Speaker 1: This is live coverage op the twenty twenty six Steelers
Speaker 1: Training Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bod Light,
Speaker 1: Easy to Drink, easy to enjoy, and prought to you
Speaker 1: in part by Always Safe Flagging and Traffic Control making
Speaker 1: traffic safe again called four one two three oh one
Speaker 1: twenty three hundred, or visit us online at awsafe dot
Speaker 1: net for a quote today by FedEx the new power
Speaker 1: Move Independence health System expert Care here. Remax Select Realty
Speaker 1: visit Remax Select Pittsburgh dot com. The Laurel Highlands of
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania visit go Laurel Highlands dot com. The Steelers Pro
Speaker 1: Shop visitshop dot Steelers dot com and buy Coniente Pizza
Speaker 1: and Drafthouse.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Stealer Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers
Speaker 2: Audio Network US Shooler Matt Williamson with you here once
Speaker 2: again on this Monday from the Camps Saint Vincent College.
Speaker 2: It's a soggy, rainy, overcast, wet one onto this Monday here. Certainly, Matt,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a different day on campus said, it's.
Speaker 3: Another weird one. I mean, last time we were on
Speaker 3: the air was Saturday Night Lights Day, which is kind
Speaker 3: of an odd day. This is definitely an odd day
Speaker 3: because practice they booted the fans half hour in minutes
Speaker 3: in or so, went on for like another two periods maybe,
Speaker 3: and then they hung it up, well they didn't hang
Speaker 3: it up. They went down to the indoor, which I
Speaker 3: didn't follow them for that, and then we come up
Speaker 3: and I'll meet you in the cafeteria, Wesley, and you
Speaker 3: said it's locked, Like what's going on around here? They're
Speaker 3: all closed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where are we supposed to have our pre show
Speaker 2: meeting if not the cafeteria.
Speaker 3: I know, we do serious business there. And then you know,
Speaker 3: we went down to the Fred Rogers Center and it
Speaker 3: was family day and it was a madhouse down there,
Speaker 3: like everyone in the organization, players, wives, daughter, you know, daughters, sons,
Speaker 3: et cetera. Where everywhere. Got a little food truck action too,
Speaker 3: a little coffee for us. So it's been cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, we're ready to go here. It has been
Speaker 2: a weird stretch a couple days, just with some practice
Speaker 2: moving around and some weather stuff here, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a different kind of week This week is obviously
Speaker 2: the team will have practice tomorrow, weather permitting, right here
Speaker 2: at chucknoll Field on Saint Vincent College's campus and then
Speaker 2: a couple days off Matt or I should say Wednesday
Speaker 2: off game on Thursday against the Packers in the preseason
Speaker 2: Friday off. So really this a little bit of a
Speaker 2: lighter week. You get a Monday Tuesday practice and your
Speaker 2: Monday you ended up having to move to the indoor facility,
Speaker 2: and then Saturday Sunday on kind of the tail end
Speaker 2: of that preseason game. But this is really about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was gonna call this the dog Days,
Speaker 2: but I don't even know if you can call it
Speaker 2: the dog days when I don't think so you don't
Speaker 2: really have, you know, a long stretch of practice left.
Speaker 2: This is more like kind of the final days here just.
Speaker 3: In general of times, like for your and I purposes,
Speaker 3: you know, a days that we actually slept here. There
Speaker 3: was never like a crazy long stretch where it's like,
Speaker 3: oh man, my back. I mean, yeah, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: just need to get home, or boy, it's been a
Speaker 3: long stretch. It's been broken up, and you mentioned it.
Speaker 3: I mean just for the drive what we're on today
Speaker 3: obviously tomorrow and then Saturday Sunday from up here and
Speaker 3: then we're back to like regular season.
Speaker 2: Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday up here. It is Monday here, yes,
Speaker 2: so that's it. Though Monday is the last day. So
Speaker 2: a week week from today, Matt, you and I will
Speaker 2: be doing our final show here on campus and sailing
Speaker 2: off into the sunset. Okay, so it happens real quick, man.
Speaker 2: It always does.
Speaker 3: Get back to like video and being in the studio
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, and it's basically regular season.
Speaker 2: Mode for us, which I am looking forward to. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because I enjoyed the off season. I enjoy all the
Speaker 2: different benchmarks. And it's Matt and I. We debated this
Speaker 2: throughout combine and draft season. I like the combine. I
Speaker 2: like the draft. Matt loves the combine back Matt loves
Speaker 2: the Draft. I love once the real games start here
Speaker 2: about a month from now in September, and we are
Speaker 2: getting closer and closer to that, and I'm excited for
Speaker 2: what is obviously going to be a very intriguing Steeler seasons.
Speaker 2: Season part of me for a litany of different reasons.
Speaker 2: But yeah, a different one here certainly on campus today,
Speaker 2: as it all is quiet now and has been for
Speaker 2: a few hours. But Hopefully tomorrow the weather we'll hold
Speaker 2: off and we'll have an opportunity to get in a
Speaker 2: good practice before that final preseason or the first part
Speaker 2: of me. I'm on, Matt. This uh, this latte we
Speaker 2: got from traveling Tom's coffee truck. This latte I got
Speaker 2: down there at the bottom of the hill has me zooming.
Speaker 3: Yet you're all over justin before we hit record.
Speaker 2: I gotta dial back. I gotta dial it back, just
Speaker 2: a just a just a teensy ween. See bit here
Speaker 2: is Wolf used to say, He's like, I like to
Speaker 2: drink enough coffee to uh, you know, to turn my
Speaker 2: bloodstream into rocket fuel. And then I'll dial it back
Speaker 2: a little bit and drink and drink some water.
Speaker 3: But the food trucks were good. Awesome was first off.
Speaker 3: We saw met the Tyler's family for the sure day
Speaker 3: and cute little daughter.
Speaker 2: Yep, that was very nice. We finally finally finally put
Speaker 2: some some faces to the TV family name there, which
Speaker 2: was which was awesome. But yeah, cool little family day
Speaker 2: down there, a bunch of different Foo trucks for launching
Speaker 2: for everything. Certainly the rain today didn't damper those spirits
Speaker 2: down there, but they are Matt they got some they
Speaker 2: got some things to accomplish here, certainly before you get
Speaker 2: to Thursday and starting to have less and less time
Speaker 2: to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're one hundred percent right. And I know Max
Speaker 3: and Rob were just kind of going through the roster
Speaker 3: a little bit, and Rob and I were chatting before
Speaker 3: that segment their break. I don't know how many available
Speaker 3: spots there are. Yeah, I mean that's something we're gonna
Speaker 3: have to start thinking about at some point here too.
Speaker 3: It's a ways down the road. We shoot up the
Speaker 3: whole preseason to go, and there'll be some injuries and
Speaker 3: somebody will emerge. But I'm not saying that these guys
Speaker 3: aren't fighting for anything. They absolutely are, But I don't
Speaker 3: know what's available in terms of the fifty three at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seemed like that road has been more narrow
Speaker 2: than yeah, yeah, in years past.
Speaker 3: Certainly, I think the right guard position might be Spencer
Speaker 3: Anderson's pretty much wrapped up too. You know.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel that way as well, and especially
Speaker 2: after Thursday, I think that picture will start become even
Speaker 2: a little bit more clear. Yes, Matt, some news around
Speaker 2: the league here in the first segment to kind of
Speaker 2: really get us going here the first man. Tough news
Speaker 2: for the Washington Commanders, tough news for Jade Daniels, for
Speaker 2: head coach Dan Quinn. Left tackle Laramie Tunzel will undergo
Speaker 2: surgery after tearing his try sep and he is expected
Speaker 2: to miss significant time, if not the entire season.
Speaker 3: That sounds like the entire season, or could be ready
Speaker 3: for the playoffs type thing. But I don't like their
Speaker 3: chance to go in the playoffs. I don't think their
Speaker 3: offseason is gone, particularly swimming swimmingly anyway. No, I did
Speaker 3: like the Digs pick up. I thought that was a
Speaker 3: step in the right direction. I'm hoping Daniels doesn't have
Speaker 3: an early career where they's put everything on his shoulders.
Speaker 3: But he really started to get that feeling. And I
Speaker 3: also think that coach could be on the hot seat
Speaker 3: a little bit. People people might underestimate the Tunsil loss.
Speaker 3: I mean, he is one of the true tackles that
Speaker 3: you basically think about it like from a corner perspective.
Speaker 3: You just leave him on an island. It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: who's opposite and opposite him. Brandon Thorn did his member,
Speaker 3: he did his tackle rankings and stuff. We were looking at.
Speaker 3: He was number two amongst all left tackles, which means
Speaker 3: you're like a top five players league, you know, in
Speaker 3: terms of offensive lineman. Yeah, that's a huge loss.
Speaker 2: It's a massive loss. And I think you're what you
Speaker 2: touched on there is where it really gets home is
Speaker 2: they've got to they've got to find a way to
Speaker 2: make life a little bit easier on Jane Daniels, not
Speaker 2: more fault and uh that worries to me for his future. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's his blind side protector. That's, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: one of the best left tackle, is one of the
Speaker 2: best offensive linemen, one of the best football players in
Speaker 2: the world, and they don't have a lot of those
Speaker 2: high end talent guys on that offense.
Speaker 3: He might have been really on the whole team just
Speaker 3: in terms of like needle mover blue chip players, he's
Speaker 3: probably it. I mean, mclaurin's good, but he's not a
Speaker 3: top five guy at his position.
Speaker 2: Jayde Daniels is good, but he's still got to prove
Speaker 2: it and you get to help solid footing and you know.
Speaker 3: Turt sunny styles. I mean, but he's a rookie.
Speaker 2: He's a rookie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's obviously not
Speaker 2: the news that you wanted for the commanders, for jayde Daniels,
Speaker 2: for head coach Dan Quinn, as they're going to be
Speaker 2: missing Laramie Tunsel for some serious time, Matt. Another extension
Speaker 2: given out earlier today between the Patriots and tight end
Speaker 2: hunter Henry two year contract extension worth up to twenty
Speaker 2: million dollars, includes fourteen point five million guaranteed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's had a very solid career. He's a
Speaker 3: solid starter. And I use that term solid twice because he's.
Speaker 2: Kind of boring, that's about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a young quarterback's good friend. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's is where he's supposed to be. He's a fine player.
Speaker 3: I kind of like Eli Reridan that they drafted in
Speaker 3: the third round. I think it was out of Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: So it does not like Henry's going anywhere. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't change the proximity of you know, my thoughts on
Speaker 3: the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Really, no, it does not. And you're right, he's a
Speaker 2: solid player. That's a good word to use. Drake wrong
Speaker 2: with that, I want of Drake May's I think the
Speaker 2: you know, targets that he's more comfortable with yeah, and
Speaker 2: there's always there's always something to be said for that
Speaker 2: for your young quarterback. And though he obviously had a
Speaker 2: great season last year, you want to make sure he's
Speaker 2: continuing to grow and not and not plateau inn or
Speaker 2: taking any steps back. So a nice deal there for
Speaker 2: New England. Yeah uh And kind of last, I guess
Speaker 2: news of the of the day from practices and around
Speaker 2: the league Matt is that the Lions Cade May's the center.
Speaker 2: The new center for the Detroit Lions expected to miss
Speaker 2: significant time eight to ten weeks with a wrist injury
Speaker 2: that he suffered during practice.
Speaker 3: This is also a big one, not that he's a
Speaker 3: great player, but center was such a problem for them
Speaker 3: post Frank Ragnow and they even tried to bring him back,
Speaker 3: which wasn't fair to anybody. And I thought May's was
Speaker 3: May was like a perfect guy. May a y s right, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: that's the S on the end face. Yes, not Drake
Speaker 3: May right right right right?
Speaker 2: But he actually does you just.
Speaker 3: Talking about dra May. That's why he screwed me up.
Speaker 3: But he's a big, physical center. He's not one of
Speaker 3: these movement based guys like he's perfect for Dan Campbell
Speaker 3: and biting knee caps, and I thought he was gonna
Speaker 3: be a real nice addition. And they don't have much
Speaker 3: that I'm aware of in terms. I mean, they're the
Speaker 3: same problems as last year. I think it's in center now,
Speaker 3: so I thought he was gonna solidify that O line.
Speaker 3: But man, that's another big blow.
Speaker 2: It sure is. They've they haven't had much fortune in
Speaker 2: that department in Detroit. No, and uh and this is
Speaker 2: another kind of uh unfortunate uh move in that direction
Speaker 2: for them. Hey, I guess eight to ten weeks, you know,
Speaker 2: could be worse. Hopefully you'll get him, you'll get him
Speaker 2: back for the majority of the season. But still that's
Speaker 2: not the type of injury you want to get to
Speaker 2: pick it.
Speaker 3: I'm hurt now eight you know, three of those weeks
Speaker 3: or even before the season starts. Sure, maybe you get
Speaker 3: him back in week five something.
Speaker 2: As opposed to you know, maybe week ten if this
Speaker 2: would have happened in the middle of September or something
Speaker 2: like that. But yeah, still regardless, not great news for
Speaker 2: the Lions as we know. I mean, that's part of
Speaker 2: this process. You're gonna have guys that are gonna pick
Speaker 2: up short term injuries, long term injuries, significant stuff, and
Speaker 2: unfortunately a couple offensive linemen following victim to that here
Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours or so.
Speaker 3: Again, of course, knock on wood and there will be
Speaker 3: Steeler injuries that happen. They're not gonna be immune to it.
Speaker 3: But for you folks out there that are being critical
Speaker 3: of this coaching staff or not pushing, pushing, pushing, well,
Speaker 3: I mean, so far, so good on the injury front.
Speaker 2: You know, last kind of piece of news of the
Speaker 2: day that I wanted to discuss with you, Matt, is
Speaker 2: that NFL league officials confirming today that the NFL will
Speaker 2: allow head coaches to designate a member of their sideline
Speaker 2: staff to initiate replay challenges. Traditionally, head coaches have been
Speaker 2: the only member of a team that can declare a
Speaker 2: challenge by throwing the red flag, but that will change
Speaker 2: in twenty six If a coach prefers to assign the
Speaker 2: task to someone else, a decision he would have to
Speaker 2: inform officials of before the start of the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, again, not huge news. I'm sure it'll be discussed
Speaker 3: on the headset to some degree. It's probably just who
Speaker 3: pulls the thing out of their sock and flings it
Speaker 3: onto the field. Sure, I would think the Steelers would
Speaker 3: be a good candidate not to do it, considering or
Speaker 3: anyone who's head coaches calling plays. I mean, that's enough
Speaker 3: on my plate. Give someone else that responsibility. Maybe it
Speaker 3: goes to like coach Garneckia or somebody like that that
Speaker 3: does isn't in charge of a position. I was wondering
Speaker 3: if he was going to be like the the replay
Speaker 3: guru on game day two. I guess we'll find out
Speaker 3: more and more about that. So the way I understood
Speaker 3: the way you read it, it won't be the head
Speaker 3: coach and somebody else with just one Okay, okay, somebody,
Speaker 3: just somebody can have it, Okay, yes, And I assume
Speaker 3: the officials have to know who that is.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how even significant that is,
Speaker 2: because is that a conversation you're having in the headset
Speaker 2: and throw it? But hey, if it's I think you know,
Speaker 2: if you are Mike McCarthy and you've got a million
Speaker 2: things to juggle along with the play calling, and just
Speaker 2: lose one more, just one more, Yeah, you give it
Speaker 2: the green light. You're you're you know, whoever is in
Speaker 2: charge of that decision gives it the green light, and
Speaker 2: someone else can pull that red flag out and throw
Speaker 2: it onto the field. But that will be it'll be
Speaker 2: intriguing to see how many coaches want to hold onto
Speaker 2: that thing themselves verse pass it off to somebody else
Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, like you is.
Speaker 3: Kind of surprising. Took this long. I mean, but who
Speaker 3: cares who actually throws right?
Speaker 2: I understand why you don't. I understand why you don't
Speaker 2: want multiple people doing right, because then you could you
Speaker 2: can have some issues. But yeah, there's one red flag.
Speaker 2: Let whoever wants to throw it.
Speaker 3: It came from the Steelers sideline, came from the Bear sideline. Whatever.
Speaker 3: That's all I needed.
Speaker 2: Time for a video review. We've got plenty.
Speaker 3: I guess the official that will then come over to
Speaker 3: the per step two of that. Okay, I'm the official.
Speaker 3: The red flag comes out, Do I then go to
Speaker 3: the head coach? Or do I go to the whoever
Speaker 3: threw it to ask? What are you challenging? I assume
Speaker 3: it's whoever threw it. I would think so, I would
Speaker 3: think so, right, But then again, that's more than maybe
Speaker 3: the head coach isn't even in the loop.
Speaker 2: That's more lines of communication, right, You have to that
Speaker 2: you have to make sure we're all under the same page. There. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good that's a good question by you too, Matt.
Speaker 2: And that's why I have to imagine that this will
Speaker 2: probably most head coaches will probably still just hang on
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 3: But we'll see so they have the conversation with the official.
Speaker 2: Exactly Righteah, yeah, exactly right, because yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: that's another one of those you can't have too many
Speaker 2: cooks in the kitchen type type ordeals. There, let's get
Speaker 2: to our first break here of the first hour. We
Speaker 2: have got a long three hours ahead of us here
Speaker 2: today on the campus of Saint Vincent College. Get those
Speaker 2: tweets in, you know, we'll start the five o'clock hour
Speaker 2: hitting those up. As always, We've got our first Freaks
Speaker 2: list of the upcoming college football season. Two. Yeah, Bruce Feldman,
Speaker 2: something that Matt and I like to take a look
Speaker 2: at every single year. So plenty of ground to cover
Speaker 2: as we roll along here on this Monday afternoon from
Speaker 2: a quiet and soggy Saint Vincent College campus, West Juler,
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. It is the drive all part of our
Speaker 2: training camp coverage Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.
Speaker 1: This is live coverage up twenty twenty six Steelers Training
Speaker 1: Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bud Light,
Speaker 1: Easy to drink, easy to enjoy, and brought to you
Speaker 1: in part by your neighborhood, Ford Store creator, Pittsburgh Community
Speaker 1: Food Bank, First National Bank. Let's get started, remember FDIC
Speaker 1: West Shore Home we modeling Reimagine by lee Com, Ditch
Speaker 1: Dons Appliances Visit Donsappliances dot Com guaranteed lowest prices, free
Speaker 1: next day delivery, CGR Wholesale, and by hass Is Stake
Speaker 1: in Seahouse. Haws Is Is Hospitality.
Speaker 2: Back on campus here on this Monday edition of The
Speaker 2: Drive is Bat and I rock and roll through training camp,
Speaker 2: and we are getting close to the finish line practice tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and then a few days off of course that preseason
Speaker 2: game on Thursday. Then we'll all be back here Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Speaker 2: That's it. So just four practices left in this public
Speaker 2: portion of training camp twenty twenty six. It happens real
Speaker 2: fast all the time, map, but this year feels like
Speaker 2: even a little bit of a brisker pace than usual.
Speaker 2: You touch you touched on this a little bit last hour,
Speaker 2: but I think a big part of that is that
Speaker 2: second week of camp, like you always have the four
Speaker 2: acclamation practices and then and then a day off. That's
Speaker 2: been as long as I can remember. Yes, then for
Speaker 2: the Mike Tomlin years, you'd be so four acclamation practices
Speaker 2: off on a Sunday back Monday, and you would have
Speaker 2: six straight days basically Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday light lights,
Speaker 2: and then Saturday before getting another Sunday off. That it
Speaker 2: wasn't like that, No, there was a Wednesday off built
Speaker 2: in there as well, so that would really I think
Speaker 2: it did too, just being able to go to your
Speaker 2: own bed, and because as you mentioned, we normally have
Speaker 2: those stretches where we're out here five, six, seven days
Speaker 2: at a time. This year it was really only you know,
Speaker 2: three days at a time for the for the most part,
Speaker 2: except for maybe that initial stretch of those acclamation practices.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's going quick, it's moving quick, it always does.
Speaker 2: But we really are kind of staring down the barrel
Speaker 2: of the home stretch here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we really are. And again now we have real
Speaker 3: games and pretty excited about that. So not a lot
Speaker 3: more to add, but the schedule did seem to move
Speaker 3: at a very brisk pace this year.
Speaker 2: It sure did. It sure did, And hopefully we'll get
Speaker 2: some some nice weather days here for all of you
Speaker 2: good people who still want to come out here and
Speaker 2: see your Pittsburgh Steelers in this edition of training camp.
Speaker 3: That felt bad for the crew when they evacuated the
Speaker 3: whole campus today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did too, Man, I did too. I had Uh,
Speaker 2: I had uh, yeah, I had somebody that I that
Speaker 2: I know, you know, and his wife and son here
Speaker 2: and uh, they were here for all of about I
Speaker 2: think thirty forty minutes. Yeah, I had had to had
Speaker 2: to hit it and get out of here. And uh,
Speaker 2: unfortunately you do have that sometimes out here when you
Speaker 2: have an outdoor training camp. Can't control mother nature. And
Speaker 2: I've been pretty fortunate in that regard through the first
Speaker 2: two weeks or so of camp. But uh, but today,
Speaker 2: having to, uh, having to get the fans out and
Speaker 2: then as Matt mentioned, I mean it was not much longer.
Speaker 2: It was a good thing they got the fans moving
Speaker 2: when they did, because maybe fifteen minutes twenty minutes after
Speaker 2: that you could start to see thunder here. Not too
Speaker 2: far off in the distance, and that's when the Steelers
Speaker 2: kind of went uh legging it over towards It was
Speaker 2: a it was a it was a massive congregation of
Speaker 2: golf cards down there and there at the baseball field
Speaker 2: to get all the guys.
Speaker 3: From shuttling going on, some big people, get them all.
Speaker 2: Get them all over there to the indoor facility, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah. After Matt and I kind of joked about
Speaker 2: not having to use that fancy new indoor facility yet
Speaker 2: this year, it finally ended up being the case. Baka.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, Matt, it was a right call to get people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it absolutely was. And I'm listening. I'll put
Speaker 2: my hand up, and it's a good thing. I'm not
Speaker 2: a meteorologist when I was when I was parking down there,
Speaker 2: and that was kind of like when I was walking
Speaker 2: up because all right, transparency, how the sausage is made,
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. I haven't necessarily been rushing to
Speaker 2: make it here for the start of practice. Everyone.
Speaker 3: I don't either. I mean even when we're right across
Speaker 3: the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because the first twenty thirty minutes of practice,
Speaker 2: it's all just warm ups and stretching.
Speaker 3: I don't need to see stretched. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't. As much as I love football, I don't
Speaker 2: need to see, you know, a bunch of a bunch
Speaker 2: of grown men out on the field stretching for fifteen
Speaker 2: twenty minutes and.
Speaker 3: Even most of the individual drills.
Speaker 2: But I can get more done over in my room,
Speaker 2: doing you know, high knees and and some of that
Speaker 2: basic stuff to get their bodies moving, to get the
Speaker 2: juices flowing.
Speaker 3: So I was not like they open with seven shots anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right, exactly right. I was kind of parking
Speaker 2: and heading up here right around the time that all
Speaker 2: the commotions started, and uh, and it was a little
Speaker 2: it was a little chaotic out there, but like you,
Speaker 2: I was like, this is the part where I was like,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest. I was walking up to the press
Speaker 2: box and I was it's not I mean, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's starting to rain here a little bit.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it didn't look bad.
Speaker 2: It death looked terrible. And then five minutes later not it,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe ten minutes later, lightning off in the distance,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, huh, that's why they got out of fans.
Speaker 2: I see they do know more than me. Imagine that,
Speaker 2: but uh, Yeah, it's been Uh it's always a little
Speaker 2: unpredictable here in the Laurel Valley, in the Laurel Highlands.
Speaker 2: But today, I think, certainly that first day of camp
Speaker 2: where you had to call some some audibles on the
Speaker 2: fly and make some other things happen.
Speaker 3: And we talked about this every step of the way.
Speaker 3: We've gotten lucky that it took this long. Yeah, until
Speaker 3: you were had the audible. There was a couple of
Speaker 3: years that you didn't get much done because of the rain.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to I think I was a twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: year I want to say it was the year that
Speaker 2: that coach, Drake, the wide receiver coach, passed away during
Speaker 2: training camp, if you remember that. And that year, man,
Speaker 2: it was just it felt like every day they were
Speaker 2: moving the start time of practice, or they were moving indoors,
Speaker 2: and that's when we were still broadcasting outside. I think
Speaker 2: that's why I remember it so well. So it was like, yes,
Speaker 2: every day I'm checking phones and emails and are we
Speaker 2: going to be outside? Are we going to be up
Speaker 2: in the press box? How's that going to work? And
Speaker 2: and so yeah, so fortunate to this point so far,
Speaker 2: But today a little bit of a different case, Matt.
Speaker 2: Hopefully last you said, that's what I'm hoping for. Bruce Feldman,
Speaker 2: of course covers this school, covers college football for the Athletic.
Speaker 2: He's been a long time college football guy. He's worked
Speaker 2: for some other outlets before he was with the Athletic.
Speaker 2: He put out his annual Freaks list, Matt, of the
Speaker 2: top one hundred freak athletes in college football, and this
Speaker 2: is always something that we like. Now, listen, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to go through and discuss all all one hundred
Speaker 2: of these names. But there's some of the quarterbacks that
Speaker 2: we've talked about, there's some of the high end some
Speaker 2: of the high end wide receivers that we've talked about.
Speaker 3: And definitely got to talk about the guys at the
Speaker 3: top too.
Speaker 2: And I think we're starting to get to that point
Speaker 2: in the calendar, to Matt, where we'll be paying a
Speaker 2: little attention to college football and how how it relates
Speaker 2: to draft prospects and all and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I did do a quick glance.
Speaker 3: These guys aren't all even draft eligible from what I understand. Correct,
Speaker 3: I think they've all at least I think I think
Speaker 3: they all at least a season. Yeah. Yeah, the incoming
Speaker 3: freshmen and they're just making these numbers up. There's something
Speaker 3: to go off of.
Speaker 2: Some of them might still have to fulfill eligibility, some
Speaker 2: of them might have the option when the year's over
Speaker 2: if they're going to go pro or they're going to
Speaker 2: return to school. So yeah, that is a good Uh.
Speaker 2: It's definitely very draft relevant, very draft relevant, but good
Speaker 2: for you to note that just because they're on this
Speaker 2: list doesn't mean that they will absolutely be entering the
Speaker 2: NFL Draft this upcoming spring. I did do a quick
Speaker 2: kind of a search on here, Matt, and uh, to
Speaker 2: no one's surprise, certainly not yours, No wu guys on
Speaker 2: this list. There's one pick guy on this list.
Speaker 3: You beat me to it. I was gonna say, I
Speaker 3: figured we should do the top dozen or so, any
Speaker 3: prominent other names quarterbacks and then was there a local
Speaker 3: field I mean, w Pitt. It's probably some pen stators
Speaker 3: on here.
Speaker 2: There is one, two, two pen stators on here, one
Speaker 2: and one one pit offensive lineman and that is Ryan Bayer,
Speaker 2: who is the right tackle for the pit Panthers. Three
Speaker 2: year starter twenty nine starts at right tackle six on
Speaker 2: the left side, six seven three hundred and thirty pounds.
Speaker 2: Rare athlete carries just fifteen percent body fat. He's hit
Speaker 2: more than eighteen miles per hour max velocity on the
Speaker 2: GPS vertical jump twenty eight and a half inches broad
Speaker 2: you up nine feet four hundred and thirty five pounds
Speaker 2: on the bench press. Compared with data from a three
Speaker 2: year NFL case study, Bayer ranked above the ninety seventh
Speaker 2: percentile and jump height, peak power, and modified reactive strength index.
Speaker 3: Wow, things have changed. I don't know a peak power
Speaker 3: or reactive The fact that the thing that stood out
Speaker 3: to be most he's quite large, six seven and eighteen
Speaker 3: miles an hour is rolling. I mean, twenty's really rolling
Speaker 3: for like any position. Eighteen for a man that huge
Speaker 3: is you're That's something.
Speaker 2: I am not trying to get on the train tracks
Speaker 2: with that guy. No, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Do you know how long he's been there? Could he be?
Speaker 2: He's been a three year starter, so he's I think
Speaker 2: he's definitely a dreft. I think he's definitely a draftable dude.
Speaker 2: Fun story for you. Actually, I'm just I'm remembering this.
Speaker 2: I'll have to go back and double check, but I'm
Speaker 2: almost positive it was the twenty twenty so last year
Speaker 2: would have been five twenty five. So the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three backyard brawl, Okay, I'm almost positive Ryan Bears Dad
Speaker 2: swung by our tailgate for a little bit. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: had a couple of beers and had a little bit
Speaker 2: of food.
Speaker 3: And you allow the pitch folks.
Speaker 2: Well one Dorin Dickerson was there. Former pit players, you
Speaker 2: could let him. Yeah. And because he one of the
Speaker 2: guys who's always at our tailgate is Owen Schmidt, who
Speaker 2: was you know, former w linebacker who played there. This
Speaker 2: was in Morgantown, and and Owen throws down on some
Speaker 2: brisket and some barbicue you and stuff like that. And
Speaker 2: so he was.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 2: He was a wild boy man. He would have h
Speaker 2: he would have been pretty popular out here at Saint Vincent.
Speaker 2: I mean he was drafted in the fourth round as
Speaker 2: a full back.
Speaker 3: I mean he was like, I know, he was big
Speaker 3: even for a full back, but I think he was
Speaker 3: like two sixty five, like real big.
Speaker 2: But he could move, man. He caught passes and had
Speaker 2: a couple like explosive plays as a as a full back.
Speaker 2: And the big big time I mean his his his
Speaker 2: uh his two NFL head coaches were Andy Reid and
Speaker 2: Mike Holmgren. So it was clearly they clearly they thought
Speaker 2: that he had a little bit more than just a
Speaker 2: meat heead skill set. Yeah, but they always that always
Speaker 2: struck me as funny. Yeah, long looked like way too
Speaker 2: long of a story here, Sure what we got nothing
Speaker 2: but time today. Doran and Owen knew each other from
Speaker 2: back of their time playing at Pitt and w and
Speaker 2: and then in the NFL. And so Owen was making
Speaker 2: a bunch of brisket and pulled pork and barbecue stuff
Speaker 2: at the tailgate, and Doran swung by to say hello.
Speaker 2: And I think that's how Ryan's dad ended up there
Speaker 2: just briefly. But I'll have to go back and double check.
Speaker 2: But I do think I might have a picture of
Speaker 2: us with his dad somewhere in the archives from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. But he's the pit guy on this list,
Speaker 2: checking in at number seventy Yeah, six seven, three hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty pounds, hitting upwards eighteen miles an hour on
Speaker 2: the on the GPS monitor.
Speaker 3: That's a yeah, that's a moving that's an athlete.
Speaker 2: I looked at some of the quarterbacks on this list too.
Speaker 2: Matt John Matteer checks in at sixty nine, the Oklahoma
Speaker 2: quarterback that we've discussed just six', one so not massive
Speaker 2: in terms of, size but he is two twenty.
Speaker 3: Five he kind of has a full back, build heat,
Speaker 3: man but he's kind of a boxy square kind of, yes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Spongebobb he really does like kind of looks like one
Speaker 2: of those low to the ground like you, know, yeah
Speaker 2: like almost like like a, wrestler a hockey player with
Speaker 2: the big hips and the big, legs squats five hundred
Speaker 2: and ten, pounds hit twenty and a half miles per
Speaker 2: hour on THE. Gps. Uh he's one of the ones
Speaker 2: That i'm really really intrigued to watch play this season
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i think he is healthy now he was not last.
Speaker 2: Year let's see how he looks, with you, know hopefully
Speaker 2: a clean bill of.
Speaker 3: Health no. Doubt and he also has a little bit
Speaker 3: of That Jackson dart doesn't protect himself real, well you,
Speaker 3: Know Johnny knoxville style to. Him from WHAT i remember,
Speaker 3: TOO i do think he's like kind of renowned for
Speaker 3: his weight room work though.
Speaker 2: Too he kind of looks like he looks like.
Speaker 3: IT i mean he doesn't skip leg.
Speaker 2: Day i'll tell you that he definitely does not skip leg.
Speaker 3: Day, yeah there's no.
Speaker 2: Doubt someone who probably should get into the weight room
Speaker 2: With John mattier is another quarterback checking in at sixty.
Speaker 2: Seven nico always butchering his last. NAME i am. LEAVING
Speaker 2: i Am. Yavilla he's tall and. Wired he's six' five
Speaker 2: but only. Two fifteen i'm.
Speaker 3: Not even sure if he's. Two fifteen just The little
Speaker 3: i've seen.
Speaker 2: Exactly right he was UCLA's leading rusher. Last year matt
Speaker 2: at the despite being, the quarterback had ten runs of twenty,
Speaker 2: plus yards also through thirteen touchdowns. Seven interceptions he is
Speaker 2: he's a former, volleyball standout so he can jump you
Speaker 2: know through. The gym, oh yeah and his forty times
Speaker 2: four five range and he clocked a one point four
Speaker 2: to eight ten yard, Uh sprout so. HE is, i
Speaker 2: mean there's. No doubt he's a.
Speaker 3: Lever guy that's a really good, you know usually that's a,
Speaker 3: you know get out of. Your blocks, is yeah not
Speaker 3: the not, the long take a little while to. Get
Speaker 3: going that's a really good start, for him.
Speaker 2: It is and he's a. Freak athlete he needs to
Speaker 2: put on a little bit. Of weight he needs to
Speaker 2: have some more consistency to. His game but he's one
Speaker 2: of those quarterbacks that will be keeping an eye on
Speaker 2: throughout this throughout the course of, The.
Speaker 3: Seasons like his combine will be much MUCH. C tv i.
Speaker 2: Think SO and i don't know if he has to
Speaker 2: come out or if he would have another year, of
Speaker 2: eligibility but.
Speaker 3: He's leaned towards thinking he can. GO back i.
Speaker 2: Think So that's That's where i'm. At too but we'll
Speaker 2: obviously be very intrigued by all these quarterbacks and uh
Speaker 2: and who could uh who could end up potentially being
Speaker 2: on the radar For The pittsburgh steelers depending how this season.
Speaker 2: Plays out number forty eight on The List. Byron brown
Speaker 2: he's the Quarterback from auburn that. We've discussed he was
Speaker 2: on this list last.
Speaker 3: YEAR and i don't guys are on a couple.
Speaker 2: Of, Years YEAH and i like Spoiler Alert jeremiah smith
Speaker 2: towards the top of. This list he's been on it
Speaker 2: was he's been on it for a.
Speaker 3: Few Years.
Speaker 2: Byron brown is one of The quarterbacks matt that. We
Speaker 2: mentioned if, YOU'LL remember i think it was like two
Speaker 2: months ago we did just kind of an around campus
Speaker 2: a primer on one of the days that we were
Speaker 2: kind of searching for. Some content he WAS At Usf
Speaker 2: south florida. Last year Transfers. To auburn six three two
Speaker 2: thirty five, bench presses three point, fifteen squats six, hundred
Speaker 2: pounds also hit twenty two and a half miles an
Speaker 2: hour ON the gps. Last Season matt ONE thing i
Speaker 2: really like about him thirty two starts under his belt
Speaker 2: as a collegiate. Quarterback, already wow so far he's got
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: Bit in the high forties, he'll be which is.
Speaker 2: What we like. To, see yeah he has so far
Speaker 2: in his career, or sorry part. Of me just in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five about sixty six and a half percent,
Speaker 2: completion percentage a little over thirty one, hundred yards twenty
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns to just. Seven interceptions he also ran for
Speaker 2: over one thousand yards and, Fourteen touchdowns so he's one
Speaker 2: to really keep an.
Speaker 3: Eye on he's not a little wiry. Guy either he's
Speaker 3: well built.
Speaker 2: Six three two thirty five and again it's one thing
Speaker 2: to put up those, crazy numbers, you know PLAYING. At
Speaker 2: usf but now he's got a chance to really prove
Speaker 2: it IN. The sec so.
Speaker 3: We haven't it's been. A while we probably have, new
Speaker 3: listeners and maybe some people didn't listen over the off
Speaker 3: season as much until. Training camp, get here you. Out
Speaker 3: here shame on you for six weeks, of course if that's.
Speaker 3: The case but we always talk about this is a great.
Speaker 3: Quarterback class but two or three or four of those
Speaker 3: guys that we've often discussed or either are gonna, Fall
Speaker 3: off they're gonna have a bad year. Or whatever and
Speaker 3: then there's gonna be a name or two that isn't
Speaker 3: getting thrown around. As much that's. Step up, You Know,
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield, Carson Wentz, joe burrow you go on. And
Speaker 3: on there were. High picks this guy screams could be
Speaker 3: in the equation just because of the the gifts and
Speaker 3: The thing i've heard about, him before which is less
Speaker 3: than the. Other guys that don't be surprised if he's
Speaker 3: more and more of a. HOUSEHOLD name i guess as
Speaker 3: the season goes on in the, draft world just you
Speaker 3: can sometimes you can sniff them out.
Speaker 2: A little you've got a pretty good sniff. To, test
Speaker 2: yeah if you could Pass The matt williamson, sniff test
Speaker 2: you're moving in the. Right, direction yeah.
Speaker 3: It's, Like, cool Okay everything i'm learning now and moving the.
Speaker 2: Right direction let's jump up here into the. TOP forty
Speaker 2: a Name that MATT and i have mentioned a. Few
Speaker 2: times It is alabama Wide Receiver Ryan. Coleman. Williams now
Speaker 2: remember he burst onto the scene in twenty. Twenty four
Speaker 2: he was seventeen. Years old he's very young as a
Speaker 2: true Freshman. At alabama he skipped his senior year of,
Speaker 2: high school reclassified to Get to tuscaloosa a, year early
Speaker 2: and he just absolutely lit it up as. A freshman
Speaker 2: he had that huge.
Speaker 3: Game Linked Like. Jeremiah smith it, was, like oh this
Speaker 3: guy's going to be a top, three pick top. Five
Speaker 3: pick who's better of?
Speaker 2: The.
Speaker 3: Two yeah he had.
Speaker 2: An unbelievable performance that Year against georgia and like a,
Speaker 2: night time prime time college game, day game he had
Speaker 2: six catches one hundred and seventy seven yards in the game.
Speaker 2: Winning touchdown but by his admittedly by, lofty standards by,
Speaker 2: high expectations a little bit of a disappointing sophomore season,
Speaker 2: last year forty, nine receptions six hundred and ninety yards and.
Speaker 2: Four touchdowns According to kind of everybody around him in.
Speaker 2: The program he's he's had a really, good offseason primed
Speaker 2: for a. Big year up to one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: five pounds on his six. Foot frame he was just.
Speaker 3: Putting deal he was.
Speaker 2: Just one sixty when he. Got there squat four sixty five,
Speaker 2: power clean two ninety five forty four, inch vertical eleven
Speaker 2: to two, broad jump and hit over twenty three miles
Speaker 2: per hour ON.
Speaker 3: The gps so. See nineteen now.
Speaker 2: He's, nineteen yeah THAT'S what.
Speaker 3: I thought i think he's like Younger than juju.
Speaker 2: COMING out i was gonna say he could potentially depending
Speaker 2: on what his. Birthday is he's like one of the,
Speaker 2: youngest ever could be one of the youngest guys. Ever, drafted,
Speaker 2: yeah which.
Speaker 3: You're glad he's putting on. The weight so he.
Speaker 2: Will turn he will turn twenty just before, The.
Speaker 3: Draft okay but he'll go.
Speaker 2: Very young he'll be nineteen still the week Of The
Speaker 2: super bowl met which is which. Is wild but he
Speaker 2: will turn twenty before. THE draft, i was, you.
Speaker 3: Know say juju young because he was. Unusually young but.
Speaker 3: HE'S still I think juju turned twenty one during. TRAINING
Speaker 3: camp i believe.
Speaker 2: You are he was twenty when he, got drafted but
Speaker 2: he turned, twenty one not terribly. Long after where.
Speaker 3: This guy is gonna have a long wait to. Turn,
Speaker 3: twenty oh it'll be.
Speaker 2: The end it'll be if he goes pro after, this
Speaker 2: year it'll be it'll be after his rookie season until
Speaker 2: he turns.
Speaker 3: Twenty one, so, COINCIDENTALLY yesterday, i guess or MAYBE whenever
Speaker 3: i was, DRIVING home i was Listening To, trevor sikima,
Speaker 3: you know a friend of. The pod he was doing
Speaker 3: his way too early. Stock exchange there's two of them on,
Speaker 3: this show way too early wide receiver ranks for. Next
Speaker 3: year they they are concerns. ABOUT him, i mean they
Speaker 3: really did not like how last year went mixed with
Speaker 3: his thinness, set slash, you know lack of size. And
Speaker 3: physicality they went out of their way several times to
Speaker 3: Mention how jeremy basically took over the number one role
Speaker 3: for the second half of the season and they were
Speaker 3: better off in that situation than when they were filtering everything.
Speaker 3: Through him so he needs to. Redeem himself he. Absolutely
Speaker 3: does it sounds like he's. Very, capable he's without, a doubt.
Speaker 3: Crazy TALENTED but, i think, you know. And listen we've
Speaker 3: seen this before where guys burst onto the scene and
Speaker 3: they get figured out a, little bit and then they
Speaker 3: have to be the ones to kind of adjust. And
Speaker 3: adapt and we'll see what type of year he's in
Speaker 3: for down There. At alabama one more matt before we go,
Speaker 3: to break and then maybe we'll take a look at
Speaker 3: some of the top names on this list to close out.
Speaker 3: The hour number thirty six on this list is one
Speaker 3: of my, Personal Favorites, leonora sellers the quarterback.
Speaker 2: That he has to be on Out Of. South carolina
Speaker 2: here's the write up. On him, at times he Looks.
Speaker 2: Like superman clemson had a defensive line FULL of, nfl
Speaker 2: Talent and sellers ran around and threw each of them
Speaker 2: two years in a row in a big win for
Speaker 2: The game cocks against their. Arch rivals he TOOK Home
Speaker 2: sec freshman Of the year honors in twenty. Twenty four,
Speaker 2: last year with an offensive, Coordinator change sellers wasn't quite,
Speaker 2: as sharp But With kendall brile's, Taking over sellers is
Speaker 2: expected to bounce back, six three two hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2: Five pounds sellers dropped his.
Speaker 3: Heavier in two. Thirty five he's a big thick he's.
Speaker 2: Real, thick yeah just six percent body fat, this offseason
Speaker 2: really dense and has that's a good word, to Use
Speaker 2: dentse and he's topped over twenty two miles per hour
Speaker 2: ON the.
Speaker 3: Gps tracker oh over twenty two at.
Speaker 2: His size so there's, some uh.
Speaker 3: IT'S obvious i mean he's a big. Time athlete there's some.
Speaker 2: Big bend there's Some big ben. Comparisons, there, YEAH yeah
Speaker 2: i mean.
Speaker 3: McNair's one i've heard a, lot too going back quite
Speaker 3: away because they're built. Real similarly huge year, for HIM
Speaker 3: because i think he could be in the first overall
Speaker 3: conversation or he COULD be i will take a Flyer on.
Speaker 3: Day two the last two years didn't. Go great. YOU
Speaker 3: know i think there's a wide range of draft outcomes
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 2: Very much so he COULD be. I wouldn't i wouldn't
Speaker 2: put him as one of, the favorites but he could
Speaker 2: be the first, overall pick certainly if he had a.
Speaker 2: Massive year but, you're right he can end up Being
Speaker 2: In carson beck's. Draft, range yeah depending on how. THINGS
Speaker 2: go i want to take a look at a few more.
Speaker 2: Than names who's at the top of, this list or
Speaker 2: the couple other quarterbacks that we've discussed throughout the. Off
Speaker 2: season where did. They land we'll get to all that
Speaker 2: and more as we close down the first hour of.
Speaker 2: The program Muller. And williamson it Is, the drive all
Speaker 2: part of our training Camp Coverage Steelers nation radio On
Speaker 2: The Steelers. Audio network.
Speaker 1: This is live coverage of twenty Twenty Six Steelers training
Speaker 1: camp Or The Steelers, audio network presented By, Bud light Easy,
Speaker 1: to drink Easy, to enjoy and brought to you in
Speaker 1: Part By Pennsylvania One CALL systems dyle eight one One
Speaker 1: Before YOU Dig Snt Bank People forward Banking By, kalucy
Speaker 1: chevrolet Serving the pittsburgh area for over one hundred and.
Speaker 1: Eight Years Clearview Federal. Credit union for every Touchdown the
Speaker 1: Black and gold score in twenty, Twenty six view will
Speaker 1: donate five hundred dollars To the Light of, life mission,
Speaker 1: THEY said clearviewfcu dot org and Buy Iron Workers Local union.
Speaker 1: Number three we don't go to, The office we.
Speaker 3: Build it.
Speaker 2: Rolling along here in the first hour of the drive
Speaker 2: on the Campus Of Saint, vincent college a, little overcast
Speaker 2: soggy day Here In. Unity township as the team, got, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what matt would we say about thirty forty minutes of
Speaker 2: on field practice before they had to go to the
Speaker 2: moor something, Like that, so hey you'll have that on
Speaker 2: big jobs, like this, and uh fortunately plenty of resources
Speaker 2: here on campus to Let the steelers still get the day's.
Speaker 3: WORK in i want to get back. This freaklist but
Speaker 3: one thing just dawned on, me too BECAUSE labs i
Speaker 3: were chatting, about this well not, exactly this BUT the
Speaker 3: nfl is very strict with how many minutes you practice
Speaker 3: and stuff like.
Speaker 2: That too it's like you, get in you go two,
Speaker 2: minutes over and you're, getting, yeah, Yeah FINE.
Speaker 3: So i wonder all that transportation from here, to there
Speaker 3: assuming the clock's ticking that, whole time.
Speaker 2: That's a GREAT question i would if you, Made, GUESS
Speaker 2: yeah i would say the clock's ticking the, whole time
Speaker 2: just because that feels like something that teams could manipulate
Speaker 2: if it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Right right like we'll just really take our time to
Speaker 3: get down there and with the coaches and the buggy,
Speaker 3: with you, you know chatting or.
Speaker 2: And just how much like it just feels like it's
Speaker 2: one of those things which you can't have great, like
Speaker 2: oh we practiced for an hour and then we kind
Speaker 2: of went over here and then we practiced for. Another
Speaker 2: hour where it's just like once, that yeah once the,
Speaker 2: clock starts, it's running and that's how much time. You
Speaker 2: have and if you have to move inside because, of
Speaker 2: weather if you have to do this, or that sorry
Speaker 2: that it because it just feels like something that teams,
Speaker 2: down there and the teams would find a way. TO
Speaker 2: manipulate i would think it's a good question, by, you
Speaker 2: THOUGH and i WONDER if labs would have an answer
Speaker 2: to that one. For us but my first thought would, be,
Speaker 2: that yeah. You can't you can't give you can't give
Speaker 2: teams any. Wiggle room if the classic if you give
Speaker 2: them a mouse, of, cookie right you give a mouse,
Speaker 2: a cookie or you give them, an inch they'll take
Speaker 2: a mile clock stars and you've got the one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty minutes or the two hundred minutes or whatever
Speaker 2: it's allotted for. THAT week i would think that that
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 3: The CASE so i didn't know this until just the
Speaker 3: other NIGHT and i confirmed IT with. Labs today the
Speaker 3: clock starts on practice the second the first coach crosses the.
Speaker 3: White lines so you'll See. THE steeler i assume every team,
Speaker 3: does it but now it's a new Thing that. Steelers
Speaker 3: do the players spend a lot of time on the
Speaker 3: field before the coaches. Join them it's, pretty crazy you.
Speaker 2: KNOW what i hadn't not bending.
Speaker 3: The rules it's just the way it.
Speaker 2: Goes right that to ME is, i, mean hey you
Speaker 2: could say that they're kind of, you know they're massaging.
Speaker 2: The RULES that, i guess, but yeah that's the way the.
Speaker 2: Rules written that's the way the rules the rule.
Speaker 3: Is WRITTEN and i was thinking about it has to be,
Speaker 3: that way because it can't be like when the first
Speaker 3: player meanders, out there the second come and go and,
Speaker 3: right right some of.
Speaker 2: The guys will come down forty five minutes before practice
Speaker 2: just to get on the, jugs machine and so you'll, set.
Speaker 3: Stretching kind of, hovering around and then they all jump out. There,
Speaker 3: together basically it's.
Speaker 2: Pretty wild it's funny you, say that because there have
Speaker 2: been a couple of Practices where i've noticed the coaches
Speaker 2: kind of congregating down on the. END zone i just
Speaker 2: assumed that they were kind of outlining, the practice making
Speaker 2: sure they're all on the, same page that kind, of
Speaker 2: stuff and be but that's probably part.
Speaker 3: Of it i'm Sure that's it's kind. Of interesting they
Speaker 3: pretty much all go at the, same time, all right,
Speaker 3: let's go let's go get.
Speaker 2: Every minute you see Like some belichickian thing where like
Speaker 2: he would just like sit on the goalpost and never
Speaker 2: actually cross the. White lives they. All, coach, therefore yeah
Speaker 2: we got have a four.
Speaker 3: Hour practice they're on bullhorns and, you know right, right
Speaker 3: right that might be a little, pushing it but they
Speaker 3: they make sure that a coach doesn't just go meander
Speaker 3: on there first before everybody.
Speaker 2: Gets, Right okay so here's the follow up question THAT
Speaker 2: that i have, to ask and we will get back
Speaker 2: into the. Freaks list, but absolutely as, you've mentioned we
Speaker 2: got plenty of time on today's show without a ton
Speaker 2: of practice stuff to. Talk about who's the person who
Speaker 2: Has to is THERE an nflpa representative who's supposed to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on? That stuff if you were that
Speaker 2: guy For, the steelers you're supposed to snitch on your
Speaker 2: old coaching staff if they don't follow.
Speaker 3: The rules perfectly happened IN in. Nfl history, oh absolutely
Speaker 3: maybe not for, those things but.
Speaker 2: Like we've heard about teams getting fined money and teams
Speaker 2: get you fine, draft picks but who gets you. In
Speaker 2: trouble who's the one who's supposed to report? That stuff
Speaker 2: is it randomly or they're just officials FROM the nfl
Speaker 2: who are at training camps to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2: That stuff and it's almost like a health inspector if
Speaker 2: you run. A restaurant sometimes you know when the health inspector.
Speaker 2: Is coming other times they show. Up unannounced, you know,
Speaker 2: guy right? Exactly right When's the. Michelin star hey we didn't.
Speaker 3: Get one we? Got?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 2: YEAH nice i.
Speaker 3: Don't know it's bet you'd get away with a lot
Speaker 3: of it if. You tried but or do you have
Speaker 3: to like send the tape to every practice to somebody in?
Speaker 3: League office it's got everything like this is when, we
Speaker 3: started this is when, we ended and here's the video.
Speaker 3: OF it i.
Speaker 2: DON'T know i would think there has to be some
Speaker 2: kinds of some kind of checks and balances there because
Speaker 2: we know it's a, competitive sport it's a. Competitive league
Speaker 2: they they don't think THERE'S.
Speaker 3: An nfl representative here, every practice think every. Single, one
Speaker 3: no like we don't know where, they're at, you know
Speaker 3: sitting there at.
Speaker 2: The stopwatch but maybe twice during campler, is yeah maybe
Speaker 2: that's that's another one, left though that's another one left to.
Speaker 2: Ask labs i'll See if i'll, See Uh jerry, Doulac
Speaker 2: tonight i'll ask him with if he's got any insight,
Speaker 2: on that because if it's one Of, those, okay hey
Speaker 2: were they really one hundred and? Ten minutes maybe they
Speaker 2: were one hundred. AND twelve i don't think that's something
Speaker 2: that they're.
Speaker 3: Sounding along don't think you're like losing a draft pick, for, that, yeah,
Speaker 3: Right right.
Speaker 2: But if you're consistently like we're going to get an
Speaker 2: extra twelve minutes at every practice and we're gonna do
Speaker 2: it this way, OR so i feel like eventually that would,
Speaker 2: you know raise.
Speaker 3: Some red flags or we get SOME and i bet
Speaker 3: the players would talk among THEMSELVES like i think we're
Speaker 3: going over and then the player rep goes and makes,
Speaker 3: a call and, you know it's not like it's, anti
Speaker 3: team it's just.
Speaker 2: The rules everything is. Collectively, Bargain, now, yeah yeah it.
Speaker 2: Really is that's.
Speaker 3: It's pretty, wild though to keep an idea on the
Speaker 3: on The ref.
Speaker 2: I'm going or not, The ref, i'm sorry the coach,
Speaker 2: coach him and They, walk yes tomorrow's. TOMORROW'S practice i
Speaker 2: can't wait to see. Them all when, THAT'S true i
Speaker 2: kind of shared some of my sausage, making SECRET but
Speaker 2: i might have. To, tomorrow No what i'll, do is.
Speaker 2: Uh call i'll call labs and be like labs where the,
Speaker 2: coaches yeah and he'll give me some four letter words
Speaker 2: and hang up.
Speaker 3: The phone i'm trying trying to write a.
Speaker 2: Practice report that's. That's uh that's INTERESTING because i didn't
Speaker 2: know that portion, of it.
Speaker 3: Which there has to be a.
Speaker 2: Start time it, Makes me it makes me harken back
Speaker 2: to the past TO where i Felt Like mike tomlin
Speaker 2: was always out here, pretty early kind of trying to
Speaker 2: get the guys going and. All that but you wouldn't be,
Speaker 2: now interesting everything is. Collectively bargained every THERE'S there's i
Speaker 2: think there's So little and you talk about this, a
Speaker 2: lot how there's only so many hours in. The week
Speaker 2: it would really surprise you from a, coaching perspective like
Speaker 2: you talk about that when it comes to conversations of
Speaker 2: drafting and, developing prospects like you don't have eight hours
Speaker 2: to Spend every Tuesday and Wednesday and thursday to Work
Speaker 2: With drew aller to help him develop his footwork. And
Speaker 2: stuff you got to beat the chiefs. EXACTLY right i
Speaker 2: mean everything is. Collectively bargained how much time you can
Speaker 2: spend practicing in film rooms and all, That stuff and
Speaker 2: there's really not as much time in the week as
Speaker 2: you as you think there, would be especially once you
Speaker 2: get into the regular season and out of this process
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 3: Really realize it when you're part of a team on,
Speaker 3: the inside in, the walls in. The meetings, like man
Speaker 3: we got to pick between red zone or third down
Speaker 3: offense day because you can't.
Speaker 2: Do both hour in, the books, another hour two more
Speaker 2: hours part of me, To, go kee keep those tweets.
Speaker 2: Rolling in we're Gonna get we're gonna get back to
Speaker 2: the freaks here to kick off the four o'clock hour
Speaker 2: when We Return West Huler, MATT williamson, a quiet wet
Speaker 2: one Here On Satan vincent. College today we've got an
Speaker 2: hour in, the books two more hours to go for
Speaker 2: you before we conclude our coverage here On this Monday At.
Speaker 2: Chuck nolefield all part of our ongoing training Camp Coverage
Speaker 2: Steelers nation radio On The Steelers audio network