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Speaker 1: You were two weeks about drive on your twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steelers Nation. How we doing well? That's good

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Speaker 2: us too. Our number two, Matt Williamson west Huler, we

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Speaker 2: are going to go around campus in about a half

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Speaker 2: an hour. We are going to talk to our buddy

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Speaker 2: Chris Halleck in about ten minutes. But before we get

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Speaker 2: to that, Matt, just a fun little exercise that the

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Speaker 2: football dork and you and I discovered that we both

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Speaker 2: like to do in our own minds, and now we'll

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Speaker 2: do it on the show. If you could add one

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Speaker 2: player from the Steelers upcoming opponent, who would it be?

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Speaker 2: Of course this week it is the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 2: And remember you have to fit that. You have to

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Speaker 2: consider everything, contract, salary, cap, injuries. It is not just

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Speaker 2: your turning off salary and everything on Madden and you

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Speaker 2: can add this guy to the team, you have to

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Speaker 2: make it work realistically. So, like Michael Parsons would be

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Speaker 2: a heck of a conversation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, my rule is we can't take a quarterback because Steelers,

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Speaker 3: I think you almost take it always.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a very good like we could have

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Speaker 2: the conversation of would you take poor Jordan Love make

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Speaker 2: him sit behind Aaron Rodgers again?

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Speaker 3: And then you've done this before, Jordan sit out for

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Speaker 3: the rest of the year, and we got spot.

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Speaker 2: For it times yours next year, buddy, and this one.

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Speaker 3: But then this one and you mentioned Parsons is almost

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Speaker 3: like the Browns where you just take the superstar player,

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Speaker 3: even it's not in a position. I don't care if he's expensive,

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Speaker 3: he's fifty million a year, blah blah blah. But what

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Speaker 3: would be an interesting conversation is if you broke the

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Speaker 3: rules for this team and said, would you take Love

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Speaker 3: more Parsons? I think you take the quarterback yes, because

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Speaker 3: he's a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: And I like him, and he's still what I mean,

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Speaker 2: only like twenty seven years old something like.

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Speaker 3: That, and this year a sigh, it's a need much

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Speaker 3: more than an edge rusher is for sure to puck.

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Speaker 2: Them off the packers right now and put them on

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Speaker 2: the bench until until Mini camp and Ota is in May,

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Speaker 2: like exactly, still a smart football decision.

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Speaker 3: And your trade Mason Rudolf for a fifth round pick,

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Speaker 3: you know whatever. Yeah, I mean that part's in squaential.

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Speaker 3: It's so it's Parsons if quarterbacks are illegal. But sometimes

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Speaker 3: I think when we do this kind of like the

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Speaker 3: Miles Garrett conversation, the low hanging fruits too low, you know,

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Speaker 3: like if you really want to talk through it, and

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Speaker 2: Should go through all right, who's the highest ranked Madden

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Speaker 2: player on each roster?

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Speaker 3: They're out of the conversation, right Like if we're doing

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Speaker 3: the Vikings, yeah it's Jefferson, we alway skipped the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Of course it's Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 2: But it's almost more fun of like take the obvious

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Speaker 3: Maybe you have taken like Mims or Turner last week, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, funny because like Zach tom is an interesting one

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Speaker 2: for me for the Packers, then interesting, they've got a

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Speaker 2: I don't. I'm good on Elgin Jenkins because you know,

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Speaker 3: But Jenkins could play guard for you.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's a good point. But this team might

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Speaker 3: Green Bay is interesting. I'm gonna take Parsons out of

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Speaker 3: the mix. It's not that's too He's too good their

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Speaker 3: those are their best two guys. But the sum of

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Speaker 3: the parts of their offensive line is greater. The hole

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Speaker 3: really really well together. So who else is in the conversation.

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Speaker 2: There's a very interesting one. Well, Josh Jacobs, I think

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Speaker 3: What a two headed backfield?

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Speaker 2: That what a two headed back that would be?

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Speaker 3: Yes, he has so much wear and tear. He plays

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Speaker 2: Feel like a rental for the rest of this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, next year, this year, next year.

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Speaker 2: Xavier McKinney is a really interesting one to me. Okay,

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Speaker 2: him and Deshaun Elliott are similar parts.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing is, he's a little more strong than

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Speaker 2: If they're if they're a pair of shoes, they're both

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Speaker 2: a left footage. Yeah, you know, but I'd be very

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Speaker 3: And he would go a long way because he is

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Speaker 3: highly versatile. I mean, he'd be a glue guy too.

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Speaker 3: He could fill in a lot of gaps for you.

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Speaker 3: He wouldn't be a Minca replacement though to your point.

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Speaker 2: He's strong, he is free if him and you know

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Speaker 2: him and him and Deshaun Elliott are both left shoes

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Speaker 3: I think it's the good way of putting it. But

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Speaker 3: he's also not cheap. I mean for safety money, he's

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Speaker 2: Very good point.

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Speaker 3: It's not the end of the world. You could get

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Speaker 3: if we keep doing this week after week, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: notice young guys on rookie contracts to me or gold

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Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you did there. That's a nice transition.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you get a lot of years on that dude.

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Speaker 2: You get a young assending wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: You get the rest of the season, which I don't

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Speaker 3: know if he's great or not, and I had mixed

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Speaker 3: definitely he would definitely be the wide receiver I would take,

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Speaker 2: That's why Zach Tom is so appealing to me as

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Speaker 3: I think he's up after this year though.

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Speaker 2: He is, but he's just twenty six years old.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you'd have to, Like I, I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it means you gotta shuffle Elgton.

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Speaker 2: Jenkins would be another one. I'll move them, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'll move them to guard and then I'll start to

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Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people thought Tom Future was a

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Speaker 3: but maybe he'd be even better at guard. You know.

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Speaker 3: But I don't love the idea of plucking the guy

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Speaker 2: Certainly, Certainly is I I got two other names i'd Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And those guys just don't grow on tree and they

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Speaker 3: just don't grow on trees. You just make it work. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: up Roderick's. Yeah. Okay, I know we moved you around

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Speaker 3: a lot, but so be it. Make it work.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, if you lose a tackle and

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Speaker 3: Too, Tom has a strong case. The last two I

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Speaker 3: bring out is just because I adore Tucker Craft.

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Speaker 2: I knew you were going to bring him up at

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Speaker 2: some point. That's another like do you really need another

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Speaker 3: I mean you if you grab MIKEE. Parsons, I would

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Speaker 3: I mean you would if you had Michael Parsons. You know,

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Speaker 3: But I adore Craft. He's a two way nasty.

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Speaker 2: You were singing his praises before the season.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna I bought him. Yeah, elite after the catch,

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Speaker 3: like if you look at Matt stats this week's like, whoa,

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Speaker 3: he's after the catch stuff. How about this The two

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Speaker 3: the catch, yardage per reception our DK Metcalf Tucker Craft. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's in that first section.

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Speaker 2: Let's get both of those guys on the same team.

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Speaker 3: You're right, other name i'll throw out there, not a need,

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Speaker 3: but I think he might be the league's next great

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Speaker 2: Edgriend Cooper's a good one to mention.

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Speaker 3: If someone's gonna be the next Fred Warner floating around,

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Speaker 3: it might be.

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Speaker 2: They've got some of those young guys too that you

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Speaker 2: would be intrigued because they're cheap, they're young, and where

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Speaker 2: they could be a year from now.

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Speaker 3: Superstar athlete, Yeah, super long, you know. But he isn't

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Speaker 2: It is funny though, a lot of their positions of

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Speaker 2: strength line up with the Steelers position.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I like Golden's kind of a feeling.

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Speaker 3: But he's not their best player, you know, and he's

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Speaker 3: a little unproven, you know, right.

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Speaker 2: Interesting conversation. Interesting conversation. Will continue the conversation with our

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Speaker 2: buddy Chris Halleck on the other side, get his thoughts

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Speaker 2: on all these things that we've discussed today, as well

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Speaker 2: as some thoughts on those Green Bay Packers rolling into

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Speaker 2: town on Sunday. We'll do that when we return. Wesheuler,

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Speaker 2: we go to talk to our buddy Chris Hallick, of course,

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Speaker 4: So it's hard to say whether it's for sure. Okay,

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Speaker 4: a lot of scout team, you know, quarterback, which is

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Speaker 4: I think even will you know, even though scout team

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Speaker 3: My logic behind thinking maybe they don't open the window

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't have Chris. It's a big week for the Steelers

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Speaker 2: for a lot of different reasons. Uh, you know, not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the players are not focused on the media narratives here.

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Speaker 4: They're really not that. They're just stumman. And Aaron Rodgers himself, like,

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Speaker 4: But no, this is not I think. I'm not going

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's true, especially after the way they lost,

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Speaker 2: Yes, you do, certainly. Just a couple more minutes here

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Speaker 2: the Drive. A Chris, it's been kind of a weird

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Speaker 4: Listen, I'm actually writing about the offense. I'm not riding

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Speaker 4: the ball. That's what you want from a defense is

436
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Speaker 4: to make the offense one dimensional. You definitely don't want

437
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Speaker 4: that when your team has the ball. This offense is

438
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Speaker 4: really running the ball well, and it's helped open up

439
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Speaker 4: everything else. It's helped open up the catch and run game.

440
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 4: It's helped open up shots downfield. This offense, I was

441
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Speaker 4: looking at some of the numbers, Man, this offense right

442
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Speaker 4: now is the best offense this this team has had

443
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Speaker 4: since twenty eighteen, like like statistically, and that's including even

444
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Speaker 4: a couple of the stinkers that they had, you know,

445
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Speaker 4: earlier in the in the season, you know, in terms

446
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Speaker 4: of like not being able to run the ball almost

447
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Speaker 4: at all. You know, you even count those stats, those

448
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,439
Speaker 4: you know, numbers that they were putting up. This is

449
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Speaker 4: still like they're averaging five and a half yards per

450
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Speaker 4: play twenty seventeen, which I think is one of the

451
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Speaker 4: three best teams in franchise history to not make the

452
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. That offense averaged five point eight yards per play. Like,

453
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 4: they're not that far off from a mark of an

454
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Speaker 4: offense that had Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell

455
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Speaker 4: and all these great players. They keep on this trajectory,

456
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Speaker 4: they're going to be able to be in that same stratosphere.

457
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Speaker 4: And then at that point it's like, okay, well man,

458
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Speaker 4: this offense is being everything that we wanted and more.

459
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Speaker 4: When it comes to if you if you're a fan,

460
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Speaker 4: of the team. So I'm if I'm a fan of

461
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Speaker 4: this team, I'm very encouraged with everything that this offense

462
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Speaker 4: is doing. When it comes to Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Moore

463
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Speaker 4: on the offensive line, it's been it's been a pleasant

464
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Speaker 4: surprise to see it coming together this quickly.

465
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Speaker 3: Chris, we'll get you out of here once you get

466
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Speaker 3: digging in on that article so I can read it. Uh,

467
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Speaker 3: real quick. What what's your feeling on Calvin Austin's availability?

468
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Speaker 4: Well, uh, we we did see him during the individual

469
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Speaker 4: portion of practice. We need to see what the practice

470
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Speaker 4: support says in terms of his how much people just

471
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Speaker 4: bet to whether it was limited or full. I think

472
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Speaker 4: he's got to get at least a full day in

473
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Speaker 4: order to really have a have a shot to play.

474
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Speaker 4: If he's got three limited days, maybe maybe there's a chance.

475
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Speaker 4: But the good thing is that he was on the

476
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Speaker 4: field right like first day of practice this week. Again,

477
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Speaker 4: we have to we have yet to see you know

478
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Speaker 4: what level of participation. But I think if he can

479
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Speaker 4: be limited you know, today, tomorrow, and then get it

480
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Speaker 4: give it a full go on Friday, that's probably a

481
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Speaker 4: pretty good indication. And even if he gets a questionable

482
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Speaker 4: tag that at least you know, even if he doesn't

483
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Speaker 4: quite get there and can play, he's getting really really close.

484
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Speaker 4: So him coming him returning to the practice field today

485
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Speaker 4: is a great step in the right direction.

486
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Speaker 2: That's what we like to hear. Chris Hallick DK Pittsburgh

487
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Speaker 2: Sports a little under the weather, but you can't tell.

488
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Speaker 2: Delivering like a professional. Chris, Thanks for the time, buddy,

489
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Speaker 2: Hope you feel better and we'll be looking forward to

490
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Speaker 2: all your coverage this week.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, guys, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: There he is, there, he goes Chris Halleck. Great stuff

493
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Speaker 2: from him as always, and good good on you forgetting

494
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Speaker 2: that Calvin Austin question. And at the end, yeah, I'm

495
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 2: sure that's another big thing to keep an eye on

496
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Speaker 2: as we get closer and closer to Sunday night, and

497
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Speaker 2: of course tomorrow on Thursday, we will have a deep

498
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Speaker 2: dive into both teams injury reports, which is a big

499
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Speaker 2: day in the injury report department. Of course, Thursday we

500
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Speaker 2: come back one segment. Matt you know what that means.

501
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 3: I know what you're up to your site.

502
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Speaker 2: Rodney Dangerfield, Uh, Steve blue Tarski, It's time to go

503
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 2: back to campus this time to go around campus when

504
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Speaker 2: we returned a little quarterback conversation to piggyback off of

505
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Speaker 2: what we talked about yesterday. As we'll do our our

506
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Speaker 2: kind of once a week look at at some NFL

507
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Speaker 2: draft stuff. We'll do all that and more potentially as

508
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Speaker 2: we close this thing down, West Wheeler. Matt Williamson, it's

509
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Speaker 2: the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

510
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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

511
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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

512
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Speaker 2: Ah, Matt, I stepped in it, John blue Tarski Blueto

513
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Speaker 2: not Steve.

514
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Speaker 3: I knew is wrong and I con sit your thinking

515
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Speaker 3: like what is yeah.

516
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Speaker 2: Water and Flounder. You were in a fraternity in college. Yes,

517
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Speaker 2: do you have a cool nickname?

518
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Speaker 3: Uh No, not really. But they were the they were

519
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Speaker 3: the Deltata Delta. They were their Deltata Kai. Yes. In

520
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 3: Animal House. Yes, and there's a famous scene where the

521
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Speaker 3: tea is gone and we were Deldecai and we're the

522
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Speaker 3: same colors. They actually based their fraternity, not off the

523
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Speaker 3: mine in particularly, but that was yeah, yeah, yeah.

524
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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Yeah, Yeah, you did your part.

525
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Speaker 3: It chipped in a little.

526
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Speaker 2: It is time to go around campus. As Matt pointed

527
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Speaker 2: out in our open I got a nice beefy packet

528
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Speaker 2: here of updates, and of course there's always some games

529
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Speaker 2: to keep an eye on this Saturday. If you are

530
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Speaker 2: so inclined, Matt, let's talk about our guy, Fernando Mendoza. Yeah,

531
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Speaker 2: everybody is privy to him now, but I like to

532
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Speaker 2: think we uh, you know, we were Neil Armstrong. We

533
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Speaker 2: planted our flag on the moon of Mendoza early Indiana,

534
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Speaker 2: continuing to take care of business. Big win thirty eight

535
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Speaker 2: thirteen over Sparty over Michigan State. Strong performance for Mendoza

536
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 2: twenty four of twenty eight, three hundred and thirty two yards,

537
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Speaker 2: four touchdowns, no turnovers, eighteen yards on the ground on

538
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Speaker 2: the season, Matt, He's got over seventeen hundred yards passing

539
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Speaker 2: twenty one touchdowns to just two interceptions while completing nearly

540
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Speaker 2: seventy four percent of his passes. His pure traits aren't

541
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Speaker 2: as sexy. Yeah, maybe Sellers or Dante More. He's got

542
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Speaker 2: more of the body frame than they do. His pure

543
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Speaker 2: traits and athleticism aren't as great as those guys, Matt,

544
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Speaker 2: but he is the only he is won a few

545
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Speaker 2: guys I should say on this list, and I think

546
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Speaker 2: certainly of the top names coming into this year that

547
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 2: has outperformed expectations, that is continually been Sellers has been,

548
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 2: has been Rocky, Dante Moore has been up and down.

549
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Speaker 2: Guys like club Nick and Nussmeyer and Drew Aller have

550
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Speaker 2: fallen down this list gone backwards. He's the one that has,

551
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Speaker 2: I don't think, taken any steps back at times they've

552
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Speaker 2: He's maybe stayed neutral or only taken a little baby step.

553
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he didn't light Oregon up.

554
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Speaker 2: He didn't, like I can took any but he played bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

555
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 2: you know it didn't play bad either. He really has

556
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Speaker 2: a chance to be QB one, maybe even prospect number

557
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Speaker 2: one heading into the spring right now, second in the

558
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Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy odds, behind only Ty Simpson, the quarterback at Alabama.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I definitely spend some time on Simpson, by the way,

560
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Speaker 3: but I would never hold you to this, nor should anyone.

561
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Speaker 3: But if you had to put one quarterback from this

562
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Speaker 3: draft on the Steelers right now, would it be Mendoza

563
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Speaker 3: or that depend if like Rogers comes back or not,

564
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Speaker 3: like if Rogers comes back. Maybe it's have its sellers

565
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Speaker 3: and he sits for a year. Now.

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Speaker 2: See, that's a very interesting way to frame it, right,

567
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Speaker 2: because if if I knew Rogers was coming back, I

568
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Speaker 2: think I'd be much more inclined to say my answer

569
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Speaker 2: is Dante Moore Lenoris sells.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because then because let him sit for a

571
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Speaker 3: year ago. That's why he's gonna bring up even with

572
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Speaker 3: Simpson if he doesn't have that.

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Speaker 2: Six starts a six. I charted this for you as

574
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Speaker 2: well too. I didn't. I didn't. I forgot to put

575
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Speaker 2: it in the packet, but I've got it right here

576
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Speaker 2: actually in an email that you sent me from Todd McShay.

577
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 2: Dante Moore eleven starts in his career, Lenora's sellers, eighteen

578
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Speaker 2: a little bit more for Ty Simpson.

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Speaker 3: Six that's sounds five Simpson like crazy, but it's like

580
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: six starts, six starts. But infact Roger's sitting there.

581
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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, right, then you're like, okay, this ain't

582
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 2: so bad. Yeah, that's a very good question by you.

583
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: That is something that we should definitely discuss more. When

584
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 2: when those pictures become clear. Yeah, you know, but that

585
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: is a great point. But Mendoza twenty five starts. That

586
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Speaker 2: is substantially more than the rest of the I mean,

587
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Speaker 2: Sellers has eighteen, that's not too far behind, but just

588
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Speaker 2: eleven for Dante Moore, just six for Ty Simpson. That

589
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Speaker 2: that is certainly an angle to keep on, to keep

590
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Speaker 2: an eye on in all of this process.

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Speaker 3: And I would assume I think goes about saying Mendoza

592
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Speaker 3: more definitely have a better chance of going deeper in

593
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Speaker 3: the playoffs than South Carolina, you know, like I mean

594
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Speaker 3: no starts, I think mean more too. Bama has a

595
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Speaker 3: chance to go far. I mean, I'm going to count

596
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Speaker 3: those playoffs starts more than play in Alabama.

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Speaker 2: State, correct, Yeah, correct, Dante Moore from Oregon and you're

598
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Speaker 2: at And the nice thing about that is now it's

599
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Speaker 2: not like you get one or two playoffs at four

600
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Speaker 2: massive against different conferences, and some.

601
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Speaker 3: Of these teams might be like SEC championship and.

602
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Speaker 2: Then three or four playoff games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Simpson could be that guy.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely. Uh. Dante Moore could be that guy as

605
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 2: well too.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

607
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Speaker 2: Quarterback at Oregon did not play well against Indiana, No

608
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Speaker 2: one really on Oregon did, but they responded well, they

609
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Speaker 2: had to go one of those cross country games to

610
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Speaker 2: play Rutgers on the road, and they absolutely dominated Rutgers

611
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Speaker 2: fifty six to ten. Matt, I told you, I told you,

612
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Speaker 2: I think a couple of weeks ago that if I

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Speaker 2: could have any coach in college football guaranteed to be

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Speaker 2: in Morgantown for the next ten years, it might be

615
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Speaker 2: Dan Lanning, the coach at Oregon. One thing that he

616
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Speaker 2: is instilled in that program there. In the three years

617
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Speaker 2: that he's been the head coach, they haven't done the

618
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Speaker 2: greatest of jobs. You know, Like they beat Ohio State

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Speaker 2: last year in the regular season and then got smoked

620
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Speaker 2: to him by in the playoff. Yeah, you know, their

621
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Speaker 2: biggest game this year was Indiana at home. They lost

622
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Speaker 2: by ten. So kind of the criticism on him has

623
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Speaker 2: been can he really get organ over the hub? Kind

624
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Speaker 2: of the same stuff Ryan Day was dealing with until

625
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Speaker 2: he won the national championship at Ohio State last year.

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Speaker 3: About to bring them up.

627
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Speaker 2: But one thing it's always a funny criticism to me

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Speaker 2: is everyone wants let's talk about this coaches record against

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Speaker 2: the top ten. Okay, let's talk about every coaches record

630
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Speaker 2: against the top ten except for Nick Right. You know what,

631
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Speaker 2: I mean one thing that because Brady existed for let's

632
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Speaker 2: talk about everybody's Super Bowl track record except for Belichick

633
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Speaker 2: and Reid, uh Dante Moore and Dan Lanning and Oregon.

634
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Speaker 2: One thing that they always do is you rarely see

635
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Speaker 2: them get bit by the teams that they should easily handle.

636
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Speaker 2: And they play someone like Rutgers, they win fifty six

637
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: and just about every single time exactly exactly right. And

638
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: Dante Moore, all being in a blowout loss where he

639
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: didn't have to do much, responded well. Fifteen of twenty

640
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety yards, four touchdowns, did throw one interception,

641
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: but added forty nine yards on the ground.

642
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Speaker 3: It's like, I bet they cover the spread a lot.

643
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Speaker 2: They covered the you know what way they went all

644
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Speaker 2: the time, all the time. He's got nineteen touchdowns just

645
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: four interceptions on the year. One thing that I love

646
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: about Dante Moore that continues to jump off the page

647
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: is when things break down, when he has to go

648
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Speaker 2: off script. He's probably the best in college football out

649
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Speaker 2: that when it when it's not here's your first read,

650
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 2: here's your second rate, he does a great job of

651
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 2: when things break down still being able to make chicken

652
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: salad out of chicken scratch.

653
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 3: Now it'll obviously get way harder at the next level.

654
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 2: No, of course, no people.

655
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 3: Chasing him in the complexity of it all. But that's

656
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: a good start. I mean, that's how Jackson Dart's getting

657
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: by right now, exactly right.

658
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: He does some of that Jack and Dart stuff, but

659
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 2: I think even at a more impressive, a higher level.

660
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: The third and kind of big name, Leonora Sellers, continues

661
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: to struggle a little bit on a team that is struggling.

662
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: Seventeen of twenty five, just one hundred twenty four yards

663
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 2: one touchdown in their loss this past week. They are

664
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 2: in a hellacious stretch here of just playing top ten

665
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 2: after top ten team, and they're not a top ten

666
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: They are not even close. His physical tools are inevidentment noticeable, immense,

667
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: jump off the page at you.

668
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: He's probably the most gifted guy on this list, right.

669
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: He's the one that, if you're telling me right now,

670
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: all of these guys pan out in the pros, who's

671
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 2: the best? Who are you taking?

672
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 3: Lenori's who the one that maximizes If.

673
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: It's the pie in the sky scenario, They're all going

674
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: to get all the juice that they have the squeeze

675
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: at the next level. Give me Leonora's sellars when he.

676
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 3: Came out of the womb, he got more than anyone else.

677
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right. I would be crazy intrigued to

678
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: see what we'd be saying about him if he was

679
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: on an organ or he was on an Indiana or

680
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 2: an Alabama or in Ohio state.

681
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: Pretty cool. You can lump Indiana with those teams right now?

682
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: You certainly can't. Yeah, yeah, he's one of those. To me,

683
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: still has a lot of opportunities to put some real

684
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 2: good stuff on film because he's still got a lot

685
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 2: of opportunities against some great teams. But he has not

686
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: had the wow factor this year that I think we

687
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: all expected heading into the year.

688
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 3: So you know so much more about college football than

689
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: I do. Like I'm trying and maybe you don't even

690
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: know this, But does he have to declare for the

691
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 3: draft before transfer portal stuff? Like for example, like if

692
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 3: Simpson came out and More came out, could he be like,

693
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna transfer to Bama or Oregon and replace them, yes,

694
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 3: before having to make his draft.

695
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: Decision, Especially if Shane Beemer, the head coach of South

696
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: Carolina ends up taking another job. Okay, I think he

697
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: loves Beamer. I think he's attached to Beamer. I think

698
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: Shane Biemer is a very good coach. If he ends

699
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: up leaving South Carolina to go to flo or to or,

700
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be Penn State, but

701
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: you know, like a a bigger opportunity. He's Frank Beamer's

702
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: son who was the legendary coach at Virginia Tech forever.

703
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: He's kind of shied away from the Virginia Tech stuff

704
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: in the past. I'll always be Frank's son there, but

705
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: maybe Virginia Tech makes him an offer that he can't refuse. Yeah,

706
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: and it's and it's you know, and Sellers then decides, Okay,

707
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: my coach is leaving. I'm leaving. The transfer portal opens

708
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 2: Matt the second week in January, which is a very rare,

709
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: which is a very weird thing because that's when the

710
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: playoff is going on.

711
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

712
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember, but the Penn State

713
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 2: backup next last year, who's now Missouri's quarterback that we

714
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 2: talked about a couple of weeks ago. He had to

715
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 2: do that last year. It's the week of the semi

716
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: final and the portal's closing. Yeah, so he had crazy

717
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: he's Penn State's backup. He's Drew Aller's backup, and fortunately

718
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 2: I thought he might.

719
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 3: Is for the draft.

720
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: That's a good question, but it's not the draft, right

721
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 2: and I but I also don't think it's because the

722
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: transfer portal now is open been like January sixth to

723
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: January twentieth, Okay, so I don't I don't think that

724
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 2: it would that that timeline would mess him up.

725
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

726
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: Again, if South Carolina doesn't make the playoff, highly unlikely

727
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: at this point.

728
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: But the best programs in the country would want him.

729
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: Yes, obviously, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, And it absolutely could be

730
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: another one of those types of scenarios where again, the

731
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: backup from Penn State last year kind of had no

732
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: other option but to put his name in the transfer

733
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: portal right as his team's about to play in the

734
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 2: semi final because if he doesn't, he can't transfer.

735
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 3: It worked out for him, but it's still weird.

736
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: It worked out for him, and it's and he like

737
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: I said, fortunately people didn't crush him for it because

738
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: they realized he's just part of an imperfect system. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

739
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: you know, but I think we could see something like that, certainly,

740
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 2: certainly with Sellers, especially, like I said, if his head

741
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: coach leaves, definitely something.

742
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you said, like I would love to see

743
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 3: him at a Bama or Ohio State, Like, well, maybe

744
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: we can't.

745
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 2: Maybe we can. I don't think it'll be Ohio State.

746
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 2: They're gonna have Julian saying back next year, but it

747
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 2: could certainly be one of those other big time programs

748
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: without a doubt. So those are kind of the Big three,

749
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 2: but plenty of other names that deserve conversation. Matt. Let's

750
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 2: go to Ty Simpson here.

751
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the one that seems to be heating up.

752
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 2: He is the odds on favorite Heisman starter right now

753
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 2: or Heisman winner right now. Part of me. He is

754
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: flying up draft boards. He is if you do, like

755
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: if you look at places that just do college quarterback

756
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: power rankings, he's number one on pretty much everybody's board,

757
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: again just college football quarterback power ranks that relates to

758
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 2: the pros in just six starts, though Matt, he struggled,

759
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 2: as did Alabama in that season opening head scratching lost

760
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 2: to Florida State. Especially head scratching now because Florida State

761
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 2: stinks they're about to fire their head coach and start

762
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: all over. But he has had a lot of big

763
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 2: games since then, and he has delivered in all of them.

764
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: Against Georgia, against Tennessee, against a lot of these top

765
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: notch programs. Alabama comfortably beats Tennessee thirty seven to twenty.

766
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: He was nine teen of twenty nine, two hundred and

767
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 2: fifty three yards, two touchdowns, zero interceptions. He's poised, He's accurate, Matt.

768
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 2: He completed passes to eight different receivers in that game.

769
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: He's not just throwing to DeVonta Smith or throwing to

770
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: Jaylen Waddle, which you know some Alabama quarterbacks.

771
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 3: Have, and Williams or whatever is a big time receiver.

772
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: Matt over seventy percent completion percentage, eighteen touchdowns to just

773
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: one interception on the year.

774
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 3: The one thing I had read about him or noted,

775
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: I mean, very few negative plays.

776
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: The last four weeks. They have beaten a top twenty opponent.

777
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: In the last four weeks, He's had almost no negative efficient.

778
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 2: Steady clutch eliminates the negative, like you always like to

779
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: bring up, which is which is very important six in

780
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: college football and passing touchdowns tenth, in yards tenth and

781
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: passer efficiency and again against about the best competition that

782
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 2: you could draw up.

783
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 3: Wow.

784
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 2: Okay, the only negative thing I can say about him

785
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: in his draft stock right now is that he's only

786
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: played six games as a starter in college football, which

787
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 2: is a very small sample size.

788
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 3: So when it's all said and done, they'll probably play

789
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 3: another ten at most eight, it most, you know, something

790
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 3: like that.

791
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: Right now, he could come back. He could have another

792
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 2: year of eligibility if he wants to, and Alabama might say, hey,

793
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: we'll find ten million. And that's something to keep an

794
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 2: eye on with a lot of these guys. A lot

795
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: of these guys could come back if they want to

796
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: for another year. Mendoza could, Dante More could, Leonora Sellers

797
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 2: could if the money's right and they don't quite think

798
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 2: they're going to get drafted to where they want to.

799
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: But again, that's another first.

800
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 3: One that seems like it's possible just for his style

801
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 3: of play and an experience and all that, and.

802
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 2: I'm sure Phil Knight will come up with enough money

803
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 2: to make him happy. A few more matt that we

804
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 2: continue to discuss and absolutely deserve to be in this

805
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 2: conversation Jaden Mavia from USC. They lost. I told you

806
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 2: a big one for them, South Bend, Notre Dame on

807
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 2: the road, big rivalry. They lost thirty four to twenty four.

808
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: But I thought he played well. He had over three

809
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 2: hundred yards passing wasn't it's crazy efficient, But he leads

810
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 2: the Big ten in passing yards ten point two yards

811
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 2: per attempt. He's throwing the ball downfield. They're putting a

812
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: lot on his plate.

813
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 3: He looks the part two.

814
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: He he looks. He's got body, he's got the body type,

815
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 2: he's got the skills set. You know, Lincoln Riley like

816
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 2: knows what to do with those quarterbacks. You'll look at

817
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: all the guys that he's put in the pros from

818
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: his time at Oklahoma and USC puns. Mabi is an interests.

819
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: He's not quite in that like absolute tier one like

820
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 2: those other guys are, but he is in that second

821
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 2: tier of I'm very intrigued to see what this guy

822
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: does down the stretch and in the future.

823
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 3: Again, you've watched him more than me, You've studied them

824
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 3: more than me. But he seems like the perfect guy

825
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 3: that everyone's aware and everyone likes him. But then he

826
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 3: goes to Senior Bowl, and then he goes to the Combine.

827
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 3: He starts taking visits and all of a sudden, instead

828
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: of being mocked at twenty seven to the Steelers, then

829
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: Mel's mocking eleven eleven, Yes, the Raiders.

830
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly right. That's a great way to put it. Great,

831
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: always having great way to put it. John Matteer a

832
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: guy who I know you really liked what you saw

833
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: on the road early on in the season. Injured his hand,

834
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: missed a couple of weeks, came back last week against Texas.

835
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 2: In that game he really struggled. Oklahoma really struggled first

836
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 2: game back from a hand injury. They lost to Texas,

837
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: but they I tell you what in what was one

838
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: of those, you know, big matchups against South Carolina this

839
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: week and two quarterbacks to watch. He looked well as

840
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 2: the Sooners won twenty six to seven over the game Cocks.

841
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 2: Sixty nine percent of his passes were completed, one hundred

842
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: and fifty yards in a touchdown, no turnovers, rushed for

843
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 2: fourteen yards. Still working to find his groove back, you know,

844
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 2: after that hand injury, but looked much more like himself

845
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 2: this week than he did last week. Against Texas. He's

846
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: another one of those very interested to see what he

847
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 2: Oklahoma's got some really tough games coming up as well, too,

848
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 2: very interested to see how he can respond and get

849
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: back to maybe where we thought he was at the

850
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 2: beginning of the season. In Carson Beck.

851
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 3: Matt I said, we have to bring up Beck right.

852
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 2: Arrow way down.

853
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 3: At game.

854
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 2: After doing great stuff at the start of the season

855
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: and starting to reverse some of the negativity around his

856
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 2: draft status, he reverted to his old form. They lost

857
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: to Louisville on Friday night, So this kind of flew

858
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 2: under the radar.

859
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't.

860
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 2: Saturday for everybody to see. It was Friday night, the

861
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 2: number two in the country, right they were.

862
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

863
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were at home as well too, so

864
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 2: it's not like they were on the road in a

865
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 2: hostile environment. Matt. They lost a close one to Louisville,

866
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: and I think he was a big reason why they lost.

867
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: Four interceptions, no touchdowns, poor decision making. It's been a

868
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 2: problem for him. It reared his ugly head stalk back

869
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 2: down for him. Unfortunately.

870
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if this is true or not, because

871
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,479
Speaker 3: I've heard like a whisper of it, and I didn't

872
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: pay attention. But did he go to the maybe you

873
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 3: don't even know, but did he go to the podium

874
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 3: after the game and kind of reflect blame? And yes

875
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 3: he did and not Yes he has that reputation, Yes

876
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 3: to Georgia.

877
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of this stuff that had

878
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,720
Speaker 2: reared its ugly head in his last two year at Georgia.

879
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, shut up again came roaring.

880
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 2: Out of the closet to haunt him on Friday night

881
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: against Louisville. Okay, a few more here, Matt, as we

882
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: close this down. Some other kind of you know, we're

883
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 2: in the intriguing I'm not sure about these guys, but

884
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 2: I'm keeping eyes on them. Type Trinidad Chamberless, old Missus

885
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: quarterback that we've talked about, who lit up Division two

886
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: last year. They lost a close one to Georgia forty

887
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 2: three to thirty five. I thought he represented himself. Well.

888
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: He's a little erratic, he's a little all over the place,

889
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: but he did enough to keep them in a game

890
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 2: that they were clearly outmatched in. Yeah, I mean, and

891
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 2: Old Missus defense had no answers for the Georgia offense.

892
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: They scored forty three points. Obviously, Chamberless accounted for three touchdowns,

893
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 2: over three hundred yards passing and on the ground, no turnovers.

894
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: You know, he took care of the football and he

895
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 2: kept old missing a position to win, which I think

896
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 2: was about what you wanted to see from him in

897
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 2: a game like that where he was clearly out matched

898
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: and was gonna have to score forty some points to

899
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: keep a competitive to give his team a chance. Yeah,

900
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: Hayes King from Georgia Tech. He continues to just do

901
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: it all. He's the second leading rusher in the ACC,

902
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: leads the ACC and rushing touchdowns as you know as

903
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 2: a quarterback, and still while passing for over two hundred yards,

904
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 2: he has not thrown an interception in five straight weeks.

905
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 2: He's Matt gonna be twenty five before the draft. He's old,

906
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 2: but he has a real kind of dual threat put

907
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: the team on his back. I don't think he's gonna

908
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: be able to play his way into a Day one

909
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 2: or maybe even Day two draft pick. But he's intriguing

910
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: guy who's helping a program that doesn't win a lot

911
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: do a lot of winning right now.

912
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think being twenty five is less of

913
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 3: a stigma than it used to be totally you know,

914
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 3: totally Nick Daniels, et cetera. Yes, but you're also getting

915
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: into the.

916
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: It's a different eving between being like twenty three or

917
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 2: just turned twenty four. Also, you're gonna be thirty when

918
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 2: you're when you're on track. Comes up for year two.

919
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 2: Garrett Nussmeyer, Matt, you know, his stock is still waning.

920
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's down. I wouldn't say it's up.

921
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: They lost to Vanderbilt. He was okay, two hundred and

922
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 2: twenty five yards, two touchdowns. That turnover bug that has

923
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,479
Speaker 2: kind of plagued him early in the season wasn't there.

924
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 2: But my thing with Nussmeyer, and I've told you this,

925
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: LSU's defense. You wouldn't know if by watching that Vanderbilt

926
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: game because they gave up thirty one points. But LSU's

927
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 2: defense has been very good this year. And it's kind

928
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: of like the past couple of years. LSU had the

929
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 2: high flying offense with Daniels and then into nuss Meyer,

930
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 2: you know, in this Brian Kelly era. Yeah, but they

931
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 2: couldn't stop a nosebleed. Now it's like their defense is

932
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 2: pretty good and it's like, come on, somebody, like Nuss

933
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: be the reason for this offense to get over the top,

934
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: and he just hasn't done it.

935
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 3: Okay, And I know expectations were.

936
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 2: High, Yes, very high. Drew Aller, he's hurt, not coming back.

937
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: Hard to evaluate. Keg Klubnik at Clemson. He's hurt. He

938
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 2: will be back. Maybe we'll talk about him more. Sawyer

939
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: Robinson a guy that we had discussed really poor per formance,

940
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 2: like Carson Beck type stuff. In their close forty two

941
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 2: to thirty six loss to their big rival TCU, completed

942
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: just forty percent of his passes, turned the ball over

943
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: three times. Not a great week for Sawyer Robinson. One

944
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 2: guy though, that's getting back into this conversation. Last name

945
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 2: that I'll mention here is Sam Levitt of Arizona State.

946
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: He was on a lot of these big boards the

947
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: end of the year. Struggled first couple weeks of the

948
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 2: season and then missed a couple games with injury. Well,

949
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 2: he returned in a big way. Matt Arizona State beat

950
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 2: number seven Texas Tech, Texas Tech's first loss of the year.

951
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 3: That's a big time defense, right, big time defense.

952
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 2: I think I had told you I was really interested

953
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: to watch Sam Levitt against that defense who had the

954
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 2: highest stop rate in all of Division one college football,

955
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: like eighty seven percent of their drives, they were forcing

956
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 2: a punt, a turnover, a turnover on downs, he was

957
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 2: able to lead them down the field. Texas Tech scored

958
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 2: late to take the lead. Arizona State went right back

959
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 2: down there, almost kind of like a Bengals in a

960
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: Steelers situation. On Thursday, Texas Tech takes the lead late.

961
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 2: Zona State says, not so fast, my friend. They drive

962
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 2: down the field and score as time expires to win

963
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: the game. He had three hundred nineteen yards passing a

964
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 2: touchdown and just drove that bus for Arizona State again

965
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: against a really good defense when he had missed two

966
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: weeks from injury. That's his first came back. Liked what

967
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: I saw from Sam Levitt, and I'm getting ready to

968
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: think he might be throwing himself back into into these conversations. Matt'

969
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: that's your round campus report here.

970
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, matchups too, got.

971
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 2: Some good matchups to watch at noon, Old Missus at Oklahoma,

972
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: three point thirty time window, Alabama at South Carolina, Baylor

973
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 2: at Cincinnati. Brendan soarsby from Cincinnati's another one that I'm

974
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: getting a little intrigued by. He's able to have another

975
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 2: strong performance this week. Maybe we'll talk about him a

976
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: little bit more. And then read from Texas A and

977
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: M another guy that I'm getting intrigued by. They traveled

978
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 2: number four team in the country to LSU for a

979
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: seven to thirty night game against Nusmyer. Big spot for

980
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 2: neuss Meyer as well too, against a good A and

981
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 2: M defense to maybe start living up to some of

982
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: that hype. But that's our around campus here for Week

983
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 2: nine college football. And that'll do it for our show today.

984
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 2: Matt enjoyed the program today, good stuff from Chris Hallick

985
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 2: and yeah, we'll be back Thursday to dive into Matt's

986
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 2: stats and really start looking at the Green Bay Packers.

987
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 3: Yeah they're pretty good.

988
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 2: They are pretty good, and it's gonna be a big

989
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: one Sunday night at Akrasure Stadium next two days. We'll

990
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 2: be all dedicated to that big Thanks to TV Tyler

991
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 2: v our YouTube producer, for keeping us handsome on the

992
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 2: video as well too for Matt Williamson as well too

993
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 2: as well. That's one of my radio things I say

994
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: too much. Some of you have pointed out in the comments,

995
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: I don't need to say as well too. They mean

996
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: the same thing, that's redundant. I'm working on it as

997
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 2: well for Matt Williamson, unwush Hueler. Take care everybody. We'll

998
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: talk to you next week. As always, you know where

999
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: to find us. It's on your twenty four to seven

1000
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 2: home of the Black and Gold. It's Steelers Nation Radio

1001
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.