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We begin this hour by talking more NFL draft.

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John Ledyard joins the program.

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X at Leadyard NFL draft. Also the read optional pod with Ali Connolly as well. John, thanks for

the time today. How are you? I'm not here. Are you, Paulie? Okay. Oh, we were just talking to

him. Yeah, we'll reconnect here in a second, I think, and get him on. He covers the event, covers the Steelers, covers the Buccaneers, and the entire NFL in general. We'll talk about those two teams specifically. And got to get his thoughts overall, too, by the way, on a trade that happened inside Pittsburgh's own division. And my gut reaction when it actually took place was I hated it for the Bengals. I thought they gave up way too much for a guy that's 29 years old. Damn good player, but we'll get his thoughts on that as well when we connect with him tonight. He had a great tweet, by the way, whenever it was, when Rogers told the Steelers, all of my mind made up by the draft, rest of sure, no problem. Do you know who you're dealing with here? That came and went. This isn't the first time Rogers has done this? Yeah, right. How long do you think it's been? I'll let you know, guys. I'll give you plenty of time what I'm going to do in the future. How many years ago was it when Schaefter came out on Draft Day talking about Roger's future? Oh, yeah. Wasn't that like five years ago now already? Yeah. How was it possible that this happened with back? I want more input or I'm leaving type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. But it happened with back-to-back Green Bay quarterbacks.

Happened with fire every single year. Yeah, right. True. Okay, so I think we have John now. John, before we get into some of these teams specifically in what you think they're going to do tonight, a team inside Pittsburgh's own division made a pretty big trade recently, and that was Cincinnati, obviously, giving up the 10th pick overall.

For defensive lineman, Dexter Lawrence, what did you make of that trade when the news broke? Yeah, it's one of those ones where you understand why they do it because they're in a window where if they don't win pretty soon, their quarterback is going to ask to get out of town. So they can't obviously be in that position. So I think for them, it makes complete sense when you think about the context of where their team is at, but because they've drafted poorly and they've done a poor job in free agency and some would say even a poor job within their own organization of retaining talent over the years, it has led to this kind of catastrophic depletion of their own roster to the point where you kind of have to do things like this because you haven't hit on a lot of the margin moves over the years that you've really

needed to hit on. So they're a defense devoid of talent at a lot of key spots, definitely on their front. They have not had many positive additions there in recent years despite trying quite hard in the draft. They've drafted a lot of players and a lot of them haven't hit. And so because of that, they have to feel, they feel like they have to go out and make moves like this. I think the real context of the situation is Dexter Lawrence is like a 340, 350 pound man who probably isn't going to age the same way Chris Jones and Cam Hayward and Callias Campbell have aged. Like those guys have aged awesome, but they're much lighter, more athletic type of players. And Dexter Lawrence, two years ago, injured. And when he was healthy, he was really good, but he played about half of the normal snaps that he played. And then last year wasn't the same player. And some of that probably effort and situation and all kinds of things like that. But are we just positive that the Bengals culture is so good that none of the conditioning stuff that crept up with Lawrence before or the little Knicks and knacks that happened as you get older are going to creep up again and contribute to his effort? I just, I think it's a really risky move. I think to trade 10 overall is a big price for it. So if he's at his best and we get peaked extra Lawrence from two years ago, then two, three years ago, then it's possible that it works out for them. I just, I would bet against it. Yeah, I would agree with that. Okay, so it's in Pittsburgh tonight. The draft does let's begin. The Steelers are picking 21st overall and betting on which position they're going to go with with their first overall player. Wide receiver is even money.

Offensive lineman is plus 150.

Safety is five to one that it goes down beyond that.

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