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The latest from Training Camp! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, walk them into the Irish Series podcast. As
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Speaker 1: we get through the first week all Steeers camp that's
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Speaker 1: at Business College, Michael mcquad is allowed to be joined
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Speaker 1: by Dave McKay this week. Dave could have seen.
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Speaker 2: Don well Michael enjoyed the family Wadden got Itok, I
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Speaker 2: missed out in the last week.
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Speaker 3: But it's fantastic prot you back.
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Speaker 2: I've got a few more autographs on the streets and stuff,
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Speaker 2: you know, so just pushing the brofight out there.
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Speaker 1: It was funny, like you know, it's the Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: definitely missed you last week. That that was a great
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Speaker 1: chat with Mark and just great to reminisce on that
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Speaker 1: game in ninety seven. That is funny because even though
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Speaker 1: while we were reminiscing on ninety seven, the Steelers themselves
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Speaker 1: started training camp. You started around the same day, Dave.
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Speaker 1: So I know you're telling me off camera that you've
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Speaker 1: been following it like I have religiously hear how much
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Speaker 1: crack does since Vincent College look like? Just when the
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Speaker 1: players walked down, have you seen the tichtoks of candy
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Speaker 1: piket people signing toilet seats and stuff. It looks like
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Speaker 1: crag isn't.
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Speaker 2: It looks unbelievable with TJ watch sign and babased and everything.
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Speaker 2: It's actually amazing, Like it's definitely on the bucket list
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Speaker 2: for us, you know, fingers crossed.
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Speaker 3: Someday we'll get out there.
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Speaker 1: And we mentioned there about the status pre season game
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Speaker 1: and Arland the anniversary last week, looking forward to this
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Speaker 1: year stagers first preseason game because is against the Books
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Speaker 1: Friday night Saturday morning for US twelve of August, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in the near future. Training camp
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Speaker 1: goes on until the seventeenth of August at Saint Vincent
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Speaker 1: College and anybody lucky enough to be based in the States,
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Speaker 1: you can check out staeters dot com slash training I
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Speaker 1: think camp for more information. But for now, if you're
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Speaker 1: in Ireland, if you're in the UK, Europe, you can
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Speaker 1: listen to us talk about training camp. We're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: from a player Dave today, but that's let's really just
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Speaker 1: you go around what's happening, because not just in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: there's so much happening in the league this week, I
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Speaker 1: feel that we need to start up with some elements
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Speaker 1: is going around camp. We're about a weekend at the
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Speaker 1: time of recording. Did you see that George Pickens catch
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Speaker 1: at the start of this week where Joey Porter Jr.
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Speaker 1: He was mastered up begins, but that that one hand
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Speaker 1: grab was unbelievable and it makes you think what sort
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Speaker 1: of seasons Pickings gonna have.
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Speaker 2: You know, what's sports jor you know, I am think
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Speaker 2: sitting there thinking this is not the welcome I.
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Speaker 3: Want to the NFL.
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Speaker 2: He's he'll be okay, Yeah, he'll he'll be fine, But
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Speaker 2: haven't said that, you know, George Pickens. You know, he's
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Speaker 2: made the headlines this week, Megal, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you heard he called himself the best receiver in football.
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Speaker 2: He's maybe backed it up a bit with that catch.
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Speaker 2: It's certainly got the the Odell back in vibes. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was blown away by that. It's just the sort
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Speaker 2: of things that we want to see coming into training
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Speaker 2: camp and hopefully there's a preview four going forward.
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Speaker 3: And although when it did here, you know, he said
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Speaker 3: he's going to be the best receiver in football.
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Speaker 2: It's well, maybe not now time to back it up,
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Speaker 2: but in a couple of weeks time, it certainly is
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Speaker 2: time to back up he will. I think that's That's
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Speaker 2: the real thing that you'd love to hear though from guys,
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Speaker 2: especially like Pickings going into the second year, like the
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Speaker 2: confidence that he has to be able in the second
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Speaker 2: year to coit. You know, how he values himself in
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Speaker 2: that position in the league, for me, really speaks volumes
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Speaker 2: not just to him but to this entire team going ahead.
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Speaker 2: And I know we're going to talk about this downa stretch,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, I'm I'm really really pumped to see what
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Speaker 2: he can do and I'm really interested to see the
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Speaker 2: connection that he's going to develop with Kenny over just
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Speaker 2: over the season.
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Speaker 1: So certainly for me, yeah, I get I get it completely.
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Speaker 1: It's like you're like, oh, please, don't say that it's
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Speaker 1: early death. Man, say it. Believe it. I think if
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Speaker 1: you say, you believe it, and you can certainly achieve
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Speaker 1: it at that position with the Seeders, So please God.
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Speaker 1: And a couple of not negative things, but sad things
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Speaker 1: always going to happen in different camps. We've seen it
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Speaker 1: around the league, players out for considerable periods or out
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Speaker 1: for the season. We've seen running back offense with Graham
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Speaker 1: Is out of the year with shoulder injury that could
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Speaker 1: have been a big blow to the position of death there.
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Speaker 1: But they have brought in different guys.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: You look at how Adan the McFarland junior has progressed
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Speaker 1: over the last few days and there's still many positives there.
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Speaker 1: And I know, I know we'll talk bit Naugy in
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Speaker 1: a minute, but you're going to see these incidents happen
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Speaker 1: and we hope for alfonsis seek that he can check
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Speaker 1: this night and come back that that's all you want
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Speaker 1: to see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a massive blow obviously, you know, having a
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Speaker 2: season en and injury before the season starts, you know,
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Speaker 2: first then in the camp and you know it's just
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Speaker 2: never nice to hear. And now all he needed to
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Speaker 2: do is settle down and have a long look at
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Speaker 2: him improving, you know, with with with surgery and stuff.
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Speaker 2: And he's going to get all the support he can
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Speaker 2: from the fans certainly, and we're all behind him of course,
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Speaker 2: but I'll just say, you know, next guy up. You
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Speaker 2: know Atony mcfornland, I heard hearing very good things about
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Speaker 2: him and training calp Burleie Michael, I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: if you've heard about it yourself, but he's improving.
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Speaker 3: He's one of the main key points if you like.
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Speaker 2: And obviously with Nauj we know how good he is again,
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Speaker 2: but you know, it's just looking like we're just going
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Speaker 2: to have to knuckle down and enforce that running back
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Speaker 2: position even more because we know how important it is.
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Speaker 2: You know, you mengined about your bold reduction a few
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Speaker 2: weeks ago. He's going to break the single season rushing yards.
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Speaker 2: Fingers crossed. I was it can come the truth again,
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Speaker 2: it's always with next man up when there is injuries
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Speaker 2: and stuff fingers crossed, then it won't have too much
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Speaker 2: of a doptor on the team.
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Speaker 3: And we all, obviously with all fans of.
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Speaker 1: The best in the recovery, absolutely mad and by all
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Speaker 1: just in terms of what you're saying there, Darius Haggens Higgins,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Higgen is superior to rona Irish name
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Speaker 1: there on, drafted free agent, the same as a fonse
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Speaker 1: of great. He has been said to be a guy
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Speaker 1: to watch him camp. He scored a touchdown on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: in camp, So here I'm all in and as you said,
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Speaker 1: now as you're looking good. They had a seventh shots
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Speaker 1: drill at the start of the week and he scored
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Speaker 1: touchdowns on the first two play. It's not bad. We've
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Speaker 1: seen the on drafted free agent. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: pronounce months name property. I'll give it a go. I
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Speaker 1: love this when it comes to draft season. Monte he
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Speaker 1: retired on Tuesday, which was interesting. We obviously wish him
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Speaker 1: the very very best. I mean that now looks like
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Speaker 1: you you're you're looking at a situation there where Conor
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Speaker 1: Heyward is going to be the full back option this
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Speaker 1: season going forward, but more did where he tries the
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Speaker 1: quarterback has him put on ir today and that ends
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Speaker 1: of season. The look he was a seventh round pick.
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Speaker 1: But I guess you know, the positive for fans long
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Speaker 1: term is there is a lot of expectation for Corey.
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Speaker 1: Had a lot of positive thoughts around him and what
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Speaker 1: he can be able to do. And we just hope
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Speaker 1: that going forward he can recover quickly and and and
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Speaker 1: just come back this year and kill him.
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Speaker 3: But obviously you imagined there.
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Speaker 2: I'll just come back to the fallowback first, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: Monty Patty obviously he was drafted just on the Saturday,
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Speaker 2: I think, and obviously early retirement stuff.
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Speaker 3: It's a bit of a spanner in the words if.
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Speaker 2: You're like, but maybe he possibly looked took one look
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Speaker 2: at the camp and just thought, look, this isn't for me,
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Speaker 2: which is fair enough.
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Speaker 3: The only thing we can do is sort of wish
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Speaker 3: him all the best and whatever he wants to do.
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Speaker 2: And Connor Heyward again another guy that's it's it's coming
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Speaker 2: across very well in camp so far.
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Speaker 3: He's going to have to step up to the plate now.
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Speaker 2: Obviously more room in not follow back room, and as
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Speaker 2: well as that, I say, but it's a good tour.
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Speaker 3: Own name as well. We're going to call him Darius Hagen. Suppose.
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Speaker 2: The main thing is, especially with these undrafted rookies and Michael,
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Speaker 2: they're not coming in with this massive expectation, so they
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Speaker 2: can sort of fly under the radar and hopefully then
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Speaker 2: they can press coach t Obviously you mentioned they're obviously
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Speaker 2: about Nage. I'll just come back to Nauga very quickly.
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Speaker 2: I think maybe one of the reasons you imagined that
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Speaker 2: he scored a touchdown the first two possessions, if you like,
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Speaker 2: I think I heard in training camp. I'll be interesting
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Speaker 2: to find out because I heard Darnell Washington and he's
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Speaker 2: made a massive obviously the first day of pods was yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I've heard Donell Washington's made a massive impact on be
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Speaker 2: interested to know did he sort of play any part
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Speaker 2: in that, because apparently, you know, with with with Alex Highsmith,
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Speaker 2: he's come out and said, you know, he's his first
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Speaker 2: impressions of him. Obviously he's sort of got a few
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Speaker 2: raps with him. He's come out and he said that
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Speaker 2: he was blown away by like how actually big he is.
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Speaker 2: And and this is actually range of blockings. So there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of good stories coming out of training camp
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Speaker 2: at this stage. And obviously with the pods being on
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Speaker 2: now we're going to get a bit more physical as
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Speaker 2: the day's tech bay. So yeah, long may continue, and
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Speaker 2: obviously we can can obviously hear more good stories coming
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Speaker 2: out day by day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just to run it up real quick sort
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Speaker 1: of recap with camp so far this week. You can
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Speaker 1: get great covers folks across Steers Viition Radio, on the Steelers'
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Speaker 1: website and ops as well. Dude, check it out, not
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Speaker 1: just this podcast, and we'll hopefully get some people on
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Speaker 1: that we who are at s Vincent's over the next
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Speaker 1: feeks as well, not just players, but all of us
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Speaker 1: as well. We've seen today, like just wrap up, you know,
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Speaker 1: is there anything else that takes your pick from training
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Speaker 1: camp so far? Did we've seen today? Again it's saying
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Speaker 1: Anthony McFarlane starting to do very well in camp, but
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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett throwing good balls and confidence. We've seen Peter
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Speaker 1: Schrieger this morning on Good Morning Football saying that he
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Speaker 1: believes that they have got a franchise guy and Kenny
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Speaker 1: Pickett from what he has seen so far. And my
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Speaker 1: guy Baldi, Brian Bollinger is over at camp as well
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Speaker 1: at the minute in Sams's College, and I just know
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Speaker 1: what they're really really impressed by the way that the
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Speaker 1: Steelers team is starting to get set up and it
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Speaker 1: gives a lot of promise going forward.
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Speaker 2: I'll just say, you know, with with with brother Jones
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Speaker 2: as another example, he's he's had a few first team
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Speaker 2: wraps so far and a lot of you know, good
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Speaker 2: positive feedback with with with Broderick coming in so like
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Speaker 2: obviously another ones, Nick Herbig. You know, we we spoke
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Speaker 2: them out about it in the podcast a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: We're very intrigued. He's another guy that's making a massive impact,
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Speaker 2: apparently very tactically Savvey and TJ. Watton had done an
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Speaker 2: interview as well earlier on in the week, saying about
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Speaker 2: how he's been, you know, spend a lot of time
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Speaker 2: with Nick, you know, you know, sort of teaching him,
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Speaker 2: you know, hand drills and stuff like that, just trying
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Speaker 2: to sort of adapt to like what it's going to
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Speaker 2: be like to come up against an offensive lineman, you know,
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Speaker 2: an NFL offensive linemans.
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Speaker 3: Again with you know, with the rookies, it's all very
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Speaker 3: good positive stories.
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Speaker 2: It really is all about just helping that, you know,
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Speaker 2: the young guys along and obviously with you know, the
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Speaker 2: veteran guys, they're going to be there to obviously help
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Speaker 2: them along and teach them every rule they can't teach
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Speaker 2: them obviously, how to become a professional, all these sorts
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Speaker 2: of good things, and it's all going to come hopefully
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Speaker 2: to fruition by the end of training camp.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely in focus. You can keep up to date with
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Speaker 1: training camp on the Staters social media at the Staters,
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Speaker 1: Ardland on social media, also on Twitter, Instagram, on TikTok
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Speaker 1: Alice said previously, check outsitters dot com, Staters Nation Radio
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Speaker 1: a different podcasts for up to tap analysis from Saint
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Speaker 1: Vincent College. As training camp rolls on, We're delighted to
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Speaker 1: speak with a member of the Stadors organization, I punter
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Speaker 1: Presley Harvin, who joins us on the Irish Theaters podcast. Okay,
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Speaker 1: on the Irish Theaters Podcast. We're delighted to listen and
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Speaker 1: welcome Presley Harvin, Staters punter through the podcast. Presley, welcome
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Speaker 1: in on.
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Speaker 4: How you do good Man? Decided to be here, you know,
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Speaker 4: right in training camp right now, getting some work in,
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Speaker 4: just you know, just ready to get back to it
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Speaker 4: this year.
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Speaker 1: Man, brilliant to here and look it's been great, even
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Speaker 1: just thousands of miles away. Prossley's seeing what it looks
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Speaker 1: like on social media. What's the vibe been like soabar
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Speaker 1: Rouins and Benson College and how this training camp being
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Speaker 1: for you?
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Speaker 4: So far? It's been good man, you know, just being
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Speaker 4: able to be wrecked around everybody on the team. Just excited.
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Speaker 4: I'll get back to work going into the second week
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Speaker 4: of practice now. Finally got full pads on a couple
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Speaker 4: of days ago, and you know, just excited. Uh, you
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Speaker 4: know this year is going to be a little bit different,
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Speaker 4: got a different team again, but you know, just being
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Speaker 4: up there at Saint Vincent and UH and then training camp.
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Speaker 4: You just get the opportunity to really you know, understand
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Speaker 4: where everybody is in their journey, you know, get to
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Speaker 4: know some new people, uh and just really get that
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Speaker 4: little camaraderie of you know, doing a training camp somewhere
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Speaker 4: that's off site UL uh then rather in the South
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Speaker 4: Side facilities. You know, you get a sense of you know,
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Speaker 4: every single day you have to kind of live together
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Speaker 4: a little bit, which you know, you don't really get
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Speaker 4: that experience in the NFL side all anymore. So you know,
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Speaker 4: it's just really really good. You know, I'm extremely excited
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Speaker 4: for this year, putting it together as we speak, and
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Speaker 4: you know, I just feel like this team is going
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Speaker 4: to be able to make an extremely good run next year.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's just it's all starts here and you know,
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Speaker 4: just really into that rhythm at this point. Got this
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Speaker 4: first preseason game coming up next week, and you know,
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Speaker 4: we're just really getting ourselves.
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Speaker 5: Prepared for this upcoming battle the ship crazy as as
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Speaker 5: a massive fears saign my sounds. I'm particularly excited about
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Speaker 5: that that preseason game, even though here in our we
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Speaker 5: won't be able to watch it live. But not have
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Speaker 5: to watch it the next day. But you know, you're
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Speaker 5: going into your third year and now I as a
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Speaker 5: member of the Pittsburgh Sitters, how are you developing as
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Speaker 5: a punter year on year in the league.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's one of those things. It's kind
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Speaker 4: of like a learning curve. Uh, when you're a rookie,
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Speaker 4: you really don't know what to expect sometimes, especially when
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Speaker 4: you come into the trade camp and try to understand things.
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Speaker 4: But you know, I got two years under my belt now,
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Speaker 4: extremely focused on what I have to do and you
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Speaker 4: know what I have to really provide on the field
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Speaker 4: for our defense to be able to go out and
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Speaker 4: have bid field position and also belt out the offense.
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Speaker 4: And you know, just excited to be able to put
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Speaker 4: my hard work from the offseason back on display this year.
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Speaker 4: I've grown a lot mentally throughout my time here, and
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Speaker 4: you know, just at this point, I really have a
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Speaker 4: really good aspect of you know, what's really expected and
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Speaker 4: the best way is to do that. And you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm just putting some more artillery in my bag to
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Speaker 4: be able to whenever my name's called, to stand up
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Speaker 4: to the occasion.
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Speaker 3: Presently, Coach Tomlin, what was your first impression of coach
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Speaker 3: Tomlin and what impact would you say ishiding your career.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that's far.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the terminology and the mental side of
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Speaker 4: the game is what I really can say that I've
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Speaker 4: learned a lot from. He is a very very diverse
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Speaker 4: person when it comes to you know, always having the
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Speaker 4: same type of expectation on you, but also showing it
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Speaker 4: in the coaching side and then the classroom side. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's just a little bit different than you know, he
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Speaker 4: stands right next to us when we're in the punk period,
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Speaker 4: just making us feel the pressure in that moment a
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Speaker 4: little bit, but also not just allowing the pressure to
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Speaker 4: just fold us. You know, he wants us to be
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Speaker 4: ready for every single different situation we'll be able to
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Speaker 4: be in. We start with the hard stuff on punt
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Speaker 4: first and you know, work away from there, and you know,
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Speaker 4: being in those situations in practice and knowing that he
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Speaker 4: does everything intentionally, you know, it makes you really think
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Speaker 4: about you know, when you start practicing parter than the
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Speaker 4: game should be, you're playing really good football. And you
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Speaker 4: know people might think he's a little bit laid back,
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Speaker 4: but I don't see it as a laid back thing.
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Speaker 4: I see it as a you know, he says his
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Speaker 4: part and he just wants to see what's on display
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Speaker 4: and then go from there. And I think that's the
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Speaker 4: big thing that I've really learned from him. It's just
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Speaker 4: the mental side of it. You know, I came into
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Speaker 4: it as a rookie, didn't really know the NFL was
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Speaker 4: such different than college. A lot of people really don't
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Speaker 4: understand that until they get it into training camp and
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Speaker 4: get into the preseason. But you know, he's been a
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Speaker 4: big help throughout the entire way. I've grown a lot
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Speaker 4: on the mental side of this game, and you know,
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Speaker 4: really have a fair chance with myself being able to
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Speaker 4: do this for a longer period of times. Just more
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Speaker 4: and more information I can continue to just get from
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Speaker 4: him and just feed into myself and put it in
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Speaker 4: my everyday life, not even just off on the field,
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Speaker 4: but also off the field. You know, he has to
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Speaker 4: saying that pressure is forever relevant you rather feeling it
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Speaker 4: or applying it. That's just about everything and every aspect
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Speaker 4: in life. That's not just a football play. So you know,
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Speaker 4: just things like that, you really get in the chance
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Speaker 4: to be in team meetings every night hearing his little
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Speaker 4: bit of his two cents of what he wants us
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Speaker 4: to really get from what that day was. And you know,
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Speaker 4: I just continue to keep putting together and always have
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Speaker 4: my mental thoughts on my head of you know, staying
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Speaker 4: in the moment, staying in the gain and doing enough
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Speaker 4: to win and not trying to be perfectly going to
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Speaker 4: the field. That's just some of the type of stuff
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Speaker 4: that he really puts out there for us to you know,
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Speaker 4: really understand. And you know, I'm a visual learner, so
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Speaker 4: you know, being on a football team and also having
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Speaker 4: film stuff like that, I visualize the moments that I
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Speaker 4: was supposed to be in in the game, but also
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Speaker 4: the practice reps I have to make sure count the
15:20
Speaker 4: same way. So you know, it's just it changed my
15:22
Speaker 4: perspective on how to practice. It changed my perspective of
15:26
Speaker 4: how to really think about life. And you know, that's
15:28
Speaker 4: just truly what this entire thing is about. And I
15:30
Speaker 4: truly believe that he really wants everybody to be a
15:33
Speaker 4: better person on and off the field.
15:35
Speaker 1: Led to believe presently that you had the opportunity to
15:37
Speaker 1: visit Frankfurt, Germany and and also France this offseason. I'm
15:41
Speaker 1: sure you've seen even as a player last year. How
15:43
Speaker 1: big that game was in Munich. How was your experience
15:48
Speaker 1: in Europe and especially Germany, and how would you like
15:51
Speaker 1: to someday as a player with his theaters maybe return
15:54
Speaker 1: to Europe to play a game itself.
15:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was an extremely well experienced man. I had
15:59
Speaker 4: a great time. Me and my girlfriend went to Germany
16:02
Speaker 4: because she actually went to high school there in Frankfurt,
16:05
Speaker 4: so we were there for a couple of days, got
16:06
Speaker 4: to see her life a little bit from where she
16:09
Speaker 4: came from when she was going out of high school.
16:12
Speaker 4: And you know, it was honestly a little bit of
16:13
Speaker 4: a culture shock at first, and never been that far
16:15
Speaker 4: away from home, first time in Europe. But it was
16:17
Speaker 4: a really really good experience. Man, We had a great time.
16:20
Speaker 4: I did realize that there is a lot of walking
16:22
Speaker 4: that people do, especially in Germany. They don't care if
16:25
Speaker 4: it's rain, and they don't care if it's snow, and
16:27
Speaker 4: they're all, you know, outdoors and having a good time.
16:30
Speaker 4: So it was a little bit away from home, but
16:32
Speaker 4: it was a good away from home because I was
16:34
Speaker 4: able to get a little bit of understanding of the
16:36
Speaker 4: culture of the daily life and you know, just kind
16:40
Speaker 4: of see how other people live life too. You know,
16:41
Speaker 4: I just always wanted to be a person that just
16:44
Speaker 4: learned more about the history from other places. History is
16:46
Speaker 4: my favorite subject, so you know, always seeing stuff about
16:49
Speaker 4: Germany and also Paris too, about all of the history
16:52
Speaker 4: those two places have. And you know, it was a
16:55
Speaker 4: really really good experience. I had a great time. I
16:57
Speaker 4: think we and my girlfriend we wound up walking like
16:59
Speaker 4: six five miles in Paris throughout five days. I never
17:03
Speaker 4: walked that much in my life, but it was so
17:05
Speaker 4: much to see. Sometimes you just get tied into it, man,
17:08
Speaker 4: but it was a great experience. Definitely want to come
17:10
Speaker 4: back over there at some point and find some other
17:12
Speaker 4: places to go to, just to you know, get a
17:15
Speaker 4: little bit away from here, but also you know, just
17:17
Speaker 4: to be in the same element. I know, stealing nation
17:19
Speaker 4: is literally in every single country, and I can fill
17:22
Speaker 4: the presence from that, you know, from everywhere, just like
17:24
Speaker 4: today and what we're on this podcast, and you know,
17:26
Speaker 4: just being able to know that even though you are
17:29
Speaker 4: in a different country, but you also have some other
17:31
Speaker 4: people that are still in a stealer nation family. You know,
17:34
Speaker 4: it's it's everywhere, it's worldwide, and you know, I really
17:36
Speaker 4: got a chance to see that firsthand.
17:37
Speaker 5: You talked about being in Europe there, would you be
17:40
Speaker 5: interested in coming back to our the next year to
17:42
Speaker 5: watch your I'm out of Georgia Tech play here.
17:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know they're going back over I'm just upset
17:48
Speaker 4: that I got the shiest to miss that because I
17:51
Speaker 4: they had a game there the year before I came in,
17:55
Speaker 4: and they're going two years after, three years after going.
17:58
Speaker 4: So you know, I saw that they were going back
18:00
Speaker 4: over there this year, and I'm actually excited for that game.
18:03
Speaker 4: Hopefully I get a chance to see one at some
18:05
Speaker 4: point or be able to play in one. You know,
18:07
Speaker 4: I know, the NFL is starting to have a lot
18:09
Speaker 4: more outreach of games across seas, and you know, hopefully
18:13
Speaker 4: we land in a really good spot to you know,
18:15
Speaker 4: really be able to understand the culture there and also
18:17
Speaker 4: bring a little bit of American culture to the city too.
18:19
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm extremely excited to see those guys
18:21
Speaker 4: go out there next year and dominate. Coach Key got
18:24
Speaker 4: them in training camp right now too, and hope the
18:26
Speaker 4: best forum and you know, hopefully be able to get
18:28
Speaker 4: that experience one day too, for sure.
18:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, we hope so as well, we're looking forward to
18:32
Speaker 5: welcome you're over at some stage.
18:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, most definitely.
18:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just just speaking about Ireland as well, prisately,
18:39
Speaker 2: and we've seen a lot of ours footballers, you know,
18:41
Speaker 2: particularly GA players, you know, time to make the transition
18:44
Speaker 2: to what we call American football and specifically in the
18:47
Speaker 2: like the punter position. But like for you, what was
18:51
Speaker 2: like the motivation behind becoming a punter. Was it something
18:54
Speaker 2: like maybe you had your eyes sat on from the start,
18:56
Speaker 2: or did you maybe grow up with like wanting to
18:58
Speaker 2: be other positions, you know, quarnerback.
18:59
Speaker 4: Or yeah, I mean it started out. I've been kicking
19:03
Speaker 4: now since middle school, since seventh grade, so it's been
19:05
Speaker 4: a while. It was just one of those positions that
19:08
Speaker 4: we had an open try out for one day. I
19:10
Speaker 4: was playing center at the time. Nobody else really wanted
19:13
Speaker 4: to kick, and I was like, you know what, screw it,
19:14
Speaker 4: I'll be selfless and try it out and I'll never
19:17
Speaker 4: forget it. That ball went straight up and there go anywhere.
19:19
Speaker 4: But from that moment on, I was just like, man like,
19:22
Speaker 4: I actually kind of like this because it's something different.
19:25
Speaker 4: I've always been a kid of you know, picking up
19:27
Speaker 4: something new and trying to learn it as fast as
19:29
Speaker 4: I can. Being an athlete, you know, some of us
19:31
Speaker 4: really do catch on the things really fast, and this
19:34
Speaker 4: punning was just kind of one of those things I
19:36
Speaker 4: just enjoyed. When I got to high school, I got
19:38
Speaker 4: moved up to varsity my freshman year, didn't play, but
19:41
Speaker 4: I sat behind someone that I knew was about to graduate,
19:44
Speaker 4: and you know, just took the initiative to, you know,
19:47
Speaker 4: go ahead and have the conversation with my parents and
19:49
Speaker 4: my family what's the best thing to do next. And
19:52
Speaker 4: you know, I really thought that punny was going to
19:54
Speaker 4: be able to be my way of getting into the NFL,
19:57
Speaker 4: which you know, thank god, it did has out that way.
20:00
Speaker 4: And you know, it didn't really start out as easy.
20:03
Speaker 4: You know, it was just one of an uphill battle
20:05
Speaker 4: because I did play other positions, so I had coaches
20:08
Speaker 4: trying to persuade me to stay on that side. But
20:10
Speaker 4: when I really got a chance to take plenty full
20:12
Speaker 4: time when I was a sophomore in high school, that
20:15
Speaker 4: was the only thing I did. I just continue to
20:17
Speaker 4: grow with it every single year, and you know, it's
20:19
Speaker 4: got me to all of my dreams that I had
20:21
Speaker 4: as a kid and you know, just stay full of
20:23
Speaker 4: that process and it is something different. And I like,
20:27
Speaker 4: for example, the pointer that was here before me, Jordan Berry,
20:30
Speaker 4: He's actually Australian. So you know, being able to have
20:34
Speaker 4: people from different cultures and stuff that all come to
20:36
Speaker 4: the same court. It's kind of just like golf. You know,
20:38
Speaker 4: you got golfers that's all around the world that all
20:40
Speaker 4: has different styles. Rugby is a way different sports than
20:43
Speaker 4: it is with football and Americans in American football, but
20:47
Speaker 4: you know, you have things that you can transition over,
20:49
Speaker 4: and you know you see that adaptation a lot in
20:51
Speaker 4: the classrooms, classrooms settings for stuff like like we have
20:56
Speaker 4: to game plan during rugby, punts and stuff like that
20:58
Speaker 4: during college. So the game is definitely evolving, and you
21:01
Speaker 4: know you see two different sports kind of meshed together
21:04
Speaker 4: a little bit. And you know, I still in contact
21:08
Speaker 4: with the punter that's actually at Georgia Tech right now.
21:11
Speaker 4: He's actually from Iron. Yeah, and it's one of those
21:15
Speaker 4: things where you know, you get to see that no
21:19
Speaker 4: matter what the sport is, sometimes you're going to have
21:21
Speaker 4: athletes that come from somewhere else that you know, all
21:24
Speaker 4: are on the sand ort have a different style. I
21:25
Speaker 4: was like you know, it's just something that was always
21:28
Speaker 4: very very different for me to see because you don't
21:31
Speaker 4: see it a lot with quarterbacks or running backs or
21:33
Speaker 4: things like that. But in the specialist world, it is
21:35
Speaker 4: definitely starting to mess and mesh more and more, and
21:38
Speaker 4: I'm actually excited to see where it goes from here.
21:40
Speaker 5: I'm sure David Jonathan's messing. You appreciate the shot out Prisley,
21:45
Speaker 5: and we just have a couple of quick questions to
21:48
Speaker 5: finish up, you know, saying Vincent College is such a
21:51
Speaker 5: comod experience that it really is on my book at
21:53
Speaker 5: list to get there someday and experience a training comp
21:56
Speaker 5: how of the fans being so.
21:57
Speaker 4: Far in the trope and we have an outreach of
22:01
Speaker 4: fans that come from all over the place every single
22:04
Speaker 4: day for practice. Brother, it's during the week, like a
22:06
Speaker 4: regular Tuesday or Wednesday practice or in you know, we
22:10
Speaker 4: have Friday night lights next tomorrow. Actually, that's a really
22:13
Speaker 4: good experience with fans all over the weekend. I think
22:16
Speaker 4: we had like twelve thousand fans here on practice on Saturday,
22:19
Speaker 4: which is insane to even think about effectually actually being
22:23
Speaker 4: here in Latroll too. You know, it's just a Center
22:26
Speaker 4: Hub for Stealer Football, and you know it's just one
22:28
Speaker 4: of those things where you get the experiences off the field,
22:32
Speaker 4: a lot of fans, a lot of engagement, and you
22:35
Speaker 4: know that's really what this is about, because you know,
22:37
Speaker 4: they really don't get the chance to see our day
22:39
Speaker 4: to day lives or anything like that, especially when the
22:41
Speaker 4: season starts. They only really see the sixty minutes of
22:44
Speaker 4: us on the field on Sundays. So, you know, being
22:47
Speaker 4: able to be here being a little bit selfless and
22:50
Speaker 4: just knowing the history that the Roally family in this
22:52
Speaker 4: organization has with Saint Vincent and you know, just being
22:54
Speaker 4: able to have my little fair share in it. Just
22:56
Speaker 4: you know, make kids' days out here. Man. People come
22:58
Speaker 4: all over the places they times don't get the opportunity
23:01
Speaker 4: to come to games. This is their regular season, and
23:04
Speaker 4: you know, we always have a really good outreach of
23:06
Speaker 4: guys being selfless after before getting autographs, taking pictures and
23:11
Speaker 4: just you know, I've had fans that I've actually met
23:13
Speaker 4: for on this Leiguerds of Pittsburgh trip I went to
23:16
Speaker 4: earlier this year to Plunkana and you know, seeing familiar
23:20
Speaker 4: faces that's in the stands too that you know, are
23:22
Speaker 4: still out here supporting us every single day is something
23:24
Speaker 4: that's really really special.
23:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really come across, you know, very good on
23:29
Speaker 2: screen and stuff. Obviously we're watching from Afar, but finger across.
23:31
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get over someday. And just obviously about trending camp,
23:35
Speaker 2: you know you're won your place on the team and
23:38
Speaker 2: training camp it south.
23:39
Speaker 3: You just talked to us about that.
23:40
Speaker 2: You know, the friendly competitive that exsts during account because
23:43
Speaker 2: it comes across priory well on screen that years we're
23:45
Speaker 2: all friendly and stuff, you know what I mean.
23:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's one of those things where
23:50
Speaker 4: you know, this is a business and this is really
23:52
Speaker 4: the only time we get to compete with another specialist
23:55
Speaker 4: because when the season starts, you really have your group
23:57
Speaker 4: ready for the year already. And sometimes I don't want
24:02
Speaker 4: it to come off bad or anything, but sometimes you know,
24:04
Speaker 4: when you don't have competition in the room or in
24:06
Speaker 4: the building with you, it's not the same as when
24:09
Speaker 4: you're just game planning. You know, everybody else is out
24:12
Speaker 4: competing all year round with each other in their position groups.
24:15
Speaker 4: B you know, who's going to get a helmet this
24:17
Speaker 4: for this game coming up and stuff. Sometimes we don't
24:20
Speaker 4: get a chance to do that. But you know, having
24:22
Speaker 4: Branden here, I've been going against him since high school.
24:25
Speaker 4: I was just watching a highlight tape from seven years
24:27
Speaker 4: ago of me and him going back and forth in
24:29
Speaker 4: a battle at a kicking can, and you know, I
24:32
Speaker 4: never really got the chance to know him personally. That
24:34
Speaker 4: was one thing that you know, I definitely wanted to
24:36
Speaker 4: do this off season with him and broke Bread a
24:39
Speaker 4: good bit play some golf. He's an extremely good golfer,
24:42
Speaker 4: so you know, I was getting to tried to trying
24:44
Speaker 4: to get as many tips as I can. But you know,
24:47
Speaker 4: just being able to have someone that I've known for
24:50
Speaker 4: so long and actually could not say that I knew
24:52
Speaker 4: them personally was something that I really wanted to, you know,
24:56
Speaker 4: really get to understand him more and you know, see
24:58
Speaker 4: where he is, his story or his life and where
25:00
Speaker 4: he comes from, because you know, you really don't get
25:02
Speaker 4: that opportunity a lot of times. And doing it in
25:04
Speaker 4: a selfless way, you know, and not worrying about the
25:07
Speaker 4: competitive side of it all the time. You know, you
25:09
Speaker 4: really grow as a person on and off the field
25:12
Speaker 4: like that. You know, I don't want him to feel
25:14
Speaker 4: some type of way about the situation or anything like
25:17
Speaker 4: that that we're both in right now, and you know,
25:19
Speaker 4: we both get better the more we really just become
25:22
Speaker 4: selfless and just worry about, you know, both of us
25:25
Speaker 4: being the best us on that field and off the field.
25:28
Speaker 4: And you know that's really what I've been focusing on
25:29
Speaker 4: this off season with them. You know, I've learn him
25:32
Speaker 4: for a very long time, but couldn't really tell you
25:34
Speaker 4: much about him until now. So you know, he's a
25:36
Speaker 4: really good dude. He's also selfless, and we just come
25:39
Speaker 4: in every single day and just for focusing on both
25:42
Speaker 4: of us getting one percent better. And you know we
25:44
Speaker 4: really do that because we also push each other and
25:47
Speaker 4: that that really gets put on display every single time
25:49
Speaker 4: to get out on the field. Love.
25:51
Speaker 1: But I'm finally perhasly just to wrap this up big
25:54
Speaker 1: GM next week in the start of the preseason, you
25:56
Speaker 1: guys are gonna feels the books talks us, but your mindset.
25:58
Speaker 3: Going into it is it.
25:59
Speaker 1: You know, like I was seeing different players for different
26:02
Speaker 1: teams saying it just doesn't matter to me if it's
26:04
Speaker 1: a preseason game or a regular season game. They're going
26:06
Speaker 1: out of.
26:07
Speaker 4: The same Yeah, I mean, the preseason is one of
26:10
Speaker 4: those things where honestly, I'm kind of thankful we have it.
26:13
Speaker 4: You know, coming from a collegiate level, you go right
26:16
Speaker 4: into the regular season right the first time you put
26:18
Speaker 4: all the pass up state. Are just being able to,
26:22
Speaker 4: you know, worry about one thing or one week for
26:26
Speaker 4: training camp, put it all on display at the end
26:28
Speaker 4: of that week for that preseason game. You know, it
26:30
Speaker 4: really gets you going for the regular season when it
26:31
Speaker 4: does get here. You know, I always use that as
26:35
Speaker 4: you know, it's another game day. There's a game on
26:38
Speaker 4: that schedule that you know, I have to be fully
26:40
Speaker 4: prepared for, and you know, I get an opportunity to
26:42
Speaker 4: find myself and my rhythm and my day to day
26:46
Speaker 4: sayings of you know what a game week would look
26:48
Speaker 4: like for me leading up to the season, and you know,
26:51
Speaker 4: just being able to have a routine and you know,
26:53
Speaker 4: just have that same mentality of you know, here goes
26:55
Speaker 4: another game day. It doesn't really get a chance to
26:57
Speaker 4: psych you out when the regular season comes. Sometimes, you
27:00
Speaker 4: know there's a lot of performance anxiety and things like
27:02
Speaker 4: that that a lot of athletes deal with. But you know,
27:04
Speaker 4: being able to be on a field two three, four
27:06
Speaker 4: times a season a preseason before the regular season comes
27:11
Speaker 4: really kind of gets you ready on that time of
27:13
Speaker 4: you know, you haven't played a game in about seven
27:15
Speaker 4: eight months, and you don't want the first time you
27:18
Speaker 4: go back out there to be the first game of
27:20
Speaker 4: the season, and you know you're not really fully prepared.
27:22
Speaker 4: So it's just one of those things that you know,
27:24
Speaker 4: I use as the checklist of you know, being mentally
27:26
Speaker 4: prepared for it and just being able to you know,
27:30
Speaker 4: start out fast. You know, we got to start out
27:32
Speaker 4: fast this year. We've got a really great team that
27:35
Speaker 4: I think is going to do some really special things,
27:37
Speaker 4: but you know, it just really starts on how we
27:39
Speaker 4: can mention that as a team. We got three opportunities
27:42
Speaker 4: this year for three preseason games to be able to
27:44
Speaker 4: do that. So you know, we're all excited on this
27:46
Speaker 4: side of it. We're just ready to get to work.
27:48
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of people that are really antsy
27:50
Speaker 4: to really show a lot of people wrong this year,
27:52
Speaker 4: and I'm one of those people. You know, we're always,
27:54
Speaker 4: for some reason, the underdog team, and our division, we're
27:57
Speaker 4: always the underdog team. You know, we got six lombard
28:00
Speaker 4: Is and you know, with that empty space next to
28:01
Speaker 4: we're trying to fill this year.
28:04
Speaker 1: But the Presley thank you so much for coming on
28:06
Speaker 1: to the RSITIS podcast and a lot of fans not
28:08
Speaker 1: just in Ireland but in Europe will love to hear
28:10
Speaker 1: from me, and we want to take this opportunity to
28:11
Speaker 1: wish the very very best this season. As we say
28:14
Speaker 1: here Grimmy and Mugget and we will chat.
28:16
Speaker 4: You said, yeah, man, appreciate you guys for having me.
28:18
Speaker 4: Hopefully you guys get the chance to come out to
28:20
Speaker 4: one of these games, so man, it'll be really awesome
28:22
Speaker 4: for you guys to get over here.
28:24
Speaker 1: Dave's great to hear from Presley.
28:26
Speaker 3: Great guy.
28:27
Speaker 1: Really looking forward to hearing and seeing what he does
28:31
Speaker 1: this season. Lots of interesting information there that fans in
28:34
Speaker 1: Ireland can take over.
28:36
Speaker 3: Yeah percent.
28:37
Speaker 2: You know with the pumping game if you like in
28:39
Speaker 2: Ireland especially, it's it's taken off mego. You know, there's
28:43
Speaker 2: a lot of guys going across states that playing in
28:45
Speaker 2: the college game and it's obviously the experience from our
28:48
Speaker 2: sport we have, you know that they're taking it from
28:51
Speaker 2: and you know it's it's it's a real good advertisement
28:53
Speaker 2: for our game over there as well. Good to see
28:55
Speaker 2: it's good to see and obviously a lot of interesting
28:58
Speaker 2: things from Pressley there.
28:59
Speaker 1: We have been really folks. We have been bzzn't to
29:03
Speaker 1: see not just your your tweets, your Instagram comments, just
29:07
Speaker 1: your opinions and questions over the last few days on
29:09
Speaker 1: the Steelers Ireland social accounts. We want to fink giveryone
29:13
Speaker 1: for coming through and selling it's not just their thoughts,
29:15
Speaker 1: their opinions and questions. We've got some questions. We've got
29:18
Speaker 1: four or five questions that we're going to have a
29:20
Speaker 1: bit of fun with. The first one is from Mark
29:23
Speaker 1: and this one was also asked by Jared, what is
29:26
Speaker 1: your opinion on the Matt Canada offense? I think Mark said,
29:30
Speaker 1: do you trust the Matt Canada offense? I've looked at
29:33
Speaker 1: just frankly what Matt Canada had the same one of
29:37
Speaker 1: his first pressers for training camp, and he says, you
29:41
Speaker 1: look at having a winning season. There's a lot to
29:43
Speaker 1: build upon that by no means is good enough. We
29:45
Speaker 1: have to score points. We have to be more explosive,
29:48
Speaker 1: we have to make those plays. There was a jump.
29:50
Speaker 1: There was a certain unfair expectation that a player who
29:54
Speaker 1: started games at any spot is to be better as
29:56
Speaker 1: we go. And for me, the key is is being positive,
30:00
Speaker 1: is looking forward, and it's clear that make Canada has
30:04
Speaker 1: in my opinion at least, it's clearly he has the
30:07
Speaker 1: idea of what not just to do this season, what
30:10
Speaker 1: he can do to develop this offense and sort of
30:14
Speaker 1: maintain it as they try and build towards hopefully winning
30:18
Speaker 1: an AFC North title.
30:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just say mag I'm just listening to that quote.
30:23
Speaker 4: It's good.
30:24
Speaker 2: It's good to hear the positive vibes. And of course
30:27
Speaker 2: there was times last year where we did have to
30:28
Speaker 2: read it back a bit with Kenny being a rookie.
30:31
Speaker 2: But hopefully now with him made going into the second year,
30:34
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of positive talk around Kenny's progression.
30:37
Speaker 2: He's speaking about himself, you know, he's being very confident.
30:40
Speaker 2: I heard him on speaking with Big Ben actually last month.
30:43
Speaker 2: He was going on about how his mindsets changed us
30:45
Speaker 2: the years went by.
30:47
Speaker 4: So what.
30:49
Speaker 2: Matt's job basically is just to help Kenny along and
30:51
Speaker 2: hopefully now with the second year coming up, the shatouts
30:54
Speaker 2: will come off a bit more, to play calling will
30:56
Speaker 2: become a bit more aggressive and we can finally just
30:59
Speaker 2: see the cannon picket that we know. Of course, there
31:01
Speaker 2: was times last year where maybe a few of our fans,
31:04
Speaker 2: you know, fought, we really wish we had a went
31:06
Speaker 2: for that a bit maybe on third and twelve where
31:09
Speaker 2: he maybe you know, had maybe a few screenplays played
31:12
Speaker 2: at safe. But hopefully now obviously with Kenny's second year
31:15
Speaker 2: and the player calling as well, will become more aggressive.
31:18
Speaker 3: And obviously you know Matt's are gay.
31:19
Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, coach tomlind
31:21
Speaker 2: trusts him to run the offenses as smoothly as he
31:23
Speaker 2: possibly can, and you know that's that's all you can say.
31:27
Speaker 2: Obviously with trust and stuff, you know, trust is earned,
31:30
Speaker 2: of course, but obviously say you know, it's one hundred
31:32
Speaker 2: percent in with this offense. I mean, who wouldn't want
31:34
Speaker 2: to be offensive coach for this offense right now? It's
31:37
Speaker 2: a gest really, So hopefully Mark can can can one
31:39
Speaker 2: hundred percent contribute to the progression of us.
31:43
Speaker 1: And just going on left from what we said before
31:45
Speaker 1: interview with Presley, we talked about high Well Andony mc
31:49
Speaker 1: fard in the satele into the camp and when you've
31:51
Speaker 1: got Kelly and if Kenny makes a few good plays,
31:53
Speaker 1: maybe struggles on some series, but she will because he's
31:56
Speaker 1: still learning in the league, and every team will will
31:58
Speaker 1: have that issue at some point this season. If you
32:00
Speaker 1: can rely on Nagy and then bringing out in the
32:03
Speaker 1: McFarland as well, you've got a situation there where that
32:05
Speaker 1: run game can assist the past game and that gives
32:08
Speaker 1: the offense more confidence. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing
32:11
Speaker 1: how Matt Canada can try and developed this a week
32:13
Speaker 1: of three preseason games to see how that develops. Also,
32:16
Speaker 1: before we play the Niners in Week one, Eaton has
32:19
Speaker 1: said that's a question. Thank you Eaton Avice their first
32:22
Speaker 1: lads as well for gendering the question. Do you think
32:25
Speaker 1: the Steelers will add depth at alb Well, Eaton, They've
32:29
Speaker 1: brought in Kawun Alexander, who was previously with the Jets
32:35
Speaker 1: in New York. He registers sixty nine tackles into half
32:37
Speaker 1: starts while playing in seventeen games last season. Solid player
32:42
Speaker 1: does have an injury history, but I guess when you're
32:44
Speaker 1: signing the guy that of age twenty eight twenty nine
32:47
Speaker 1: in that position. But you're looking at a real revamped
32:49
Speaker 1: inside linebacker corps where the Steelers now have a bit
32:53
Speaker 1: more certainty in that position by bringing to Alexander to.
32:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was just actually saying that that's a
32:58
Speaker 2: good question obviously, whether did we bring any more and
33:01
Speaker 2: it's it's highly unlikely. Again, you never know. There is
33:04
Speaker 2: still a few weeks left to go to the season.
33:06
Speaker 2: But yeah, you just mentioned about one Alexander.
33:09
Speaker 4: I was.
33:09
Speaker 2: I have to be honest, I was toughed with at Michael.
33:12
Speaker 2: He's a good veter in the house. You know, he's
33:14
Speaker 2: played for the Bucks, he's played for the.
33:15
Speaker 3: Saints, and you know last year for the Jets, he
33:18
Speaker 3: was he was important for their season and he's really
33:22
Speaker 3: he's a really good tackle machine.
33:23
Speaker 2: He's a good field general. But he did obviously, I
33:25
Speaker 2: don't know if you heard the interview. He just likes
33:27
Speaker 2: hitting gays, and that's what you want to hear, because
33:29
Speaker 2: a guy who likes hitting gays, he's trying to strip
33:32
Speaker 2: the ball. He's trying to win position back for us.
33:33
Speaker 2: So I I was the exact same as well as that.
33:37
Speaker 2: You know, we've got a London Roberts from Miami. He
33:39
Speaker 2: was key for Miami last year. Miami's defense now if
33:41
Speaker 2: you look at it, it's it's it's obviously one of
33:44
Speaker 2: the best defenses in the league. And the fact that
33:47
Speaker 2: we've got somebody from there, it just shows, you know,
33:50
Speaker 2: if we've got cold Hole come as well. He played
33:51
Speaker 2: for the Commanders, I believe last last year. So we've addered,
33:55
Speaker 2: we've already added a few pieces. That is a relatively
33:58
Speaker 2: new group. It's just about putting these pieces together and
34:01
Speaker 2: hopefully before we know what the inside linebacker position, you know,
34:04
Speaker 2: we won't need a strengthen it.
34:05
Speaker 3: Obviously hopefully we stay injury free.
34:07
Speaker 2: Touch would but yeah, even looking at it as well,
34:10
Speaker 2: if you look at our defense all around the field,
34:13
Speaker 2: you know, we're just we're just brilliant. And this defense
34:16
Speaker 2: is really coming like coming across really good for me.
34:18
Speaker 2: I'm having I'm having dreams already of listening to Super
34:22
Speaker 2: Bowls trophy and fabrics. So yeah, inside linebackers, it looks
34:26
Speaker 2: like we've covered it, but who knows. You know, you
34:28
Speaker 2: never send ever in this league to see the.
34:31
Speaker 1: Steelers make such a quick move and a bold move
34:33
Speaker 1: in a good way of bringing Ink one. And we
34:35
Speaker 1: wish him the very very best going forward. And the
34:37
Speaker 1: next question is from Steven and I'm going to ask
34:40
Speaker 1: you this because you're I can't wait to see your
34:42
Speaker 1: answer to this, is he wins the starting job from
34:45
Speaker 1: Dan Moore junior Brotherwick Jones will have to face Nick
34:48
Speaker 1: Bosa in week one, Miles Garrett in week two and
34:51
Speaker 1: Max Crosby in week three. How do you think he'll
34:54
Speaker 1: perform against three hop pass rosters to start his NFL career.
34:57
Speaker 1: I mean, the answer to me it will be that
35:02
Speaker 1: he will go in and he will get over and
35:03
Speaker 1: he has a weak one week too much, and I
35:05
Speaker 1: think that's that's that that is the joke going into
35:07
Speaker 1: the n at all. But that is the expectation with
35:09
Speaker 1: this Teish franchise. You have to give your best, and
35:12
Speaker 1: it's for any reason, I'm sure it would happen. But
35:14
Speaker 1: if say, for example, this is the best start against
35:17
Speaker 1: Miles Garlet or sorry against like both sail week one,
35:20
Speaker 1: he'll pick up Anne be Forward as well.
35:22
Speaker 2: That's a great question, MiG if you actually think of it,
35:25
Speaker 2: that's potentially three of the best you know pass rushers
35:29
Speaker 2: in the league. And now again it's it's another one
35:32
Speaker 2: of those questions where if if he wins the starting
35:35
Speaker 2: job again just listening to you know, the Bozzer Round
35:39
Speaker 2: training camp, you know, although he started taking first team reps,
35:42
Speaker 2: he's still potentially a long way to go, you know,
35:45
Speaker 2: downward junior, he's he's a bit of a veteran at
35:47
Speaker 2: the stage, and no one, Meg Tomlin, it wouldn't be
35:51
Speaker 2: like him to feed the young young guns to the Lions,
35:53
Speaker 2: if you like. So again, we'll have to see if
35:56
Speaker 2: it does happen. If it does happen, how do you
35:58
Speaker 2: think he'll go up against him? I'm the exact same
36:00
Speaker 2: as you, Meg, and I think he'll do relatively well.
36:03
Speaker 2: And do you know what, if he goes in and
36:04
Speaker 2: he does well and he prevents them from having all
36:06
Speaker 2: time games, then we know we've got our future left
36:09
Speaker 2: tackle and we've got a hell of a player on
36:11
Speaker 2: our hands. It's just whether is he going to make
36:13
Speaker 2: that step up, And obviously that's going to come down
36:15
Speaker 2: to the coach. If the coach believes he's rady, then
36:17
Speaker 2: he's ready. If not, we've always got We've got a
36:19
Speaker 2: lot of good depth there at the left tackle position
36:21
Speaker 2: with Don More and also Dylan Cooker as well.
36:24
Speaker 3: They're a third string. So it's it's at the same
36:27
Speaker 3: time as you think of it in our terms, it's
36:29
Speaker 3: a bit like putting me in against you know, David Clifford,
36:32
Speaker 3: Shan Watson and Sean mcgigan.
36:33
Speaker 2: You know I would get toasted. But at the same time,
36:36
Speaker 2: who knows what will happen with brodoc products obviously a
36:38
Speaker 2: lot higher level than I am.
36:39
Speaker 3: So fingers crossed it. It can, it can step up
36:41
Speaker 3: to the plates.
36:43
Speaker 1: Adam who thinks from Dublin, said, do you expect the
36:46
Speaker 1: Dean the Johnson to step up make an impact? Obviously
36:48
Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast and might have be Steeters fans,
36:51
Speaker 1: Theodi Johnson had a year last year where he didn't
36:53
Speaker 1: have a receiving touch on and you know, I think
36:56
Speaker 1: we all hope that that. I'm sure, we're sure that's
36:57
Speaker 1: what will happen in this season. But look at the
37:00
Speaker 1: same time, this team was playing under a week quarterback
37:04
Speaker 1: last season and went through those hard times where Kenny
37:08
Speaker 1: was picking up the game, and they've got to this
37:10
Speaker 1: point in camp where there's a lot of optimism in
37:11
Speaker 1: this offense and you can see now idea that not
37:15
Speaker 1: just for Kenny improved, but with George Pickens being there
37:20
Speaker 1: also for Deantrey Johnson. There's that competitive positive rivalry there
37:24
Speaker 1: and it's guys is going to help this offense going forward.
37:27
Speaker 1: And we talked about Matt Carla there earlier on that's
37:30
Speaker 1: healthy and for all we know. You know, if you
37:32
Speaker 1: see Deanti Johnson going in week one or week two
37:36
Speaker 1: and get that first touchdown, imagine the confident that just
37:39
Speaker 1: doesn't give to him, but it gives the whole offense.
37:41
Speaker 1: You know, Like he came out of the started campas
37:43
Speaker 1: that he feels like it's a weight off his shoulders.
37:45
Speaker 1: So I'm just buzzing to see what's gonna happen, not
37:48
Speaker 1: just in the preseason, but the minute we get going
37:49
Speaker 1: against the Niners in a few weeks.
37:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I nearly fell off mature and Michael
37:54
Speaker 2: when I when I'd saying that he had no touchdowns
37:56
Speaker 2: last year.
37:56
Speaker 3: It's crazy, do you think? And of course there's there's
37:59
Speaker 3: a lot of pressure, you know, there's a lot of
38:01
Speaker 3: pressure coming of being a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Stealers.
38:04
Speaker 2: That's just the way it's gonna be. And I'm sure
38:07
Speaker 2: he is ready. He is chomping out the bit, ready
38:09
Speaker 2: to go again. You imagined there about you know, you
38:13
Speaker 2: know who's going to have, you know, the more catches
38:15
Speaker 2: and stuff. Who's gonna come out as number one. It's
38:18
Speaker 2: not healthy competition. Like you know, listening to that podcast
38:21
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago with Big Ben and Kenny just
38:23
Speaker 2: reminiscent when Big Ben was matching about you know, Antonio
38:26
Speaker 2: Brown and more Tavis Brand. They were constantly on that
38:29
Speaker 2: heage like, who's gonna get more catches, Who's going to
38:31
Speaker 2: get more touchdowns? This is what we need to see
38:33
Speaker 2: between our wide receivers, you know, Deon ten and George.
38:36
Speaker 2: You know, George obviously is going on about how he
38:38
Speaker 2: wants to be the best receiver in the league, and
38:40
Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson's probably turned around the second, well, I want
38:42
Speaker 2: to be the.
38:42
Speaker 3: Best receiver in the league.
38:44
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be that scramble for who's gonna have
38:46
Speaker 2: more catches, Who's who's gonna have more yards, who's gonna
38:49
Speaker 2: have more touchdowns. It's healthy competition and hopefully can only
38:51
Speaker 2: improve our team. But I just know for a fact
38:54
Speaker 2: Deontey will be looking at start Chase last year and thinking,
38:57
Speaker 2: you know, how did it go so wrong? Because we
38:59
Speaker 2: know how good of a player he is, and obviously
39:02
Speaker 2: with the issues with the drops last year as well.
39:05
Speaker 2: Fingers crossed that that can be can be ractified as well,
39:07
Speaker 2: so all power to him. Hopefully we can see a
39:10
Speaker 2: massive improvement in the year number two.
39:14
Speaker 1: Absolutely boss. Last question is from one of the biggest
39:18
Speaker 1: fans of the Staters in the North in norther Ireland,
39:22
Speaker 1: that is Neil Ogul. Massive Staelers fans of shout out
39:25
Speaker 1: today that he's been a band for decades and then
39:28
Speaker 1: Neil's excited to get involved with his projects. So chatty soon, Neil,
39:32
Speaker 1: He's saying, you know, Staelers are being whispered in the
39:34
Speaker 1: dark corners of the NFL as an under the Raider team.
39:38
Speaker 1: What makes the panel think that we can now overturn
39:40
Speaker 1: the Bengals, Chiefs and even the Niners. In the first game,
39:43
Speaker 1: Neil told me that he is prudent with his team,
39:48
Speaker 1: and don't I think he likes the glass half full situation.
39:52
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of this. It's it's that hope.
39:53
Speaker 1: Is that hope in weeks in week zero, week one,
39:56
Speaker 1: where every team is equal to every team has that
39:59
Speaker 1: same belief that they can go for Lombardi every year,
40:01
Speaker 1: but not just that you mix up together with the
40:03
Speaker 1: expectation and the performance of this team expects to have.
40:08
Speaker 1: I feel you take that and you go from there.
40:09
Speaker 1: We've seen what happened with Joe Burrow last week with
40:12
Speaker 1: and you know, look, I think any football band would
40:15
Speaker 1: hope that you know, no player Afri gets injured. But
40:18
Speaker 1: we don't know what Joe Burrow's current performance level is.
40:23
Speaker 1: We do not know how the Chiefs are going to perform,
40:25
Speaker 1: you know, because they play with a really new team
40:27
Speaker 1: last year, and you talk about that Niers in the
40:29
Speaker 1: first game. We don't know he's going to be starting.
40:30
Speaker 1: But we're wacking from the Niners at the minute. So
40:32
Speaker 1: I think there's so many what ifs, and that gives
40:34
Speaker 1: the steers. You've got so many things that have been
40:37
Speaker 1: worked on over the last twelve deplay four months where
40:40
Speaker 1: they feel settled, and I think you start that game
40:42
Speaker 1: at home and you take it one game at a time.
40:45
Speaker 2: To Yeah, another good question, Mike. Look what it would
40:51
Speaker 2: say is, you know, we're looking at the Chiefs and
40:53
Speaker 2: the Bengals. They're the top dogs right now at the minute.
40:57
Speaker 2: What I think we need to be focused on is
40:59
Speaker 2: beating the tape tas that we can't we have to beat.
41:02
Speaker 2: So the teams were expected debaate. You know, we're playing
41:04
Speaker 2: the FC South this year, you know, the Titans, the Taxans,
41:07
Speaker 2: the Colts. We need to make sure we're beating them teams.
41:09
Speaker 2: And then obviously, once we find ourselves in a position
41:11
Speaker 2: of power, if you like, that's obviously when we can
41:13
Speaker 2: start gaming for you know, Mahomes Burrows. Obviously, with the
41:17
Speaker 2: Burrows injury and stuff, it's put everything up in the air.
41:20
Speaker 2: And obviously, you know, you never want to see a
41:22
Speaker 2: player get injured. But we've got a choppitalize now.
41:25
Speaker 3: We'll obviously if he's going to be missing for a
41:27
Speaker 3: few weeks, you know, who knows how how good we'll
41:30
Speaker 3: we'll come off at the start.
41:32
Speaker 2: And so about overturning them, it's one thing about overturning them,
41:37
Speaker 2: and all the thing is beating them, you know, obviously
41:38
Speaker 2: as the season goes on, I'm sure as you know, Michael,
41:41
Speaker 2: you know, playing against Chiefs on a cold playoff night
41:46
Speaker 2: in January, it's one of the most difficult.
41:48
Speaker 3: Toss in the entire league to to overcome.
41:52
Speaker 2: So it's really just all about can we beat the
41:55
Speaker 2: teams we are supposed to beat and obviously hitting hopefully
41:58
Speaker 2: straying towards beating the bigger teams later on the season
42:00
Speaker 2: and just getting on my montum. But we can do it, certainly.
42:04
Speaker 2: You just mentioned there about you know, the foreign ers.
42:05
Speaker 2: We don't know who's gonna be starting and week one
42:08
Speaker 2: you know brock per Day, Treil Answers coming back from injury,
42:12
Speaker 2: and there's even rumors about Sam Darnold as well. So
42:15
Speaker 2: we don't know who we're playing against the week one yet.
42:17
Speaker 2: But as long as we get off to a good
42:18
Speaker 2: start and you know, who knows what will happen. You know,
42:20
Speaker 2: if we can get up some momentum, you know, the
42:23
Speaker 2: bankers the chief will come along as well.
42:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely, man, and just massive thanks to everyone gets interacted,
42:29
Speaker 1: not just to this podcast, but interacting continually with the
42:31
Speaker 1: social pages at stedars Ireland, on Twitter, on Instagram, analytic talking.
42:36
Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone has said the questions in folks. We're
42:38
Speaker 1: gonna try and get as many questions but also view
42:41
Speaker 1: points in throughout the season, probably the Monday morning during
42:45
Speaker 1: the season, so please do check out sears Arland. You
42:47
Speaker 1: can also check at my account only because I'm gonna
42:50
Speaker 1: post it there and you can reply to it at
42:52
Speaker 1: Michael other Score, NFL and I'll try and get Dave
42:54
Speaker 1: socials at some point and talk about that.
42:55
Speaker 3: At some point. DFA.
42:57
Speaker 1: We're sitting here now a few weeks agt F for
42:58
Speaker 1: pre season, and I think you want to see camp
43:00
Speaker 1: over the next week or so or just continue to
43:04
Speaker 1: keep it going.
43:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.
43:06
Speaker 2: Well, honestly, Michael, the thing we need we need the
43:09
Speaker 2: young guys getting first team wraps, of course, and you know,
43:12
Speaker 2: so far there's been a lot of you know, second
43:15
Speaker 2: team raps. If feel like, you know, we're we just
43:17
Speaker 2: maybe haven't got as much first team raps as we want,
43:20
Speaker 2: and that's obviously what we want to hear. We want
43:22
Speaker 2: to hear a good progression, all positive stories you know,
43:25
Speaker 2: coming out so far, and just long may I continue.
43:29
Speaker 2: But yeah, obviously another good thing, our important thing is
43:31
Speaker 2: no more injuries, please, and that will be great because
43:34
Speaker 2: obviously any the more injuries, the more obviously you know,
43:38
Speaker 2: looking around we have to do so hopefully that the
43:41
Speaker 2: veterans just keep, you know, pushing the young guys forward
43:44
Speaker 2: and before you know what, well the season will be
43:46
Speaker 2: upon us and we're all ready for week one.
43:50
Speaker 1: Looking forward to me, we'll be back next week potentially
43:52
Speaker 1: with a full long I'll like, you know, see Jim's back.
43:55
Speaker 1: I'll be doing well Jim as well. I fanks everyone listening. Please, folks,
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