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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. We're talking free agency and guys still available.

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Speaker 1: As we sit here midway through May, as a team

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Speaker 1: start to get ready to fire up Phase three of

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Speaker 1: their ot A programs that have their mini camps and

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Speaker 1: uh you get about three about four more weeks here

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Speaker 1: before teams once they get done with mini camp things

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Speaker 1: pretty much shut down for a while. Yeah, it really

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Speaker 1: is the true dead period. You may get a signing

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Speaker 1: legal situation here and there. Maybe watching watching, I was

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Speaker 1: thinking of the guys that you have yet to commit

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Speaker 1: You know, some some bad news is gonna pop up

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Speaker 1: I mean that's when everyone goes on vacation. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's truly the downtip. Yeah, that's that's why. You know,

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Speaker 1: news from what was gonna happen with Martavis bryant Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the league, the league goes on vacation in in July, right,

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Speaker 1: because the other eleven months out of the year, this

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Speaker 1: next year and things like that. I mean, but there's

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Speaker 1: no news for us, right of course, the players are

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Speaker 1: working out and learning playbooks and things too. So looking

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Speaker 1: here at the edge Rushers, that's the first thing listed here. Um,

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Speaker 1: Justin Houston is available now. I'm interested if you listen

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Speaker 1: to if you believe Justin Houston, the Steelers wanted to

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean Houston wouldn't. Yeah right. Um, Jerry hughes

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Speaker 1: looking at some of the other guys that might fit here.

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Speaker 1: There's there are several nose tackle types who are available

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Speaker 1: six million dollar deal? A great? Yeah, maybe he's more

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Speaker 1: Martevius Adams, Montrevia's Adams, I should say yes, Yes, they're

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