, that

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00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 4: last third round pick, just flip it for two next year.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Fan'sn't do that, you know, straight up.

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Speaker 3: If they would, If they would, I think a lot

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Speaker 3: of people would do Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they would have already happened.

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Speaker 2: Matthew tweets us and says, matt is right. The draft

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Speaker 2: is the single greatest sporting event of the year.

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Speaker 3: You got so you would hold up people?

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 2: Every time when we get into this, it makes it

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Speaker 2: seem like I hate the draft. I don't hate the draft.

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Speaker 2: I like the draft, but I would rather watch the

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Speaker 2: Rams and the Seattle Seahawks and the NFC championship game

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Speaker 2: than Roger Goodell read names?

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Speaker 3: What are we doing here?

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Speaker 2: I love you guys, but come on, I feel like

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Speaker 2: I'm picking crazy pills. Matthew also adds am I wrong

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Speaker 2: in thinking that Frank Signetty Junior can get some valuable

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Speaker 2: draft intel on the ie you guys from his brother.

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Speaker 4: I read that one before, and I'm glad you picked that.

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Speaker 4: That's great because he answers.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and we like a lot of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I've been saying all along. I didn't even think

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00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 4: of that angle until I read this. Come on, man, right,

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Speaker 4: I keep saying the Indiana guys go higher than people

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Speaker 4: think because they're so well coached. And there's no such

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Speaker 4: thing as NFL ready, But that group looks pretty NFL

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Speaker 4: ready in terms of just not making mistakes, knowing how

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Speaker 4: to prepare getting the most out. Yeah, no doubt. But

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Speaker 4: of course, I mean that's what scouting is, folks. I mean,

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Speaker 4: like you talk to people that it's reporting. I mean

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Speaker 4: it's you're you're a private investigator. You're asking anyone you

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Speaker 4: know for answers. Of course, you're asking daddy or brother

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Speaker 4: or whoever.

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Speaker 3: You're the head coach of the national champion.

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Speaker 4: That's a bunch of guys draft hines Ward.

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Speaker 3: You asking hines Ward about Jordan Tysons.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like if Tomlin was the head coach here,

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Speaker 4: still you think you wouldn't call Hydes Ward and say,

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Speaker 4: what do you think of Jordan Tyson? You know, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think that's a big reason they ended up with Picket.

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Speaker 4: They know so much about them. I mean, like I've

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Speaker 4: been told that they were I don't think this is

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Speaker 4: a public seeker, but they didn't. They were kind of

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00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 4: torn between Willis and Pickett. Yeah, yeah, those were the choices,

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00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 4: but you definitely knew a lot more about picking sure, right,

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Speaker 4: right right?

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Speaker 3: Be a shame if you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph's Burner tweets us and says, Matt, I am

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent with you on the draft being the

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Speaker 2: best sporting event of the year. The only thing that

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Speaker 2: could take the spot is a big Steeler game. So again,

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Speaker 2: so you're telling me that you.

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Speaker 4: Steelers ravens AFC championship game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's a big But what is the Steeler

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Speaker 2: Game three against the Patriots?

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Speaker 3: You'd rather watch the draft than Week three? Because that's

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Speaker 3: all you people. I love you all, but.

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Speaker 4: You might you people. I learn more on Draft day.

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Speaker 2: You know, when I was a kid and really got

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Speaker 2: into sports, I was like, man, these Steeler games are awesome,

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Speaker 2: these WU games are awesome, But I really want is

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Speaker 2: Paul Tagliabu at Radio Citi Music Hall reading names on

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Speaker 2: the stage.

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Speaker 4: A bunch of dudes in suits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mason RUDOLPHS Burner says, as a child, I I

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Speaker 2: loved it. Takes over my weekend, no family.

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Speaker 3: No work, I eat what I want. I love it.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: See I I totally get that from the from the

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Speaker 2: dork per football perspective, the draft is awesome.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. He also some one knows I am off limits draft.

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Speaker 2: Your famous joke is no, you tell your parents say

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Speaker 2: better not die these three days because I'm busy.

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Speaker 4: I mean even like my best but lives in Nashville

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Speaker 4: now and he has two young kids, and he's like, hey,

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Speaker 4: I'm strongly considering about bringing the boys up for the draft.

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Speaker 4: Will you have any free time whatsoever? No, not even

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Speaker 4: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 4: I will not have one beer with you. I won't

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Speaker 4: even say. I won't shake your hand or give you

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Speaker 4: a hug once. Not a chance, even if you were

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Speaker 4: I'm like, you can even stay in my room if

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Speaker 4: you I mean, there's I got an empty room in

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Speaker 4: my house. You could stay there. Yeah, I still won't see.

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Speaker 3: Just won't see me.

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolf Berner also adds love the show, never miss it.

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Speaker 2: There's no better show for Steelers or the whole league. Well,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Mason Rudolph Berner. We greatly appreciate the kind work.

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00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 4: Sure, we always like compliments.

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00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice words are always welcome. RJ tweets and says

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00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 2: throwing logistics out the window. If you each got one

853
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: free ticket to any sporting or entertainment event in the

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Speaker 2: world in all of tw only twenty six, what would

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Speaker 2: you each choose?

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Speaker 4: Would you do World Cup like finals?

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, so if I could go for the whole year,

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Speaker 2: I would have gone to the USA Canada gold medal

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Speaker 2: game in Italy, for the for the for the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, now that's in hindsight, now yeah, yeah. If

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Speaker 3: you're asking me going.

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Speaker 2: Forward, it would probably be I'd take a ticket to

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Speaker 2: the World Cup final in July and New York City

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Speaker 2: when whenever, you know, whenever, that.

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Speaker 4: Is probably yeah, or I mean, like some of this Super.

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Speaker 2: Bowl isn't going to be in twenty twenty six, but

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Speaker 2: I'd love a ticket to the upcoming Super I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, if you knew it was going to be Steelers

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Speaker 4: Rams in the Super Bowl, you'd pick that. Absolutely or

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Speaker 4: if you knew Penn's Game seven against the Western team,

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Speaker 4: you'd take that on the Who's.

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Speaker 3: NU and the College Football Playoff? Is I chuckle out last?

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Speaker 3: Is that gonna happen?

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Speaker 4: Never? I don't know. Maybe i'd take something weird like that.

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Speaker 4: I've never been to. It's not my normal move, but

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Speaker 4: maybe I would take like a Recragy world cap or

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00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 4: or yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 3: What about formula?

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Speaker 4: Oh man, Yeah, I might go to monic go go

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00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 4: to Monaco for formula. Yeah. I couldn't afford like a

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Speaker 4: water there, I think, But I mean, yeah, I probably

882
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Speaker 4: would do something like that.

883
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: Let's see Pittsburgh conversation.

884
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:21,479
Speaker 4: I watched the documentary on Kimo Kemi and Anton Ali

885
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 4: Yeah last night on Netflix. He is who he took

886
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 4: over for last year Mercedes number one, their number one

887
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: driver went from Mercedes to Ferrari, and he is like

888
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 4: the all time greatest driver. He's like, he's like Brady

889
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 4: is the most wins ever, Like they dominated Mercedes and

890
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 4: a year ago he went to Ferrari for more money

891
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 4: and changed tunes and they put this Kimi dude, kismy

892
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 4: k I am I usually I can pronounce his name well.

893
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 4: He is so young that he got his driver's license

894
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 4: after form the one he was like, I guess you

895
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 4: had to be eighteen and wherever he was from, and

896
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 4: he's from France or or it's Spain or whatever. I

897
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 4: think he's for France. But the Netflix series opens with

898
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 4: him like, man, I'm so nervous. I'm making my debut

899
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 4: for Mercedes, which is an awesome group. I gotta follow Hamilton,

900
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 4: who's unbelievable. And next week I get my driver's license.

901
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 4: My mom doesn't have to drive me around anymore. I'm like, oh,

902
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 4: my lord.

903
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 3: Professional driver and mom's bringing him to the track.

904
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 4: He's like the wiz kid. I mean, he's unbelievable, but

905
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 4: right he didn't even have his license when he took

906
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 4: over F one. That's fantastic, and I guess he's tearing

907
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 4: it up this year. He's like the guy.

908
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 3: All right, Matt, let's try and sneak one or two

909
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 3: more in here.

910
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: Y eaton Yinzer tweets us and says, do we need to

911
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 2: talk at all about the full back position in Big

912
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: MIC's offense? Obviously I remember the John Coon days in

913
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 2: Green Bay, but is that still a role we need to.

914
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 4: Fill I've given that zero thought.

915
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 3: We got some good ones to this guard yeating yinzer.

916
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 4: Last I remember, No, I mean there's three wides so

917
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 4: much that it's hard to get a fullback on the

918
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 4: field when you're three wide. Yes, you know. My hunch

919
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 4: is they will not have one on the roster. I

920
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 4: don't think so, because they probably would have by now.

921
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: You just wouldn't just go into the draft with none.

922
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 4: I mean you probably grabbed someone for league minimum rights,

923
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 4: you know, to at least no you got a body, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

924
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: all right.

925
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 3: Last one of the day.

926
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 2: And I mean, guy, there's probably still close to ten

927
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 2: of these that we didn't have time to get to.

928
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 2: But we'll keep We'll keep rolling along and doing what

929
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 2: we can to get to as many as possible. Pittsburgh

930
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 2: Conversation tweets and says, would you guys guess the Steeler's

931
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 2: chance of having the home opener or opening the season

932
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: at home this year?

933
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 4: So do you have any inte? I had no.

934
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 3: Yeah.

935
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: The first thing that you do is you look at

936
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: the Pirates schedule, and I was actually confused about this.

937
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: I looked at this and I thought the NFL season

938
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 2: would begin the first Sunday in September like it usually does,

939
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 2: but with a weird Labor day this year, that's not

940
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 2: the case. The first It's just like the way that

941
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: it falls, the Labor Day is later in the calendar

942
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 2: than it typically is.

943
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, and so it's still on Monday or whatever.

944
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it's like it's again, I don't want

945
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 2: to take all the time to look this up. It's

946
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 2: a weird the way the Labor Day falls is weird.

947
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 2: So the first Sunday in uh September is like September sixth,

948
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 2: and so in my mind, I thought, okay, that would

949
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 2: be the first opening weekend of the NFL season, but

950
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 2: it's always are at home at one that day. I'm like,

951
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: they're not gonna have a Pirates game at one thirty

952
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 2: and the Steelers opener. But with the way that it's weird,

953
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 2: the NFL season won't open untill September thirteenth this.

954
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 4: Year, and that's way later than usual, way later than usual. Okay,

955
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 4: And the Pirates are always the weekend after Labor Day.

956
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: Yes, it's always the Sunday after Labor Day.

957
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 2: But again with the way that it falls and everything,

958
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 2: it's it's this.

959
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 4: Year, the first week of September.

960
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 2: It's the Yeah, I don't understand why they wouldn't be la.

961
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: Yes, is what the weird part about it. Yes, I

962
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 3: don't understand why they wouldn't do it on September sixth.

963
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

964
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 2: But it's not going to be the first NFL game

965
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 2: well first weekend, because they'll be the Wednesday and Thursday games.

966
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 2: But the Pirates are actually pirates. They're actually out of town.

967
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: They're actually out of town that weekend. So the Steelers

968
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: I think, have only had like one home in the

969
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: last ten years.

970
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 4: They would never I know it's very rare, but they

971
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 4: would never overlap with a bum no.

972
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: And that's well, that's a big part of it is

973
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 2: because I remember two years ago or something, Missy Matthews

974
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 2: did a sit down with mister Rooney on Steelers dot

975
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 2: Com and I remember him kind of like making a

976
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 2: joke of like, well, you know, it's been eight years

977
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 2: since we've had a home opener. I guess we'll have

978
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: to talk to MLB and the Pirates. And because there's

979
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 2: all like there's been this all.

980
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 4: I know, they share parking. It's not like three rivers

981
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 4: where they had the same building.

982
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 2: And typically, you know, this is not a knock on

983
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: our hometown team, but typically the Pirates aren't playing the

984
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 2: most important baseball in September or October.

985
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 3: Hopefully that changes this year.

986
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 4: But uh, yeah, I'm rooting for him.

987
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: Great.

988
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I would think that there's a better

989
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 2: chance with the Pirates being out of town opening weekend.

990
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 2: I would think that there's a better chance this year

991
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 2: than there has been some of these more recent years.

992
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 2: But that's such a science that I am not very

993
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: in tune with.

994
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 4: I can't imagine being a scheduling.

995
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 3: Person that's gotten it crazy.

996
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 4: It's upper level insane.

997
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 3: That is difficult. Yeah, Matt, that was a lot of fun.

998
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: Enjoyed. Yeah, enjoyed the double tweet segment. We'll dip back

999
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: into tweets tomorrow. We'll talk more about some pre draft

1000
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 2: visitors that the Steelers have had to town, both local

1001
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 2: and otherwise as well, and we'll continue to shimmy and

1002
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 2: shake through through this end of the month of March.

1003
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 2: But that will do it for us today. Thanks to

1004
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Speaker 2: TV mister TV for producing on the video side of

1005
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 2: things for Matt Williamson, Unles Heeler, Take care everybody, we'll

1006
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow. You know where to find us.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me, on your twenty four to seven home of

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