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Speaker 2: And we are back.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to our number two of the special edition

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Speaker 3: of The Drive here in Palm Beach, Florida. I'm here

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Speaker 3: with I'm Dale Lolly here with Max Starks and Matt

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Speaker 3: Williamson and the league meetings taking place here at the

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Speaker 3: Breakers in Palm Beach. And guys, we talked at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the show about the puzzle pieces coming together.

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Speaker 3: And I continue to see the national mock drafts that

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Speaker 3: come out that have the Steelers taking a first round

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Speaker 3: quarterback and not taking a defensive lineman. And I can't

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Speaker 3: help but chuckle because if there's one, one area, one

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Speaker 3: hole on this roster quarterback aside right now, but I

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Speaker 3: think they have an idea what's going to happen there.

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Speaker 3: It's the defensive line. Yes, Larry Ogan, Jobi is no

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Speaker 3: longer on this team. You've filled all the other starting

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Speaker 3: spots with somebody and backups and.

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Speaker 2: Backups except for Delon.

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Speaker 3: You've signed some backup type defensive lineman, but you haven't

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Speaker 3: gotten that guy yet.

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Speaker 2: And that's where it's like it's like ding ding, ding

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Speaker 4: All the arrows point here, right when you look at

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Speaker 4: the maze and you get to the Steelers' logo backer,

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Speaker 4: even though we lost to Landon Roberts, right, Uh, you

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Speaker 4: know which, we drafted Peyton Wilson the year before we

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Speaker 4: signed Patrick Queen Boom corner. Yes, we didn't retain Dante Jackson,

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Speaker 4: but we went and signed Darius Slay. You still got

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Speaker 4: Corey Trice back there, Joey Porter junior echos, echoes can

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Speaker 4: play that outside position as well.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, what are we talking about here?

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Speaker 4: Like, that's the only position that was not addressed, only

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Speaker 4: position that was not addressed. And we've addressed offensive line,

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Speaker 4: We've addressed tight end, We've addressed running back. I was like, yes,

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Speaker 4: this is it can be d lineman or you can

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Speaker 4: continue down your your path of folly with trying to

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Speaker 4: pick a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: But it's defensive lineman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it has to be defensive lineman. And I would

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Speaker 3: draft two of them this one absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean set myself up the next eight years, which.

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Speaker 5: Defensive lineman other than Hayward and Benton are guaranteed spots

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Speaker 5: on this team, probably none, I mean guaranteed. I mean,

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Speaker 5: there's some guys we'd like, and Logan Lee might be good,

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Speaker 5: and we know who louder Milk is and the looweries

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Speaker 5: of Lowries exactly who he is fine, And one of

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Speaker 5: those guys is up in age, although he's awesome, but

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Speaker 5: he's up in age, and the splits with him on

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Speaker 5: and off the field last year were startling, I mean,

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Speaker 5: especially against the run that you're you're walking a tight

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Speaker 5: that you're even.

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Speaker 2: Able to do it.

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Speaker 5: But if you also look at it this way too,

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Speaker 5: Like I understand they have a lot of cap space,

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Speaker 5: but they don't have much in the way of draft resources.

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Speaker 2: They don't have a number two.

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Speaker 5: You really only have one more resource to add a

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Speaker 5: big thing. It's your first round pick, you know, and

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Speaker 5: the third round picks not even close to the same.

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Speaker 5: You've got your first round pick, and maybe if you

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Speaker 5: get creative, you could trade for somebody's contract down the

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Speaker 2: But that first round pick has to be a dtackle.

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Speaker 2: It has to be. It has to be. And like

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Speaker 2: you said, you only get one bite at this apple.

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Speaker 4: Mm because you're you're not getting anything in the second

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Speaker 2: You're not in that conversation.

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Speaker 3: I did ask omark con today if he would be interested,

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Speaker 3: knowing that he's got some comp picks coming next year,

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Speaker 3: whether trading the compicks next year, whether they're trading down

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Speaker 2: We can move you know, up, down, trade future picks.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're not static, they're not stuck where they're

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Speaker 5: they have one massive resource.

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Speaker 4: how far back you move, you'll know what the reliability

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Speaker 4: cam Ward at the top of your board. Right, there's

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Speaker 4: a number of names you could just go ahead and

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Speaker 4: cross off. Tyler Warren is not going to be there, yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: you know that dual Carter, not that we need him,

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Speaker 2: Sure, So, yeah, Matt and I do this every year.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll come up wherever the Steelers are picking at

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Speaker 3: and this year it's twenty one.

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Speaker 2: We'll come up with our list of twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Guys that we feel like the Steelers would be interested

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Speaker 4: Of course, yeah, you don't bet Nye, but that's one

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Speaker 4: of course, come up with twenty one names.

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Speaker 3: And so therefore then you start looking at, okay, which

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Speaker 3: one of these of these players is likely to be there?

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Speaker 2: But Whyboddy?

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Speaker 5: A really good exercise is like for this class last

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Speaker 5: I could get to twenty pretty quick.

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Speaker 5: It's like, of the top twenty prospects, five of them

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Speaker 5: Would you even go receiver? I mean, like all of

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Speaker 2: Nobody cares about. That nobody cares about.

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Speaker 4: And also you can't get into those previous twenty draft

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Speaker 4: I mean, you have an idea based on their roster

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Speaker 2: Your pro scouting staff has a pretty good idea. They

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: You talk, You talk to the other guys, even though

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Speaker 4: the names might not be Oh, but you'll.

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Speaker 2: Talk to the Browns. You'll talk to the Ravens. You

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Speaker 4: Listen, forget about the on the field one time to

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Speaker 4: two times a year that we don't like each other.

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Speaker 2: You're communicating.

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Speaker 3: So Marcid he's like, look, I'm good friends with John Schneider.

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Speaker 3: That's why that deal with DK Metcalfe came.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at look at that the Rams, you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So it happens all the time.

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Speaker 4: So I think people can't get enamored or obsessed with

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Speaker 2: Closed doors, all those guys are all friends. They're are all.

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Speaker 3: Over here now, and it's not like West Side Story

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Speaker 2: Hughes and the Capitulates are are there. Yeah, we're all

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Speaker 2: probably gonna see the Texans beat right here.

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Speaker 3: You might see Mike Toblin talking to John Harbaugh, you

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Speaker 4: I mean that's what this is, and I think people

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Speaker 4: You don't really see that, and that's why these moves

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you're on our side. The night though, we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, definitely, he's gonna the drinks are gonna be

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be challenging people, taking out other media gros. Exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's like, hey, hey, facts go, hey, hey, you see

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Speaker 5: But there is some logic to it as well, like

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Speaker 2: Whoever's picking twenty two.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if hypothetically the twenty second team in the draft

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Speaker 5: I know they're not going to swipe my guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of that. I'm willing to

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Speaker 4: But if somebody at twenty five is calling me that

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Speaker 2: Like, hey, hey, now you know why they're calling.

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Speaker 4: Hey, La, guess what, guys, these guys are three picks

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Speaker 4: behind you. I think they want your same guy. What

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Speaker 5: Because I'd rather you have them than them, and we

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Speaker 5: can we can swap one pick and throw me a

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Speaker 2: My guy or tah me.

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Speaker 3: Wonder if if those teams picking just ahead of the

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Speaker 2: Since he's ahead of at Arizona Arizona.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if those teams aren't going to be getting calls

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Speaker 3: late and well before the Steeler with teams trying to

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Speaker 2: Forget I gotta get ahead to for this. I think

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Speaker 4: We see the movement sometimes, and like even like last year,

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Speaker 4: It was like everything was moving around the board. But

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Speaker 2: See that from about seventeen to twenty five that.

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Speaker 2: He's getting up there in age. The Rams are a

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Speaker 2: know the guy. Yeah, we we got Matthew Stafford back.

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Speaker 3: Let's go get the next guy because we don't have

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Speaker 3: for some of those edge rushers because there's edge rushers

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Speaker 3: edge rushers are dudes. Yeah, and every if there's a

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Speaker 4: If there's an you have an edge rusher runt that

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Speaker 4: that's that's all you're hoping for. Just like, hey, stay

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Speaker 4: away from the interior, guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, take your edge, keep thinking about the outside guys.

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Speaker 5: You get yours on day too, because there's a lot

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Speaker 5: of them on Day two, right right, right, we'll get

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Speaker 5: our star. You know, Max, you mightn't know the answer

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Speaker 2: I mean, we know they're up here, right of course.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But I wonder did they ever say I want

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Speaker 5: Like I bet the team that has the earlier pick

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Speaker 2: It's it's some of that.

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Speaker 3: Back Larry Johnson situation where the steel when Kansas City

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Speaker 3: up for Larry Johnson because that's who everybody had walked

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Speaker 3: that's where Larry Johnson was kind of slotted to go

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Speaker 5: But I assume I don't know what team of Steelers

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Speaker 5: traded up to who had Divers City Kansas City at.

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Speaker 2: The original pick. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: When Kevin calls Kansas City and they say, well, you're

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Speaker 4: I'm not telling you, right, Yeah, yeah, because like I'm

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Speaker 5: I think it's bad for him to actually ask what

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Speaker 5: I assume so too, But I'd love to get a

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Speaker 5: GM being like if they're tight buds, You're like, you

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Speaker 5: want paul Maula, do you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, in a situation like that where it's a position.

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Speaker 3: Player quarterbacks, you always it's not everybody knows you're coming

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Speaker 3: up to get a quarterback. You're trading up into the

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Speaker 3: top five, You're coming to get a quarterback. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 3: trading up into the top ten, you're coming to.

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Speaker 2: Get a quarterback.

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Speaker 3: If you're trading to go to seventeen, who the hell

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Speaker 3: knows when the quarterbacks are gone? Yeah, at least now,

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Speaker 3: I mean after the quarterbacks. I mean that's we talked

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Speaker 3: for a quarterback. We talked about that last week, about

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Speaker 3: how much that has changed. In the last eight drafts,

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Speaker 3: there have been thirty quarterbacks taken in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, almost one per team. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: From two thousand, what was it, two thousand, eight years previous, right,

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Speaker 2: Like two thousand, two thousand and two to two thousand

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Speaker 3: That four year period there were fifteen quarterbacks taken. Period,

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Speaker 3: Like what it was, I mean half over that the.

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Speaker 2: Number of first round quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Basically eight decade, it was like eight quarterbacks were taken.

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Speaker 3: It was like two per year. It just didn't happen

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Speaker 3: all the time. But now, if you're a quarterback, you

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Speaker 3: get pushed into the first round. Even if you're a

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Speaker 3: third round talent, and that's where teams get into trouble

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Speaker 3: with this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, scarcity, right, and there's six last year, which obviously

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Speaker 5: You know, Lamar was an end of the first round

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Speaker 5: that if they don't trade up, he wouldn't accounted and

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Speaker 5: that one hit.

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Speaker 3: But the Bills moved. The Bills took ej Manuel the

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Speaker 3: first round. Ej Manuel was not a first round draft pick,

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Speaker 3: but anybody and Aaron were twenty five right when he

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Speaker 3: got drafted. So he said, never happens now, and nobody

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Speaker 5: But if you look for like a decade, there's usually

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Speaker 5: like two or three taken. Now there's like four or five.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, easily, because every team is looking for right and

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Speaker 4: you have perennial teams that just mess it up, that

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Speaker 2: Right, we got to go to the next one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, just look at what a lot of it's

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean even if it's a first round pick.

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Speaker 4: Like they want, they want they believe that the first

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Speaker 4: contracts the window that you got for the championship. Right,

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Speaker 4: I mean think about the Cardinals, right, they had Josh

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Speaker 4: Rose in the year before, first round, right top Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and then number one overall.

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Speaker 2: Pick you going you get Kyler Murty, you get rid

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Speaker 5: The top ten pick top ten, Yeah, Tom Gaden one year,

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Speaker 5: like a new coach comes in says, that's on style.

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Speaker 5: I want owners, said, fine, get rid of them. They

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Speaker 5: actually got a second round pick and return for Rosen,

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Speaker 5: which is a lot considering driving that car off the lot.

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Speaker 2: It should appreciate it even more than that.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, still that never would happen ten years ago

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Speaker 5: we just draft this guy one because you had to

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Speaker 5: pay those guys the money.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because they're paying Sam brad for you're paying

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Speaker 3: JaMarcus Russell.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's like, hey, we got we got to kick the

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Speaker 4: tires four or five six times before we know that

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Speaker 4: this is a dudge.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 5: The other thing is, like we talked about the cap.

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Speaker 5: These teams are richer than they used to be. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's all pennies compared to dollars. It's like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 5: a lot of money, but I got more money I

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Speaker 2: I don't care, you know, have more money I used to.

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Speaker 2: And there's a wait scale.

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Speaker 5: Yeah right, right right, I know Kyler's not going to

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Speaker 5: make the Sam Bradford or JaMarcus Russell contract.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna make the number one overall contract, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and five percent above what the previous number

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Speaker 4: one overall was, right right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it's you know, just because everybody else is running

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Speaker 3: round doesn't mean that the Steelers should then do.

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Speaker 2: That as well. And people could say, well, Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett was was grated as a first round guy

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Speaker 3: in that particular draft.

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Speaker 2: He was I've seen I go back and look google it.

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Speaker 2: It's all there.

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Speaker 4: And he was a guy that the Steelers saw his

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Speaker 2: The familiarity iant, you know question. They knew what they

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Speaker 3: Just because it didn't work out doesn't mean that that,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you take that swing, but you didn't. Again, it

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Speaker 2: was just a pick. You didn't trade up to go

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Speaker 2: get go, go get him. You didn't he fell in

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Speaker 3: You didn't mortgage everything. It fell into your lap and

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Speaker 3: you took a swing at it. You tried, it didn't

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Speaker 3: work out, you moved on. Uh you know you hear

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Speaker 3: the stuff. Well, the Steelers had a first round grade

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Speaker 3: on Mason Rudolph.

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Speaker 2: That's fine. They didn't take him in the first round. No.

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Speaker 2: I called his name out in the third round. There

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Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, if he had a first round grade,

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Speaker 4: yeah great, but he was there in the third round.

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Speaker 4: I remember walking up on stage looking at it, calling

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Speaker 4: his name, and then we went back in the third round.

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Speaker 4: Got chokes the chorps for you got two third round picks.

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Speaker 3: You know, once you get past those first fifteen players

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Speaker 3: in any draft, and it's usually around fifteen, the next

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Speaker 3: seventy guys are all going to have similar grades on

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Speaker 3: them exactly. You know when you when you were coming out,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure there were the backs you could go

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Speaker 3: into third round somewhere in that range.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I had a lates first first round grade. Is that

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Speaker 4: report And I was like, okay, thought I was going,

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Speaker 2: Again, could never happen. Never happened now, Yeah, but that

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Speaker 5: A grade less. If the fourth tackle in this draft

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Speaker 5: still would have went ahead of you, no doubt. Because

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Speaker 5: it's about money. It's all about the cap, and it's

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Speaker 5: all about finances and what you can get what you can't.

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Speaker 5: You can't get six nine dudes like you that can

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Speaker 5: play football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's scarcely now.

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Speaker 4: Back in my air, they're like, hey, we had a

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Speaker 4: but we don't have skill guys, right, because I mean

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Speaker 4: the one thing that.

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Speaker 5: Went they understood the cap as well, either to manipulate it.

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Speaker 5: They definitely not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because everybody was still standardized. Okay, there's gonna be

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Speaker 4: get a three year, you're gonna get a three year,

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Speaker 4: you're gonnaet a two year. Like they were just so

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Speaker 4: set up on putting everything on the on the Excel

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Speaker 4: spreadsheet right right, based off of their redacted data from

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Speaker 4: years before that. They didn't really understand this. Now you

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Speaker 4: parlay it and you move it around so much. Guys

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Speaker 4: why we have to trust what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: That's why Omar was brought in, right, you know exactly.

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Speaker 5: That's and how's he flipped that russ The last two

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Speaker 5: years and the addition of these compics aren't accidents. They

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Speaker 5: happened on purpose. He couldn't do it in the first

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Speaker 5: year you're there. But when you see the expiring contracts

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Speaker 5: going to command a lot in the open market. But

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Speaker 5: if we draft tackles that you can't exist, he's gonna

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Speaker 5: yield us a pick and we're gonna have two cheaper

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, We're gonna get our value back. Yeah, we're

442
00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,280
Speaker 4: never losing value over this prospect.

443
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:44,840
Speaker 2: Absolutely real quick.

444
00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:46,720
Speaker 5: You said something about picket in the familiar area. I

445
00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,800
Speaker 5: just wanted to throw this out there too, that as

446
00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,639
Speaker 5: a scout, one of your jobs is how can I

447
00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,320
Speaker 5: tell the decision makers how to best eliminate risk, and

448
00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,760
Speaker 5: the familiar area with Picket had a lot of that.

449
00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,960
Speaker 5: You know, there's no doubt they knew more about him

450
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 5: than Willis or Ritter or how I mean, how could

451
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,960
Speaker 5: you not? I mean you bet you got good buddies

452
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,160
Speaker 5: next door, these go asks or you see them every day,

453
00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:08,560
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, like, it doesn't mean it's a

454
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,520
Speaker 5: good pick or a bad pick, but it was thought out,

455
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,880
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, it was very it didn't work.

456
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,000
Speaker 2: Out, It doesn't mean it's a bad pick. Yeah.

457
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 4: And I think also, like you said, when you see

458
00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,679
Speaker 4: a guy every day, you understand the stuff that not

459
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,520
Speaker 4: everybody else is.

460
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,320
Speaker 2: Everybody else is looking for this information that you have available. Right,

461
00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,520
Speaker 2: you have more information than you walk off the field.

462
00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,280
Speaker 4: He's walking on the field every single day that there's practice.

463
00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,680
Speaker 2: How many those coaches you eat lunch with and see

464
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,680
Speaker 2: every day lunch room?

465
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,960
Speaker 4: And then hey, just happened to take a stroll on

466
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,480
Speaker 4: the second story balcony while Pitt's out there were practice?

467
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,399
Speaker 4: Oh okayssie his arm, I see what he goes through. Okay,

468
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 4: I like his workout. You know these things, and so

469
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,480
Speaker 4: you know, so when you get to Kenny Pikety you

470
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,959
Speaker 4: talk to you could be nuanced because like I got

471
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 4: as much information as I need over the last three years.

472
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,600
Speaker 2: Who total he lives in town? Yeah exactly. Okay, you

473
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,440
Speaker 2: passed your house on the way to work. You know

474
00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, your dorm or whatever.

475
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,160
Speaker 5: And I did the total opposite with recruits, like, oh,

476
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 5: let's go out back. Oh, the Steelers are practicing while

477
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 5: we're here.

478
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just looking. You guys want to watch Troy's hair,

479
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 2: it's flowing. I mean it's a windy day right now.

480
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,920
Speaker 2: Look at that young offensive tackle they drifted. He's like six'.

481
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 5: Nine the son and his dad From North. Alleghany you

482
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 5: think they want to Watch steeler? Practice oh, gosh, sure

483
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,880
Speaker 5: okay yeah Beaver. Falls OH i forgot their.

484
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,679
Speaker 2: Practicing you guys want to hang out, Here we can

485
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 2: go back in if you. Want you want to watch them,

486
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 2: Film you want to watch them? Play right?

487
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 5: Right you want to talk about academic stuff or you

488
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:31,879
Speaker 5: don't hang out and Wat steeler.

489
00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 3: Practice let's get to a, break. Guys he Is Matt,

490
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 3: williamson That's Max. STARKS i Am Dale. Lolly we are

491
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,439
Speaker 3: here In Palm Beach florida where the league meetings are

492
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 3: taking place here.

493
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,399
Speaker 2: At The, BREAKERS i feel like there's a little storm

494
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 2: rolling up. HERE i felt the. WIND i heard that it's. Cool,

495
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,879
Speaker 2: yeah suddenly things got really. Cool It's. Florida it is

496
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 2: the way it goes. Here we're going to take a.

497
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 2: Break we'll be back with more here on the drive

498
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:54,400
Speaker 2: right after.

499
00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 1: This he's The drive if With Dale lolly And matt

500
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,439
Speaker 1: williamsons on your twenty four to Seven home of The

501
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 1: black And Gold Steelers Nation.

502
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 3: RADIO i Am Dale lolly here With Max starks And

503
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 3: Matt williamson at The breakers here In Palm beach and

504
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,439
Speaker 3: Well if we get knocked off the air here at some,

505
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 3: point it's because The National Weather service has just said

506
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,160
Speaker 3: that strong thunderstorms over are predicted over a Royal Palm

507
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 3: beach or Near. Wellington this storm is nearly stationary hazard

508
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 3: winding gusts of forty five forty five to fifty miles

509
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 3: an hour of the radar indicated gusty winds and trees falling.

510
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 5: Down we were begging for a two mile an hour

511
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 5: wind an, hour as.

512
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 2: For somebody would ice cube in their mouth to blow on, us,

513
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 2: Right that's how bad it was. Earlier it sounds like

514
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: things are about to change around. There, yeah things could

515
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 2: get a little hairy.

516
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 3: Here so we'll see what, happens and we'll try to

517
00:21:59,040 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 3: stay on the air.

518
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 2: Here but in the, meantime on location can be an, adventure.

519
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: Folks this is the way it.

520
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 3: Is we're out we're outside here In, florida and uh,

521
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 3: well we don't do as many outdoors shows in uh,

522
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 3: like even at training, camp largely because of.

523
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 2: This we never. Know, yeah you just don't.

524
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 3: Know there were so many times when we were at

525
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 3: training camp where we're sett, up some bady to go

526
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,680
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden way we got to

527
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 3: get inside because stuff's.

528
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 5: Happening some of those training camp shows were, crazy, Though

529
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 5: like we'd be under a tent and it's pouring In

530
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 5: latrobe and our wonderful fans are, great but they just

531
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 5: think that tents for. Them and we're like on the

532
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 5: air with like four hundred fans on top of, us.

533
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 2: Right underneath, us like bringing onto the the. Microphone he

534
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 2: just pouring right in the electrical. Socket it's, like come,

535
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 2: on how just back up just a little, bit. Man,

536
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,199
Speaker 2: yeah the one year Were. Jesus they had.

537
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 3: Us we were out by the open of the gate

538
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 3: there where all the fans come, in uh, Huh and

539
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 3: we're right there when the when the fans come in

540
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: and it starts raining and they all come flocking to

541
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 3: our tent and we're still we're on the. Air people

542
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 3: are trying to ask us is this supposed to last?

543
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 5: Long and like we're on the, air You, seeah we

544
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 5: have a headset on, speaking, Right.

545
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,239
Speaker 4: YEAH i just WEAR i wear this for. Fun these

546
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 4: are ear. Muffs we're not.

547
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 2: Calling we're not calling in the weather, here, Yeah.

548
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 5: AND i can't hear you when these are over both

549
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 5: years when you're out there talking to, me, Right.

550
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens with. This but the weather

551
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 3: here has been. Okay it rained a little bit yesterday

552
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 3: but wasn't too. Bad but it Is, florida and stuff.

553
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 3: Happens your weather done, Here max is. Crazy things happen, Quick.

554
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 2: Yeah they do now now normally they don't last too.

555
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 4: Long when you see the nearly, stationary nearly, stationary that's

556
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 4: that's when you start to worry in the.

557
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 3: Hockey how could be nearly stationary with forty to fifty.

558
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 2: Mile an hour? Winds that is? CRAZY i, mean we

559
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 2: think those winds would blow it.

560
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 4: Something we could go with the atmospheric you, know empirical,

561
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 4: calculations but, Uh i'm just going to go with what they.

562
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 2: Said it's got to be an ocean. Thing, yeah it's

563
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 2: got to. Be did this one say nearly? Stationary?

564
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 5: Yes, ah, OKAY i kind of stop paying attention to

565
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 5: forty or fifty mile hour, trees.

566
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 2: Start putting stuff, down, yeah start looking. Up, yeah the

567
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: minnow could be lost exact. Point we'll see how that.

568
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 2: Goes probably this three hour tour. Last, yeah it's gonna

569
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 2: be picking. Up. YEAH i Think nate's the skipper, here

570
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 2: and that's definitely. Is he has a concerned look on

571
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: his face. Too he. Does, so, GUYS.

572
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 3: I did you know ask AS i Mentioned Omar khan

573
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 3: about the compensatory, picks.

574
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 2: And he said, that you, know, hey, look we didn't

575
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: do this by. Accident you, know this was part of

576
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: the plan.

577
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 3: Here we knew we had guys signed on one year

578
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 3: deals and if we lost, them then we're.

579
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 2: Going to get picks.

580
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 3: Back and so for again people to say that The

581
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 3: steelers had no, plan they don't know what they're doing

582
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 3: with this, stuff.

583
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: That's not exactly true, pushback And rome wasn't built in a.

584
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 5: DAY i, mean like taking a cut On wilson And

585
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 5: fields was logical for the other options that were available

586
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 5: one year ago in order to win in twenty twenty.

587
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 5: Four but he knows that the fans don't in my back.

588
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 5: Pocket even if they're not the, answers my investment's gonna

589
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 5: triple in terms of WHAT i gave up in, draft

590
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 5: in monetary money or monetary.

591
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: Resources for this. Stuff AND i find it really.

592
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 5: INTERESTING i saw a study of how much draft capital

593
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 5: every team has, used you, know basically all the way

594
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 5: through the two, thousands and if you look at like

595
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 5: The ravens and The, steelers they're basically equal organizations in

596
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 5: terms of where they. FINISHED i, mean they're both in

597
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 5: the playoffs a. Lot they're both. Good you, know they've gone.

598
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 5: Far they don't pick top, five you. KNOW i, mean

599
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 5: we can say that they're pretty comparable. Organizations but over that,

600
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 5: stretch The ravens have had a lot more draft capital

601
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 5: than The, steelers which isn't The steelers. Fault it's The

602
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 5: ravens being great at the comp. Game, now if you're

603
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 5: one of those teams that are great at the comp,

604
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 5: game AND i get an extra third or fourth pick every.

605
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 5: Year no one's great at. Drafting that's that's a. Misnomer

606
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 5: some teams are better than others at. Drafting dale might

607
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 5: hit fifty five percent AND i hit forty eight, Percent

608
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 5: so he's a better drafter than.

609
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: Me but it's not seventy verse. Twenty i'm you know

610
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 2: WHAT i.

611
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 5: Mean but if he has twenty picks AND i have,

612
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 5: ten his team's gonna.

613
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 2: Be a thousand times better than.

614
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 5: Me if he's a better, draft, well and it's the

615
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 5: thing twenty and he has, ten might will be better

616
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: Even i'm a worst.

617
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 3: Draft for, years The steelers really didn't work a lot

618
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 3: in the free agent, pool right.

619
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: Right they were all these one year.

620
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 3: Deals but now when you sign these, guys he's outside

621
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 3: guys to one year deals or a two year deal

622
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 3: and you're willing to allow them to, walk or you

623
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 3: trade for a guy and you allow him to walk

624
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: and they sign a new deal that works in the

625
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 3: factors in your comp. Game and that's what The ravens

626
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 3: have done.

627
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 5: Extreme over the, years extremely. Well they were ahead of the.

628
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 5: Curve i'm not saying The steelers are behind The. Ravens were.

629
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 5: Ahead The niners have been.

630
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: Ahead you.

631
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 5: Know right, now The steelers And niners are set up

632
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 5: for tons of compicts next. Year, yea and, yeah The

633
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 5: niners lost, guys but they were all. Due it's like

634
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 5: nausey and more that you knew were. Coming you know

635
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 5: that you're gonna get something in. Return it's absolute. GOLD

636
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 5: i mean, again the worst drafters give them ten picks

637
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 5: compared to the best drafters at.

638
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: Five the worst drafters will probably be better. Off you,

639
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 2: know they got, more, more more bites at the apple, apple,

640
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: Right i'll take two safeties and he wanted them to.

641
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 3: Hit it's one of the amazing things that YOU i

642
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 3: had ALWAYS i always find it funny after the after the,

643
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: draft the teams that that get graded well for.

644
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 2: Drafting oh they had a great.

645
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,959
Speaker 3: Draft yeah they had four first round they had two

646
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: first round, picks or they had three first round.

647
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: PICKS i would certainly hope better be better at itild the.

648
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 2: Draft yeah. Exactly oh you.

649
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 3: Got you Got wilson And Sauce gardner in the same.

650
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 2: Draft, GEE i that's a pretty good. Draft yeah, yeah

651
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: oh you picked. That oh that is. Shocking good for, you. Shocking, yeah,

652
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 2: yeah you could my daughter could have picked those two guys.

653
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 5: Exactly, meanwhile you look At Kevin colbert's career and his

654
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 5: average first round pick that he, earned not where he

655
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 5: selected for Like, troy it was twenty four is twenty.

656
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 5: FOURTH i, mean there's a lot of thirties in. There

657
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 5: there's a lot of twenty, eight twenty. Nine's there's not many.

658
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 5: Fours two there's no force and. Two's that means No Jonathan,

659
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 5: ogden's No, biselli's you, know like the no brainer offensive.

660
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 2: Tackles you have no chance at.

661
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 4: You And Mike tomlin said it best right when he

662
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 4: when he walked up To Chase young when they were

663
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 4: playing in watching that one.

664
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: Year he's, like hey, Man he's, like you're a good.

665
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 4: PLAYER i never want to be bad enough to draft, you, right, yeah.

666
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: Right, yes.

667
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 3: Right the more impressive thing is that you did get

668
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 3: The Cam, haywards you did get THE. Tj, Wats you

669
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 3: sure Get Ben, roethlis but you Got Troy Paula. Maaler

670
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 3: these Are hall Of fame players you found that talent

671
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 3: that you found at the end of the first. Round

672
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 3: are in the middle of the first.

673
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 5: Round no respect Of Miles. Garrett but my sister could

674
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 5: draft The Miles. GARRETT i, mean, yeah my daughter could

675
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 5: Draft Lebron or that's not brainer, locker you, know, right

676
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 5: those guys are. Easy the other thing that day AND

677
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 5: i talk about A, ton it's not an accident that

678
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 5: they're probably gonna Add Aaron, Rogers, slay Even. Metcalf none

679
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 5: of those guys were, UFA's so they don't count against

680
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 5: your comp, game you, know Like sleigh was, Cut rogers was.

681
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 5: Cut they're much more attractive than the, others say or

682
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 5: the other.

683
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: Corner that's just a TRUE ufa because Now i'm getting

684
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: an extra. Pick you sign him to you sign. It

685
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: let's say they sign.

686
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 3: Pick a cornerback that The murphy or to a four,

687
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 3: year eighty million dollar. Deal, well that cancels out the

688
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 3: third round pick you're gonna get For Dan, moore right,

689
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: right just a.

690
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: Watch so now you've just lost that third round.

691
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 3: Pick you get the, player which is, nice but is

692
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: he that much better than one year Of Darius?

693
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: Slay that's what you got to ask.

694
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 5: Yourself and the beauty is if you can continue to

695
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 5: add com picks every, Year like next, year there's goun

696
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 5: be A ton. Coming can the year after? That can

697
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 5: they consistently have a trickle in or a. Wave and

698
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 5: the beauty is if you draft, well you never let

699
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 5: your good guys hit free, agency and you just kind

700
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 5: of dumped the spare change knowing That i'll draft behind,

701
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 5: him you, know Like i'm not picking On, nause but

702
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 5: he wasn't a great fit in his own, scheme so they.

703
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 2: Probably knew not to say he's got a great. Back

704
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: it doesn't, matter.

705
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 5: Yea so they probably knew a year ago that he'll

706
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 5: yield us a.

707
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: Compic we'll find a better one in this. Draft you.

708
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 5: Know it's it's just forward, planning and people don't think

709
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 5: this team plans things, out aren't paying.

710
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: Attention and think about the tampering, period, RIGHT i mean tampering.

711
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 4: Period now gives you a bigger glimpse into that because

712
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 4: like you, said you look At San, francisco they let

713
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 4: go twelve, veterans, right ten were signed before we even

714
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 4: got to free.

715
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: Agency, steelers same.

716
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 4: Thing not a lot of guys on the, Streets, no

717
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 4: in the streets that that we let, go those are

718
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 4: all gonna be. There and the teams that were leaving three, guys,

719
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 4: yep you know that that are still sitting.

720
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: There it's like you aren't good at the cop.

721
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 4: Game we aren't going to see. That what's your acquisitions

722
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 4: because we do this. Sheet spreadsheet shows key, additions key.

723
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 4: Losses if your key losses is greater than your key,

724
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 4: additions you're gonna gets that the other way. Around it's pretty.

725
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 5: Simple key editions weren't, UFAs you're definitely gonna compicks if

726
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 5: they were cut, dudes, right they don't. Count they don't,

727
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 5: count or if you sign them after the. DRAFT i

728
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 5: mean there's a lot of dudes sitting out there now

729
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 5: that are good football. Player we're going to play football

730
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 5: somewhere this. Year but if you sign him after the,

731
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 5: draft they don't count. Anymore go GRAB. Jk dobbins or

732
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: whoever you, want you, KNOW i mean someone that's a

733
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 5: good football, player you.

734
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: Know, yeah it's all part of the game. Here AND

735
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: i think it's just.

736
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: Loopholes, yeah there's and everybody wants to play the loopholes

737
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 3: and and you, know push.

738
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: Pushes, Exactly steelers just push.

739
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 3: Drafters and no it's not because the draft is In

740
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 3: pittsburgh next.

741
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 2: Year that has nothing to do with. This this is

742
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 2: just how it happened to.

743
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: A ligne because this is basically year three For omar

744
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 3: and this, group.

745
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 5: And he's and he's had a, chance and LIKE i,

746
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 5: said he can really put his stamp on the whole.

747
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: Plan and he's churned this roster actively for the last two.

748
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: Years, well that's you, know that's the other thing that

749
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 3: gets so. AGAIN i tweeted at all my stuff today

750
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: and all the quotes and. Stuff steelers haven't made any.

751
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: Changes what are you talking. About they haven't made any.

752
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: Changes that's.

753
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 4: Ridiculous there's been a hundred new faces over the last

754
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 4: two years that have been in training.

755
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 5: Camp, YEAH i mean that scouting, departments an.

756
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: Absurd number of.

757
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 3: Guys the coaching staff has been almost completely turned over

758
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: in the last two. Years you went out and you

759
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: traded FOR Dk. Metcalf nobody wants to consider that a

760
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 3: free agency, move but realistically that was a free agent.

761
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 6: Move.

762
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, well they weren't making that trade twenty years ago. Either,

763
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 5: NO i mean The maka trade was a big. DEAL i,

764
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 5: mean how often were they trading For Pro bowl players

765
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 5: over the our. Lifetime not very. Often it just doesn't.

766
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 3: Happen it doesn't, happen period because usually those guys don't get,

767
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: traded so.

768
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: Like to, me this is Even the best example is

769
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 5: from the day after they Drafted David dicastro in the first.

770
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 5: Round there was a ten year stretch from WHAT i,

771
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 5: remember where they drafted a total of like four offensive,

772
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,959
Speaker 5: linemen one of which in the first two. Rounds some

773
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 5: of them are fifth. ROUNDERS i, mean There's chukes in.

774
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: There there's more in the long.

775
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 5: Stretch and the other part of, it you Had. Munchak

776
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 5: you could take a free agent and tournament Into villain

777
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 5: a waver or foster, too so you had some magic the.

778
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 5: Starter but it's really bad economically to go ten years

779
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 5: with only drafting two or three linemen because there's such a. Shortage,

780
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 5: Well omar comes in here and he's drafted five and

781
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 5: two years two in the first, round one and the.

782
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: Second you're, like, yeah that's just.

783
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 5: ECONOMICS i, mean the game has changed since. Then i'm

784
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 5: not condemning the old way of doing. Things they were very,

785
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 5: successful but there's no way you can go that long

786
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 5: without putting draft resources into o line because it's the

787
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 5: hardest thing to.

788
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: Find it's not a.

789
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 5: Quarterback and If Dan moore hits free, agency he gets

790
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 5: twenty million and you have a third round pick, back

791
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 5: so you get more than even put into.

792
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: THEM i mean it's great, exactly and you're not putting

793
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 4: that bill right, right and now you get to go

794
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 4: find the new young lineman that could come give you

795
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 4: at least four or five years and then he'll do the.

796
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 3: Same my favorite one of that was they Drafted Calvin

797
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 3: beacham as almost he was almost the last pick in the.

798
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 3: Draft there were like two guys taken after. Him, yeah

799
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 3: and you were able to turn him Into James.

800
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 2: Connor.

801
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 5: Yep so sounds like the storm's coming, here pretty hot and.

802
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 2: Heavy they might want us.

803
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 3: To, okay, well before we get out of, HERE i

804
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: did want to play back What Omar kahn had to say.

805
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 2: Today so let's do that to a close out the.

806
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 2: Show we're gonna get to a break right.

807
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 3: Now when we come, back we'll hear what The Omar

808
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 3: kahn had to say to the assembled media here earlier.

809
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 2: Today right after, this he Is Max, Starks I'm Dale.

810
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 3: Lolly that Is Matt, williams and you're listening to the

811
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 3: special edition of The drive here on The Steelers Audio.

812
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: Network he's The drive With Dale lolly And Matt williamsons

813
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of The black

814
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: And Gold Steelers Nation.

815
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: Radio welcome. Back I'm Dale. Lalli he Is Matt williams

816
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 2: And Max.

817
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: STARKS i just stepped away, here but we're gonna UH

818
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 3: i DID i did want to play Back omar con

819
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 3: today at The STEELERS gm over at the media. Table

820
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 3: here a lot of a lot of questions here For

821
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 3: omar regarding the particular this particular, team about the, quarterback

822
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 3: all that kind of.

823
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: Stuff so let's hear What omar had to.

824
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 6: SAY i know you guys will ask about THE qb.

825
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 7: Position i'll just say, that you, know we always go

826
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 7: to training camp with four, quarterbacks and we have two

827
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 7: under contract right. Now so all options are on the, table,

828
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 7: uh through free, agency you, know trade or draft, Obviously

829
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 7: so all options are on the.

830
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 6: Table but have been taking me, Questions, omark even if

831
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 6: things don't work.

832
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: Out with that one guy you're pursuing The trana allowed.

833
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 8: To talk about you Steele, field you have to bring

834
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 8: in a veteran quarterback.

835
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 6: Regarding, yeah you, Know i'd Say i'd be to say

836
00:35:58,719 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 6: that's a safe. Assumption.

837
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: More there was a.

838
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 6: Report today THAT dk was throwing With. Aaron can you

839
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 6: read anything into? THAT i wasn't, there but, uh that's that's.

840
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 6: Good if that did, Happen i'd say THAT i.

841
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 9: That did that visit that happens week and a half.

842
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 9: Ago what was your takeaway from Having rogers in the

843
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 9: building and having come it was?

844
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 7: POSITIVE i, thought you, KNOW i thought it was important

845
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 7: for uh us to get to know him and for

846
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 7: him to get to know. Us And i'm glad we

847
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 7: we we were part of.

848
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 6: It mike, said there's not necessarily deadline for everybody can

849
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 6: make a. Decision but when you look at, this you're

850
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 6: expecting the decision in, days, weeks. Months at what kind

851
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 6: of time frame were your? Anticipating you?

852
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 7: KNOW I I i learned a long time ago, that,

853
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 7: uh when it comes to free, agency you, know, uh

854
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 7: things just kind of happened when they.

855
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 6: HAPPENED i learned that a long time, ago and you,

856
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 6: know se where it. Goes anything you could say about

857
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 6: the offer be a one year or two. Years, now you,

858
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 6: know we don't we don't discuss the. Contract goo. Chat,

859
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 6: well why y y you don't have a second round

860
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 6: draft pick now after THE dk? Trade do you.

861
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: Wanna try to get back into that situation that you've

862
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 3: gathered or potentially gathered some compics next.

863
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 6: Year would that be a possibility.

864
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 3: To Maybe i'll lose some of those get back into

865
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 3: the second round.

866
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 6: This, year or, yeah THAT'S i would. SAY i think

867
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 6: you guys have got to know me over the last

868
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 6: couple of, years you, KNOW i THINK i think all options.

869
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 7: Are a, table you, know staying, put moving, out moving.

870
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 7: Back i'm Not i'm. Not i'm open to. Anything so

871
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 7: if it makes sense for us.

872
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 10: Looking at the the process of the compact formula and

873
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 10: everything like, that looking like the projected to get at

874
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 10: the maximum before as a stand right, now is that

875
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 10: intentional what you guys are doing that but pursuing guys

876
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 10: that when you sign guys they.

877
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 11: Don't play into that pot that intentional Saying cambo that Next,

878
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 11: YEAH i would.

879
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 6: SAY i, MEAN i wouldn't, necessarily you, know say that

880
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 6: it's not for next.

881
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 7: Year What i'll say is, that you, know we were

882
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 7: in a position this year we kind of understood where

883
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 7: our contracts were with our free, agency and that there's

884
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 7: a that there possibly does exist good possibly it does

885
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 7: exist for us to, uh you, know acquire compis and

886
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 7: so that's that's always been a part of the process this.

887
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 7: Year and you, KNOW i mean you you guys are intelligent.

888
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 6: People you, guys you guys can kind of read through

889
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 6: it and see. It but you know the fact that

890
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 6: we've had the opportunity to acquire.

891
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 7: PICKS i don't know exactly how it was gonna shake out,

892
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 7: yet but that's obviously been something like to take it

893
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 7: into consideration with you.

894
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 6: Take a great liberty start with friend. Us. Uh you

895
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 6: guys should usually like to use free agency.

896
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 3: To either supplement the draft or possibly you, know the

897
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 3: limit of what you have to do with you you

898
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 3: didn't get a defensive.

899
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 6: Line.

900
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 8: Uh does that increase the likelihood or the possibility of

901
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 8: the urgency to get AN nba?

902
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 7: One you know we we have you, KNOW i like

903
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 7: the group we still. Have you, know we did sign

904
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 7: That kawali uh he he's done some really good. Things

905
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 7: Logan lee is healthy he he uh he has a

906
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 7: chance to step up.

907
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 6: And be a part of. It but you, KNOW i

908
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 6: feel good about some of the guys now on the.

909
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 7: Line but you, Know, jerry as AS i always, say

910
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 7: is if there's an opportunity to improve any any, position,

911
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 7: group we're gonna look at.

912
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 8: It was there a desire big make sure defensive line

913
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 8: to eventually give that the same kind of a.

914
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: Desire big picture with.

915
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 8: Defensive line to eventually give it the same kind of

916
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 8: attention you give offensive Line over the last.

917
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 6: Two, years especially with him getting, older it Was cam getting.

918
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 2: Older, Yeah.

919
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 7: I'd, say you, know you, know the trenches are. Important

920
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 7: i've always talked about those big guys on the both.

921
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 6: Sides of the.

922
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 7: Ball so you, know we we understand where we're at

923
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 7: the trade OF.

924
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 11: Dk does that change any big picture thing with With

925
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 11: george or or your thoughts on him in the.

926
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 7: Future, no you, know you need more than one receiver

927
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 7: in this, league and we're fortunately we Have george And

928
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 7: calvin and excited about What roman's gonna be able to

929
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 7: do for.

930
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 6: Us So kenny's putting free agency you wanted to get

931
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 6: done if you, Haven't, ah that's a good, question you.

932
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 6: KNOW i think when you go into pre agency you

933
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 6: always you set.

934
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 7: Out a plan and hopefully things work out and you.

935
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 7: Adjust and BUT i don't think anybody will tell.

936
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 6: You that they. Can they feel like they can address

937
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 6: everything in one free agency.

938
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 8: Round when you look At jalen do do you view

939
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 8: him as a starter capable, player and how do you

940
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 8: view him in the long.

941
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 6: TERM i do view him as a as a starter.

942
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 7: CAPABLE i, mean he's he's played a lot of football for,

943
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 7: us so obviously we have a lot of confidence and.

944
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 6: You, know he has a big opportunity this year and

945
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 6: we'll see how it.

946
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 9: Goes when we talked with you a month ago at the,

947
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 9: combat you said it was your preference to resign Either

948
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 9: justin Or. Russ obviously neither one of them ended up under.

949
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 6: Contract are you at all surprise in the way that

950
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 6: the things worked? Out you, know it's free.

951
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 7: AGENCY i think we we understand and you know when

952
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 7: when you go into free, agency you, know players.

953
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 6: Have the opportunity to look at other. Things we have

954
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 6: the opportunity to look.

955
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 7: At other, things and and things just sort of happened With.

956
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 6: Justin did it come down to better opportunity for? Him

957
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 6: was it his decision or was there a price tag?

958
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 6: DETERMINATION i mean it but he was, free SO i,

959
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 6: mean you guys left That.

960
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 7: Justin BUT i will, say, Man justin class act AND

961
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 7: i can't say enough good things about.

962
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 6: Him he's great to have a. Round what was your

963
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 6: offer competitive of what the justice.

964
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 7: We won't, GET i can't Get i'm not gonna get

965
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 7: into a contract.

966
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 6: Stuff but you know he decided to go to The.

967
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 9: Jets what point did you kind of realized that he

968
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 9: was gonna end up testing the market BECAUSE i know

969
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 9: when you expressed expressed preference it was to have it

970
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 9: done before the the year.

971
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 7: Started, yeah you, KNOW i don't know if there was

972
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 7: an exact moment where we we we felt that, way

973
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 7: but you, know, again when the players are.

974
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 6: Created you kind of understand and so that's how it's gonna.

975
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 6: Go and you know he's not not just, him but

976
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 6: you know all these, guys you, know if they have

977
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 6: to think it's they.

978
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 7: Don't feel good about, something they'll they'll, uh they'll take

979
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 7: it to pre agency and.

980
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 6: Just see where it. Goes of a trade at the quarterback,

981
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 6: position that is that something you.

982
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 8: Can kind of plan, for think about or you just

983
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 8: kind of have to be in a position LIKE i

984
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 8: don't think any was talking About Geno smith getting trade

985
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden he gets. Traded you

986
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 8: just kind of have to work in the moment with

987
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 8: that kind of.

988
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 7: Thing, yeah you, KNOW i think by this time as

989
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 7: you're asking as we are right, here we kind of have.

990
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 6: A feel for what's out there and what other teams are.

991
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 7: Thinking and then you, know conversations uh you know happened.

992
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 6: Here they happened on the phone and started the combine

993
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 6: usually and so we have an idea what's what's, uh

994
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 6: what's out there at this point that's it's not a quarterbacks.

995
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: Said the.

996
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 6: Combine he had playmakers on. Offense then a couple of

997
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 6: weeks later you get D k did he was he

998
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 6: always in the mind or did that come quite?

999
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 7: Quickly just a good, question just think back, here what's

1000
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 7: your definition will come?

1001
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 6: Quickly, like, uh lesson a? Week i'd say that it

1002
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 6: was probably THINK i think that's that's probably. Accurate it's

1003
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 6: probably just a little lesson a.

1004
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 2: Week keep.

1005
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 6: Size uh we had had he did a press. CONFERENCE

1006
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 6: R yeah he did. It, YEAH i mean you saw.

1007
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 6: Him he's a.

1008
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 7: Playmaker really enjoying getting to know. Him, uh you, GUYS

1009
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:54,919
Speaker 7: i think you guys will.

1010
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 6: Too. H he has a desire to win and be

1011
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 6: great AND i love that about.

1012
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 7: Him and that's just excited when he's gonna bring to

1013
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 7: call Up his.

1014
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 4: Free agency approach Was mason always in the back of

1015
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 4: your mind as nothing that you wouldn't have as an.

1016
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 7: Option i'd, say you, know When mason signed a one

1017
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 7: year deal last, year you, know obviously he would be

1018
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 7: available to. Anyone and but we had a relationship with,

1019
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 7: him and you, know felt really good About mason when

1020
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 7: he was, here and like you, know last, year different

1021
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 7: things happened and you, know we he uh he ended

1022
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 7: up planning In tennessee, obviously and, uh you, know we

1023
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 7: we we had a need of the position that you guys,

1024
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 7: know and and he was available and had an interest

1025
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 7: in coming. Back and you, know our our experience With

1026
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 7: mason's been you, know relatively. Positive so he made sense

1027
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 7: with the. Future have a lot of confidence In.

1028
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 9: Mason do you feel like it in the timing of

1029
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 9: when you ACQUIRED, dk was there any anxiety or nerves

1030
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 9: that you're acquiring a big time playmaker of his caliber

1031
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 9: before you have the quarterback situation Where doud did you

1032
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 9: almost maybe go out of order at?

1033
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 6: All or is that a Consideration that's a good. Question

1034
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 6: i'll just, say when you have the opportunity, to, uh you,

1035
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 6: know obtain a player of that, caliber at least the

1036
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 6: way we SEE, DK I i don't think you. Can you,

1037
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 6: know you wait. Around at those, opportunities you have to

1038
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 6: jump at.

1039
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 7: Him and it it worked, out and you, know he

1040
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 7: wanted to be here when we wanted him, here and

1041
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 7: we were gonna let.

1042
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 6: That opportunity to.

1043
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 9: Go did he express any apprehension about not knowing who

1044
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 9: might be throwing him to?

1045
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 7: Football you, know we had a lot of conversations about you,

1046
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 7: know he he had conversations with the coaches and and

1047
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 7: myself about the roster and the team and, uh you,

1048
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 7: know we had some candid conversations.

1049
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 6: And he he, uh he, knew you, know w what

1050
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 6: our plans were and you, know still all coming.

1051
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 7: Together when when we talked to Like tom when he

1052
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 7: said there wasn't necessarily a, deadline but he did call

1053
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 7: a training camp a line of.

1054
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 3: Demarcation are you comfortable letting it play out to that

1055
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 3: point Where Aaron?

1056
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 6: Rodgers you, KNOW, i LIKE i SAID i WHEN i

1057
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 6: WHEN i got.

1058
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 7: Here you, know we have two wonder contract we need

1059
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 7: we need at least two More so all options are

1060
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 7: on the table right, now how more with THE k

1061
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 7: one More so the process did become available when you

1062
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 7: go To mike And art And Arthur.

1063
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 6: Arthur Art grooming and, say, hey you'll never guess who

1064
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 6: might be.

1065
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,479
Speaker 10: Available how did that process work?

1066
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 7: Out so you, know amongst the, GMS i, like you,

1067
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 7: know we we have a conversations and you, know we'll

1068
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 7: WE'LL i Know John schneider very well and, uh you

1069
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 7: know we we touched. FACE i can't remember who called who,

1070
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 7: first and you, know the kind of conversations just kind.

1071
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 6: Of took, took, uh took on a life of its.

1072
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 6: Own from, There god's two more so we can get.

1073
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 8: In you got a forty million dollar edge rusher in THE, Nfl,

1074
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 8: now is that's where you saw that market?

1075
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 6: Going and uh what do you make of? That uh

1076
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 6: you're talking about the H.

1077
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 7: Garretts at the top of The, yeah, YEAH i mean it's,

1078
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 7: UH I i don't expect salaries to go, down so expect.

1079
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 6: Them to keep, increasing uh year to. Year i'm sure

1080
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 6: that's like in your industry, too, right and uh do

1081
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 6: you see that you being able to play in that

1082
00:45:59,280 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 6: market at that?

1083
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 7: Point i'll just you, know we're not Gonna i'm not

1084
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 7: gonna get the contract. Numbers but if you're you're front

1085
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 7: to T, J i Assume i'll just say. THAT I,

1086
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 7: Uh i'm very hopeful THAT tj will finish his career

1087
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 7: as a stealing.

1088
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 11: Well more after a couple of years of having a

1089
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 11: couple of one year situation to, quarterback do you are

1090
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 11: you confident and then whether it's this year or in

1091
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 11: the draft next, year are you confident in the long

1092
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Speaker 11: term plane at the building to address a long term

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Speaker 11: plan head?

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Speaker 7: Quarterback you, know it's it's not an Easy, uh it's not,

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Speaker 7: Ideal i'll put it that, way you, know having to you, know.

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Speaker 6: Dress we addressed it last, Year we're dressing it this.

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Speaker 6: Year at some.

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Speaker 7: Point you, know there has to be a we have

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Speaker 7: to find, that, uh the long term, Solution i'll. Say

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Speaker 7: so that might happen this, year you, know it can

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Speaker 7: happen next, year but, uh you know in the meantime

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Speaker 7: where we're we're gonna keep doing whatever we can to

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Speaker 7: win the championship this.

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Speaker 2: Year all, right.

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Speaker 6: You.

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Speaker 3: Guys and that Was steelers general Manager You're Omar kahn

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Speaker 3: with the Assembled pittsburgh media earlier, today and, uh interesting

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Speaker 3: stuff there and a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of interesting stuff going on around here, too.

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Speaker 3: Around here as, Well AND i know we were supposed

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Speaker 3: to be on for three hours. Today but there is

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Speaker 3: a storm that is threatening us here and we're outside

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Speaker 3: lightning and, Thunder and DID i mentioned? Lightning if the

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Speaker 3: Late Craig wolfy was, here he would already be in the. Car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah the wolf a.

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Speaker 3: Family for those that don't, KNOW i Think wolf had

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Speaker 3: like three family members struck by lightning over the.

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Speaker 2: Years he was deathly afraid fighters and.

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Speaker 5: Lightning for a, big, strong strapping. FELLOW i always made

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Speaker 5: the joke he's just a big.

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Speaker 3: TARGET i can remember us doing his show at Took

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Speaker 3: Off OTAs one year and it started, thundering AND i

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Speaker 3: See wolf, going, oh, yeah, well what's. Wrong well there's there's.

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Speaker 3: Thunder i'm, like, okay, yeah but we're back under the

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Speaker 3: under the awning. HERE i DON'T i don't do, Thunder,

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Speaker 3: Okay so we moved it back. Inside but uh, yeah

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Speaker 3: it's Been we'll be back again. Tomorrow hopefully we're able

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Speaker 3: to get a three hour show in tomorrow, again whether

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Speaker 3: it's not supposed to rain. Tomorrow but apologize to everybody

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Speaker 3: about the show getting cut short today and we promised three.

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Speaker 2: Hours but we can't control mother. Nature that's just the

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Speaker 2: way it.

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Speaker 3: Is but for my Partner Matt williamson For Max starks

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Speaker 3: making sure that everybody gets all the info, here as

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Speaker 3: well For justin Miller beck in the studio making sure

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Speaker 3: the show sounds all right on the. Air I'm Dale.

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Speaker 3: Lallie we thank you for listening to this edition of

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Speaker 3: The drive on The Steelers Audio.

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Speaker 2: Network