PMS 2.0 1383 - TJ Watt & Cam Heyward, Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin, Danny Smith, Gene Steratore, Omar Khan, Pittsburgh Dad, Mark Kaboly

Speaker 1 Beautiful people

Speaker 1 and welcome to the hollow grounds of St. Vincent College on this final Wednesday

Speaker 1 football

Speaker 3 this lovely place home since 1966.

Speaker 7 This beautiful Catholic college has been the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp.

Speaker 11 Every Pittsburgh Steeler that has just crossed your mind has worked their ass off on the fields behind us here today.

Speaker 16 Just like this team that has been reimagined in a brand new way to put a press for a Super Bowl, the boys are buzzing. The city is electrifying.

Speaker 17 And this is one of those things that if you're a football fan, you have to experience.

Speaker 21 The lines to get into this training camp every single day are hours and hours.

Speaker 24 Yensers travel from all over the country to come watch the boys put in work here at St.

Speaker 26 Vincent College.

Speaker 6 And if you think about Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is a hard-working city. You think about Western Pennsylvania, you think about Dobbs.
That is what training camp is all about.

Speaker 11 Coach Mike Tomlin will be here today.

Speaker 6 TJ Watt will join us today. Cam Hayward will join us today.

Speaker 30 Aaron Rodgers will join us today.

Speaker 17 David Smith will join us today.

Speaker 11 Omar Kahn, the general manager, will join us today.

Speaker 6 And I think we'll have a show that'll be able to showcase one of the greatest football towns in the history of this sport for a few hours before they kick off their first full-padded practice here at St.

Speaker 26 Vincent College.

Speaker 36 Now, West Geneva,

Speaker 31 Mama,

Speaker 31 take me on

Speaker 31 a trial.

Speaker 38 You're going to have a lot of people from West Virginia here as well because the Mountaineers are all the way back.

Speaker 32 as well.

Speaker 40 Now, it's not just me, obviously.

Speaker 41 I have a great group of people around me.

Speaker 14 The Toxic Table is here at Ty Schmidt at Boston Connor.

Speaker 19 We'll start with you, Ty.

Speaker 19 Ty, we've been back to Pittsburgh a few times.

Speaker 6 Got a chance to go to a Pirates game. Obviously, we had a big night out a few months ago.
It was electrifying.

Speaker 26 It was awesome. This place is great.

Speaker 42 We've been to a Penguins game. Sell the teeth.
Sell the teeth.

Speaker 39 Whoa, the penguins? Back to Mario?

Speaker 43 They're talking about the Pirates, I believe.

Speaker 44 I think they're still talking about the Pirates.

Speaker 6 I don't think it's the Penguins we're talking about.

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 31 Mario's trying to buy it. Shit, bro.

Speaker 46 Mario is trying to buy it back.

Speaker 47 That's the owner of the Pirates.

Speaker 46 They're talking about the Pirates.

Speaker 48 Okay, all right, so now we move forward.

Speaker 6 Pittsburgh is a football town through and through. That's what it is.

Speaker 34 And it's a beautiful experience here at St. Vincent College to celebrate all of it.

Speaker 49 Yes, the best.

Speaker 37 Tony and I talk about this all the time.

Speaker 51 Here we go.

Speaker 37 I mean, what else needs to be said? The energy, the atmosphere around here, it's incredible.

Speaker 52 I'm a Packers fan.

Speaker 53 This, this, I mean, if I was a fan of a different team in the NFL, the easy counterpart, if you're a Packers fan, you look towards the AFC, it's the Steelers.

Speaker 54 It's the Steelers.

Speaker 53 I mean, the two organizations that are run a very similar way, I mean, you're not getting this everywhere. You're not getting this everywhere in the NFL.

Speaker 56 It just, it feels like we're ready for football.

Speaker 53 It feels like the season starts on Sunday. It's incredible, and it's a testament to all these fans that came out here today.

Speaker 47 Yeah, and they're not the only ones.

Speaker 6 There'll be thousands more that will litter through both the fan zone, the merch area.

Speaker 57 There's a other gathering.

Speaker 20 I think there's two.

Speaker 59 two youth teams from around Pittsburgh that come every single day. They go through some drills.

Speaker 25 They get a chance to meet the boys.

Speaker 6 It's been here for almost 60 years. Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Speaker 16 Tom, Cowboys, AP Tone, Pittsburgh resident, diehard Steeler fan.

Speaker 16 Tone,

Speaker 16 Tone,

Speaker 37 you've been getting a rash, a little bit of zipper burn all morning.

Speaker 6 And obviously the people showing you love here and a big night out has been beautiful to watch.

Speaker 57 I'm proud of you.

Speaker 6 But this is really an important piece of the entire puzzle.

Speaker 5 A lot of new faces on this Pittsburgh Steeler team.

Speaker 6 This team is being constructed differently than any other Steelers team of the past.

Speaker 62 Feels like training camp matters a little bit more right now.

Speaker 8 Yes, there it is. There's one of them.

Speaker 64 There's one of them.

Speaker 1 Not to mention.

Speaker 36 One of them.

Speaker 65 One of them.

Speaker 8 Jalen Ramsey, John U.

Speaker 67 Smith, Darius Slay, and Aaron Rodgers, all the others.

Speaker 36 But no, I went up and down.

Speaker 68 Boom. Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 60 These guys have been with the team for two weeks and they're already loved around here because if you become a Steeler, you're loved around here.

Speaker 72 We landed here this morning.

Speaker 47 You could just feel the Lombardies coming out of these sweet rolling hills.

Speaker 67 I looked at the roster the other day we are better in literally every single position than we were last year it is Super Bowl or bust this year for the Pittsburgh nine-year NFL vet Darius J butler is here

Speaker 4 bebuts we're back at training camp we're in a dorm up here we're in a dorm up here just kind of before the show had air conditioning that was nice it's hot as shit here in these hills of western pennsylvania and actually mike tomlin was on the record as stating last year they practiced in the morning and he said it wasn't hot enough let's move it to the afternoon We let the environment kind of harden the boys before they head out there for a season.

Speaker 5 But it has been nice to feel like we're in training camp here for the last like five, six hours.

Speaker 82 Yeah, these are the dog days. This is when the foundation of your team is built.
Every year, every year the team is different. You're bringing a new quarterback.
You got all these different players.

Speaker 82 You staying on the campus. You're sticking with each other.
You're spending time with each other. You're really building that foundation for the season.
I can't wait.

Speaker 82 till after the show to actually get out get a chance to check out practice man see these new guys yeah it should be fun to see the new guys You're talking about Jalen.

Speaker 85 I can't wait. I think one-on-ones are happening out here.

Speaker 36 Him and DK will be box office if that's possible.

Speaker 34 There's also one-on-one, so we'll see the D-lines get after it.

Speaker 42 We'll see the running backs and the linebackers get after it.

Speaker 44 And on that note, Jalen Ramsey, absolute beast, flies around like a, he's like a Terra Dak.

Speaker 49 Like the way he moves, it's outrageous.

Speaker 10 Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, a college football champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner, a man who's a former president of Ohio, and loyal Cincinnati Bengal.

Speaker 49 Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawkins.

Speaker 89 Early thoughts on St. Vincent as well.

Speaker 60 Why'd he do that to you? Hey, St.

Speaker 47 Vincent is beautiful.

Speaker 47 Oh, Bengals.

Speaker 89 Okay. Woo.

Speaker 90 I respect it. They say the same thing back.

Speaker 82 But Pittsburgh's had a lot of success against the Bengals.

Speaker 92 I agree.

Speaker 93 I understand.

Speaker 92 It's a respectable organization.

Speaker 95 But if you mentioned, your new quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, mentioned when he got here how much he loves this dorm.

Speaker 60 I think he stayed here a night before he even had to.

Speaker 94 It's like St.

Speaker 93 Norbert's, what they used to stay at in Green Bay. They still do from back in the day when Bart Starr was there.
So a lot of similarities, a lot of carryover, I feel.

Speaker 96 Brother, you know who's been around these parts?

Speaker 69 How about Mean Joe Green?

Speaker 37 You can feel it.

Speaker 37 How about Lynn Swan?

Speaker 97 How about the wheels on the bus go riding, ride,

Speaker 97 ride,

Speaker 97 ride.

Speaker 48 Jerome Bennis used to run his big ass all around these hills and they'll run all over people.

Speaker 98 Heinz Ward and the incomparable Ben Roethesberger found his way as a Steeler here.

Speaker 13 And joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is two men that'll go down as Pittsburgh Steelers forever.

Speaker 9 Guy's been here for 15 years.

Speaker 10 The other's been here for nine.

Speaker 86 They just got a deal done with one of them, and the other one is the Walter Payton Man of the Year every single year.

Speaker 88 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now:

Speaker 63 Perennial Pro,

Speaker 63 TJ Watt,

Speaker 63 and Cam

Speaker 63 Hayward.

Speaker 63 Ladies and gentlemen, one more time. Cam Hayward, 2 January.

Speaker 63 Cam.

Speaker 63 Anybody can get it right now.

Speaker 86 And that's what training camp is all about.

Speaker 86 You're entering your 15th year, I do believe, all here with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 26 I believe that's a carryover from the previous chant right there, if you're wondering.

Speaker 25 TJ, any facial expression that you make right now will be judged by everybody in Cleveland and across the NFL.

Speaker 34 But it has to feel good to get the love from these people and also get your business handled before you get here and have a magical training camp.

Speaker 106 Best fans in the world, man.

Speaker 56 I'm glad we got the deal done so I could be here in front of everybody, man.

Speaker 24 There's no place like with Grove, man.

Speaker 7 Let's talk about it, Cam.

Speaker 107 15th year you're going into it.

Speaker 26 Mark Caboli, obviously, Steelers correspondent for our show, said he's been coming up here 20 years.

Speaker 35 This has been the hottest it's been up here.

Speaker 4 Do you feel as if this camp has been a little bit hotter, a little bit more drooling?

Speaker 87 What are your thoughts on the current camp thus far?

Speaker 47 Man, the weather's been a little bit wild, but

Speaker 109 I guess from the time being, I think it's been the hottest we've ever had. So it's a lot of fun, though.

Speaker 81 Okay, enjoying the team.

Speaker 86 You have the light.

Speaker 46 Everybody loves Cam. Watch Bateman here, been here for 15 years, gives back to the community.

Speaker 2 Dad, a part of the team.

Speaker 46 Brother, a part of the the team.

Speaker 108 I mean, it's the Hayward family has certainly done a lot for the Steelers.

Speaker 86 Now, let's talk about your offseason a little bit.

Speaker 47 Mine or his? Yours.

Speaker 74 And yours in a second.

Speaker 111 Cam.

Speaker 16 So, after you talk shit about Aaron Rodgers, okay, you then said,

Speaker 86 you then said,

Speaker 87 you said, we're getting a little older, and I think everybody kind of feels that we need to go for it.

Speaker 35 You said that on your podcast, which is great.

Speaker 111 Not just football.

Speaker 91 Great podcast.

Speaker 86 Great show. Great interviews.

Speaker 26 Great conversations.

Speaker 34 Hayden, Richard Sherman, we're awesome.

Speaker 113 But on that note, does it feel as if this year everybody's kind of focused on one thing and we're going all in?

Speaker 8 It has to, right?

Speaker 115 I think every year we're like that.

Speaker 110 You know, every time we get a chance to lace them up, you got TJ over there.

Speaker 109 You know, years past, we've had Ben.

Speaker 109 You know, I don't take it for granted, but I have the privilege of every year we try to compete. And I'm very thankful to have Mike T and Omar doing that for us.

Speaker 34 Your relationship with Coach Tomlin is awesome to watch in Hard Knocks.

Speaker 35 Basically, they're going in for halftime.

Speaker 85 I forget what game it was.

Speaker 98 And Tomlin looked at you and was like, hey, if your group starts playing well, we're gonna win this game.

Speaker 34 He looked at you as like an assistant coach.

Speaker 120 Obviously, 15 years here, you and Mike have been through a lot.

Speaker 122 Elder statesman, no longer, though, because old ass Aaron's here.

Speaker 103 How is that kind of going?

Speaker 109 He's old on that side of the ball, and I'm old on this side of the ball. Um, with Mike T,

Speaker 109 he knows if my group's getting called out, I'm gonna respond to it. And, you know, I live and die by guys like him.

Speaker 115 So, if they play well, I play well.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I love the relationship you have with Tom.

Speaker 34 Let's talk about TJ.

Speaker 102 TJ, so rich.

Speaker 49 So rich. Wow.

Speaker 36 TJ walked too, man.

Speaker 77 TJ Watt.

Speaker 123 108. 108.
108.

Speaker 26 That's the amount of millions you signed for, obviously.

Speaker 87 Congratulations on that.

Speaker 44 Business out of the way.

Speaker 124 Full focus on season.

Speaker 118 Whenever that's all going on, how much do you let like agents and other people deal with it?

Speaker 29 And how much are you worried about getting yourself ready for a season?

Speaker 126 I'm always getting myself ready for the season regardless of what is happening.

Speaker 126 I think the second time around, you're more involved with your agents than the the first time for sure just because you're older and more mature.

Speaker 56 You know how the business works.

Speaker 126 But we always knew a deal was going to get done. I'm glad it got done when it did.

Speaker 108 You guys added somebody on the back end that's a freak.

Speaker 127 D-Butt has a question for you.

Speaker 82 Yeah, Jalen Ramsey, obviously added DK on the offensive side of the ball, bringing in Jalen Ramsey. How has it been so far with him?

Speaker 82 Because look, you guys are our favorite friends on the back end, but how has his energy been with the team so far?

Speaker 128 It's been huge, and it goes both ways.

Speaker 126 I mean, he's the Swiss Army knife of our defense right now. You're going to see him playing every position.
You're going to see him playing man.

Speaker 66 And anytime those guys lock down just for an extra half a second, we love it because it allows us to get to the quarterback.

Speaker 109 Yeah, I think just with Jalen, it's not just what he does when the play is snapped. It's what he's doing before the play.
His disguise, his level of professionalism is just on display for everybody.

Speaker 109 And so, like, that first pick Aaron threw to Patrick Queen, that was because of Jalen. So seeing him out there, I'm excited to see what he's going to do this year.

Speaker 120 Yeah, and obviously the world reacted to Aaron throwing a pick to somebody in training camp.

Speaker 129 You know, a a lot of reactions in training camp.

Speaker 85 That's kind of a part of the world they're in, especially whenever you get thousands,

Speaker 85 thousands of people at every single practice.

Speaker 130 Go ahead, AJ.

Speaker 93 Yeah, for both of you, but TJ first, what's it like with Aaron in camp? Like, what has it been? Obviously, the hoop wall that surrounds a guy like him, but then actually going against him in practice.

Speaker 93 I think today's, what, first day of pads, probably, so you get a really good look at it. But what's that like having a vet like him come in here?

Speaker 126 Frustrating because he talks a lot of smack.

Speaker 47 He really does.

Speaker 131 After line of scrimmage, is he saying stuff to you at the line of scrimmage?

Speaker 126 Yeah, and I think a lot of the no-look passes are things that we're getting used to.

Speaker 126 I like to bat down a lot of passes, line of scrimmage, and he's able to manipulate the defense good, so that's been very frustrating.

Speaker 128 Hopefully, today we get the better of him.

Speaker 131 You can?

Speaker 91 Is he annoying to go against him?

Speaker 74 He talks about his scrimmage.

Speaker 113 How about his cadence?

Speaker 95 If he's trying to get you with a cadence.

Speaker 60 Yeah, I'm trying to learn the cadence right now.

Speaker 109 His cadence is deadly.

Speaker 115 The thing he does better than anybody, he knows how to abuse a play clock.

Speaker 109 So we have it out during crash.

Speaker 109 And it's ridiculous, but it's going to make us better.

Speaker 85 Yeah, but you got to remember, too, when that play clock's going down and you guys got him, there's a fucking quick.

Speaker 22 He's the fastest one of these at like 0.05 or whatever.

Speaker 118 He is getting it.

Speaker 5 Wants to understand everything that's going on.

Speaker 20 And I, as a friend of Aaron and guy that has watched him and followed his career and watched him last year with the New York Jets, towards the end of the career, I think the narrative was like, oh, this guy doesn't got it anymore.

Speaker 57 It's like, if you watch the back half of that season, they became what everybody thought they were going to be.

Speaker 20 What you're seeing out here, how does it feel to watch them spin it?

Speaker 5 We're still at an elite level, and is there any shit talking between you and he?

Speaker 36 Because you did, remember, tell him you either come to the team or get the hell out of time.

Speaker 47 He came to the team.

Speaker 77 Yes, he did. Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.

Speaker 31 Yes, he did.

Speaker 109 But, you know, I think when you talk about Aaron, he talks a lot of crap, but man, I love how he goes about his work. He approaches it the right way.
He's asking questions.

Speaker 109 He's been asking us about week one, how to prepare for that, night meetings. You know, he's all about being locked in with this group, which is great.

Speaker 33 Yeah, I heard his terrible teammate, though.

Speaker 35 You know, it seems like

Speaker 44 that is what everybody but his teammate says about him in the media.

Speaker 85 Go ahead, tell him.

Speaker 66 Boys, first and foremost, Father Paul just blessed us up there, so I think I could say, God bless all of you.

Speaker 74 God bless Father Paul.

Speaker 123 Oh, shout up.

Speaker 47 Oh, there he is.

Speaker 91 There it is, right there.

Speaker 10 Father Paul dressed like a monk, but he is a priest.

Speaker 87 There are monks here, though.

Speaker 86 There are monks on this campus.

Speaker 41 Remby? Do you know that?

Speaker 46 You're going to have a microphone, TJ. Jesus Christ,

Speaker 66 but we all know, we've seen it many, many times from your brother, JJ Watt. He knows how to post an Instagram photo with the lighting, with the oil, and everything like that.

Speaker 66 You recently posted an Instagram photo after your workout with Herbing, and you've got quads attached to your shoulders now. Is this the biggest you've been coming into camp?

Speaker 135 No, that's the power of the pump, my friend.

Speaker 47 Okay.

Speaker 126 If there's anything JJ's taught me, it's to stand on the outside, always stand about a half yard in front of the next guy and get the absolute pump as late as you possibly can before the picture.

Speaker 37 Do you want to look good?

Speaker 31 Look at you.

Speaker 1 All right, boy, you look like you have the quad on your arm.

Speaker 25 Cannot wait to watch you work.

Speaker 87 Thank you for stopping by.

Speaker 48 First day of full pads.

Speaker 31 Good luck on the season.

Speaker 136 Congrats on the incredible careers thus far.

Speaker 6 And 108 million is a lot of money for anybody. You're the man.

Speaker 16 You've earned it. Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 32 as Cam Hayward and TJY exit the stage, I will say TJ just threw a hat out into the crowd.

Speaker 77 And I believe

Speaker 136 we almost had our first full scrum.

Speaker 119 We almost had our first full scrum.

Speaker 138 Yeah, good catch by that camera.

Speaker 67 I saw the whole thing.

Speaker 31 He's got a good flow to it.

Speaker 19 Because if that hits the ground,

Speaker 49 ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 111 four time NFL MVP. Love you.

Speaker 89 Super Bowl champion.

Speaker 28 The starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 28 Helmet, they're selling yellow. Don't roll your ankle on a helmet.

Speaker 28 Good for Daddy Rogers.

Speaker 114 Mr. Rogers here.

Speaker 61 We told you, and you know this because of how many Pittsburgh people you've been around and your respect and appreciation for the sport and the league as a whole.

Speaker 57 You knew Pittsburgh was a football town, always have.

Speaker 4 Now you get a chance to be the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.

Speaker 16 Has that been a cool thing for you? Like, legitimately, has that been a cool moment?

Speaker 4 I've seen the pictures.

Speaker 26 They're posting you in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform.

Speaker 139 And as a kid that grew up here, that's like a really cool thing for us to see.

Speaker 16 I'm wondering on your side of it, being a Pittsburgh Steeler how it feels.

Speaker 106 I mean, Pittsburgh is one of the cornerstone franchises in the NFL.

Speaker 106 Everybody knows who they are. There's only a few of them.
But it's just different here.

Speaker 106 There's a level of expectation based on the excellence that's happened here where you kind of come in and you expect to fall in the line

Speaker 106 to embody what it means to be a Steeler. And

Speaker 106 I really appreciate that because I've been in Green Bay for 18 years and it's the same thing there.

Speaker 27 Yeah, because Green Bay, that's literally what Ty said. Ty said, if I looked from the NFC over to the AFC, I would say the Green Green Bay Packers or the AFC is the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 35 Just storied franchise to get season tickets here.

Speaker 85 It's like a 30-year waiting period, just like it is at Green Bay.

Speaker 108 Away games.

Speaker 44 You'll see terrible towels in every stadium.

Speaker 103 And now they're attacking your previous employer, which I certainly love.

Speaker 85 These people, I told you this whenever you signed here, I said, hey, you win a Super Bowl for the city of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 44 They will murder people and bury the bodies for you.

Speaker 125 Yes.

Speaker 37 You tell me where, brother.

Speaker 122 Now, they're already chanting your name. You've been here here for two weeks.

Speaker 87 How has it been with the fans and the Insers in experiencing life here at Training Camp at St.

Speaker 106 Fincy?

Speaker 106 I love the Insers. I've been around them my entire career.
You guys know Big Mike was on the show?

Speaker 106 There's just something special about the people from this area. You know, there's something in the water, maybe.
Rust. But

Speaker 77 steel.

Speaker 73 They're built a little differently.

Speaker 85 Yeah, and they love their Steelers.

Speaker 38 They love you already, man.

Speaker 16 And they will love you forever if you go do what you're going to to do for them here in a couple weeks.

Speaker 35 Go ahead, Tone.

Speaker 66 Yeah, you've been here for a few weeks. I mean, you had a little bit of time back in the OTAs or mini camp or whatever, and then now you've been here for two weeks.

Speaker 67 I feel like you kind of knew what DK was, working out with him.

Speaker 66 Some of the boys went out to California. Has anyone surprised you so far in camp that you've been thrown to?

Speaker 106 No, I mean, I think the coolest thing is just...

Speaker 74 What is going on right now?

Speaker 107 My handout like this, literally like this, and a guy threw a marker, landed right in my hand.

Speaker 27 He's got a touch like Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 103 This guy right here got got a touch like Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 28 It's a great throw.

Speaker 111 Hopefully he folks he got that.

Speaker 106 I mean, this place is crazy.

Speaker 47 It's crazy.

Speaker 106 It's hot as hell out here.

Speaker 106 These folks show up every single day. Yesterday they were rolling down this hill because it was raining like crazy.
But there's just something special about this place. You can feel it.

Speaker 106 You know, I love being here in Latrobe. We did 14 years at St.
Norbert's in Green Bay and then kind of went away from that.

Speaker 106 But there's something special about the camaraderie that actually gets to happen I think every coach talks about you know training camp is when you come together and you you know you're building that team chemistry but honestly when

Speaker 106 at places that don't go away when seven o'clock hits or six thirty whatever the time is guys go home now here guys go into head's room cam he's got a huge head

Speaker 63 They go in his room and hang out.

Speaker 106 You know, last night we were in High Smith's room hanging out. Guys come in my room and talk ball.
So there's actually real camaraderie that happens at a place like the trove.

Speaker 106 So I give a lot of credit to

Speaker 106 Mr. Rooney because there's a lot of buildings with his name on it around here.

Speaker 46 He's on the board here, actually.

Speaker 47 For

Speaker 47 sure.

Speaker 106 For putting the money into it, but the opportunity that we have here to spend time together and actually come together is pretty cool.

Speaker 106 And also with Mike's schedule practicing the midday, I know we got some issues with the weather, but

Speaker 106 I enjoy the opportunities to truly develop that training camp callus.

Speaker 34 Training camp's been here since 1966.

Speaker 74 You,

Speaker 46 they're saying bring us seven, which was one of the answers that you actually gave.

Speaker 124 Whenever your first press conference happened, you were getting rapid-fire questions.

Speaker 16 And I believe the way it was phrased was, if you were to win another Super Bowl, what do you think it would be for your legacy?

Speaker 85 And you said, well, it'd be seven for the city of Pittsburgh, I think, is what we're trying to do here.

Speaker 7 Is that the mentality of the entire locker room?

Speaker 35 When you were talking to Tomlin throughout the entire process of whether or not you're going to play again, or if you're going to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers, you're kind of in the process of that.

Speaker 85 You talk to them on a regular basis. Was it like, hey, this city of Pittsburgh needs another one? We need another one.

Speaker 125 What is those conversations like?

Speaker 120 And what are expectations?

Speaker 35 Yeah, like 10 more if you could next 10 years.

Speaker 106 I mean, everybody's

Speaker 106 zero and zero right now. There's 32 teams that feel like they can win a championship, but you guys know, covering the game, there's only a handful of teams.

Speaker 106 I always say like six to eight, but it's really like eight to twelve because there's some of those teams like the Redskins. Sorry, the Commandos last year.

Speaker 106 Oh, my God.

Speaker 50 This son of a bitch. I just said

Speaker 47 I saw the sign.

Speaker 111 That's what got me.

Speaker 106 I was just talking to Ty about the San Diego Chargers playing.

Speaker 106 You know, when you're as old as I am, you played in so many different stadiums and against different team names.

Speaker 106 We beat the St. Louis Rams.

Speaker 106 That team doesn't exist anymore, but

Speaker 106 there's a history of excellence that exists in only a few places around the league, and thankfully I'm here at one of them. Ty, hey, James.

Speaker 106 They love it already.

Speaker 82 Hey, Arthur Smith, what did you know about him coming in?

Speaker 95 Did you have a relationship at all before?

Speaker 93 Obviously, an offensive coordinator here, and what's it been like the first seven, ten days with him?

Speaker 73 I love Art.

Speaker 106 We started talking. You guys love Art.
He's on the show a lot.

Speaker 142 He's got a great mustache.

Speaker 106 Great mustache. Salt of the arts.

Speaker 106 But I met him a couple years ago, and we had a friendship and would send messages back and forth. But once the opportunity started to become a possibility, we talked more.
And he's just a great dude.

Speaker 106 You know, he's very,

Speaker 106 he's the opposite of rigid. You know, he wants to do right by the team and whatever the best scheme is for the guys that he's got, he's going to implement that.

Speaker 106 So whether it's me a quarterback or bringing a guy like John who's had in the past and finding ways to get him involved, obviously DK being our number one, making sure he's involved in the progression.

Speaker 106 We're moving him around to give him different looks.

Speaker 106 And then we got a bunch of little guys who were trying to figure out who's going to kind of step up and be that second receiver, who's going to be the third, who's going to be the fourth, but guys like Calvin Austin, Roman Wilson, Scotty Miller, you know, guys that you can move around.

Speaker 106 Obviously, I'm talking about receivers right now. Yeah, we got a lot of tight ends, we got four

Speaker 106 great tight ends. We could actually do 0-4 personnel, which

Speaker 106 you know is four tight ends on the field. When you could put John U and Darnell and Pat and Connor on the field, it's pretty pretty special.

Speaker 106 So, he's great at kind of using the skills that these guys have and implementing them in the offense. But he's a great dude.

Speaker 106 You know, he had a tragedy that happened this offseason with his dad passing away. It meant a lot to him,

Speaker 106 but he's been great. He's great in front of the room when he's installing plays.

Speaker 111 Yeah, it's just negative air.

Speaker 47 He's dog.

Speaker 36 Hell yeah.

Speaker 26 They weren't doing this with the previous offense coordinator.

Speaker 31 I will let you know that.

Speaker 145 They were a chance. They were a chance.

Speaker 46 Yeah, and it'll come back around potentially.

Speaker 120 I saw you throw a pick to Patrick Queen, and then I saw everybody say that you lost it.

Speaker 119 How much do you love people thinking that you lost it?

Speaker 63 How much do you love that?

Speaker 69 How much do you love people thinking that you lost it?

Speaker 7 Legitimately, how much do you love that?

Speaker 106 Oh, I don't give a shit about that

Speaker 37 yeah

Speaker 37 i bet

Speaker 82 i bet it's been uh awesome to watch you spin it again brother legit go ahead d-bucking of spinning it how does the we're about a week into camp how does the body feel how does the mind feel going into this season right now body feels great db we just got two days off okay that never happens we had a day off and then we had a rain out yesterday so i feel great

Speaker 66 Today's gonna be a monster.

Speaker 73 What? Today's gonna be a monster.

Speaker 146 First day, guys, I got two days off.

Speaker 47 And it's this hot out here.

Speaker 106 It's going to be a grood and grinder today out there, for sure.

Speaker 29 What should we be looking for today in practice?

Speaker 108 We'll be down there.

Speaker 106 We start every practice with what they call seven shots. It's seven plays, fourth and two from the two.

Speaker 106 And that play, that period is live as his team run. I haven't been around a lot of tackling in training camp in my career, really, ever.
Maybe with Big Mike.

Speaker 106 Pittsburgh Tough, you know?

Speaker 111 Yes.

Speaker 47 Hell yeah.

Speaker 106 Maybe a couple times, but those two periods will be fun to watch.

Speaker 27 And that's how practice starts?

Speaker 106 We start with seven shots, yeah.

Speaker 48 Oh, my God.

Speaker 25 That's a good way to start a little bit of

Speaker 45 pounding the rock.

Speaker 1 A little pond to ground a pencil, Connor.

Speaker 55 Yeah, Aaron, I hope you're still caught up on all the conspiracies going on right now because there are some champions out there.

Speaker 68 But you talked a lot about the offense.

Speaker 74 We're not that old line.

Speaker 147 We talked to Alan Glenn.

Speaker 77 Jesse Potter.

Speaker 77 Jesse Potter.

Speaker 66 That's a Jesse James versus the Pennsylvania.

Speaker 46 Touchdown.

Speaker 37 Sure.

Speaker 68 Sure. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 31 Again.

Speaker 102 Hey, Steelers fans, Aaron wasn't here.

Speaker 65 He doesn't give a fuck about that.

Speaker 101 But

Speaker 47 what do you think about that? I do.

Speaker 91 I do.

Speaker 74 Of course, of course.

Speaker 55 2017, man. What a year.

Speaker 55 When you think about that O-line, very young, kind of similar to the Jets. But AQ said, you know, just yesterday, of course, New Color broadcaster for the Cardinals.

Speaker 55 He said just yesterday, Steelers, he expects to take a massive step up. How has that been kind of working with the young O-line?

Speaker 55 You know, sweet West Virginia boy, Zach Frazier, hopefully he has a towel for you today with all that swast that's probably going on.

Speaker 106 He's actually a light sweater, so we're good on that.

Speaker 137 We're good on that. Is he getting the ball up to you yet?

Speaker 106 Yeah, at least back there, it's light, you know.

Speaker 106 It starts and ends with that kid, though. I mean,

Speaker 106 he's got a chance to be really special in the league. You know, a lot of the great centers I've had were also wrestlers.

Speaker 106 And

Speaker 106 he was a great wrestler in high school.

Speaker 106 But he's super smart. He's a mountaineer.
He's a mountaineer, yeah.

Speaker 66 Hell yeah.

Speaker 106 He's a little too smug for my liking though. He's out there making calls for me right now.

Speaker 144 Tell me if I got the wrong check.

Speaker 47 So

Speaker 106 I got to get his ass in line a little bit, let him know who's in charge. But no, seriously, Zach's done a great job.
Starts and ends with him. 13 hots!

Speaker 37 13 times!

Speaker 108 13 times. 13 times.

Speaker 31 13, what?

Speaker 8 13.

Speaker 35 13 time.

Speaker 106 13 time what?

Speaker 101 You know.

Speaker 91 They don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Speaker 106 What are they talking about? You know.

Speaker 47 But

Speaker 106 I like the battles that we got going on right now and the depth that we have.

Speaker 106 Those guys, you know, we'll be in work in progress as we go. We haven't even put the pads on yet, but I think I'm interested today.
We're all taking side bets on who the first fight's going to be.

Speaker 106 And if I'm a betting man, I'm saying that either Zach Fraser or Mason McCormick will be involved in the first fight.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 68 Aren't they going everywhere together?

Speaker 14 Mason McCormick and Zach Frazier both heard that, and they're also like, okay, now Aaron's expecting us to throw some hands.

Speaker 102 Let's go. You're damn right I am.

Speaker 65 And do that.

Speaker 36 We all view that way.

Speaker 18 We all feel that way.

Speaker 108 It is awesome over the last few years.

Speaker 85 That's covering training camp.

Speaker 98 Remember a few years back,

Speaker 107 I think Aaron Donald took a helmet to somebody.

Speaker 86 They were calling for

Speaker 36 lawsuits and cops to show up.

Speaker 124 And then fights are happening.

Speaker 34 It's like, hey, fights are exhausting for players during training camp, but also it shows how together your team is, how tough your team is, what they stand on.

Speaker 16 I think it's a big deal.

Speaker 33 Now, I don't think Tomlin is promoting fights, but if you have no fights, I think that's a problem.

Speaker 106 He's definitely not promoting fights. You know, it's one of the rules: no fighting.
But if something starts, whip his ass.

Speaker 144 get it on, baby.

Speaker 107 That's everybody.

Speaker 120 I think every good coach views it that way.

Speaker 18 Big Mike did. You said working.

Speaker 106 You know, Big Mike loved

Speaker 65 when we fought. He never promoted it.

Speaker 144 No, he didn't promote it.

Speaker 93 He was never in a bad mood after.

Speaker 65 No, he was not.

Speaker 57 I legitimately think if your team doesn't fight, you should be worried.

Speaker 106 I always knew if we fought in practice that night, that was back when we had two days. Mike would be texting me after practice, saying, Hey, come on over and have a couple ICs.

Speaker 89 A couple Iron Cities.

Speaker 47 Have you had any mango mangoes?

Speaker 108 I'll tell you what the Iron City mangoes.

Speaker 31 There it is. I see light.

Speaker 17 That's the nectar of the guards.

Speaker 50 That is.

Speaker 43 They pull it from the rivers of dead bodies here.

Speaker 150 Obviously, you got the Allegheny, the Monongahela.

Speaker 18 They come together for the Ohio.

Speaker 20 Okay, that is the point Danton.

Speaker 23 Three rivers.

Speaker 99 And they will get water out of there, put some booze in it, and that's the nectar that is I see light.

Speaker 32 Every kid drank it as a teenager here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 46 It is the nectar of the guards.

Speaker 101 Nectar of the gods.

Speaker 123 You should have a couple.

Speaker 87 You said work in progress.

Speaker 129 How much do you know the offense?

Speaker 34 Did you show up knowing the offense?

Speaker 87 Because there was a report that Arthur Smith was quietly making an entire playbook for you and yada yada yada.

Speaker 101 You're obviously an incredibly intelligent person.

Speaker 106 I haven't seen that playbook yet.

Speaker 131 Okay, good.

Speaker 34 You're obviously an incredibly intelligent person, celebrity Jeopardy champion.

Speaker 124 If you had to, you'd win against actual Jeopardy people.

Speaker 105 I'm on your side for that.

Speaker 81 Had a 500-page report in 2020.

Speaker 118 People don't remember that.

Speaker 18 I remember everything else.

Speaker 46 But how do you feel about how comfortable you are in the offense?

Speaker 106 Yeah, I'm getting more comfortable as the days go on.

Speaker 106 There's not my own playbook in Arthur. It's Arthur's playbook.
And I'm finding ways within it to add

Speaker 106 a little stuff here and there. But it's Arthur's playbook, and I like it.
I like it a lot.

Speaker 135 But

Speaker 14 I mean, these are Yensers, brother.

Speaker 87 They're trying to catch. They're the best.

Speaker 91 This is how it's going to play.

Speaker 47 They have their own agenda.

Speaker 63 But here we go.

Speaker 142 Stealers, here we go.

Speaker 142 We got Aaron turning the ball down.

Speaker 142 There we go. And the guy named Artie.

Speaker 142 There we go.

Speaker 87 Boswell making kicks like he dies.

Speaker 43 And we're looking for seven in the fucking house.

Speaker 31 Here we go.

Speaker 137 There it is. Banger.

Speaker 31 Absolute banger.

Speaker 146 Do you know Renegade yet?

Speaker 151 Did you learn Renegade on guitar yet?

Speaker 74 I'm in fear for my life from the love

Speaker 74 of the Lord.

Speaker 74 There's a mic on his face, Aaron. All right, last question.

Speaker 17 Everybody can hear what you're saying. There's a mic on AJ's face.

Speaker 81 Ty has a question for you, Aaron.

Speaker 53 Aaron, we talked about this a little bit off stage, and through the last several years you've been on the show, you've talked about how much respect you have for Mike T.

Speaker 53 How has that relationship been so far? Is there anything that's been, you know, like maybe kind of surprised you now that he's your head coach and he's just not a guy you respect from afar?

Speaker 106 Where's my camera at?

Speaker 21 Could be any of them.

Speaker 44 Here's the jib.

Speaker 61 They were doing a sweet artsy jib shot on you.

Speaker 129 Zoom in on Aaron.

Speaker 106 Yeah, no, just do a two-shot, manage.

Speaker 47 Okay, okay, never mind.

Speaker 106 Mike T is the man.

Speaker 123 Any hate,

Speaker 106 disrespect,

Speaker 106 and the ilk is complete and utter bullshit. Hell yeah.
Mike T is the man.

Speaker 106 From day one that we talked on the phone in the offseason, I was never talking to a head coach. I was talking to a friend.
I respected the hell out of that. I have crazy respect for him.

Speaker 68 The way that he leads the room, the way that he...

Speaker 106 He talks in the team meeting, the way he is in practice.

Speaker 106 The surprise has been just what a great dude he is, what a great leader he is, on top of what I already expected, which was already high based on what I thought from afar.

Speaker 106 But being able to see it in person is incredible.

Speaker 106 He's the type of guy that every great coach makes you want to play for. And what I mean to expand on that is you care so deeply about the person, you don't want to let him down.

Speaker 106 And that's the aura and that's the respect that Mike has from his players that

Speaker 106 you want to play for this guy because you know how much he cares and you you don't want to let him down.

Speaker 35 You've been on a championship team before.

Speaker 56 You've had a lot of great, great, great, great, great teams that you've been on.

Speaker 106 Yeah, we beat the Stailers.

Speaker 144 Hell yeah.

Speaker 144 Hell yeah. Wow.

Speaker 123 Should already have seven, you could say.

Speaker 52 Oh, man. That was a different day.
A different day.

Speaker 89 It's a new day. It's a new day.

Speaker 47 It's a new day.

Speaker 51 They pitched for recorders.

Speaker 86 Yes, because AJ was using steroids.

Speaker 112 Nick Milono called.

Speaker 47 AJ was drinking his piss.

Speaker 52 Yes, we know. Okay, you confirmed that.

Speaker 102 Still never was.

Speaker 114 I said that the SP's people.

Speaker 93 Look at this guy.

Speaker 152 You think he hasn't drank his pee in the last five years, all the stuff he's been into?

Speaker 104 Chewing bark, drinking piss.

Speaker 106 Chewing bark.

Speaker 65 Chewing bark.

Speaker 152 Hey, great answer the other day, by the way.

Speaker 114 And that guy would drink your piss.

Speaker 29 He said, that's what I'm talking about, though.

Speaker 31 That's what Pittsburgh would do for you, Aaron.

Speaker 107 You need to know that.

Speaker 42 We appreciate you so much for stopping by. Can't wait to watch.

Speaker 70 Come on. Give him a standby.

Speaker 153 You have a drug test this morning.

Speaker 46 How's the piss?

Speaker 47 Get them up here.

Speaker 26 Aaron, I can't wait to watch you work out there.

Speaker 35 I can't wait to to watch the season for you.

Speaker 4 I can't wait to watch you experience a year with the Yensers.

Speaker 87 And will you be joining us on Tuesdays or no?

Speaker 7 Did they tell you you can't?

Speaker 106 We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.
You talk to Bert over there.

Speaker 31 Oh, nurture. Uh-oh.

Speaker 106 Bert,

Speaker 106 I appreciate you guys. Good to see y'all as usual.
Good to see you in person. Have fun in Canton,

Speaker 106 San Diego Chargers.

Speaker 67 That's right.

Speaker 106 But it's going to be a fun year. It's going to be a really fun year.
I'm just really,

Speaker 106 if I can sum up my feelings

Speaker 106 being in Pittsburgh, it's just gratitude

Speaker 106 to be in such a special organization with Mike T, the leadership of the football team, and to play for a fan base that cares as much as these guys do.

Speaker 67 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 28 We're lucky to have you here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 9 I speak for the city at this moment, but not always.

Speaker 108 You're the man.

Speaker 106 I love you claiming Pittsburgh now. You claim Indy when you're back in Indy.

Speaker 8 I'm like the rock, baby.

Speaker 18 I got two homes.

Speaker 26 You should send me down to Morgantown, too.

Speaker 81 I fucking love that.

Speaker 31 I'm money. All that money you got.
Yeah.

Speaker 73 You got homes all over the place, Aaron.

Speaker 144 All right, thanks, guys.

Speaker 7 You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, four-time NFL MVP, the starting quarterback of the Steel Zara.

Speaker 7 What'd you put on there?

Speaker 7 Did you draw a dick?

Speaker 108 Good luck. You signed it, AJ Hawk.

Speaker 71 Did you sign it? You did a spaceship?

Speaker 114 No, he didn't do a spaceship.

Speaker 9 He just wrote in there what his status is still.

Speaker 81 To this point.

Speaker 42 And I just wrote in what his status is.

Speaker 25 That's a long word. I'm not talking Facebook.
I gotcha.

Speaker 86 Oh, nice.

Speaker 16 He subbed an X in there.

Speaker 107 Just dropped an X.

Speaker 97 Oh, okay. Yeah.

Speaker 131 None of that.

Speaker 70 It's a one-on-one.

Speaker 69 And then...

Speaker 24 Throwback.

Speaker 133 He mentioned a lot of times about being synonymous with winning and greatness and a team that's all aligned and going in.

Speaker 27 And we got a chance to talk to Mr.

Speaker 120 Rooney earlier today, and I said, hey, you're writing a lot of checks.

Speaker 28 I like that.

Speaker 85 I liked you writing a lot of checks or whatever.

Speaker 119 He was like excited for the season.

Speaker 4 This has not been how the Steelers have ever been, Tone.

Speaker 61 This is such a drastic difference than what the Pittsburgh Steelers were of yesterday.

Speaker 80 Now them firing Matt Canada midway through the year.

Speaker 60 Sorry, Matt, had to do it.

Speaker 155 News be a pop.

Speaker 29 They fired him midseason.

Speaker 29 He was the first coach that was a head coach or a coordinator that got fired in the history of the Steelers one of the oldest franchises in the history of professional sports So they make that move It's like wait is this a new day then Omar Khan gets in following Kevin Colbert who has a fire pit up here that I guess all the boys hang out at at night They really bring the team together.

Speaker 84 It's a beautiful setup, but Omar Khan is really he's he's drawn this up in his own way and the stars are out here in Pittsburgh though.

Speaker 66 Yeah, I mean Colbert was here for 20 plus years multiple Super Bowls Kevin Kevin Colbert is an all-time Hall of Fame GM but like you knew once like free agency came around like you didn't have to pay attention at at all.

Speaker 66 Like day one, day two, even day seven, you weren't going to get anyone in free agency if you're a Steeler because they built through the draft and they built their own guys.

Speaker 66 But then, you know, Omar came in and it was kind of like, hey, that's not really working right now. And obviously, this fan base hasn't been happy with 9-8, 10-7, stuff like that.

Speaker 66 First round playoff losses. So Omar got very, very aggressive this year, went out.

Speaker 66 The first one was DK.

Speaker 66 He was even in conversations for IUC last year that came out. That was reported.

Speaker 66 They are not resting on their laurels right now, Pat, or their Yannis.

Speaker 27 and uh we're going in for a super bowl right now that was a good internet run there just like the black dress blue dress uh those really had a good time

Speaker 124 we need those days back somebody needs to find a new one there for the internet and i think the city has responded in a positive way you know sometimes whenever you do something in an old-fashioned way an old school way there's going to be old heads that hate it uh any change uh you still are spending all this money

Speaker 6 we don't need you think they need to do this to win in a pass this is a desperate move yada yada that hasn't happened at all

Speaker 81 Everybody in Pittsburgh's like, yeah, we're spending money finally.

Speaker 88 Yeah, we're bringing in stars.

Speaker 156 Yeah, we're taking advantage of stuff.

Speaker 58 And like, I think the players, too, AJ, Cam Hayward, year 15.

Speaker 36 He's been pretty vocal about, like, don't know how long we have left.

Speaker 29 TJ, I know he's still got hopefully six years left, 10 years left, whatever it is.

Speaker 4 He's in year nine.

Speaker 134 A lot of these guys have been around here a long time.

Speaker 79 They're making a push to win.

Speaker 98 It's good for all parties.

Speaker 93 It's great for the NFL, I think, and obviously for Pittsburgh.

Speaker 73 You got to evolve.

Speaker 93 Like, yeah, you can still hold that old school, that core, the tradition, everything that is the Steelers, and then evolve into like the new age of the NFL and spend money.

Speaker 93 I mean, look at one of the greatest, actually the greatest college football coach of all time, Nick Sabin.

Speaker 93 He was constantly evolving what he did on offense and defense because he's like, I want to win. I don't want to be stupid and just be stuck in my ways.
That's what losers do.

Speaker 92 Yeah, we're not like that far removed from this being the way to win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 55 Like, sure, the Chiefs and the Eagles have won more recently, but you look at Stafford, you look at Brady, you look at Payton.

Speaker 55 Like, we kind of pointed to that for a couple years as maybe this is the way to do it. You get Aaron for cheap, you bring in DK, you bring in Jalen, you bring in Jonu.

Speaker 55 Like, it really is one of those things where it feels like a 2021 LA Rams, maybe even the 2020 Tampa Bay Bucks where this old veteran, something to prove, not run out of the building, but had to fly across the country and got kicked out of the building 10 minutes after getting there.

Speaker 55 It is one of those damn near spite years that we're approaching here for Pittsburgh.

Speaker 105 As we wait here for Coach Tomlin to join us in a matter of moments, a lot of people singing his praises.

Speaker 4 I can't wait to experience that because the last couple years he's been giving shit talk to him relentlessly.

Speaker 154 And then we get a chance to watch his hard knocks and it's like, I love that guy.

Speaker 129 I hope they get a chance this year to go on another run.

Speaker 99 Let's, we're going camping here in Latrope, or I'm sorry, Leitrope, as the locals say.

Speaker 7 Let's go camping around the NFL, shall we?

Speaker 79 Let's go camping.

Speaker 150 Let's start with the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 153 Highlights from training camp are getting us going.

Speaker 13 Kai Schmidt, you lost your mind on draft night when they drafted Golden.

Speaker 98 Are you excited to watch him catch a deep ball here from Jordan Love at Training Camp?

Speaker 55 Yeah, without a doubt, it looks like things are rolling like they should be.

Speaker 53 I mentioned this to you guys earlier. This is the first piece of content in general that I've seen from Packers camp.
So I'm pretty jacked up that it's a 60-yard touchdown.

Speaker 53 They need this guy to be an absolute force this year. Jordan Love stays healthy all year.
It looks like he's finally got his number one guy.

Speaker 132 I'd love to see it.

Speaker 35 I love that they're talking shit to their fans who are asking for them to post videos of the first round draft pick that hasn't happened in like 40 years or whatever at the wide receiver thing.

Speaker 99 Social media admins have all the brains.

Speaker 35 They got it going on.

Speaker 113 Without a doubt.

Speaker 150 They're the Green Bay Packers, actually.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 69 Yeah, they are.

Speaker 120 That's how these social media people operate.

Speaker 108 I'm not saying the Green Bay Packers are doing that.

Speaker 53 No, I think Ed Polise runs the Twitter account.

Speaker 67 Oh, yeah? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he does.

Speaker 21 Okay, so he was the one that did the every other capital letter.

Speaker 47 Exactly.

Speaker 18 What do you mean you want to see our first-round draft pick run faster than everybody, you dip shits?

Speaker 32 It's social media.

Speaker 114 You're not supposed to see anything.

Speaker 94 Not on my watch not on my watch we're trying to keep this the uh the best kept secret of training camp hey thanks for posting social media degree haver we appreciate you doing that

Speaker 23 love it helped us out and helped out green bay packer owner now let's go to a green bay packer record holder aj hawk have you seen marvin Harrison Jr.

Speaker 12 in Arizona just one day after another freak show catches rookie year wasn't fantastic by anybody's account, but now it feels like Kyler's going to throw him the rock regardless.

Speaker 84 Catch radius insane.

Speaker 130 Contested catches is his thing.

Speaker 133 I think him and Kyler had to get on the same page with that notion going in through the offseason.

Speaker 93 Yeah, and Marvin's like the old school quiet professional. He's not real flash.

Speaker 93 He doesn't say a whole lot, but if you saw, you notice what he put on 15, 20 pounds of muscle like a couple other guys throughout the league. Yeah, the guy's an absolute stud.

Speaker 93 And the Carters are one of those teams that can possibly, I think, jump up and surprise a few teams if they can keep Kyler healthy. And obviously, Marv has a big year.

Speaker 18 Kyler was a great ball there.

Speaker 46 You know, not going to get talked about, but that is an incredible ball there.

Speaker 61 Obviously, Kyler, remarkably gifted athletically, both on the ground and through the sky.

Speaker 35 Will this be the year where it all comes together?

Speaker 14 Will this be the year that it clocks?

Speaker 154 Shout out to Justin Biebel. We're talking about him having the population of the United States of America basically follows him on Instagram.

Speaker 36 What a life he's been living.

Speaker 35 But is it clocking for that Arizona Cardinals team to make a run?

Speaker 154 AQ Shipley would be on the call.

Speaker 20 Moontownship, great.

Speaker 129 Hopefully they're not shite for his sake.

Speaker 79 Now, let's go to Indianapolis,

Speaker 65 Indiana.

Speaker 79 Anthony Richardson, a man who's drafted number four overall for the Indianapolis Colts, has had an underwhelming start to his career, but this training camp, throwing dots all over the place.

Speaker 16 He's looked much more accurate.

Speaker 154 He's looked much more confident.

Speaker 118 He's been putting in a lot of work.

Speaker 85 This is what he had to say after practice about how his mindset has changed this year versus years past.

Speaker 159 After last season, I feel like I needed to do more, you know, not only for the team, but for myself.

Speaker 158 If I want to so-called be great and I want to be in the Hall of Fame one day,

Speaker 160 I have to do more. I have to go do the things that other people don't do.

Speaker 159 So I've just been doing that, just taking it day by day, not necessarily trying to

Speaker 158 change anything mentally or anything like that, but just taking a deeper dive and studying my playbook a little longer, you know, asking more questions.

Speaker 158 You know, going through my footwork, you know, walking through the plays by myself, you know, just stuff like that, just trying to do more.

Speaker 67 Okay, I love to hear everything that he's saying right there.

Speaker 35 There is a group here from Monroeville, I believe, with the Gateway High School behind us here.

Speaker 99 They started chanting that he's too tired, okay, because

Speaker 48 I am from this area, okay?

Speaker 21 If you were to ask any of these people standing here, hey, the starting quarterback for your team on a third down in the red zone against a division opponent in the middle of the regular season is going to tap out of the game because he was too tired.

Speaker 29 All these people would say, get him the fuck out of our city.

Speaker 46 What are you talking about? You're too tired. You're a football player.

Speaker 48 And I had a similar reaction.

Speaker 40 Okay, I had a similar reaction.

Speaker 154 And it's like, hey, why?

Speaker 79 You can't be saying it.

Speaker 20 And even if you're at the mental point where you think you're comfortable enough and confident enough to say that publicly, it's like you're way too content.

Speaker 82 I was very vocal now this year what we have seen he's slimmer he's fitter he's acknowledging how he needs to be different he's taking the pre-practice mental reps by himself it feels like he has matured yes immensely after a very tough start to his career growth maturity he's doing and saying all the right things and when guys show up to training camp or the off-season workouts they don't have to say much you can look at him and kind of tell what they've been doing in the offseason you look at him he looks great uh physically and we know what he can do on the ground you know with his physical traits But to win in this league and to win the big one in this league, you got to be able to play from the pocket.

Speaker 82 And if you run that highlight back again, that's like a simple throw, but that's a whole shot. Cover two.
Pittman gets up there, get up the sideline.

Speaker 82 You got to put that ball on him on the line, and he did. So I love what I'm seeing from five right now in this QB battle.
Yeah, that throw is incredible.

Speaker 55 He's had a few, it feels like, that have come out during training camp where it's like the week one against the Texans kind of stalker.

Speaker 55 I agree with you guys, but doesn't it kind of take away from the fact that the big thing going into the offseason was, hey, he's going to work out with Josh Allen's guy, and then while training cam starting, you think that he did, and then he says...

Speaker 132 He didn't do that?

Speaker 55 He actually didn't.

Speaker 50 I don't care.

Speaker 47 He's completely passive.

Speaker 90 No, I'm genuinely out of it.

Speaker 58 He was going to do that laser treatment to get more accurate.

Speaker 20 If he has got more accurate without the laser treatment, I don't think we care. Okay.

Speaker 34 Okay, this is a results-oriented business.

Speaker 85 Now, if his shit gets outrageous again, everybody's like, hey, your mechanics and your footwork and everything is off.

Speaker 35 That's why you have the lowest completion percentage in the history of the NFL, and you chose not to do something.

Speaker 129 I I think then it becomes a conversation.

Speaker 113 But right now, he's putting it on guys, and he looks like an actual passer.

Speaker 114 Is he gonna play in the preseason?

Speaker 93 Like, that's a big thing. Like,

Speaker 93 I'm saying, should he get a good chunk of playing time in each all four games?

Speaker 66 Hey, speaking of social media, Colts social media got their agenda, and they're sticking to it.

Speaker 44 Yeah, I haven't seen Danny Dimes

Speaker 131 too.

Speaker 156 I think Danny Dimes is cool with it, too.

Speaker 146 We're all cool with the school with the competition.

Speaker 105 The only thing we worry about now with Anthony Richardson, and I mean, this is what I guess sports media does, is he's in such good shape.

Speaker 44 Is he going to be able to withstand the hits now?

Speaker 46 You know, like is he still?

Speaker 113 He's still 240 pounds, I assume.

Speaker 46 He's a monster.

Speaker 114 We'll see how that goes.

Speaker 98 Now, let's go camping to

Speaker 12 the AFC North Kings.

Speaker 12 The team that is favored to win the AFC North.

Speaker 12 A team that is known for crab cakes and football. Let's go to the Baltimore Ravens.
Lamar Jackson running wild all over. Baltimore Ravens trying to kill.

Speaker 12 Lamar Jackson, obviously an MVP, looking to win a Super Bowl. Looking faster than ever.
They still got Nuke on their team as well. I think everybody has forgotten that.
Front flips in training camp.

Speaker 69 Lamar Jackson's in mid-season form.

Speaker 84 They are the second.

Speaker 16 They have the second best odds in the entire NFL to win their division.

Speaker 83 What the hell is that, Tyree?

Speaker 65 What are you talking about?

Speaker 91 Damn celebrating.

Speaker 50 Damn, celebrating.

Speaker 102 He's celebrating. College teammates.

Speaker 65 Yeah, they're buddies.

Speaker 102 And he's happy for it.

Speaker 130 So this does lead to a conversation.

Speaker 42 So with these training camp highlights, when Lamar Jackson's running wild, the Baltimore Ravens fans are going crazy.

Speaker 35 When Aaron Rodgers completes a deep ball to DK Metcalf here today for 65, 70 yards, place is going to go crazy.

Speaker 136 That's the defense getting dunked on right there.

Speaker 130 As a defender, D-button.

Speaker 42 You know that going into training camp, that your own fans are going to be pissed if you guys have a great day.

Speaker 82 Rogue game every day. It's a rogue game every day.
Bring your own energy.

Speaker 82 You're obviously coming out there, you want to whoop their ass, but the crowds behind them, look, they're always going to cheer on and touch down scores.

Speaker 82 And look, Jair right there running down, celebrating. You know, if that guy was on my team, I'd probably accidentally do that too.
But I love this. I love this, obviously, from Lamar.

Speaker 82 He had an unbelievable season last year. MVP caliber season, his best season so far.

Speaker 67 He's motivated to go get that big one.

Speaker 82 Obviously, this team here has had a ton of success against him on the big games, but I'm excited to see what eight and that Ravens offense. And that Ravens team, I've completely forgot about D-Hop.

Speaker 82 Likely he got injured, but it's not as bad as we thought. Say Flowers, I can't wait to see what they do this year.

Speaker 9 All right, let's stay in the AFC North.

Speaker 26 Let's move away from Baltimore.

Speaker 154 Let's not talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 86 Why would we talk about Cleveland?

Speaker 86 Hey, don't look now.

Speaker 17 Jerry Judy's in better shape than he's ever been.

Speaker 8 Cincinnati Bengals, Trey Hendrickson, has reported to camp.

Speaker 35 He missed seven days of camp.

Speaker 21 He was fined $50,000 per day, $350,000 in total fines.

Speaker 154 He is now back with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 29 AJ, what does this say to you?

Speaker 93 This says to me that he is what, like you said, is he tucking his tail and walking back in and saying, hey, no,

Speaker 93 I heard that's not the case, but I mean, I figure maybe Mike Brown said maybe Mike Brown promised him this time, said, hey, I gave you my word.

Speaker 24 If you come back and shows goodwill, we'll give you what you want.

Speaker 152 Has Mike Brown said that before?

Speaker 103 None of the ownership has said anything positive.

Speaker 59 I think this is potentially a new move, maybe an extension of an olive branch, because Trey Hendrickson loves football.

Speaker 14 Ty, there's a lot of people saying, though.

Speaker 53 Yeah, when I saw this, I said, Man, did Trey Hendrickson really show those guys?

Speaker 55 He really showed the Bengals.

Speaker 152 Hey, guess what?

Speaker 151 I'll squeak Scalariate, you know?

Speaker 55 You guys mess with me 16 to 17 more times.

Speaker 53 I'm going to tuck tail. I'm going to get out of here.
You're not going to see me.

Speaker 47 And then when I realize nothing's going to change, I'm going to come right back and shake everybody's hand and say, Look who's back.

Speaker 50 Trey's back.

Speaker 34 We don't know if there's anything happening behind the scenes, seemingly not, but maybe this will change

Speaker 32 the entire future for them.

Speaker 48 Let's pivot away from the Cincinnati Bengals back to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ladies and gentlemen, a Super Bowl champion, a future Hall of Famer, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 48 What's up, Coach? How are you doing?

Speaker 48 I'm sweating my ass off. I appreciate you.

Speaker 48 Yeah, he gets it.

Speaker 34 Coach, you can use this one if you want to.

Speaker 7 Coach, first of all, thank you so much for stopping by.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 46 It's real. It's very real.

Speaker 29 When you were hired as a head coach 45 years ago,

Speaker 16 you look the exact same.

Speaker 154 Shout out.

Speaker 62 I guess cliches are real in certain things.

Speaker 50 Yeah, yeah, I guess that is a real thing.

Speaker 104 I have aged, you know, like a grape over the last few years.

Speaker 46 You knew what Pittsburgh was.

Speaker 85 I think you knew what it was.

Speaker 57 But the way you have embraced this city, we see you at Penguins games.

Speaker 27 I think you're even stopping by Pirates games.

Speaker 34 I feel like you call yourself a Jenser and consider yourself a Yenser.

Speaker 27 What is it like to be a part of this every single year?

Speaker 21 And is it like a perspective putter about how great these fans are every training camp?

Speaker 116 I'll tell you this. First, it never gets old.
You know, I have the same level of excitement that I had in 07.

Speaker 116 Probably even more so, to be quite honest with you.

Speaker 116 I love being a Pittsburgh, man.

Speaker 116 My kids grew up in Pittsburgh. They call Pittsburgh home.

Speaker 144 I'm proud to call it home.

Speaker 69 I drink the Kool-Aid.

Speaker 27 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 130 And with that Kool-Aid, you understand the city.

Speaker 4 You understand the expectations.

Speaker 16 I'm not going to say anything you probably don't know.

Speaker 87 It got loud there for a little bit.

Speaker 127 And obviously, you were asked by Kyle Bran about winning, winning, having a winning record every single year.

Speaker 46 And you had a great line, something along the lines like these guys were in baby seats, I think, whenever they were in car seats, whenever you're growing up.

Speaker 36 It did get a little bit loud.

Speaker 130 Do you hear that stuff? Do you block it out? How much does that affect your day-to-day life or how you go about your business?

Speaker 162 You know, I hear it, but I don't

Speaker 116 because

Speaker 8 I'm here to win.

Speaker 116 You know, I share the same sentiment, the same level of pissed offness. You know,

Speaker 116 that's just who I am. And so, like, I don't take it personally.
It's motivation for me.

Speaker 47 I'm here to deliver for them.

Speaker 27 Omar Khan, vastly different than Colbert.

Speaker 87 Seemingly, from the outside looking in.

Speaker 105 What are your thoughts on it? Because Tone and I have chit-chatted about how this is so abnormal.

Speaker 35 First of all, you're not going to like that this is going to happen because it was probably a very difficult decision because you know the person personally.

Speaker 105 We just mentioned it.

Speaker 122 You firing a coordinator mid-season never happened in the history of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 35 Okay.

Speaker 34 That was a big conversation for us. In the offseason, free agency.
Never really a thing for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 116 This this year making moves bringing in obviously Aaron Rodgers who you recruited sorry texted for a couple months how does it feel this way of doing things versus maybe what it had always been with the Pittsburgh Steelers you know I'm not resistant to change I don't think you can do what I've done as long as I can do it being resistant to change and so I try to be open to doing things differently, to taking a different approach.

Speaker 116 It's refreshing for me. I'm excited by it.

Speaker 116 Certainly made moves that we deem necessary in an effort to position ourselves to be what they need and want us to be.

Speaker 81 AJ's question for Coach Jalen Ramsey, Darius Lane.

Speaker 95 Obviously, here you're back in.

Speaker 93 Let's say for Jalen, I've heard you guys call him like a Swiss Army knife. He can do anything.
What is he going to bring to the defense?

Speaker 93 For me, as a fan of watching, I love physical corners, and they obviously can play every position back there. But I love dudes that can get picks and are physical and not scared to tackle them.

Speaker 93 They seem to thrive in that rule. And I feel like he's going to be very physical here.

Speaker 116 There's no question, man. He brings a demeanor, man, that's contagious.

Speaker 116 His versatility obviously you guys will see today

Speaker 116 but his attitude, his approach to business man, his professionalism, like this guy's as impressive in the classroom as he is on the grass, man.

Speaker 162 I've been blown away by his approach to the business.

Speaker 91 That's awesome.

Speaker 125 D-Bot has a question for you, Coach.

Speaker 82 Yeah, coach, you've been here obviously a very, very long time. We've all been in locker rooms and now we're in the media now.

Speaker 82 And sometimes you'll say, oh, maybe that coach, and you, I've heard it now, maybe that the words are getting stale with with the team. How do you keep it fresh?

Speaker 82 How do you evolve when you are the leader in the face of a franchise and standing in front of those guys for such a long time? Cam was here 15 years, TJ 9. Like, how do you do that?

Speaker 82 That's a tough thing to do.

Speaker 116 You know, for me, I try not to focus on me, to be honest with you.

Speaker 116 My job is to be what they need me to be, and their needs are ever-changing because of the makeup of the group changes, the places they are in their careers as individuals.

Speaker 116 And so, for me, I probably avoid being stale, at least from my

Speaker 116 perception, just by simply focused on being what they need me to be and working to meet their needs. Gotcha.

Speaker 154 Ty has a question for you, Coach.

Speaker 163 Coach, Pat mentioned it a little bit earlier.

Speaker 53 What was that kind of recruiting process like with Rogers? We've had him on the show several times, or you know, for the last several years, and he always talked about how much respect he had for you.

Speaker 53 And kind of, we've seen the clips of you giving him that rise. Yeah, you guys winking at each other, calling the timeout when he was trying to maybe get you.
But what was that recruiting process like?

Speaker 116 It was kind of a bromance, you know what I mean?

Speaker 116 You know, for me, man, I was just excited to get to know the guy on a personal level. And so that's how I viewed it.
Man, we had some cool and interesting conversations about football, about life,

Speaker 116 about where he is in his career and what he was potentially looking for.

Speaker 116 You know, I slow-roasted it, if you will, man. I didn't try to microwave it because I didn't feel like that would be effective anyway.

Speaker 116 And so I just enjoyed getting to know him over the course of those conversations.

Speaker 116 And I just felt felt like if we did it and did it consistently and they lay a nice foundation for our relationship when we started working together.

Speaker 4 What are your expectations for him as a human?

Speaker 85 Did you lay all that out as a player, as a guy in the locker room?

Speaker 34 Do you have all those conversations?

Speaker 119 And why was Aaron the guy that you wanted for this particular team?

Speaker 116 You know, just through our conversations, man, he expressed his desires and they are in alignment with mine. And so those

Speaker 116 come to Jesus conversations weren't even necessary, man. He's here and here in a mindset that's aligned with us.
He's here and here to win a world championship for this group.

Speaker 116 And he wants to impart wisdom and share his experiences with young players, man, and give back to the game. And so that's just a beautiful place to be.
And those guys are good guys to work with.

Speaker 118 We were on the plane earlier today flying in,

Speaker 86 high and high, just

Speaker 107 thinking about it all, you know.

Speaker 85 Aaron, when he went to the Jets, we talked about this.

Speaker 27 Any legend that starts at a new place, a lot of brand new eyes watching you for the first time.

Speaker 87 Your practice habits, how you do in practice, how you go about operating, how you communicate.

Speaker 5 You got to like reprove yourself.

Speaker 120 Aaron doing that for a first ballot Hall of Famer, I assume, is something that has driven him in these practices.

Speaker 27 For you too, though, with Aaron, is there a similar thought like, hey, this is Aaron's first time experiencing my shit as a head coach, too?

Speaker 122 Because there's rarefied air that you two are breathing that not a lot of people in the history of football breathe.

Speaker 116 I like the responsibility of having to deliver for him. You know what I mean? Just the energy and the charge I get for preparing messaging and things of that nature.

Speaker 116 But not only him, but guys like Jalen Ramsey and other veteran guys, man.

Speaker 116 I'm sensitive to the delivering of the message, man, and making sure they understand how we go about our business, the things we value, and how they can be a part of it.

Speaker 4 Is there any shit he's done yet to make you go, oh, okay, yeah, that's the Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 8 That's the guy.

Speaker 116 Is there any of that? Hey, I like the no-look passes, man. You know, we've seen a couple of those just about every day.

Speaker 116 But, man, the way he interacts with the defensive leadership, man, the way he competes with them and challenges them, it's a breath of fresh air, man.

Speaker 116 We just feel like we're going to be positioned to be really good because of that iron on iron, that competitive spirit, the things that are happening day to day, man, and he's a central part of that.

Speaker 35 On that note, Tone has a question for you.

Speaker 66 Yeah, coach, with all due respect to everyone who has played quarterback since seven.

Speaker 66 They're a Steelers, so we love them forever. But does it feel different when you look across and you see eight?

Speaker 66 Like, I mean, Kaboli said this is the most crowded it's been in the last 15 years here it felt like to him but like so it feels different to the fans does it feel different to you when you look over and you're like okay since then

Speaker 116 that's Aaron Rodgers you're damn right it does

Speaker 50 it feels pretty good too yeah but

Speaker 67 you know just the possibilities man

Speaker 116 to have a guy like that man in your huddle in your locker room a part of your group

Speaker 107 it certainly gives us all great confidence yeah I'm trying to remember one of your hard every hard knocks was awesome. I want to let you know that.

Speaker 57 I think we talked about it while it was happening about all the good shit that you were giving away for free, basically.

Speaker 46 We were hearing motivational speeches just being dropped, gems being dropped.

Speaker 14 People were writing books

Speaker 105 on all of the one-liners that you were doing.

Speaker 4 Are we coming up with those still every single day?

Speaker 84 Is there new shit coming out?

Speaker 23 Is there more Tomlinisms? Or is it all basically like a pool that you kind of pull from, if that makes sense?

Speaker 116 You know, I don't chase it. It just kind of happened.

Speaker 8 Of course.

Speaker 103 There's one right there, by the way.

Speaker 36 That is bar after bar after bar.

Speaker 35 I wish I got a chance to play for you.

Speaker 59 You told me in warm-ups, I'm going to get you when you're old and cheap.

Speaker 67 Damn right, I did.

Speaker 130 Did you have those conversations with Aaron, too, throughout his career?

Speaker 116 I wish I had. I wish maybe I'd have got him sooner.

Speaker 85 All right, have a great practice.

Speaker 87 We appreciate you. Congrats on all the success.

Speaker 46 These people love you, baby.

Speaker 63 Man, thank you guys. Ladies and gentlemen, Cuts Mike Donbler.

Speaker 63 I appreciate you coming.

Speaker 63 Man, great feeling together. You too, Coach.
Good luck.

Speaker 68 Good luck. Good luck.
You should. Congratulations.

Speaker 76 Thank you, Coach.

Speaker 76 Thank you. Appreciate you, Spells.

Speaker 105 Ladies and gentlemen, that's Coach Mike Tobin.

Speaker 99 And there's a man standing off camera that I don't know if he's ever done an interview before.

Speaker 6 I don't know if he gets any requests.

Speaker 81 Special Teams Coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 17 Winzer

Speaker 17 Dance.

Speaker 78 oh my god, tattoo on the outside of the shin.

Speaker 37 Good hope, Christopher.

Speaker 70 Hey, hey, I'm about this stuff.

Speaker 70 Hell yeah!

Speaker 70 How about this here? Hey, we got a local guy

Speaker 111 big time.

Speaker 31 He comes back to Pittsburgh to do a live show for us.

Speaker 31 That's your mic. That's your mic.
That's you. He don't need a tail, Mike.

Speaker 48 I appreciate you doing that for me. That was not needed.

Speaker 107 How about this?

Speaker 153 Local guy comes back to coach special teams for the Pittsburgh Studio

Speaker 153 for all of us.

Speaker 88 And he chews through 200 pieces of gum every single game. Danny Smith is here, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 138 Hi, Danny.

Speaker 129 We have like two, three minutes. I know you love doing media, and this is something you really enjoyed.

Speaker 16 You had the, I don't know if it was the best unit in the NFL last year, but we looked up stats.

Speaker 27 You got a lot of number ones and a lot of top 10, a lot of top fives.

Speaker 29 Special teams is something that is respected here in Pittsburgh because it's a football town.

Speaker 104 How many years have you been here now?

Speaker 75 This will be 13th.

Speaker 27 13th year for you here as a Pittsburgh Steeler. How do you feel about this particular team? How's the energy?

Speaker 164 You know, I mean, it's an honor to purchase.

Speaker 34 I don't know if his mic's on.

Speaker 125 Did you turn it off? Give him that other one.

Speaker 34 Give him that other mic there, AJ, right next to you, right next to you.

Speaker 95 Try that one.

Speaker 91 Come on.

Speaker 27 Jesus.

Speaker 112 Try that one.

Speaker 31 There we go.

Speaker 151 Come on, AJ.

Speaker 113 I don't think you're on.

Speaker 91 I watch the two mics.

Speaker 37 There we go.

Speaker 164 Really, it's an honor and a privilege, man, to come back to your hometown and coach this. Okay? And to clean up,

Speaker 38 we were number one.

Speaker 164 And that ain't me, man. That's the players that I coach.
Okay?

Speaker 164 They come out with rankings and that. I got good players, man.
This organization will supply you with people. You got to know what you're doing.
You got to give them a direction.

Speaker 164 And these players will work their butt off if you know what you're doing. And really, it's a credit to our players.
I got good players, man. I got good players that work their butts off.

Speaker 164 Those of you who watch practice, you see it. And it's an honor and a privilege to be a part of it.

Speaker 33 This year, is there a different buzz with how much Omar Khan and the front office have gone all in with this particular team?

Speaker 119 Have you thought about that?

Speaker 164 You know, I get puzzled in the media when I watch some of this stuff.

Speaker 164 They say, like, what coach is on a hot seat? What about, man, I'm on a hot seat every day.

Speaker 111 Okay?

Speaker 69 I don't look at it like that.

Speaker 15 I'm on a hot seat every day.

Speaker 164 This stuff changes so quickly. So I don't feel no heat, no pressure.
I put the pressure on myself. I expect us to win, and I expect us to win it all every damn year.

Speaker 8 And I don't change.

Speaker 114 AJ has a question for you, Coach.

Speaker 93 Coach, what are you trying to do in training camp right now today, first day of pets?

Speaker 93 What are you looking at to see some guys maybe that you haven't seen tested yet?

Speaker 164 You know, and you did it, you know, for a living.

Speaker 49 We got a movement, you know.

Speaker 164 Who moves, moves, who could cover in space, who has some agility.

Speaker 108 There's no real game planning at this time.

Speaker 164 So you don't really get to mentally check on them.

Speaker 164 But you get the physicality of it and the physical part of it with the change of direction, the hand placement, the foot work, the pad level and things like that.

Speaker 164 So I'm consistently, constantly watching other drills too, along with my own, to evaluate them.

Speaker 85 Yeah, can you talk about how guys need to get a heads up that the way they're going to make it in the league is through special teams and your messaging to them for that?

Speaker 164 It's changed a lot, you know, over my years. But our head coach heads up, you know, Mike T does a great job.
Mike T is great with me, supplying me time, supplying me players.

Speaker 164 Okay, then it's up to me to get it done. And that's as simple as I can put it.
But a lot of guys, that's the only way to make it. I tell them all the time.

Speaker 164 I say, okay, I want you to be the starting linebacker. I want you to be the starting running back.
Damn, I want to be the head coach. But that ain't happening, okay?

Speaker 164 I ain't the head coach, and you ain't the starting running back, so we got a pretty good job. Let's take care of it.

Speaker 49 D-Bun has to do.

Speaker 46 That's what I tell them.

Speaker 154 That's a great message.

Speaker 14 That's a great delivery.

Speaker 108 Hopefully, they get the point.

Speaker 46 Go ahead, Debun.

Speaker 82 I was blessed to play with some great special teams coordinators. Scotty O'Brien in New England, Big Man in Indy.
How have you? You've been doing it a long time.

Speaker 82 And Pat just mentioned you got to relate to the entire roster, but how do you get that juice? How do you bring that same juice every day?

Speaker 164 There's some great names right there, man. Their predecessors that helped pave the way for me.

Speaker 45 I mean, they really are.

Speaker 164 And I respect them so much.

Speaker 49 And it just, it's a mindset.

Speaker 108 You know, it's a mindset.

Speaker 164 You got to come come out all the time, and you know, if I've supplied the energy, man, they'll follow. If you let players middle round, you play, do you let players middle round? They will, okay.

Speaker 164 Uh, how am I gonna ask them to give energy if I don't? I just that's the way I coach, you know. I really believe in that, what I tell them all the time.

Speaker 164 I want you to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, then you're a better player.

Speaker 16 Coach, why'd you have Antonio Brown in the fourth quarter return punts whenever you're up 21 points with six minutes left?

Speaker 164 Let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you a quick story.

Speaker 11 Please do.

Speaker 164 Pat always brings this up on the times that we got him. He don't ever bring up the time he got me.

Speaker 150 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 96 Thanksgiving, baby.

Speaker 164 Okay, Thanksgiving.

Speaker 76 They run, yeah, you ruined my damn dinner.

Speaker 77 I can't even eat it.

Speaker 164 I go home from India out of my damn stomach. I'm puking on the damn pressure of my home.
I can't eat Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 164 Okay, because he runs a fake, because he got big balls and will do things like that.

Speaker 164 And he's faking, fake, and fake. It throws a pass for a first time, and it's on me.
So there's two sides to those throws.

Speaker 68 Okay, Tommy has a question for you, Coach.

Speaker 60 Yeah, coach, before you show fakes to the team, do you have to run them by Coach Tomlin, or what's that meaning like?

Speaker 31 I can't even do it.

Speaker 119 Danny, when you're running a fake, hey, when you try to run a fake or do something, running them by Coach Tomlin, what is that like?

Speaker 130 I've always said this.

Speaker 129 Like, when I was young in the NFL, I have a good arm.

Speaker 99 You saw that.

Speaker 46 You experienced that.

Speaker 26 I'm also punt pass and kick champion here for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 9 Troy Paul and all those showing up over there.

Speaker 21 Feels like you guys had film in our practice. Fuck you.

Speaker 69 Now, with that being said,

Speaker 156 always had a good, always had a good arm. Always had a good arm.

Speaker 129 When I was young in the NFL, I wanted to run more fakes.

Speaker 79 I'm like, hey, I'm watching these punters throw these balls and everybody's talking about how athletic they are.

Speaker 21 I could just let me spin one here.

Speaker 35 Let me do it.

Speaker 129 And

Speaker 44 Ray Rich Lesky, who's the head coach, and Jim Caldwell was the head coach.

Speaker 18 Special teams was Ray. He said, so let me get this straight.

Speaker 35 We're going to take Peyton Manning off the field. Okay, we're going to take Peyton Manning off the field.

Speaker 78 We're going to take Reggie Wayne off of the field.

Speaker 27 We're going to take Dallas Clark off of the field.

Speaker 154 We're going to take Joseph Adai off of the field.

Speaker 46 And then we're going to have you do the offense for us.

Speaker 44 That makes sense.

Speaker 99 And if it doesn't work, they're going to go the other way.

Speaker 4 Usually good teams don't do a lot of trickery shit.

Speaker 58 Now you do your own shit.

Speaker 33 Returns, fakes drawing up.

Speaker 87 What are those conversations like with Tomlin?

Speaker 120 And how aggressive do you think you guys are compared to the rest of the NFL?

Speaker 164 It's a great point. And Pat, the way I do it is this, man.
There are fakes and there are trick plays.

Speaker 164 And the way that I define that is this a fake is something that we see that we want to take advantage of okay we saw something on tape they're weak over here they don't cover this or they don't like we were going to do against you for troy paul muller ruined it all when i was with score but i knew i knew because

Speaker 164 so we covered that stuff and we didn't let it get away with it now trick play is i come out with some crazy formation or something and i'm trying to trick you and sometimes it tricks on me yeah

Speaker 164 for real and that's what it is if i don't know where you're gonna align and things like that it's a trick play And I believe in fakes. I don't believe in trick plays.
Got it.

Speaker 164 Okay, so with that in mind, we cover that stuff. Okay? And we'll challenge each other on that.
I'm talking about players, coaches, everything.

Speaker 164 If the players are comfortable and confident in running, it takes a situation to get it. We'll go in the game with all the fakes, okay? That don't mean we're running one every week.

Speaker 164 This ain't a trick of dick and leap.

Speaker 117 You don't win like that.

Speaker 1 You got to beat them.

Speaker 164 You got to beat your opponent. We got to do field position.
We got to block kick.

Speaker 15 We got to return balls.

Speaker 164 We got to do those things to win.

Speaker 38 But every now and then,

Speaker 164 like a Peyton Manning and the names that he's mentioning, we try to steal a possession.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like a turnover.

Speaker 164 You can't give Peyton Manning the ball all the damn time. You can't give Joe Burrows all his reps.
You can't give those guys all their reps. You try to steal a possession.

Speaker 74 It's a turnover.

Speaker 8 So we'll run something like that.

Speaker 21 And immediately upon hearing Joe Burrows' name, they send him their best wishes.

Speaker 80 Luck, Joe.

Speaker 141 I've gone through a lot out there.

Speaker 129 Last thing I would like you to hit upon, and I assume if you didn't, they would talk shit about you.

Speaker 2 Can you tell me about Boz, Johnson, and Koontz, your kicker, punter, long snapper?

Speaker 20 You got dogs across the board.

Speaker 42 That is a comforting feeling, I assume, for sports.

Speaker 38 We're good there.

Speaker 164 I mean, we really are. And Boz is special.

Speaker 139 Nothing is too big for him.

Speaker 164 He wants the big kick.

Speaker 60 He gets pissed off when we don't do the 56, 57 in that range.

Speaker 15 So I'll piss him off in practice.

Speaker 164 I'll put the ball at the 35, which would be a 53-yard field goal, and I'll call for the punt team. And he calls me every name in the book.

Speaker 164 And I always say, hey, just heads up here. Watch balls.
Watch his balls. And he ain't paying attention.
He's walking. And I say, all right, balls on the 35.
It's fourth and three. Let's go.
Let's go.

Speaker 164 Punt, punt, punt. What do you mean, punt? I'm going to pick it up.
And he goes crazy. So that's good to see.
So he got, you know, he's a good player, and he'll be good. We got to punt battle.

Speaker 164 We got to punt battle. We got to punt battle.
Cam is a great punter, okay? Cam has got credentials. Cordos came in last year and did a great job.

Speaker 164 We got a battling man. We really do.
They are great players, they are great guys, they are great teammates, they are great workers.

Speaker 164 They're two good players, man. They're two NFL punters, and I'm blessed to have them both.

Speaker 15 Hell yeah.

Speaker 164 And long snap, but you know, Christian is as tough as it gets.

Speaker 139 Okay,

Speaker 164 we got other people in there. We're gonna have competition in there and things like that.
But Christian don't miss snaps. Christian don't miss games.
And you know how that is.

Speaker 164 You know, when you got the continuity, you should be better. We got continuity, we will

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Speaker 1 It is happening in a big way here in Leitrobe, Pennsylvania, about an hour east of Accra Shur Stadium, the artist formerly known as Heinz Field.

Speaker 20 I will say, earlier before the show, I went onto my maps to see exactly how far we were from the stadium downtown.

Speaker 136 I put Heinz Field in there.

Speaker 114 It did not show up.

Speaker 37 Wow, end of an era.

Speaker 48 Now

Speaker 20 that's Timmy Jobs, Timmy Apple, doing that. So I went over to Google, you know, and maybe it's just my app.
Across your is the only thing showing up.

Speaker 31 Hate to say it.

Speaker 89 Down at the shore.

Speaker 36 Hate to say it.

Speaker 113 Hour and eight minutes from the from where we are right now and in this

Speaker 114 batch of hills here.

Speaker 35 And this is the most western Pennsylvania thing of all time.

Speaker 48 Stages built on the side of a hill.

Speaker 46 All the guardrails are like this.

Speaker 18 We got people kind of crunched down here.

Speaker 28 There is a drop off of a cliff on the other side of that over there.

Speaker 75 People lined up on a hill here.

Speaker 98 And at the bottom of this hill are two fields, field one and field two, where the Pittsburgh Steelers have worked their asses off since 1966.

Speaker 154 Father Paul, the CEO priest of this place, came in and chit-chatted about this entire universe or this college and everything that's happened here.

Speaker 114 They're thankful to be the home of the Steelers. They're the right home of the Steelers.

Speaker 40 And this is one of the things that is just synonymous with the NFL training camp at St.

Speaker 7 Vincent College.

Speaker 48 Let's go to the talks at table at Ty Schmidt, at Boston Connor.

Speaker 40 Connor, they've been chanting things from 2017 at you, which I appreciate.

Speaker 104 But football people respect football people, am I right?

Speaker 90 Yeah, I appreciate it as well.

Speaker 71 I mean, the rules are rules.

Speaker 55 Some Steelers fans, you know, get it, some don't.

Speaker 67 It seems it's kind of a mixed bag out there today, which which has been nice.

Speaker 67 But it's a pleasure being down here

Speaker 83 at the trobe, as they call it.

Speaker 28 It's hot as hell.

Speaker 90 I don't know if it's translating through the television.

Speaker 60 Probably one of the harder programs we've ever had, but it is awesome.

Speaker 132 There's nothing like this, you know, like taking the program on the road. I forget what the hashtag was.

Speaker 55 I wish I remembered what it was from the Home Run Derby, but

Speaker 55 doing these live shows with you.

Speaker 59 guys is so much fun and it's just great seeing football on the field you called it um the trobe i believe for latrobe yeah Should I call it down there at the trobe.

Speaker 47 Okay, I got that.

Speaker 130 We should say day trobe, I think, because the way they say is lay trobe.

Speaker 36 But remember

Speaker 120 the show down in Morgantown, remember it got so hot that it went off air.

Speaker 39 Yeah, the generators blew up.

Speaker 86 We were a little worried today as the heat was rising in what Kaboy said about this particular night that we're going to have a similar issue.

Speaker 33 But this is exactly what Tomlin wants. This is exactly what Khan wants.

Speaker 20 And if we know the cut of the jib of this particular team, this is exactly what they want.

Speaker 118 Let's get it hardened out.

Speaker 82 You guys are kind of sounding like Euros, but like Europeans.

Speaker 142 Europeans.

Speaker 31 Complain about the heat.

Speaker 93 You need to watch the first half in the locker room.

Speaker 65 It gets too hot.

Speaker 82 Yeah, it's too hot. What is this?

Speaker 50 That's nine-year NFL.

Speaker 97 A guy can't be cold.

Speaker 90 A guy can't be hot. What the fuck?

Speaker 31 30 degrees.

Speaker 37 Just be a guy.

Speaker 76 Just be a cold.

Speaker 31 Just be hot.

Speaker 83 AJ's got black pants or a black shirt.

Speaker 20 He's hot as shit. That's AJ Hawk.

Speaker 79 Nine-year NFL vet.

Speaker 26 He's also a Bron Connie Hall of Famer, which is South Florida, which it is always 120 degrees.

Speaker 35 Darius Butler.

Speaker 13 And one half of the hammer.

Speaker 85 That has to feel pretty cool.

Speaker 120 Cowboys AP tone. I think it's a beautiful day out here in Leitrobe tone.

Speaker 66 It is awesome. I mean, you guys are talking about hot, cold.

Speaker 24 It's football weather is football weather.

Speaker 66 Whether it's 15 or 95, we all know these fans are going to show up. We all know Seala's going to go for the sevens, Lombardi.

Speaker 66 Like, looking out into the, like, we grew up, most of us grew up around, you know, these parts or whatever.

Speaker 66 You can just kind of smell it in the air. Like, this time of year, you kind of smell the football in the air.

Speaker 66 I can only imagine what the locker room room smells like and brings back all those memories. But being here, coming here as a kid and into high school, like this is the best.

Speaker 60 This is awesome. I agree.

Speaker 129 It's been a nice trip down Nostalgia Lane for us.

Speaker 42 We can't wait to watch practice.

Speaker 4 Immediately after this show ends, there'll be practice out on this field.

Speaker 127 We will head down there and watch the boys do their thing.

Speaker 44 And we'll try to hold back AJ from

Speaker 96 physicality for AJ Hawk.

Speaker 154 Let's talk about some NFL news.

Speaker 29 Big news broken on our show by Adam Shepherd is that Christian Wilkins playfully kissed a teammate on the forehead.

Speaker 154 Then I said they want the HR and they get released.

Speaker 35 Now $35.2 million in guarantees with the handling of a surgery or non-surgery is in limbo.

Speaker 29 And this story is obviously blown up because it's such an abnormal type headline.

Speaker 20 What we were told was a kiss on the forehead.

Speaker 35 Now you got every other media person that's been snooping around with it going, that ain't what all happened.

Speaker 4 There's more that took place.

Speaker 62 Weird scene over there in Vegas, but this is maybe the most ridiculous training camp story that I've heard in some time, AJ Hall.

Speaker 93 Yeah, we've had some ridiculous ones over the years, if you think back, but it can't just be one thing, right? Like, there's usually there's things leading up to situations like this.

Speaker 93 If it's one thing, then this one thing has to be more than a kiss on the forehead or a kiss on the top of what he said to get someone.

Speaker 47 I'm saying there had to be something leading their own.

Speaker 65 Well, that's what everybody else is saying.

Speaker 81 We like to say allegedly.

Speaker 152 Yeah, allegedly.

Speaker 151 But I'm not, I mean,

Speaker 95 I'm not saying anything even about Christian, but like, it's tough or one thing is the final death blow on someone like, okay, you're gone, see you.

Speaker 56 We already paid, you know, $35 million or whatever.

Speaker 72 Could be the cherry on top.

Speaker 97 That's right.

Speaker 113 Could be a cherry on top is what I'm saying. Literally.

Speaker 82 Big time player like that, and we always talk about the sanctity of the locker room. That's our locker room.
Like, coaches aren't even really allowed in there.

Speaker 82 So with something like, whenever you're bringing up HR, I don't think I can remember any instance in my life.

Speaker 29 I brought up HR, though.

Speaker 48 So a lot of people started running. That was in the report, though, right?

Speaker 47 No, yeah.

Speaker 50 Was it?

Speaker 40 I don't think it was HR.

Speaker 20 I think it was Coach or GM problem.

Speaker 47 Okay, okay.

Speaker 113 It was basically FL HR.

Speaker 152 I thought I saw it.

Speaker 53 I did Schefter's podcast with him yesterday, and I believe he said that whoever came forward did go to HR.

Speaker 31 Never even knew that.

Speaker 96 So when I said HR,

Speaker 79 I was kind of like...

Speaker 53 Yeah, tongue-in-cheek, but I believe that is actually what happened.

Speaker 44 I was doing kiss on cheek there.

Speaker 71 Like, the

Speaker 9 you go to HNR for these types of things.

Speaker 40 In the NFL, I didn't even know that was possible.

Speaker 44 Exactly.

Speaker 4 So there's so many things apart of the story that are wild.

Speaker 25 We'll continue to monitor it because we are journalists.

Speaker 129 Let's chit-chat a little bit about other stories happening around the NFL. We briefly mentioned it before Danny Smith and Coach Tomlin came on.

Speaker 156 Trey Hendrickson is back with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 156 He really stuck it to us.

Speaker 156 That's embarrassing. Okay.
And I get it.

Speaker 95 It's great for the Bengals.

Speaker 66 He's there, all that stuff.

Speaker 60 He folded like a flip-flop.

Speaker 55 All right, and I just have to say, too, he came on the program during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 47 Hey,

Speaker 60 the grum, if you will.

Speaker 157 Hey, I really, really don't want to do this.

Speaker 72 I really don't want to do this.

Speaker 65 That's supposed to be Trey.

Speaker 67 Sounds just like him.

Speaker 71 He didn't.

Speaker 66 You know, hopefully he gets a response.

Speaker 55 He doesn't, because the Bengals' front office, they are Mr.

Speaker 93 Brown promised him something. Trey promised him to be

Speaker 60 treating him like a bag of shit.

Speaker 92 Actually, no, Mr.

Speaker 132 Brown said, yeah, I mean, at some point, you got to be, you know, at least a little grateful.

Speaker 90 I think he called him Trey Henderson as well. Like, watching what Mike Brown said, watching what has happened since his first initial interview in February gives him no reason to show up today.

Speaker 71 Absolutely not.

Speaker 22 If anything, it should kind of harden his stance.

Speaker 55 But again, Trey, Trey Henderson.

Speaker 86 We don't know how this is going to work out.

Speaker 54 No, we do.

Speaker 145 I like Trey Hendrickson.

Speaker 54 I don't know if Trey Hendrickson would be on the Patriots.

Speaker 71 I think everybody up here wants him on the team.

Speaker 1 He's unbelievable.

Speaker 55 And that's why it's one of those things where, okay, so Trey Hendrickson is kind of acting like a wuss.

Speaker 90 And it sucks to say,

Speaker 2 kind of

Speaker 111 being a little bit of a

Speaker 48 past, I'm gonna leave.

Speaker 25 Okay, I'm gonna get fined $350,000.

Speaker 133 I assume that will get taken care of on the next contract.

Speaker 134 I think the way he is doing it, or viewing it, we would hope, is like, hey, let's get back to this.

Speaker 16 Let's try to sort this out because he's probably missing ball, if I had to guess.

Speaker 24 That's definitely part of business.

Speaker 86 But I understand that holding out, a part of it, is you're going to have to miss ball.

Speaker 37 Of course you miss ball. Yes.

Speaker 31 That's kind of what it is.

Speaker 71 That's what you That's kind of the way it goes.

Speaker 53 I think there is also a chance, and I said this from the start, he may be just resetting the Squeaks Glory scale.

Speaker 86 All right.

Speaker 76 He might be going back in.

Speaker 88 Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 53 16 to 17 more opportunities for them to rip on him, and then, hey, Robert's going to meet the rope.

Speaker 112 Yeah, look, he's a coward.

Speaker 77 He's a true.

Speaker 97 That is disgusting.

Speaker 31 He's a man of the clock

Speaker 47 of the world.

Speaker 31 He's a brother.

Speaker 79 I'm this Catholic grant.

Speaker 131 Yes, exactly.

Speaker 153 That's why I'm saying this.

Speaker 20 But I also have to acknowledge the facts, term but fair.

Speaker 71 He's acting like a coward.

Speaker 133 No, he might get a deal done.

Speaker 129 We shall see.

Speaker 78 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a Western Pennsylvania legend.

Speaker 86 I'll say it.

Speaker 35 The greatest official in the history of officiating.

Speaker 28 Basketball, football, you name it.

Speaker 88 Paisano Genester.

Speaker 65 Good to see you, good to see you.

Speaker 47 He's doing good. Good to see you.

Speaker 77 It's got to be a rep!

Speaker 37 I'm live. I'm dead.

Speaker 31 I want to be a rep.

Speaker 155 You hear them? They're talking about me, brother.

Speaker 51 I want to be a rep.

Speaker 101 I want to be a rep.

Speaker 153 That's for you, Gino.

Speaker 1 Hey, you got a mic right over there.

Speaker 4 Congratulations on.

Speaker 87 CBS just announced all the crews.

Speaker 3 You're right down there, lower left corner.

Speaker 12 Rules analyst, Gene Sterator, back for CBS.

Speaker 31 I love it, Patty. I love it.

Speaker 56 I love it. We're sighted for another year.

Speaker 7 But listen, before we we start, if I may,

Speaker 21 you know, in Pittsburgh we bear gifts.

Speaker 18 Yes, you do.

Speaker 17 Yes, we bear.

Speaker 56 For everybody here, this is special. So if we can pay attention, it's like having that announcement, you know, it's really important.
Okay. So we got everyone's attention.

Speaker 56 We're great gift givers here in Pittsburgh. We're also legendary lovers of the game.
That's right. And we know you are as well as a Western Pennsylvania person.

Speaker 56 This comes from the athletic director at St. Vincent College, D.P.

Speaker 8 Harris, that was gifted to him that he would like to pass along as a gift to you and the guys.

Speaker 57 Holy shit.

Speaker 56 That is a Pittsburgh Steeler signed football by the one,

Speaker 41 the only mean

Speaker 112 Joe Green.

Speaker 63 Awesome short. D.P.

Speaker 15 Harris, right there, Patty, right there, D.P.

Speaker 31 D.P. That's a classic DP football.

Speaker 8 That is sick.

Speaker 6 Yeah, this will make the desk.

Speaker 14 I appreciate that, DP.

Speaker 2 There you go.

Speaker 29 Great delivery through paisano who we love um okay gino thank you for that you're the man uh i've always been a massive fan of yours before i got to the league while i was in the league now that i'm retired you're the greatest ever uh you i think there's a couple you ed

Speaker 46 that's about it

Speaker 84 there's a few others that are your friends i assume but none of them really popped up in my mind and i think it's because you're such a skilled communicator but i think also because of how much you love the game how much do you think being a western pennsylvania guy and also paisano i mean you just said we love football, we love giving gifts.

Speaker 131 Those guys all look really good.

Speaker 47 I can't tell you what you're doing.

Speaker 42 How much do you think being from this area has helped with you becoming the football guy for all of us?

Speaker 62 You are the authority.

Speaker 46 Something happens in a game.

Speaker 18 What happened here?

Speaker 35 Let's go to fucking Gene Stairs.

Speaker 86 Gene, what is going on?

Speaker 87 You are the voice of football for a lot of people.

Speaker 35 How much do you think growing up in this area is a part of that?

Speaker 56 You know what? I think it's a tremendous part of it. I mean,

Speaker 56 I was a sophomore in high school in 1978, 79, right?

Speaker 31 Oh, look at that.

Speaker 46 Italians might have the same.

Speaker 63 And

Speaker 56 just really what, you know what it is?

Speaker 56 First and foremost, it's this amazing facility, and we're in the hills of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 56 It's the community.

Speaker 8 It's blue-collar people that look you in the eye.

Speaker 24 It's blue-collar football.

Speaker 56 It's checking in with your fan to put in the dorm window. So it's kind of everything.
And yeah, I think that's the foundation for it. And then officiating was in my blood.

Speaker 56 My late father was a ref for 30 plus years of both major college football and basketball.

Speaker 56 So all of that combined, and I think you said it right, Pat, it's the love of this whole game and what it means to players, coaches, and just people, right?

Speaker 56 It is, it's everything.

Speaker 18 Football is the greatest.

Speaker 26 Obviously, you're an incredible basketball official as well.

Speaker 35 This has been spectacular as people are filling in for practice to watch.

Speaker 98 Are you working these practices?

Speaker 156 What are you doing?

Speaker 35 Because I know back in the day, reps used to get their reps in at training camp, then there would be a meeting afterwards.

Speaker 6 You led one that I watched.

Speaker 20 All right, guys, this year we got this shit going.

Speaker 130 What is the messaging from officials to players this year?

Speaker 56 Actually, my role today is to come down here to see you and the fellas and to just say what's happening.

Speaker 56 Welcome home to those that are on the road and really kind of get the feeling that the NFL is definitely here. It's back again another year.

Speaker 117 A lot of new stuff in the officiating window.

Speaker 56 There's a few new nuances that I know you guys have gone over a little bit about.

Speaker 147 No, no, we would like you to talk about that.

Speaker 67 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 8 the one that affects that I know you could talk to a bunch is the touchback being at the 35.

Speaker 56 You know, a lot of people think 30 to 35 is not a big difference. That five yards is huge.
It means a ton if you get two first downs or even one, and then you're even punting.

Speaker 56 field position, you know, that. So I think that's a big one.
They also condense those formations a little tighter so space and speed are even more limited a little bit with the kickoff play.

Speaker 56 And I think what you're going to see now is the talented kickers like you were, Pat, is you know, they're going to put that thing between the five and the one. So we want to increase the returns.

Speaker 56 We want that activity to happen. So I think

Speaker 56 it's a big step for that reason. And I think it ran pretty well last year.

Speaker 35 1,600 more plays is what they were pitching last year whenever they made this, but that was when it was a 35-yard touchback.

Speaker 114 Whenever they softened it and moved it to 30, I thought that was a bad idea.

Speaker 104 I was literally loud.

Speaker 108 And you talk about that five yards being a vast difference.

Speaker 35 If you look at the percentages of scoring when you're at the 35 versus when you're at the 30 versus when you're at the 25, vast difference.

Speaker 20 That's why I think the 35 was the right play all along.

Speaker 40 Happy they're there. That does look explosive.

Speaker 125 How about the Hawkeye technology?

Speaker 47 It's breaking my heart a little bit.

Speaker 111 Okay.

Speaker 128 I mean, you can't pull the penalty card out now.

Speaker 56 No, I did want to pitch that. Could we just get an animated, you know,

Speaker 56 come out maybe on a close one, right? And then put it down. But listen, it's going going to make the game more efficient.

Speaker 56 Measurements take almost two minutes of downtime, so we want to move through that rather quick, get back to the snaps. So I'm digging it.
It's, you know, we're embracing technology.

Speaker 56 Let's get this done. I do like the chain crew, though, man.
It was a special bond that we had as reps with that crew.

Speaker 89 We're getting kicked out last year.

Speaker 69 We got to keep them there.

Speaker 50 You never know when maybe technology doesn't work.

Speaker 146 So we want to keep doing the chain crew there

Speaker 56 in the event that we have a breakdown.

Speaker 32 And Western Pennsylvania here.

Speaker 35 we don't want to be taking jobs from anybody.

Speaker 65 We don't need to be taking any chain crews.

Speaker 113 Especially AI. Yeah,

Speaker 44 we don't need these robots taking any jobs out here in Western Pennsylvania.

Speaker 10 Here is obviously the index card moment.

Speaker 99 What a moment in the history of this sport.

Speaker 19 I guess you could say this will never happen again.

Speaker 25 Just like

Speaker 156 I did a couple of surprise on-site kicks.

Speaker 6 This will never happen again either.

Speaker 79 So we'll just go down as the greatest of all time.

Speaker 130 Now, on that note, AJ has a question for you.

Speaker 93 So as the white hat, when you have the mic and you're announcing to the world in the stadium and all the millions watching on TV, you're probably the best to ever do it.

Speaker 93 Was that something you actually had to work on and practice?

Speaker 93 Do they teach you when you're coming up, when you're training, do they teach you, hey, if you're the guy,

Speaker 95 you need to enunciate, you need to put out a good message and be crisp and clear in what we're doing.

Speaker 81 Is that part of referee school or whatever they do?

Speaker 56 Yeah, I mean, it really is.

Speaker 56 And I leaned on the legends that were before me, AJ.

Speaker 56 I was very fortunate that Jerry Mark Bright, who was really like the first true, I think tunny, Mark Bright, Cashin, they were were the first like referees that had to speak on the mic right so that really it's a daunting task for some people to think of I can't hey here we go one shot on me I gotta explain this right let's face it man that's that's live television that's right on your waist you get one take oh yeah

Speaker 103 so there's a lot of little news only 50 million people watching you deliver a monologue right that's bigger than any late night show host

Speaker 4 that's bigger than anybody else that has a one shot on national television and you're speaking for the game like you are representing the game you stutter, whole league looks like an asshole.

Speaker 81 You get it wrong, the game looks broken.

Speaker 58 Like for new fans, like that's a lot of pressure and some of them do melt in the moment, it feels like.

Speaker 119 I feel like that should be something that is taken into.

Speaker 73 We need a little moxie from the NFL.

Speaker 56 I think the other thing too, quite honestly, and we all talk, right? I mean, officials all talk when we retire, we want to give back. We want to continue to pass the message.

Speaker 56 There's a bridging in the NFL that's different with other sports with the referee announcement. You are that bridge a little bit between the production of the game, the talent.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 56 So there's enough information, and quite frankly, I talk a little bit too much everywhere.

Speaker 77 No, no, no, I think it's great for me.

Speaker 111 Maybe it was a little too much.

Speaker 56 So I think there was that good balance where officials do become part of the production of that show for that moment, right?

Speaker 56 So own that space, control it, but try to keep your individual personality involved as well. And it's not an easy subset.

Speaker 38 You guys know what it's like, right?

Speaker 94 But what you do is not easy.

Speaker 72 And we know, we've seen other people try and not not do it.

Speaker 56 What's kind of hard is after you kind of missed a 50-50 play and you guys were a lot closer than you feel like you are now to me, and then you had to kind of click and become one with the living room.

Speaker 56 You know, that wasn't always easy to do right in that space.

Speaker 129 Yeah, the interactions between players who are pissed at you, and then, excuse me, I got to talk to 50 million people, actually.

Speaker 9 This guy right here.

Speaker 65 You saw it.

Speaker 146 We all saw it.

Speaker 86 We all saw it.

Speaker 134 I mean, it's a moment.

Speaker 35 You need to have confidence. And if you don't have confidence, I think the game isn't taken as serious.

Speaker 34 Like, I legitimately think that white cap speaking to the audience is one of the most important parts of the game.

Speaker 58 It can ruin the entire league.

Speaker 87 How do you feel about it now?

Speaker 105 Connor has a question.

Speaker 163 Yeah, Madonna.

Speaker 55 It feels like right now the refs, there's a new ref accountability initiative.

Speaker 163 I think it was last year, maybe there were two refs left let go.

Speaker 55 I think Roger Goodell kind of talked about it a little bit at the NFL draft when he came on, the Grum.

Speaker 55 But how do you feel about it when it comes to people wanting referees to do a press conference or do something?

Speaker 71 I know they released a sheet of paper and explain and stuff, but sometimes that kind of gets missed.

Speaker 55 What do you think about kind of that future?

Speaker 56 You know, I mean, the first point of it, I would tell you from the accountability portion of it, it may not be like public consumption, that type of knowledge.

Speaker 56 The accountability level to the officials in the NFL is of such a high level and the scrutiny is so detailed for the right reasons that they're held accountable to a place that you really could not imagine unless you lived a week of an NFL ref and watched how that process took place.

Speaker 56 So it's really there. And like most things refs do, it's not for public consumption.
I know the world wants to see officials stand up and take questions from a podium and

Speaker 56 get through that place.

Speaker 56 To me,

Speaker 56 listen, there's a window of what officials do in every sport. That, look, if we called this game by the letter of the law, but what you said, look in the book, it says this.
it's a foul.

Speaker 56 You could have 10 questions in the last three minutes of every game and by the book say that those are fouls, right?

Speaker 56 I know, but the art of what we did was that three to five percent of that gray that understood the second part of it. Yeah, he did get held a little.

Speaker 56 They also ran the football nine yards away from him on the other side.

Speaker 65 It just got an impact. I would have got there.

Speaker 37 No, you want to be a little bit more.

Speaker 60 You always have to take the individual into it as well.

Speaker 37 Milt tracker, milk tracker.

Speaker 113 He was a piece of death, you know what I mean?

Speaker 102 That's knowing the game though. That's it the way that I go through it.

Speaker 118 Gene, what you're talking about is knowing the game though.

Speaker 56 Well that's part of this whole process Patty and really the nice part about football as opposed to my hoop life.

Speaker 56 In hoops, you see a play, you just have a fraction, you're either going to blow the whistle or pass. Football you could digest for two seconds, right?

Speaker 56 Like watch the thing evolve because flags happen and plays finish. In hoops you blew the whistle and it was over.
You needed to like step up, right? But

Speaker 56 yeah, I think it is part of understanding the game, and quite frankly, that's the majority of the training that's done with new officials moving to this level.

Speaker 16 It's a little different.

Speaker 127 Don't we just need a pipeline of ex-players just to do full-time, go to a university, go to an academy, work around the college, get a pool, make them full-time?

Speaker 107 Not saying we need to eliminate all full-time refs, but don't we think ex-players would be great refs?

Speaker 4 I've always thought that.

Speaker 56 I think they would understand the game. I mean, yes, so

Speaker 56 there's that portion of that. And I think most people that are into officiating in some capacity were part of organized sports to some level.

Speaker 56 But then there's this whole other piece, Pat, and that's managing these individuals in this environment,

Speaker 56 understanding when that game needs to kind of pick up a little bit, right? Like, let's keep the...

Speaker 56 Look, you'll go to training camp, you'll be here today, that horn goes off, and we're playing things within seconds all day. You guys are programmed that way when you were practicing.

Speaker 56 Officials, a big part of what they do is when that play ends, get that football back in there, get it down and get out of the way and let them get into that rhythm of efficiency.

Speaker 56 That's how they've been programmed. If we are lax as an officiating group and being not efficient there, things get choppy, right?

Speaker 112 We have another call choppy.

Speaker 67 You know what I mean?

Speaker 56 We get down on ourselves.

Speaker 21 And also, if there's a flag, a holding, we don't need four straight penalties.

Speaker 5 Unless it's a full giveaway.

Speaker 125 The feel that you're talking about, it seems

Speaker 57 feels like the officiating need feel.

Speaker 35 I think the only way you get that is from reps, which I think a couple years ago, a lot of those young refs were ass.

Speaker 108 Last year, it wasn't a lot of, hey, these refs sucks conversations by us on Monday.

Speaker 118 I think that's good, right?

Speaker 18 Don't you think?

Speaker 56 Patience, patience, patience.

Speaker 28 I don't got it.

Speaker 49 I lost the bet because you guys can't call a goddamn

Speaker 31 two of them in Braddown. I remember his

Speaker 31 winner. Change my homes and

Speaker 88 got his face ripped off. Yeah, you guys can't make a call.

Speaker 16 I lose a bet.

Speaker 35 I hate the refs, but there's about 100 different moments where the refs make the right call and we don't give them any credit.

Speaker 20 So I think last year was a good officiating year.

Speaker 58 Yes, I agree.

Speaker 113 Debris has a question for me.

Speaker 82 I never want to be the conversation.

Speaker 82 But talking about understanding the game, I know as players and even player for Belichick, we would kind of go over the referees and what calls they call, what do they stay away from.

Speaker 82 And he would always say, do business as business is being done.

Speaker 82 Coming into the game, when it's certain, maybe like a Raven Stillers game, do you come in and say, hey, we're going to kind of let the players kind of dictate the outcome of this game and kind of of stay out of it.

Speaker 151 Fourth quarter, overtimes, fourth downs.

Speaker 82 Is that a conversation with Russ before games, before quarters?

Speaker 56 I got to be honest with you. I know how you guys scouted us.

Speaker 56 And it was right for that. You knew who was coming in.
You knew what percentage of holds we called. You knew where we were because that's who you are.
That's why you lived in that space.

Speaker 56 We did the same thing.

Speaker 128 Did it every game.

Speaker 56 First it was a team-team matchup. Then it was individual matchups.

Speaker 56 And then it was talking to each official or creating a playlist from previous games to show what this matchup's going to bring to you as an official that's on a line of scrimmage, you as a number two receiver in the slot plus a left tackle today.

Speaker 56 Like, this is how your matchup is. It's this rookie left tackle, and it's TJ Watt on the edge, right?

Speaker 56 So, make sure that rookie left tackle is up on a line of scrimmage, don't let him creep off, but make sure TJ doesn't have his hands creeping in the neutral zone either. I'm going to keep it cleaner.

Speaker 56 That was my matchup. So, yes, you constantly are building matchups that way in preparation for what's going to happen the next day.

Speaker 56 Because, just like you guys, when you focused and practiced and you went to those 10 bullet points that we got to do to win when they started happening on Sunday the level of calmness and confidence that we prepared properly for this game that was taking place in real time and we were telling each other that on the sideline the same thing was happening with me and my crew right we'd go over that two or three plays and now that play happened on Sunday at 2 15 First thing I was doing was pressing my button, letting that crew know, we just talked about that at 3 o'clock yesterday in a pregame.

Speaker 56 Remember? Elevation of that. And then I think I always went to the alpha, what I felt was the alpha on each side of the ball.

Speaker 56 Many times it was the quarterback because he dictated the tempo for me as a referee. But I wanted to find the alpha on the defensive side to let him know: play on the edge, that's what made you great.

Speaker 56 But trust me, that if I think you've gone over that edge and it's not good for the game, that if I just can check you back down one click to get back on the edge, and we all live in that space.

Speaker 56 When that trust occurred between player and referee, then manage the game and let the players do what they do. It's why they played it.
And still the Ravens, not because I'm from here.

Speaker 56 Toughest regular season matchup

Speaker 56 kind of for me.

Speaker 56 And again, not because I'm here. But I was part of that Monday night game with Hans and

Speaker 128 Ed Reed.

Speaker 56 And Richard Mendenhall fractured his shoulder on the second play.

Speaker 128 And we went into overtime.

Speaker 56 And I flipped a coin and it didn't flip over and it hit the ground.

Speaker 15 And I left my ref hat on the bed the day before at my home.

Speaker 56 And Coach Tomlin actually knew I left my ref hat on the bed.

Speaker 72 And he wanted to let me know that as we went into overtime.

Speaker 129 Like I might not have been always there.

Speaker 56 So yeah, there was just in that space and living in that environment is

Speaker 56 quite frankly what we all love. It's why you still talk about this the way we do and the passion

Speaker 56 because that's kind of what we were all addicted to, right?

Speaker 56 Living in that high altitude of space and being so aware of everything around you that only that space maybe can put you in is kind of what I know. That's why I did what I did.

Speaker 16 All right, Gino, last question here from fellow Paison AP Tone.

Speaker 80 Yeah, Gene Ruley.

Speaker 15 He saved the best for last, big, big Z.

Speaker 52 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 149 Come on, now, wait a minute.

Speaker 149 Come on, I gotta go there.

Speaker 149 What's your big idea?

Speaker 13 I've been a pinky ring for a while.

Speaker 95 Listen, this sauce is thicker than the blood.

Speaker 66 Today, I know Coach Tomlin is bringing.

Speaker 66 I know Tom and it's bringing rest out here today.

Speaker 66 What position group, when you're out here in training camp, talks to you guys the most?

Speaker 15 Connor? You mean like out on the field, what position you're talking about?

Speaker 113 Not during your game.

Speaker 66 No, no, no. Like the position, like a player position today.

Speaker 67 Like, is it DV?

Speaker 47 The DVs. Who's at the most stretching?

Speaker 164 The DBs start talking before it even starts.

Speaker 7 Right?

Speaker 56 They're talking while they're stretching. So, yeah, the DBs.

Speaker 128 Coach here, stay away from Danny Smith.

Speaker 60 He's my main man.

Speaker 56 I called a penalty my rookie year real quick in Washington when they were called a different name. I announced on a punt that the hold is on 44 against Washington, right?

Speaker 56 I was a rookie referee second game.

Speaker 56 Danny Smith starts running down the sideline screaming, who's the foul-on rookie? Because they know.

Speaker 164 I said, I told you it's 44.

Speaker 14 He goes, really?

Speaker 56 I said, yeah.

Speaker 15 He goes, you know who 44 is here?

Speaker 56 I'm like, who held? He said, no, look at the ring of honor.

Speaker 41 It's John Riggins.

Speaker 69 You just called a penalty on John Riggins because I had the number wrong, you know?

Speaker 67 But Danny, one of the best.

Speaker 56 Those interactions are what you miss.

Speaker 58 Yeah, well, we all miss you on the field.

Speaker 4 We're thankful you're on TV for yet another year.

Speaker 127 Thank you for the gift from the DPA.

Speaker 56 The DP, the DPA.

Speaker 42 Thank you for always being so kind to us.

Speaker 106 You're the man. You're a legend.

Speaker 131 You're actual goat.

Speaker 44 Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 44 Gino, boy, Gino. Hey.

Speaker 87 I appreciate you marrying me. Thank you.
Thank you, Gino.

Speaker 8 All right, appreciate it.

Speaker 82 Good luck this year.

Speaker 24 Bye, Zon. Great to see you.

Speaker 97 All right, Madon.

Speaker 47 That invite somebody's hat.

Speaker 147 I got you.

Speaker 152 Good-looking hats.

Speaker 93 You guys put in bocce? It's good-looking hats.

Speaker 108 A lot of love you gene texts coming from people around Pittsburgh.

Speaker 129 Gino's living legend.

Speaker 116 Now,

Speaker 127 speaking of living legend, there's a man who is creating his own path for an organization that is riddled with tradition and history.

Speaker 9 Ladies and gentlemen, the man who is simply known as the con artist, the general manager for the Pittsburgh Stailers,

Speaker 9 Omar Con.

Speaker 9 What's up, man? What's up? How you doing, Omar? How you doing? How you doing?

Speaker 38 Good to see you.

Speaker 47 Appreciate you, man. How you doing?

Speaker 39 What's your door? How you doing?

Speaker 105 You got that handheld right next to you there.

Speaker 11 Mr. Khan.

Speaker 31 Great.

Speaker 26 Congrats on a hell of an offseason in training camp, sir.

Speaker 103 Appreciate it.

Speaker 169 Appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 67 Okay, so.

Speaker 117 Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 59 No, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 108 Thank you for the hospitality. Thank you for everything.

Speaker 169 I've got these fans, man. They're the best man.

Speaker 169 Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 Everywhere. The best there is.

Speaker 16 It's been amazing.

Speaker 27 I was here as a child.

Speaker 108 I think Tone was here as a kid and as a high schooler.

Speaker 16 It's basically the pilgrimage that every Yenser feels like they have to make since 1966.

Speaker 34 The place has been here.

Speaker 85 Since the beginning of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steelers have operated in one particular way. And I know you've heard a lot of this, I assume, because we've chatted about it a lot.

Speaker 108 A lot of Steelers fans have.

Speaker 29 Completely different offseason for the Pittsburgh Steelers this year.

Speaker 87 Was that the mindset going into the offseason?

Speaker 23 Was it like, hey, we're going to bring in a top-tier free agent in DK Metcalf and pay him $30 million?

Speaker 16 We're going to make a trade for Jalen Ramsey and John U. Smith.

Speaker 35 We're going to bring in four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 57 Darius Slady is going to come in.

Speaker 20 You're hunting stars and paying, guys.

Speaker 35 Very abnormal for you.

Speaker 42 Mindset going into the offseason, or how did we kind of get here, you think?

Speaker 169 Yeah, I think

Speaker 169 going into the offseason, you know, we reflected on how things ended last year and that wasn't good enough and some things had to be different.

Speaker 169 And, you know, every one of those things was a case-by-case

Speaker 169 situation.

Speaker 142 They love you, buddy. They love you.
They absolutely love you.

Speaker 169 They were all case-by-case. We just got to be better, you know.
And I don't necessarily want to say we tried something new, but because every one of those situations was

Speaker 169 unique, but we just got to be better. You know, the way last year ended up left a bad taste in our mouth, and you know, that's unacceptable.

Speaker 108 And the Yinzers fans are all behind you.

Speaker 101 These moves that you've made, I haven't even heard any old miserable Yinzers say that they hate that you're spending money in the way that you're spending and everything like that.

Speaker 129 Get the TJ Watt deal done as well.

Speaker 38 I mean, love TJ, man.

Speaker 76 So much stuff.

Speaker 79 Was that always going to happen?

Speaker 108 Because the way the insiders talked about it, whenever they would come on our show, they're like, TJ and the Steelers are going to get a deal done.

Speaker 127 We all know that. And then he holds out of the mandatory minicamp.

Speaker 6 In your eyes, always going to get done.

Speaker 108 It was just a matter of when.

Speaker 169 We felt confident.

Speaker 67 It was always a goal of ours.

Speaker 169 You know, TJ's one of those guys. I mean, how awesome is TJ, man? He's just awesome, man.
Awesome. On the field, off the field.
And he's one of those guys that, you know, he's going to be

Speaker 169 a first ballot Hall of Famer. And you know what? The reality is he should be a one-helmet Hall of Famer.
And to have him to get the deal done, and hopefully that's not the last deal we do with him.

Speaker 169 We think he's got a lot of football left, but that was important to us. And I'm glad we got it done, especially before camp.

Speaker 16 Was there anxiety, though? Had to be.

Speaker 169 You know, these things always take a little longer than you hope. I was always confident we'd get it done.

Speaker 169 It's just a process, but, you know, we got it done. That's all that matters.
You know, he's a stealer.

Speaker 35 He was happy, too. We saw him earlier.

Speaker 108 And myself, Cam, D-Butt, and AJ, and the boys, all talked about how much money he has now.

Speaker 122 So just know that we let him know that he got a great deal, but he's earned it, obviously, through it all.

Speaker 24 Well-deserved.

Speaker 35 Last question from me before the boys have something.

Speaker 127 So the rumors now out on the internet are that you guys are maybe one of the favorites for Terry McLaurin.

Speaker 108 Not going to ask you about that because that would be a stupid thing for you to answer on our show.

Speaker 122 But the fact that your team is being mentioned to be a part of the teams that could get him means that people have looked at your salary cap and think that you could get Terry McLaurin to become a Pittsburgh Steeler.

Speaker 119 Now, whether or not he is going to be a Pittsburgh Steeler or any other team, how have you been able to navigate the salary cap gymnastics to pay everybody and still have room if you were to sign another big-time player?

Speaker 20 And you have 12 picks in next year's draft that is being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 35 They call you the con artist, and

Speaker 44 the business that you've been able to do here is absolutely Jesus pine cone.

Speaker 136 Thank you for the pine cone.

Speaker 23 We'll smoke this later.

Speaker 101 The entire thought of how have you been able to navigate it and what are you focusing on when you're getting these deals done?

Speaker 122 30 million to DK, 41 million to TJ, Jalen Ramsey's here on Monday.

Speaker 16 Patrick Queen just got paid, let alone Cam and everybody else that you have that's worth money.

Speaker 4 What are you focusing on while you're doing this?

Speaker 34 And do you think you're not getting enough credit for the salary cap gymnastics that you're doing that others have done in the past?

Speaker 169 Well with respect to the credit, you know, until we win a Super Bowl, I don't really deserve any credit, but the reality is,

Speaker 169 you know, our goal is to win a Super Bowl this year, and every move we make is reflective of that.

Speaker 169 And, you know, we understand we can't sacrifice the future, but, you know, we won a Super Bowl this year, and the moves that we made and how we've structured these contracts, it's with that goal in mind.

Speaker 156 Are you done?

Speaker 169 I mean, you never say you're done, but, you know, I really like the group that we have here. And, you know, we've done a lot this offseason.
And,

Speaker 169 we'll see. If there's ever an opportunity to improve the team, we'll think about it and talk about it.
But we feel good about the team, Pat.

Speaker 26 Yeah, but your phone works here, you're saying.

Speaker 16 Phone does work here, though.

Speaker 169 Always. It works at La Trobe.

Speaker 46 AJ has a question for you.

Speaker 93 What's it like when you first introduce the idea of, say, like, all that you got, you go out and you sign these big-time players, say, DK Metcalf, when you first float that idea to Coach Tomwin?

Speaker 93 How does that initially

Speaker 93 come about? And then the process of that, I would imagine he's a pretty fun guy to go through a process like that, trying to go after these big-time stars.

Speaker 71 Coach T in the process.

Speaker 169 He's awesome. Him and I work great together.
And, you know,

Speaker 169 I don't remember if we heard about it or we inquired how exactly it came about, but we,

Speaker 169 you know, like every big decision, you know, Coach and I will get together with our owner, Art Rooney, and we'll talk about it and see if it makes sense.

Speaker 169 And that was one of those where, you know, it worked out. And, you know, we watched DK in action.

Speaker 169 You know, to have the opportunity to have an impact player like that, it just made perfect sense for us.

Speaker 134 Whenever Mike Tomlin is recruiting Aaron Rodgers via text, are you telling him, hey, let's slip in there, like, hey, we want to build a team too with the deals?

Speaker 87 Or was money something that was kind of figured out early in the entire process of potentially getting Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 169 You know, with respect, I don't really want to get into the contract too much, Pat, but one thing I will say with Aaron is we had great communication.

Speaker 169 Contrary to wasn't reported out there, you know, and

Speaker 169 I don't know everything, but

Speaker 169 he communicated great with us, and we communicated great with him, and we were very upfront as to what our goals were and you know he was upfront about his and you know it just worked out I'm glad he did.

Speaker 169 He's been awesome. Just getting to know him has been great.

Speaker 35 11 million dollars in starting quarterback contracts the last two years.

Speaker 67 No big deal.

Speaker 43 That's Con Arters football, baby.

Speaker 30 Tone Diggs has a question for you.

Speaker 66 Can you kind of walk us through the Jalen

Speaker 66 and then the John who and then Makea going to Miami? Because like that whole that came out of, kind of came out of nowhere. There was John who rumors a couple weeks, months before that, and

Speaker 66 people just kind of, and then they went away. And then out of nowhere, it was, hey, Jalen, and then, oh, Mink is going there too, and John who's coming.
Like, it was weird how it all came out.

Speaker 66 How did that all come together?

Speaker 169 Sure. You know,

Speaker 169 there was word out there about John who being available. This is before the draft, and we inquired about it.
And, you know, the conversation just sort of continued. And it was a few weeks' process.

Speaker 169 And a couple months, I guess, and it just kind of came together. And we just felt it made sense for us.

Speaker 169 The opportunity to get two Pro Bowl players, two impact, one on offense, one on defense, and it just made sense for us.

Speaker 9 So much money spent this offseason.

Speaker 87 A lot more than you probably could have predicted in one particular position.

Speaker 108 Go ahead, Con Man.

Speaker 55 Yeah, Con Artist, you kind of got to the key early with the DK Metcalf deal. It seemed after that, some of those other wide receiver deals exploded with the TJ Watt one.
It was kind of the opposite.

Speaker 66 You know, Miles, Max, I think there was a couple other passes.

Speaker 55 Yeah, there you go, Daniil. And now, of course, coming on the other end here is Micah.
Probably not Trey Hendrickson. What did you think when you see those numbers, when you see those massive deals?

Speaker 36 $40 million.

Speaker 25 How much does that change everything for you?

Speaker 55 Was there any point where you're close to getting a deal done with GJ and then, boom, you know, Miles or Max Crosby signs for $100 million guaranteed, and then your deal changes?

Speaker 55 Like, was that going on when all those other contracts were happening?

Speaker 169 You know, without going into specifics of the negotiation,

Speaker 169 I'll just say it's, you know, it's obviously part of it because the players, you know, it's important to the players, but we also have to be

Speaker 169 careful and understand the structure of our roster and the contracts and what's coming forward and all that. So you take all that into account.
But, you know, with TJ, I'm just so glad we got it done.

Speaker 169 Like, it meant a lot to him. It meant a lot to us.
And, like I said, he deserves to be a one-helmet Hall of Famer, and he represents us so well.

Speaker 72 And you guys have him on?

Speaker 47 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 46 He's awesome. He's about

Speaker 169 as good as they get is he not like i mean he just

Speaker 56 yeah let's talk though yeah about that question all right you see that haslam has given out another

Speaker 129 gigantic gigantic deal at a position that you have to work that certainly changes everything for you right does it not whenever the market changes that big i mean it went from what 32 to 40 to 40 yeah like there was no usually things climb especially at that percent uh position but it goes all the way up to 40 all of a sudden and now you got yinter and steelers fans they all know immediately that's TJ.

Speaker 102 Okay, so TJ now,

Speaker 127 how is this going to work?

Speaker 4 You get a deal done, but that does change it, right?

Speaker 122 Whenever the market changes?

Speaker 169 I mean, I'd be lying if I told you and didn't come into account and part of the conversation. I mean, it's natural.
But, you know, that's how this goes.

Speaker 169 And like I said, at the end of the day, the goal was to get TJ done, and we got him.

Speaker 133 You're getting a text from somebody.

Speaker 124 Go ahead and check it.

Speaker 64 Go ahead and look.

Speaker 36 What happened?

Speaker 155 Haslam.

Speaker 28 What position?

Speaker 68 DN.

Speaker 36 The one.

Speaker 47 How How big?

Speaker 31 Biggest of all tinies.

Speaker 37 That's all tiny position.

Speaker 65 Anyway, you need to do it.

Speaker 15 So it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 26 D-Bud has the last question for you.

Speaker 82 I know why every GM is kind of different in their principles.

Speaker 82 Some people are just numbers guys, but how much do you think about when you sign a free agent or when you trade for somebody, how they're going to impact the guys already in that meeting room?

Speaker 82 Like signing to Jalen Ramsey and bringing out Darius Layover with JPJ and their development. Mooth, you're bringing in John U.
Smith. How much do you think about factoring that in?

Speaker 60 Oh, it's a big part of it.

Speaker 169 You know, we don't just

Speaker 169 throw a dart and hope to sign a guy. Like, it's all a props to make sure they fit in.
They're Steelers, right? You grew up here, Tone. You know what it's like to be a Steeler.

Speaker 169 It would take us two days to go over all the characteristics and how special and unique that is. But every one of those is a case-by-case.
And we evaluate to make sure

Speaker 169 that it makes sense for us. And those guys all have.
We're excited to have. I don't know if you guys got to know a lot of those guys or had them on.

Speaker 169 I don't know who you guys had on, but we had a great, great locker room of guys right now.

Speaker 169 And I'm excited.

Speaker 169 I'm excited about this season. And, you know,

Speaker 138 excited for the first padded practice today.

Speaker 169 You remember those days, right?

Speaker 169 How awesome is that first day of padded practice?

Speaker 47 Yeah, right.

Speaker 65 Coaches are so distracted.

Speaker 117 Just as exciting for all of us as it is for that.

Speaker 152 Everyone wants to be.

Speaker 157 Just to see people get knocked out, Cole.

Speaker 91 You guys want to see who you're drafted, see if they're the real deal.

Speaker 34 And we've obviously seen it in shorts.

Speaker 16 It's a big day.

Speaker 130 Is it your birthday?

Speaker 169 No, no, no, no. I don't know where that, but I'm happy to take the happy birthday wishes of semi, folks.

Speaker 9 I was just wanted to have everybody sing to you.

Speaker 169 I'm happy with the bird.

Speaker 169 Not me.

Speaker 161 Happy birthday, Omar.

Speaker 103 We missed a few.

Speaker 37 You know, we missed a few.

Speaker 46 Thank you so much for stopping by. Thanks, guys.

Speaker 67 You're the man. Thank you for the hospital.

Speaker 169 Come back and visit next year, for sure.

Speaker 8 Hey, I have a question.

Speaker 46 Let's hear it.

Speaker 4 Aaron Rodgers on Tuesdays. How do the Pittsburgh Steelers organization feel about that particular

Speaker 47 you know what?

Speaker 169 We have a PR director, Bert.

Speaker 37 I'll let you discuss that with us.

Speaker 43 We got it, ladies and gentlemen, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Mark Hall.

Speaker 167 Have a great day, man. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 8 Thanks, man. Appreciate it.

Speaker 71 Good luck, Missy, Ruby.

Speaker 78 As we wrap up here on ESPN, we'll continue digitally on YouTube.

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Speaker 46 What a day it's been here in Les Trobe, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 130 Big shout out to the fans that have hung out with us here

Speaker 9 on either side.

Speaker 21 This side over here has been in a pretty good spot.

Speaker 26 They got this big-ass pine tree that's got to give them some shade.

Speaker 4 I appreciate you guys for hanging out.

Speaker 82 Door dash, babe.

Speaker 69 He just put a

Speaker 37 stuff.

Speaker 74 He just put a sandwich in the streets.

Speaker 4 There's a chance that the Pittsburgh Steelers actually do go to the Super Bowl this year.

Speaker 120 The AFC is absolutely stacked and loaded.

Speaker 20 The reigning AFC champions are the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah, don't forget Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 79 Oh, yeah, don't don't forget Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore

Speaker 161 Ravens.

Speaker 86 Joey Burrow, Trey Hendrickson and the Cincinnati Bengals, Anthony Richardson and the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 98 It is a murderer's row in the AFC and the Pittsburgh Steelers and their fans do not give a damn about any of them.

Speaker 9 All they want to see is seven come back to this city.

Speaker 98 The seventh title coming to the Pittsburgh Steelers is what's on everybody's mind here and it's been an honor to experience it.

Speaker 7 From all of us here in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to you watching wherever the hell you may be.

Speaker 6 We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. You're the greatest people on earth.

Speaker 45 Here we go.

Speaker 65 Stealers.

Speaker 142 Here we go.

Speaker 149 It's

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Speaker 88 Ladies and gentlemen, we are now digital and I've never

Speaker 140 thought that I'd get an opportunity to do this, but

Speaker 14 our dad is here.

Speaker 78 Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Pittsburgh Dad, bro.

Speaker 161 Welcome to the extra kids, guys.

Speaker 15 Yeah, so is it Latrobe or La Trobe, Dad?

Speaker 138 You know what? That's a judgment call on your part.

Speaker 167 What did Mr. Rogers say?

Speaker 7 I don't remember.

Speaker 35 I was trying to think about it, honestly, because my dad says La Trobe.

Speaker 16 Diggs's dad says Latrobe.

Speaker 66 Bonnie Palmer says La Trobe.

Speaker 23 Yeah, so what do you think?

Speaker 100 What are you, you're kind of of the.

Speaker 168 I'm going to say Latrobe.

Speaker 116 It sounds more like Yenserific that way.

Speaker 147 Hello, Latrobe.

Speaker 125 Speaking of Yenserific, how often do you come up to training camp?

Speaker 14 Is it every day, every single day?

Speaker 138 Every single day I quit my job in the summer. I come up here and I sit with Steeler Nation getting the team ready to get number seven.

Speaker 98 How do you feel about this year's team, Dad?

Speaker 138 You know, I'm going to go out on a limb here, Pat. I don't want to

Speaker 138 get too overreactive, but I'm going to go ahead and say

Speaker 167 17 and 0.

Speaker 31 Oh, no.

Speaker 31 We got Aaron Rodgers now, A.J. Hawk.

Speaker 47 We got Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 26 Okay, so expectations very high for Pittsburgh, Dad.

Speaker 168 Is that normal for you or no?

Speaker 90 No, you know, sometimes

Speaker 138 it's normal.

Speaker 8 Absolutely normal.

Speaker 7 Yeah, and we're going to win all the time?

Speaker 138 All the time, every time.

Speaker 35 But what if there's a little hint of negativity that happens?

Speaker 14 What happens then?

Speaker 46 Well, I'm just.

Speaker 9 I don't think there's any Bronze fans out here, Dad.

Speaker 67 There's a Bagels fan.

Speaker 111 Oh, get them the hell out of here.

Speaker 138 I don't need that negativity up here.

Speaker 167 We have to start the whole camp over.

Speaker 31 No.

Speaker 108 Actually, Actually, not a bad idea. Pittsburgh Dad.
I think that'd be fun.

Speaker 85 I have a Pittsburgh Dad. Everybody has a Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 27 You are very similar to them.

Speaker 35 And we know that if Aaron Rodgers throws a pick to Patrick Queen on one of the first days of practice, there might be a little bit of...

Speaker 88 Just like we fucking said, this guy's old and out of touch.

Speaker 161 Is that how you?

Speaker 138 I heard that he threw interception on the first play. I was the first to go and email an Omar Collin and tell him to get him out of here.
But then I calmed down.

Speaker 138 And I think he's still going to do a good job.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 67 Okay, but Yikesh Yose is a Super Bowl.

Speaker 138 I ain't forgot about Super Bowl 45. I ain't forgot about how the Packers greased up the ball with Wisconsin Shedder, so Mendon Hall fumbled it.

Speaker 111 I ain't forgot about that.

Speaker 7 I forgot about that, Dad. I didn't know that happened.

Speaker 35 Tone has a question for you, Dad.

Speaker 66 Yeah, Dad, obviously, there's been some favorites over the years. Chris Fumatomal followed.

Speaker 46 That's not his name.

Speaker 48 Chris Fuamatuma followed.

Speaker 152 Exactly. Pop?

Speaker 60 Yes.

Speaker 155 Fua Matuma.

Speaker 51 Fop.

Speaker 47 You put too many syllables in that. Kimo von Olhoffen.

Speaker 66 There's been others.

Speaker 152 Dan Kreider.

Speaker 67 Your favorite at Dan Banger.

Speaker 66 Dan Kreider,

Speaker 66 is there a Pittsburgh favorite on his roster yet that you've discovered as like in that ilk of those type of guys?

Speaker 138 You know who I really like to watch, and

Speaker 138 he's getting his chances year in and year out here the last couple years.

Speaker 8 I like Nick Herbig.

Speaker 47 Every time he gets his chance, he makes us watch.

Speaker 167 That's good coffee right now.

Speaker 138 He's going to get more and more chances, and he's going to make his gear this year.

Speaker 7 I love him.

Speaker 118 I saw him at the Jelly Roll concert. He's electric.
He's an electrifying human being and great actor.

Speaker 108 Schedule release.

Speaker 8 Remember, he was a part of that video.

Speaker 47 That's right. A.J.

Speaker 127 Hawk has no idea what's going on here, I don't think.

Speaker 93 No, I do. Aaron's been a big fan of yours for years.

Speaker 76 Aaron loves you, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 65 I love him.

Speaker 71 He loved me for a long time.

Speaker 24 But he did tell me you obviously played ball in high school, most likely college.

Speaker 93 Did you get a scholarship? Were you a quarterback?

Speaker 93 You have the physical build of a guy that played in the field.

Speaker 67 Well, you know, maybe NFL.

Speaker 138 That's under wraps, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 138 I don't like to discuss the old days because, you know, as soon as you start putting your name out there, that's when someone gets on a dark web and steals all all your Giant Eagle fuel perks.

Speaker 31 You got to watch out, guys.

Speaker 117 You know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 86 I got my Giant Eagle water right here.

Speaker 117 That's all you need.

Speaker 138 You don't need any of that fancy stuff. Get the stuff in Giant Eagle.

Speaker 167 I got my Giant Eight.

Speaker 111 A lot of M today.

Speaker 86 You got your Iron City.

Speaker 134 So the guy chunked at Iron City out here earlier.

Speaker 31 I don't have beer.

Speaker 101 You're allowed to have beer out there.

Speaker 138 You keep it low. No one can see that.

Speaker 60 Bring back the sun.

Speaker 14 Are you a Permanente guy or a Rudy Subbs guy?

Speaker 38 I'm a Permanentis guy all the way.

Speaker 138 Put the fries and slaw on everything.

Speaker 138 I put the fries and slaw on my baby when he was baptized.

Speaker 15 D-Bun D-Bun has a question for you.

Speaker 82 But we got this phenomenal gift from me, Joe Green. What's your first memory of coming to the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp?

Speaker 138 First memory coming to Pittsburgh Steelers training camp that season. That's the year 1994.
That's whenever they, whenever Neil O'Donnell was at the hell.

Speaker 67 That piece of shit.

Speaker 68 We had a lot of hope for that guy.

Speaker 72 That's got cannon.

Speaker 65 We had a lot of hope for that.

Speaker 31 Neil O'Donnell one time.

Speaker 47 He threw the Super Bowl.

Speaker 161 He went through a Super Bowl.

Speaker 155 Right to Larry Brown.

Speaker 167 He went right to Larry Brown and it passes.

Speaker 90 Two easy interceptions.

Speaker 138 And that's the first guy I see when I come up here didn't sign my football card.

Speaker 8 You know, who did?

Speaker 138 Cordell Stewart. Bingo.

Speaker 47 Slash.

Speaker 102 Slide slash ahead of his time.

Speaker 155 Slash way ahead of his time.

Speaker 56 He's the Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 138 And if there's a Fountain of Youth, that's the first person I'm giving it to.

Speaker 102 I think there is.

Speaker 84 Actually, science has found it.

Speaker 35 AJ's been on it throughout his entirety, which is why they might have won the Super Bowl. Ty has a question for you, Dad.

Speaker 53 Yeah, Dad, I've seen a lot of rumors out there.

Speaker 53 I don't know if this is true, but when all that stuff was going on with TJ and he wasn't here and he hadn't signed yet, didn't you publicly say like, hey, TJ, it's time for you to pack your shit up and get on the town?

Speaker 138 I think you're looking at the wrong account. You're looking at some Bengals guy account for Trey Hendrickson.

Speaker 38 That's not how we do it in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 138 And if that is how we do it, that was done in private down in my cellar over a couple irons. That was never put out there on the internet for anybody to see.

Speaker 103 Why are you making apologies?

Speaker 65 I saw it. Why too much stuff?

Speaker 152 Listen, AI these days.

Speaker 53 AI these days, you can never trust anybody.

Speaker 138 Oh, yeah, watch that AI. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 138 We eat too much New York. We're out of the darkness retreat.
We're in the light of Pittsburgh now.

Speaker 31 Bingo.

Speaker 134 You an ayahuasca guy, Dad?

Speaker 31 I don't know if Pittsburgh dad's big ayahuasca guys.

Speaker 167 Yeah, I heard about that.

Speaker 138 Is that some kind of tea?

Speaker 111 Yeah.

Speaker 47 That's a stronger tea?

Speaker 153 Yeah, yeah, it's like a Turner's tea, but also like Pittsburgh.

Speaker 46 I think they do have the Turner's trip.

Speaker 138 I'll try one of those and watch a game and see how that goes.

Speaker 141 Lemon-flavored ayahuasca, I think.

Speaker 167 Oh, I'll tell you what, you think I'll get mad watching a game on that?

Speaker 122 No, I don't think you'll know much.

Speaker 108 Yeah, I don't think you're watching any games.

Speaker 8 I'll try one.

Speaker 138 I'm always down for a new tier.

Speaker 93 You're going to Kennywood after this?

Speaker 138 I already done the Kennywood trip. I'll tell you what, we went down there, we rode the Steel Curtain.

Speaker 138 We sat down and prayed at Steel Curtain because that's where the log jammer used to be, and now it's not there. Rest in peace.

Speaker 138 We all missed the log jammer, but we made ready for a Steelers ride.

Speaker 138 We still haven't gotten a playoff win since that ride's been there, so I don't know if we're going to have to have a petition to get that ride removed.

Speaker 73 Start to think about it.

Speaker 111 We'll see.

Speaker 108 Did you see Cedar Point?

Speaker 121 Had that one get stuck up there?

Speaker 138 I don't see nothing about Cedar Point because that's over in Ohio.

Speaker 38 And that whole state needs to be abolished.

Speaker 31 I wonder what it is.

Speaker 101 Whoa.

Speaker 138 I need to get away from me. It's too close.
Do you know what I'm talking about? That line of demarcation is too close to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 154 Well, actually, wheeling, I think, kind of splits it.

Speaker 46 West Virginia like.

Speaker 138 I'll let West Virginia slide.

Speaker 67 That's okay down there.

Speaker 161 Oh, yeah, you like West Virginia.

Speaker 81 I don't like West Virginia.

Speaker 96 Yeah, you don't mind West Virginia.

Speaker 8 I like it down there.

Speaker 86 How about the Mountaineers, maybe back?

Speaker 138 I don't mind a Mountaineers either because I think there's a good portion of the Pitt fans, a Mountaineers fan who really love Steeler Nation.

Speaker 147 All of them.

Speaker 67 Yeah, West Virginia, I think, is a lot of Mountaineers.

Speaker 35 I love it. Last question here from Boston Conner, Dad.

Speaker 157 Yeah, Dad, of course, it's football season.

Speaker 55 We're all football, but 20 years today, the Pittsburgh Penguins drafted Sidney Crosby.

Speaker 71 Yes. And

Speaker 67 it does seem as though that the Penguins might never win again.

Speaker 90 Do you think they should trade Sidney Crosby? Because

Speaker 167 everybody's gonna get the hell out of here.

Speaker 138 Trade Sidney Crosby and that.

Speaker 138 I'd say, you know what, just because she's lost Tom Brady, he couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. No, we got our stars already leave.
They want to stay here.

Speaker 67 They want to be buried here.

Speaker 138 They want to enjoy it here.

Speaker 47 Yeah, buried in 98 graves.

Speaker 31 Hello.

Speaker 49 Hockey's 82 games.

Speaker 138 Did I see Gene Starator come up and die here?

Speaker 67 Yeah, the ref was here. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 117 And I saw him handing out gifts.

Speaker 41 He was giving you a gift.

Speaker 14 Mean Joe Green. Oh, that's amazing.

Speaker 138 And since he's handing out gifts, let's get him back up here as an official of the NFL to decree now that Jesse James caught that ball.

Speaker 69 Okay.

Speaker 103 This is on the Pittsburgh Daddy.

Speaker 101 Sell the team, Bob. Sell the team.

Speaker 52 All right, Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 28 Thank you, Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 67 You're the man. What a living.

Speaker 47 Thank you, Dad.

Speaker 31 Thank you, Dad.

Speaker 39 Howard? Thank you, Dad.

Speaker 24 Look at this.

Speaker 131 Look at this fucking guy.

Speaker 167 We're going to be the one seed.

Speaker 60 How's a regular season game have that much real estate for Pittsburgh?

Speaker 107 Because they got screwed, brother.

Speaker 66 We're going to be the one seed.

Speaker 60 That was 17.

Speaker 72 That was going for Super Bowl year.

Speaker 26 One six titles.

Speaker 20 They will never forget getting screwed by the rest.

Speaker 86 That's Pittsburgh.

Speaker 67 That was the killer beast.

Speaker 55 That was the one that was led at the best last year, yeah.

Speaker 26 Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 108 Okay, I think at the beginning of Pittsburgh Dad's run, everybody in Pittsburgh, myself included, wanted to hate Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 16 Like, this is bullshit.

Speaker 57 This is terrible.

Speaker 4 Then you just keep going.

Speaker 42 He's like, this guy actually is kind of like my dad.

Speaker 98 And then everybody in Pittsburgh's like, hey, Pittsburgh Dad is like all of our dads.

Speaker 102 Close my eyes and hurt Tim. Yeah, it's like a perfect, it's like a perfect thing.

Speaker 35 He is, and he hasn't tried to go national.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 16 He has not like tried to become. Nice.

Speaker 20 He is very content being a Pittsburgh guy.

Speaker 84 I think he also has a job.

Speaker 14 We love Pittsburgh Dad.

Speaker 139 Hey, Dad. Hey, Go Ward, Dad.

Speaker 51 Hey, Dad, Dad.

Speaker 77 Good work, Dad.

Speaker 45 Hey, Dad.

Speaker 46 Congrats. He has a cool career.

Speaker 47 Bruce Tilly.

Speaker 6 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is actually D-Bones Dad.

Speaker 98 The guy who is the Pittsburgh Steelers correspondent for the Pat McAfee show.

Speaker 88 Ladies and gentlemen, living legend, Markaboli.

Speaker 52 Yay!

Speaker 8 Blockchain stairs.

Speaker 71 Hey, what's the chicken one name?

Speaker 47 Holy

Speaker 12 drop his glasses.

Speaker 9 Drop his glasses, Ty, help him out.

Speaker 60 He's got president.

Speaker 82 Oh, oh, yeah.

Speaker 37 Oh, Loody Suck. Rudy Sucks.

Speaker 97 That's a Loody Suck. Put it in my pocket, Saint Volair.

Speaker 37 Thank you, Cabolion.

Speaker 69 Thank you, Caboles.

Speaker 65 Oh, thank you, very.

Speaker 31 Fucking Baby.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, Kaboli!

Speaker 31 To the people. Rudy Sucks for the people, fucking Caboli.
Rudy Sucks.

Speaker 31 Santa Claus, Caboli. Santa Bush's Jackie! For all these people! Rudy, somebody got in there!

Speaker 31 You need one, you need one, you need one! You get a sub! You get a sub! He's a gun there!

Speaker 31 And obviously, Caboli's got his pockets up.

Speaker 37 Yeah, make sure you eat that one. That was nature's microphone.
Oh, we have another one!

Speaker 102 He was strapped.

Speaker 28 Shout out to CFO Phil.

Speaker 35 Shout out to CFO Phil grabbing those.

Speaker 29 Shout out to Rudy Subs.

Speaker 35 Appreciate you guys.

Speaker 14 Hey,

Speaker 32 Rudy Subs and Pizza 286.

Speaker 99 How can I help you?

Speaker 120 I'd like a whole Italian hot lettuce on your mayo.

Speaker 10 Sorry, we're out.

Speaker 107 You're going to have to go down the street.

Speaker 104 That's what got me fired from Rudy Subs.

Speaker 3 But I still eat there.

Speaker 4 There is a microphone next to you.

Speaker 34 I don't know what you were planning on doing sitting there without one.

Speaker 150 The Caboli.

Speaker 18 What's up?

Speaker 35 Your microphone's off.

Speaker 81 Caboli. Boom.

Speaker 113 That's right. One, buddy.

Speaker 101 What's up? Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 16 You come bearing sandwiches and obviously great vibes.

Speaker 150 You look good.

Speaker 113 I see the haircut. You look like

Speaker 75 fighting shape here.

Speaker 4 How has training camp been thus far?

Speaker 20 I saw your tweet about this being the hottest by far.

Speaker 135 As you can tell, it's kind of warm out there. If you guys get to go down there later, you will find out.
We are.

Speaker 47 We're down in John. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 135 All the water just lays there from the rain the past couple of days, and you can see the heat just coming up on your legs.

Speaker 101 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 135 And I did the old old man thing the other day. I went to the tent in front of the fan.

Speaker 47 Really? Let's take it anymore.

Speaker 102 You just parked it, started eating the fan.

Speaker 105 Do you have the mister behind the fan?

Speaker 135 No, I don't even think I was permitted in there, but I just snuck in.

Speaker 72 Had to do it.

Speaker 58 Cabola, you own the place.

Speaker 84 You do what you got to do.

Speaker 29 Both Achilles are intact this year, which is incredible.

Speaker 130 Let's talk about the team.

Speaker 35 Seemingly, everybody healthy, knock on wood.

Speaker 26 Training camp football happens.

Speaker 119 What have you seen from this team?

Speaker 87 Is it going to live up to the hype from what you've seen thus far?

Speaker 135 Yeah, I mean, everything seems to be going as planned right now. I mean, Aaron Rodgers has made, I think a huge difference already just the overall morale of the team

Speaker 135 confidence level you're gonna get oh it's unbelievable just his smooth attitude and his not getting excited over you know silly stuff I think he brings a calm through the entire offense and the defense there's not a one person I've heard say something negative about the guy.

Speaker 91 Oh you have OJ

Speaker 135 Kaboli well within the organization and the fans. Sure.

Speaker 121 Well I don't think you've heard that in a lot of places about him legitimately because how he shows up.

Speaker 3 He's definitely different.

Speaker 56 You know what's not different?

Speaker 18 This Rudy Subs hits like a bunch of

Speaker 8 Italian pots. Nice.

Speaker 127 There isn't lettuce onion mayo on it because I think the travel

Speaker 108 you don't want the lettuce to get kind of

Speaker 14 chopped up. If you come to the Pittsburgh area,

Speaker 86 obviously grab some Permanis.

Speaker 57 Okay, you got to do Permanis.

Speaker 18 Do the Permanis.

Speaker 127 It is our thing.

Speaker 3 Obviously, putting the fries and slaw on the sandwich.

Speaker 129 The steel workers didn't have a lot of time to eat their lunch, so I put their shit into one sandwich

Speaker 122 And then we keep it moving.

Speaker 129 Then you go to Rudy's subs and you get yourself an Italian.

Speaker 122 Best sandwich in the world.

Speaker 124 Best sub in the world.

Speaker 14 And thank you for bringing that up.

Speaker 135 Well, you got the pocket version, so you were special.

Speaker 35 No, mine was in a bag.

Speaker 52 I was not.

Speaker 86 Yeah, somebody out there got the pocket version.

Speaker 29 AJ has a question for you, David.

Speaker 66 Boy, I love reading everything that you write.

Speaker 93 And I think of you sometimes, like, you put these tweets out that look like they're, you know, 16 pages long.

Speaker 93 Or these stories that you write, and I think of you as a writer, like, what's your process like is when you're speaking, like, your words per minute isn't off the chart speaking super fast.

Speaker 113 So when you're saying you're saying I can't talk very much?

Speaker 45 No, no, no, what's up?

Speaker 93 Like I'm a monotone, slow, like so when you're typing, though, how long does it take for, say, one of your tweets? It feels like it could take a couple minutes.

Speaker 67 You're doing a great job, bro.

Speaker 152 It all depends. I'm killing it.

Speaker 72 If you have a good idea.

Speaker 47 But are you a home row guy?

Speaker 93 Are you picking and pecking through

Speaker 93 your keyboard?

Speaker 135 I struggle with the tweet on the phones because the fat finger, small skis type of thing.

Speaker 47 Yeah, I'm with that. I'm with that.

Speaker 56 And if you try to voice tweet it, it comes out.

Speaker 135 Who knows when it comes out? Especially with the future. But actually, writing, I mean, I've been doing this for 23, 24 years now.

Speaker 135 You pretty much know what you want to write as you go into it, and you get things like today. I was talking to the wide receiver coach Zach Azzani.

Speaker 135 You pick up different things, you see what's important. A lot of people were interested in wide receiver two.

Speaker 135 So, you talked to Roman Wilson, but it doesn't.

Speaker 67 What are you looking for today when you watch practice?

Speaker 135 Oh, it's absolutely paddling.

Speaker 137 I mean,

Speaker 91 everybody reacts.

Speaker 135 They're going straight from individuals to seven shots to

Speaker 135 back on backers to probably team run.

Speaker 111 Boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 135 Back on backers.

Speaker 135 I suggest, AJ,

Speaker 137 if you ever get to the end of the day.

Speaker 107 AJ's never done it before, actually.

Speaker 47 Debut has a question for you.

Speaker 82 We just talked about wide receiver two. Are there any other position battles you're looking at closely during this camp?

Speaker 63 Ooh.

Speaker 46 Punter, punter, there's a battle.

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 67 Just so a massive battle.

Speaker 47 Danny Smith.

Speaker 135 Danny Smith is actually,

Speaker 135 I mean, nothing against Presley Harvin. He had a great season last year.

Speaker 46 That's not what it is.

Speaker 47 There's a message.

Speaker 101 That's Corliss Waiteman. What did I say?

Speaker 74 Presley Witchman.

Speaker 135 Presley Harvin. You know what? He tweeted something of mine the other day.
That's why I messed that up.

Speaker 8 See?

Speaker 86 Because they're both black punters, too.

Speaker 47 I can see how you kids. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 135 Cam Johnston is a difference maker. Cam Johnston can punt the living crap out of the ball.
I think he's a difference maker.

Speaker 135 I think Danny just wants to create competition right here with Corliss Harvard.

Speaker 67 Any other positions?

Speaker 135 You're looking at a lot of backups. You're looking at who are they going to go running back, right? Is it going to be Jalen Warren? Is there Caleb Johnson? He's going to be a mix of the two.

Speaker 135 Not quite sure yet of that. But they're pretty much set, Pat.
I mean, you look at that defense, and there's not much in the way of

Speaker 135 battles. Maybe free safety, but I don't even know how much you're going to use free safety.
I mean, they got three shutdown corners.

Speaker 91 Massive balls.

Speaker 47 Lots against Jugs, brother.

Speaker 8 Jugs, brother. No,

Speaker 150 yeah, yeah, Jugs.

Speaker 46 I was about to say, I didn't hear the.

Speaker 31 Their pumps get every day.

Speaker 37 Yeah, they're good.

Speaker 52 Double end over Edwards team.

Speaker 91 Just massive balls.

Speaker 47 Yeah,

Speaker 47 we got Jugs.

Speaker 46 I think the punters are off today.

Speaker 56 You talked about not a lot of battles.

Speaker 27 It's all kind of sorted at the top. You'll figure it out.

Speaker 108 I know there's been a lot of battle amongst wrestling fans, you know, about something that has happened.

Speaker 26 Connor has a question for you, Mark.

Speaker 163 Yeah, Mark, obviously it's still real to me, damn it.

Speaker 55 And the WWE Unreal show on Netflix now is kind of

Speaker 82 removing that curtain.

Speaker 55 K-Fabe seems to be dead, so in my mind,

Speaker 55 I'm going to have to re-evaluate myself when I think of myself as a WWE wrestling market.

Speaker 31 I know, I'm bummed out about it.

Speaker 71 I will always

Speaker 163 acknowledge. But when it comes to Odie Odes and some of the other guys,

Speaker 47 I mean, look, I'm not here for it.

Speaker 131 I don't want to hear about Kevin Owens and Cody setting up this fucking match, brother.

Speaker 31 So what the hell's going on? Why are you there?

Speaker 69 I'm recording my business.

Speaker 55 Did you watch it yet?

Speaker 31 Yeah, man, I don't watch it.

Speaker 83 I don't think I turned it off because it fucked up.

Speaker 31 I don't think they watched that.

Speaker 81 Two people have sex.

Speaker 90 I don't think that's.

Speaker 54 Yeah, you're not supposed to do that, so you have to cover your eyes like this.

Speaker 31 Like, no, no, Mr.

Speaker 52 H, I don't want to know this.

Speaker 135 I just don't think they revealed as much as they could have revealed. I think it made me

Speaker 52 wanted more.

Speaker 135 I've only got through two episodes so far, and it seemed like me wanting to come back for more just wanted to see what's going on.

Speaker 91 It's a great show.

Speaker 101 I will say it is a phenomenal show like i think a lot of people that aren't wrestling fans or might just say like oh that's wrestling might learn like hey there's a lot of psychology going on right now and a lot of business and a lot of big brains going on but i just it is tough it is tough like i think about Michael Cole as the goat at it, but I think about commentating like the day after one of those episodes is released.

Speaker 13 And it's like, these two guys hate each other.

Speaker 88 I know you saw them yesterday on Netflix. I think 20 million people saw it.

Speaker 16 It was one of the biggest shows that Netflix has ever had.

Speaker 44 But like, I just, it's an interesting dynamic.

Speaker 57 We're in a very new world now with the WW, with this Unreal, I think, personally.

Speaker 135 I mean, even stuff like you saw Triple H even talking to Michael Cole during the scene attorney. He's like, you didn't even know, did you? He goes, no, I didn't know.
And I think that's interesting.

Speaker 135 I don't think they've pulled the curtain back as much as they could have.

Speaker 52 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, meeting.

Speaker 55 I feel like there are some people, and Todd made this point the other day, like, it's a mature show, so they're saying everything, they're not bleeping everything, so those younger kids aren't gonna get it, but I don't know.

Speaker 9 This is just how I feel.

Speaker 71 It's almost like that's it's cooler to see it in an AEW dock, or not AEW, excuse me, AE dock down the road where Stone Cold, you mentioned this, Stone Cold and The Rock, like them talking about when you know they're in the ring and Stone Cold and The Rock have the moment of like, I love you.

Speaker 47 And then now it does matter. Now we know what to know.

Speaker 135 I think K Fabe has been dead for since the internet, right?

Speaker 89 Oh, fuck you!

Speaker 90 Still a degree.

Speaker 83 That's what the title is. They're telling you to take it off.
Take your shit.

Speaker 113 No, not the hat.

Speaker 152 Suicide dialogue.

Speaker 90 You must be joking.

Speaker 114 They're being suicidal taking the intro series.

Speaker 31 Cabols. Hang on.

Speaker 46 I want to let you know, I think you're doing great work on X, buddy.

Speaker 47 I appreciate it.

Speaker 124 You keep us all very much updated.

Speaker 4 How have you enjoyed it? Have you enjoyed being on X?

Speaker 144 Absolutely great.

Speaker 135 I mean, I can

Speaker 135 do what I need to do.

Speaker 135 I can write what I want to write and not be constricted by the newspaper rules.

Speaker 41 That's great.

Speaker 21 I think you're doing a great job. We're appreciative of everything you're doing.

Speaker 53 Yeah, you and Debone work great.

Speaker 98 Oh, D-Bone's great.

Speaker 114 He's your kid.

Speaker 47 He's your kid. He knows that it's working.

Speaker 86 Tag team, man.

Speaker 4 All right, we're going to wrap up from here as practice has begun down here for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 28 We're going to head down there. Remember to follow Cabol.

Speaker 114 He deserves a follow.

Speaker 58 Yes, he does.

Speaker 13 He tells us too much about his personal life.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 15 How's it all been?

Speaker 122 How's it all been?

Speaker 4 Everything been good?

Speaker 135 Yeah, you know what?

Speaker 135 Yeah, it's been pretty good.

Speaker 135 Other than the fact that a wipe company reached out to me and offered me free wipes today, which is kind of interesting.

Speaker 58 You should do that.

Speaker 4 You want that, right?

Speaker 135 You know, MMO. That's kind of weird, isn't it?

Speaker 102 I want some cash. Oh, it's good.

Speaker 65 You want money deal?

Speaker 146 You want to make it a money?

Speaker 142 No, they were going to send me like a case of wipes, I guess.

Speaker 115 That's good. Which is fine.

Speaker 31 Which is fine.

Speaker 97 Not wiping your ass is weird, man.

Speaker 135 No, but somebody reaching you out, you don't know who it is and said.

Speaker 58 Well, what you just said there, yeah.

Speaker 47 An individual or was it a company?

Speaker 72 That was was a company.

Speaker 135 I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, so I'm not going to say it.

Speaker 55 If it's Cotton L, you do it now.

Speaker 142 No, it wasn't going.

Speaker 31 It's not right now.

Speaker 8 Is it dude wipes? It was dude wipes.

Speaker 114 Yeah, you should take the dude wipes for sure.

Speaker 47 One of the flush.

Speaker 135 Yeah, I just posted a picture of the hillside, and they're like, I think you need dude wipes.

Speaker 72 I'm like, yeah, I probably do, but.

Speaker 2 Yeah, one per flush.

Speaker 135 Yeah. You know, sometimes throw it in the trash.

Speaker 31 Yeah,

Speaker 97 if I'm you, I'm throwing them in the trash just because.

Speaker 135 Well, I'm not talking about after you do your business. I'm talking about to dry it up a little.

Speaker 92 Yeah, yeah, you dry it out, let it get all hard and crusty.

Speaker 65 At least

Speaker 50 you'll throw it out.

Speaker 91 You'll be down there.

Speaker 135 You'll see what the swamp ass is all about.

Speaker 13 Cabo, I already got this swamp ass, but I ain't wiping my ass and throwing it into the trash can.

Speaker 47 What are you talking about?

Speaker 54 Didn't you know a guy who used to do that?

Speaker 112 Yeah, West Virginia.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, we had a guy.

Speaker 58 There was a guy who came from, I think he was in New York somewhere.

Speaker 18 And he, they're talking to you, Cabo.

Speaker 111 Did I flip him off?

Speaker 47 No, no, no.

Speaker 108 You're injured. You should not flip him off.
These are good people.

Speaker 102 Did I flip them off?

Speaker 47 He did that he he wiped his ass and he threw the toilet paper into the trash because he didn't want to clog the toilet or whatever yeah so the entire place smelled like shit right goddamn animals i walked in and i was like what what what why does it smell so bad here and they're like what are you talking about and i like literally sniff it out and i go into the bathroom and i'm like is you

Speaker 16 Is that ass toilet paper in the trash?

Speaker 108 Like, yeah, we don't want to crack the pipes or whatever.

Speaker 125 I'm like, you flushed that fucking toilet paper.

Speaker 58 I didn't know I needed to tell you the same thing.

Speaker 122 You need to be flushing your toilet paper.

Speaker 31 Now if it's going to depend where you're at.

Speaker 2 One per flush.

Speaker 130 No, it does not depend where you're at.

Speaker 135 No, if I'm in a public place, it's going wherever. If I'm at home, maybe that's going to be a paper.

Speaker 151 You are where I'm at.

Speaker 31 What a toilet. Why don't you act like you've never done this?

Speaker 77 No. No.

Speaker 104 We wipe our ass and we flush it. That is what we do.

Speaker 111 Not all the time.

Speaker 146 The only time I see a cobalt.

Speaker 31 Come on, it's got to back me up. This guy was raised by the country bears.

Speaker 83 Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 30 that's been the show.

Speaker 19 We're going to go watch practice.

Speaker 46 Kaboli.

Speaker 31 That's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 You need to know that.

Speaker 44 That is unbelievable that you do that.

Speaker 47 Just your diaper.

Speaker 58 You need to be putting your toilet paper and your dude wipes into a fucking toilet after you wipe your ass.

Speaker 47 Thank you.

Speaker 135 Step them at the bottom of the garbage can. They won't know.

Speaker 50 Oh.

Speaker 1 So I'm Kaboli to watch all these people.

Speaker 8 Practice about the start. We're going to head down there.

Speaker 9 Thank you to Burt Lawton and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 6 Thank you to the production crew that set all this up here on the side of a hill.

Speaker 32 We appreciate your incredible work.

Speaker 11 We appreciate the Yensers and the people that have traveled

Speaker 11 to hang out with us.

Speaker 11 Tomorrow we'll be live from the Pro Football Hall of Fame right next to a highway, chit-chatting with the entire class of this year for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and other legends.

Speaker 25 You all are the greatest people on earth.

Speaker 26 Thank you for allowing us to do this for a living.

Speaker 104 Our swamp ass

Speaker 129 in our

Speaker 62 toilet paper that we're flushing down the toilet.

Speaker 145 I don't even want to look at this guy.

Speaker 66 That should be death by fire.

Speaker 167 This This is a fireable offense.

Speaker 138 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 152 You can light him on fire, too, yeah.

Speaker 82 I think we should make him go walk in the highway and get hit by a semi.

Speaker 65 If you're actually doing that, just

Speaker 135 don't look in that trash can right over there.

Speaker 50 Lazy semi.

Speaker 65 That was good.

Speaker 17 Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 50 that's a toilet paper.

Speaker 88 Listen to the Pat McAfee show from myself, Ty Schmidt, Boston Connor, one half of the hammer,

Speaker 156 Cowboys A.P.

Speaker 9 Tone, nine-year NFL vet, Darius J.

Speaker 10 Butler, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, AJ Hawk.

Speaker 156 A man who needs to take his shirt off, Mark Caboli.

Speaker 7 To everybody back in the truck, great work, boys.

Speaker 77 Good work, boys.

Speaker 88 They got a four-season setup in that truck.

Speaker 137 How to feed his father.

Speaker 25 Really nice setup in that truck for the boys. They deserve it.

Speaker 41 Yeah, we know.

Speaker 80 We know.

Speaker 16 And you guys do great work.

Speaker 9 Fasso, great work.

Speaker 10 Bruce, really good job. All right.

Speaker 7 Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change your life.

Speaker 10 We're in this thing together.

Speaker 155 We're live from the Hall of Fame tomorrow.

Speaker 2 Team on me.

Speaker 19 Team on three.

Speaker 69 One, two, three, two.

Speaker 69 Goodbye.