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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm dale ally here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers wrapped up their preseason on Sunday, and uh,

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Speaker 1: well that was a nineteen to nine victory by the

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Speaker 1: Steelers over the Detroit Lions. They finished off their first

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Speaker 1: unbeaten preseason since you know what you're They went five

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Speaker 1: and oh in the preseason. Five and they played a

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Speaker 1: game in Dublin against the Bears. That you're Um, that

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Speaker 1: was a fun time, a whole weekend in Dublin. You

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Speaker 1: know that was all right? Um? But that season, the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: riding a brand new mobile quarterback, went to the a

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Speaker 1: f C Championship. How about that. I'm not saying that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen this time around. It's better than being on three,

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Speaker 1: but it's better than being oh and three. And I thought, uh,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback play throughout this preseason, Matt was was exemplary. Um.

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Speaker 1: All of them look comfortable, all of them looked better

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Speaker 1: than I expected. Zero interceptions. I mean, I can't stress

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Speaker 1: out enough, but it wasn't because I'm afraid I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: check it down. Take a shot. They were taking shots

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Speaker 1: or driving all down the field. I saw very few

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Speaker 1: poor decisions or questionable decisions. None of them ended up

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Speaker 1: where it's at. I'm very excited about where it's at.

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Speaker 1: And the possibilities are pretty exciting, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how this, how this could work out. I think could

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Speaker 1: be really really good for this team. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: so as well. Obviously, you know Steelers UM had some

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Speaker 1: injuries yesterday. The big one to me, I know everybody's

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Speaker 1: worried about t J wat Deonte Johnson. I get it.

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Speaker 1: They're fine. I mean TJ was laughing on the sideline

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Speaker 1: he went back in the game after after getting his

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Speaker 1: it was, oh boy, you gotta get him out of um.

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Speaker 1: You know, he just it was time. The monte CAZy

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Speaker 1: injury though, to me, UM, you saw early in the

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Speaker 1: game they were running that that three safety package out

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Speaker 1: there at three safety Nickel U with Making Fitzpatrick and

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Speaker 1: the slot he he blitzed out of the slot. UM

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Speaker 1: was doing You know that? To me? Um, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that you scraped that package because you don't have

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Speaker 1: Kzy for however long. We'll see what they do with him.

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Speaker 1: I believe they'll carry him on to the active roster,

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Speaker 1: uh and then put him on place him on IR

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Speaker 1: and he'll be out at least four weeks and UM,

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Speaker 1: by then that'll be six weeks by the time he's returned.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, something like that. UM, But I think you

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Speaker 1: can still run that package. We saw them do it

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Speaker 1: in training camp with Cam Sutton as the free safety.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to unpack there. I have one quick

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Speaker 1: question for you. Do you have any concerns about the

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Speaker 1: ante whatsoever? Okay, I mean you think he would have

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Speaker 1: went back in the game if it mattered. I know

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Speaker 1: coach said that, but I mean, just watching the TV copy,

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Speaker 1: I see what laughing and no, I saw him. He's fine.

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Speaker 1: I just never Johnson was back on the on the

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Speaker 1: sideline's fine. Okay, good. So I know you understand this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that all of our listeners understand it.

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Speaker 1: It's going to come into play here in the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours or so. If they and correct me

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, I know that it's better than I do.

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Speaker 1: If they put KZ on the i R, now he's

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Speaker 1: out for the year, out for the year. If he

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Speaker 1: makes the final roster and then immediately goes to I R,

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Speaker 1: he can come off. Correct. Yeah, you have to carry

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Speaker 1: that player onto your fifty three man roster and then

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Speaker 1: you can you can do something with him after that,

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Speaker 1: which means somebody isn't gonna make the fifty three. That

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Speaker 1: was a tough thing I I did. I did a

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster late last night and published it

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Speaker 1: this morning. You had Riley on there, right, I did,

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Speaker 1: and I assume he would be your limbo guy of

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Speaker 1: don't sign with anyone. We're gonna not put you on

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Speaker 1: the roster. Then we're gonna call you that. No I

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Speaker 1: I heard today it's not as bad as initially thought.

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Speaker 1: just a strong suspicion by you, and you weren't cheating

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Speaker 1: was not. No, I was not. I ended up keeping

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Speaker 1: Derek what. I think that's gonna happen too. I went

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Speaker 1: wasn't as much about what as it was Benny Snell. See,

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Speaker 1: I think those two are fighting each other more than

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Speaker 1: they're fighting against war inter correct. Not the same way then,

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Speaker 1: But I think, you know, if if the final vote

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Speaker 1: a tough one. Sims is gonna play somewhere, Yeah, Sims.

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Speaker 1: Sims had a nice preseason. I see, you know, you

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Speaker 1: we'll be done by Calvin Austin. And the other thing

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Speaker 1: Do you think Austin and Claypool are questionable or doubtful

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Speaker 1: or week one? No? Do you think Austin plays Week one? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: well then he just didn't get We just didn't get

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Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. More dots and cold Daniels ocre for Hag Green,

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Speaker 1: what they come out of this process. I agree to me.

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Speaker 1: So you're putting the fifty three together of what we know,

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Speaker 1: but there still could be they'll be. There'll be more

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Speaker 1: But this is what it's gonna look like Tuesday at

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Speaker 1: But there's more to that obviously. Yeah. On the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: I kept Hayward, Lulu Ogan, Joeb Wormley to Marvin Leel,

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Speaker 1: he was hurt. But I mean you think he's ready

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Speaker 1: You signed him off New Orleans practice squad last year.

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Speaker 1: He's not special or right, he was. It was nice

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Speaker 1: Ran thirty two plays in the fourth quarter. Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: back the CAZy thing. Um. We had a call or

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Speaker 1: two even in the postgame show Man, the un defense

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Speaker 1: this run defense looks just like last year. Come on,

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Speaker 1: thinking that Buddy doesn't make this team. I just don't

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Speaker 1: see it. I don't know what he's done positive since

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Speaker 1: The closest thing they came was like the first play

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Speaker 1: I mean side note. I went I watched the O line,

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Speaker 1: this morning, I had like twenty minutes or a half hour.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I just want to watch them all again.

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Speaker 1: I thought it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's focused on the holding penalties and in the one

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Speaker 1: false start, yes, it wasn't that bad. Mitch doesn't need that.

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Speaker 1: One's on Mitch. That that was and the second one

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Speaker 1: was on Mitch. And the second one on that was

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Speaker 1: a coverage sack and not necessarily on Mitch, but it

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Speaker 1: was a coverage sack. He had three plus seconds and

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Speaker 1: throw the football. Yes. Is that the one that everyone

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Speaker 1: that's what brought me to the thought about running it was.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I think in the real world he

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Speaker 1: Like it wasn't great protection. They were all getting bull

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Speaker 1: rushed pretty much, but it was. There was plenty of time,

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Speaker 1: so if you just look at the sacks. I did

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Speaker 1: a podcast this warning and said, hey, I'm not getting

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Speaker 1: Mitch a hard time, but he didn't help. The final

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Speaker 1: results on a couple of these occasions with the past blocking.

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Speaker 1: They have Morga beat a few times that he's worrisome,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're making progress and the line in general.

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Speaker 1: There was some communication and penalty and pre snap stuff

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Speaker 1: as well as should I block him? Are you gonna

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Speaker 1: block him? I'm gonna that stuff will get better. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're not gonna become more talented. Amazing goes on,

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Speaker 1: but there there will be less mistakes. And this was

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Speaker 1: much better. Don't beat yourself, Yeah, that's a that's a key.

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Speaker 1: Don't beat yourself every once to kill the aligne. It's

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Speaker 1: not good. But this was way better than the Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Here's the other. I mean, in a hundred and nine

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Speaker 1: pass attempts in the preseason, the only give up six

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Speaker 1: sacks because you have more mobile quarterbacks that are you know,

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Speaker 1: even Rudolph. Rudolph was sacked once in thirty nine pass

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Speaker 1: attempts in the preseason, playing two. Yeah. Um, so he

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Speaker 1: got out of sacks in Jackson. Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean yesterday he didn't. And I wonder if I was

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Speaker 1: coached to him. That's why I brought up before. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I mean it's not the I think it's better

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Speaker 1: right now than it was last year at this point,

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Speaker 1: let's put it that way. I think so. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I thought it'd be better than it is now, but

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Speaker 1: watching that on second watch, I thought this was better

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Speaker 1: and I thought it was live, that's for sure. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's progress. It's better than it was last week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question. And I think Thoughtson has to be the

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Speaker 1: left guard, which is gonna be you. But that now,

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Speaker 1: that's not even It's kind of funny to me that

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Speaker 1: it was even a conversation because he's a lot better

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Speaker 1: than Green, right, Yeah, oh absolutely, So we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lalllett.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

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