Steelers Training Camp heats up with Rodgers, Ramsey, and more

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Underground, The steel City Underground, the black
and gold standard for Pittsburgh Steelers coverage. Now here's your hoes.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Joe Kuzma, Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of
the steel City Underground podcast. My name is Joe Kuzman.
I'm coming to you solo from just outside St. Vincent's College,
Late Trome, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. Got to see
the first not just one, but two practices and pads.

(00:33):
Just a lot of action going on. Things are heating up.
And for those of you who've been around as I've
done this over the year, hand written notes and my apologies,
but man, there's just so much to talk about here.
Doing this solo sometimes and being away from my friendly confines,
I don't have all the same you know, technology and

(00:56):
everything in front of me. So hopefully, once again every
year when I do this turns out to be a
pretty decent show. But again, I'm doing this from a
hotel room, so I apologize if there's any nuances to
this program or this episode. I hope all of ians
enjoy the handwritten notes. Right. I'll tell you what, there's

(01:18):
a secret that this year for even all of the
new players that the Pittsburgh Steelers have acquired. I don't
have to. They have so much that just is kind
of going off memory. Now. I agree, the memory of
a goldfish is what I'm starting to turn into here
as I age. But I still got a little bit
of the steel trap. I keep making the same bad

(01:38):
dad joke because like a Pittsburgh dad. He was there
Pittsburgh Steelers camp. Wednesday. He appeared on the Pat McAfee show,
at least on a digital version. Wow, the amount of
people that showed up for that, Pat, what a turnout
that was just fantastic. Everyone from Aaron Rodgers to Mike
Tomlin to Omar Kahn. It was just wow. Just what

(01:58):
a setting. He said he couldn't even believe that he
was doing that, and what an honor it was, and
you know what, all the honor was ours to Pat.
So wow, what a rowdy crowd. Steelers training camp really
has been impressive. I'll tell you what. The Steelers off season,
as we all know, first started out with the acquisition
a Dk Metcalf and then of course George Pickens get

(02:21):
shipped out. I don't know if Aaron Rodgers is going
to end up arriving or not, and he signs and
things get a look exciting, and then they just turn
everything upside down with the Miami Dolphins trade setting Meka
Fitzpatrick and there's draft considerations going in both directions to
the Steelers can get Jalen Ramsey and also Jean L. Smith.
And I mean, I'm just really floored by how well

(02:46):
everything is looking thus far with a bunch of new players, because,
as I mentioned on the last episode, the Steelers, I mean,
they're really happy. A lot of people are pissed off
that they have this drought of not winning a playoff
game since twenty sixteen, and based on their exit last year.
This isn't your fathers or grandfather Steelers that are complacent

(03:09):
with building and just through the draft and you know,
being patient. No, they just they've wiped the slate clean
in so many areas. They kept some bodies where they've
needed to, and it has just been one hell of
an off season. And it's really capped off by the
arrival of Aaron Rodgers and also DK Metcalf. And they're

(03:32):
not the only two I'm going to talk about, but
that's who I'm going to talk about. First. Rogers looks
dare I say sharp. He looks like a veteran player
who knows what he's doing out there. He has a
very strong command and presence, and it hasn't been a
distracting one just watching him operate. And he said he's

(03:55):
not an expert with the offense, but he would be
by the end of the week. We still have Friday
night lights rate here and some other things to report
on next week. But as we head into that, I
have a feeling about anywhere from twelve to fourteen thousand
people are going to discover the same thing that I'm
saying that looks pretty damn good for a forty one
year old quarterback. I know the criticisms that they gave

(04:18):
Aaron Rodgers. I also know that it's training camp. It's
football and shorts with a little bit of pads. Now okay,
they're wearing pads now, but just knowing how to dissect
the defense and read the field. There's just such a
difference between Aaron Rodgers and even if we go to
last year's quarterbacks, but let's just talk about this year

(04:39):
is real quick Mason Rudolph Mason's got a cannon of
it arm, but some of the players he's throwing two
aren't on the same page. Some of these players are
third and fourth stringers at times. The rotations in some
of the position groups, some of the sub packages that
the Steelers are using. Aaron Rodgers mentioned an four on

(05:03):
the McAfee show. That's four tight ends. I using four
tight ends out there, basically. That's they got close to
doing that. Actually, even seeing John L. Smith take a
hand off maybe two one might have been just a
pitch or a little shovel. We've seen that play with
Fireman before, right, But Smith, he's getting his due too.

(05:25):
But back to Rogers in Metcalf, there's a real concerned effort.
I can't tell you how many times I saw this
in my notes over the last couple of days. Of course,
practice got moved up on Thursday to ten am to
try and avoid some storms that never ended up coming.
Those are the same storms that cancel practice on Tuesday
to get see anything. So the practice in pads ends

(05:48):
up happening on Wednesday and you get backs on backers.
You had it on Thursday too. It's great, I'm sure
the one on Friday lights there's some fistfights and all
kinds of other stuff, so things are heating up. Aaron
Rodgers to DK Metcalf, you could almost count on this
at least once, if not twice, in every seven shots.
Seven shots is how they open up the training camp practices.

(06:10):
If you haven't, if you haven't been aware, if you
haven't listened or read anything else that's out there, If
you haven't, if you're new to this show, welcome. Of course.
Basically what it is is you're getting a I don't
even want to say loose eleven on eleven. Now, of
course you're not going to go out there and sack
Aaron Rodgers if you know they got him dead to rights,
He's still going to have a chance to maybe throw

(06:31):
the ball, and he did. And Darius Slay is in
people's business. He's knocking the ball out. One Thornhill is
ball howking at times. And let me tell you, you've got
new players here that are trying to learn the Steelers culture,
and it really feels like they're a fit. And when
you're you have a turnover of like maybe eleven guys

(06:53):
on one side of the ball offensive defense, and you're
only returning five or six of the starters, you're trying
to think you're thinking to yourself, what is the culture
and the culture had been. This team can't win a
playoff game, they can't compete with the Kansas City Chiefs,
they can't compete with the Buffalo Bills, they can't compete
with the Baltimore Ravens in their own division. Some people
don't even have them competing with the Cincinnati Bengals, let

(07:16):
alone teams that are in the NFC, such as the
Philadelphia Eagles, who they know handed them their lunch last
year during the regular season. So bullied, and the Steelers
look like they want to be bullies right now. But
it really really really looks like it, and it's not forced,
but there's definitely an effort to make sure. When I

(07:38):
was talking about there being three tight ends out on
the field, you had Smith, you had Friarmth. They both
lined up on the left, Smith in the slot, Friarmth
not all the way wide though almost still kind of
like in the slot. A little more difficult to describe
because Washington comes back around the formation. They put him
in motion and he's next to Dylan Cook, who we'll

(07:59):
talk later as the left tackles, so he's actually up
at the line of scrimmage there in kind of just
an offset, kind of almost like a bubbles and I
don't want to say bubble screen. Oh I hate that word.
But anyways, I guess you would have to see it
to describe it. But DKs on the other side. So
you've got three tight ends stacked on the one end,

(08:20):
and part of that's to help the left tackle with Washington,
and Washington's getting up there and making some big plays too.
But this ball ends up going to DK somehow. He
gets one on one with Joey Porter, who having a
great camp too. I'm gonna be bouncing around a little bit.
My focus right now is Rogers and Metcalf. Let me
be bouncing around and making some highlights to some different
players during a time. In fact, secondary second on my

(08:44):
list here as well. But I just wanted to say,
just in one or two of the practices, a lot
at least like maybe ten targets several of the reps,
and whether they're short, whether they're intermediate, whether they're deep
past is, whether they're trying really for the corner fades
in the end zone. DK's come. He wins quite a

(09:07):
few of those. He's grown ass man. I mean he
goes up, he gets them. Slay, I got the better
of one of those, I want to say here on Thursday.
And then Ramsey's been in the slot too and making
some plays too. The nude look secondary. Jalen Ramsey, You've
got one thornhill Darius Slay. And as I make some

(09:31):
more notes, as I write numbers down, it's like, man, Okay,
twenty three no longer not joe Hayden. I was so
used to that over the years. Right, Darius Slay is
out there making plays, Joey Porter. I had him noted
here somewhere for a tackle for loss on a run.
He also stuffed someone at the line of scrimmage as well.
Maybe not new to the secondary, but definitely playing up

(09:55):
in year three. Darius Slay, Jalen Ramsey. He's playing all
over the place in the secondary. He's not really coming
off the field. Deshaun Elliott, of all people, is like
somebody I'm not really noticing a whole lot. It's not
that he's not making plays or he's getting burned or whatever,
but the action is not really always come in his way.
I want to say that he was up on the

(10:16):
line of scrimmage with a nice play too somewhere in
my notes, but one Thornhill and John O. Smith had
really got into it. There was some drills one on one,
thorn Hill covering Smith. Smith goes up, Smith makes I
got a like a nice little double move on him.
Wins goes up high grown ass man pointing like high

(10:39):
points the ball probably touched down or at least a
big gainer in a real game if he gets it
in this area. And then with contact the heat that's
been outside as well, and thorn Hill then guy loses
his helmet and all of a sudden, there's conscious throwing
and you have a milie get this settled down a

(11:00):
little bit, and you're watching behind everybody because you got
like everybody that's kind of gripped up front, and they're
going in order, and they're calling your name and your number,
and you come up and you're gonna line up and
do this drill. And during this, Thornhill continues running his mouth.
Chuck Clark gets involved in this at some point as well,
throwing some punches. But this ends with the same two guys,

(11:23):
with Thornhill and Smith, and it's hilarious because now Smith
is like, you know, I'm going to run over him
like a back truck basically Thornhill that is. And Thornhill
is not going to be having any of it. So
here's a great here's a great shot. This may have
even been from the same drill if you're watching this
on YouTube or next day on Spotify. Smith with the

(11:46):
high point there, but Thornhill ain't having it. And right
out of the break at the top of the route,
Smith goes to make a move and Thornhill has already
been physical with him and doesn't let him go. It's
a flag and a half, but the defai celebrates that
Smith doesn't make a play on thorn Hill this time,
and Smith's just kind of like he walks away like

(12:06):
you know what what the you know, he kind of
does one of these gestures looking for a flag, right
and it's it's hilarious, but it just shows the feistiness.
It shows maybe some of the culture. I'm not saying
it throw punches in a game and get thrown out obviously,
but we we know what training camp has been like
over the years. So watching this this new secondary with

(12:30):
Darius Slay, Jalen Ramsey, Ramsey, I mean he makes some plays.
It's been uh it's almost kind of quiet sometimes, like
you're just you're almost expecting these guys to make a
play every time. And this is what makes like watching
this offense look pretty damn cool with training camp, because
you're just like, Okay, well, you know Aaron Rodgers, and

(12:50):
you got these some of these new moving pieces and parts,
Jonov Smith and DK Metcalf and they're not just walking
all over a defense. This is the league's highest defense.
Though Cameron Hayward TJ. Watt had Thursday off, they were
in street clothes. I assume they get more use. They're
getting a veteran day off for more use at Friday
night lights of course the showcase for all of the fans.

(13:12):
But just it's been it's been fun watching this defense.
It's been fun watching the secondary. Pat Fryermy gets a
little bit of work in here too. But Smith is
definitely being used in the territory. Dare I say of
being a tight or a wide receiver too, So yes,

(13:33):
all of the ends that are out there thinking that
Omar Khan is going to make another trade and pay
another wide receiver Terry McLaurin thirty plus million dollars. I'm sorry,
I just I don't see it. I don't see it happening.
I just think that Rogers is going to be using
the tight ends a lot. I think this is what

(13:53):
Arthur Smith wants to do, and I think he's going
to want to pound the rock with the running backs.
And we'll talk a little bit more about some of
these position battles in a little bit before. Well, rookie impact,
you know what this is. This is kind of a
good spot to talk about the rookies and just going

(14:18):
back to the quarterbacks work quick. I was talking about
Mason having a cannon. Well, Howard doesn't look bad out there,
but he certainly looks like a rookie. This goes back
to the dudes last year, Russell Wilson justin fields hold
the ball too long. Now Skyler Thompson holds the ball
way too freaking You can just tell the difference maturing
to a pro game and when it clicks for some guys. Now,

(14:40):
Russell Wilson justin field notorious over the last several seasons,
including last year, with the Pittsburgh Steelers being among the
slowest to get rid of the football to make a
decision to find the open players to dissect the Field
Rogers even you know, if his physical traits have diminished
at all, I can't really say at this point. I don't.
I mean, I don't feel like I feel like he's

(15:02):
better than what the Steelers have had, and I feel
mentally that he's been incredibly sharp. Now Howard has shown flashes.
He's been making some plays. Rudolf tends to. So we'll
we'll bring back to Mason Rudolf for a second. The
guy that I like, Rudolf will often find the checkdout.
Rudolf has gone deep during camp here as well. He's

(15:24):
got the cannon, he's got the I believe he's got
the accuracy, he's got the veederan to know how, but
he knows like how to, so to speak, get the
most out of nothing. Where Will Howard's still kind of
reading the field, looking around, trying to make the big
play as possible, and the place is not It's not
always there. So there's some maturity that's going in, some

(15:48):
development that's going to need to be there. But I'm
not going to say that he doesn't have it, because truthfully,
I don't believe that. I do think that he made
a surprise you again with the preseason games. They might
throw a pick too, but he doesn't have like the
deer in headlights kind of like I'm terrified, I'm crapping
my pants kind of look right, He's been a trusted

(16:14):
for the few reps he's been able to get because
at least about fifty percent or more sixty percent has
been going the way of one mister Aaron Rodgers. Now
the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers, their rookies, Derek Harmon,
been trying to keep an eye on him as much
as possible throughout training camp. Uh, he's getting a lot
of work. He's going to be a week one starter

(16:36):
more than likely. If it's in a base three four especially,
he's going to be in there. He's playing primarily ones too.
There's like no talk this year of maybe it's just
because defensive line we look at, we look away from
some of the guys that are up front. A lot
of times you talk about like the rookies and whether
or not those rookies are just you know, they're handed

(16:56):
something for lack of better terms, and most of them
have to earn their keep. They have to earn their dues.
Caleb Johnson, for example, is definitively behind Jalen Warren. Right now,
he has impressed the rookie running back out of Iowa.
He's got that burst of speed. A lot of people
are making the comparisons to Le'Veon Bell from years ago.

(17:20):
I'm not ready to go that far yet, but I
do believe that he's got the frame on him to
break tackles. He's got the visions mostly there. I think
some of the plays like saw a huge hole to
the right, he goes to the left, and maybe the
plays designed to go there. You know, sometimes you have
to go. So these are some of the small nuances

(17:40):
of being a rookie. But I feel like even when
it's something like that you're gonna I'm gonna nippick and
it's like, oh, oh he did that, Joe said. He said, well,
look everyone, it's one play and it's practice because the
next guy, the next time this guy comes back through,
he's making a big play. He's hitting the corners, he's
doing some stuff the nause with a little like like

(18:02):
he was running in mud or quick seeing some other rookies,
Jack Sawyer edge out of Ohio State. He got to
flash some with TJ. Watt not being out there, So
it was like a lot of herbig not even as
much heighsmithing before. Yes, high Smith was out there and
he's making some play too, but Sawyer definitely blew up
somebody on the offensive line at some point. Oh, I'd

(18:26):
love to talk about some backs on backers here in
a second. I'm gonna make some room for this, because
there was some great stuff new to the Steelers and
maybe some rookies like undrafted wide receiver okay out of
Memphis Rock Taylor. Then I was looking. I was looking.
I was looking, and then like really like kind of
toward the end of practice there was there was some

(18:50):
stuff with Rock Taylor that was kind of impressive. So
I'm thinking some practice squad considerations for the guy with
a little bit bigger of a frame out of Memphis.
I certainly have better vibes than you know, he Keem
Butler who came in the year before and he came
out of XFL or UFL or whatever we're talking, whatever
it is. He was with the battle Hawks in Saint Louis,

(19:12):
and you're like, oh man, this guy has a real chance.
And then he has like the case of the drop
Sis the Jitters and it just ultimately like sunk him
from being able to do anything else. Back to the
secondary for a moment. Brandon Eckles, who comes in kind
of like a journeyman. These guys shot at making this
roster too. He's been making some impressive plays. They've even
put him up against some tight ends. They're certainly testing

(19:34):
him to see if he could be a slot or
a nickel corner. I still think he's going to be
like an additional player when they really go dB heavy,
because Jalen Ramsey's going to take that spot for sure.
But had to mention Eckles as a part of this.
So I've mentioned let's say Harmon, Caleb Johnson, Will Howard
Jack Sawyer. I think that covers a lot of the rookies,

(19:58):
maybe some of the undrafted guys I'll come back around
to certainly. I want to make mention also of some
of the injury. I mean, you've had some injuries. The
most major one obviously has been Roderick Jones thus far,
soft tissue injury. They're going to baby him, but he's
got to get some reps. Dylan Cook, who's been with
the Steelers the last few training camps on it actually

(20:20):
off and on like the main roster, sometimes very quietly
because he's typically inactive. He's been taking a lot of
the reps with the first team as the left tackle.
So Roderick Jones has to get back out there. Players
coming back from injuries or that we didn't really get
to see a lot of last season. Rum and Wilson's
getting some work even with the ones. Kelvin Austin's been

(20:41):
out there with the ones too, I think in seven
shots and a few other drills. Robert Woods he caught
a pass wiggles wide open for Mason. Rudolph Realoff finds
him easily. He also had like a huge play Aaron
Rodgers through this dart. It was it was a team
drill at the end of practice, not quite a two

(21:02):
minute drill like they've run in the past, but situational
for sure. And Robert Woods he takes the top off somehow,
what is he thirty three years old, thirty two going
on thirty three and forgive me, I forget I don't
know if clap my head, but just ends up wide open.
Rogers finds him, and Rogers finds him like thirty plus
yards in the air. This wasn't like something where he's

(21:24):
just ten yards down the field and then runs for
forty yards and we say, oh, it's a forty yard pass.
Has had led very good potential to be a touchdown
in real game action, meaning not practice and not in Schwartz.
So Cole holcomes another name to put out there inside linebacker,
and got some of him in some of the backs

(21:47):
on backers drills and stuff like that too, and he's
looking sharp. Some people were talking about maybe they trade him.
I don't think he's going anywhere, so I'm going to
find some room here to talk about Let's see, looking
at my notes backs backers, Let's see high Smith and
Friar Youth. They were pretty evenly matched. Patrick Queen bowls

(22:07):
over pretty much picks up and moves Jalen Warren, and
Warren wasn't embarrassed in all these but these rulines that
really stood out. What really stood out was the day
before was TJ. Watt against Darnell Washington Mount Washington, and
on the first time that they matched up, Washington went.

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He couldn't be moved, he couldn't get around him. He
was more like Wall Washington than Mount Washington. And this
is t. J. Watt mind you. Now, second time, TJ
gave him a little bit more for his money, mind you,
Peyton Wilson with Kenneth Gainwell, and Wilson got him kind
of the first time. Gamewell comes back around the second

(22:55):
time and totally wins this rep. And it's made for
intriguing position battles of which I'll uh swinging back around
to here in a moment. And Paul Hulcomb winning on
Trey Sermon, the running back that's been around a few places.
The forty nine ers Indianapolis Colts formerly of Ohio State,
liked him coming out of the draft. He ended up

(23:15):
with a bad knee injury, and that's how he's bounced
around some different teams over the last few seasons. Now
I have the fade touchdown from Rogers to me just
rate in here with everything else. Yeah, I think that
covers about all the backs on backers. I was going
to say, you also had Nick Krbig against John L.

(23:38):
Smith and Herbig is a feisty one two and kind
of wins on Smith. So these were these were some
fun battles. I'm trying to see if I had some
more that were coming across. Unfortunately, I'll come back to
some of these if I can, but oh yeah, there
was so one Thorn Hill and Chuck clark Man. They

(23:58):
were definitely getting in with John L. Smith. I just
have it written over here multiple times. They've been having
a pretty fun camp. But the overall impression that I've
had is that this is a very exciting Pittsburgh Steelers
team to watch right now. The position battles, I think

(24:20):
everybody's kind of firmly entrenched as being starters, but there's
some very deep and good talent across the board here.
So running back Jalen Warren obviously, Caleb Johnson the rookie
playing very well, but then you go beyond them, and
Kenneth Gainwell, if you saw her, didn't hear him from
the last episode, Cordero Patterson It's day off on Monday released,

(24:44):
wasn't happy about it, you know, kind of bitched about
it on social media. And I think it's going to
be game. Will is going to have one of the
opportunities to be one of the return people and maybe
like a third or fourth running back on the depth chart. Now.
Connor Heyward's kind of into conversation too, because talking about
running backs and tight ends here at the same time,
back to back, and he's put on I think reportedly

(25:06):
about twenty twenty five pounds. But he looked at many
He doesn't look like a bullet. He's still going to
be a bowling ball, right, but he looks more like
a like a monument or a statue that's been a
little more chisel. Dude is in incredible shape. Incredible shape.
He made a nice toe tap catch on one of
the drills just short, just in front of the pylons.

(25:27):
The pass wasn't going for the end zone anyways, but
the point is made a hell of a play there,
and he'll probably be another guy that's in the special
teams consideration with Gamewell. Gamewell has been catching some passes.
I was impressed with some of his pass blocking with
the backs on backers and some of the other drills.
First I thought, man, it's this guy on the outside
looking in, and you've got Trey Sermon sitting here too.

(25:48):
That could also be a surprise addition, maybe on the
fifty three, maybe on the practice squad. He has definitely
got a big game or not just a big game experience,
but he's got prokes periods. Right. He started some games
even for the Colts in place of Jonathan Taylor. So sermon,
he's definitely gonna make his case. And I think he'll

(26:10):
make his case even more when we get to the preseason.
You get to the first week of preseason games, he
might be the starter. They might not even give more
in any reps. Johnson and I imagine will get some
and talk about first playoff playoff games. Preseason games is
all of Fame game with the Lions and Chargers three
turnovers in the first quarters, talking about sloppy football. Holy.

(26:32):
But then again, it's Kyle Allen versus Trey Lance As
you're starting quarterbacks right into the tight end conversations. I mean,
it's Pat Fryarman, it's John L. Smith. They're going to
play a lot. Darnold Washington's got to kind of chip
away and get some playing time here. But he made
some big plays too. It's fun to see the big
guy go up. Sometimes he goes up. He just looks

(26:54):
like a slower motion, larger DK Metcalf. People can't match
up with them. They can't end Darnold Washington. It's time
to get him a little more involved. I mentioned Connor Heyward.
Does he fit in where they keep like a fourth
tight end, fourth running back. How did they do this?
There's so many well and there was a lot of
wide receivers, a log jam of them on a depth
chart too. It's gonna be talking about who's on the

(27:15):
hot seat. But jj Gaalbreth, he's having a hell of
a camp too. He really shows up sometimes. I think
no Smith had the drop by Galabreth. Sorry, so they've
got some guys I mean that they maybe they expose
that don't make the fifty three. The probably might get
signed by some other teams. I'm just seeing a very

(27:35):
deep Steelers roster this year despite all the change in turnover.
And then there's my favorite ones at the end of
the show. The people will kick football for a living
and it's the punters. You're probably here, like, really we're
going to talk about punters. I swear swear on my life,

(27:55):
swear on every loved one's grave. That we saw Cameron
Johnston take a ball. Where do you kick it from
goal line or just like you know it's situational and
with a bounce. This thing felt like it was one
hundred yard punt. That's no bullshit. Seeing hangtime from Corliss Weightman,
who was you know, the punter last year after it

(28:16):
brought on after Johnston was hurt and lost for the season.
But Johnston Johnson's got a leg, I mean, and Weightment
is not bad. Weightment is putting a hangtime, He's putting
some distance. But Johnston, in my opinion, is doing just
that much more. I don't think the Steelers, I mean,
they paid him pretty handsomely over somebody like Weightman, but

(28:37):
I don't think he's like a casualty for any costs
that could be surprised. Danny Smith, who was also on
the Pat McAfee show, said it was a tight battle
between the two and I'm watching him over on the
far field. I've got some binoculars and these guys are
just boom and kicks. They're working on either just letting
him hang in the air, which is going to help,
like you know, all the special teams, punt coverage unit,

(28:59):
get there and make a play, or they're just booming
it for distance in this distance. I'll watch Weightman go
and hit one and it looks like it's about fifty yards,
and then you get Johnston and he hits one and
it's like sixty and I'm watching some of these with
a hop seventy seventy five and not one with maybe
a little bit of wind. Maybe the ground is still wet.

(29:23):
Oh what a mud pit the parking is at Saint Vincent's.
It rained like really hard on Tuesday when they had
to cancel the practice, and maybe just with that extra
slickness of the ball because one of those little squppy
things gets that extra few yards. Folks, it's been fun.
I mean, the punters have been fun. Everybody's been fun.

(29:45):
I'm sure there's a number of players I haven't talked
about that I will still pull up here, but just
in my let's say, in my closing notes here, don't
forget the like, comment and subscribe now. I've made to
have a little bit more for you. I'm just trying
to see if I got anything else. Oh yeah, Roman
Wilson with a very nice This came off of Mason
Ruolf and it was over Joey Porter. A nice deep

(30:07):
ball from Mason, So yeah, that looks like it's yeah.
And Patrick Patrick Queen has been making a lot of
splash plays interceptions. He got one off of his tippies,
like off of his just on his fingers not even
fully in his hands. Guy's been working the jugs machine Niger.
So those are some of my closing notes with that

(30:29):
keep an eye on. I'm like, I'm great. Numbers down
and it's like, okay, Jan Thornhill's twenty two now, Darius
Slay's twenty three, Porters twenty four, Elliott's twenty five, eccles
Is twenty six, So you've got all of these, All
these men got the roster here and it's just like oh,
boom boom, boom, boom boom, trying to learn some new ones.
I know some folks are looking for something out of

(30:51):
like a Sebastian Castro, a safety out of Iowa that
was undrafted. Don't have a lot to report on with him,
or even why a black and doesn't mean that they
maybe just didn't stand out because they're doing their job
and there wasn't a whole lot of activity or something that.
A lot of times it's like, oh, well maybe somebody
looked at and other. One more player to throw on

(31:12):
here is number eleven, Brandon Johnson, who seems to be
getting a lot of early work too and maybe considered
for some practice squad duties. So folks, again, don't forget
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(31:32):
of you who are listening on our various audio platforms,
we appreciate all of the ins supporting still see Underground Podcast.
I will be back here again early next week. Report
back on the latter half of this week of training
camp and get to get geared up now maybe for
some preseason football. Next week, Pittsburgh Steelers headed down to

(31:53):
Jacksonville to play the Jaguars. That's why they're playing at
or they're practicing at one fifty five and as miserable
heat because it's going to be news or pulling Muggy
down there in Jacksonville. But until then, folks, take care
of yourselves, enjoy the football that's ahead of us. We
officially have football games underway, and we're gonna have a

(32:15):
Steelers one in about one week until next time. My
name is Joe Kuzma, and as I always close out
this show, we encourage people out there to be safe,
be good, and we'll catch you lated.

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