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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation. How we doing well? That's good
Speaker 2: us too. It is the bonus hour here, the final
Speaker 2: hour of our training camp coverage from Saint Vincent College. Matter.
Speaker 2: It'll be like another what three hundred and forty some
Speaker 2: days until we're back here doing radio once again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's about right.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, three sixty five in a year, Take twenty
Speaker 2: somesh Off's that's about it.
Speaker 3: When I'll be craving it again.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right, when we miss it. All of
Speaker 2: our friends at Sharky's, Adidas and all the beautiful scenes
Speaker 2: and the fun times and memories that we've had out here.
Speaker 2: It's always been fun, but it is always fun to
Speaker 2: get up out of here as well. We were laughing with,
Speaker 2: you know, our buddy John who owns Sharkis of course
Speaker 2: last night, he's like, man, I've loved having you guys here.
Speaker 2: He's like, but at the same time, you yinsers could
Speaker 2: go back to Western Pennsylvania. It's like, he's like, I
Speaker 2: need to just be you know, in unity township with
Speaker 2: some Westmoreland people, some of the trop people. He's like,
Speaker 2: I love you guys. He's like, but I'll see you
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 3: It's every year. It's like, it's not personal, it's just
Speaker 3: we like our town the way our town is. You
Speaker 3: guys invaded like Locus, you know, right.
Speaker 2: Coming here and eat up all our wings and drink
Speaker 2: all our beer, and then you disappear for another forty
Speaker 2: eight weeks. No, it has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Final hour here on campus, and we'll try to have
Speaker 2: some fun and close this thing down in good fashion.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to make sure to mention this, Matt,
Speaker 2: and it is the final hour of the show. So
Speaker 2: now it's probably a good time you and I will
Speaker 2: not have shows Tuesday and Wednesday, right because yep, Matt,
Speaker 2: Matt has a Matt scot some you know, some kids
Speaker 2: and some college stuff going on and some move ins
Speaker 2: and all those things. But we will be back Thursday
Speaker 2: to do kind of a preseason game number two preview show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that works out great, And.
Speaker 2: Then obviously no show on Friday because of the game.
Speaker 2: We'll have pregame coverage and stuff going on. By that time,
Speaker 2: you can catch Matt and Tom on the pregame show,
Speaker 2: the pre pregame show.
Speaker 3: Of course, are we back on video Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I didn't say that because I'm
Speaker 2: not sure.
Speaker 3: Ye I, I haven't got verification. If we assume we
Speaker 3: will after.
Speaker 2: I think we are on Thursday, But if not, I
Speaker 2: would definitely think following week.
Speaker 3: A regular routine.
Speaker 2: Yes, a week from a week from today, we'll be
Speaker 2: back and do starting routine and video the latest.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, two hour shows again and you know, normal
Speaker 3: format in next studio next week.
Speaker 2: We'll be a little wonky too, because we won't have
Speaker 2: shows Wednesday Thursday because I'll be traveling Wednesday up the
Speaker 2: Buffalo with the team. Course Thursday, I will be in Buffalo,
Speaker 2: but the then we will have a Friday show to
Speaker 2: recap everything that happens there at the new high Mark Stadium,
Speaker 2: which Matt, you know, the sports dork and me already
Speaker 2: Quinland and I are are our game day producer. Dan Quinland,
Speaker 2: great dude, has been doing that, Matt. I think this
Speaker 2: is his fifteenth season, I want to say, for Dan,
Speaker 2: and he's not that much older than me. He's only
Speaker 2: a few years older than me. He's been doing it
Speaker 2: for a long time. We were both already talking like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go to the stadium a little bit early
Speaker 2: on Thursday in Buffalo. I mean, why not. It's a
Speaker 2: seven o'clock game. What are we gonna do? Hotel the
Speaker 2: rest of the time. And we're like, yeah, well those around,
Speaker 2: walk around the concourse, see what see take in the
Speaker 2: new stadium and all that stuff. So looking forward to
Speaker 2: of course preseason, curious what you think of it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Friday against the Jets and then that quick turn and around.
Speaker 2: We'll be getting back on a plane on Wednesday for
Speaker 2: the final preseason game and yeah, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll lay it all out for you and what we
Speaker 2: see and what we liked what we didn't like there
Speaker 2: with that new stadium up in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: So if people don't know, I know, get new listeners
Speaker 3: and seasons starting to roll along. Here. I do the
Speaker 3: pre pregame show with Tom Offerman and that's four hours
Speaker 3: two hours long. It's four hours before kickoff. And then
Speaker 3: I do another hit about an hour before kickoff with
Speaker 3: with Mike Pursuita and that crew. And then I'll be
Speaker 3: you did last game, and I'll be doing the postgame
Speaker 3: show for the next two preseason games too. So on
Speaker 3: game day you can find.
Speaker 2: Us, Yes, you can. I on game days. Of course,
Speaker 2: most of what I do is behind the scenes in
Speaker 2: the booth, but I do host, do host the halftime
Speaker 2: show on the Steelers Audio Network and on DVE, and
Speaker 2: then I host the pre the post game wrap up
Speaker 2: before before I kick it to you and PURSUITA or
Speaker 2: pursuit Oh. I enjoy doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just late.
Speaker 2: It's that's the only thing weird. I got to the
Speaker 2: stadium at two o'clock, Matt in the I got to
Speaker 2: the stadium at two pm on Thursday, and Pursuda and
Speaker 2: I were on air from ten thirty to one am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And so that's just it's just like it. It's by
Speaker 2: the time, you know, by the time I bet. And
Speaker 2: this is very first world problem. I'm not I'm not roofing,
Speaker 2: I'm not laying concrete, I'm not doing real physical labor.
Speaker 2: But by the time you've been yeah, you've been at
Speaker 2: the stadium for nine hours already, and then you have
Speaker 2: to do it too. Yeah, you've already done a halftime
Speaker 2: show and have already worked the whole game, and then
Speaker 2: you got to get up for a show and it
Speaker 2: goes till one in the morning. But it's always fun
Speaker 2: with the callers. It's it's always fun. You and I
Speaker 2: have talked about this, like it's sometimes it can be
Speaker 2: rejuvenating when you do a little radio with somebody you
Speaker 2: don't do it with often you do Tom Yeah stuff
Speaker 2: with Pursuda and some of our other friends. It's just
Speaker 2: a different conversation and a different kind of a different
Speaker 2: change of pace and all and all those fun things.
Speaker 2: But hey, I'll be there. I'll be there with you
Speaker 2: Friday night, you Pursuda and me and in the in
Speaker 2: the broadcast booth deep into the evening, hopefully after the
Speaker 2: Steelers take care of business against the Jets.
Speaker 3: I shure mention though Tom and I show is from
Speaker 3: Stay Je so you can stop buying just say hello.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: A lot of people always ask like where can we
Speaker 2: see you? Guys say hello, yes you can.
Speaker 3: You can stop buy well before.
Speaker 2: Four hours ahead of kickoff. For every home game, Matt
Speaker 2: and Tom will be out there doing their thing for
Speaker 2: two hours, which of course leads up to the pregame
Speaker 2: show with Pursuita Labs and Jerry Dulac and then of
Speaker 2: course our broadcast team of Rob King, Max Starks, and
Speaker 2: Melissa Matthews, although Missy does not do preseason as well
Speaker 2: because she does TV side of things.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it was. It was really weird, but
Speaker 3: Charlie does. Charlie Batch does turns into a TV star
Speaker 3: for preseason. That's why I get the call over.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it was weird for the preseason game. And
Speaker 2: we'll get to the tweets here in a second. It
Speaker 2: was it was weird for the preseason game, Matt this
Speaker 2: past Thursday, because for a few years there we had
Speaker 2: two sideline reporters because remember it was Missy and Max
Speaker 2: on the sideline and then Wolf and Rob or Wolf
Speaker 2: and Billy hill Grove up in.
Speaker 3: The Wolf was on the sideline for a while too.
Speaker 2: He was yep, absolutely, And so since we had two
Speaker 2: sideline reporters, even though we'd lose Missy for the three
Speaker 2: preseason games, we'd still have Max doing sideline no problem.
Speaker 2: Last year, which was the first year that Max moved
Speaker 2: up to the booth, you know, in place of Wolf,
Speaker 2: we had Ramon Foster did the sideline. He's now the
Speaker 2: Titans analyst, the color commentator for the time. He's the
Speaker 2: Max Starks of the Tennessee Titans. So great opportunity for
Speaker 2: well earned. He's good on air, He's he's a lot
Speaker 2: like Max. He's good, he's funny, he knows the game,
Speaker 2: he's got good delivery and all that stuff. Time and
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, if there was just the
Speaker 2: right person wasn't available, or if they decided to just
Speaker 2: scrap it. But so for our preseason games, we don't
Speaker 2: have a sideline reporter from the three preseason games. So
Speaker 2: that was weird for me. That's like a big part
Speaker 2: of my job. I was, I was like, this is
Speaker 2: a lot easier, Like this is a lot less stressful, trying.
Speaker 3: To make to worry about that aspect.
Speaker 2: Hey, Missy, we need an update on uh player that's
Speaker 2: in the tent, and I need you to move five
Speaker 2: yards to the right because that camera from CBS is
Speaker 2: interfering with our connection right now.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, you deal with that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. So it was a little a
Speaker 2: little less stress free. But I will obviously anxiously await
Speaker 2: the return of the great Missy Matthews to the sideline
Speaker 2: when we get things going against the Falcons in September.
Speaker 3: I will say you, uh, your initial preseason post game
Speaker 3: show you got a pretty nice situation. I mean there's
Speaker 3: been times where the folks that are pretty lubed up,
Speaker 3: that have been tailgating since noon and the preseason game
Speaker 3: doesn't go so well. The calls are not earal pleasant
Speaker 3: At times, a man will sure everybody you know right.
Speaker 2: Fire you too. You worked for the Cleveland US, you
Speaker 2: turn coat. Let's sait some tweets Here at Wesley at
Speaker 2: Williamson NFL is where you can get involved. Oh who's
Speaker 2: gonna lead us off? Here? Let's see teams. This tweet
Speaker 2: from smooth Smooth Dave. Interesting one from Smooth Dave. Teams
Speaker 2: that pass on second and short generate an explosive play
Speaker 2: twenty six percent of the time, verse just two percent
Speaker 2: of the time when running the football.
Speaker 3: I do know it's one of the most efficient play
Speaker 3: calls out there, throwing on second and short.
Speaker 2: Basically, he did some some metrics of calculating coaches and
Speaker 2: where they.
Speaker 3: It's a may I stuff. I saw that one retweeted again.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy ranks Tier one as seventh most aggressive coach
Speaker 2: overall in those situations in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And by aggressive, I think he means calling a pass
Speaker 3: there as opposed to paying second and short.
Speaker 2: We're not just gonna try and get the first down.
Speaker 2: Let's take a shot.
Speaker 3: Here, and not to mention the league's going for it
Speaker 3: more on fourth down, you have three chances. If it's
Speaker 3: second and two, unless you're like deep in your own end,
Speaker 3: you probably have three chances to pick it up. So
Speaker 3: why not, you know, try for an explosive there and
Speaker 3: it does hit more than the runs.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: As McCarthy showed him as a preseason game, he was
Speaker 3: pretty agressive with his play calling and fourth ound stuff
Speaker 3: things of that nature too.
Speaker 2: Smooth Dave also adds in the spirit of guys who
Speaker 2: were able to fill more than one role. A Landon
Speaker 2: Roberts could be an absolute hammer at full back.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you picked that one. I just read that too,
Speaker 3: because he actually did that with the Patriot He did. Yes. Now,
Speaker 3: I think this fullback rule is not just run downhill
Speaker 3: and destroy somebody in front of you. You know, like
Speaker 3: back in the day Tim Lester and Dan Kreider and
Speaker 3: some of those dudes, you weren't throwing the ball, you
Speaker 3: weren't handling the ball, maybe touched it twice a year.
Speaker 3: They didn't do left the right motion very much. They
Speaker 3: lined up in the eye in front of Jerome and
Speaker 3: smash themone's face as hard as they could. And I
Speaker 3: think Roberts could absolutely do that. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 3: think this was smooth Dave was implying. I don't think
Speaker 3: you could save a roster spot and not keep knowing
Speaker 3: Howski or a fullback just because Roberts has done it
Speaker 3: in a very Belichickian manner with the Patriots. The more
Speaker 3: he can do, the better. He has played some offense
Speaker 3: early in his early career, and I guess he could
Speaker 3: get you out of the game. But what they want
Speaker 3: from this fullback is a little bit more check and
Speaker 3: running routes and things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sudesh says, long time, no Sea boys. He said
Speaker 2: I would try him put Adam Autumnwayo to the practice
Speaker 2: squad and have him be the last one cut. From
Speaker 2: that earlier conversation, Yeah, I just think Robert Spears Jennings
Speaker 2: is too dynamic to take a chance on losing him
Speaker 2: and leaving him out there. But ove the decisions to
Speaker 2: make when you have a pretty deep roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, these are all good problems to have, and unfortunately,
Speaker 3: or to some degree slightly fortunately, there might be one
Speaker 3: or two ir spots or you know, things like that
Speaker 3: that make this a little easier or could make it harder,
Speaker 3: depending who it is it gets banged up. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that was the right conclusion. That's why I
Speaker 3: wanted to do that early in the show. Is somebody
Speaker 3: likes it, you're gonna lose, Yeah, you know, to keep
Speaker 3: that fourth.
Speaker 2: Along those lines, Ian says, I would agree with thinking
Speaker 2: that Autumnwayo would be the last one out. I think
Speaker 2: the way Rogers has been talking up Roman Wilson, he
Speaker 2: won't get cut. Same with Ben Skronick agreed. The more
Speaker 2: you guys talk through this, the more I think they
Speaker 2: cut Mason as a surprising move and just keep the
Speaker 2: younger quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. And it's just
Speaker 3: not how the organization.
Speaker 2: It is not how the organization is structured. We all
Speaker 2: know that the Pittsburgh Steelers, they believe in having the
Speaker 2: best product ready to win games every single Sunday. And
Speaker 2: so there is still the possibility that over these next
Speaker 2: two weeks, one of Will Howard and Drew Aller could
Speaker 2: make because I don't think it's just a Mike McCarthy decision,
Speaker 2: you know, where they could all go collectively. Hey, you
Speaker 2: know what we feel about as good about Will Howard,
Speaker 2: do we feel about as good as Drew Aller as
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph And yeah, they don't quite have the veteran savvy, right,
Speaker 2: but we think they could do the job needed if
Speaker 2: they have to come in for a couple of games
Speaker 2: for an injured Aaron Rodgers. But unless that happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that still seems like a lot to ask.
Speaker 2: That seems like a lot to ask that these two
Speaker 2: are just gonna keep ace in the test these next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: You're the first quarter all right, take it easy against
Speaker 3: the Ravens. Do you want Rudolph coming in to seal
Speaker 3: the game or do you want Howard? You know what
Speaker 3: I mean? You want Rudolph?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 3: You gotta lead, you know, and you didn't sit on
Speaker 3: the ball. Be smart, don't screw it up. Now it's
Speaker 3: a different story. If Rogers gets hurt for the year
Speaker 3: and we two, then it might just be allur Let's
Speaker 3: see if you see, here's your time. You know who's
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 2: Matt, that's a Twitter segment. But guess what we're gonna
Speaker 2: do another. We're gonna keep this touch the tip of
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Speaker 2: to get to. We'll do that when we return. We'll
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Speaker 2: We roll along here in our final hour, our final
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Speaker 2: campus of Saint Vincent College for this twenty twenty sixth
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Speaker 2: Vincent practice in front of us. These guys are putting
Speaker 2: in some hours.
Speaker 3: I say they're getting a good work done. I've been
Speaker 3: kind of paying attention. Yeah, they're out there working hard.
Speaker 2: Let's roll along with the tweets here, as we've got
Speaker 2: plenty more of these to get to. Jeff says, what
Speaker 2: percentage chance would you put on Will Howard making it
Speaker 2: to the practice squad if he were cut? Also, also,
Speaker 2: I would like to see the running Game have a
Speaker 2: better showing on Friday. I hope you guys have a
Speaker 2: safe drive home tonight on Route thirty.
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks for that. And I agree with the Running
Speaker 3: Game that I'm I think it's just a little uncertain
Speaker 3: at this point. I can't say I have a lot
Speaker 3: of faith at this moment, good or bad Howard do
Speaker 3: the practice squad?
Speaker 2: I think the I think the biggest question would be
Speaker 2: would he As you laid this out, I think it
Speaker 2: was just yesterday, Yeah, we.
Speaker 3: Were talking about I think that Sharky's I'm sure for
Speaker 3: you talked about on that.
Speaker 2: I think you mentioned on the air yesterday too, of
Speaker 2: if you're Will Howard and they end up cutting you,
Speaker 2: so you know clearly that Drew Aller is ahead of
Speaker 2: you in the pecking order, your fourth, you're fourth. Would
Speaker 2: you really want to come back to Pittsburgh? Would you
Speaker 2: want to go somewhere where you would be third and
Speaker 2: maybe even have an opportunity to be second, to have
Speaker 2: a real chance to compete.
Speaker 3: Like watching that Hall of Fame game. I mean Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: Could he go ahead of pickets before long? If he
Speaker 3: signs on their practice squad? I mean, so anyone if
Speaker 3: he gets cut, anyone can claim him, but he has
Speaker 3: to go on their fifty three. I don't know that
Speaker 3: anybody would claim him. Now. Maybe if he has two
Speaker 3: really good games he's upcoming weeks, that's good enough. There's
Speaker 3: some teams that definitely could use a quarterback of that nature.
Speaker 3: But then if he's not claimed, he has no If
Speaker 3: he gets claimed, he has no stock of where he goes. Sure,
Speaker 3: you're now a Panther, now you're a bear or whatever.
Speaker 3: But if he clears waivers, he is a free agent.
Speaker 3: It's not a foregone conclusion that he will re sign
Speaker 3: with the Steelers and Dealers only now most people do
Speaker 3: because when they release you, they tell you we'd love
Speaker 3: to bring you back, and we put a lot of
Speaker 3: work into you. You did a lot of work for us.
Speaker 3: You know the system. You would fit right in on
Speaker 3: our practice squad. There'd be no adjustment, especially for quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: I don't have to learn a new system. I know
Speaker 3: exactly where I stand. But you can't tell me there's
Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty teams, or he'd be higher up in
Speaker 3: the chance.
Speaker 2: Higher than fourth.
Speaker 3: I'd be higher than forth exactly. And a lot of
Speaker 3: our teams only keep two that you could be third,
Speaker 3: maybe by default, even if you signed somewhere else. So
Speaker 3: if the Steelers cut him, I would advise him, and
Speaker 3: no one's to hear this, and he's not gonna listen
Speaker 3: to me not to resign here.
Speaker 2: You would, I think, be hard pressed to try and
Speaker 2: look in the mirror with a straight face and say
Speaker 2: that this would be the best situation for you. If
Speaker 2: that's all how it ends up playing out.
Speaker 3: Now, you could look at it in a big picture
Speaker 3: perspective and be like, well, Rogers won't be back Rudolph
Speaker 3: free agent after the year. I could come into camp, me,
Speaker 3: Drew and somebody else, first round pick maybe, and you
Speaker 3: still would probably third on Tote Poll or Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: or you know some of them, or something like that,
Speaker 3: or you know, not to mention. I do think it
Speaker 3: wouldn't be all that impossible for the Steelers to resign Rudolph,
Speaker 3: especially if definitely Howard's on the mix, definitely not give
Speaker 3: him a similar contract the one he is now.
Speaker 2: McCarthy, you know, jives with him this year. Yeah and everything.
Speaker 2: Ian says, I want to know from the expert, mister
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, who which player across the league under the
Speaker 2: radar has the biggest potential for a breakout season. Ian says, personally,
Speaker 2: I really like Deshaun Stribbling in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Oh coincidentally, we did a podcast today about rookie wide receivers,
Speaker 3: you know, our six pack we talked about, including Stribbling,
Speaker 3: including Bernard. That a lot of these like mid round
Speaker 3: the top guys. Tyson's hurt again, which is terrible, thanks
Speaker 3: for him. Yeah, Titans had a miserable showing against the Niners,
Speaker 3: and Tate didn't look particularly good, neither did Ward. But
Speaker 3: a lot of these other receivers the day two guys,
Speaker 3: the Striblings, the Bernards. A good one that we really
Speaker 3: stressed was Hurst with the box who I loved remember
Speaker 3: out of Georgia State. Yeah, yeah, I loved him. Both
Speaker 3: the Browns guys. You know, so a lot of these receivers,
Speaker 3: including stribbling. I think are really acclimating. Well, I could
Speaker 3: probably go on and on about you know, breakout candidates.
Speaker 3: Rather people just threw names at me.
Speaker 2: Let me throw two at you, all right, Luthor Chicago Bears,
Speaker 2: he could go insane. DJ Moore is gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's into year two now and doesn't have hopefully
Speaker 2: the injury issues that he had last year. Yes, I
Speaker 2: think Luthor Burden the third is primed for a big year.
Speaker 3: He's currently dealing with an injury. But I also think
Speaker 3: his teems like he's always Yeah, that's true too, but
Speaker 3: I think like his teammate Adunza is slept on though.
Speaker 3: So if you watch their tape early before a Doonza
Speaker 3: hurt his foot, the passing game went through him, and
Speaker 3: then after his foot injury, Burden got more involved. Lovelin
Speaker 3: got a lot more involved. But I think Burden's talent
Speaker 3: he could be a star sooner than later.
Speaker 2: The other one, Matt, maybe this is cheating because he
Speaker 2: was just a year ago a top ten pick. But
Speaker 2: what about Ashton Genty.
Speaker 3: I mean, the situation has to be so much better
Speaker 3: for him. He had to do everything on his own.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you're Kubiak. You know, job number
Speaker 2: one is we're gonna draft for an into Mendozo. We're
Speaker 2: gonna develop him into a franchise quarterback. But I think
Speaker 2: job number two might be we gotta get Ashton Genty
Speaker 2: in that run game going, because that helps job number.
Speaker 3: One big time, and he's a really talented player. The
Speaker 3: O Lions added Linderbaum and some other pieces, and Mendoza
Speaker 3: probably won't be on the field week one, but I mean,
Speaker 3: can we get a good running game going for when
Speaker 3: he watched out on Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: John one asks, with training camp wrapping up in La Trobe,
Speaker 2: will you guys go back to two hours a day?
Speaker 2: We will? Yeah, maybe we will, John, And we will
Speaker 2: also for all of you who lament every time that
Speaker 2: we are no longer on YouTube, we will be back
Speaker 2: on YouTube, if not Thursday next week and real soon
Speaker 2: here for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah maybe ye. Things we backed to normal soon.
Speaker 2: Matt says, hey, fellas, now that Drew Aller and Will
Speaker 2: Howard are future Hall of famers having observed training camp
Speaker 2: other than quarterback, what position would be filled best in
Speaker 2: the first round of the draft next year. I love
Speaker 2: Warren and Dowdell. I think they should be good fits.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't having a Bjon Robinson type running back in
Speaker 2: this offense beat best?
Speaker 3: Yes, but I don't think Omar cons E as an
Speaker 3: economics salary.
Speaker 2: Cap dude, first round running back.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine first round running backs are going to
Speaker 3: be on his priority list. I mean, he drafts tackles
Speaker 3: that you can't get on the open market, and I
Speaker 3: fully condone that sometimes Beijon's just too good to pass up.
Speaker 3: I get that too, But it's funny. I actually thought
Speaker 3: about this, you know how, I do weird things, like
Speaker 3: when I'm dozing offer and I'm like, who else could
Speaker 3: be the first round pick? I don't think wide receiver's crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't either.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're gonna play three receivers heavy and
Speaker 3: Pittman and Metcalf are both expensive and twenty nine, you
Speaker 3: might want the next number one or compliment to Bernard,
Speaker 3: or one of those two isn't back. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'd have to really dig into free agents, but I
Speaker 3: think it's highly unlikely that Jalen Ramsey's back his age
Speaker 3: and his cap.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, if we break this down real quick, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Steelers first round pick in twenty twenty seven, number one
Speaker 2: on the board odds has to.
Speaker 3: Be quarterbacks still at this point I think so.
Speaker 2: But then after that, I think you could start to
Speaker 2: argue wide receiver, wouldn't say running back, wouldn't say tight
Speaker 2: end of this sea. And I don't think at this
Speaker 2: point I think we'd say not offensive line line. It's
Speaker 2: so much there.
Speaker 3: It might be one of the few years that I
Speaker 3: can done not even taking a O lineman at all.
Speaker 2: So first round pick could certainly be a quarterback, would
Speaker 2: certainly be a wide receiver. Defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be an edge rusher. No,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be a defensive lineman.
Speaker 2: It could be, but I it's.
Speaker 3: Supposed to be a very good D line class. Maybe
Speaker 3: Cam says I had a good year, I'm retiring, and
Speaker 3: then you change your mind.
Speaker 2: Or maybe you look at it and you go, it's
Speaker 2: a really good D line class. We'll get our guy
Speaker 2: in the second round.
Speaker 3: Maybe. I think off the ball linebackers are very.
Speaker 2: Hang off the ball. Linebacker and corner I would say,
Speaker 2: are also possibilities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I assume Porter Dean Everett will all
Speaker 3: be under contract, and I don't think Grahams will be
Speaker 3: back just because I think he's like a thirty million
Speaker 3: dollar capit and he's be getting older at that point.
Speaker 3: So maybe you want the big slot type. But do
Speaker 3: we know that Peyton Wilson's a success, Patrick Queen's a
Speaker 3: free agent? Who else is in the wings to be
Speaker 3: a star there? I also don't know that Omar would
Speaker 3: spend a first round pick on a safety or a
Speaker 3: linebacker either, because there aren't positions that are, you know,
Speaker 3: super scarce. But I could see linebacker being a glaring hole.
Speaker 2: It's already interesting. Look at us. Yeah, we haven't even gone.
Speaker 3: You got to think negatively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you mentioned, scouting and projecting and a lot
Speaker 2: of that stuff is negative by nature. Yes, yes, r
Speaker 2: J says, if the Steelers keep four to four quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: which position group, do you guys think, like, well, this
Speaker 2: is what I poached.
Speaker 3: This is where we started show. Yeah, I read that
Speaker 3: and I just kept thinking, I'm like, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: and I don't want to deal with it. In two
Speaker 3: minutes at the end of the show.
Speaker 2: And RJ and everyone else who missed it, that's where
Speaker 2: we started today. At the top of the first hour
Speaker 2: if you want the full breakdown. But we basically Matt
Speaker 2: came up with defensive line or wide.
Speaker 3: Receiver, something on defense. Really at all likelihood were the
Speaker 3: only twenty four defensive players.
Speaker 2: Don't we don't want to cut Roger Jones and he
Speaker 2: would really be the only option off on the offensive line.
Speaker 3: Do we only keep four linebackers? Yes, So Brunner was
Speaker 3: not in the mix. He was not, I mean he didn't.
Speaker 3: He was kind of a quick cut for us, and
Speaker 3: he actually is a pretty good has to make the team.
Speaker 2: It's not an easy exercise.
Speaker 3: No, it really isn't.
Speaker 2: A lot of times we think it is, but it's
Speaker 2: never it's.
Speaker 3: A could be d line, it could be linebacker, it
Speaker 3: could be safety. Yes, all those were a little light
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: Yes, I those were all kind of Matt and I
Speaker 2: were kind of looking at each other like, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, you get a little uncomfortable, get a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: There's not as many chairs left on the Titanic as you.
Speaker 3: Think, and we need two or three injuries all of
Speaker 3: a sudden. Then you're calling somebody off off the couch
Speaker 3: to play safety for you or linebacker, you know, exactly right,
Speaker 3: exactly right, and that's scary.
Speaker 2: Let's see here. Oh. RJ also tweeted, this was a
Speaker 2: funny one. RJ also tweeted, uh, excluding the four major
Speaker 2: team sports, who's the greatest athlete of all time? I
Speaker 2: wanted to get your quick thought of that one.
Speaker 3: The first one game of mine was Uhammed Ali.
Speaker 2: It's a great one. My first one that came to
Speaker 2: mind was Michael Phelps. All he's a fantastic, fantastic one Tiger.
Speaker 3: W uh huh, throw Arnie Palmer back.
Speaker 2: People like Simone Biles and Katie Ladeci probably deserve to
Speaker 2: get mentioned.
Speaker 3: Is there a tennis player?
Speaker 2: I was just gobody. I was just gonna say, like
Speaker 2: Nadal Venus Federer, I mean like Venus Serena. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think Venus conversations Usain Bolt should probably be mentioned in
Speaker 2: this conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all he's hard to beat. All these very hard
Speaker 3: to beat the iconic nature of it all, and yeah
Speaker 3: he still holds up.
Speaker 2: It's a really good one, really good one. A J
Speaker 2: says it's time to play either neither or both number
Speaker 2: one Steelers for the twenty sixth season. Rudolph and Howard,
Speaker 2: Sorry sorry sorry, start a game for the Steelers in
Speaker 2: the twenty six Rudolph Howard, I would say.
Speaker 3: Either either yes not both or neither, and Rogers could
Speaker 3: stay healthy.
Speaker 2: And again Aaron Rodgers has missed one game the last
Speaker 2: two seasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still it's just I mean, if this was
Speaker 3: the Bills, I would say the backup has a better
Speaker 3: than fifty percent Foreverya.
Speaker 2: Absolutely make the playoffs. Bengals Ravens either neither or both.
Speaker 2: Either either one of them will. Yeah, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: go with both, but I'm not gonna go with both.
Speaker 3: AFC is pretty crowded, it sure is, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure is. We'll do as we get through this last
Speaker 2: preseason game against Buffalo here, you know, in another two weeks.
Speaker 2: Then when we have that kind of gap there of
Speaker 2: those two weeks before we get to the opener against
Speaker 2: the Falcons, Matt and I will do plenty of that
Speaker 2: division picks and playoff picks and all that.
Speaker 3: Stuff, and we will have to do some of that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Number three from AJ has nine plus sacks, Herbig and
Speaker 2: Watt either neither or both.
Speaker 3: Either, because I mean I think high Smith might have
Speaker 3: nine plus two. I mean, they have three guys with
Speaker 3: double digit sacks.
Speaker 2: It's a good point, just heart. I mean either could
Speaker 2: get hurt either either the right play. Yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to say this is the smart money. Either's the smart money.
Speaker 2: Number four.
Speaker 3: I mean, how many snaps is heard be going to
Speaker 3: play the entire year if nobody gets hurt? Five hundred, right,
Speaker 3: and there'll there'll be some pass rush opportunities.
Speaker 2: But I like this exercise by age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 2: Number four has more than ninety five targets. DK Metcalf
Speaker 2: and Michael Pittman.
Speaker 3: Junr either, but it definitely could be both. That's not
Speaker 3: a crazy number to get to. But there are pretty
Speaker 3: many miles to feed, and you have to think.
Speaker 2: I think either are they both to play? Right? What
Speaker 2: if one misses two because of an injury?
Speaker 3: Right? Or get suspended? No, he wouldn't do that again.
Speaker 2: I think either And five scores three plus touchdowns this
Speaker 2: season Friarmouth and Washington. That better be both. Better be both.
Speaker 3: But if Rogers only throws for my only is not
Speaker 3: the right word. Twenty eight touchdowns six plus go into
Speaker 3: those two maybe maybe four to I'm gonna go aa,
Speaker 3: I'm gona go both.
Speaker 2: I thin I'm gonna go both of that one. I
Speaker 2: like that exercise then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they all were not easy ones either. They
Speaker 3: were no brainers. Jeff even come on on that. That
Speaker 3: was good.
Speaker 2: That was good. I like those kind of questions. I
Speaker 2: like this one from Jeff to for the Steelers to
Speaker 2: win their seventh Super Bowl, list seven things that have
Speaker 2: to happen for them to win it seven and or
Speaker 2: seven things that can't happen for them to win it.
Speaker 2: Health obviously being excluded.
Speaker 3: Okay, something has to happen. I would say, is top
Speaker 3: twelve quarterback play?
Speaker 2: Yes, I would say you have to also have a
Speaker 2: top seven offensive line. Yeah, I don't have top five.
Speaker 2: That might be a little rich, but you got to
Speaker 2: have a top seven or eight.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say you're gonna have to have a top
Speaker 3: seven defense too. Absolutely, I think those things are not
Speaker 3: crazy to ask for. Either.
Speaker 2: You need to be towards the top of the league
Speaker 2: in explosive play differential.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know that they will be.
Speaker 2: Remember four of the five teams that to Championship weekend
Speaker 2: were in the top five there. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 2: fourth quarter defense, I would just say things like that,
Speaker 2: time of possession has to be a plus, not a negative.
Speaker 3: He can't be twenty eighth again, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: You need, I think, to be Mike McCarthy's Packers tenure,
Speaker 2: where they were not one of the most penalized teams
Speaker 2: in the league, as opposed to some of his Cowboys
Speaker 2: teams that finished first and second and fourth and most penalties.
Speaker 3: How about like what we talked about last summer, I
Speaker 3: mean back to like being like top three in sacks.
Speaker 2: Top three in sacks.
Speaker 3: I mean sack ratio is not quite as important as explosive,
Speaker 3: but it's third on the list behind turnovers and explosive.
Speaker 3: I think they could lead the league in sack ratio.
Speaker 3: I mean, Rogers doesn't take sacks. The protection is better,
Speaker 3: ball comes out quick. They got a really good pass rush.
Speaker 3: We'll do a Brandon Thorne exercise at some point that'll
Speaker 3: back that.
Speaker 2: We will. We'll do that Thursday. Okay, Yeah, I like
Speaker 2: all of those yards per carry I think needs to
Speaker 2: be at least league average. No, I would say at
Speaker 2: least be in the sixteen to twenty range. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And then I guess the things that can't happen would
Speaker 2: be all the inverses of those things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the same conversation we just said, can't be
Speaker 3: at three to seven or you know.
Speaker 2: I also would maybe something we should add for that,
Speaker 2: Matt is you need someone to be a viable third
Speaker 2: wide receiver. Yeah, or even just pass catcher, even if
Speaker 2: it's Pat Freyermouth having that breakout season. But you need
Speaker 2: other than dk And and Pittman. You need a viable,
Speaker 2: productive third target.
Speaker 3: I may even take a step further and say the
Speaker 3: number two, which I think will happen, needs to abuse
Speaker 3: single coverage. You know, like the Austins of the world
Speaker 3: didn't abuse single coverage.
Speaker 2: They did not know, they absolutely absolutely did not.
Speaker 3: You gotta have a balanced receiving a corps. They can't
Speaker 3: just be metcalf In, the.
Speaker 2: Pips, the Pips. This guy's fuddy, this guy's funny. Uh.
Speaker 2: Sudesh says for best non major four sport athletes, Ali, Serena, Phelps,
Speaker 2: and Pele, I guess does count because you know it
Speaker 2: wasn't It wasn't football, basketball, baseball or hockey.
Speaker 3: He's the best soccer player ever.
Speaker 2: I think listen, and I think I think if you
Speaker 2: say I think if you say anybody other than MESSI
Speaker 2: now I think you're kidding yourself considering the eras. But
Speaker 2: Pele's in the conversation, Maradonna's in the conversation, and those
Speaker 2: guys technically, but they did play team sports, which again
Speaker 2: for the parameters of before you know, the four major sports,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: I get it they weren't one of them.
Speaker 2: But but that is a good people on the.
Speaker 3: Planet would say they're one of the four major sports.
Speaker 3: Outside of America.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, Aaron says, I look at Aler, and
Speaker 2: Howard is having way higher ceilings than Mason Rudolph. I
Speaker 2: think Mason is an insurance plan. I'm comfortable with either
Speaker 2: taking over, even though Mason has the experience. With McCarthy,
Speaker 2: I think I'd give these young guys an edge. Now
Speaker 2: the McCarthy, I don't know that.
Speaker 3: I give Howard a way higher ceiling than Rudolph. I
Speaker 3: don't a higher stealing the rudo.
Speaker 2: Aler, I think so, yeah, because the arm talent that's
Speaker 2: why he's not going anywhere, is undeniable. But you know what,
Speaker 2: the McCarthy angle there is an interesting one. And in
Speaker 2: last tweet here.
Speaker 3: And I do think McCarthy would put a Howard or
Speaker 3: Aller in a good situation if they got thrust into
Speaker 3: a game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and uh and Sudsh kind of says that too.
Speaker 2: He said, you know the fact that all three Steelers
Speaker 2: starters looked up to snuff is a testament to Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy loving this new regime. So yeah, if you were
Speaker 2: going to move on from Mason Rudolph and take more
Speaker 2: of a risk with your backup quarterbacks, you have the
Speaker 2: head coach feel feel confident is going to have them
Speaker 2: as ready to go, and.
Speaker 3: You'd hope there's the running game in the line and
Speaker 3: defense in place to not ask as much as you
Speaker 3: would have a Rogers or whatnot. Exactly right, that's a
Speaker 3: good angle. I mean, boy, we could have that conversation forever.
Speaker 3: We sure should he keep three or four?
Speaker 2: Sure could, and I'm sure we will continue to until
Speaker 2: we until we find out the answer. And obviously we're
Speaker 2: gonna get two more major data points with these final
Speaker 2: two preseason games. Our last training camp segment on the
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Speaker 2: Here it is folks. Here, it is Matt Our final
Speaker 2: segment from Saint Vincent College, Steelers Training Camp twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six Rock and Roll.
Speaker 3: Let's do it, Let's do it, bring it on home.
Speaker 2: And you know what, Matt, we have I think just
Speaker 2: enough tweets left here to get us through. We're doing
Speaker 2: a final Twitter hour here with our Bonus Hour Steelers Burner,
Speaker 2: our buddy from York, Pennsylvania that we met a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago at camp. Back to the Steelers' fourth quarter defense,
Speaker 2: could Mike Tomlin and Tarilosophe's philosophy of bend but don't break,
Speaker 2: you know, allow yards but not points have been a
Speaker 2: major contributor to those struggles, just bending too much and
Speaker 2: finally breaking. And when looking at Patrick Graham, he seems
Speaker 2: like he has a much different mindset towards that.
Speaker 3: I think Graham is a much different mindset towards it.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I would phrase it that way
Speaker 3: in terms of the last staff, because I mean, were
Speaker 3: were they a bend but don't break defense?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they did give up a lot
Speaker 2: of yards compared to points. It felt like it felt
Speaker 2: like they were always in the top half of the
Speaker 2: league of points per game, which is great, but they
Speaker 2: were always towards the bottom third of yards per game.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm still attributing fatigue age getting schemed up differently
Speaker 3: as the game goes on and frankly not adjustin great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know that. It's just the style of playing defense.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm kind of defense on that one.
Speaker 2: Annie says, can you remember over the years biggest surprises,
Speaker 2: good or bad from players based on what they did
Speaker 2: in training camp verse what they did in season.
Speaker 3: It's probably a million.
Speaker 2: There's a million, you know. It's funny, and these are the.
Speaker 3: Type of like Dale was sitting here for that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's what I got for you. You remember
Speaker 2: Ola d Yeah, dude, I remember the first week of pads.
Speaker 2: He was murdering people in backs on backers. Yeah, murdering people.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, this guy, here comes the
Speaker 2: next debo, you know, here comes Harold is pass rusher
Speaker 2: for the Steelers. He was murdering people in backs on backers. Drill.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Probably a ton like that.
Speaker 2: And and I thought had an amazing camp, a really
Speaker 2: good preseason, and then just it just it just never
Speaker 2: happened for him. It just never happened for him. I
Speaker 2: know there's a ton like that. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: he was the first name that I remembered. And maybe
Speaker 2: that's because I think that was my first training camp,
Speaker 2: so you know, I could kind of remember it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: every day I'm down there at practice, and I would
Speaker 2: always be kind of hanging around, like a puppy like
Speaker 2: behind Touching Wolf and just watch what they watch, you know,
Speaker 2: see what they're seeing. And every day it was like
Speaker 2: this ninety two guy is destroying people. Last year, he's
Speaker 2: gonna be a superstar, and he was never really able
Speaker 2: to carve out that career in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say I cashed it in for
Speaker 3: our final segment, but I am thinking a lot about
Speaker 3: the burger I'm gonna get on the way home because
Speaker 3: I'm quite hungry and ready, be ready to get on
Speaker 3: the road and all those good things. But I'm having
Speaker 3: a hard time coming up with names. But I'm definitely
Speaker 3: if I could rewind. I bet there's two every camp
Speaker 3: we're like, oh, we're sitting here at this point like, well,
Speaker 3: that guy has a teammate, he's a demon, He's destroying everybody,
Speaker 3: and then you never hear from again. You know, it's
Speaker 3: just a nature of the game. You know, who's a
Speaker 3: three man roster too, you.
Speaker 2: Know, absolutely, And we we churned through, we churned through,
Speaker 2: uh you know, just almost one hundred guys out here
Speaker 2: every single year exactly, uh, Matt.
Speaker 3: But there's been a lot of times you go to
Speaker 3: the watering holes at night and like that guy, did
Speaker 3: you see what he did today?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, he came out of nowhere right right right,
Speaker 3: and then you don't never hear from again.
Speaker 2: But you know what, though, it does work the other way,
Speaker 2: and I know.
Speaker 3: We've Harrison and Warren and Jalen.
Speaker 2: Warren was one where it was like by the fourth
Speaker 2: or third, fourth, fifth practice, everyone was like this Warren
Speaker 2: guy looks really good man, like undrafted, he's gonna and
Speaker 2: then it went to he's gonna make the team, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, he's I mean, he's been
Speaker 2: a very good running back.
Speaker 3: Now they're better at it than we are, I mean,
Speaker 3: the coaching staff, coach McCarthy, et cetera. But that was
Speaker 3: one of my concerns with how they structure practice. I
Speaker 3: think it's harder for those guys to stand out. Sure,
Speaker 3: Like I don't know if Warren makes the team. If
Speaker 3: you do, if you don't have backs on backers and
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to break tackles, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Maybe he has a couple of big preseason games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe latches on the practice squad and eventually
Speaker 3: makes you know, his way there, But it'd be a
Speaker 3: tougher road for him.
Speaker 2: Smooth Dave says, what Steelers players could we trade for
Speaker 2: a first round pick right now? Fewer than you think, Fraser, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you think for a first.
Speaker 3: That age, it's true maybe, I mean the next team
Speaker 3: would have to pay him though.
Speaker 2: They would, you know they would, but you'd be getting
Speaker 2: your guy for ten years.
Speaker 3: Someone might give you a first for Fulton who already maybe.
Speaker 3: I think that's it on offense.
Speaker 2: That's it on offense, Yeah, Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 3: Because I canna give him thirty million?
Speaker 2: Two you do?
Speaker 3: I mean, but a first lot of teams, a lot
Speaker 3: of tea top of the market contracts usually don't work
Speaker 3: out well for the buyer.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: I don't think get one for.
Speaker 2: What not not after last year, and I think high
Speaker 2: Smith you could definitely get a second, but I don't
Speaker 2: know about a first. Probably the same for her Big.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of Steelers you could trade
Speaker 2: for second round picks pretty easily. Yeah, like a quick
Speaker 2: phone call, second round pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're interested, Mike Tomlin, I mean there's definitely players.
Speaker 2: Now he's spitting.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's thinking along the lines of can I
Speaker 3: get to nine to get to the next Josh Allen
Speaker 3: or whatever. I think there's players you could include with
Speaker 3: your first round pick and next year's first, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. Like, let's say you win a playoff game,
Speaker 3: but you don't have a quarterback for next year. You
Speaker 3: have no, you don't have enough faith in all Er
Speaker 3: and you're picking twenty five. I'll give you twenty five
Speaker 3: next year's first in high Smith to get to eight,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Yeah, But in terms of
Speaker 3: trade him straight up for a first, this team's not
Speaker 3: great in that regard. But the league has fewer than
Speaker 3: you think too. I mean, there's Josh Allen's you'd give
Speaker 3: up ten first round picks for, and there's you know,
Speaker 3: there's not one hundred players.
Speaker 2: I bet, And for the vast majority of TJ's career
Speaker 2: he would have been an easy yes. Oh yeah, yeah converse. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure, I shouldn't say vast majority, but for a
Speaker 2: long stretch of Cam Hayward's career he would have been
Speaker 2: an easy yes.
Speaker 3: In this car, I mean, Metcalf for a second, wasn't
Speaker 3: crazy And two years ago, a year before that, he
Speaker 3: probably would have got it first, but not at this
Speaker 3: stage of his career. I bet there's you know, I'm
Speaker 3: sitting here thinking, like Eve, if you went through the
Speaker 3: top one hundred that just came out in NFL dot
Speaker 3: com or whatever, not, all those guys would get a
Speaker 3: first definitely. Not no, definitely, I mean like Travis Kelcey's
Speaker 3: on that list. Yeah, no chance. I mean yeah, Jaylen
Speaker 3: Ramsey's on that list right right right, there's Steelers on it.
Speaker 3: Cam Heyward. Yeah, last question of camp, you were in
Speaker 3: the league than you think?
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. Last there's almost more guys that you could
Speaker 2: trade for multiple first round picks than just a first
Speaker 2: round pick because the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Guy right, yes, Parsons and Garrett, and we saw those guys.
Speaker 2: Trade for some of the people like pas Certain I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, yeast partner just went for two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's Corner's worth more than sauce.
Speaker 2: Jeff gets the last tweet of camp. He says what foods?
Speaker 2: What food will you miss most from the Steelers cafeteria
Speaker 2: and which media member ate the most wings at Sharky's.
Speaker 2: Alan Saunders is the answer to that second?
Speaker 3: Really every night, I never really eat a sharkis that much?
Speaker 2: We don't unless we're doing It's the nights we're doing shows.
Speaker 3: Right, because I either eat my night show or the
Speaker 3: because we.
Speaker 2: Don't we go over to the cafeteria for the free
Speaker 2: food before before we you know, go back to the
Speaker 2: hotel and then hit Sharky's.
Speaker 3: Rarely do I walk in Sharky's hungry exactly right.
Speaker 2: And if I do six o'clock doing a show, because
Speaker 2: normally we're not going there till a little bit later. Uh,
Speaker 2: I feel like Alan and maybe Chris Hallick one of
Speaker 2: those two every night. Those guys eat there every night
Speaker 2: at Sharky's. Those guys, those guys eat yeah, yep, and
Speaker 2: they always get wings always.
Speaker 3: Which look tremendous. I'm just never hungry at the time.
Speaker 3: It almost convinces me to get them even though I'm
Speaker 3: not hungry.
Speaker 2: I get them whenever we're doing the Show's there though,
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm hungry and they're comped by management that
Speaker 2: we love. A big shout out to.
Speaker 3: John, which one are you gonna miss the most? Though?
Speaker 2: At the Steelers cafeteria you camp in general, I mean
Speaker 2: the wings always, I don't care if it's Sharky's. I
Speaker 2: love their Cajun wings, their seasoned wings, their buffalo wings,
Speaker 2: their southern white wings. I also had dinos though sweet
Speaker 2: heat for days. I will I will miss those big time.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of caffeteriro mess just all the options,
Speaker 3: all the options. There's a sneaky one for me though.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've noticed in the little fridge behind you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know these little yogurt parfets with and
Speaker 3: you pour the granola on top and they have berries
Speaker 3: in there. They've just been so convenient in life savers
Speaker 3: for me when I come over to practice and I'm
Speaker 3: kind of hungry, I didn't eat breakfast or I ate
Speaker 3: something small. They were just always there and they're fresh,
Speaker 3: and they did the trick.
Speaker 2: These breakfast croissant sandwiches that they would have up from
Speaker 2: the zoo. We're pretty good too.
Speaker 3: The wings grew on me too. That are in the hallway.
Speaker 3: That yeah, that's a season.
Speaker 2: One thing they got here in La Trobe is good food.
Speaker 2: That is that is for sure. That will do it
Speaker 2: for Matt and I from this training camp. A couple
Speaker 2: of days off here and we'll be.
Speaker 3: Back to not helping my hunger situation.
Speaker 2: Matt's going to be soon out of here to the
Speaker 2: closest fast food joint that he can find Matt a
Speaker 2: couple of people. Thanks to all of our all the
Speaker 2: different media guys. I'm not going to the scenes because
Speaker 2: I'll forget, but all of our friends who joined us
Speaker 2: for a segment or two throughout camp. Thanks to them.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Justin Miller and Brian Lamartina for producing for
Speaker 2: us back at the Ranch. Big shout out to our
Speaker 2: guy Ed Troup for wearing a million different.
Speaker 3: Throughout throughout awardless yep.
Speaker 2: Throughout camp. And of course to each and every one
Speaker 2: of you who tweet the show. We camp always king,
Speaker 2: you know, one of our fearless leaders, him and him
Speaker 2: and Brian Lamartina, all the people who are nice enough
Speaker 2: to flag Matt and I down here on campus or
Speaker 2: at Sharky's and say hey, we love the show. Love
Speaker 2: listening to you.
Speaker 3: Guys with the spring Hill site. We're super nice us,
Speaker 3: the folks that are getting keeping these fridges, you know,
Speaker 3: full of.
Speaker 2: People, all the good people here at Saint Vincent listeners,
Speaker 2: and of course all you good people out there for
Speaker 2: Matt Williams and Unles Ueler. Take care everybody. We will
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