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Well everyone, and welcome to another edition

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of the NFL Draft Triple Take, presented

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by U P m C. Mike pursued

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of Matt Williamson and Dale Lally,

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the three amigos of draft prep.

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We have been getting you ready. We will continue

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getting you ready, and that process will continue

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today with our Triple Take look

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at Linebackers. The NFL Draft Triple

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Take presented by U

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P m C. And guys, we've been getting into

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the defense of late and

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uh it's deep, and uh

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it's intriguing. Uh. Position

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by position, it just looks like, Uh,

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Dale, if you need some help on d this

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is the year to go find it. Yeah,

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and I know you know everybody knows you're the guys

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at the top are in this. In this inside

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linebacker class, I think we probably all have Devin

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Lloyd and the Kobe Dean up top, and

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then after that it's almost like the

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edge rushers, where there

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are probably eight

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to ten guys that they could have made your our

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top five. I mean, this was really a hard class

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to trim here. Depending on what

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you're looking at, I could I could have easily gone

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to ten players deep at the inside

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linebacker position, and they're probably all ten

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of them go, you know, the middle

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of day two and up are

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you know, these guys are all gone by the middle of the day too.

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So it's a really intriguing class.

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There's big ones, they're small ones, there's

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all of them are fast. That's

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just it's just amazing that that

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uh you know, the transformation that's gone

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on in the college football game. Uh

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you know to where a few years ago you

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really had to if you wanted one of these

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off ball linebackers that could run, you had to

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go get them early. Now there's the

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drafted just littered with them. Yeah, there might

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not big Matt, there might not be a Darius Leonard in

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there, but uh boy, there's a

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lot of To Dale's point, there's a couple of years

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ago there was two that everybody was,

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you know, you gotta get one of those guys, and

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now you know, now there's more to choose from.

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There's three at Georgia.

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It's crazy. Yeah. Obviously we talked about

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Georgia a lot with the defensive front um.

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I don't love the top, but

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as we talked about on the drive all the time,

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I don't hesitate to bring it up every show. If I can,

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I am utterly infatuated with the

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day to linebacker crop crop. I

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mean, there are so many of them,

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as Dale said, there's the former safeties

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that are two pounds a fly

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around the field. There's you know, four

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of my five and four of my top five

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or over six two long

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arms, unbelievable testers,

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a lot of good football ahead of this group. Yeah,

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let's uh, let's get into it. And

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Dale, why don't you lead us

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off? You've got a pretty interesting guy.

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Uh, linebacker from Wisconsin wild

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who who who knew? Who knew? Yeah? Leo

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Chanal uh six three two fifty

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pounds at the combine ran a four five three

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forty ten years

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ago. Leo Channel at six two

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fifty pounds running a four or five three forty

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is a first round draft pick. I

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mean the guy had eight eight sacks last year,

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eighteen and a half tackles for a lot hundred

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and fifteen tackles. He's

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a run stuffer and probably

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you know, he's gonna have to learn a little bit of the past

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coverage stuff, but he's

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got the traits to do it, and

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you know there are things that you can do with him in

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the meantime. Have him rushed the pass up the

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mid. I likened him to being a bigger,

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faster version of Vince Williams,

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like much, a much bigger faster

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version of Vince Weed. Let's sing up

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the middle. He is unbelievable. He is just

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unbelievable, blitzing, blitzing the A and B gaps.

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You know what I like about him? Not only is he your number

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five inside linebacker off ball linebacker.

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He wore number five. There

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it is for Bucky Badger. And you know what

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that makes him? Sal number

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five? Nice,

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gonna be here all weeks. Please stip your bartenders

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and waitress. It's matt Uh.

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You went between the headges. I guess you need

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a defensive guy. Go down to Georgia. Pick one. Yeah,

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I'll take the six four guy that's a little over two

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hundred forty pounds that runs like a d year

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long arms kuay walker, Um

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again, I mean kindall's the other one

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that didn't make my list. And we've already

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mentioned you know that's the backup,

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right, Yeah, he's the backup, the

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backup right. And that's what I was gonna say is it's

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hard to even get on the field for these guys. He may

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play a higher percentage of snaps in the pros

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than he did. Yeah,

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that's real. I went

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off the board a little bit. Uh. Troy

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Anderson, Montana State. Love

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Troy Anderson six three to forty

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three. And he just keeps doing it. You

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know, if you play the place like Montana State,

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you're supposed to dominate. He did. Then you're

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supposed to go to the senior bowling and stick

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it to the big boys, and he did that. And

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then he went to the Combine and just look great. Uh.

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For he's fascinating. I know

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if you know much about his backstory, Mike, he

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was a quarterback for them, and a running

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back and running back and good and

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a good one. He has

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a record for touchdowns in a season and

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he's a linebacker. It's just an unbelievable

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story. And then you know ran in the low four threes

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at the Combine. Um. Just a fascinating

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guy and and has sized the

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whole deal. Again, tough leaving guys like

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that off my list, but it just shows you how

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deep this position is. My four

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and Matt's for Chad MoMA of Wyoming,

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and really that took a look at him. Sixty

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nine looks a lot like Logan Wilson

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played Logan Wilson's position of Miami

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Logan Wilson did really well as a brook. Okay,

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run it back, but I think we know what

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we're gonna get and you'll take that

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all day long. I mean it's a really good linebacker

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the Bengals found. Um Muma

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is another tall guy, also a

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former safety. Excellent and coverage.

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One thing fort vertical too.

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I mean, it's not like he's just a tenacious

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dude, which he is. He's also a very explosive

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athlete. One thing that worries me a little

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bit about him is his waist.

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He's kind of a high waisted guy, and when people

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go after his legs, they chop him down a little

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bit. That's something he's gonna have to kind of pay attention to. Tail.

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You're number four is the Moon Clark

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from L s U. Yeah, I mean

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you want to talk about leadership, This guy

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was given a number eighteen jersey at l s U

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two years in a row. It's

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never happened before. Nobody's

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ever gotten the eighteen jersey at L s U two years

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in a row. Uh. A hundred thirty

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five tackles last year, five and a half sacks,

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an interception, fifteen tackles for a

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loss, uh, four or five, seven,

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forty at the combine. I mean he just does everything

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well. Uh you know, maybe not gonna

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wow you, but he's got good size at at six

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two to thirty nine. And then I mentioned

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that he wore the eighteen jersey at l s U

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two years in a row. I mean for

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people to show, no, that is there uh

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kind of players player, the heart

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and soul guy. Uh, the guy

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everybody loves and follows, and it's

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a big deal down there. Uh to where

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that number I did. It was a center a couple of years ago.

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Uh, he couldn't wear it because he was an offensive lineman.

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But he wore a patch. Was the name Qui

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Barrier, quis Art or Quissonberry.

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Yeah it was Quissonberry. It was um

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yeah he had ye.

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Now Quissinberry was a closer for the Royal

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spec Yeah yeah,

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yeah, that three. I love him. I mean

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for all those reasons. He ran

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a four or five seven. That's actually one

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of the things I like about doing these shows, and you come

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up with these little tidbits about the college programs

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and the little traditions and whatnot. I

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went with my number three. I

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went with a guy you guys did not, Uh,

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Christian Harris from Alabama. Uh,

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six ft twenty six, a smaller guy.

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But when I watched him, he just looked

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like he knew what was going on everywhere

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at all times. He was able to react and

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figure out where he needed to be. And again, uh

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burst and and and he gets there in a hurry.

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Hed he not only covers, he makes plagues on

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the ball. Uh.

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I don't think you're gonna go wrong with an Alabama

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defender, a highly rated one, and

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uh I pick him. I

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agree that. Uh. And

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then our numbers two and one. Uh,

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everybody's got the same thing. Uh.

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Dale, you went with na Kobe Dean at

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Georgia and two and Devin

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Lloyd at one. Matt, you had

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it the other way, Devin Lloyd at two and

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the Kobe Dean at one. And I've gotten

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to Kobe Dean at two and Devin

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Lloyd at one. I don't think it really

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matters. I had a really tough time picking,

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and to be honest, I kind of I'm harping

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on the negatives with both. Unfortunately,

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you know, again I said, I don't love the top of this class.

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These are two really good players, don't get me wrong,

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but I would have liked Lloyd to test a little bit

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better, you know. I mean he was okay,

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but didn't blow the doors off there. And maybe

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you talk only only the four

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sixes he ran. That was it FO

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six And then Dean didn't

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work out. But he's so little,

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you know. Like my my opinion

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of both these guys over the weekend with the

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combine went down a little

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because Dean just standing there next to the

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other linebackers looked very

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very small and and and lean. But

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boy, I mean when you protect them like Georgia

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does with the unbelievable guys in front of him,

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he like makes every play. And

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I think you know something to appreciate about Lloyd.

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You know, we've talked a lot about Georgia during

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these shows and Alabama

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every year we've done these shows. I think that

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Utah program pretty

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underrated. They got a pretty good rep for toughness

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and knock your block off, and accountability

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and compete and a lot of those

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intangible qualities that a lot of programs

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aspired to. I think, uh, I agree,

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I think you taw us an underrated program and

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uh, that's kind of what broke that, and that

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broke the tie for me and the Kobe Dean dot

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not really doing anything at the combine. Yeah,

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I mean, if you look at it, devn Lloyd fills up

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all the categories hundred eleven tackles,

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seven sacks, four interceptions last year.

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I mean, what more could the guy do other than

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you know, serve everybody hot dogs at halftime? Uh

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utah. Just he did a lot of good

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stuff. Forty three tackles for a loss

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in his last three seasons. I mean he just he just said

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up camp in the backfield and lives there. He's

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a one man show. Yeah,

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so plenty to choose from there as

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well. And uh, what

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other thing about n Kobe Dean? He was a

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mechanical engineering major. You

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know, you're you're a major college football player

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and you're a mechanical engineering major.

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That is not easy to pull off, and you win

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the Buckets Award, and you win the Buckets Award. I

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would imagine if you're a mechanical engineering

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major and you're not a college football player,

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that is not but

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my pay grade. I know that. Guys,

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this is fun. We will do it again soon.

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I want to thank everybody for finding

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us, however and wherever you did, and remind

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one and all that all of these

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programs can be found on all

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of the Steelers social media platforms.

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Until next time. For Dale Lally and Matt

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Williamson, I'm Mike PURSUITA. This has

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been the NFL Draft Triple Take, presented

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by U P m C