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Chris Hallick, Matt Williamson, now post-NFLF, all the work that we did, Matt.

It has come to a head.

The Steelers made their picks.

Initial reaction to everything.

Not real surprising. I mean, I think it's pretty clear.

You mean they didn't take Shudor Sanders?

That didn't shock you. That's where I was going with that. I think it's pretty clear that

Aaron Rogers will be in town shortly, you know, and they

pretty much told us that. I think that they more or less learn from their mistake of a couple

years ago as opposed to taking a good, not great prospect that you don't love in round one,

but you just like a lot because he's a quarterback and you just wait and you let

the quarterbacks come to you. You end up with Will Howard in the six, which I think is great

value. Oh, phenomenal value. Yeah, 100%. And I found it interesting that so many of the

the guys that cover the whole league, you know, the Schefters, the DJs, and I mean, the guys that they have a pulse on all 32 teams really thought the Steelers were going quarterback, Darch, Sanders, whatever. Yeah. But all of us that are at the facility a lot, and the local guys are saying, that's going to be the line. Yeah. So if I can just kind of peel the curtain back a little bit,

at the Senior Bowl, it was immediate, like immediately new,

just from watching Mike Tomlin and Tara Austin observing practices.

They were glued to the defensive line, to the defensive tackles.

They didn't, I mean, I don't think,

Tara Lawson definitely didn't look at any other position.

And Mike Tomlin, any time that he spent with Arthur Smith or somebody else was,

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