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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt. It is April. It is April.

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Speaker 1: How about that draft month? Month upon us? Lots of

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Speaker 1: good stuff happening around the league, all the Pro days

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Speaker 1: starting to wrap up. I think today is the last

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Speaker 1: big day. A lot of a lot of schools working

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Speaker 1: on today, including Oregon, uh, Tulsa ones. He's slowing down heavily,

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Speaker 1: and you know Pro days, and this is pretty soon

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Speaker 1: when the team's go into hibern nation, into the war room. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's coming real soon. Absolutely. One thing we didn't talk

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Speaker 1: of Caitlin Blage. Yeah, no, we did kind of overlook that. Um,

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Speaker 1: people looking at that are going, why would you know,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean James Conner's out of the equation?

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, not necessarily. Does that mean they're not going

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Speaker 1: and just makes it more likely because that's really what's

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Speaker 1: Blage to me, is a faster version of Benny Snell.

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Speaker 1: And that's about it. Yeah, he was somebody. I mean

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Speaker 1: just the history of Caitlin Blage. Was watched him in

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Speaker 1: college thinking I'm not real impressed. He went to the

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Speaker 1: combine blew it up by the way. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: I kind of thought, yeah, he's just kind of a

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Speaker 1: But this past year it looked like something kind ah,

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Speaker 1: bit better. He has some receiving chops, but he's not

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Speaker 1: a one. No, he's definitely not a one. He's he's

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Speaker 1: had some success in short yard and situations over the

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Speaker 1: a twinter and thirty pound back. He should who's fast,

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers need to get better at UM. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think his best football started this past year. So

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Speaker 1: is he gonna be some untapped Jim. Probably not. But

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Speaker 1: I think you're getting as sending player at this stage

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Speaker 1: piece that cost you very You may not even make

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Speaker 1: the team, you know, throw another back in the mix.

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Speaker 1: These guys get hurt something. You might lose one in

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Speaker 1: the preseason, especially again in a seventeen game schedule. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've mentioned that too, like maybe keep one more on

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Speaker 1: adds up to me. I mean it's not a huge move,

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Speaker 1: starting to see more and more mock drafts get dropped

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Speaker 1: on us here. Daniel Jeremiah just put out his second

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Speaker 1: This is like his mock Oh, I think he doesn't

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Speaker 1: He has the Falcons taking Kyle Pitts at four, and

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Speaker 1: he included trades in here, so he didn't have them

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Speaker 1: moving back. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, obviously their phones will

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Speaker 1: What's he That's the best deal ever if you're those teams.

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Speaker 1: be the Colts pick. He has the Titans taking Newsom.

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Speaker 1: take Tarris Marshall again every month, every month. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: play against Terrence Marshall's plice here. Yeah, the Saints take

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Speaker 1: speed in them to the Bills. Take Jalen Phillips. Boy

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Speaker 1: I'd take him well over Rousseau and all those guys. Uh.

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Speaker 1: time taking him over Cosby or type. I hear you.

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Speaker 1: And then he has the Buccaneers taking Xavin Collins. Wow,

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Speaker 1: they don't need him, but you just take him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sash him away. I figure out what he's highlights right now.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive. He's he's calling Collins a three or

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. We want to thank

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Speaker 1: Jacob Brick for keeping us on the air throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the show here, and we want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to this edition of The Drive on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio