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Speaker 1: At least. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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

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Speaker 1: Free agency right around the corner when we come back

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Speaker 1: on Monday. Um, it'll be hot and heavy. The will

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Speaker 1: be into the legal tampering period. That ye, legal tampering.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's talking now, yeah, um, but yeah, pro day's heating up.

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Speaker 1: This week. We started to see that that that really

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Speaker 1: Of course, today the Steelers are bringing b J. Finney

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Speaker 1: which would take Again. It goes back to what we've

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Speaker 1: always thought. The Steelers like to have a potential start

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Speaker 1: somebody at that spot. I think that's one of Kevin's

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Speaker 1: On the morning of the draft, you know, and and

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Speaker 1: make bad decisions. With the signing of Finney and assuming

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Speaker 1: So I think we agree on this. But do you

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Speaker 1: If not, they're eleven and two when b J Finny

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Speaker 1: not that that's not going to be the case, and

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Speaker 1: I'm interested where they send Canada, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we'll get all that information, you know, but it'll

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Speaker 1: be probably the Obama probably in North Carolina, right, those

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Speaker 1: probably don't have to send him to Maryland. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: that where he's been and he knows people, he can

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. Will continue to watch this as

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Speaker 1: see trade lance his measurements he's not running today. He's

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Speaker 1: I think nine and a quarter inch hands. Wow. I

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Speaker 1: expected him to have big hands, as question, I want

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Speaker 1: to big strong hands. That's a little small. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: he has played in the I mean he played weather. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right. Um. I had a good conversation on my

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Speaker 1: people made a stink about I think Brian Baldinger came

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Speaker 1: mean he's he's a good runner for quarterback. Well, we

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Speaker 1: don't know is how fast he is because a lot

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Speaker 1: But if I were him and that in folks Lamar

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Speaker 1: And I bet Lamar actually had to worry, like if

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Speaker 1: I run a four three, someone's gonna make me a

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Speaker 1: damn receiver. Well that was his concern. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think that'says that issue. But if I were Answer Lance's agent,

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Speaker 1: and this is probably true anyways, I would tell every

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Speaker 1: I'm working on my drops and my quarterback stuff. You know.

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Speaker 1: But even at Dad, if he goes out and runs

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Speaker 1: a four six, is anybody gonna be upset? It's plenty

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Speaker 1: fashion for eight if we think you're fat, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I wouldn't spend any time in my

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Speaker 1: forty if I were him. Yeah, we'll see. But you know,

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Speaker 1: this information is going to continue to trickle out here

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Speaker 1: over the and it's official. The Steelers have signed B. J. Finney.

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Speaker 1: So good, it's great sign absolutely mean. Cost makes sense, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: cost you very little to do it, and why not. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If Jesse James is next, great, I think that'd be fine.

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Speaker 1: But this one makes more sense to me and we'll

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Speaker 1: help absolutely absolutely. But he is Matt Williamson, I'm Dale Lally.

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

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this segment. So for for Matt,

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Speaker 1: for Jacob brec Here on site keeping us on the air.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio