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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your home of the Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm dl Alley here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. This is our live, on going coverage here

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Speaker 1: on STN Night seventy N Steelers Nation Radial, live from

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Speaker 1: Steelers training camp practice here at Sat Princity College. And Matt,

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Speaker 1: while we were in break, their Steelers go out running

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Speaker 1: their backed up offense. So inside her owns twenty and

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Speaker 1: we saw Anthony McFarlane get down the sideline against for

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Speaker 1: Robert Splaine and he was beautiful six seven yards behind him.

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Speaker 1: Easy about pitching catch there for Mr Biscuit. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a wheel route, you know. And Spillane had

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Speaker 1: him in man coverage all along and run with that,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. I mean we're explain is what he is.

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Speaker 1: And Mitch knows it at this point, and he certainly

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Speaker 1: can't run with McFarland, and McFarland's an advanced route runner.

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Speaker 1: Now he put it on him. Beautifully thrown ball. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's a touchdown. I mean, less it's a two

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Speaker 1: high shell behind him or whatever, that's a touchdown from

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Speaker 1: the own twenty. I mean that's an eight yard ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a complete mismatch. And that's not

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Speaker 1: the first time we've seen the offense go after Robert

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Speaker 1: Spleen in this In this practice, Um, I was slightly

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Speaker 1: underthrowne there, but through into coverage, but a chance to

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Speaker 1: make a play though. Absolutely, Um, I've seen some good

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Speaker 1: stuff here from the offense though. Today it's definitely the

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Speaker 1: best practice I've seen from the off Yeah, it's been

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Speaker 1: a little while. They had a good one. Um, Tuesday

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Speaker 1: was a really good I'm trying to think that what

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Speaker 1: day is today? Tuesday here was a really good offensive practice.

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Speaker 1: Last practice, unfortunately I saw was last Thursday, and that Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Thursday they were on together before that was pretty but

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Speaker 1: pretty rough. Yeah, this is this is starting to look

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Speaker 1: much better this offense. Yeah, they're moving to football, They're

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Speaker 1: they're completing passes, making plays. Um. Yeah, so it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's looked better. That's what I kind of want to see.

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Speaker 1: That's another nice throw there. It's an eight yard gainers

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Speaker 1: something Rudolph just getting the ball drive in the ground,

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Speaker 1: drives it in for an eight yard game. Nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with that, No, just efficient, that's the word I keep

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Speaker 1: musing with Rudolf lately it's efficient. Yeah, that's just understands

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Speaker 1: what you know, what's being asked of him, and what

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Speaker 1: the speed of the game and all those type of things.

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Speaker 1: Get it and get it out. So this is my read.

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Speaker 1: It's open. Give it to him, boom, move on, play

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Speaker 1: and play next time. Yep, we'll see what happens here.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to nine sets. Are you thinking this is

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Speaker 1: the last period of practice. Yeah, this is it for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be it for sure. And then of

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Speaker 1: course tomorrow the Steelers have a walk through and then

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Speaker 1: Saturday their preseason opener against the the Seattle Seahawks, the

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Speaker 1: flightless birds of Seattle. Yeah, we have a little run action,

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Speaker 1: nice cut. Yeah, played that well, but it was a

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Speaker 1: nice cut, jump cut, little jump cut back inside. You

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Speaker 1: almost don't need an active feet, very active feet, light

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Speaker 1: feet and jump cut, accelerating, quick little strides, you know,

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Speaker 1: the quick pitter paths. Um. You know, his people don't

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Speaker 1: think about this much, but like, his feet aren't off

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Speaker 1: the ground long. If you take a big high stride

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Speaker 1: or a long stride, there's a good chance when you

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Speaker 1: get hit you only have one foot in the ground

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Speaker 1: and you're going down, you know what I mean, get

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Speaker 1: knocked out. Yeah, that was Anthony McFarland's problem really in

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Speaker 1: his career. He did a lot of that area. There

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Speaker 1: he goes j Len Moore and again he just puts

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Speaker 1: his head down and keeps his feet churning and drives forward. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he's more than that too. I really like him.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty good. Really like him. You know who else

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Speaker 1: would like him? Oh? Yeah, one cut runner like that,

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Speaker 1: no nonsense, gets it for He would be really good

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Speaker 1: in that offensive he would, he would. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of his own press does. Yeah, it does show you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that you can find running backs anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I understand that that. You know, when people are talking

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Speaker 1: about don't draft the first round running back, I get

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Speaker 1: it right. Tackles are harder to find the running backs.

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Speaker 1: We all know that. It all sounds great in theory

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Speaker 1: until you don't have one, or you have a really

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Speaker 1: them and oh that's a nice throw? Is that that

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Speaker 1: was pickt Nice throw by Kenny Pickett over the middle.

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Speaker 1: Nice snag there by one two away from his body

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Speaker 1: without you know, having to shift years down too much,

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Speaker 1: but he fit that one into that was very tight

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Speaker 1: the final play of practice. But that ball doesn't get

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Speaker 1: completed last year to the middle of the Fieldield, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's a good solid end of the teeth of the defense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's you have to attack there if you're

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Speaker 1: an NFL offense. Absolutely, absolutely so good practice. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a for uh practice today. Steelers finishing up here,

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Speaker 1: so four oh six pm, let it be said they

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Speaker 1: had their last practice before their first preseason game. Have

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Speaker 1: Morrows was very good practice. I thought it was too

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Speaker 1: really kind of crisp and and the way you wish

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Speaker 1: it from the offense. Yeah, um, you know, defense missing

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Speaker 1: some guys out there, and they made some place too,

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Speaker 1: but right right, But a lot of these offenses, especially

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Speaker 1: in seven on seven and these practices seven on seven's individuals.

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Speaker 1: You want the offense to win, you know, and they're

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Speaker 1: they're starting two more and more and there there again,

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Speaker 1: it looks more like an NFL offense to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely so. Uh kind of surprised. Mike Tomer mooin full

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Speaker 1: live like that too. But you know, they did miss

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Speaker 1: a live practice on Friday. Um, you know, and then

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Speaker 1: it's been a little short so I'm sure he wanted

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Speaker 1: to see some of that stuff in Jim's Yeah, as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, yesterday's practice wasn't the most crisp because they

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Speaker 1: back with that in mind. Yeah, Hey, you got what

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Speaker 1: you wanted. Yeah, tell you guys are gonna get too,

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Speaker 1: will take it easy on you tomorrow. Uh, you know Saturday,

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Speaker 1: you got all day Saturday to uh kind of rest

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Speaker 1: and some of these guys won't play or hardly play

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Speaker 1: it all in that game too, you know. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the other point, you know. So and then Sunday they

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Speaker 1: lot of the physical practices. They've only got three days

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Speaker 1: after after today. Yeah, so what we'll be back Monday here,

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Speaker 1: correct Tuesday, Wednesday, and that's it thursdays, Okay, Yes, we'll

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Speaker 1: here after today, I believe that. But yeah, something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not that we're gonna go away after once we

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Speaker 1: every day. Um, we just won't be simulcast on ESPN

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Speaker 1: coverage because the rules will then change because there won't

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Speaker 1: be fans in the stands. I don't want thus telling

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Speaker 1: the whole world how they're preparing for their games at

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Speaker 1: that point either. At that point, yeah, that's when things

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Speaker 1: kind of change a little bit. So yeah. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: as we have seen course over the course of this

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Speaker 1: whole thing, even though practices end and a lot of

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Speaker 1: don't think a lot of these guys are done. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're seeing push ups and things like that. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there's some bets lost and then uh, we'll see

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Speaker 1: usually some of these guys to go at the jugs

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Speaker 1: machine or they do different individual little things afterwards, go

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Speaker 1: I talked to j Sternberger yesterday after practice. I had

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Speaker 1: to wait for him twenty minutes after practice he's over

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Speaker 1: there hitting the sled because that's that's a deficiency in

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Speaker 1: his game, right, you know, you gotta you gotta do more.

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Speaker 1: You've gotta be able to be good at that. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, seeing a lot of guys here, see a

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Speaker 1: the fans are all over these guys too, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is great absolutely, And this is uh again, You're

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Speaker 1: crowd today, real nice crowd, a real good uh energy

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Speaker 1: amongst the whole place and the team coaches, sidelines, everything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great way to cap it off

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Speaker 1: before you know, your your your first real live action.

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Speaker 1: So I think this was a huge success. And if

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Speaker 1: things of that nature. Um, get out here, get a

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Speaker 1: good practice in before your you go and break break

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Speaker 1: things up here for the first preseason game. Um, now

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Speaker 1: go beat up on somebody else. Uh, you know, and

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Speaker 1: these guys are ready to do that. They're they're ready

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Speaker 1: to get out of here and go hit somebody else. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's great to assert yourself on your teammate

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Speaker 1: but it's your team. Don't want to hit each other

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Speaker 1: over and over and over. I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: there's more to be said here for you know, going

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Speaker 1: they're looking for. Absolutely. Uh at anybody else that you're

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing here? Uh in the in this

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Speaker 1: game on the Saturday. Um. It's a great question. And

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of Seahawks I'm kind of interested in,

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Speaker 1: you know, just tonight I'm gonna watch him for I know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch two preseason games tonight and keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on the rookies and the new and the new

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Speaker 1: guys and sitting my lazy boy and take a note

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Speaker 1: or two and maybe have a little toddy and enjoy myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that from tonight until Labor Day weekend. Basically,

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Speaker 1: there's something I'm kind of interested in seeing what the

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Speaker 1: Marvin leel looks like. That's a great one. Yeah, yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, can he be where do they line him up? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Where's where's he's lining up? One? Uh? You know how

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Speaker 1: much does he play? Does he win? You know in

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Speaker 1: some of these situations and in third downs? You know,

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Speaker 1: would think that's a good chance. It's a an easy

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Speaker 1: acclamation process. Can he be lined up next to Cam

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Speaker 1: on third and eight? That doesn't mean he's better than

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Speaker 1: Ogan Joe be at it though, you know the problem

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Speaker 1: you could use more than one, but is he the

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Speaker 1: best at that role? Or you know, could he be

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Speaker 1: ground oft times. I think so, you know, and I'm interested. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's a great one to pick up some of the

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson. We are alive

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Speaker 1: from Steelers training camp here at same Pensacologist Healers just

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Speaker 1: and then and then the other two. You don't know

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Speaker 1: the order of those guys. UM. It's probably the way

424
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Speaker 1: it's played out here to this point. UM. Like I

425
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Speaker 1: mentioned to you, guys, I wasn't gonna be blowing in

426
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Speaker 1: the wind. Regarding the quarterback rotation, We've been thoughtful about

427
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Speaker 1: giving guys an opportunity to work in different groups, but

428
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 1: our intentions are to play them this first time out

429
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Speaker 1: very much the way we started this process. How do

430
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Speaker 1: you measure success in this preseason game for the three

431
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks moving the un taking care of football, Well, the

432
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Speaker 1: first team offensive line, Navy go a little longer. You're

433
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Speaker 1: just gonna keep them all again. I'll make those determinations

434
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Speaker 1: after we get off the field today. But I'm not

435
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Speaker 1: really thinking about anyone as a particular unit. I'm thinking

436
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Speaker 1: about men within the unit. If if there's a guy

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Speaker 1: that needs additional reps within that unit, I'm open to

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Speaker 1: giving it to him. Um, if I feel like an

439
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Speaker 1: individual does not, I won't. Um. Every reppers precious and

440
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: we got a lot of people. We've got ninety guys

441
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Speaker 1: to sort through, and so, um, you better look at

442
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 1: it from an individual basis as opposed to um small

443
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Speaker 1: collectors within the group at all. Who the guys are

444
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Speaker 1: playing against? The looking at the opponent is in the

445
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Speaker 1: first second, I got no control over who or how

446
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 1: much Pete plays this guy, So I'm less concerned about that,

447
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Coach, you and mentioned that

448
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of players that you were looking

449
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Speaker 1: at it for the return for the return specialist. Was

450
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Speaker 1: there any person in particular that we're taking man to

451
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Speaker 1: that opportunity to certainly, you know all of them are viable.

452
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Speaker 1: We mean what we say when we say we don't

453
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Speaker 1: care about what means guys get here, they'll be giving

454
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to show what they're capable of. And so

455
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: return spaces is a space that history tells me that

456
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Speaker 1: I'm always open to potentially being surprised, and so I'm

457
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Speaker 1: excited about it. Mitch has been a top to quarterback

458
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Speaker 1: depth charts since O. T. A. S. What if Mason

459
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Speaker 1: and Kenny really showed you that they can possibly earn

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Speaker 1: some more first team reps. You know, they're doing what

461
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Speaker 1: we're asking them to do. They're they're taking care of ball,

462
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: they're moving their units. Um, they're doing the unofficial things

463
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Speaker 1: that come with quarterback position in terms of leadership. Um,

464
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: they're doing a nice job. And and again I'll be

465
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Speaker 1: quite honest with you, guys, I only provide depth charts

466
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Speaker 1: because I have to. Um, you know, that's what this

467
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Speaker 1: process is about. And I think you do this process

468
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Speaker 1: of this service oftentimes when you read too much in

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Speaker 1: the depth charts at this juncture, particularly when we haven't

470
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Speaker 1: even been in the stadium yet. Curious the other days

471
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Speaker 1: distinguish himself as a leader in the inside linebacker, He's

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Speaker 1: something that happens in Seattle. Do you agree? And what

473
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Speaker 1: how do you define leadership in that role. I'm not

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Speaker 1: worried about leadership at that position. We got enough candidates

475
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: and the play will reveal it. Much like quarterback inside linebacker,

476
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Speaker 1: there's certain unofficial responsibilities that come with that job, and

477
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Speaker 1: all of those guys have been playing that position know

478
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Speaker 1: and understand that and are displaying that. You've had a

479
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Speaker 1: chance to look at some guys with nausea. How do

480
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Speaker 1: you feel about the depths in your with your running backs?

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Speaker 1: I like it. I like what they've displayed out here.

482
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Speaker 1: I'm really interested in watching them in stadium. And obviously

483
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Speaker 1: ball security is a component of that position that is

484
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Speaker 1: non negotiable. And so you get those guys in the

485
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Speaker 1: stadium and you get a chance to see their second

486
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Speaker 1: effort and the things that you do in game, like circumstance.

487
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Speaker 1: They need to do those things while you know, safeguarding

488
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Speaker 1: the football, anybody not. At this point, I'm always gonna

489
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Speaker 1: have an inclusive mentality. Obviously, if somebody has missed a

490
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Speaker 1: significant amount of practice time, I probably won't play them

491
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Speaker 1: because I'm setting him up for failure. But at this point, um,

492
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Speaker 1: all of those that are working and working in some capacity,

493
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Speaker 1: I'm having an inclusive mentality. What about your new waiver

494
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Speaker 1: pick up? What do you know about him? And would

495
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Speaker 1: he be able to be ready to go? I just

496
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Speaker 1: walked off the field with him and got to meet

497
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Speaker 1: him a little bit. I remember when he came out

498
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Speaker 1: in the draft. He was a guy that that had

499
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Speaker 1: our attention. Um, he's an outside linebacker body type. I

500
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Speaker 1: think he had fourteen sacks his junior year at Oregon State,

501
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: and and and that captured our attention. But it's a

502
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Speaker 1: get to no process, and and and we'll we'll be

503
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Speaker 1: excited about giving him an opportunity to to show himself

504
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Speaker 1: to us. He's a guy that's that's not a rookie.

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Speaker 1: He's been in this thing. So I'm hopeful that he

506
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Speaker 1: can learn fast enough to be a contributor in some

507
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Speaker 1: form of fashion Saturday. About Kenny Pickett. What can you

508
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Speaker 1: learn about seeing him face a live NFL defense throughout

509
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Speaker 1: the process? A lot? A lot. I mean, this guy

510
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Speaker 1: hadn't been in a live pocket yet. Um. None of

511
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks have. And that component of it is significant,

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Speaker 1: UM in terms of their play, their ability to operate

513
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Speaker 1: and make decisions in the timely manner, the ability to

514
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Speaker 1: absorb the punishment it comes with the game in the position. Um,

515
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: it's so much involved in in live quarterback play, their

516
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Speaker 1: ability to protect the football, and so it's it's a

517
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Speaker 1: big opportunity for him and others. Mike, you guys last

518
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: year struggle at times against the run. I feel like

519
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Speaker 1: your front seven this year, you you know, you've addressed that.

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Speaker 1: And mean, obviously don't see a ton of fat and

521
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Speaker 1: practice anymore because of the rule, but you see them enough.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel good about that? Yeah, I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: about what transpired last year. I feel good about the

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Speaker 1: collection that we have and and what they've shown thus

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Speaker 1: far in that area. Certainly, Um, I expect us to

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Speaker 1: be dominant anyone else. Mike, where did you come up

527
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Speaker 1: with the idea? But the way you feed the guys,

528
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Speaker 1: you know your offends first defense. How did that come about?

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. It's the nicest

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Speaker 1: I mean, but have you done like a little incentive

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Speaker 1: things like that before, just to kind of thinking this

532
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Speaker 1: setting this important that we're you know, we're innovative and

533
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Speaker 1: open minded regarding creating a competitive environment. You came up

534
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Speaker 1: with that on your own, and you borrowed it from

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Speaker 1: something again, I don't know what you're talking about anyone else.

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Speaker 1: That was Mike Tomlin earlier today with the assembled media

537
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Speaker 1: talking about, well, so they get the upcoming game against

538
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks Saturday night at Ashire Stadium, and some

539
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: other things there the course, quarterbacks dominating the discussion as

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Speaker 1: they are. You're listening here to nine seventy ESP and

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Speaker 1: nine seventy and Steelers Nation Radio. This is the drive.

542
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally, He's Matt Williamson, Matt uh again. A

543
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: lot of talk about the quarterbacks and what he wants

544
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: to see in Mike Thomas says, Hey, look, we're gonna

545
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: open this first game the way we've done the entire

546
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Speaker 1: off season. That means Kenny Pickett is going to be third,

547
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph will be second. This he's gonna be first. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you know he said, but don't read too much

549
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Speaker 1: in the depth charts at this time of the season.

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Speaker 1: The only reason I do a depth chart is because

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00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: I have to put one out because the league mandates that. Yeah,

552
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: and behind the scenes they have their own I'm sure,

553
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Speaker 1: but I think it's more of a vague er you know,

554
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Speaker 1: this is my plan for him. It's a thing like

555
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: he moved on two to three. Yeah, it's a moving yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's constantly evolving things. You know, it's not

557
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Speaker 1: oh he's he's just moving three to two. It's official,

558
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: don't look it up. You know. You see a lot

559
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: of that in these kind of training camp settings where okay,

560
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Speaker 1: this in this day, this guy's works with the two

561
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: because they want to see if he can handle it. Yeah,

562
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Speaker 1: And being a coach, especially on a team like this,

563
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: is very fluid, you know, like things change all the time,

564
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Speaker 1: and there's guys been out of the lineup. Yeah, exactly.

565
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: You need to learn to you know, you're counting on oh,

566
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Speaker 1: we'll be healthy for this week their team game, and

567
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: then three guys you hurt week twelve. You know, like

568
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: it's just the way the league works. You have to

569
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: always be on your toes. You always have to have

570
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: backup plans. You always have to know, you know, can

571
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Speaker 1: these guys handle work with the group above them? Even

572
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Speaker 1: though I think he's a three, how does he handle

573
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Speaker 1: his time with the two's you know, in a game, situation, practice, mentally,

574
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: all those things. Otherwise you're ill prepared absolutely so. Mike

575
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Speaker 1: Tomlin getting his team prepared today for the final Well

576
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: they get to walk through tomorrow, but really the final

577
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Speaker 1: live practice today before they get into a stadium on

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Speaker 1: Saturday against the Seattle Seahawks. And these games mean the

579
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Speaker 1: games mean more than practices. Oh yeah, I mean I

580
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: always wonder, and I'm sure every coach is different. How

581
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: much you weigh you're coaching time, talking in the film room,

582
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: in the position room, verse the field verse, Maybe only

583
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Speaker 1: twenty plays on Saturday, you know, I mean per snap? Definitely,

584
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: it means more in a game. You know, there's a

585
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: lot of gamers out there, there's practice players out there,

586
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: and and that stuff is real. But it's hard to

587
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: put all those pieces of the puzzle together and get

588
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: the right answer of did just have a bad day

589
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: against Seattle because he was great in practice and did

590
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Speaker 1: everything I wanted? Or or when the lights come on,

591
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Speaker 1: can I not clown on him? You know, it's kind

592
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: of a big deal, A big big deal, A big deal. Um. Yeah,

593
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Speaker 1: So that's what we're looking forward to seeing on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: That was Mike Tomlins a press conference from earlier today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break, can you pick it? Over

596
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Speaker 1: to the aggressive autographs. There's quite a few young ones

597
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: over there trying to get those autographs and good for them. Ambitious, Yeah,

598
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: very ambitious. Uh, we're gonna take a break. He is

599
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Speaker 1: Matt Williams and I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN nine seventy.

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Speaker 1: We're live from St. Pencon College here in beautiful Late Robe, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Turn into right day. Yeah, Steelers. I finished up practice

603
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Speaker 1: about a half an hour ago. We get another another

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the show here, will take you up

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Speaker 1: to five o'clock here on the on the show, so

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with more right after this. He's the

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Speaker 1: Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your having

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dally here with Matt Williamson. We are alive from

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Speaker 1: Steelers train candor at Same Pencil College and beautiful rates

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Speaker 1: Roil Petspanians. He was just wrapping up their practice here

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Speaker 1: about a half an hour ago. And uh, still some

613
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Speaker 1: players out on the field getting spearing some work in here.

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Speaker 1: Matt's family, a lot of kids, vans still roaring along,

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Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, just going through some of the uh,

616
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Speaker 1: some of the stuff going on around the league. Here

617
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Speaker 1: a couple of nuggets out there. Yeah, Kirk Cousins sent

618
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Speaker 1: home from the Vikings practice, missed a walk through his

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Speaker 1: an illness. Um, if you remember, he was not vaccinated. Yeah,

620
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Speaker 1: I hadn't, I wouldn't have dawned on me. But okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a big deal. I mean I was

622
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: a big deal with Carson Wentz and you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: everyone has their own uh freedoms on this thing. But

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Speaker 1: it hurts your drop a little bit. Some of the

625
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Speaker 1: rules have changed on that now these Yeah, I think

626
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Speaker 1: it's a five day waiting period now as opposed to

627
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Speaker 1: the two weeks that you're um. Bears head coach Matt

628
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Speaker 1: Eberflis did not sound happy with Roquan Smith. Roquan Smith

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Speaker 1: has been cleared from the Physically unable to Perform list

630
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Speaker 1: and is healthy enough to practice, but he continues to

631
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Speaker 1: sit out as he seeks a trade from the team

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00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: work once a contract extension, and uh, well this is

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Speaker 1: a situation that you know, Matt Eiberflis has never had

634
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: to deal with before. Is the time head coach and

635
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Now your star inside linebacker has

636
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: decided he he doesn't want to be there anymore. He

637
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: wants a new contract, he said. Rokuan Smith came off

638
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: the pop. He was cleared by our medical staff as healthy,

639
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: and he did not practice. And the reason why for

640
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: that is, well, you'll have to ask him. We expect

641
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: all of our healthy players to practice, and that was

642
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: his decision. And like I said, you'll have to ask him.

643
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: I have not talked to him about it, and so

644
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: I have no further comment on the situation. So the

645
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: Bears have a lot of issues. I mean, this is

646
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: a massive rebuild for them. They have ton the most

647
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: caps based of anyone league. After this, they kind of

648
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: have to weather the storm from one year before they

649
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: can two stuff back, before you can take one step forward.

650
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: But I think if you're eber Flus in this staff,

651
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: you looked at Roquan and thought, that's my Darius Leonard.

652
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: You know that that's my foundational piece of the defense,

653
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: my defensive leader. That's the guy we want to pay,

654
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: we want to extend, we want to build around. He

655
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: fits perfectly. And that's you can see both sides, you know,

656
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: like Roquan wants more money. And maybe this is of course,

657
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: as as we often see, this is a year left

658
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: his current deal, that it picked up his fifth year option. Yeah,

659
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, players don't have a lot of cards in

660
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: their hands to get new deals without sitting out. But

661
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: he also probably looks at it like make it did

662
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: in Miami, saying, this isn't real fun losing, not on purpose,

663
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: but this rebuild year. And my you know, I'm not

664
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: young anymore. Let me go anywhere else. And I see

665
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: both sides. Yeah, absolutely, And yeah, he kind of goes

666
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: to show you the difference in how Mike Tomlin handled

667
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: those situations, how some other coaches to handle those situations,

668
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: and and and the first time head coach going through

669
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: this for the first time, like this is unacceptable deferently,

670
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: and you know right right he's she's gotta be out

671
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: here practicing. And they talked about while you're gonna find him,

672
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: he that's up to the front office, Like that's all

673
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: that's a possibility, you could find the guy. But what

674
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: does that does that does that then poison the well

675
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: on any future negotiations. I mean, it's obviously different than

676
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: Baker and DeShawn Watson and all that. But if you

677
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: burn the bridge with your current player bridges burnt, you know,

678
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: like you don't come back to be like, well, let's

679
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: be friends ze and like that rarely happened. Coach. You'll

680
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: find me thirty grand over the last. And then the

681
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: Bears all of a sudden in a position where well,

682
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: one of the maybe we get a pick for ro

683
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: Quana and they would they get the substantial, you know,

684
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: return for him. He's a very good player. But now

685
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: we opened a new need and where do we just

686
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: when we thought we had three blocks of the foundation

687
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: built to build this house on, now we got one.

688
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: Or you know, he's like, uh, it's hard to dig

689
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: out of the doll drums. Uh. News out of Cleveland,

690
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland dot Com reports that the

691
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: Browns will consider trading for quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo if the

692
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: ruling by Peter Harvey results in a significantly longer suspension

693
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. That's not earth shattering news. There was

694
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: actually landing spot at this point too. Do you think

695
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: I mean Seattle's they're not going to trade as a

696
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: trade unless Seattles came back. Tom said, look, we'll give

697
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: you a three in Cleveland's offering a five or something

698
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: like that. They beat the offer and it's significantly better.

699
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: You say, Okay, well, gilld be Jimmy Garoppolo. That doesn't

700
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: you know he's not Bred Farver. You're not you're not trading. Uh,

701
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: you know Tom Brady and his prime to it team

702
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: in your division. I think he ends up in Cleveland.

703
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,439
Speaker 1: And I've thought this for a while. Um, we've talked

704
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: to us to no end. But assuming Watson gets a

705
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: big bump up, you know, in suspension, it's kind of

706
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: your only option if you're the Browns, unless you want

707
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: to just hunt for the season, and I don't think

708
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: they're in a great spot to do that. So more

709
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: ramifications of a highly risky decision at the quarterback position, which, hey,

710
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: it could pay off three years from now. He might

711
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: be the best team in the league and he's winning

712
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: m VPS. I mean, he's a very good football player.

713
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: But right now it's a mess. The problem is they

714
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: don't have a first round draft pick next year, right

715
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: They don't have a third round draft pick next year.

716
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: They might have a second the following year either. Yeah,

717
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: they do have a second next year. They don't have

718
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: the Vikings on their fourth round pick. They have one

719
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: of their fourth round picks. They have one fourth round pick,

720
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: they traded another one to the Vikings. Uh, they have

721
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: two two picks in the fifth round, one of the sixth,

722
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: one of the seventh next year, UM and caps is

723
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: an issue, and yeah, you know they don't you really

724
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: want to give away another draft pick to go get

725
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garral I mean, I'm guessing it's a five something

726
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 1: like that. But let's let's say, you know, the say

727
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: we've we've got Jimmy under our salary cap right now.

728
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: We don't have to trade him. He's not even a

729
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: practice though, or he's well that's the other part of

730
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 1: the part of the equation right now is that they've

731
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: they've made it clear they can afford to wait till

732
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: they've got ten weeks. That's why they're not planning on

733
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: playing him. No, no, no, you know so, but if

734
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: the last resort as they caught him, I mean, I

735
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: think you can you can hold on because you've got

736
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: him under the cap. Let's say you hold on to

737
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: him in a week two, somebody loses a starter all

738
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden or tonight somebody loses, Now somebody gives

739
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: you instead of that fifth round pick we're gonna give you,

740
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,479
Speaker 1: We'll give you a third for Jimmy, you know something

741
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: like that. You just brought Kirk Cousins. I mean, he

742
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: left the team because of illness. But if it's Minnesota

743
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: lost Kirk Cousins that they're calling the forty niners, yeah, yeah,

744
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: Or if somebody gets hurt tonight tomorrow then next day, right,

745
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: and I think of Minnesota because that's exactly what happened

746
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: with Bridgewater. He had this horrific knee injury in camp

747
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: and it just so happens. The Eagles traded up for

748
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: Wentz that year, but they had Bradford under contract, similar

749
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: and they got a first round pick out of practice

750
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: because they were there was a desperation factually, guy out there.

751
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: So if if you're if you're San Francisco right now,

752
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: you're waiting. You don't have to do. You get a

753
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: month before you play a game. So you're gonna wait,

754
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: and you're not using that cap space to go sign

755
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: anyone or anyway, right, all right, right, yeah, because not

756
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: like free instancy is about to hit and we're gonna

757
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: sign a Garden a center, and you know, yeah, because

758
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: trade lance is cheap, because free lance cheap, so you're

759
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: you can afford to sit and wait till the last

760
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: minute on that. That's why they waited this long. If

761
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: you're the Browns, you wanted to get something like it's

762
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: done yesterday or immediately when you find out about the Shawn.

763
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: You don't want to wait. If it's only six games,

764
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you make any moves. If it's twelve

765
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: or more, I think you almost have to. But when

766
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy gonna be ready, you know, that's a that's the

767
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: thing thing. And so if if you're the forty Niners,

768
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, you're you're offering us a fifth right now.

769
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: We're not interested in that. Right now, we're not gonna move.

770
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: I might call you back in a week. Yeah, wait

771
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,479
Speaker 1: a week. That's another week of practice kicks off. The clock.

772
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: Doesn't do the Browns any good, and maybe another team

773
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 1: rises in the deal. Right now. The Niners have handled

774
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: as well, because their hand wasn't easy because the Jimmy's

775
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: injury patience. If it wasn't for the injury, he'd be

776
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: on another team long ago. Maybe it was a commander

777
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, before even the wentstree, you know. But they're

778
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: playing a long game here, yeah, and they're waiting it

779
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: out and they probably could have used that cap space

780
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: back when if they would have made a deal. But

781
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't healthy, you know, so you weren't gonna get

782
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: any for him, and they understand he has value. Like

783
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: in Sandos quarterback here's I think he was fourteenth or fifteen.

784
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: That seems a little rich to me, but not insane,

785
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: you know, Like I mean, if he's the best quarterback

786
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: out there that has value, you don't I mean, you

787
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: don't want to give those guys away. And in the meantime,

788
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: Cleveland gave away Baker, who's not far off of that.

789
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: I mean, like every move they're making, they're kind of

790
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: losing a little bit. You know, they're they're buying. They're

791
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: they're buying a dollar for two bucks every time, you

792
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean, right right, Yeah, that's just not

793
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: good business. Now, what do you make of the Tom

794
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: Brady situation in Tampa Bay. He's he's got an excused

795
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: absence through August. I didn't know anything about this. It

796
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: was absence for a personal issue. So August is over

797
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: a week away. That's a long long time to be

798
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: away from training camp. And I get it. He's Tom

799
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: Brady doesn't necessarily, you know, need to practice. That's the

800
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: biggest worker of everybody, right, He's the glue that holds

801
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: that whole thing together. And gonna have him for two

802
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: preseason games. And my immediate thought was he must have

803
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: something very serious going on in his life. Does he

804
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: have a child or did he have a planned vacation

805
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: that he couldn't well, this was nonrefundable vacation and going

806
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: to Miami. I was retired, right right, and I had

807
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: this plan. Sorry, you know, I got a wedding to

808
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: go to kick get out. All right, I'll take this

809
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: new job, but you know that that second week after

810
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: I may there, I'm gonna leave for a while. I

811
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: have no clue. UM doesn't seem like a Brady like move.

812
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I initially I thought he must

813
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: have something serious going on with his family. I hope not,

814
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: But I don't know that. Um, Wayne and Bryan Brown

815
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: got time by that. Yes, it makes perfect sense, tob

816
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: Bull said, only said that Brady was dealing with a

817
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: personal issue and asked if the as absence had anything

818
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: to do with the quarterback's health. Uh, and then their

819
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: general manager Todd leaked it doesn't adjacent leaked emphasize that

820
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: the absence was pre planned ticket it couldn't get up.

821
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: We gotta go to a pre plan for a week

822
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: though that doesn't happen. Yeah, I mean that's that's kind

823
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: of I bet we'll know more about tonight or tomorrow,

824
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: but at some point something to come out. You know,

825
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: those actually come up for the you know, they'll save

826
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: that for the news during the games. Like if it

827
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: was five years ago and Ben left here for a week,

828
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: we'd be like, what he's up. We'd be digging, we'd

829
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 1: be trying to uh yeah, personal wishes pretty vague. Yeah,

830
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: Dwayne Brown did the Jets. That doesn't surprise me. Um,

831
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: they leaves McKay Beckton, so not a bad fallback option there, No, No,

832
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: I mean he's uh Seattle for a long stretch to

833
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: Houston before that. I think he's a borderline Hall of

834
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: Fame type dude, you know, behind like the Jason Peters

835
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: of this generation, still played pretty well. Um, he didn't

836
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: want to a new offensive tackle situation with Wilson getting

837
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: his feet under him, obviously, in the second year, but

838
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: Beck then got moved the right tackle. I assumed fans, now,

839
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: we'll go back to right tackle. Yeah, because you're not

840
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna make You're not gonna make the veteran learn a

841
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: whole new position. I'm sure he would not have accepted

842
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: that at thirty eight years old or whatever played the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers did that when they signed Um Flozel Flozell Adams. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that fans done both. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I would assume that Dwayne Brown has been

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Speaker 1: a left tackle, yeah, forever since uh, you know the

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Speaker 1: game started. I think they were playing in the leather helmets, right.

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Speaker 1: But it's a good fallback plan for the Jets. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, that's uh. That Brady news is weird. That

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Speaker 1: is weird. Strange one. I just see James White retired. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really good career. Yeah, very unsung under the right and

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Speaker 1: if you remember him coming out of Wisconsin, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: a receiving back. They didn't throw the backs back then

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Speaker 1: on Wisconsin. Right, he kind of resented himself and became

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Speaker 1: a Brady Belichick favorite. You know, had some big moments

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Speaker 1: in postseason Super Bowls, so good for him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't mean it's to be rude, but like ten

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Speaker 1: years from not no one's to talk about James White White.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's not gonna go in the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but a valuable contributor to a lot of

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Speaker 1: good teams. And then then he came out today too

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Speaker 1: and said people have asked about Damien Harris, that they

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Speaker 1: would consider trading him, or some report about that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think Mondre Stevenson is a better player, but Harris

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Speaker 1: is a free agent at the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: and they drafted two backs. Yeah, so always interesting, and

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Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the movement that things that start

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Speaker 1: to happen around this time of year, and especially once

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Speaker 1: you get into the games and teams get to see

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Speaker 1: young players emerge. And that's what we'll be looking for

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Speaker 1: Saturday of the Steelers emerges. Um, last little nugget there.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Josh Jacobs, Kareem Hunt, Ronald Jones, Um,

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Speaker 1: maybe even a couple other backs are available if interested.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Steelers are in that market at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so either, because I think they're good there. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know where if you told me that a while

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Speaker 1: back out and said I'd be interested, but not now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. So we'll get to see all that come

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Speaker 1: to fruition, see what happens. Who steps forward Saturday night

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Speaker 1: at Akershort Stadium, be there, watch that game. Lots of

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on in downtown this this weekend.

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Speaker 1: There's concerts and things of that nature. I think Billy

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Speaker 1: Joel is playing tonight. I've heard that once or twice around. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: but that's gonna do it for our show today. So

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Speaker 1: for my partner Matt Williamson, for Zach back in studio,

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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, Jacob keeping us on the

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Speaker 1: air here in the sat In Vincent College, I am Dale, Lolly.

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