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Speaker 2: Our number two with the drive here is we head
Speaker 2: down the home stretch of training Camp twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: of course, on the campus of Saint Vincent College West
Speaker 2: Shueler Matt Williamson with you here for another two hours
Speaker 2: and Matt A fun idea was slid across our desk
Speaker 2: this morning by our buddies in the video department, Nate
Speaker 2: and TV. Of course, they also all updated their resumes
Speaker 2: to add tarp extraordinaries at a couple of last night
Speaker 2: and after yes events. Yeah, they tell you what they
Speaker 2: were a little they were a little worn out after
Speaker 2: all that hard work they had to do out there.
Speaker 2: They came into Sharkis and were like, hey, let me
Speaker 2: see your hands. Oh wow, your hands still feels so soft.
Speaker 2: Look at ours. Ours are callous, rugged, and grizzled like
Speaker 2: a video guy. Like a video guy. So, so you
Speaker 2: know our buddies Nate and TV in the video department,
Speaker 2: they did this with make with Mike Persuda and Max Starks.
Speaker 2: It's about a dozen different campies. Okay, so just training
Speaker 2: camp awards, training camp bests of and things like that,
Speaker 2: And so Matt I thought it'd be fun for us
Speaker 2: to run through some of these and give our.
Speaker 3: Thoughts, tell them all the things they screwed up exactly right. Okay,
Speaker 3: so how do you know the categy?
Speaker 2: That's I'm gonna give you the category do you want
Speaker 2: to give answers?
Speaker 3: Criticize theirs? And I actually really like that.
Speaker 2: I really like that. It's much easier to critique than
Speaker 2: it is to create. And Matt and I are gonna
Speaker 2: sit here with our little red pen and point out
Speaker 2: everything that they did wrong. Number one to lead us off.
Speaker 2: I think this is probably this is the most typical
Speaker 2: type of thing that you get in these type of
Speaker 2: trading camp exercises. Best Rookie Max Starks went with Jeremy Bernard.
Speaker 2: Mike Persuda went with Max Ianachre.
Speaker 3: I don't think you put on I was going to say,
Speaker 3: is my pick. He's the most valuable. I'm so happy
Speaker 3: about the first round pick, but he hasn't been out
Speaker 3: here in too long. Yeah, you gotta show me. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean he's the not the best rookie. It's just he
Speaker 3: hasn't done enough.
Speaker 2: I think he's almost an incomplete right in terms of
Speaker 2: what we see count if you kind of if you
Speaker 2: kind of just grade off of, you know, Perk happened
Speaker 2: to it would be Max. Sure, but I think it
Speaker 2: becomes a conversation of Jeremy or of Dylan Dalen Everett,
Speaker 2: and I might lean towards Dalan Everett. I thought he
Speaker 2: was very impressive throughout training camp.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Rubyo should be mentioned and if
Speaker 3: you would do if you would weigh it like a
Speaker 3: seventh round pick, Robert Spears Jennings, Yeah, yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 3: if it's worth more for a lesser pick. It's not
Speaker 3: dunker Aler's been I mean, the game is ignored. I
Speaker 3: think I'll go with Bernard. But ever it's a good
Speaker 3: one too.
Speaker 2: I think I'll go with Everett. Yeah, but I there's
Speaker 2: I'm just glad that we have some real candidates for
Speaker 2: that A lot a lot. It's not it's not just
Speaker 2: all it's clearly this guy or all of them have
Speaker 2: kind of stunk. There's there's meat on that bone, which
Speaker 2: we like. So that's the first one, best rookie, second one.
Speaker 3: Then of course, think that last year Harmon was hurt
Speaker 3: a lot, Caleb wasn't real impressive or wasn't a second
Speaker 3: round pick. You know, like this is a good group
Speaker 3: to pick from.
Speaker 2: And then of course after best rookie up next you
Speaker 2: have best veteran. They both picked the same guy, Zach Fraser.
Speaker 3: Hard argument, hard to argue, hm. I mean, I mean
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers looks good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder if you would consider a Sante
Speaker 2: Samuel Jr.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to pick like low hanging, and.
Speaker 2: He is a veteran. He's been here also for half
Speaker 2: a season. But I I think Zach's a good answer.
Speaker 3: I mean, ask for what they've been asked to do.
Speaker 3: Rogers has been pretty flawless. Now this is easy for him.
Speaker 3: He's throwing on air. I mean he's not avoiding you know,
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett and Micah Parsons out there.
Speaker 2: It's Steph Curry in an open gym.
Speaker 3: Right right, So this is you know, second nature. But
Speaker 3: in terms of what they've done at camp, Fraser's a
Speaker 3: good choice.
Speaker 2: Fraser is a good choice.
Speaker 3: I don't think you picked cam or Watt. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: haven't been asked to do much, or the top receivers.
Speaker 2: That's that's some of the positions almost just by the
Speaker 2: nature of the thing, are almost ruled out.
Speaker 3: Like a running back. Yes, that's an important part of
Speaker 3: the position.
Speaker 2: Number three most impactful newcomer, Max Stark, said Robert Tanyan.
Speaker 2: Mike Pursuda said, Michael Pittman Junior.
Speaker 3: I know this doesn't count, but how about a land
Speaker 3: of Roberts coming and start fights and you know, changing
Speaker 3: the whole tone of camp.
Speaker 2: And one day well said, well said, you know what,
Speaker 2: that's that's funny. That's a good one. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: good one. I like Robert Tanyan, I don't know. Pittman
Speaker 2: Junior I think so, but I also think we just
Speaker 2: have it.
Speaker 3: It's been so always an impactful camp.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, who most impactful newcomer? And I guess that
Speaker 2: technically means not rookie, right, because I think we could mention.
Speaker 3: I was going to say that the rookies count, or
Speaker 3: I assume I mean, Dean looks good.
Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good one. Actually, that's a really.
Speaker 3: Good brisker looks good.
Speaker 2: Dean looked those first few days of acclamation pair. I
Speaker 2: think Dean's a I think Dean's a good call because
Speaker 2: you can't like, you can't go with you can't go
Speaker 2: with Precodoubtle or anybody like that. At this point, Uh,
Speaker 2: I like Robert Tanyan. But the answer might be.
Speaker 3: Game I have might go Dean.
Speaker 2: And then the fourth category was biggest disappointment with the
Speaker 2: caveat of this is something that happened as opposed to
Speaker 2: a player not measuring up. That would be my answer
Speaker 2: would be the injury.
Speaker 3: Salivating for him to get back on the field, and
Speaker 3: every day it's gonna happen, and I get disappointed.
Speaker 2: Max said the biggest disappointment was the weather PURSUITA said,
Speaker 2: the biggest disappointment was the lack of tackling. I do
Speaker 2: like that from pursuit.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're taking those from from.
Speaker 2: Our standpoint, I get that. I get that certainly. I
Speaker 2: think it's definitely barely getting to see any of Max that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would, I'm not going Max a hard time.
Speaker 3: It starts not. The weather was good, yeah, these last time,
Speaker 3: but I mean compared to every other you get to
Speaker 3: get a rain er two. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 3: go down as this was the worst weather one in
Speaker 3: training camp history or anything. I think there's more on
Speaker 3: the positive side weather wise than negative.
Speaker 2: It's good they had those morning practices this year.
Speaker 3: True, they've danced around the range a little bit.
Speaker 2: Biggest concern is up next, and Max said it was
Speaker 2: linebacker before the Land and Roberts signing. Pursuda said this
Speaker 2: defense and stopping the stopping the run for the defense.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say the run game, I.
Speaker 2: Might go offensive line, and just because of that.
Speaker 3: Was where I leaned originally, and then I wanted to
Speaker 3: get more specific.
Speaker 2: I know, I think you and I and I shared
Speaker 2: this with you before training camp on one of our
Speaker 2: last couple of shows before we came out here before
Speaker 2: we had a little bit of a break and then
Speaker 2: came out here. I say biggest concern offensive line, because
Speaker 2: I want them to be elite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my hopes are really hot.
Speaker 2: And all the all the high hopes for this team,
Speaker 2: and they won the division last year. The rosters a
Speaker 2: little bit better this year. Could they take a step forward?
Speaker 2: Could they you know, end up winning a playoff game
Speaker 2: or two? To me, that all starts. The offensive line
Speaker 2: has to be elite if you want this season to
Speaker 2: be better than last year, better than ten wins in
Speaker 2: a first round playoff loss. I think that offensive line
Speaker 2: has to be elite. And it was only one.
Speaker 3: Preseason absolutely, and I think it will be, but it's
Speaker 3: not now and.
Speaker 2: It was only one preseason game. But they struggled, and
Speaker 2: I think to be that elite offensive line, Maxi Honichure
Speaker 2: has to be part of the equation.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's understandable though, because the right side line
Speaker 3: moved left side. I mean, Fraser is the only constant, Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: to think that it's going to.
Speaker 2: I'm not mashing the panic button yet or anything, right,
Speaker 2: And that's not a concern in the sense of like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I think these guys are going to
Speaker 2: be a disaster. It's a concern of I need that
Speaker 2: to be a strength for this team and we just
Speaker 2: haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3: So last night there were a bunch of media folks
Speaker 3: Sharky's of.
Speaker 2: Course, we had a good old time last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I chatted with a lot of dudes, and
Speaker 3: it shocked me. And I'm not giving any of them
Speaker 3: a hard time. They're all actually very good their job,
Speaker 3: and I consider them all friends. That not everyone in
Speaker 3: that whole building knew how bad the Steelers fourth quarter
Speaker 3: defense is so and out of my way this morning,
Speaker 3: after practice was canceled to do another DK podcast I
Speaker 3: do every day to let the world know that this
Speaker 3: was as bad as any fourth quarter defense since the
Speaker 3: year two thousand and with the light of camp is over,
Speaker 3: do we feel better about the fourth quarter defense getting better?
Speaker 3: And I've prefaced it by saying, this is truly a
Speaker 3: nowhere to go but up situations. I don't think they're
Speaker 3: gonna be six hundred thought of six hundredth or whatever
Speaker 3: in the two thousands. They will get better, but it
Speaker 3: will it get better enough, And to me, in order
Speaker 3: to do so, you need help from the offense, running
Speaker 3: the football and eating and that was the portion. There
Speaker 3: was like three things. I thought that in order to
Speaker 3: get the fourth quarter defense better, these things have to
Speaker 3: happen in one of them's time of possession, and that's
Speaker 3: helped from the offense. I felt better about all the
Speaker 3: defensive things come into place than saying this is going
Speaker 3: to be a successful running game. This is gonna be
Speaker 3: a twelfth best running game in the league because when
Speaker 3: they have them battle with the defense, the defense is won.
Speaker 3: They didn't run the ball well in that game, and
Speaker 3: the on line concerns there's still a work in progress.
Speaker 3: Can this be a good run game? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Part of it's the nature of the part of the nature. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean if Warren were shrugging people off and taking
Speaker 3: it to the house, I feel better about it. But
Speaker 3: that's not something they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: We'll have to wait and see, wait and see approach
Speaker 2: with that, Matt. As we continue to wait and see
Speaker 2: this Saint Vincent practice that's unfold in front of us
Speaker 2: as well, to get out of starting to get moving
Speaker 2: up next, Matt camp sleeper and both Pursuda and Starks
Speaker 2: picked Gabe.
Speaker 3: Rubio that's tough to argue. And again when you.
Speaker 2: Go, when you go in the true sense of sleeper,
Speaker 2: it can't you know, it can't be.
Speaker 3: Jeremy but hard right jaml b or even doubt, like yeah, right,
Speaker 3: what sleepers are a weird word?
Speaker 2: They are?
Speaker 3: They are they sleep When sleepers were a kid, when
Speaker 3: before the internet nobody knew about them?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Or like a U d F A like Jalen Warren
Speaker 2: who by the by the second week, everyone's like, who
Speaker 2: is this guy?
Speaker 3: How about Slaughter? Could we need to consider him for
Speaker 3: the corners? But I want him on the practice Jamie Davis. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's kind of a good one too.
Speaker 2: I think Rubio is a real good one. Then Ruby
Speaker 2: as a draft pick, he's a rookie and no one
Speaker 2: really to know about him. Could you throw a Sante
Speaker 2: Samuel Junior in the camp sleeper category two?
Speaker 3: Certainly if there's like an out kicking his coverage situation
Speaker 3: or you know, pleasant surprise I think you mentioned, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean he's got more pedigree than all those dudes
Speaker 3: we brought up.
Speaker 2: But you know, sure, sure, uh number seven here on
Speaker 2: campies is a player under the radar, Max said Lou
Speaker 2: Nichols pursuita said Riley Noahkowski.
Speaker 3: I'm a Nichols fan. He may only be under the
Speaker 3: radar for the preseason, though.
Speaker 2: This is another one.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: It's tough because, yeah, these are these type of you know, uh,
Speaker 2: superlatives or whatever you want to call it, are easier
Speaker 2: to give out when there's live football happening in front.
Speaker 3: Of Yeah, what about sure the radar.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: There's a perfect reason why he's under the radar. I
Speaker 3: can't remember the damn safety's name again that we couldn't
Speaker 3: Jenkins Jenkins. I think he's I always want to call
Speaker 3: him Hawkins for some reason. That's why I always had
Speaker 3: to take I don't know why. I think he could
Speaker 3: be a real contributor on this team and he didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's new to camp. I think that that
Speaker 3: could be one. I kind of want to go with
Speaker 3: a depth defensive line. Now. I know Benton just got
Speaker 3: eighteen million a year, but I mean he is Could
Speaker 3: we be sleeping on him as true impact on the
Speaker 3: season if he's not even quote a starter?
Speaker 2: Maybe d Day as well.
Speaker 3: I was thinking him too, Yeah, Sebastian Joseph Day, one
Speaker 3: of those fourth fifth Linemen, and I'm not even sure
Speaker 3: it's fair to Bent to call him the fourth I mean,
Speaker 3: he's more valuable than why Black, but he's not a nose.
Speaker 3: Could be real impactful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, player poised for a breakout is up next.
Speaker 2: Starks goes with a Sante Samuel. Persuda goes with Pat Fryarmuth.
Speaker 2: I think those are both a very good answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, friar Moth to met.
Speaker 2: Samuel would probably be mine, but I think those are
Speaker 2: both really good answers.
Speaker 3: I really think his usage targets production will go up.
Speaker 3: Friar Mouth out of the slot in particular.
Speaker 2: Both both both good answers there. Yeah, hardest worker at
Speaker 2: camp Max goes Robert Spears Jennings. Persuda goes Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: I'm going ed Troop.
Speaker 2: I'm going ed True. That's a great answer, that's an
Speaker 2: outstanding answer. I'm going I'm going Ed Troop and the
Speaker 2: grounds crew people who are.
Speaker 3: Out there with the tarp yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's that's great answer. Ed Troop gets our hardest worker
Speaker 2: award here all the camp. He's our guy hosting, producing, engineering.
Speaker 3: Doing it all. Get taking walks. I mean he's all
Speaker 3: over the.
Speaker 2: Place, transport and equipment around. Yep, he's uh. He has
Speaker 2: certainly been our MVP.
Speaker 3: I dare anyone to beat that answer.
Speaker 2: That's a great one. A few more of these left
Speaker 2: best position battle at camp. Max says right tackle, PURSUITA
Speaker 2: says backup quarterback. I think those are both outstanding answers.
Speaker 3: All great answers. I'm gonna go a third receiver though.
Speaker 2: Third receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like Roman was in the league until
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: You can't say third running back because not just the
Speaker 2: nature of the beast.
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't even say like starting running back because
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that's a battle. I think they're just
Speaker 3: gonna both.
Speaker 2: Also, I think the right tackle one. That's a good
Speaker 2: answer for Max, and you expect that from an offensive
Speaker 2: lineman too, But that would, I think be more interesting
Speaker 2: if we would have seen Iancher throughout this he.
Speaker 3: Didn't miss any time, it might not even still be
Speaker 3: a battle. But right now it's just on pause.
Speaker 2: Good good call. I think it has to be wide
Speaker 2: receiver three Jermy and and Roman, but backup quarterbacks are
Speaker 2: really good one too, and how that whole pecking order
Speaker 2: plays out. Let's see two more left here. Best training
Speaker 2: camp bounce back, Max said yet to be seen and
Speaker 2: pursued a set of Sante Samuel Jr.
Speaker 3: Samuel wasn't here last camp, though he wasn't that's true.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't quite understand the parameters of the category.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking bounce back from last camp to.
Speaker 2: Here, last camp to hear, or maybe maybe that didn't
Speaker 2: have the best end of the season, something like that.
Speaker 3: He'd be the one you wanted it to be Calber Roman,
Speaker 3: and I think it's Roman, Yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: And then finally the last one, best training camp personality,
Speaker 2: Max Starks.
Speaker 3: You're looking at him, this handsome pair in the booth
Speaker 3: right now, the drive.
Speaker 2: I don't know how handsome we are with yeah, soaking well.
Speaker 3: We got TV's video and I the best and.
Speaker 2: Best camp personality, Max, once again, loyal to his cause.
Speaker 2: Goes Jennings Dunker Persuda goes a Landon Roberts.
Speaker 3: Roberts is hard, dark, Roberts is very hard for you
Speaker 3: have to pick a player, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Eldon Roberts after what he did yesterday. I tell you
Speaker 2: what though, Mason McCormick's always another one man.
Speaker 3: He I know you and I are, Oh yeah, you
Speaker 3: want him on your side.
Speaker 2: You and I are mostly up in the press box
Speaker 2: during practices. You get a better view. You're insulated from
Speaker 2: the elements. There's not a million people that you're trying
Speaker 2: to walk around and look around and all those things.
Speaker 2: But I do every training camp still, I like to
Speaker 2: go down there two or three times because you just
Speaker 2: get a different perspective. You can hear more from the coaches,
Speaker 2: you can hear more from the players. Mason McCormick's another
Speaker 2: one of those guys. Man, he's like, oh yeah, he's
Speaker 2: all he's always yapping at somebody.
Speaker 3: He's got someone to back all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, he's It's exactly it.
Speaker 3: I think I called him Jay Coffield last night, you know,
Speaker 3: like he's the first one in the power to protect
Speaker 3: the stars. I mean, you need those dudes.
Speaker 2: Yes you do. So he would be he'd be on
Speaker 2: the list there for the camp personality. But it's hard
Speaker 2: to argue with Landon Roberts after what he did upon arrival.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he made an impact.
Speaker 2: Quickly making his presence known. Hey guys, I'm sorry. Nobody
Speaker 2: told me that this was a different training camp rule
Speaker 2: all right, you know, And it's funny enough it was
Speaker 2: him and Mason McCormick, who were kind of at the
Speaker 2: at the center of all that. So, Matt, that is
Speaker 2: the that's the campies PURSUITA and Max their lists of
Speaker 2: twelve different training camp awards.
Speaker 3: Who are missing folk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know if any of those if we
Speaker 2: had a glaring omission, and we will be happy to
Speaker 2: uh to bring that into the conversation. West Juler, Matt Williamson.
Speaker 2: Just about halfway home here on our final day of
Speaker 2: training camp coverage. We're at Saint Vincent College. That's Vincent
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Speaker 2: Back of the booth here as we roll along another
Speaker 2: beautiful day Saint Vincent College, unfortunately for us and for
Speaker 2: everyone who was planning to attend, Steelers calling it today
Speaker 2: due to weather and giving the guys a little bit
Speaker 2: of an early release, Matt, that was always the best feeling.
Speaker 2: And when you were growing up if you got to
Speaker 2: leave school early, yeah, if you were, you know, you're
Speaker 2: working at your job and you're scheduled from three until
Speaker 2: ten o'clock and at eight thirty, why don't you take off?
Speaker 2: You know, we had a bit of a slow night.
Speaker 2: Why don't you take off early? That's that's always the
Speaker 2: best and uh And that was the case for the
Speaker 2: guys today. And with that though, we got a little
Speaker 2: bit more of a lengthy kind of statement and press conference,
Speaker 2: if you will, for Mike McCarthy, some updates on health
Speaker 2: status for guys like Maxie Honatchor that we've been talking about,
Speaker 2: and just where the team kind of goes from here.
Speaker 2: Still with two preseason games ahead and obviously a few
Speaker 2: weeks of practice before the regular season opener, here's what
Speaker 2: the head coach had to say earlier.
Speaker 4: Well, here you have to juggle what you're doing. What's
Speaker 4: your thought process, Mike, Well, we're gonna break camp early.
Speaker 4: You know, in some ways disappointed to leave here because
Speaker 4: this is such a great environment for us to train in.
Speaker 4: You know, it's disappointing the f and just because somebody
Speaker 4: that those are our best practices when everybody's out there.
Speaker 4: But just based off the weather, we you know, we've
Speaker 4: been kicking this thing around all morning. Uh So we're
Speaker 4: basically just gonna flip flip our days. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: break camp today. Use we have a transition day built
Speaker 4: in so more so the support staff and everything that
Speaker 4: comes up here, I'll be able to We'll get moved
Speaker 4: back here today and they'll have all day tomorrow to
Speaker 4: work on it. And Monday schedule we'll go to Wednesdays,
Speaker 4: so we'll get a full day Wednesday, gets some competitive work,
Speaker 4: padded good padded practice you know my game, and get
Speaker 4: another full training camp day you know, on the south
Speaker 4: side Wednesday. Then we'll have the Saturday type practice Thursday,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of because I'm trying to integrate with
Speaker 4: the end season schedule. It's going to look like for
Speaker 4: our players and our coaches, and then we'll you know,
Speaker 4: we'll get up Friday, have a walk through and play
Speaker 4: the game Friday night. We're disappointing then annoying or the office?
Speaker 4: Could I go both?
Speaker 5: I know that there's obviously like the decision would be
Speaker 5: made on multiple levels.
Speaker 6: But does this make you, you know, start to question whether
Speaker 6: or not it makes sense to come back here in
Speaker 6: the future with the number of you know, weather caused adjustments.
Speaker 4: In the schedule, not at all. I was, you know,
Speaker 4: talking home where I said, you know, I'm actually looking
Speaker 4: forward to next year because I'm gonna I'm gonna enjoy
Speaker 4: training camp next year. I just think anytime it's a
Speaker 4: first year, just what all the administrative responsibility and you know,
Speaker 4: going through it the first time, you know, we came
Speaker 4: up and visited a pair just to do the walkthroughs
Speaker 4: and everything, but just little things. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 4: classrooms I'm gonna flip next year. I mean just you know,
Speaker 4: just you want to get it the you know, what's
Speaker 4: you feel is the best classroom environment for your team,
Speaker 4: the best practice environment. But as far as the support staff,
Speaker 4: the facilities, you know, Saint Vincent's just as a you know,
Speaker 4: as a whole, it's an a plus. You know, I
Speaker 4: really think this is not only a special place, but
Speaker 4: this is this is a great place to train a
Speaker 4: football team, you know, just the whole environment and so forth.
Speaker 4: So the only really negative is was, I don't know,
Speaker 4: we had to cancel a couple of practice because you know,
Speaker 4: our best practices are when when our fans are out there,
Speaker 4: and it's a it's a it's a it's an awesome
Speaker 4: environment to be in. So no, I'm you know, players
Speaker 4: might not want to hear us, but we'll see if
Speaker 4: we can stay longer next year. So I mean it's uh,
Speaker 4: and I've done it different ways, you know. It's you know,
Speaker 4: and really not controlling the preseason schedule factors in the
Speaker 4: really I know in my experiences how long you stay
Speaker 4: at camp, you know when you come back, So that's
Speaker 4: a little bit of a moving target. But yeah, this, uh,
Speaker 4: Saint Vincent's is a is an a plus. Is there
Speaker 4: anything you could learn more here at Saint Vincent than
Speaker 4: practicing on the South School?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Group dynamics, everybody together, you know, you know, you
Speaker 4: have people living in North Hills, East and South Hills.
Speaker 4: So I mean it's you got you have a lot
Speaker 4: more responsibility when you're back home, so you know, we
Speaker 4: can really really knuckle down and focus on football. You know,
Speaker 4: the conversations uh these men have you know, at dinner,
Speaker 4: you know, it's at night, round the pool table, all
Speaker 4: those things at home in Derby. I mean you just
Speaker 4: yes to me. To me, training camp is critical, critical
Speaker 4: for your for your football team. I've I've I've been
Speaker 4: involved with training camp at home, but you know, but
Speaker 4: they did stay in the dorms. So I just think
Speaker 4: the ability to have everybody together, you know, going away
Speaker 4: to camp, I think it's special. I think it's it
Speaker 4: gives you a real shot to you know, start off
Speaker 4: the season the right way. Is it simple to say
Speaker 4: that Landon showed up and think that the tensions got
Speaker 4: kind of heat up or physical? I think his you know,
Speaker 4: his style play and you know we you know, it's
Speaker 4: just uh, you know, there's there's many years and in
Speaker 4: my time in this league that that was that that's
Speaker 4: that's how you practice, you know. But if you know,
Speaker 4: we we have a role, if you know, you see
Speaker 4: I see you, and we take that shot. But we don't.
Speaker 4: We don't take shots on on our teammates where the
Speaker 4: guy can't see you. So that's that's that's that's the
Speaker 4: difference of what we're trying to do. Uh. And it's
Speaker 4: more for player safety.
Speaker 5: As you mentioned, we we saw some different offensive line
Speaker 5: combinations yesterday. Was that more preparing for different situations that
Speaker 5: might arise during the season or do you still feel
Speaker 5: like that's an unsettled and unresolved competition.
Speaker 4: Between a couple of I think it's both. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's you know, we got to decide if we're going
Speaker 4: to get into left side training, right side training, you know,
Speaker 4: flip and tackle for tackle, you know, I think it
Speaker 4: really that really for me is always going back to
Speaker 4: the draft process. I mean that's why your draft tackles,
Speaker 4: and that's why I learned it as a young coach,
Speaker 4: and because you ideally like to bring a player in
Speaker 4: having you know, learned the left guard, left tackle, you know,
Speaker 4: right card, right tackle, because in its footwork with Transferraezer,
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's tough to I mean it's tough
Speaker 4: to see with Prodert, you know, forgot to go from
Speaker 4: left tackle and turn around and play right two days later. So, uh,
Speaker 4: just working all those different culminations.
Speaker 2: Mike, are you seeing young receivers take advantage of opportunities.
Speaker 4: With DK and Bittman? Definitely, Yeah, definitely, Jeremy, Max and
Speaker 4: they they'd definitely Roman. I I think those guys are
Speaker 4: you know, they've stepped up. You know, Cayden had big
Speaker 4: play there in the game, so we just gotta get
Speaker 4: him to clean up his you know, his every day stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a young guy that it's got to
Speaker 4: do a better job in the mental area. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think all those guys are you know, are progressing.
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 7: You worked really close with the quarterbacks all throughout camp.
Speaker 7: You talked about the you know, off the off the
Speaker 7: field stuff that you guys are able to do in
Speaker 7: those moments. What kind of opportunities did you take as
Speaker 7: a coach to get to know your quarterback room, especially
Speaker 7: the younger quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: You know, well, I, you know number one, I I
Speaker 4: I think it's real important cause I you know, I
Speaker 4: was that guy a long time ago. That quarterback coach
Speaker 4: is important in this process. Tom Martin does an outstanding job,
Speaker 4: but it's a room. Uh there's a philosophy, you know,
Speaker 4: of how it's done. Uh, it's been placed a long
Speaker 4: time toom's played in that philosophy. You know, you're not
Speaker 4: he's coaching in it. I haven't Aaron in theres Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, incredible. You know, every day he wakes up,
Speaker 4: he contributes to not only today, but the future of
Speaker 4: all quarterback room. That that's you know, that's a very
Speaker 4: unique opportunity to have in the quarterback room. And I
Speaker 4: think the young guys Mason and Crude included. I know
Speaker 4: he's nine years in or so, but it's it's it's
Speaker 4: it's really unique to be able to ask questions about
Speaker 4: a specific concept or a footwork or a read and
Speaker 4: you're talking to the guy that has twenty thousand reps
Speaker 4: in you know, over his whole career in this offense.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so you know out there, I'm actually going
Speaker 4: right from here to meet with the two young quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna we're gonna have a meeting and just
Speaker 4: some things we want to talk about, you know, for
Speaker 4: this week. Is it encouraging?
Speaker 6: You know, we were asking Drew or Drew's asking other
Speaker 6: night about sort of the quarterbacks school stuff, and now
Speaker 6: he's swarted to break himself and he said, well, I
Speaker 6: think my footwork was kind of bad in a couple
Speaker 6: of spots. He's sort of auto corrected himself in the moment.
Speaker 6: But when you look at the film, I mean, how
Speaker 6: much of those fundamentals that you've been harvey on since
Speaker 6: a guy here has he sort of had started to becoming.
Speaker 4: EXTINCTD right now. I think the most important point there is,
Speaker 4: you know, the point you made in your question is
Speaker 4: you know he's he corrected himself. He knew it right away.
Speaker 4: So and that's that's more than half the battle. Because
Speaker 4: you know, everybody teaches footwork a little differently. Everybody teaches
Speaker 4: you know, you know people say, oh they run the
Speaker 4: same plays they run, you know, the places are similar.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't disagree with it. For everyone's for
Speaker 4: vertical schemes, you know, strong side flows, the weak side floods,
Speaker 4: and but we all teach it a little differently. You know, it's, uh,
Speaker 4: there's history and that goes into it. But he's you know,
Speaker 4: the ability to auto correct and and have a clear
Speaker 4: understanding and that that's important and that's why we do
Speaker 4: the footwork drills over and over again. But he's a
Speaker 4: very stute. You know, quarterback, he's played a lot of
Speaker 4: He's played a lot of quarterback. I mean this, the
Speaker 4: young man's been playing football, you know, quarterback for a
Speaker 4: long long time. And you can see it. He's he's
Speaker 4: thrown the football a lot his life, you know, go
Speaker 4: back to his high school days. So and that that's important.
Speaker 4: That's all all the things you look at when you
Speaker 4: look the draft a young man. But you know, we
Speaker 4: we got to two fine young quarterbacks here. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm excited about their future. I think obviously schedule changes
Speaker 4: aside this week of the preseason, going in game one,
Speaker 4: game two, what do you look for most from your guys?
Speaker 4: Take a step you know clearly you know there will
Speaker 4: be a message I did. You know, I'll wait to
Speaker 4: all the informations in Wednesday's practice. This was supposed to be,
Speaker 4: this was an important practice. This was a practice I
Speaker 4: was looking forward to today. Uh, yesterday was our last
Speaker 4: installed practice, our mental evaluation MS and MS was the
Speaker 4: lowest of the training camp. So you know, we're making progress.
Speaker 4: I felt really good coming off the field yesterday. The
Speaker 4: intensities was where it needed to be. So you know,
Speaker 4: I just want to, you know, get that you know,
Speaker 4: get that that work on Wednesday in the can and
Speaker 4: then I'll make it clear what you know, what the
Speaker 4: next step is that that we're looking to take as
Speaker 4: a football team. So we talked about establishing the play style,
Speaker 4: you know, the Steeler Way, and you know it's been
Speaker 4: in been in place here since the seventies, you know,
Speaker 4: so I thought our guys you know, took that to
Speaker 4: the field last week, and but now we need more
Speaker 4: discipline with it. So I mean that that will definitely
Speaker 4: be part of the message. You know, we had to
Speaker 4: you know that that many you know, personal files. You
Speaker 4: can't wait, you can't winn to you know, you can't
Speaker 4: win a game with that, that type of performance in
Speaker 4: the area of penalties. So you know that, So that'll
Speaker 4: be part of the message as we go into the
Speaker 4: game Friday. Two more rookie first round pick er.
Speaker 5: Big part of camp is that challenge organizationally and is
Speaker 5: there anything at that position particular he can do mentally
Speaker 5: and is there any chance to be seeing him back.
Speaker 4: To their progress? Uh, you know, he's making progress. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't see him playing this week. You know, it
Speaker 4: based off of you know, because he wasn't scheduled to
Speaker 4: practice today, but who knows, you know, maybe next forty
Speaker 4: eight hours if he can, if he can get in
Speaker 4: there wednesday, we'll you know, we'll see what happens. So,
Speaker 4: but you know, it's a uh, injuries are they're they're
Speaker 4: challenge to the individual because because they're missing the combination work.
Speaker 4: You know, you see, you see the work, the amount
Speaker 4: of work that you're able to get in training camp.
Speaker 4: I mean, just look at the one on one pass
Speaker 4: for us. When you're able to go pass for us,
Speaker 4: we call it two spot. When you're able to have
Speaker 4: the numbers that you have in training camp, everybody's healthy,
Speaker 4: you know, instead of a guy getting a couple of
Speaker 4: reps of getting six seven, eight reps. And and we're
Speaker 4: trying to make sure, you know, we we increase the
Speaker 4: number of cameras that are out there on the field,
Speaker 4: so we're capturing all the video and we're trying to
Speaker 4: you know, build you know, teaching progressions for each player
Speaker 4: so in every aspect of their fundamental you know, the
Speaker 4: fundamentals for their positions. So I mean that's and Max
Speaker 4: is missing that. So it doesn't you know, any player
Speaker 4: would you know, benefit from this type of atmosphere. Okay,
Speaker 4: last one, coach, how have you bounced the competitive energy
Speaker 4: flow while also mitigating you know, unnecessary restoring this team
Speaker 4: coach it. It's part of practice ethic we have. We
Speaker 4: have a video that's Joe Witz. You know, my assistant
Speaker 4: head coach does a tremendous job. You know, I've given
Speaker 4: Joe some of the head coach responsibilities that I've done
Speaker 4: in the past. He doesn't. He does an incredible job
Speaker 4: with it. So you know, we're you know, there's discipline
Speaker 4: and everything you do, you know, is there's discipline in
Speaker 4: the classroom environment. You know, our class is a lot
Speaker 4: coaches put a tremendous amount of time energy the video department,
Speaker 4: our new video directors outstanding seeming has a bright future
Speaker 4: in this league. So these guys grind away. We got
Speaker 4: all that, all those extra cameras and so forth. But
Speaker 4: you know, the pump add into you know, the cutups
Speaker 4: that we need, you know, and get it flipped timely
Speaker 4: fashion so we can watch it right after the practice.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a short break there and we're back
Speaker 4: in the meetings at three o'clock. So all that, all
Speaker 4: that plays into it. So I mean, you know, that's
Speaker 4: what's that's what's that's why can training camp so important? Right?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy there speaking wrapping up his first go at
Speaker 2: this Saint Vincent College training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 2: already talking about how we can't wait to get back
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I would imagine, you know, sometimes there's coach speak and
Speaker 2: then a lot of times there's just honesty. And I
Speaker 2: would your first time, you probably don't enjoy it like
Speaker 2: you will the you know, the additions of this to
Speaker 2: come for Mike McCarthy, because.
Speaker 3: I would think you appreciate it more over the years.
Speaker 2: Yes, Like this is the first one, this is my
Speaker 2: first training camp. I gotta be all business. I gotta
Speaker 2: get work done. You probably don't have as much time
Speaker 2: to kind of sit back and, as you say, appreciate
Speaker 2: it and the history and the pageantry and all the
Speaker 2: things that happen here.
Speaker 3: But and all that stuff wonderful. But the job is
Speaker 3: to get the football team as good as possible to
Speaker 3: try to win the Super Bowl exactly, And with all
Speaker 3: respect to Joe Green and Chuck Nole, they're not helping you.
Speaker 3: You gotta beat the Ravens and the Bengals and the Browns.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean a job to get done here.
Speaker 2: A couple more things that the coach McCarthy talked about
Speaker 2: there that I want to dig in further when we
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Speaker 2: Before we went to break, Matt, we heard from head
Speaker 2: coach Mike McCarthy. Yeah, and obviously plenty in there was,
Speaker 2: you know, a good twelve thirteen minutes or so of
Speaker 2: coach on the final day of camp here. But obviously
Speaker 2: what I really wanted to hear in the update that
Speaker 2: really stood out to me Matt was, of course along
Speaker 2: the lines of Max Ihan a chore. Yeah, and here
Speaker 2: was the quote, he's making progress. I don't see him
Speaker 2: playing this week. You know, it's based off of he
Speaker 2: wasn't scheduled to practice today, but who knows, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe in forty eight hours if he can get out
Speaker 2: there and practice Wednesday, we'll see what happens. End quote.
Speaker 2: The first part of that I didn't like because Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy admitting that if they would have had practice today,
Speaker 2: he wasn't scheduled to practice.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping to see him today, and yeah,
Speaker 3: but I set two reasons we didn't I.
Speaker 2: Do also though, then the back half of that is
Speaker 2: maybe in forty eight hours, if he could get out
Speaker 2: there Wednesday, we'll see what happens. That at least to me,
Speaker 2: seems like they are keeping the door open and doesn't
Speaker 2: seem likely but certainly not completely closed, that he could
Speaker 2: get some practice time in this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously Mike McCarthy's very savvy with the media,
Speaker 3: and he's a smart man, and he's been an NFL
Speaker 3: head coach for a very long time. But I bet
Speaker 3: he regrets a little a week or two ago saying
Speaker 3: that Monday name. You know, when Monday came out of
Speaker 3: his mouth, all of us says, oh, he'll be back
Speaker 3: in a day, He's fine. Probably should have phrased it
Speaker 3: something along the lines of day to day, because he
Speaker 3: really seems day to day, you know, is he feeling
Speaker 3: good enough today? Well maybe tomorrow. That doesn't seem week
Speaker 3: to week or in your reserve or any of those
Speaker 3: type of things. It just seems like we'll see how
Speaker 3: each day goes and how he wakes up and what
Speaker 3: the training staff thinks. So I'm excited. I mean, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: A couple of us were talking about at the bar
Speaker 3: last night that man, they've had some early draft pick
Speaker 3: bad luck in terms of training camp, you know, and
Speaker 3: the guys you want to see most just haven't been
Speaker 3: on these fields as much as you'd like the last
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 2: No, they have not. Derek Harmon last year, Faltanu Faltonu
Speaker 2: the year before that, Roderick Jones the year before that.
Speaker 2: He wasn't as bad as the others. But I think
Speaker 2: all those guys at the.
Speaker 3: Elbow year the elbow it was did that like in
Speaker 3: seven shots? All right?
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: So it has been. It has been unfortunate. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if not this Friday, in this week, hopefully he's back
Speaker 2: for that final kind of week in pre well I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say final week, but final preseason game and able
Speaker 2: to still have a few weeks to potentially hop on
Speaker 2: that moving train and get his uh, get his feet
Speaker 2: underneath him.
Speaker 3: It is a total reading the tea leaves, and maybe
Speaker 3: I'm doing it through optimistic glasses, but I'm betting right
Speaker 3: now that he plays in the preseason probably game three.
Speaker 3: Would you take that? Yes or no? I don't say
Speaker 3: that odds.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. Yeah, yeah, but I think it's
Speaker 2: a think if you it's a true coin flip. And
Speaker 2: again if he pass one, if he practices, plus if
Speaker 2: he practices on Wednesday, then I'd say, oh yeah, even
Speaker 2: if you know, even if he doesn't play Friday against
Speaker 2: against the Jets, he'll play in the following week against
Speaker 2: the Bills. So that's that would kind of be the
Speaker 2: kicker for me is if he doesn't practice this week
Speaker 2: then and doesn't play Friday night, who knows. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: could be back Monday and and you know and play
Speaker 2: against Buffalo on Thursday.
Speaker 3: But I just I I wish I said it was
Speaker 3: a Thursday game too.
Speaker 2: It is a Thursday game to pretty quick. You have
Speaker 2: six six days of rest in between there, which really
Speaker 2: means five days because you're not gonna practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a little walkthrough and then and then
Speaker 2: travel up the Buffalo.
Speaker 3: There's quite as many opportunities I originally thought, until you
Speaker 3: brought that up of to prove the team that he
Speaker 3: can get out there for the Bills game. I'm still
Speaker 3: gonna bet, Yes, I bet we see him in the preseason.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I don't have a strong feeling
Speaker 2: or a hunch either way. I just hope you're right,
Speaker 2: because man, that would be a major disappointment.
Speaker 3: Saw him. He was really good, really good, and.
Speaker 2: I wanted to continue watching that every single day.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: We got a few minutes left here in the back
Speaker 2: half of the second hour. We haven't really done a
Speaker 2: news of the day conversation as we typically do this
Speaker 2: time of year, and you want to talk news of
Speaker 2: the day. A massive breaking news decision announcement last night
Speaker 2: when one of the best, maybe the best edge rusher
Speaker 2: of his generation, but Von Miller expected to sign with
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys. It's nuts, Matt. I didn't realize he
Speaker 2: had nine sacks last year with Washington and he will
Speaker 2: be that part time player. But man, I think for Dallas,
Speaker 2: when you've got some young edge rushers, anytime you can
Speaker 2: add a guy like this, who again is I mean
Speaker 2: he's going to trot into the Hall of Fame into
Speaker 2: Canton one day Super Bowl MVP, one of the best
Speaker 2: of his generation, two time Super Bowl champion, seven time
Speaker 2: All Pro Von Miller is a Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 3: So he went to a and m he grew up
Speaker 3: in Texas. You mentioned it, which I think is dead on.
Speaker 3: They used the first round pick on edge guy this year.
Speaker 3: Obviously Parsons is long gone, second round pick last year.
Speaker 3: It's a young room, but it has a lot of upside.
Speaker 3: Maybe he has a Cam Hayward like effect on the
Speaker 3: young pups of you know, this is professional edge rusher,
Speaker 3: and I think Dallas is in it to win it,
Speaker 3: and I'm really leaning towards picking them to win that division,
Speaker 3: although I think Philly's pretty good. He could come in
Speaker 3: and part time duty and still do quite well. We
Speaker 3: were talking about this on my podcast earlier today. I
Speaker 3: guess he had a quote on his podcast or was
Speaker 3: a guest on somebody else's. He's like, and it sounds cocky,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure it is, but I think he might
Speaker 3: be right. He said I can roll out of bed
Speaker 3: and get eight Saxons League. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 3: the proof's pretty strong, right right, right.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's an crazy.
Speaker 3: We're asking him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a heck of a landing spot for him.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, that's that's where he's from. And it
Speaker 2: was the third overall pick I think coming out of Texas.
Speaker 3: A and M something like that loaded draft that Cam
Speaker 3: Newton to Americas.
Speaker 2: Yep. J Green gets to close out his career in
Speaker 2: his home state in all likelihood. A two time Super
Speaker 2: Bowl champion, one time Super Bowl MVP, seven time All Pro,
Speaker 2: eight Pro Bowls, He's played over two hundred games in
Speaker 2: the National Football League, one hundred and thirty eight and
Speaker 2: a half sacks in his career, twenty seven forced fumbles,
Speaker 2: and a gold jacket that will one day certainly be his.
Speaker 3: I'll put him against anybody in the two thousands as
Speaker 3: an EDG rusher.
Speaker 2: He's he. I'm sure there's people you can make a
Speaker 2: viable argument for.
Speaker 3: But Miles Garrett, T. J. Watt, Yeah, I mean absolutely,
Speaker 3: but he.
Speaker 2: I think he's the dude. Matt a news out of
Speaker 2: Miami Chris Bell has been activated a football injury list.
Speaker 3: I didn't think he'd be around until, like we Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: We talked about that a lot during the draft process,
Speaker 2: how it's rookie wide receiver out of Louisville, Chrispell. Matt
Speaker 2: and I both really liked him as a prospect, but
Speaker 2: the conversation was always you might not get him back
Speaker 2: until the holidays or at least until after Halloween.
Speaker 3: Which Miami, they're not going toywhere anywhere this year. Perfect.
Speaker 2: Even if you have the red shirt him for a year,
Speaker 2: who cares?
Speaker 3: But teams that are like man, if I knew he's
Speaker 3: coming back before the season even started, I would take
Speaker 3: him in the first round.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A good news for him, good news for Miami, and
Speaker 2: certainly unexpected, but good news.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll bring him along slow, but he's gonna
Speaker 3: be on the practice field where they thought there was
Speaker 3: I thought there was no chance. I thought he might
Speaker 3: miss the whole year.
Speaker 2: Jets running back Breese Hall suffered a groin injury today,
Speaker 2: but according to head coach Aaron Glenn, quote, I don't
Speaker 2: think it was a big deal end quote, but something
Speaker 2: to monitor going forward.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he wouldn't have played against the Steelers either way,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's more of a fantasy nugget than anything.
Speaker 3: It sounds like he'll probably be ready for the start
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 2: Speaking of running backs and Steelers, former Pittsburgh Steeler Najie
Speaker 2: Harris had a visit this afternoon with the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make this fantasy oriented. I think our boy
Speaker 3: Skettyby is about the most overrated, the most overrated running
Speaker 3: back the league. Like if I've seen some reports from
Speaker 3: Giant speed writers and they're saying Singletary, Tracy and Scattaboo
Speaker 3: are all, you know, like basically co starters, right, they
Speaker 3: might have heard this joke and it's not mine, but
Speaker 3: Skataboo is something. Uh, but how I can remember? I
Speaker 3: just killed the joke. Adam Sandler would say, yeah, I
Speaker 3: should have thought of the name before. Just killed the joke, dude.
Speaker 3: But I think their background danger, keep your keep your
Speaker 3: day job. I think their their backfield is far from certain.
Speaker 3: People look at Skataboo like he's Oh, he's the guy,
Speaker 3: He's the next star. He runs hard, blah, he's got
Speaker 3: off a huge injury. You ran like a four to
Speaker 3: six five to begin with. I'm a little shocknoledge.
Speaker 2: He's still out there though, I am too, and I
Speaker 2: hope it works out for him. Yeah, it was obviously
Speaker 2: disappointing for him last year with the stuff with his
Speaker 2: eye and then injury. You know, go was all four
Speaker 2: years in Pittsburgh without missing a single game and then
Speaker 2: and then has a devastating injury like that, hopefully he
Speaker 2: can bounce back and find somewhere to land.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think he will.
Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings officially placing Jamal Adams on season ending
Speaker 2: injury reserve about four hours ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, signed him recently and then he got hurt and
Speaker 3: tough league, but he his career has been kind of
Speaker 3: a weird one early early pick out LSU. Yeah, traded
Speaker 3: flat out for two first round picks. Great trade by
Speaker 3: the Jets. They didn't make it count. Seattle was able
Speaker 3: to overcome it and still be a really good organization.
Speaker 3: He might be done. I mean he's kind of a
Speaker 3: light linebacker now, which kind of fits his style. But
Speaker 3: a lot of injuries. I don't think a lot of
Speaker 3: people are banging on his door before this injury.
Speaker 2: No, and uh, and he's he had a pretty solid career,
Speaker 2: not didn't back. It didn't live up to what where
Speaker 2: he kind of started. But unfortunate for him if this
Speaker 2: is the way that it ends. And then last kind
Speaker 2: of note that I wanted to mention Matt, you and
Speaker 2: I we would spend a ton of time on this,
Speaker 2: but we did, I think, especially before the draft when
Speaker 2: we knew Drew Aller was going to be added to
Speaker 2: the fold. We talked a little bit about the future
Speaker 2: of Anthony Richardson Senior, the former top five, wasn't he Picker? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was fifth overall of the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2: Still so young, I think, only twenty four or twenty
Speaker 2: five years old. According to Adam Schefter, his future remains unclear,
Speaker 2: but all signs point to him remaining with the Colts
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 3: I took that as nobody's given him any offers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not like all that means they're they're uncertain
Speaker 2: about Daniel Jones's health.
Speaker 3: No, because they I mean they still have Riley Leonard,
Speaker 3: who I think is ahead of Richardson on the depth chart.
Speaker 3: That's why nobody wants Richardson. Yeah, and maybe they need
Speaker 3: an injury. I mean, most of these camps are full.
Speaker 3: You have the quarterbacks you need. But I'm still in
Speaker 3: the camp of Richardson, even more so McCarthy Panix. I
Speaker 3: don't think McCarthy's probably we're gonna be good. But I mean,
Speaker 3: Richardson has so much ability. I don't think he's a knucklehead.
Speaker 3: He's been injured a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, remember some of that stuff about him, like tapping
Speaker 2: out from the game like that too, tired a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. That strikes me as something that people
Speaker 2: around the league would hate and hold against him forever.
Speaker 2: But I don't also don't think that should be enough
Speaker 2: to say for the rest of your career when you're
Speaker 2: so young and you.
Speaker 3: Know you're gonna turn your back on maybe a potential
Speaker 3: starting quarterback you can buy in the cheap because he
Speaker 3: tapped out once. I mean a lot of quarterbacks have
Speaker 3: done a lot worse. I doubt the field and you know, right,
Speaker 3: we know how that works as the league to think
Speaker 3: he has no chance to be good.
Speaker 2: I mean, Matt he just turned twenty four a couple
Speaker 2: of months ago. Yeah, so he's like a young twenty four.
Speaker 3: I mean, no one bad than I. When the Colts
Speaker 3: drafted him that early, he had the best combine NFL history.
Speaker 3: But everyone on the planet, including the Colts, new boy,
Speaker 3: this is gonna take some time, you know he is.
Speaker 3: He needs all the work you can get, and he
Speaker 3: couldn't get to work because he's always hurt. But he
Speaker 3: still needs to work. I don't know that he's any
Speaker 3: different now than he is a prospect, And I know
Speaker 3: that was two or three years ago.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, though, and he just turned twenty four, was
Speaker 2: the fourth overall pick in the twenty twenty three DRECS.
Speaker 3: I'm Shanahan or McVeigh or one of those guys. Just
Speaker 3: come hang out with us for a year and we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens.
Speaker 2: Come to quarterback school, come to quarterback rehab, and we'll
Speaker 2: take care of you.
Speaker 3: Steelers are full, but if they weren't, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind him running. I mean, if Howard and
Speaker 3: Aller didn't exist, I would have given you a six
Speaker 3: round pick for Richardson and have him follow Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: around like.
Speaker 2: A dog and kee what happened, and no expectations to
Speaker 2: back them up because you got Mason Rudolph still.
Speaker 3: All the pressures off your shoulders and yeah, go to
Speaker 3: quarterback rehab with Shanahan or something.
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