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We don't go to the office, We build it. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.519 Good afternoon, Steeler Nation. It's the drive on the Steelers 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.400 Audio Network. West Shuoler and Matt Williamson with you here 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.080 for the next three hours for the next few weeks, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.480 of course, at Chucknollfield on the beautiful campus of Saint 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.960 Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania for Steelers Training Camp twenty 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.199 twenty six. Matt, it's the same, but it's a little 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.120 bit different this year. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.440 I was just saying the same thing. It's a beautiful day. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.440 Usually when you know, I've done this the drive longer 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.119 than you have. But we usually come on at three 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.280 a training camp and there's practice going on. Nope, it's 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.560 just groundskeepers out there, and there's it's kind of a 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.440 ghost town at this point. There are some new developments 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.960 on campus. You know, we're looking what would you call 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:27.320 that that. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:28.840 I'm glad you pointed that out. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:29.120 Yeah. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.520 Yeah, it's almost like a hospitality suite. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:32.319 It's pretty cool. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.320 But it's it's in the end zone here to our right, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.200 and it's a it's almost like a standalone building. It 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.360 is like real brick and mortar. It's not just a 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:41.119 tent or anything. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.400 Like a lot of glass, a lot of glass. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.920 For windows for viewing, a lot of seating options there. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.160 And then there's kind of a level roof platform with 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.480 with some tent coverage on top two. So I imagine that 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.720 that serves well for training camp where you know you 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:55.880 can kind of use that as. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:57.800 You know, maybe mister Rooney the IP. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.960 Yeah, it's sponsors and and other you know, members of 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:02.920 the ownership group. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.400 And then I'm like suret of the super box, like 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.320 the club, the. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.840 Champions Club there in the end zone at Akrocher stadium 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.720 and then I'm sure too, you know, for from Saint 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.160 Vincent's perspective, I bet you being able to get up 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.320 on that roof that platform there and kind of do 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.919 some evaluating of practice. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.840 I wonder if from there, yeah, there all twenty two 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.760 from there or something like that. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.440 But it is it is funny how that works, Matt. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.320 Every year when we come out here, there's usually something 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.560 new on campus. Yeah, you know, and this year there's 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.960 like a little hospitality type suite thing, uh in the 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.400 end zone. There's also a brand new athletics specificity on 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.239 the other side of us that was in the process 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.560 of being built last year and is now complete, and 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.200 it looks pretty sick Matt. Yeah, it's like a I mean, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.359 I guess, for lack of better terms, it's it's almost 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.200 like a rec center that you would expect to see 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:52.520 on a college campus. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.280 But it's brand new. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.720 It's really nice, and it's got a big indoor field 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.880 that I'm sure with the weather that we get out 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.600 here in this region, they'll need at some point. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.480 Yeah, and clearly the weather comes and goes here pretty quick. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.240 We talked about it a lot through the mountains and 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.840 it's it's something we always have to monitor. But I 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.160 really thought the Steelers as a football team got short 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.079 changed on rain days quite a. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.040 Bit, especially last year. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.799 Felt like it was rough because I think their only 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.760 option was basically go to the gym and do a 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.359 walk through. And you and I had to go to 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.239 the gym today, right, that was a experience in itself. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.160 Matt and I had to do some modeling earlier today. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.960 We did runway work, video stuff, and then they sent 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.520 us over to photography. I felt like I felt like 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.200 Beyonce with all the wardrobe changes and everything that they 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.400 were doing there is like the Taylor Swift Eras tour. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.360 Yeah, we were like supermodels. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:38.440 But I said that to you. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.920 At one point Matt and I were over in the 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.680 gym earlier. That's the first time I've ever been in 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.680 the gym here, and we were kind of like, oh, yeah, 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.480 I could imagine why they weren't fans of having to 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:49.480 it's a it's. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.280 A small school gymnasium. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:51.840 Uh. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 The new facility across the way here will be much 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.760 better when when weather demands that they move inside. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.000 I mean, there's always pros and cons to where you 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.440 have training camp. You know, like a lot of teams 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.920 just stay at their facility. They have the indoor, they have, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.800 you know, the same lockers. They don't have to move 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.720 everything out here. I'm very much a proponent of coming 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.600 to Saint Vincent for a lot of different reasons, and 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.320 we'll talk about it through the whole time we're here, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.760 but mostly camaraderie tradition. I think that all that stuff matters, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.760 and I frankly think it helps you win football games. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.800 But I did think one of the definite cons was 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.800 rain days. You could not get a ton done the 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.039 last twenty thirty years. Now they're gonna go over there 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.080 running routes full speed. I haven't been in it, but 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.640 I assume that there's a field turf situation or I 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.200 don't know if it's a hundred of field and what's 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:33.400 in there. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.800 Quite a hundred, but it's much bigger than the gymnasium. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.920 I mean, the indoor south side is not one hundred either. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.479 I mean, you could get a lot done. It doesn't 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.480 have to be a full full field, so that's great. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.640 It is always always a lot of differences here, always 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.039 a lot of moving and shaken, But the chief most 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.520 amongst them, Matt, is the change in head coach. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.279 And just across the board. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.480 For the most part, there are still some familiar faces 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.360 on the coaching staff, but a lot of turnover. Of course, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.440 Mike McCarthy at the helm of the Steelers year after 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.440 nineteen years of Mike Tomlin. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.240 So I made this reference to you. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.560 I think it was on Monday, but it almost feels 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.080 like first day of school at a new school. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.680 I think that's a good way of looking at it. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.440 You said that the other day. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.599 You know that you have a report time, and here's where, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.080 here's math class and history class and gym class, and 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.440 you know you're gonna have a lunch period. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.599 I'm gonna have a locker, and you're gonna have a locker. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.800 You're gonna have teachers write all that stuff. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.320 But it's your first time doing it in a different building, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.280 in a new school, and I know this is all 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.240 the same setting. But Matt, I think really at the 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.159 forefront of that is the earlier practices here that we 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.400 got our first taste of today. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.240 Yeah, I mean again, so I said this on Monday, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.320 But the acclamation period, I want everyone to understand, it's 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:49.320 five practices. It's NFL mandated. This is not a Steeler decision. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.320 I mean every team, it's collectively bargained. So the first 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.760 five practices of training camp are an acclamation period, which 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.640 are not full full go and you not be padded. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.880 Of course they have helmets and shells on and stuff, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.880 but they do not bang around. It's a slower, more 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.359 advanced than I would say mini camp and OTAs, but 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.560 definitely not what you think of Joe Green out here 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.960 in seventy six doing two a days, or what Tounch 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.280 and Wolf are doing. You know, no air conditioning, No, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.359 not at all. So it's a little anti climatic. And 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.440 why I bring that up is because we don't yet 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.960 know how McCarthy and his staff are going to structure. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.599 I don't want to say the real practices, but the 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.359 big dog practices, you know, once you. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.800 Knock off the rust and really go full speed. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.000 Yeah. Now what we do know is he's practicing earlier 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.359 for whatever reason. But I think some of that is 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.279 to avoid the hottest parts of the day. That was 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.760 a big time Tomlin thing, dressing all black and walk 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.119 out here at two in the afternoon when the sun's 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:59.239 beating on everybody, and I highly suspect and I'm trying 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.680 not to like get ahead of myself because I could 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.720 be wrong, because we know it's the same ownership, it's 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.800 the same front office, it's the same Saint Vincent's, you know, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.080 despite the changes we mentioned. But doing a lot of 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.880 homework on how McCarthy has structured his practices basically going 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.520 back to his Dallas days. It's only a year removed 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.440 were they're gonna be a lot lighter, you know, like 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.120 I think his and there's two ways doing it. I'm 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.480 sure people will be like, oh, that stinks, that's soft. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:27.040 They're gonna be. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.640 I know a lot of our classic Steeler listeners are 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.960 they they were not thrilled when they heard no live 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.000 tackling or anything. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.600 Yeah, so I suspect and maybe I'll be totally wrong 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.120 for practices from now, but I think that he's going 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.440 to be very much load management. They're all going to 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.360 have their GPS trackers and when they hit a pitch count, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.160 so to speak, Okay, you've you've you've done your thing. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.640 He's already mentioned there will not be live tackling, and 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.640 the Steelers were under Tomlin about it as physical as 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.680 you can be, you know. I'm sure some people came 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.679 out here that've been coming out for forty years watching 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.640 Joe Green and Tounch of Wolf, going like, boy, these 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.760 guys are soft. These guys are but compared to the 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.280 thirty one other teams, Tomlin's training camps were hot, sweaty, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.880 physical and push the limits as much as you could, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.880 you know, without breaking them. I think McCarthy's gonna look 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.600 at it very different, and I don't know which way's right. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.680 I mean, again, he had a saying in Dallas that 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.320 you can't win the super Bowl in August, but you 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.600 could lose it with injuries, you know what I mean, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.640 And so I think there's something to be said for that. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.120 I think he's gonna be really very very injury avoidance. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.520 I don't know that we'll see backs on backers. I 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.079 don't know that we'll see seven shots. I mean, I'm curious, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.840 but I expect it to be much much lighter in 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.840 terms of physicality, which when you hit week sixteen or seventeen, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.680 no one's gonna think about. But you might be like, boy, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.320 this team's a lot fresher than they were the last 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.280 three years. Or you might get the Week one and 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.040 they doors get blown off and be like boy, they 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.800 didn't do anything trading camp. What are you thinking. It's 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.120 just two ways of looking at it, you know, and. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.000 You know those reactions are going to be there either way, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.520 no matter, no doubt, no matter how y. That's what 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.520 that's what we do as football fans. It's such a 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.240 short sample size and every game matters so much. But yeah, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.200 that to me has has really stuck out and is 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.440 going to stick out here over the next what three 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.880 weeks that that we'll be doing shows here at Chuck Nollfield, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.520 where I think things are going to be lighter. Uh, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.920 we know practices are going to be earlier Friday. On 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.240 this on Steelers dot Com, it says Friday's practice is 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.400 going to start at ten thirty in the morning, and 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.760 and so, yeah, the lack of live tackling some of 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.400 the drills that we're used to. But you know what, Matt, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.600 I keep coming back to this because I think there's 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.679 some people that have said, hey, I don't want a 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.920 playoff game, and what eight years, nine years, Let's try 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:45.320 something different. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.160 Let's say yeah, right, all right, right, maybe you're not 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.640 as fresh because you banged this whole month. There is 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.199 the old school amazone doing anything either and everyone's picking 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.679 them to win the Super Bowl, and everyone thinks the 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:55.120 best coach in. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.520 The league, the old school mentality of like you got 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.079 to get out here and get physical and beat each 0:09:59.080 --> 0:09:59.440 other up. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:00.439 Matt, you know this. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.720 I say this to you sometimes when we talk about 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.720 like defensive scheme and formations and even offensive personnel, there's 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.040 no right way to do it. If one proven way 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.760 that this is the way, this is how you win 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.560 playoff games and Super Bowls. You have light training camp, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.480 morning practices before it gets too hot. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:17.640 Everybody would do it that way. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.800 If it was you got to be physical, you got 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.559 to be in the middle of the day. You know 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:23.800 everybody would would would do. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:24.319 It that way. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.920 And you know exactly right, exactly right, and so listen. Uh, 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.560 that to me is going to be very very interesting 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.920 to follow over the next couple of weeks. But as 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.160 you mentioned, especially when we get to this coming Monday, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.440 when when when the pads will go on, and then 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.439 we'll see exactly because it's going to be physical still 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.360 it's football. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.440 Course, of course. But but what as you out right 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.000 and if you didn't expect changes your nuts, we think 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.240 should happened totally. And I love your point. I mean, hey, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.199 they did not play their best football in the playoffs 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.480 for numerous years in a row. Could this be something different? 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.160 I mean, this is not the youngest roster in the 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.560 league either, especially the guys you're counting on your quarterback, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.640 your two best defensive players three, maybe your three best 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.679 defensive players are all well well into their thirties, you know. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.640 So it's not like Tom Win beat the crap out 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:13.520 of Cam Hayward. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:13.800 He get. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.240 I mean, you know, it was more of the younger 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.800 guys too. But I am interested to see what the 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.400 results are. Maybe it won't make one bit of difference, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.160 Maybe it'll make tons of difference. Maybe we'll get into 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.240 this thing two weeks from now when reporters are putting 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.319 microphones in the faces of guys have been around for 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.679 a long time, going well, I feel a lot better 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.160 now than I did, you know, going into the first 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.480 preseason game, even preseason, I don't know that they'll play 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.800 their starters as much. I mean, I don't think Rogers 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.920 and Cam are going to play at all. But I 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.280 wonder if the queens of the world will even dress, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.959 you know, keep them safe, you know, yeah, yeah, even 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.439 though they're young. One thing I did hear about McCarthy 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.839 is hit. One of his huge pet peeves is he 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.120 will kick guys out of practice earlier if they're on 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.160 the ground too much. You know, on the ground, get 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.320 stepped on, you get hurt, you twist things, you trip 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.800 people up, you hurt other people. Plus especially lineman, you 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.599 don't block anybody. If you're on the ground, you're not 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.439 doing your job. So that's like one of his big 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.079 pet peeves. So it's not like he's just going to 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.480 give them all hugs and sing Kumbaya, you know, like 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.640 he kicks people out of practice for doing things he 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.920 doesn't like too. It's just I'm expecting a very different 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.520 approach to what they do with their minutes on the field. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.960 Yeah, you know, and we've talked about some of those things, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.800 like how much is going to be devoted to specialty, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.640 you know, along with the physicality element and tackling in 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.040 those things, how much how much time is going to 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.319 be devoted to special teams all that stuff that will 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.439 be kind of peeling back here and keeping an eye 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.880 on over the next few weeks. I will tell you, though, Matt, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.199 one thing that we always keep an eye on is 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:41.840 the grounds crew. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.400 Yeah, has a project going on here for day one, for. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.079 Not the entire the entire field still looks really good. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.240 But on day one here at the fifty yard line 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.440 on the main field, it looks almost like a groundhog 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:54.000 was down there. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.240 Yeah, tear and stuff. It looks like shutting. No no, no, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.080 no no, no, no, no no no. Down there at 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.800 the fifty yards a story indiredible. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.200 I don't know what they're working on. There's taking they 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.280 get a free bowl, sup with that. They're digging big 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.000 holes and replacing big, massive divots like it does look 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.640 like a groundhog has a way with it. I guarantee, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.560 if we get here nine o'clock tomorrow morning, you'll never 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.679 even know it's there. These guys are unbelievable. They do 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.319 a great job, but they're probably I assume this is 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.719 an unforeseen thing. They've only had one practice here and 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.520 all of a sudden there's this big project going on 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.280 well after practice. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.000 Huge Uh and and Kinger and a Max pointed it 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.480 out to me when I got up here actually a 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.800 little after a little after one o'clock, and uh, we're. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.160 Kind of like, man, somebody really tore up Do you see. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.120 Those those chunks in the ground there at the fifty 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.840 and so yeah, the uh day one here they are. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.120 They are well into it, the ground crew in front 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.800 of us. As as like Matt mentioned, it'll be a 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.880 little bit different here is we're not going to be 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.719 kind of right in the thick of practice as we 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.920 typically are. But it'll also it could be fun in 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.520 a lot of ways too, Matt, because the hay will 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.800 be in the barn by the time we go on air, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.040 and so we'll kind of have all the information of 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:07.640 the day and be able to kind of put a 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.280 rap on everything, where a lot of times in. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.160 The past I want to get tomorrow on that injury 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:14.000 or you know. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.600 Certain things like that, whereas now, hey, it'll be interesting 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.520 to follow through and see how this all goes. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.400 We'll also have a lot of interviews that happened throughout 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.640 the day, you know, that we can reference and play 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.200 back for you guys, et cetera, et cetera too. So, yeah, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.720 we're the caboose now, and we're always worth at the end, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:28.240 but now. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.040 Practice caboose too. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.320 Yeah, exactly right, And that'll be something that we'll be 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.960 getting used to that we'll be figuring out as we 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.920 move and shake here over these next couple of weeks. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.000 We're also hoping you know, uh, one of the downsides 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.160 of being on here during practice was we couldn't really 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.080 have guests because you know, they're all on the field 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.360 and they got to get their quotes and they got 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.200 to write their stories and all that. Well, they're all 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.280 finishing up writing their stories by this point now down 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.720 there at the Fred Rogers Center where all the media 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.920 gathers and has a work room and all that good stuff, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.600 So we'll be able to pull some guests as we 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.760 roll long here. We got to get back to, uh, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.000 you know, to our regular people. Matt We got a 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.480 you know, Rob King and Missy Matthews. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:07.960 We would talk to them in a while. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.000 And Chris Halleck and Bob Labriola and all those people 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.000 that we enjoy talking to will be ramping all that stuff. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.960 Up as we roll along here. It's just day one 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:17.360 hour number. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.280 We got here last night. I got here this morning, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.960 but I've seen most of those crew, and I probably 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.520 see the rest of them tonight at Sharkies. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.360 That's exactly right. Yeah, I saw some of them last 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.920 night at Sharkies, and saw some of them this morning. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.360 One thing I'm gonna have to do a better job of. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.240 Matt is pacing myself a little bit throughout these days. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.600 I've been I've been out here since like eight o'clock 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.320 and you and I have five straight hours of radio 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:38.640 to do now because we have to go through a 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.840 late show tonight too. Not as not as easy as 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.440 the days of the past where you could sneak a 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.720 little nap and before practice. Now practice is happening early 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.480 and it's just go, go go, baby. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.640 Wes and I upgraded to the hotel so we're not 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.560 in the dorms. But you gotta realize, I mean, that's 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.480 the easiest drive ever. You could sneak over there, pretty easy. Yeah, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.560 I'd get a little nappy, little nap as we roll along. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.680 Heay one, you'll figure it out. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:01.280 Listen. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.440 It's it's it's training camp for everybody, as we like 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.560 to say. But it is a beautiful day here. There 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.720 was a little bit of rain earlier today. It's kind 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.080 of a nice in the seventies, little overcast, a good 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.560 day to be walking around campus here. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.080 We've got plenty to get to from today's practice. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.080 We've got plenty to get to from kind of bigger 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.600 picture storylines that we'll be keeping an eye on. And 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.680 of course, with training camps opening across the NFL, there's 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.040 a lot of league news. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.880 There's been a lot of signings and stuff that's happened 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.240 just since we got together Monday. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.640 On Monday, Yeah, in the last forty eight hours or so, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:32.720 so good things. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.760 Oh we were bad about this Monday too. No video 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.520 during camp? No video dor yea yeah. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:37.480 Yep, Our Guy TV. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.600 He'll be putting out little promos and stuff like that 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.000 on the social media. But if you if you're somebody 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.880 who typically likes to, you know, see Matt and I's 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.160 beautiful mugs on YouTube and watching the visual element that 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.560 we'll be back here in a couple of weeks as 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.920