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Speaker 1: He is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive on Dale Lolley, he is Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and well, lots of stuff to talk about here.

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Speaker 1: It's all happening is four o'clock on Tuesday. If people know,

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Speaker 1: that's the Golden Cons, the Witching Hour and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: earlier today making a number of roster moves, and that

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Speaker 1: would be right around noon today. They well, they released uh,

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Speaker 1: Henry Mondu, they released Buddy Johnson, they released Carlos Davis,

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Speaker 1: also released his brother Khalil and if they called them

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Speaker 1: both at the same time as the guys, you're yeah.

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Speaker 1: Um also released defenser backs Elijah Riley, Chris Steal and

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Speaker 1: Linden Stevens, linebackers Ron del Carter, h hamilcar Rashid de Lante,

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Speaker 1: Scott and James Walter's defensive lineman Carlos Davis, Khalil Davis.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned Donovan, Jeter and Mando On offense, the

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Speaker 1: team released William Dunkel. Couldn't tell you what he looks like,

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Speaker 1: don't remember much about him. Adrian Ilich has green, John

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Speaker 1: Leglue Ryan McCollum, running back Max Borgie, tight ends Kevin

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Speaker 1: and Cody White. They also waived injured Carlin's platel They

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Speaker 1: made a couple of trades and one that just happened here, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that just came through. Made a deal traded a three

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Speaker 1: sixth round draft pick for maleak Read and a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick to the Broncos and Reads a guy with

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Speaker 1: starting experience in thirteen sacks the last two seasons, so

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Speaker 1: that's an upgrade. Yeah, And then they just made a

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Speaker 1: deal for an offensive lineman us. Um, I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: the terms on that one, but it's Jesse Davis who

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Speaker 1: played the last four years with the Dolphins quite a

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Speaker 1: over a thousand snaps for Miami. Now they were a

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Speaker 1: bad offensive line. Um. I think he's a backup type,

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Speaker 1: you know, but he also played nine hundreds, more over

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Speaker 1: nine hunds snaps a year before. He is thirty years old.

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Speaker 1: He must have came in the league kind of an

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Speaker 1: older guy undrafted. But the deal was with the Vikings

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Speaker 1: because he was a free agent after four years with

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Speaker 1: my sign a one year, three million dollar deal with

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. One and a half million of that was

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Speaker 1: for him for one five million this year, right, So

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Speaker 1: that's not bad. I mean that's part of the equation

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Speaker 1: because he was working on a three year, fifteen million

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Speaker 1: So it shows that the league values him. Is why

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing that up. Um guard experience and right tackle experience,

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Speaker 1: so that versatility is import and has gone. So actually

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Speaker 1: he's not good. Yeah, there were some reports out there

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Speaker 1: that of who was gone and who was not. The

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Speaker 1: guys who were released to get down to the fifty

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Speaker 1: three men roster. Today we're Marcus Allen, Justin Leane, and

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Speaker 1: Anthony McFarland Hagan still a Steeler. That one didn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense. No, I I didn't. That's why I didn't believe.

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Speaker 1: You know, these the fan sites out there get the

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Speaker 1: information they retweeted. They I'll often times get fooled because

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Speaker 1: there are some fake accounts out Yeah, Rappaport with his

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Speaker 1: name spelled just a little. Uh, so you get caught

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Speaker 1: in those things. So that didn't happen. Um, just we

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Speaker 1: put this out there. All those names you just mentioned

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Speaker 1: Most notably demonte CAZy is going to go on i R.

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Speaker 1: This is good news, though, this is good news. He's

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Speaker 1: going to go on injured reserve. But he had to

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Speaker 1: be on a fifty three man roster, and so to

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Speaker 1: final fifty three man roster. That means somebody else is

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Speaker 1: maybe Alan, or it could be it could be whoever

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Speaker 1: not outside the theme. There could be more shoes to drop.

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Speaker 1: We don't know, but it's gonna be about roster. Spad's

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Speaker 1: It might have been over the cap about the number

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Speaker 1: I know we're here to talk Steelers, but I can't

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Speaker 1: help myself. Do you see Kellen Mont got let go today,

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Speaker 1: you're therefore not going to have as many picks as teams.

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Speaker 1: don't keep moving down, keep moving down, inquiring acquiring more picks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: cap tweet. But amazingly it's not the Saints. The Saints

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Speaker 1: it that way, man, I got I got it. Not

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Speaker 1: George Chickens. I wish I could, but I was trying

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Speaker 1: to find a depth chart here. Yeah, that did that.

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Speaker 1: at it that way. Okay, So it's quarterback is for Bisky, Rudolph,

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's just spend a second on each position.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that could change is a Roudolph trade

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Speaker 1: So somebody, somebody's gonna get replaced there. Are they working

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Speaker 1: or maybe they're working out something. Well, Anthony Miller still

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Speaker 1: seven is what they have? Seven? Yeah, which is still

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Speaker 1: too many. Still one too many. Is wondering if they're

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Speaker 1: for Boykin or Sims or somebody like that makes some sense.

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Speaker 1: Austin is currently on the roster though, yes, he could

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have more than that. Did you say Davis

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Speaker 1: look I was trying to look up um Jesse Davis.

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Speaker 1: But Haig is not either. Hag is not either though.

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Speaker 1: The tight end is Friar Muth, Gentry Connor, Heyward, running back,

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Speaker 1: Najia Harris, Benny Snell, Jalen Warren with Derrik Wattet fullback

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Speaker 1: uh and then the receivers Deonte Johnson, Gunneralschewsky, Calvin Austin,

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Speaker 1: Chase Claypool, George Pickens, Miles Boykin, Steven Sims. Pretty full room. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I bet there's another shooter. There's there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: That's rare for them. Yeah, that's Hayward, Ogan job A,

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Speaker 1: Lulu Louder, Milk, Wormley, Montrevius Adams, the Marvin Leel okay,

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Speaker 1: include the two new guys that they got that they've

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