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Steelers Draft Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly. It's our annual mock draft special.
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  Speaker 1: We are gonna go pick by pick for the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Steelers with our mock draft, show you who we would pick,
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  Speaker 1: and then at the end we're gonna give you our
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  Speaker 1: predictions for who we think the Steelers are gonna take
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  Speaker 1: in round one. I'm Nick Detulil and as always, I
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  Speaker 1: am joined by the world famous accountant Eric Vaman showden, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not too shabby, just hanging out.
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  Speaker 3: Its being relaxing, Uh, getting ready for a hometown draft.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I actually did look at hotel prices and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, maybe I'll see if I can swing a
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  Speaker 1: trip up to Pittsburgh. And I Am not going to
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  Speaker 1: be paying one thousand dollars a night to stay at
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  Speaker 1: the Day's in just to stand around and watch people
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  Speaker 1: come on stage and say who the pick is? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe if I if we had actually planned to have
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  Speaker 1: and been prepared, we could have planned like a whole
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  Speaker 1: Steelers Country Weekly road trip. We could have met up
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  Speaker 1: there and met the legions of fans. I'm sure we
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  Speaker 1: have up there, But nope, we'll be watching from home
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  Speaker 1: as always. That's right, But we're only nine days away.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about, so let's not
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  Speaker 1: beat around the bush here. Let's just get right into
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  Speaker 1: this NFL draft. As you said in Pittsburgh, very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers have twelve picks overall. I believe that's the
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  Speaker 1: most of any team. So we'll see what they do
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  Speaker 1: with all those picks and if they'll keep them all.
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  Speaker 1: But here is the rundown of picks, just so everyone
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  Speaker 1: is on the same page as you and me, because
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  Speaker 1: we've clearly done our prep and are well prepared today.
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  Speaker 1: Round one, pick twenty one, Round two, pick fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: around three, picks seventy six, round three, pick eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: around three, pick ninety nine, Round four, pick one twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Round four, pick one thirty five, Round five, pick one
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  Speaker 1: sixty one, Round six, pick two sixteen, and then three
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  Speaker 1: in round seven, two, twenty four, two thirty, and two
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven. All right, So Eric and I both did
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  Speaker 1: our own mock drafts. I don't know where, which site
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  Speaker 1: he used, what settings he used, So we're coming into
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  Speaker 1: this a little blind, and I guess what we should
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  Speaker 1: do is maybe we'll go round by round and just
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  Speaker 1: to set the stage a little bit. When I go
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  Speaker 1: through these mock drafts, I always view it as this
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  Speaker 1: isn't who I think the Steelers are necessarily going to
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  Speaker 1: pick in each of the seven rounds. But my thought
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  Speaker 1: process is based on the players that are available. This
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  Speaker 1: is who I would pick if I were the general
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  Speaker 1: manager for the Steelers out.
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  Speaker 2: And they value your opinion very thoroughly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would hope that if they hired me as
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  Speaker 1: the GM, they value something about me. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: just my hypothetical for this. So let me ask you,
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  Speaker 1: is that the same approach that you took or did
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  Speaker 1: you kind of approach it as more of who you
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  Speaker 1: thought that the current staff would pick if this was
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  Speaker 1: the board in front of them.
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  Speaker 3: No, I went around the same way as you did,
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  Speaker 3: so okay, And to be perfectly frank, there is a
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  Speaker 3: lot of names this time around that I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like in terms of I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if this draft.
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  Speaker 3: Seems less talented, less buzz or I'm just out of sack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, let me pull up my list because
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  Speaker 1: it removed my so I've got to find who I
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  Speaker 1: picked now again. Amazing preparation by us here, me especially,
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  Speaker 1: but I really wanted to see my grade. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: let's just get to it. I'll go first here. Round one.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do any trades. Did you do any trades?
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  Speaker 2: No? Even though I do think a trade will occur,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Deal with that. It's just too much to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm with you, though I do think that there
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  Speaker 1: will be a trade of some kind, either them trading
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  Speaker 1: up or trading back and acquiring more picks. But just
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of this mock draft, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was better just to stick with the picks we had.
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  Speaker 1: So Round one, I told you this is before we recorded.
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  Speaker 1: I did about three or four of these only because
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  Speaker 1: of technical difficulties, and in every single draft I did,
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  Speaker 1: I picked the same player except for this one, of course.
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  Speaker 1: So in this this mock draft, my guy wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: the board anymore. But I do think that's who the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers will end up taking in the real draft. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of this draft, I took the best
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  Speaker 1: player available at a position of need. I took av
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  Speaker 1: On Terrell cornerback out of Clemson, with Michael Pittman being
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  Speaker 1: taken by the Steelers in a trade that is no
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  Speaker 1: longer I think as pressing of a need in the
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  Speaker 1: early rounds, particularly if you're gonna possibly reach a little
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  Speaker 1: bit for something it's not needed anymore. Cornerback is still
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  Speaker 1: a position of need, and honestly, I wasn't happy that
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  Speaker 1: I ended up having to take a cornerback here. But
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  Speaker 1: the board I had there were absolutely no wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: or even linemen within earshot of this, So that was
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  Speaker 1: that's literally what I had.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, I so I feel like my board, you know,
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  Speaker 3: felt a little bit better. But I did do a
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  Speaker 3: couple of mock drafts and this was the one that
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  Speaker 3: I felt was the most reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: And one that I liked.
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  Speaker 3: So I went with Caleb Lemoux, tackle from Utah. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we we've drafted a lot of tackles recently,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I think Roderick Jones is still a
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  Speaker 3: question mark. And even though they're talking about, oh, we
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  Speaker 3: need a guard because Isaac Slamu or whatever his name
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  Speaker 3: is left for the Cardinals, Yeah, I get that, but
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  Speaker 3: I really do think that like they could look at
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  Speaker 3: tackle as well as much as oppressing me, just because
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they'll exercise have fitthier option.
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  Speaker 2: So getting better at the tackle position, I think it's gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Be a sneaky and based on the value, he was
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  Speaker 3: the best one available.
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  Speaker 1: So I had that same debate in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: my drafts, because again, in every other board I had,
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  Speaker 1: there was at least some sort of hesitation on my
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  Speaker 1: part because there was competing needs right and tackle is
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  Speaker 1: one of them. And I think Broderick Jones, and I've
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  Speaker 1: said it before, has gotten a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: raw deal with the situation there. I am not ready
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  Speaker 1: to give up on him yet, but I think you're
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  Speaker 1: probably right. I just I don't think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: exercise that fifth year option. That being said, they do
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  Speaker 1: still have him for at least this year. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: tackle was not as high of a priority as guard.
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  Speaker 1: But ye, all right, there you go round two. I
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  Speaker 1: have the Steelers going guard here. I did want them
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  Speaker 1: to go guard in the first round. Again contradictory to
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  Speaker 1: what you just mentioned. I do want them to take
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  Speaker 1: a guard. They were none available on my board. And
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  Speaker 1: then and here we had Emmanuel Pregnant from Oregon on
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  Speaker 1: the board that seemed to fit. And again I think
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  Speaker 1: the line is going to need to be beefed up.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of who's going to be playing quarterback for the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Aaron Rodgers. You and I both don't seem
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  Speaker 1: to think that they're going to be taking a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in round one. So certainly the quarterback of the future
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  Speaker 1: is not there in this hypothetical. But regardless, you got
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  Speaker 1: to protect whoever it is throwing the ball. Otherwise it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I went with guard as well. I went
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  Speaker 3: with Kilan Rutledge of Georgia Tech. Okay, I've heard he's
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  Speaker 3: he's a pretty solid prospect, probably even should not be
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  Speaker 3: there at the end of round two. But nonetheless, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was just looking at it, and I'm very much
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  Speaker 3: a build the inside out, and I think we've spent
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  Speaker 3: a lot of our capital on, you know, outside, and
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  Speaker 3: so we've had wide receivers, we've had.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey was supposed to be a cornerback.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he has a safety So I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's better just to continue the youth movement on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with your logic, and I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: I saw this young man play in person on Black Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and I totally remember everything about him, and I sat
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  Speaker 1: there in Mercedes Benz Stadium and said that man's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a stealer someday.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, I also want you were scouting.
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  Speaker 1: I also not totally serious. I also walked into a
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  Speaker 1: utility box and smacked my head on the way into
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, so that could have impaired some stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right, Okay, all right, so good. You
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  Speaker 1: and I are both in kind of agreement. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up with the same people, but we went after
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  Speaker 1: the same positions and had I'm a similar philosophy there. Yep, okay.
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  Speaker 1: In round three, and this would be pick number seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: I took Malachi Fields wide receiver out of Notre Dame. Again,
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver is not as pressing of a need in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion anymore, but looking at the board, looking at
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  Speaker 1: who was there, and knowing that they did just lose
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Austin, and we certainly do need to have a
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  Speaker 1: full receiving room should any receivers for any particular reason
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  Speaker 1: not be able to play injury or otherwise. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: just think that it was a good receiver at a
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  Speaker 1: good spot on the board, and I felt comfortable taking
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  Speaker 1: them there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Went wide receiver as well. I went to Kobe Lane,
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  Speaker 3: you know, USC So, I mean, I don't really know
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  Speaker 3: much about it, to be honest, but you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think that from a philosophy standpoint, we like getting a
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver on day two. I feel like that's been
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  Speaker 3: our trend lately. And just considering that, like DK and
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  Speaker 3: Michael Pittman are both like towards late twenties early thirties,
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  Speaker 3: I just think that.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to have a youth option in there.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that we so in Arthur Smith's philosophy,
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  Speaker 3: he did a lot more of the twelve personnel at
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  Speaker 3: two tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what we'll see with McCarthy, but I
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  Speaker 2: do think.
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  Speaker 3: That having wide receiver death will kind of change the
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  Speaker 3: makeup of our team.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with that, all right. We're also in
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  Speaker 1: round three, pick number eighty five. I bit the bullet here.
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  Speaker 1: I did go quarterback. I went Garrett Neusemier quarterback out
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  Speaker 1: of LSU. I do think that Aaron Rodgers is going
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  Speaker 1: to come back. That being said, I think they're also
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  Speaker 1: going to need to spend a pick on a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Here as well. We've got Mason Rudolph on the roster,
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  Speaker 1: We've got Will Howard on the roster, and I just
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  Speaker 1: based on who is available on my board, I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of thought like, well, why not take a flyer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, see what happens. I'm not sure that he'll
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  Speaker 1: be the quarterback of the future, but again, this is
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  Speaker 1: a position that they're going to need to address somehow
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  Speaker 1: this offseason, and right now we don't have a definitive
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  Speaker 1: answer yet on what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I totally understand wanting a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: to have some kind of certainty, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: I think, out of the quarterbacks on this draft, I'd
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  Speaker 3: rather roll with Will Howard, so I would not like
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  Speaker 3: to burn a Day two pick on it. So I
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  Speaker 3: what I thought more of a need was I feel
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  Speaker 3: like our safeties we've been just kind of patching one
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  Speaker 3: year deals out there. I think getting Jalen kill Gore
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  Speaker 3: safety from South Carolina. Between the names and the round
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  Speaker 3: three I've seen kill Gore, Bud Grant, so I think
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  Speaker 3: we do have a buffet of a third round picks.
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  Speaker 3: I do think we'll see a safety come off the
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  Speaker 3: board in one of those three.
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  Speaker 1: I did have kill gore in some of my boards,
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  Speaker 1: and I think just in this one, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger if there was
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  Speaker 1: some other alternatives, but just based on who was available
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  Speaker 1: and knowing that that is going to need to be
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  Speaker 1: figured out at some point, I thought they might take
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  Speaker 1: a flyer on him. But I do agree with your
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  Speaker 1: logic there. So there you go. Next in round three, again,
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  Speaker 1: three round three picks, We'll see if the Steelers hold
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  Speaker 1: on to them. At number ninety nine, I actually double
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  Speaker 1: dipped into the wide receiver. Well, I went with Skylar
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  Speaker 1: Bell at Yukon. Just again we talked about it already.
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  Speaker 1: You need a deep receiver room, and this is what
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  Speaker 1: was available or who was available, I should say, And
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's a good position to stockpile just
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  Speaker 1: given the Steelers current situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think that we will see at least
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  Speaker 3: two wide receivers chosen in this draft Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: So with my pick, I went.
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  Speaker 3: With Davison in then no Son at OHI State cornerback.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my draft grade was an A on this one.
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  Speaker 3: I I just think that, like, while you know, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like the cornerback situation is good. I think that
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  Speaker 3: they want to get someone in there to you know,
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  Speaker 3: run slot corner or just be a playmaker, and then
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we will eventually pay Porter.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, he's coming off a career year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if he has an uneven year and then
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  Speaker 3: he tries to demand, like top of the cornerback, more
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  Speaker 3: market money, I think they'll look for some kind of
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  Speaker 3: insurance for someone to step up, just so they don't
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  Speaker 3: have to lose leverage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes sense to me. All right, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Round three is in the books. Moving on to round four.
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  Speaker 1: This is pick number one twenty one. I did go
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  Speaker 1: and get a tackle here Brian Parker, the second out
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  Speaker 1: of Duke. While I did mention that I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: tackle was as immediate of a need this year, you
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  Speaker 1: always need depth. And again, neither you or I think
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  Speaker 1: that Broderick Jones will be coming back after this year,
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  Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to shore that up somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I went with running back Kalen Black. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if anyone watched the college football playoffs, but
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  Speaker 3: that man looked possessed, and I think it's one of
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  Speaker 3: those things you know, he played at James Madison, he
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  Speaker 3: transferred Indiana. He showed grit, he's a winner, well coached,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that Look, I know we have we
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  Speaker 3: signed Rico Dwido.
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  Speaker 2: We have Jalen Warren, but we don't have like I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that we're you know, if you look.
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  Speaker 3: At twenty six, I don't think that we have the
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  Speaker 3: guy like I like Jalen Mooren.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you wouldn't go off in.
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  Speaker 3: Say, you know, sign Gainwell last year or Dwindle this
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  Speaker 3: year unless you were in full confidence.
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  Speaker 2: So I think taking a flyer on a guy that.
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  Speaker 3: I watched those games, I I think you were the
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  Speaker 3: best player in the backfield in the first one.
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  Speaker 2: The first overall pick is going to be his quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So so I was not too far behind you. But
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  Speaker 1: I agree with your logic. Losing gain Well. They did
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  Speaker 1: make a signing in Dowbell, like you mentioned, but they
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  Speaker 1: need to they need to address that that position as well.
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  Speaker 1: So moving into the next pick, which is still in
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  Speaker 1: round four, one thirty five, following the same logic you had,
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  Speaker 1: I took running back Nick Singleton from Penn State. Again
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  Speaker 1: just gotta do something there, and I do agree. I
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  Speaker 1: love Jalen Warren, but I think he's probably good, probably
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  Speaker 1: best as a complimentary back with someone else, not as
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  Speaker 1: not as the every down, every situation back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was actually kind of interesting, soone throughout some
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  Speaker 3: kind of stat where like his numbers were comparable to
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  Speaker 3: a star.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about Jalen Warren, and.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting. But just his usage isn't there.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that they need somebody. Yeah, so call
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  Speaker 3: me crazy. I went safety again, Lewis Moore, safety Indiana
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  Speaker 3: back to back Whosier's I think that you're gonna see
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  Speaker 3: some some who's your love in this draft.
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  Speaker 2: Ye. As an alma mater of you know, you see when.
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  Speaker 3: We went to the college football playoff, it was the
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  Speaker 3: most most draft picks in our school history. I think
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  Speaker 3: that when you win a championship, your profile gets magnified.
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  Speaker 2: So is he gonna be the guy?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know I would take a
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  Speaker 3: dart on a guy who just showed to be a winner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And once you start getting into this area of
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  Speaker 1: the draft, that that's kind of the logic you take,
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  Speaker 1: right Because now, granted the Steelers and all the other
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  Speaker 1: teams are gonna have much better scouting than you and I. God,
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  Speaker 1: I hope the Steelers have much better scouting than you
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  Speaker 1: and I. But really, once you're getting into the end
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  Speaker 1: of round four than five, six, and seven, and you're
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  Speaker 1: picking guys that you've never heard of, it's yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're taking flyers on. You're looking at stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, moving on around five, this is
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  Speaker 1: pick number one, sixty one. I ended up going back
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  Speaker 1: at cornerback for Charles Demings out of Steven F. Austin.
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  Speaker 1: I just know that cornerback is a position that they
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  Speaker 1: have struggled with. I you mentioned Joey Porter coming up
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  Speaker 1: on contracts soon and having insurance. I just not even
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  Speaker 1: thinking that far ahead. I just know that we always
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  Speaker 1: need help at cornerback, so that's why I went there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, makes sense. So this was this was my my
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  Speaker 3: dart of the draft. Taylor Green quarterback. Okay, he's the
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  Speaker 3: guy that you know. He his play his production has
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  Speaker 3: not been shown yet, but his athletic ability, I think
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  Speaker 3: he's got like they call it a raw score now,
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  Speaker 3: relative athletics score. And I think he was one of
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  Speaker 3: the top producer in the twenty first century.
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  Speaker 2: At the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 3: So even if he's a gay in the fifth round,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I'll take that. But if he could beat the quarterback,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: even a backup quarterback, I think it's an excellent pick.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: All Right, there you go. Moving on then two round six,
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  Speaker 1: this is pick number two sixteen. I took Albert Regi's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: defensive line out of Texas A and M. This is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a This is just a pick to shore up a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: position of need, or really an area of need. The
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: entire defensive line. You're always going to need depth there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So that's that's the only logic I had here.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, some mine, which got the lowest score out of
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: any of my picks.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I was surprised.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Caldwell, So I just talked about the relative athletic score.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Jeff Caldwell had the second best raw
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: score since, like it's been in conception that wide receiver,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: which is.
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  Speaker 2: Arguably the most athletic position on the field, So why
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: not take it. It didn't show up on tape a lot.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, as a Bearcats fan, he wasn't.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: He wasn't the guy we watched. It was Cyrus Allen.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: He was the guy that you're always like throw to him.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: But I think kind of similar to what Trace Scott
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: is for the Raiders, Jeff Caldwell can be in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm with you, and now we move on
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to the exciting Round seven, Pick two twenty four. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: took tight end John Michael Gillenborg, partially because of his name,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: partially just because I do think they need to get
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a tight end back on the roster now. I believe
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: they lost John new Smith as well as Connor Hayward,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: so they do need to dress the tight end, even
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: though we probably won't be seeing many full three tight
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: end sets anymore, like you alluded to.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh yeah, I went with Tyreek Sat Edge Florida.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I think that they need to start looking at edge players.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I think if there was maybe it's a fun topic.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Well, or we'll talk about after this what trades we
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: might expect in the NFL Draft. So I don't want
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to tip a cap there. So I just think that edge,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you know, at some point during or after the draft,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: will be Indeed.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had that thought too. I just looking and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: trying to recall back to my board. I don't think
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I saw any that really popped out any specific times
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: where I couldn't make any other picks. But yeah, yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I just knowing who is on the edge for us
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and what their what their career trajectory is. It's not
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the too far distant future that they'll have to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: start thinking about that. Yeah, all right, For the second
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: pick for the Steelers in round seven, this is pick
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: two thirty. I went back to wide receiver. This was
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: my third wide receiver. No, this was only my No,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: this was my third wide receiver. See I can't even
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: count the three anymore at this point in the day.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Dejon stribbling out of Ole miss. I. Look, we're at
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: pick two thirty. I took a wide receiver. I I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: don't really have any logic. Just it was a high
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: highest rated among the players that were left. And we've
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: already beat that dead horse that we need receivers, So yeah,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: we'll give them a shot. See what happens.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I went Red Murdoch line back, Buffalo. If there
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: was one guy that I hope falls from the draft,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: but you know, I don't think will be the case,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: he'll be Jacob Rodriguez. I think linebacker will also be
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: a position where it's interesting to see that's not on
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: people's knee board right now. But you know, are we
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: totally satisfied with Patrick Queen?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: So I do think getting a linebacker inside backer makes
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of sense, yep.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And I guess we can talk about regrets too with
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: our picks after these last this last one. But but
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I I and again in other mock drafts that I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: attempted to finish before this one, I did address the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: linebacker position at different times, just because again it's something
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that you always have to consider, but not not in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: this final one that I'm not super happy with. But anyway,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for the last pick the Steelers have in round seven,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: pick two thirty seven, I took Logan Fano and Edge
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: out of Utah for all the reasons you mentioned, just
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we need to start considering edge at this point in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the draft. It's special teams guys and backups. So again,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: just get a position that we need to fill some
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: depth spots on and see what happens. Really low risk,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: low risk, that's all it is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all the same reasons you just mentioned. Wide receiver
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: smu Yep. Like we talked about it, just a lot
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: of just throw a lot of darts at the position,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: but not particularly tied to anyone.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Larry have it. I so, looking at this draft, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: did not take a linebacker or a safety, and I again,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I just don't know that any really we're there in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: this mock draft, so knowing that it's not the biggest
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: regret in the world, but yeah, if I could have
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: any position, it would probably be that and maybe get
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: rid of one of my three wide receivers. Looking at
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: your list, is there any any regrets or anything you
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: wish would have broken a different way?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I don't know if there's any more that
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I think. Is that reasonable about getting I'm in love
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: with I think if one of the top wide receivers
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: somehow slides down, it's that spot. And by that I
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: don't mean wide receiver five or whatever. I know there's
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: some people like KC conception on and like they're good,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: but like they're a fringe one wide receiver.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I think if like I think, there's three major wide receivers,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: if one of them fall, that's great, but if not,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: just you know, go best available.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking at I'm looking at the website I used,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and they actually give you the grades and they give
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you a couple other awards. And stuff too. So I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: told you I wasn't really super happy with this, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I'll get into it. But I got an eighty five
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: out of one hundred. There you go, so it's a B.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: They gave me three draft traits. One was called steel
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: sheet because I found five players who fell well past
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: their board value. I got the BP a purist, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: best player available. It says, let the board come to them.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And then I got position stacking because I went all
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in on wide receiver. But here's here's what I don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: really like about these mock drafts though, and it's I mean,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: it's a free system, so you get what you pay for, right,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So like it gave me an A on my Garrett
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Newsmeyer pick, and I think that's just because they list
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: quarterback as a position of need. So because I filled
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a position of need even though I wasn't happy about
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it or super thrilled about it or really expecting him
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to be anything more than a bench player, it gave
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: me an A for that. But at the same time,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it gave me a B plus on Avian Tarrell, my
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick, even though he was ranked right
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: where I drafted. He filled a need and I don't know.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's just kind of weird, like by the metric, by
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: their own logic of their own metric, it should have
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: been higher. But then again, it gave me like a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: C plus for Nick Singleton, the running back out of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Penn State. It gave me a D plus for Charles Demings,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the cornerback out of Steven F. Austin, because I had
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: already picked a quarterback or a cornerback, even though we
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: know that they need one. So anyway, just wanted to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: point put that out there that I did get a B.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with the system though, and I would
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: probably grade myself a little harsher than this system did.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: So I did too. You did what I agreed at
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: you harsher?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Oh thanks, it's not my fault.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I got a B plus. You know.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: A lot of it was actually just because it said
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I did really well in the beginning of the draft,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: which I did feel better about that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, I couldn't tell you how
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: well caleblamu helandled, Jacoby Lane, and Jalen Kilgore. I wouldn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: be able to like list them out prior to this
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: mock draft. So take it with a grain of salt.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, So now I'm going to ask you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the question we ask every year. Let's hear your prediction
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: for who you think the Steelers are actually going to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: take in the first round.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: To be honest, I have no id.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, but then I think that they would go what
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I will say, I don't think that they'll go quarterback
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: on first day or two. There's like, you know, Tie Simpson.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: People keep on mentioning is the guy that will slip
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and where is he gonna land? I just don't think
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: he's the guy, So I think they'll let that pass.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I'll go with just like, Hey, there's there's linemen, you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: like the the guard you mentioned mu Or I think
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: his name is Vega.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Uh one of those guys sounds good.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: No, you gotta pick one for the sake of our show.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll do Vega Vega.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: All right, I again, I promise all of our lists.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I did like three mock drafts before I got the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: one I did, and I had technical difficulties in every
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: single one of them. I picked the wrong amount of rounds,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I fi accidentally closed out a one In every single one.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I got the same guy, and I think he's going
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to be the pick for the Steelers. I didn't get
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: him here, but and God help me, I don't know
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: how to say the guy's name. I'm so sorry. It's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the guard, the guard out of Penn State that you mentioned.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Uh you said Vega Ola Vega. I I don't know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: so that is that who? That's the guy that you
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: said as well? Yeah, all right, So you and I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: are in total agreement here. We're not even trying to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: like hedge our bets and pick different people to widen
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: our net here. We are Steelers Country Weekly is all
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: in and fully endorse this draft pick. So with full confidence, yes,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in his abilities, but not in saying his name correctly. Well, uh,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: there you go. I think it's going to be fun
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night. I do think that Mendoza is going
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to go off the board first, and I do think
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: that after that, the drop off in quarterback is pretty steep.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: You know, you had mentioned what kind of trades we
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: think are going to happen, and without quarterbacks driving it
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: like they did last year. Uh was it last year
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: or the year before where we had like six I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: think it was the year before where we had like
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: six in the first round or whatever. I think the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: amount of trades or significant trades we'll see in the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: first round is going to be less less so than
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: than previous years. Yes, but is there are there any
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that since you brought up the topic, are there any
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that are popping into your mind that you think are
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: going to happen.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I actually think that we'll trade either Alex high Smith
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: or Patrick Queen in this draft.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: We're gonna offload some players in the draft. Okay, yeah,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Just because, well, Patrick Queen is still a starter in
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: this league, but he's probably just not lived up to
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: our expectations.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: We keep bringing back Cole Hokum because we feel like.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: At some point he's gonna be healthy in his career,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: and Peyton Wilson has actually looked pretty solid. So I
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: just think that he's just a guy that we don't need,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: and they might think that we can cut him or
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: get rid of him for a trade, get some future
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: compensation while also lightening up our salary cap in case
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: there's a guy that we need to go get or
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: sign out Aaron Rodgers.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So it's interesting though that you would stay but you
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna offload some players because I guess they
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: could pair them with draft picks to move up. But
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it's always the logic has always been, they've got more
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: draft picks than anyone, they're going to move up. And
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: we talked about it really before last year started, when
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: we thought that this was going to be a much
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: deeper quarterback class. It was you got twelve picks next
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: year or so you've got Aaron Rodgers on one year,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: like next year is the time, right, And certainly didn't
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: pan out that way with the quarterback class this year. Yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: no one tanked for Archie Manning as we thought we
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: might see. So yeah, it would be interesting if they
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: got rid of players and traded back and acquired even
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: more picks, or maybe they trade up. But yeah, I
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: do think we are going to see the Steelers make
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: some move. It's just holding on to twelve picks is
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it just seems a bit odd, especially with where they're
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: at right now. So I don't know who they would
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: trade up to get. I mean, and not even again,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: you don't need to get up to get one of
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the top wide receivers anymore either, if they wanted to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: do that. Depending on what the trade value was. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be opposed to it. It's just not totally necessary,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: so gonna be interesting. But I do always enjoy the Draft.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I do like the Thursday night opening and seeing the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: pageantry of it, seeing guys have their lives changed before everyone,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and it will be special. I think being in Pittsburgh,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it's great that they move the draft around now and
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that you get to showcase all these different cities. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: do wish that we could be there for it, but
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: every time I talked about it, I was in no
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: uncertain terms told I was not allowed to go by
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: myself and leave my wife here with the kids.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: So you mean you can't leave your wife with.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Your six dependents and go watch football or not even
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: watching football right, watching basically a graduation per session.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: All I wanted to do was go to Pittsburgh, watch
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the draft, have more promante brothers than you should have
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in a three day stretch. And really I felt that
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it was my journalistic responsibility to do so for the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: legions of fans that we have and just for the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: sanctity of our profession, although profession would imply that we're
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: paid for this. But despite my logic and my sound reasoning.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I was still told no. But again, one thousand dollars
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: for a day's in I'm not exaggerating either. So all right, Well,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: was there anything else you wanted to touch on before
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: we sign off for the night.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Uh? I hope Mark con knows more about what he's
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: doing than we do.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, for a lot of reasons, I hope he
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: knows more than we do. So, yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: This is the first time in almost twenty years that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is not there help at least helping call
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the shots. We'll see what kind of philosophy that these
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the two guys have now with McCarthy and Cohn. But yeah,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I really hope that that they know
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a lot more than we do. And I be to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: be fair, that's a that's a pretty low bar though,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: so I think we'll be okay. All right, Well, that'll
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: do it for us, folks. We'll be back after the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: draft to give you a breakdown and give our grades
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of the Steteelers draft. And until then, this has been
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: another episode of the GameHouse dot COM's Steelers Country Weekly