Latest / In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers) / HR1: Live from Training Camp 2026 Day 8

Transcript

HR1: Live from Training Camp 2026 Day 8 · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: This is live coverage of the twenty twenty six Steelers
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Training Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bod Light,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Easy to Drink, Easy to Enjoy, and brought to you
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: in part by Clearview Federal Credit Union. For every touchdown
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Score in twenty twenty six, Clearview
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: will donate five hundred dollars to the Light of Life Mission.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Visit CLEARVIEWFCU dot org. Easy Home, mixediors, fast, reliable and affordable,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Schneider Downs discover the value of big thinking with a
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: personal focus. US steel Mine melted and made in the USA,
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: your neighborhood Ford Store and by the Steelers Pro Shop.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Visitshop dot Steelers dot com.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Back here at Saint Vincent College in Latroe, Pennsylvania. Day
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: eight coverage of Pittsburgh Steelers Training Camp twenty twenty six
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: right here on Steelers Nation Radio and the Dealers Audio Network.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: I am Ed Troup. We are in the locker room,
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: but I am not Rob King. You know that voice,
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: and that's not me, But next to me, I'm summing
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: in today, by the way, for Rob who has the
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates this afternoon against the Milwaukee Brewers. But Max
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Stark's in the locker room and Ma's first time working
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: with you. Man, I'm pumped to be beside you here
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: and get your thoughts on training camp so.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Far, looking forward to it, Ed, I mean, this is always,
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: you know, a fun time when we get to kind
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: of change up the line up a little bit and
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: we get to work with our other colleagues across the
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: different shows. So this this is fun. It's kind of
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: like a mashup show, you know, we kind of get
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: a nice little mix here. So now looking forward to
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: hanging out with you for the next two hours, and
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: we have live practice to watch. Because no more acclamation,
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: no more ramp up, no other cliche phrase that lets
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: you know that they're not allowed to do full things.
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: We are at full fledged practice. That's why this practice
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: started at eleven and we'll go to about one fourteen
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: seventy somewhere in that range. So it's a good day.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: It's a good day.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: It has been a good day here from Latrobe. A
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: lot of different storylines unfolding. We have the initial death
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: chart out Max that came out late last night beginning
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: of today, and again you're gonna take with that with
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: what you will it's something that's required by the NFL
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: that the Steelers have to do, as Aaron Rodgers across
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: the middle to Pat Friarmuth in this sequence that we're
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: seeing with eleven on eleven drills. But the initial death
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: chart is out there, required by the NFL, required by
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: the Steelers. But you know, Bob Labriola Labs was on
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: early this morning with Tom Auferman to kick off our
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: coverage here today, and he brought up a good point.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: You know, when you look at that DK metcalf is
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: wide receiver number one, no doubt about that. But then
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Ben Scronick is listed right behind him on that chart.
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: And no disrespect this Scronic. I mean, he's great player,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: but if DK would go down in the game, Scronic's
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: probably not your number two that's coming in for him.
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: No, he's not. And Jeremy Bernard listed behind Michael Pitt.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see it a lot of different
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: amalgamates once get you know, And I said, I said
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: this on training Camp live on on the Steelers dot
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: Com show. I said, this is just a template right right,
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: like you go online the Microsoft word hey click, A
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: template like this is starting a roster day one template.
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: Everything can be moved around, everything can be edited. In fact,
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: we got a we also have a signing today, right,
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: so we've already seen how the moving parts work with
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: the team. But you're right, you gotta throw guys somewhere.
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: And I mean when you look at the list, Am
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: I putting Ben Skearnic at Perry? Who else is behind him? Uh? Yeah,
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: Levi Wentz or Jacoby Keeney James who just came here
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: two days ago. Well I'm picking Vin Scaronic out of
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: out of that style of guys, right, yes, and you know,
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: and we'll get to the rest of the lineup and everything,
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: But yeah, you gotta put them somewhere. But I mean, listen,
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: Skoronic had in the first touchdown last year. So Ray
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: Jackson happens.
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: He's gotten a lot of work out here at Camp
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: two from Aaron Rodgers, as has Roman Wilson.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Roman Wilson has been a popular target for Aaron Rodgers.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: In this camp, a lot of opportunities, and.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: He's on the deaf chart. He's above Jeremy Bernard, but
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's more Jeremy Bernard. He's a rookie in
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: a crowded wide receiver room. He just hasn't had the
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: reps yet, but I'm sure that'll start to ramp up
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: as we go throughout this camp.
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing that you also have
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: to remember, right rookies, you're never gonna get in a
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: right okay, And I've said this across every platform everybody
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: talked to. The best a rookie can hope for is
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: a B plus plus because you're not gonna get an
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: A as a rookie, not this early. Like you gotta
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: you gotta go put some NFL reps under the proverbial belt, right.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: I need you, I need you to need you put
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: a couple of feathers in the cat before we start
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: doling out the top of the alphabet. But for what
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: we've seen so far, Jeremy Bernard is a guy. He's
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: a guy that's gotten opportunities from Mason Rudolph, Drew Aller
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: and Will Howard. They've all looked to him, given him opportunities.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: And when he has jumped in a few handful of
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: times with Aaron Rodgers, he's got a couple passes throw
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: in his way. But you're right, Roman Wilson has been
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: that number one third option because we know Michael Pittman,
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: we know Dk metcalf are one and two. But who's
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: gonna be number three? Right slot slash come in at
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: x or Z and be that filling guy. That's what
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: we're really working on. But this is a template. And
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: right there as we talk about it, Jared O you
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: I know, runs a shallow drag and turns it up
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: the sideline. And he's a big body too. You you
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: don't necessarily put that body type at slot, you know,
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: like that's an outside receiver. That's an ISO one on
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: one man coverage fifty to fifty ball receiver. But he
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: but but Mike McCarthy said, this's got to be a
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: play all positions.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: I might need you in the slot. Can you get hey?
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: Can you give me bond? Can you give me the
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: lefty right? Can you give me a wild thing, like,
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: give me something a little bit different that we're not
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: used to. So you have to be able to play everything.
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: But right there you have nice pitch and catch And
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: that was from Will Howard.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: That's it, Will Howard.
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: And now we see Drew All getting getting to work
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: in and there's another guy that hasn't had as many
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: reps as Will Howard, Mason, Rudolf and Aaron Rodgers has,
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: so when he's in there, he has to take advantage.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: He goes to uegion another rookie, another rookie. It's the
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: rookie and that's one thing to Max store in this
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: camp that we've seen a weeknd from Mike McCarthy. He
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: has not been shy about this rookie class. They are
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: getting lots of reps and lots of work so far,
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: and some are shining, others maybe not as many reps
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: is as the ones in that upper class that we
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: were just talking about with Bernard and of course Maxi
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Onchor which I'm axes just to get your feedback on.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: He's the most popular Pittsburgh Steeler at this camp right now.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: Especially that's right, great name and just having to be
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: drafted in the first round, so it's like two perfect things.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: But Starks is a lot easier to say than.
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: Correct, especially when you look at it and you didn't
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: know how to say it at first. That's right, Yeah,
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: I I I I in core like chorus knows not
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: so yeah, you're absolutely right. But I think that's one
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: of the things that you love about this is that
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: you have guys who fill a multitude of roles. And look, oh, Kateen,
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: we just got a throw attempted at Oh wait a second,
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta camp fight, Yes, finally gotta fight
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: fisticuffs a little not not quite bench clearing. But I
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: love when a good scrape up.
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: You said, this isn't a physical camp, Max, right, exactly.
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, it's it's a collision sport. So you know,
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: this is the collision attitude and feelings. I think that
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: was Ryan McCollum in the middle of the dust up. Uh,
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: And I couldn't see who the defensive guy was, but
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sure. Oh look Derek Harmon. Well it was not
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: harmonious there between Harmon and mc collumn. But yeah, you
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: know you need, yeah, you need a little bit of that,
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: you know, listen, just a little injection, you know, of
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: some emotion. Not that there's not plenty of testosterone to
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: go around down on the football field at any given moment,
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: but sometimes you like to see the physical application of
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: said frustration.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: It seems. And you know, I was, I was an
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: old offensive lineman, not to your level, Max, but I
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: could speak a little O line with you. But as
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: an offensive line, you're it's usually in the trenches where
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: you see those camp fights happening with an offensive lineman
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: maybe holding up that block a little bit longer than
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: maybe they should, or a defensive line and maybe pushing
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: them back, and except.
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: I would say more so on their side, right that
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: the tug a little extra like little move at the
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: end when the whistles, and you're just like, you didn't
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: need to You didn't need to tug me there, didn't
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: didn't need to do it. I mean, heck, I mean
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you you know, I've broken my prominent
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: middle finger on my right hand because of O line,
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: D line.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: You know relations out there, DK Metcalf nice nice little
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: route up the seam there, Aaron through that one, but
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: nice seam route. I mean, the relationship that DK and
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: Aaron has built has carried over from last year this
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: year and only deepening now this year. You can see
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: they're getting on the same page and they understand each
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: other's strengths and and to release the football because Aaron
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: likes nice timing routes, right like, once I get the
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: break that I'm looking for, you give me the cue
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: to break the inside outside boom balls in the air,
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: and then now it's for you to locate it and
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: just know it's gonna where it's supposed to be, so
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: you don't have to look around. Crazy. But they're developing
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: a nice relationship. Like you said, he's building his encyclopedia
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: on Roman Wilson getting a lot of opportunities, and also
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: Michael Pittman like it's almost like he picks and chooses
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: his segments where he wants to really go after certain guys.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: Another throw there to Rome Wilson, a little bit of
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: an overthrow. Nice coverage there defensively by Denico Slaughter, Ye
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: in coverage Roman and the kind of got twisted at
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: the top of the route brisker of course in coverage
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: is a deep safety, but wasn't a great read by Roman.
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: Roman kind of broke it to the inside and kind
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: of got stuck in the mud trying to come back out,
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: trying to run a double move on on Slaughter. But
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: that's the thing. You're you're testing each other out. Hey,
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: how fast are you recognition wise? How do you get
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: off of things? How do you get the breaks right
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: at the beginning Aaron's taking in all this information as well,
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: so that he knows when he goes into games, I know,
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: depending on whatever it is. Here's where I'm looking first.
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: I want to be able to make a quick decision.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: Get the ball up because miche Car's talking about two
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: point three seconds. Two point three seconds not allowed speed dating,
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah it is, it is, And you might not even
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: get a birth date out in that time, you know.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: But I need to know your birth date ahead of time.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: So that's why we have practice out here. Another another
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: mistime read that was Jeremy Bernard this time. So, like
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: I said, we just saw two guys fighting for that
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: number three spot. Each guy just got an equal shot
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: and both guys kind of went the wrong way or
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: Aaron overthrew it for whatever reasons based on the coverageman.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Who's just getting the ball out. But this is what
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: camp's all about. This's about figuring out how it is.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: And like you said, to go back to this depth
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: chart template not commandments. And when I say stone, yes,
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: is not in stone. It is not written. It didn't
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: come down from the mount. You know. This is just
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: the starting point because we still have three preseason games
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: to really flesh out how this is really going to
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: show itself. So this is just an initial I gotta
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: do it what I talked about all over the years.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: Mike tomins like, I'd rather not do it, but here's
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: something for you guys. I'm just gonna put them together
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: and throw it out there. But I think Mike McCarthy
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: probably was a little bit more intentful than Mike Tomlin
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: was in this. But it's also there's no surprises.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: On here for someone that's been on the air since
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: ten thirty this morning. We welcome it because it gives
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: us something to talk about.
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: Max, Yeah, it does.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: It does a deep shot by Mason Rudolph, but there
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: was a procedure call up front. The officials are out
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: here as they have been every single practice.
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: I really don't appreciate it. Called it on somebody on
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: our side.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: It's on the offensive side. Max. You know, you mentioned
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: DK Metcalf too, and you know we were talking camp
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: standouts earlier on our shows and maxi Onior being at
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: the top of that list. But DK, Brian Becko on
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: our show mentioned DK, and you just did as well.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: The superstar playmakers in the NFL at training camp, maybe
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: not as many reps as they as other players would
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: get and maybe not needed, right, they don't need them.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: But DK up here in this camp one weekend. I
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: don't know about you, but man, I feel like DK
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: is getting a big workload. And maybe that's the timing
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: that you spoke of with Aaron Rodgers. Not that it
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: was bad last season, it was their first year together.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: You got a veteran quarterback, future Hall of Famer in
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf. They got to be on
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: the same page. And boy they have They been on
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: the same page here at camp so far.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: They've been on the same page. And also think about this,
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers has not gotten off day yet, No, none,
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: we have been up here this entire time.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Cam Hayward an off day today, but I think he's
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: the first VET that's had that.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah. TJ. Watt hasn't had an off day yet. No.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: And you know, well, so there's not that many old
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: guys up there, so this roster would from really old
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: the year ago, it's getting young, so pretty young this time.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Ad obviously not like the youngest by any stretch. Yeah,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: when you're talking about probably average age probably around twenty
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: seven to twenty eight years old, right, but last year
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: it was like thirty second it was. It was ancient.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: So you know, Aaron hasn't gotten a break yet, TJ
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: hasn't gotten a break. Obviously, none of the offensive line
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: are going to get a break really because they're all young.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: They're all young. I don't even think you know, and
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: you know, if we're going by toddler ages in years,
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: I think they're barely at the walking and eating solid
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: food face, you know, an offensive line. So you know,
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: I think that's kind of how you look at it
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: and say, Okay, there's a lot of work to be done,
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: and they get a lot of reps in, they get
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: a lie I know, they just bleue practice in and
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: if you guys heard that horn faintly in the background.
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: Practices officially ended today but started at eleven, ended at
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: one seventeen. So you're looking at a two hours you
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: know to what two hours in?
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: Just about two hours and ten minutes closing in.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: I think, I see, yeah, seventeen minutes a little bit over,
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: but I think you get a plus or minus of
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: six what it is that you get to carry, That's
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: what it would be. And also the clock. Here's another
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: little trick to the trade. Here here, here's how the
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: sausage is made. That first early part of practice. When
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: they get down here, if the coaches aren't present, the
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: clock doesn't start.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: So if the coaches kind of me and a little
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: bit after eleven, they get down eleven oh four, that
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: clock doesn't start till all the coaches are on the field.
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: So all that individual work that you would do, that's
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: free house money there.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: So just just to go along with that, because we've
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: been here for our show. Right at the beginning of
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: practice every.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: Day it's not over. They're running it looks like they're
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: running a couple of last minute drills.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe the last three more minutes left on
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: the clock is then moments. Oh, this is what we've
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: been building up for.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go. So yeah, so we've got Franco moment.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: We'll explain no, no, But you explained it because you
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: clarify when you came in. I said the max. I
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: said that the Franco moment that McCarthy spoke of in
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: his press conference, they quick change mojo moment, as he
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: referred to it. Yeah, surprise, I said, goal line drill.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: But you you said, no, no, look Franco, it wasn't
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: at the goal line.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: This is situational football.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, these are These are not hail Mary's but
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: gotta have it because you're not just throwing the deep
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: bomb to the end zone. These are plays where you're
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: in a situation what can you do to be creative
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: last second based off of what the drill is. So
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: right now we have Drew Aller taking the snaps here
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: in this drill in this moment, so not the number ones,
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: and this gotta have it moment was a run play
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: and that looked like who was that was? It was that?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Oh Travis Homer in with him, And so they're going
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: like almost like a two minute drill type of situation
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: right now on the board, and they're just gonna try
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: and matriculate as fast as they can down the field.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Up ball was out. Who was a potential receiver was.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: That Wentz product plan?
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: First of all, why is a receiver wearing I think.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, man. Every time i've seen twenty eight,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's a running back exactly.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: That's a running back number. But okay, you know it's
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: now a wide receiver number. Levi Wentz. Okay, so that's him.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: It looks like we have Drew aller Odenwegien in the
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: slot as well. Yep. On that and leave wins.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: This is almost like your third fourth team.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, these are the guys that are actually going to
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: be in in these moments in the preseason and fourth quarter.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: So more realistic than you'd want to see. And that
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: was Jukuan Davis, right, yep, uh das Joaquin Davis like
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Joaquin Phoenix the same way.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And they got They had a minute thirty, so about
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: ninety seconds left on the clock when this started. Now
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: they're down to a minute three, so it looks like
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: they're stopping it. But the big clock off to the left, bax,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: that might be our that's left in.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: The practice that's your practice clock.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's three minutes. But the Steelers are no
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: rush here.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: So it might be oh and they're and oh they
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: got a procedural penalty. So they got a penalty. So
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: now they're backing up on this next week. They need
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: to get in.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Quite I was going to say that they're under three
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: minutes left for the I think what's allowed. Mike McCarthy
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: with a chuckle. So obviously trying to set his offense
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: up here Max, but one oh three and they're going
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to start that. Let's see from their own forty seven
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: this yard line we'll call it, and that is Drew
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: from Penn States. So well, just let's just walk you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: through here. Let's see what Aler does with this two
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: minute offense and tries to find Wigion but too high.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, tried to climb the staircase. Did not have it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Carson Brunner in coverage on that one, and so once
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: again little zone coverage there by the defense kind of
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: disguising it. So you're not going, man, Kayden Wegien, we
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: know it's very slippery fast. I mean I had a
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: bunch of his Iowa games back back over the last
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: couple of years, and I'm talking about six house calls
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: between punts did and kickoff returns. That's why out here
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: a depth chart. That's why he's your number one.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Part returner and kick returner.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's on the kick return so that's why he's
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: your number one guy. But also you want to see
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: what he can do offensively, because if you're getting a hat,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: you don't know what's gonna happen. Receiver goes down, you
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: gotta jump in. You have so you have to be
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: able to be multi position flexible.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Next man up, Drew Aller here just under two minutes
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: left on the practice clock and the game clock that
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: stopped for this sequence of a real game event fifty
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: eight seconds and going Aller, nice pass off to the left,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: but just a bit too low.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: For ruision and Weison was running across. And that was
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: old Darnell Savage, New Rashan Jackins twenty seven.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Take a name and we got another one. Yeah, I
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: mean you know Israel Mukuamu.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mcuamu comes in Vet. He was obviously a guy
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: that was with Mike McCarthy in Dallas. Drafted in the
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: sixth round there, I think in twenty one. Now now
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: you won't mistake him on the field. He's six four
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: to two fifteen wow, a defensive as a defensive backslash safety,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: big nickel. He's pretty much a defensive secondary piece and
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: also a core four special guys UH special team's candidate
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: as well. But it's it's chock full and now practice
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: officially over that they called it a minute twenty six early,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: so trying to bank some of that extra time that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you might need later in camp, because that's another thing
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: they can kind of bank time. Like I said, there's
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: a sliding scale about six minutes extra.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: And it's interesting when you said about the coaches coming down,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: because I think I'm starting to go into and we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: got distracted with what was going on the field. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Travis Homer has been the first Steeler down every day
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: since we started last week with heat acclamations, the work,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: the jugs machine in the right end zone. But he's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: down here, including today, like twenty five minutes before anyone
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: else is down. So as you said, that doesn't count
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: towards their their clock for this practice because no coaches,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: no coaches.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Are down here, so it's extra credit, so to speak.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: This is like going to study hall before class starts
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: and trying to get just a little extra work in
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: finish your homework from the night before. Maybe who knows,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: And those moments matter, and these environments people are watching
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: even when or not just talk about you. Guys have
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: noticed it. You blogged him as the number one guy
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: down here that matters, and coaches talk and people talk personnel, guys,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: we could stand up top and we can see the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: field ahead of time. I mean, fans get in here,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you know, thirty forty five minutes before, so they could
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: jock for their position down there, you know, on the
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: hill or you know, whether you're in the bleachers in
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: front of us here in the press box. But all
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: those things matter. People see that and they resonate that,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: and the work is the work got to put it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: And that's why guys stay after after practice to get
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: a little extra, you know, in their groups, or you
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: pull a guy from the opposite side to have a
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: quick little chit chat with him. Obviously, if you haven't
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: gotten into a fight with him, it's going to be
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: better to talk to that guy. You know. I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: think Ryan mccollin's gonna go ask Derek Harmon for anything
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: after he not right raw, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we could
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: talk tomorrow. You know, maybe if we're in the lunch
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: line we can have a conversation, but it definitely won't
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: be on the field. But that's what that's what this
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: environment is. So now it's done, guys are taking pads off,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: but you see everybody starting to separate into their little
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: groups and just do some extra work. Like right here,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we got Mason McCormick, Zach Frasier, Troy Fatanu, and Spencer
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Anderson walking to have a little corner. Dylan mccor Dylan
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Cook trailing behind McCollum, and uh, I can't tell because
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: once again, curled up numbers always makes that a fun
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: process to figure out. Looks like it might be a
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Greg Crippen rookie from Michigan also meandering over there on
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the sidelines. So you know, Broderick having a talk with
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: coach jar Evans, which anytime you get to talk with
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame caliber offensive lineman, that is always
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: a good thing to talk to. Now, Jarry was a guard,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: but he's talking to talking about tackle stuff.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: So well, I'm going to continue to pick the brain
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of an old offense. I'm not gonna say old, hold
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: on for a minute, hold on.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Former, Now here's the thing. We used to do this
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: all the time. Ractice that extra work, right, hey, endurance,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: because once again, we are the ironman. We are the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Marine Corps of this football. If we're going in the
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: military terms up front, and and we are expected to
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: play the entire time like there's no like, hey, we're
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: to call in support. Now. A year ago we would
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: have called it in Spencer Anderson's six offensive line to
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: run the footall that's a whole different story. But you
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: have to be able to run and you need the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: requisite endurance that's necessary. Now, Zach Spence and Troy Tale
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: of the tape, they ran a true half gasser. The
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: rest of the offense line literally ran across two fields.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: They went all the way down.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they went all the way straight. So that is uh,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: that's about one hundred and one hundred and seventeen yards.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Yea one way across. I do like the change the
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: direction aspect of it, but listen long distance, however, you
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: can get the work. You get the work. I mean
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: we're running, we're moving. That's the most important thing. And
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: that's more Mason and that's Mason McCormick led and Max.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: This is this is the players volunteering this right, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: mean after practice.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Nobody coaches them to do anything.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: This is the extra workers.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: This is the extra work that that's required. And like
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I said, as an offensive line, and it started my
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: rookie year, Jeff Harding's Allen Fanica, you know, Marvel Smith,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Oliver Ross Keydrick, Vincent, Kendall, Simmons, Barrett Brooks, Chucky at Kobe, like,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: those are the guys. I was a rookie with all
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: these veterans and I and you know, I definitely wasn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: maxianature where I had like a Jennings Duncan. I did
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: have a bow Lacey bow was. Bo was my buddy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: We were the two linemen that were drafted that year.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Bo was a sixth rounder. And then we brought in
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a guy by the name of Josh Parrish and Drew Taylor,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: where another two guys actually Drew was also drafted. So
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: three linemen. But but yeah, we were led by vets.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: So Alan Fanica wanted to run half gassers and Jeff
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Hardys wanted to red half gas. I guess what, we
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: all ran half gas. I'm not gonna do anything different.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: This guy has Pro Bowls and All Pro honors and
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: the other guy is a first round draft pick and
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Jeff Hardings that came over from Detroit, all Pro Bowl caliber,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: all Pro caliber guys. I'm gonna follow them because obviously
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: they know what it takes to stay on a team.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: So so yeah, so you followed them, and good to
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: see the leaders. Like I said, Zach Troy Mason and
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: McCollum all out there leading the charge on getting some
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: extra condition. It was anything basic. I mean we just
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: saw it two half gassers or one over and back
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: on the field at a good pace. But just something extra.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: This has already been a too iro intimate in practice
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: as long as they've done so far. But get a
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: little bit extra, little bit extra.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: We'll take a quick break. When we come back, we'll
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: get more here in the locker room with Max Starks.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: We're glad you could check out our continuing coverage of
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Day number eight of Pittsburgh Steelers Training Camp twenty twenty
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: six right here on Steelers Nation Radio in the Steelers
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Audio Network.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: This is live coverage out the twenty twenty six Steelers
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Training Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by pod Light,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Easy to Drink, easy to enjoy, and prought to you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: in part by Always Safe Flagging and Traffic Control making
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: traffic safe again called four one two three oh one
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: twenty three hundred or visit us online at awsafe dot
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: net for a quote today by FedEx the new power
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: move Independence Health System Expert Care here Remax Select Realty.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Visit Remax Select Pittsburgh dot com, the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Visit go Laurel Highlands dot com, the Steelers Pro Shop,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Lisidshop dot Steelers dot com and buy Candienta pizza and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: draft House.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Back here in Latroe, Saint Vincent College, Unity Township, beautiful
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Westmoreland County, as we like to say, it's day eight
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: coverage of Pittsburgh Steelers training Camp twenty twenty six right
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: here on Steelers Nation Radio and the Steelers Audio Network.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: We're in the locker room with Max Starks. I am
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: subbing in for Rob King. This is ED Troop along
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: with you here at SNR. We're with you up until
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: three o'clock when our good friend Wes Jeweler and Matt
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Williamson will go with the drive to get you through
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the rest here on day number eight, Max practice has
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: wrapped up here for the day and day number eight
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: we were talking earlier today about you know, Day one
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: was the first day in pads. It was a ramp
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: up period on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday a bit more
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: physical than what we saw on day one. We were
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: not here yesterday because the practice was not open to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the public. I would imagine Mike McCarthy in his soft game.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: They did a mock game. Okay, there you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Go, that's what that is the official title of it,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: but as a walk through practice and then yeah, because
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: he doesn't want to go three days in a row,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: so he wants to go two quote unquote hard practices.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: One day's a review kind of day. They kind of
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: take a breath and kind of do a cumulative review
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: of what we've learned thus far. So he likes to
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: do that just to make sure that the recall is
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: strong and that they're not really installing because they're throwing.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: The entire playbook was open since day one, so now
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: there's a chance to kind of go back over things
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: at a slower pace, but get still a lot of reps.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I mean they had I think, I want to say,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I think the average was like seventy reps and they
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: have both fields going at the same time, so you're
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: getting one hundred and forty reps that so long we
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: would not get in a practice environment out here. But
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: like you said, you also don't want to show everybody
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: how the sausage is made from a day to day purpose.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And the fans got to see one of the mock
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: games but this is now more strategic, more high level
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: and getting ready for game preps. So you know, no
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: eyes here so in case you have some some Belichick
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: alumni an audience.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: So there's a rhyme and reasons. That's why that announcement's made.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Do not yeah, don't show up on campus. You will
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: be turned away.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Imagine that. So there's a rhyme and reason to coach
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: McCarthy for the Wednesday not open to the public. It's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: a review day to get you ready for the rest
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: of the week. That makes sense. Today Thursday definitely a
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: bit more physical than we saw earlier in the week.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: We didn't have the individual battles a little bit down
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: here with the offensive line and defensive line.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I still did their O line, D line, and they
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: did some combination blocks in the run game today, which
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: was which was an addition. I guess because you have
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: more time, you can now start to integrate more of
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the run game combination battles. And this is what Mike
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: McCarthy kind of talked about, what's the best one to
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: two punch combinations on the offensive line. Set of worrying
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: about who's that individual positions, it's what do the best
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: two and three man combinations look like. So this was
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a first preview of the run gain side of that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: We'll obviously see some pass protection side of that come
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: later in camp, where you'll see double combos working twist
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: games against the defensive line. How do they communicate, how
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: do they bump off leveling so to speak, when a
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: guy makes the loop versus the guy that makes the penetration.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: So there's so many different elements you have to watch,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: and this is where it starts to get a little
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: bit more high level watching the offensive because I feel
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: like that's the only we and Rob and I talked
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: about this, that's only two true battles here in camp.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Everybody else you kind of know who's going to be
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the starter, you kind of know who's going to be
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: in the rotation for wide receiver, you know, quarterback, running back,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and everything else. But there's two open jobs on the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: right side that are available, right tackle and right guard.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: That's a good segue to this again with this initial
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: depth chart that came out, Spencer Anderson's you're starting right guard,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Dylan Cooks, you're starting right tackle. Now, that's pretty much
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: in line what we've seen so far here in camp.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Correct the number ones. They're the two on the right
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: side have lined up, Roger Jones listed as number two
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: tackle behind Troy Fontanu on the left side, Maxianachur, the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: first round draft pick, on the right side behind Dylan Cook.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: So far, Yeah, so far, that's how it's looked. I think,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: going into this first game, that's what you're probably gonna get.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I agree, and I think it's fair assessment, especially since
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you know that Aaron's actually going to be playing in
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: these preseason games. That's already been been charted and talked about.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: So first real access in twenty eighteen. Yeah for all
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: aa Ron jumping in there and of course against two
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: of his former teams in the preseason, right, getting the
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Packers and yeah, first two So Bills is like, ah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: you weren't a Bill, so we could just sit you out.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: This is another part of New York you didn't. He
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: didn't have to be in trip there too often.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny because we had Louis Lipp's former Pittsburgh
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: stewer wide receiver on our show with the Alumni. I
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: hear this morning and we talked to him about preseason
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: games and he said, back then, Chuck Nole was going
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: to win, although they played like five or six preseason
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: games at one time. He went after the starters played
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: because he wanted to win the preseason games even though
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: it didn't matter a little bit different today, But at
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: least for our purposes, as you said, it sounds like
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: at least number eight is going to get some action
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: as well as some of the other starters here in
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the next couple weeks.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I mean, if there's a guy that
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I think is not going to play or two, I
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: should say they'd be on the defense side of the ball.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: And number ninety in your playbooks, number one in your
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: hearts and jersey sales here for the Pittsburgh area, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: then number ninety seven, Right, Papa Bear is not going
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: to play in there, and I don't need him to.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: He's got fourteen prior years of preseason experience as we
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: can lean on. I think he can do that. But
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I think for Aaron this is a good exercise him
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: because once again he's readjusting himself to a system that
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: he already knows. Right, he ran in this system under
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy for thirteen years, but he also hasn't ran
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: in seven years, so it's been a minute. Let's go
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: get some live action rep so that Week one against
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the Falcons is not the first time we've all done
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: this drill before. And as we know, Mike McCarthy very
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: detailed oriented, just like Aaron Rodgers twenty one years and
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: still going to quarterback school. Hasn't quite got his post
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: secondary degree yet, so still working on some extra credits there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe he'll graduate, you know at the end
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: of this year, maybe Finger's crossed a spring graduate finally
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: with seventeen degrees by then. But you know, that's the process,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: and I think I think that's the right thing to do.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Like you just you got to move the body right,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: You've got to have a little bit of a live
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: game time feeling. Back when I played, that's what we did.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: We had four preseason games. Your starters were gonna ramp
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: up into that we're gonna get a series or two
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: in the first preseason game, second game, get a quarter.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Third game was really like our first half or dress rehearsal,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: dress rehearsal game. And then you maybe came out if
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: we had the ball first offense, you're going starting to
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: start the second half and then boom, bring it back
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and then last game that that's the bottom of the roster,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: trying to see who's gonna get cut or not. So
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: your starters maybe get a series in there, but your
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback will probably sit out. So you get your
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: rep with your number two just in case he has
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: to come in, get live game reps, and then boom done,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: ready for the season. Max.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I have to ask you about Maxionichory, the Steelers number
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: one draft pick. And I know you and Rob have
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: probably talked about this, but you haven't talked about it
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: with me.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And the especially this week, you know, in the last
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours, if if you turn
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: on social media and look around, he is the hot
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: topic right now here at Pittsburgh Sewers training camp of
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: how well he's done, specifically to the reps that he
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: did on Tuesday when he had to go up against
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the likes of TJ. Watt and Alex high Smith and
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Nick Herbig. He won. If you want to call win
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: or lose depending on how you wanted to find.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: An objective there with that one, I'm going to call
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: them victories not because I'm an offensive lineman, because I'm biased.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: And well, you should be my friend. But that was
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: the communication. That was the feedback that the number one
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: draft pick held his own and if not just holding
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: his own, won a lot of those battles.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he played well and I would say
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: easily probably had the most consistent performances across the offensive
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: line in those drills. I agree. So he got he
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: got a B plus plus from me day one.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: There you go, do creating scale.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, then you got a beat plus plus plus on
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: day two. So he will never get an A until
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: we've seen a preseason game and he's put it all
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: together in a competitive environment driving the football. But for
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: camp purposes, that's the highest he's gonna get. So he's
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: graded out the highest thus far. Guys have looked solid though.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I mean Mason McCormick and Zach Frazier. We know what
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: we're getting with them. We know what we're getting with
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: those two. They're solid, still steadily rising. I still want
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: to see a little bit of a bigger jump instead
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: of a step with them. Troy Fautanu, you know, had
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: really good reps and then got beat a couple times,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: which you know, adjusting to the left full speed, that's
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: gonna happen. He played all right tackle a year ago.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Still has to get the body in the right position
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: with the legs, so the biomechanics has to kick in there.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Roger Jones had a couple of good snaps and then
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: had a couple of bad ones. You know, he's and
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: he's swinging left and right on his responsibilities. Looks, of
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: course as good as I expect on the left side.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Solid right side was a little shaky. So when you're
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: thinking about out battling for the right tackle job, you're
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: also battling for that swing tackle job as well. So
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: there's two positions up at play at the tackle position
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: at the same time, just the same as the interior.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You're gonna have your starting right guard. Then you're gonna
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: have your swing interior guard who can play all three
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: in the middle. And so right now you have brock
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Hoffman's lotted. It is that guy that because he has
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: center experience as well, that could also do that, just
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: like Spencer Anderson. So there's four jobs technically on the line.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: You got one, you got you got right tackle, right guard,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: but you also got number six, number seven linemen.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You know, Max, I know, I know You're you're biased,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna tee this one up for you, but
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be biased with you on what I'm about
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to say next. I was driving up this morning. I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: was looking and thinking to myself. I wasn't looking while
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I was driving, but I was thinking to my No, no, we.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Never drive distracted, and we want you out there listening
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: on cars. The only due you will do is listening
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: and driving.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, exactly, yes, But I was thinking about the Steelers'
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: offensive rooms, uh, and specifically the offense, the quarterback room,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the running back room, receivers, tight ends, and then the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: offensive line group. I feel that this is the first
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: time in a long time that the strongest room right
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: now on this roster is the offensive line room. They're young,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they're strong. You have Zach Fraser, who's poised to become
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: maybe the best center, if not the second or third
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: best center in the National Football League this season. McCormick,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Strong Fontano as you just spoke to on the left side.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: They got this right side that they're trying to figure
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: out right now. But they have great options with Spencer Anderson,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Dylan Cook, maxionichor brock Hoffman. As you said, Roger Jones
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: still in the mix on both sides if you want
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: to plug him in there, if you have to. This
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: group is really strong right now and poised to maybe
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: maybe be one of the best, if not, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: one of the top five offensive linemen linemen in the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: National football.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: And we still got to think about Ryan McCollum, who's
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: been a long time backup and a good guy that's
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: come in and filled in when Zach Frazer got injured
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, so he's still in that mix.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: And then you got Jennings Dunker. Of course, the flaming
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: hot Cheeto himself coming in here. Took Pittsburgh I storm when
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: he got drafted. Still love that guy. Best hair in football.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah you got I mean, you got those guys. You
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: got Jack driscoll that's in the mix. You got a
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: couple other rookies. So there's a lot of talent and depth,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: and you're right, I think it's the deepest room we
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: have talent wise, because there's untapped and there's also proven talent,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: and that's when you're talking about having a football team.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: You need that mix constantly. And it's also a lot
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: of that's home grown outside of brou k Hoffman. All
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: these guys were handpicked by the Steelers, whether it's draft picks,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: are undrafted free agents. So that's a good place to be,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: and that's what you want to be. You don't want
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: to be in the mercenary business where you're just picking
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: up free agents to plug and play every single year.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Ala Cleveland, Alla, Houston, Texas. Anyways, I'm not gonna get
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: buy it that, but that's that's where you're at because
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: you're bringing guys into you know, already fit your culture,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and you're not trying to retro fit guys and also
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: unlearning them to what they are, what they've known, and
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: then reinstitute new policies in these guys are growing up
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: in the culture as NFL athletes.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: And it was not that case for aut here. Yeah,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: up front, I mean there were a lot of moving parts,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: some injuries, guys coming in coming out. You know, each year,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I felt like each week, I'm sure when you rub
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and prior to rob, you know, when you guys, yeah
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: with Wolf, when you guys would sit down and look
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: at this offensive line, you'd have to piece together, what's
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: it gonna look like?
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: He see Cole James Daniels. I want to see a malu. Now. Granted,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: some of those guys fit better than others, but still
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: a lot of turnover and figuring out. Kendrick Green was
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: a former d lineman that was learning to be an
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: offensive lineman. So you're right, you didn't get professional linemen
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: out of the way that were drafted here. A lot
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: of those guys had to be supplemented through free agency
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: and through you know, signings throughout the off season or trades.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: So now you're actually, this is this is what it's
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: supposed to look like. Right, it's supposed to look like
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: draft pic, draftic, draftic, draft pick, draftick, undrafted, free agent, signed,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: has been here his entire career. All those are kind
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: of how you have to look at an offensive line
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: room because it also is the largest concentration of your
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: team resources. So of the fifty three of available, eight
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: to nine of those guys are in the offensive line room.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Including three first round draft picks in the last four years.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Right, yes, three of your first first rounders.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Yep, And uh, they're in a good spot, that's for sure.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And again, it's a good problem to have when you're
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: sitting here having a debate in August about Spencer Anderson,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Dylan Cook, Maxiona Chore, gonna throw brock Hoffmin in there,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: who I think is nasty. I thought that was a
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: great free agent pickup that the Steelers added into this
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: room in the off season.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you need you need the vet, you need the
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: adult in the room. So now, granted, the guys are
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: gaining a lot of experience and they're becoming more adult like,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: but like I said, I mean, if we're talking about
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: toddler years, they're just eating solid foods. So they're still
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: a very young group.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: There still more to do.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, still more to do, and Isaac Ciamala was that
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: voice to kind of stabilize that for a number of years. Now,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: insert brock Hoffman as kind of that vet in the room.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: That's gonna, that's gonna, that's gonna round things out and
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: allow this group to really grow. But also know that
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: you have a steady vet in there. And he also
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: he's he's a he's a Mike McCarthy alumnus, So.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Mike Mike McCarthy and offensive minded head coach for sure.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: And with this offensive line, he wants them to protect
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: a veteran quarterback and Aaron Rodgers that they're gonna have
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: to and a running game in which they're looking to
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: get more out of with Jalen Warren and now Rico Donald.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that backfield, you know, and you know
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: having Rico come in here, and you know he's one
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: of those guys we talk about. He's as advertised, you know,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: a guy who comes versatile, three slash four down back.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: As Mike pursuita to try to correct me, I'm like,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: fourth down, I'm picking Cam Johnson in the backfield that
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Rico Dowell. Okay, unless like fourth and one, fourth and two,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: but its fourth and six. Bring Cam in, punt the
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: ball and he's gonna punt it a mile, So I
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: trust I trust his leg better in that. But a
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: three down back one that Mike McCarthy talked about a
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: couple of days ago in his press conference, I don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: want to have to think about who's in the backfield
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: on third down. I'm worried about calling the right play,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: and that's what I need these backs to be able
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: to do. Three down versatile. So, like you said, Jalen Warren,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: we know, we know that he's going to be a
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: three down back. Rico Dawdle showing us all signs in
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: his as, I says, three down back. Now, who's that
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: third guy? Is it Caleb Johnson? Is it Lou Nichols?
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Is it Travis Homer? Is it Eli heiden Reich? And
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: we know Riley Milkowski is just he's a He's a fullback.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: That's what he's built for, That's what God intended him
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: to be. He's a guy, yeah, and he looks at
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: every part of it. A lot of muscle there. So
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: that's your rotation. So who's gonna be number three? Can
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Caleb Johnson, you know, rebound from last year he was
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: in the doghouse with Arthur Smith. But new coach, new staff,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: new opportunity. Can he go and take that third running
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: back position.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: We talked a bit about Caleb Johnson during our broadcast
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: here earlier today Max with Brian Becko and Chris Adamski,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, he hasn't done anything to hurt himself,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I think so far. But the same time, he hasn't
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: done anything where we go, wow, Caleb Johnson's back. I
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's a good thing, right. He needs
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: those wild moments in this training camp. He hasn't gotten
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: him yet. But in his defense, it's a tough for
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: room to get those reps. It's been a lot of
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren, ric O'Donnell. But one thing I think that
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: was telling today was when they went for that third look,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: it was Travis Homer who was getting a lot of
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: those looks, not Caleb Johnson.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: And we talked about in that two minute drill, the
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Franco moment session the most session. Yeah, it was Travis Homer, right,
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: and he and he actually got to pass in the middle.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: So yeah, Caleb Johnsons gonna have to fight a lot
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: because like you said, uh, this is a very packed room.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, Lou Nichols look good a year ago in camp.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And the preseason.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: So it's like, so there's a guy who has something
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: to prove and he got another shot, another bite at
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: the apple. So what is he gonna do? And like
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: you said, Travis Homer getting some early looks here with
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Drew Aller and Will Howard, they're throwing the football. So
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Caleb Johnson, you got you gotta you gotta come along.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: But that running back room, I feel good about it
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: because there's versatility back there. Once again, another deep group,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: not as deep as the old line. But this is
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: what we're talking about, Like, there's no real thin groups
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: here at camp where it has been in years past.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: You're like, ah, we go past the starters. I don't.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know here. I feel comfortable. We could run
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: two full lines and you've got quality guys across the board,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: your TV.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: And it's a weird conversation to have when your team
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: MVP and Kenny Gamewell leaves via free agency. But yeah,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: you still feel good about that room. And in fact,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna whisper this Max when I say this, but
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I don't even feel a little bit better with this
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: room this year than I did a year ago. And
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: no disrespect to Kenny g Hey, look he got paid,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: he moved on. But when you lose your team MVP
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: at that position, you're thinking yourself, where do we go
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: from here? But I feel good about this group.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look at Seattle lost Kenneth Walker, who
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: was a Super Bowl Super Bowl VP, not just TV,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: was m VP of the biggest game of the year,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: and he was able to walk in Seattle hasn't missed
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: a beat either, So you know, I think that's what
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: it comes to. But that's also trusting that in that
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: group up top the scouting department, your management, Omar Khan
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: at the head, at the head of that triangle of
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: of of of individuals. He is the head of that.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Andy Whidel is a support guy. And they knew they
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: could go in free agency and replace that skill set
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: and still give this team an opportunity. Hints insert Rico
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: into the conversation. And as we've seen in camp, look
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: good three down backs. Mike McCarthy doesn't have to change
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: who's in there and try and insert them into the offense.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: And I think you're right when you talk about Kenny Gainwell,
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: where did Canwell make his hey third down? He was
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: a third down back out of the backfield, and he
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: was a change up to Jalen Warren. And Caleb Johnson
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: was just kind of a plugger and chugger. You know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: we're we're gonna see him first and second down. But
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: that's what Caleb Johnson now gets the opportunity to do
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: is do you have the hands out of the backfield?
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Can you be a three down back? Can you be
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: that guy that can come over and blitz pick up
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: and pick up that back or that's blitzing off off
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: the blind side that the quarterback doesn't see. You're the
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: hot guy and you gotta make the quarterback right. Those
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: are the little things they're gonna see, and so great
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: opportunity there is. There's a lot of open battles, but
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: they're just not frontline starting positions, and they're right there.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Third running back is the question that we're looking at
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: in camp. Who's gonna be number three? We know who
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: the top two are. Who's gonna be number three that
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: can round out that room?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You'd have to think it's Travis Homer out in front
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: of Caleb Johnson and Loud Nichols, but still more to come,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: and maybe Caleb Johnson, as you said, with a new
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: coaching staff, works his way back into good graces with
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: that room. Whenever we come back, we'll talk some defense
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: with Max Starks here in the locker room. We've talked
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: to all offense here in our number one, but now
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: our number two, let's talk Pittsburgh Steelers defense. That what
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: we've seen so far a week now here into training camp.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Along with Max Starks in the locker room. I'm at TRUP.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I'm subbing in for Rob King this afternoon right here,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: continuing coverage of Day eight coverage of Pittsburgh Steelers training
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Camp twenty twenty six right here on Steelers Nation Radio
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: and the Steelers Audio Network.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: This is live coverage OP Dot twenty twenty six Steelers
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Training Camp or the Steelers Audio Network, presented by bud Light,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Easy to Drink, easy to enjoy, and brought to you
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: in part by your neighborhood Ford Store creator, Pittsburgh Community
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Food Bank First the National Bank. Let's get started FDIC
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: West Shore Home we Modeling we Imagine by Leecom Digital,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Dons Appliances Visit Donsappliances dot Com guaranteed lowest prices, free
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: next day delivery. CGR Wholesale and hass Is Steak in Seahouse.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Haws Is Is Hospitality.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Back at Saint Vincent College and Latroe, Pennsylvania. Day eight
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: continuing coverage of Pittsburgh Steelers' training Camp twenty twenty six
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: right here on Steelers Nation Radio and the Steelers Audio Network.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: We are in the locker room with Max Starks and
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Rob King Rob Off this afternoon. So I'm at troop
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm subming in for Rob Max. You know, right now,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: practice just let up for the first practice of two
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: for today. This is the first one with pads. There's
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: a walkthrough later on this afternoon that the team usually
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: does here from Saint Vincent College. It is not open
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: to the public or us here in the media. But
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: what do you do during this time? Do you do
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: you grab some lunch? Do you go take a nap?
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Do you watch film? Is it a little bit of
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: everything here going into the early afternoon hours.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Uh so, mindset for myself here as I was in
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: the two to one two era and that's not an
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: area code. That was two days, two practices a day
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: to one practice a day and then back to two
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and kind of did that shower, shower, go eat, no eat,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: got to refill the tank listen. You know, as ye
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Black has coined his uh training camp look free the gut, Well,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: you got to feed the gut too, So feed the
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: gut first and then kind of get off your feet
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: for a couple because then they go into meetings now
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: with the new ruling since the new CBA, no two
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: a days. But you can't have a quote unquote walk through,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: and they usually do that in the gym or the
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: or the indoor facilities. Sometimes they come out here on
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: the field and do a detailed scripted walkthrough, so you
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: just want to get off your feet, don't don't want
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: to nap just yet, and then there's plenty of meetings
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: in between. You'll kind of get the first re action
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: from practice film. You know, coaches will and then here
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: here's the thing, so coaches what they'll do quick lunch
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: and then they go straight to film and then they're
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: ready for the next film session and then they walk
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: through so they're kind of getting getting their barriers, and
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: then you get a little break after that dinner time
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: you can kind of meander a little bit more and
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: take your time off, get get off your feet. Then
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: you have evening meetings, night meetings, and then you break
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: down for the night. You have team snack at the end,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: and then it's it's rinse and repeat for the next day.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Because that's how the schedule is dictated now the new
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: collective bargaining agreement maximize the off time, so maximize off
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the feet time. But you definitely can't take a nap.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: The nap time is gone. It usually was in the
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: mornings before the one pm practices with Mike Taiban, but
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: now with that eleven am you got a seven am
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: wake up call and you're you're at it early morning meetings,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: walkthroughs in the gym, then you get a break to
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: grab like your lift in. And also I'll also say this,
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: if you didn't get your lift in in the morning,
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: which a lot of vet's usually like to get their
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: lift ins in the morning, you then come in the
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: afternoon after practice, get a quick little thirty minute lift,
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: then go eat, then get a little off time, and
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: then go to meetings quickly.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: What did you prefer when it came to the lifting,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Lifting in the morning or.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Get it out the way. Yeah, I get it out
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: the way. I don't. I don't want to think about
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: it now. Now it's a different story. It's whenever I'm
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: literally feeling language is almost never. But but yeah, back
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: in the day, it was get the early morning lift
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: because I want to. I wanted that out of the way,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: cause especially on two days, like I don't want to
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: have to try and lift in between padded practices, Like
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: that's just a recipe for disaster. Some guys love that
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: James Harrison couldn't get them out of the gym, But me, no,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: get it in the morning, get get it done. Yeah,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I'm a morning person too, you get your work, and
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's a morning person too. That's why they start
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: seven thirty in the morning for a lot of their
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: team meetings before they get into their practices here at
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. As he said at the beginning of this camp,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: I like to get my work in early and then
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: ease out as the day goes on. So I'm with
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: you there as well more whenever we come back here
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: in the locker room with Max Stark's am Ed Troop
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: and for Rob King, It's day eight, continuing coverage of
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers training Camp twenty twenty six right here on
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio and the Steelers Audio Network.