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

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

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. Matt Williamson west Shuler here with you for

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Speaker 2: the next two hours on this Monday. Matt more free agency,

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Speaker 2: moving and shaking over the weekend, Yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I think you're kind of like me. I enjoyed Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's Day weekend, but it's not like a written and

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Speaker 2: sharpie on the calendar. You didn't go to the parade

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Speaker 2: or anything downtown or anything.

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Speaker 3: My buddies did kegs and eggs and made it the

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Speaker 3: day and the parade and all that. That's not my bag.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I had a good weekend. But I like

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Speaker 3: avoiding St. Patti's oriented.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like avoiding crowds on those On those weekends,

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Speaker 2: we did take the girls out for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: On Saturday. There was a place by us that had

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Speaker 2: like some some live Irish dancing and the girls, you know,

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Speaker 2: the girls thought it was awesome.

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Speaker 4: They sat there like mesmerized for like a half an

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Speaker 4: hour just watch it. I was like, can you guys

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Speaker 4: come to our house and just babysit there dance around,

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Speaker 4: but plenty of moving and shaking this past weekend, Steelers

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Speaker 4: specific and around the NFL in the last you know,

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Speaker 4: two or three days since we've you know, two and

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Speaker 4: a half days or whatever it's been since we've been

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Speaker 4: on air.

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Speaker 2: So let's start with the latest on the Steelers. Yeah, Matt,

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Speaker 2: we had kind of speculated, all right, what's left? Where

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Speaker 2: could the Steelers continue to add in free agency? And

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Speaker 2: you know, I think particularly after the addition of Jakwan Brisker,

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Speaker 2: which we discussed on Friday, that picture started to get

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Speaker 2: a little bit more clear. It was like, all right, now,

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Speaker 2: maybe you're looking for some help on in the trenches

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Speaker 2: offensive line, defensive line, but other than that, feels like

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Speaker 2: you've checked a lot of the boxes that we've been

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Speaker 2: looking for. Well, Friday, a little after we went off

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Speaker 2: air in the evening, the news broke and it's now

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Speaker 2: beneficial was actually announced by the Steelers this afternoon, and

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Speaker 2: he spoke to the media. Free agent defensive lineman Sebastian

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Speaker 2: Joseph Day a two year, eleven million dollar deal with

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Speaker 2: the Steelers, a six of that up front this year,

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Speaker 2: most recently with the Tennessee Titans. What do we need

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Speaker 2: to know about Sebastian Joseph.

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Speaker 3: I think we need to know a lot about him.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was a good price. I think he's

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Speaker 3: a real good fit in the perfect world. I think

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Speaker 3: he's your third defensive tackle part of a rotation. If

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Speaker 3: you're just looking at two defensive tackles being on the field,

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Speaker 3: he's more knows than he is. And if we're just

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Speaker 3: gonna look at it through a three to four lege,

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Speaker 3: which I urge people not to, but he's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of length. I'm gonna get to that in a minute,

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Speaker 3: because that's kind of a theme here that I dug

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Speaker 3: up here a little bit. But they don't just line

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Speaker 3: him over the center in Tennessee. There's snaps where you'll

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Speaker 3: see him taking on tackles. You know, they move him

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Speaker 3: all around the line. He plays really hard. I mean,

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Speaker 3: so effort is definitely an advantage in hi high motor

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Speaker 3: guy for sure, better run stuffer than pass rusher. But

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Speaker 3: he's gonna give you more than the typical nose. So

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Speaker 3: I think he's a perfect fit. I mean, I think

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Speaker 3: it doesn't change you know what style, Well it does.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you know if you were to add another d

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Speaker 3: lineman in this draggy, I think you could pretty much

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Speaker 3: go any direction and still fit in. Similarly, if you

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Speaker 2: Similar to the wide receiver conversation a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you probably still like to see ad one, but you

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Speaker 2: can take from a lot of You can cast a

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Speaker 2: wide net in the time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can take your favorite guy as opposed you

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Speaker 3: have to get this type of player. So I apologize

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Speaker 3: I'm not super familiar with his work, but his name's

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Speaker 3: Tommy Jaggi, and he covers the Steelers to some degree,

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Speaker 3: and I retweeted it the other day just because I

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Speaker 3: think he discovered something I found really really interesting. Is

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Speaker 3: so Hayward, Harmon, Benton, Joseph Day, Black and Ottowaynwoe, all

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Speaker 3: of whom the between six three and six six. They

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Speaker 3: don't have any short stumpy guys. And the arm length

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Speaker 3: for all these dudes thirty four in a quarter for

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Speaker 3: Cam thirty four and three eighths for Harmon, thirty three

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Speaker 3: and seven eights for Benton, thirty four and a half

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Speaker 3: for Joseph Day, thirty five for Black, thirty four and

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Speaker 3: a half for Eduwaynwoe. I don't think they want the

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Speaker 2: His arms might be too short.

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna want tall, big, disruptive dudes, and

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Speaker 3: we've kind of you know, Benton's been a little miscast

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Speaker 3: as a nose. Okay, well this guy's going to take

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Speaker 3: some of that. I think Black could kick over. But

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Speaker 3: they're all gonna be They're all long, they're all tall.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're up to six six six three to

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Speaker 2: six six range, Yeah, all with long arms.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And yes, it's a new staff. And you know

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Speaker 3: Cam Hayward and care if he's five to six. I

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Speaker 3: mean they keep him around, right, But the front office

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Speaker 3: is the same. I mean, Andy Whitel came over from Philly.

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Speaker 3: They do the exact same thing with all their big people,

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Speaker 3: length and big. Good. Again, they've got to type absolutely,

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Speaker 3: you know, it'll be this tall to ride to the thunderbolt.

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Speaker 2: So more and more.

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Speaker 3: When when he laid that out with that tweet, I

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Speaker 3: kept thinking like, if they do add another, it might

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Speaker 3: just be another one that looks the same. And whoever's

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Speaker 3: playing nose is playing nose, and whoever's playing end's playing

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Speaker 3: an end. And more often than not, you're in a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that might as you kind of start to

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Speaker 2: read the tea leaves, that would make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, you can play more big nickel too. If

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have three safeties on the field, you might

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Speaker 3: not have a nose period, you know.

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Speaker 2: And you you, I mean you just touched on it there.

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Speaker 2: How we need to kind of recondition our brains to

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Speaker 2: make always be three four four to three. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: do a little bit of that with the safeties as

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Speaker 2: well too, when we know exactly how that position group

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Speaker 2: shakes out. But that makes a lot of sense, I

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Speaker 2: think when you consider what we know about Patrick Graham,

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Speaker 2: which at times can be hard to pinpoint because he's

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Speaker 2: been such an amba. He's the opposite of static. He's

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Speaker 2: tough to write a book on, which is part of

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Speaker 2: the beauty of him. Absolutely, I don't mean that. I

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Speaker 2: don't mean that in a bad way. In fact, I

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Speaker 2: think that's mostly a good thing.

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Speaker 3: One of greatest strengths.

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Speaker 2: Especially when you have a defensive front, and I think

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Speaker 2: We've seen this recently with a lot of the best

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Speaker 2: Bowl champions in Seattle and Philadelphia. It's almost that positionless

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Speaker 2: basketball thing that we reference. When you've got the guys

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Speaker 2: on the defensive line that are all a certain body type,

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Speaker 2: all a certain size, the way you can move them around,

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Speaker 2: the way you can substitute, the way you can keep

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Speaker 2: the guys fresh, get after quarterbacks. What that allows you

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Speaker 3: They're also the best team in the league year after

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Speaker 3: year at batting down passes. I'm sure the height and

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Speaker 3: length has something to do with that.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question, great call, so you can start

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Speaker 2: to see the vision coming together.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I think it makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 3: So as you were talking, I was also thinking, well,

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Speaker 3: of course there's going to be injuries, of course, but

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Speaker 3: these guys are a little more interchangeable. It's not like

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Speaker 3: we only have one nose on the on the team

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Speaker 3: and if he gets hurt then we can't stop the

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Speaker 3: run for you know, you would hope that with all

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Speaker 3: these more interchangeable body types, and then the other thing

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Speaker 3: that the old staff didn't do, and it worked for

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Speaker 3: the most part. And really they've been at the further

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Speaker 3: I want to say bottom that implies it's bad. But

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Speaker 3: we know that their defensive line, Wat's the most obvious.

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Speaker 3: But they always align in the same spots. Cam doesn't

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Speaker 3: go against right tackles very often, Watt doesn't go against

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Speaker 3: for Benton and high Smith and all those guys too.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just thinking, with these guys, you know, just

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Speaker 3: the true d lineman, you should be able to put

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Speaker 3: them mix a match from wherever you want, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean? Yeah, okay, your noses play.

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Speaker 2: You're guards and two tackles, and that makes you much

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Speaker 2: more difficult to game plan for obviously, yeah right right

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Speaker 3: As great as Cam is, he lines up in the

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Speaker 3: same spot basically every time, you know, to some degree,

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Speaker 3: I mean to shade here and there or whatever. What

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Speaker 3: you know. I know a lot of people talk about

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Speaker 3: what as what's great. We know this, but like PFF

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Speaker 2: Often gets double the most and all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and chipping is more I hit you on the

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Speaker 2: And just hold them up for an extra half set

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean on the way out to your route

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Speaker 3: what is by far the most chipped player in the league.

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Speaker 3: I just means most doubled me. He's the most ship

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Speaker 3: And there's two reasons for it. Number one is he's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Because yes, pass rusher, so if it's generator.

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Speaker 3: Right, but he's not the only great pass rusher out

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Speaker 3: there for him to be chipped at such a high level.

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Speaker 3: The other reason is because they always know where he's at,

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Speaker 3: you know, like if I always we've seen the gauntlet

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Speaker 3: that guy runs through, and maybe he doesn't have any

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Speaker 3: interest in moving, but the fact that he's always in

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Speaker 3: the same place, I know I can at least chip him,

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Speaker 3: you know, even if he takes an inside move or whatever.

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Speaker 2: You know, you'd be able to contest Steph Curry's three

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Speaker 3: If he was only guy who on the corners or whatever. Yeah, right, right,

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Speaker 3: Like if he gets in the corner, it's coming out. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: At least getting the corner right makes a ton of sense,

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Speaker 2: and you get more versatile, you get less right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he scored a million goals doing it. But

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Speaker 3: what if he was more diverse or whatever?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh so Sebastian Joseph Day eight.

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Speaker 3: I like it a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were texting about it a little bit Friday night. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you seemed excited. Eight seasons in the NFL so far,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and five games, three hundred and fifteen tackles,

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Speaker 2: thirty TFLs, fifteen and a half sacks, six passes defense,

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Speaker 2: originally a sixth round draft pick of the La Rams

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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: I didn't look up his swats, but it sounds like

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Speaker 3: he does get his hands on the ball a fair amount.

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Speaker 3: Six pass defenses, and he's gonna be on the field

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Speaker 5: The NFL Draft is finally here, and while you might

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Speaker 2: Back on the drive here as this Monday rolls along.

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Speaker 2: Goodness, is he a couple other notables I guess Trey Lance,

436
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 2: you know, agreed to a deal to return to the Chargers,

437
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 2: like Ridley's going back with He's going back to the Titans's.

438
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 3: Going back to the Eagle, God back.

439
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,920
Speaker 2: To the Eagles, Mooney signing with the Giants.

440
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,360
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, But people, it's almost getting the point

441
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,720
Speaker 3: when we said got flooded with information. Obviously, Yes, it's

442
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:15,119
Speaker 3: getting pretty close to draft season when these teams are

443
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 3: going to start to start locking the doors going in

444
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 3: the war room and you don't hear a peep out

445
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 3: of them for a while here. You know, it's an

446
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 3: underrated soon not quite, maybe it's starting next week. At

447
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 3: this time, there's an underrated stretch of content. It's difficult

448
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,880
Speaker 3: to come up with. Yes, you know, after getting crushed

449
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,479
Speaker 3: in free agency, and we can even we'll go recap

450
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 3: free agency across the league and things too. But all

451
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 3: of a sudden, when the teams hover in there and

452
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 3: they start building their boards and that's coming real soon,

453
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 3: there's not as much action. There is not.

454
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Speaker 2: And I don't want to say that the NFL is

455
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 2: going to go quiet here for the next month or

456
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 2: so because that's the wrong way to put it. But

457
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: it certainly won't be as loud as it's been the

458
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: last few weeks. In the last few months when.

459
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Speaker 3: The people hate myself to do this for a living,

460
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 3: just dig into draft heavy and get flooded with mock

461
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 3: drafts obviously, and you know, way saturated.

462
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 2: But you know, also, did you see the part of

463
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 2: me was kind of about the chuckle as I said it.

464
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 2: But I do think significant is a fair word to use.

465
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 2: The significant Steelers special teams news.

466
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Speaker 3: I know Weightman is gone.

467
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 2: Corliss Weightman. According to Tom Pellisero signing a deal with

468
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 2: the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

469
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Speaker 3: Okay, so I should know this off the top of

470
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Speaker 3: my head, but there was several restricted free agents that

471
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 3: the Steelers did not tender, including McCollum, the center, and

472
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 3: Weightman because I think we both assumed when they signed

473
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 3: Johnston they were just going to run it back and

474
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Speaker 3: have another punter battle. Well, they could have got Weightman back,

475
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Speaker 3: I'm sure, but he was not under contract when that happened.

476
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Speaker 3: Because it's kind of just a slowly it doesn't come

477
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 3: out huge news. It's not as big as some of

478
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Speaker 3: these guys, you know, So like a McCollum might not

479
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 3: be the back cup center. They may be the market

480
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 3: for a guard slash set that.

481
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Speaker 2: One surprise you a little.

482
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Speaker 3: Maybe this is what he is, you know. The fact

483
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 3: that he's center only doesn't help him. Like hausen Howerd

484
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,479
Speaker 3: was that way too, Like only one guy can get

485
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: hurt for me to help, and that's that's hard on.

486
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Speaker 2: Ideally, you want like a Nate Herbig. Yeah, you could

487
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: play guard center guard.

488
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Speaker 3: You know Dale and I you uould call it the

489
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 3: better version of b J. Finny. Yeah, and Finny was fine,

490
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Speaker 3: But if he's your fourth you know, he replaces three

491
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 3: different positions on the inside. He can't play tackle at all.

492
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 3: And if you're like a little bit better version than that, yeah,

493
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 3: better version of b J. Finny Cool.

494
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Speaker 2: It's like the super utility baseball player that can probably

495
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 2: stop and second base and right field.

496
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Speaker 3: And but think about McCollum. I mean, only one guy

497
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 3: can get hurt on game day. For him to get

498
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,199
Speaker 3: in there makes a lot of sense. And I mean

499
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 3: unless disaster happens and he has to play guard, of course,

500
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 3: but then he just doesn't help you. And you have

501
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 3: to have him active because no one else can snap

502
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 3: if would get hurt and you'd lose, for sure.

503
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: You got to at least have somebody that you trust

504
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 2: to snap the football right and be able to do

505
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 2: the to the center Q exchange with your quarterback. Yeah.

506
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 2: I think that that's I mean, I think that's most

507
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: of the significant kind of news over the weekend. Nick

508
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: Bosa's contract got restructured.

509
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 3: I think we should keep an eye out though that

510
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 3: might be draft, but I bet and it won't be

511
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 3: if they signed like Botonio or Teller or Zeitler or

512
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 3: one of those guys I still think could be in

513
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 3: the mix. But if they add another interior offensive lineman

514
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 3: between now in training camp, Okay, I bet he can snap,

515
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 3: you know, like you won't be center only there's no

516
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 3: chance of that that that makes no sense on this team.

517
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 3: But I bet he can snap. Yes, yeah, yeah, And.

518
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: That's again that would that would make a lot of

519
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 2: sense off the moves that we've just seen. And yeah,

520
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 2: because you need somebody that you trust behind Zach Fraser

521
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: for if he gets hurt.

522
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need something to playing Zach Fraser all through

523
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 3: the preseason either you know, right, somebody's going to be

524
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Speaker 3: my center.

525
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, So that'll be that'll be something to keep

526
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 2: an eye on as we as we roll forward here

527
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 2: and maybe even potentially with the draft and who they

528
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: add on the offensive line. There something to keep an

529
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: eye on, particularly on the interior of that Steelers offensive

530
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 2: line as we move forward. Matt, I guess kind of

531
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 2: last notable of today, formerly of this parish, albeit only

532
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: for a very brief time, Darius Slay announcing his retirement.

533
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Speaker 3: Oh I didn't catch that, but that one hundred percent

534
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 3: adds up. Frankly, his style of play the last year

535
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 3: or so looked like he was.

536
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: Not in it.

537
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 3: But I mean he made some business decisions and yeah,

538
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 3: end up going to Buffalo and never really never did

539
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: reports or whatever. So yeah, good for him. He had

540
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 3: a really good.

541
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 2: Career thirteen seasons. Yeah, that's incredible for a Super Bowl champion.

542
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: Was an All Pro first team All Pro in twenty seventeen,

543
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 2: six time Pro Bowlers, a six time Pro Bowler, twenty

544
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 2: eight interceptions in his career. Wow for the second round

545
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,719
Speaker 2: pick out of Mississippi State in twenty thirteen.

546
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 3: He had some great years with the Lions.

547
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 2: He had some great, great years with the Lions and

548
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: then some you know, some really good ones in Philadelphia.

549
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 2: The other two kind of at the at the front

550
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: end of his time with the Eagles. So yeah, all

551
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 2: the best of him in his next next chapter to life.

552
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 2: Wasn't the you know, wasn't the.

553
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 3: Uh great experiment.

554
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: It impactful, Yeah, it wasn't the most impactful. And signing

555
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: for the Steelers.

556
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 3: Warn people, you know, like you look at it this

557
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 3: time of year, like, well, they got that position field,

558
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 3: they got that position field. It's not that easy, folks.

559
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: It can change very quickly.

560
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 3: But in a way it also opened a door for

561
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 3: Pierre later in the season and Samuel and you know,

562
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 3: the fact that they moved on from him. I give

563
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 3: the front office a lot a lot of front offices

564
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 3: would have been like, this is who we have. We're

565
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 3: not moving on from paid him.

566
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: We paid him a nice yeah, nice nice.

567
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 3: Right, you know we didn't. We don't make mistakes. You know,

568
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 3: we're not gonna you know, go back on that. But

569
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 3: they moved on quick.

570
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: It's awesome. That's a I mean, great career for a

571
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 2: great career for him. Like, hey, you play in the

572
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 2: NFL til you're thirty four. You're doing you're doing, You're

573
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 2: doing all right. Yeah and uh and yeah, hopefully all

574
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: the best for him in his next stage of life here.

575
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 2: Speaking of you know, people that are defensive backs in

576
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 2: the secondary, Jakwan Brisker spoke earlier today. We'll hear a

577
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: little bit from him also, you know, just some some

578
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: new comments from the newest Steelers Sebastian Joseph Day as well.

579
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: But to just kind of put a bow on all this,

580
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: Matt when we return, I do want to do a

581
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 2: who's still available out there, and yeah, continue to keep

582
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 2: tabs on that and then you know, through the lens

583
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: of two, through the lens of would you be interested

584
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: in any of these guys as a bargain for the Steelers.

585
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 2: So we'll do that. To close down the first hour

586
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 2: of the show, we'll have tweets. An hour number two,

587
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 2: we'll hear from some of the newest Steelers. Still plenty

588
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Speaker 2: of teas to cross and eyes to dot on the

589
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 2: day's proceedings. West Jeeler, Matt Williamson. It is the Drive

590
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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

591
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Speaker 3: What's up, NFL fans.

592
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Speaker 5: The NFL Draft is finally here, and while you might

593
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Speaker 5: not know who your team is drafting this year, you

594
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595
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596
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Speaker 5: I guess that's why it's been the group's go to

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Speaker 5: draft beer season after season. Be sure to order around

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Speaker 1: Tuns About Drive on your twenty four to seven home

602
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Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: The final segment of the first hour here on the

604
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Speaker 2: Drive on this Monday, as we are keeping tabs on

605
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Speaker 2: all the moving and shaking across the NFL, of course,

606
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Speaker 2: with your Pittsburgh Steelers if you missed it, at the

607
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Speaker 2: top of the show, two Steelers officially introduced as a signed, sealed,

608
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Speaker 2: delivered members of the Black and Gold. Yeah, this afternoon

609
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Speaker 2: Jawon Brisker the safety of course most recently with the

610
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: Bears of this of a native of western Pennsylvania here.

611
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 3: And he grew up around here.

612
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was actually we'll hear from him an hour

613
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: number two, but he was saying how Joey Porter Jr.

614
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: Was recruiting him heavily because they've been they've been buddies

615
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: for a long time. And he said he was super

616
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 2: excited to call his mom as soon as the deal,

617
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: you know, was finalized and tell her, you know, I'm

618
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: signing with the Steelers and everything. So very cool. Uh,

619
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: And we'll get to get to more of that an

620
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: hour number two as we kind of continue are just

621
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 2: keeping tabs on free agency and all the latest moving

622
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: and shaking part of me across the National Football League.

623
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: I had one of those peanut butter filled pretzels the

624
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: break room. But you know, sometimes you get the just

625
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 2: the little pizza. The piece of the pretzel sticks in

626
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: the back of your neck while you're trying to do

627
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: an intro of a radio show. Oh no, rough timing, Matt.

628
00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: Still a lot of notable names, both just for what

629
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 2: they've done in the NFL and some for Steelers familiarity

630
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 2: or Steelers purposes. So let's go over some of these lists.

631
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: I've got ESPNS to throw one.

632
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 3: One thing out about Omar Khan that I think he's

633
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: really really good at is I think he's got a

634
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 3: real and he's not alone that acts like he's the

635
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 3: only one in the front office, you know. But I

636
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: think he's got a very good feel of timing in

637
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 3: terms by position, you know. Like for example, I don't

638
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 3: know if they'll sign a veteran guard or not, but

639
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: there's still a lot of them out there, and their

640
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 3: price is only going down. Safety Like there's a couple

641
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 3: that were pretty big names that went quick, but there

642
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 3: was a lot of them out there and the price

643
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 3: went down. And you wait a day or two and

644
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: you show some patients and you get in those waters.

645
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: Then you go get Pittman immediately. You go get Dean immediately,

646
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 3: like and there's there's an art to timing up free

647
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 3: agency totally for sure, and a lot of it's just

648
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 3: knowing where the waters are deepest and where there's the

649
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: most fish, and you know what the market's going to be.

650
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: And I'm not suggesting Omar is not a good football guy,

651
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 3: but never forget he had a lot of dealings with

652
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: agents and a lot of dealings with money and cap

653
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 3: and those type of things. And you know how these

654
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: things work, you know, the thirty three year old guard

655
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: I can wait ten days in free agency or whatever.

656
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: You know, that's part of the art of this whole thing.

657
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's more than just identifying good players, you know, entirely.

658
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: It absolutely is. And the timing, the cost, all these

659
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 2: things play play a huge factor. And you're right, I

660
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: think that's Omar has you know, has that kind of

661
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 2: that beat down.

662
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've noticed it for several off seasons in

663
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 3: a row now, So it's not like I locked into

664
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:50,719
Speaker 3: one this year. Right.

665
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: It's knowing when and where to spend your money, knowing

666
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: when and where to use your assets.

667
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: Yes, it's better jump on this now because it's not

668
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 3: going to be there later, exactly, right.

669
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: I think a lot of times. You know, I've discussed

670
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: this before. People look at general managers and they think

671
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 2: it's just a talent evaluation.

672
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 3: Job, like there's in a dark room watching.

673
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: And talking to their scouts, and that is that is

674
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: how some do. And they some of them leave this

675
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: type of stuff to, you know, to their assistance and

676
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: things like that. But this is an area where Omar

677
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: really excels. Has a ton of experience and as you.

678
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 3: Mentioned, came up as a scout. Yeah right, Omar came

679
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 3: as a cap guy. Yeah right. It's different paths, yep.

680
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: And there's different strengths and weaknesses. And I don't even

681
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: know if like strengths and weaknesses, but just approaches approaches.

682
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 2: That's the right way to put it.

683
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 3: And I've said it a million times. And my interpretation

684
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 3: of how the Steelers front office works is Omar manages generally.

685
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 3: He's a general manager title. Yeah, yeah, he manages. He's oversees,

686
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 3: you know, things like travel and things like that too.

687
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 3: He pays attention to it's not but he manages generally

688
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: and that's great. It's working out well so far.

689
00:32:58,400 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 4: We are.

690
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: We are liking what he has put together for this

691
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: for this edition of the Steelers without a doubt. So

692
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 2: who are some of the best players some of the

693
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: big names still available out there. Matt I pulled up

694
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: both ESPN and NFL dot COM's list, and as you

695
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: can imagine, they're pretty similar. There's maybe you know, one

696
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 2: or two names different on each of them.

697
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: There's a couple names like Walker, the left tackle from

698
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 3: the Packers, he went to the Panthers and last day

699
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 3: or two guys have been on the top of these

700
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: lists a couple days ago, yes, so they're always changing.

701
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 2: One guy, though, who's been on the top of this list,

702
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 2: probably since Thursday or Friday and still is is Juwan Jennings,

703
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: the wide receiver formerly of the Niners.

704
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 3: And that one surprises me.

705
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: You think it's just he's just too much, I assume.

706
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 3: I mean, what he does isn't special, but it's reliable

707
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 3: and it's professional and it's a chain mover, and he's

708
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: really a three that probably thinks he's a two because

709
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 3: over the last two years or so, when he's been

710
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: giving the opportunity, he kind of produces like that. I

711
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 3: also think people were like, yeah, Shanny schemed you up

712
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: a little bit too. Yeah, And it's a really good

713
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 3: wide receiver draft. At this point, I could probably get

714
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 3: some of the third round that I like as much.

715
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 3: You know, or there's or there's an injury we don't

716
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: know about to that certainly could happen to all these

717
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 3: guys to wait for this need to heal and then

718
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 3: we'll get it done.

719
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Wyatt teller On on both of these lists.

720
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: Still he interested me too. I mean again, both these

721
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: Browns guards we brought up several times. They've had good careers,

722
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 3: but they're late in life by NFL years. And it

723
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 3: also was not the best environment in Cleveland last year.

724
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 2: No, No, it was not. No, it was not Joel Botonio. Yeah,

725
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: same one is older, but he's the left guard, but

726
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 2: he's the left where Teler has been. Has he been

727
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: exclusively right throughout his career or cha his last handful

728
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: of years in Cleveland.

729
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 3: Definitely his last handful of years. He's had a weird

730
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 3: career because the Bills drafted him in like the fifth round,

731
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 3: and I think they cut him like really early, Like

732
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 3: he never even made the final roster, which is really

733
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 3: weird for like a fifth round pick. So he didn't

734
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 3: make final I think that's how it happened.

735
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 2: It is his first Uh. He played eight games with

736
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 2: the Bills. Okay, he played eight games with the Bills,

737
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: so they cut him during his rookie I believe. So

738
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 2: he played weird. He played left side with Buffalo, but

739
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 2: since he got the Cleveland in twenty nineteen, he has

740
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 2: been right only. Yes, okay, it looks like. It looks

741
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: like in twenty twenty three, in a pinch, he bumped

742
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 2: to the left side temporarily for the Browns, okay, but

743
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: almost exclusively been their right Now ninety percent of his

744
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: snaps have been at right guard.

745
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: And I don't know if it be you know, interested

746
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 3: to go to the other side or not.

747
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 2: And he was once a back to back all pro.

748
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 2: Now that was in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.

749
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 3: He was one of the best guards when he was

750
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 3: for a time Pier. So they they had probably the

751
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 3: best pair of going best pair going for wild and yeah,

752
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 3: I mean they were really really good. The difference in them, too,

753
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: is Potonio's left teller's right Buttonio I think is three

754
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: years older.

755
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 2: He's older.

756
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like thirty four ish and he's at least

757
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: so his career teller is more the masher, you know,

758
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 3: wider body guy. But Tonio was a tackle in college.

759
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 3: Bumped the guard, who's better and protected and pass play? Yeah,

760
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 3: better technique guy.

761
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: Makes sense.

762
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 3: Either would be useful here though.

763
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, Buttonio is thirty four, Tellers thirty one.

764
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: Okay.

765
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: A name that is now popping up on all these

766
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: lists is Taylor Decker.

767
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, recently released, not for Steelers purposes. I don't think.

768
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think, but he's thirty two.

769
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 3: I mean, let's start for somebody he's gonna Yeah, that's such.

770
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 2: A position of need around the Nfah. Yeah, even if

771
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: he's lost a half step, he has, and he certainly has.

772
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 3: He was a tenth best left tackle. Now if he's

773
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: a twentieth, he's still gonna be a starter somewhere.

774
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a full term guy. He's an interesting one

775
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: to me. Matt continuing to be on these lists, and

776
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: he's a different kind of evow because we know there's

777
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: some legal stuff hanging over his head. But Stefan Diggs

778
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: is towards the top. Yeah, I would think these lists,

779
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 2: he's got to wait. I would think so too.

780
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 3: Him and Tyreek are both probably gonna have to wait.

781
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: Probably gonna have to wait, and they'll if they're able

782
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: to uh to clear their names and clear their situations,

783
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,240
Speaker 2: they'll have some some some offers. I think, especially Diggs

784
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: because he did have a good year last year.

785
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: Oh he was better than I expected.

786
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: He as he had been since some of those years

787
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 2: with Josh Allen. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think I

788
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: think you're that's a good call by you with UH

789
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 2: with with Tyreek and that conversation as well, Joey Bosa

790
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: on this list and a lot of places he's some

791
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: the injury stuff with him, though.

792
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,959
Speaker 3: It's always every year. Those those old men designated pass

793
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 3: rusher types last forever. Though it's true they turned into

794
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 3: mercenaries to Clowney's and those type of dudes that they

795
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: bounce around the league, and they will always be a

796
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 3: market for them. I counes see him ended up in

797
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 3: San Francisco as his brother.

798
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: You think that would make a lot of sense. Yeah, Yeah,

799
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 2: he's gotta he's got to check the boxes from a

800
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 2: health perspective. But yeah, he'll he'll he'll still find a home.

801
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 3: So yeah, he'll end up with six or seven sacks

802
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 3: or something.

803
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 2: It's part time guy six seven. Sorry, I had to

804
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Speaking of which, though on this

805
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: list at number six and seven or two quarterbacks Aaron

806
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 2: Rodgers and Kirk Cousins.

807
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 3: Ed Rodgers won't talk about, but I guess Cousins is

808
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 3: kind of a lot of teams fallback plan maybe or

809
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: he's hoping.

810
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: Or speaking of fallback plans. We haven't had this conversation yet,

811
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 2: Maybe we should. Now, what if Aaron Rodgers in the

812
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: next week or two or whatever, three yeah, picks up

813
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 2: the phone and says, I'm staying in California. My career

814
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 2: is over. I appreciated the last year. Thank you for

815
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 2: giving me this time to make a decision. But I've

816
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 2: decided that my football playing days are over.

817
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 3: Kyler's off the table. I mean, the league's not gonna

818
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: wait for you.

819
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: The league certainly is not gonna wait for you. I mean,

820
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: everyone except for Kirk Cousins is basically off the table,

821
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 2: except for the mac Jones trade candidate types. But in

822
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 2: terms of true free agent so.

823
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 3: I would there's two guys I would lump together, and

824
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 3: neither's super inspiring. But they've had good careers and it's

825
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: a lot more of the same of what the Steelers

826
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: have gone through year after year round here. But I

827
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: would say Cousins in Car. I do think you can

828
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:07,959
Speaker 3: get there at Car.

829
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: For Oh, he's a name I keep forgetting about.

830
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's not on the free agent list, because

831
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 3: he's a Saint. But he's not going to play for

832
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: the Saints. He's not a bad player last you saw him.

833
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 3: He's not the answer. I would probably roll the dice

834
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 3: with Car over Cousins. But Cousins played better for Atlanta

835
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 3: than you thought. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't so bad again

836
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 3: neither ones. Wow great, I mean it's it would be

837
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 3: disheartening to some degree, but I think you could win

838
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 3: a lot of games with those guys too. The way

839
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: the ro Offster was constructed, or you could say Will

840
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:47,240
Speaker 3: Howard Sacred Swim, I think that's a little too far fetched.

841
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 3: After not ever seeing any preseason tape.

842
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 2: On it, I think it's too far fetched. If you're

843
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 2: the godfather around.

844
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 3: You, yeah yeah, yeah, you and I.

845
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 2: I think they like it a lot. We both grew

846
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: up here. We've both been around, whether it's been work

847
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: or just fandom. Yeah yeah, we've both been around this

848
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 2: organization for decades. It's not how they operate.

849
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 3: No, like a totally unproven guy with no track record.

850
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 3: It's not a first round pick.

851
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 2: You know, if we were ranking all the different potential

852
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 2: outcomes for Steelers quarterback on a big board, Aaron Rodgers returns,

853
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: they go with someone like Kirk Cousins, they draft the

854
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 2: Tie Simpson. All these different outcomes like Will Howard's starting

855
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 2: Week one in September would probably be the furthest down

856
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: on the list to me, by design, because that's not

857
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 2: how the Steelers operate.

858
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, Not because I think.

859
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 2: He stinks or anything like that. Don't mean tweet me, okay.

860
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 3: Right, Like just throw him in the mix. You're our starters.

861
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 3: He all goes.

862
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: It's not how the Steelers roll.

863
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 3: This isn't Quinn you Weres type of situation. Yeah, I

864
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 3: just don't see it either. And I guess back Jones, I.

865
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 2: Mean, does he belong in this conversation as a potential

866
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 2: Week one starter. I feel like he has to at

867
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 2: this point.

868
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 3: If it comes down to Rootolpher or Howard, I think

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Speaker 3: I'd rather play Howard just because of what could be.

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Speaker 2: I would too, but I don't know if they would.

871
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 2: I don't know if they would.

872
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 3: I mean Does that get you back in like the

873
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 3: nuts category two or something like that.

874
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 2: Are you going to start him week one?

875
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 4: No?

876
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 3: Probably.

877
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to start anybody other than

878
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza in this draft right now.

879
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 3: All this obviously they've given this way more thought than us.

880
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: All this implies they probably are pretty confident Rogers is

881
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 3: coming back.

882
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: That's what I keep when my mind wanders down these

883
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: down these different pathways. That's what I typically come back to.

884
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 3: Unless there's a deal on the back burner for mac

885
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 3: Jones for a third round pick. If if Rogers says no,

886
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: we'll offer you the third round pick. We've had this discussion,

887
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 3: and I'd get it.

888
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be the worst pick. It wouldn't be the

889
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: worst mac Jones for a third round pick, particularly when

890
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: you have three of them.

891
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 3: When you have three of them, it's a pretty fishing

892
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 3: player if you take away I think it was one

893
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 3: season where Matt Patricia, a defensive coordinator, was calling plays

894
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 3: for the Patriots and they couldn't have helped him less.

895
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 3: He's had a pretty good career, and I hesitate to

896
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: give him credit because he's not my style. Because he's

897
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 3: pretty paint by numbers, but he's very West Coast based.

898
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 3: I'd get it. And if it flops, it doesn't mean

899
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 3: you can't draft one next year.

900
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: I mean, if he has an OK year, it doesn't

901
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 2: mean if he's the Yeah, if he's the and he's

902
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: always had no OK year, If he's the thirteenth best

903
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 2: quarterback in the world.

904
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, then you're probably win playoff games or at

905
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 3: least you're in the mix or division title. Probably. But

906
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: if he's the twenty fourth best quarterback in the world,

907
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 3: go and finish in the draft, and it wouldn't kill you.

908
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 3: You're not It wouldn't be that hard to get out

909
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 3: of his situation. Or he's a really good backup, you know,

910
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 3: and Rudolph disappears, Or I could paint a picture where

911
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 3: mac Jones is the best option for a.

912
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: Third yeah, you know, yeah, I don't think that's too

913
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: far fetched.

914
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's and I don't think there's other teams that

915
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 3: would be in the mac Jones sweepstakes. Now. I don't

916
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: know that he has to leave San Francisco either, but

917
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 3: there's not many teams that would be competing for him

918
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: at this point.

919
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 2: I don't think so. No, not most teams have there,

920
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 2: you know, someone gets hurt in training camp or mini

921
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 2: camp or something like that, but that's still a few

922
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: months away. A couple more names on this list, Matt Deebo, Samuel.

923
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: I bet he's got a myriad of injuries.

924
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: That's what I'm yeah, because I know he's thirty now,

925
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 2: but he's just he's a unique type that that I

926
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: think offensive coordinators like to have on their roster. But

927
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: he's he's got some injury stuff. Certainly, if the Steelers.

928
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 3: Signed him a one year, six million dollars deal tomorrowy like,

929
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 3: I get it. Yeah, frankly, if thirty two teams did it, yeah,

930
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 3: I totally get it.

931
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 2: Totally get who you know? Cam Robinson another offensive tackle

932
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 2: on this list.

933
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little surprised. I was shocked Walker was

934
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: out there as long as he was, you know, considering

935
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Speaker 3: he's a starting tackle. Walker's better than Robinson.

936
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Speaker 2: Though David and Joku released by the Browns last week.

937
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 2: He's an interesting one to me because he has had

938
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Speaker 2: some good years, some good times in Cleves. He is

939
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: a good player, and he just turned thirty this past season.

940
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 3: So one thing that was kind of odd is the

941
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 3: Browns really their feet officially releasing Teller and n Djoku

942
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Speaker 3: because they were post June first guys, I think, and

943
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 3: it took him like two or three days longer than

944
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: every other team to do their post June one cuts.

945
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Speaker 3: So maybe that's why those two just haven't as many conversations.

946
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Speaker 3: I don't know.

947
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: I'm guessing last one on this list that I wanted

948
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 2: to run by you probably going to Canton one day.

949
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: But he's going to be thirty six years old here

950
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: in a couple months. Bobby Wagner.

951
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Speaker 3: I wonder if he's done.

952
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: There's been some reports I was looking at this earlier,

953
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: some reports linking him to the Cowboys, some reports linking

954
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 2: him to the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: M I just I don't think you can play anymore

956
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 3: both those organizations. But do those things. I mean, since

957
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 3: he drafted two linebackers, could draft another. He could just

958
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 3: be Yeah, he just can't run and play anymore. Dallas

959
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 3: does that kind of stuff too, because they know about

960
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 3: their brand and selling Sea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting though. So those are some of the names

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Speaker 2: that are still available. Will continue to keep tabs on

964
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Speaker 2: all of that. That's an hour in the books. Hour

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Speaker 2: number two. We will get to some of your tweets.

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Speaker 2: We'll also hear from the two newest members of the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, officially announced this afternoon, of course, safety and

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Speaker 2: from Western Pennsylvania Gateway High School by the way, Jaquan

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Speaker 2: Brisker and then Sebastian Joseph Day, the defensive tackle. We'll

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Speaker 2: do all that more in hour number two halfway home

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Speaker 2: here on the drive on this Monday, West Shooler Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network