The South Side Beat – Ep. 266: Hello, Jalen Ramsey!

The South Side Beat – Ep. 266: Hello, Jalen Ramsey!

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Southside Beat here on the DK Pittsburgh Sports Steelers YouTube channel and podcast network. My name is Chris Hallock. Matt Williamson joining me. What’s going on my friend? It’s been a little bit of a quiet week, huh?
How you doing, dude? It’s been a little while. You you you did some vacation. I mean, it’s summer. Sometimes we got to miss a one of these Southside beats. But in the meantime, a little something happened with the Steelers, huh?
Yeah. So, uh, literally less than five minutes after I hit the road to drive back to Pennsylvania.
Oh, really?
From Texas, um, notification came across my phone. Steelers are acquiring Jaylen Ramsay from the Miami Dolphins. Um, definitely was like, “All right, so let me pull into this Waterburger parking lot.” My wife and I swapped places. She got in the driver’s seat. I got in the passenger seat. I got to work. Not much longer after that, we learn that Ma Fitzpatrick is the main piece being sent back to the Dolphins. It’s like, whoa, okay, this is a little bit
a little bit um more crazy than it already was. Then we obviously learned that Johnny Smith was also part of the trade along with a late round pick swap in 2027. So Omar Khan pulls this off, holds on to all of the draft capital next year. Initial reaction to the trade and then it’s been a few days. That was what, Monday? It’s now Thursday.
Um, having a couple of days to chew on it.
Uh, where are you with this? I love MA and I think MA’s gotten a little bit of a bad rap of boy, he’s not the player he was when he got here and blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah. you know, I mean, I think he’s been a little more of a scapegoat than deservedly so because he’s not having an interception every other game, you know, right?
But he has a a pronounced effect on the game no matter what. And he will be missed. But I love the trade. I mean, I I think there’s a couple things about it. the the big picture stuff is going from Minka to Thornhill is so much less and and I think Minka and Ramsay are basically equal players, same tier at least,
than going from Ramsay to Beanie Bishop.
You know what I mean?
The gap there is so much different. And I think a lot of this trade, especially from the Dolphin side, but it, you know, for both sides to tango, is about money. And the Dolphins are really up against it. And I think Omar’s done a tremendous job of being liquid that way of having this money in his back pocket to make these type of deals
as well as future picks. And
the other big trend to me is versatility. I mean, these two players they added do a lot of different things. And Minka’s versatile, too, but they didn’t really use him in a versatile manner. He played a lot of single high, you know, middle of the field close, cover three, and you and I even hinted at this before the trade. I think more cover two, cover four, blitzing.
I hope for more cover four so much.
Me, too. And I think that the tea leaves are telling us that they will be much less static on defense and their offense will be even more unique for better or worse. And uh last note on it is I think there’s a misconception with maybe not our listeners but Steeler nation that man Steelers are really pushing all their chips in to win now. Kind of but not they’re not four. It’s not the Rams going nine years in a row getting rid of the first round picks, you know? I mean, they’re doing it by not put getting rid of any future assets and they still have gobs of cap space this upcoming free a free uh free free agency period, even probably after a Watt deal. Tons the year after and we know about all the picks they have. So, it it hasn’t changed the future at all. It just helps you win now. And yeah, you’re a little bit old, but that’s okay, you know. Well, it’s it’s okay because a lot of this is temporary. I mean, yeah. Like when you look at some of the guys they’re locking up even by doing this. Yeah. Like DK Metaf is How old is he? I mean, he’s not even 30.
He’s under 30. Yeah.
Yeah. So, you’re locking him up. Okay. Well, he’s not even 30 yet, so you’re you’re good. Uh Jaylen Ramsay, yeah, he’s got a few years left on that deal, but he’s also just now 30 and will turn 31 in the se during the season. And by the time that contract’s up, he’s going to be younger than Darius Slay is now.
Right. Okay.
So like I mean he’s got what three more years after this? I think
I think so. Yeah. So
and maybe he’s a safety at that point or you know I mean like Right. Right. So he’ll be the same age that Darius Lelay is by by the time like the same age Darius Lelay is now. He’ll be the same age of that by the time this contract comes to an end.
Okay. So, I I I don’t I don’t think this is going to be uh like those two guys that you’re committing to are it’s not like you’re paying, you know, you’re you’re I mean, I understand everybody’s concerned about TJ Watt and everything about the age and how much you’re going to pay him and everything, but he’s also one of the best defensive players in the league. He’s great though. Yeah. Right.
Yeah. So, uh,
you know, like a couple of the real short-term guys, like if you just look at collective age on the team. Yeah.
Slay, Smallu, Rogers, they’re not going to be around much long. I mean, they might get one year out all those guys, you know,
right? Rogers is like, and he drives that average age up a lot just by being 41 years old.
So,
I remember having this conversation when the Bucks had Brady, it was like, well, if you take the 43y old out of the equation, it’s a lot different, right? cuz they are playing a lot of young guys and they have to continue to draft. Well, of course, that’s that but that’s no different than any other team.
And that’s the that’s the big thing like I see that the the I don’t even like calling them talking heads anymore. I like calling them screaming heads. The national screaming heads on TV. um when you see them there’s there’s one guy right now in particular who’s just constantly talking about the Steelers spend more on defense than anything else and that they’re never going to do they’re never going to be able to do anything until they get their heads out of 1974 and
the stone ages they think you win with defense and it’s like that’s not what they’re doing. They’re they’re spending that much money on that side of the ball right now because they’ve got four rookie four guys on rookie contracts on the offensive line,
right? They just shelled out $150 million to DK Medcafe,
right? And when they draft their franchise quarterback, maybe even as early as next year, that guy’s going to be on rookie contract for four to five years.
Like the Bengals offense was one of the cheapest in the league until they had to pay Chase Higgins left tackle and burrow. You know, it’s it’s not like it’s a philosophical thing is we want to lead the league in defensive spending and be lacking offensive spending. just how it’s going right now.
It’s just hilarious how like everybody everybody thinks that that’s what they’re doing and and they see this and like like listen when you look at where the Steelers biggest holes were
on this roster. Yes. Wide receiver 2 is probably still the biggest one and it was the biggest one before.
Um
you agree though Smith helps that a little bit?
He does. He does help that. I do still think they they need to get a WR2.
Me too. I think there’s another shoe to drop. Yeah. But at least at least now you’ve added another legitimate dangerous pass catcher to the mix that can catch I mean he just proved it last year. Can catch almost 90 passes if he needs to. Right.
He can move the chains for you. And my god he can help you attack the middle of the field. Yeah.
Because now you’ve got two guys. Yes. You got two guys in him and Pat Frymouth who are going to be able to do all the quick game stuff that Aaron Rogers likes to run. All the stick, all the slants, all the quick outs, everything. And then also attack the seams. I mean, dude, man, of all the Jets film I’ve watched, man, he has made some he made some really nice layered throws to tie to to Conklin uh down the seam uh with the Jets. And now I’m only imagining that being Pat Frymouth or now John Smith. So, I I absolutely think that that this is a a I think the Steelers are a better football team. Now, that’s not taking anything away from Ma Fitzpatrick.
No, I I still think very highly of him as a football player and think that he’s probably going to become a really great coach one day as well. Like, I have that much respect for his football IQ and football intelligence. But for what the Steelers needed, they needed more guys who could match cover, who can play man coverage so that they can get back after going, you know, go go back to going after the quarterback. They have that in abundance now. And you’re totally fine with Juan Thornhill being the centerfield guy. Yeah.
Instead of paying that $20 million or so to make a Fitzpatrick to pretty much be that guy instead. That’s kind of where I was going wanted to lead the show with too when you asked just big picture is
Omar’s a cap guy.
I bet it aided him a little to have that much invested in a safety, you know, because finding what Ramsay does is much harder finding what Minka does. Even though both are exceptional what they do, especially if you’re not going to live in single high, you know, ask him to be Ed Reed.
So you can get a starting safety, not Ma Fitzpatrick, in the third round every year. You know what I mean? You can’t get a top corner in the third round ever.
And if Juan Thornnehill isn’t like hampered by a calf injury this time around, he’s a pretty decent player. Like
Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Like everybody wants to think about what he was in Cleveland. It’s like, well, a lot of
his track record is pretty good before that, you know. Right.
Right. And so if he can even be like 80 to 90% of the guy who he was whenever he before he went to Cleveland, this is a pretty dangerous secondary. I mean, just I’m just saying. Just going to put that out there. Um, but, uh, we’re going to take a quick break and and when we come back, we’re going to talk more about this because there are a lot of ways that this impacts the roster. Um, it’s it’s a gigantic trade. It just is. And I do think that the Steelers are a better football team because of it. And we’ll talk more about that right after this.
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Mhm.
How does it all fit? How do you make it work? Um, and one question from from one one guy watching live that kind of goes into this is how does Ramsay compare to Joey Porter Jr.? And the first thing that jumped out to me was they both had an almost exact um forced incompletion percentage according to Pro Football Focus last year.
So I actually I think Ramsey’s was just a little bit little bit better but still in the same ballpark uh similar ballpark as guys like Marlon Humphrey other really good corners in the league.
So um yeah uh how does this all fit Matt? I think there’s still some to be determined there and frankly this is a good problem to have. Um the question I get the most is what two corners will be on the field in when there’s four defensive backs out there.
Yeah.
So my hunch is these are the two options. When there’s four defensive backs, Elliot’s the strong, Ramsay’s the the free,
Slay and Porter are your outside guys. But what I really think will happen is Thornh Thornhill or maybe a safety to be named later. Blackman, Simmons, whatever. We didn’t mention that, but they could add another cheap. Yeah.
Is the free. Elliott’s the strong. And Ramsay and Porter are your outside guys. And Slay is on the bench, but also could get mixed in here and there. You know what I mean? Like with with four defensive backs on the field. And that that sounds like a slight to slay, but somebody’s got to sit. And I think you could sell it to him like this, too. Like, we want to save your wheels. You know, you’re an older guy. Yeah.
Instead of playing 95% of the snaps like most corners do, how about you play 75?
We’re doing the same thing with Cam Hayward. He was
Walder Payton man of the year. It’s not slight at you at all. We just understand your age, load management. We want to win playoff games here. I I I don’t need to beat the crap out of you in second and third week of the season. And I think it’s pretty clear in nickel Ramsay’s your slot and those are two outside guys. And that’s then you might even see more nickel than you did, you know.
Well, and and Damen here watching live says, “Assuming our nickel is our main D, uh, which it is. They are a nickel more than anything else. Uh, the the first two down linemen would be Harmon and Cam.” The answer to that most likely is yes.
Maybe batten over Harman. I mean, Harmon prove that. They’re not going to give him that job, right?
No, but Harmon has been officially named a starter by by uh Carl Dunar.
So, I I am I assume that means in their OI though, but
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. But but still, like I’m curious to see that the first time the Steelers line up with two down linemen in training camp, you bet that’s where I’m looking first. I’m like, “Oh, yeah.
Who who’s who’s next to Cam?” Um,
and Cam might not play as many snaps in that role either. No, it’s true. And and that’s ideally what you want. Yes, you want to have Cam Hayward out there as much as he possibly can because he’s still a very, very great player, but at the same time, you want to keep him healthy. You want to keep him fresh for third downs late in the second quarter, for
crucial downs in the fourth quarter. Yeah. And then obviously for December and January, you want to keep these guys uh fresh. And yes, you can use a similar
rotation type situation when it comes to the defensive backs where Joey Porter and And listen,
of course, injuries are going to be a factor, you know, right?
What if what if Porter misses a game a game here and there? What if Slay misses a game here and there? Or one of, you know, god forbid, one of them knocking on wood for everybody here. What if one of them goes down with a long-term injury? And and somebody probably will. Right.
Right. And so you want to be as protected as possible. And now if that’s the case, it’s not the end of the world. You’re not scrambling to to sign James Pierre off of a off of a practice squad to be like, “All right, well, this is these are the corners we’re rolling with now.” And I think for what the Steelers want to do, and I think the reason why they chose to overly commit to solidifying cornerback and they were even willing to give up Mickey Fitzpatrick to get that is they do want to play more man coverage this year and it’s very very clear.
That Yeah.
Yeah. They did not Mike Tomlin did not trust his team in man coverage last year.
He just did. We’ve had this conversation and on my podcast I’ve been one of my huge offseason goals is you can’t be middle of the road in sacks and
they’re good with pressure. They deflect more passes at the line of scrimmage than anyone. They force more fumbles than anyone. They cause a ton of turn turnovers. But it’s kind of your god-given right around here and especially with that group to be leading the league in sacks. And not because
Watt isn’t good or CM’s over the hill. It’s because of coverage. You mean they quarterback to pat the ball one more time, you know, three times a game and have the ability to blitz a little bit more and mix it up. And I I think all these moves really indicate that they understand that. There’s another another part of this that I I really really like and and and this is something that and this is not a slight against Darius Slay whatsoever because I still think he is a very very good quarterback and I think I think Steelers fans are going to learn that this year. This is a Patrick Peterson in the Pit took the words right out of my mouth. This is not Pat P 2.0.
Um but I’m thinking of situations in which it’s third and two, third and three. Mhm.
And they want to load up and try to look like the Dick Leau zone blitz defenses where they just have all these guys standing around the line of scrimmage. And you don’t know if they’re rushing seven or if they’re rushing three.
Mhm. But if they are going to rush seven, they can jam one receiver on one side with Joey Porter Jr. and they can jam the the receiver on the other side with Jaylen Ramsay. Because as good as Darius Slay is, press man is not his game.
Not really. No. and not
you know right
it’s just but but it’s not really his game is more off the ball read and react
even in man coverage like he is more of a let me see what you’re doing first and then I’m still quick enough with both my body and more my mind and my eyes to be able to then jump on a ball or do whatever and he still does that at a very very very high level but there are times in which you need
your corners to get right up in receivers faces and jam them at the line of scrimmage. If they’re trying to if it’s third and two or third and three and they’re just trying to hit that quick slant, it’s like, no, we’re not going to let you do that and we’re going to make you hold on to the ball for just a half second more. And that half second is all we need for six or seven guys to get to the quarterback.
And along those lines, too, and this probably doesn’t shock anyone, and I know Beanie Bishop’s kind of popular. He made some big plays, but their numbers versus slot receivers were flatout awful. I mean, slot receivers ripped this team apart.
Yeah. And the passing games that had the most success were Momes. Rogers was this way against them. Like the ball came out really, really quick. Yes.
Now over the course of the year, their time to throw against wasn’t ridiculously quick.
But against the big time quarterbacks late in the year, the ball came out really quick.
It nullified the pass rush a lot. And where I’m going with this is if I have to swap out Minka who plays far away from the line of scrimmage
late in the down stuff is when he affects things for a player that is going to influence things early in the down. Well, I think that’s part of the move too, you know. Yeah. Uh, black and gold goggles here says, “We never pressed last year. Our corners were always lined up five yards off the ball.” It’s actually not entirely true because Joey Porter Jr. does press a lot.
A lot. Jackson, especially that’s Jackson was a problem, folks.
So, so here’s here’s what the Steelers would do a lot, especially when they were in Now, when they were in cover one, Jackson would almost pseudo press up against, but he’d still kind of line up maybe three or four yards off the line of scrimmage just so he’d had that extra cushion. Porter would be as close as he possibly could be to the receiver. He would be flirting. not a Porter problem for
No, it is not. Um, but
long arms and right
even whenever the Steelers were in cover three, which is obviously zone and both corners, both Porter and Jackson were responsible for their for the deep third,
Porter would still line up really close to the receiver.
He would just at the last second kind of turn and then he would just start running back
to make sure that he could go get the deep third if he needed to. Um, but that’s kind of how they kind of disguise between cover one and cover three. And now you can do so much more. Now you can line up. You can do palms with with cover four. You can do match quarters. You can go straight up cover one if you want. You can go cover two man, which there’s not a lot of cover two man in the league nowadays. But you can you can the playbook doesn’t have to be so much. Somebody said it earlier. Uh the playbook doesn’t have to be just drop cover three all the time. Right.
Right. Right. Right.
And that
and Ramsay’s a good blitzer. I think Wilson and Queen are good pass rushers and you didn’t use those skills a lot, you know,
when you were leading the league in sacks a lot. It’s a small thing, but Vince Williams and Hilton would combine for nine sacks, you know. You didn’t get any of that kind of stuff last year, you know.
Yeah. Justin here said it earlier. He said, “Glad to catch you guys live as always. would love to see some more match concepts. Spot spot drop three is antiquated. It is
no doubt.
Yeah, it’s and you can blame the coaching staff, but you also have to look at the players, too. You know,
Dante Jackson’s not a press man corner.
Right. Right. Right.
Yeah. If you try to do that, like you people would have had a much much different He wouldn’t have had five interceptions last year. I’ll put it that way. if he played a lot of press man. A lot of a lot of the reason why he had interceptions because he was in the right place at the right time because he’s a good zone guy. He he is uh just not a press guy. Um Billy asked a good question here because the the domino effect of this is curious.
Billy asked what’s up with Eckles? Uh obviously how does Brandon Eckles play factor into this now? How does Beanie Bishop factor into this? Cory Trace Jr. or James Pierre. There’s only so many spots on the roster for corners
and I don’t think they keep any more than six.
I would think six max. Yeah.
So like uh
like I did a mailbag today and someone asked me I think Cory T is the biggest benefactor of this because he gets to learn from these guys. I’m like he might not have a spot on the team. I mean maybe he does but I mean like I don’t know that Bishop makes a team or you know or practice squad or whatever. I mean, everyone just falls down the rung and instead of relying on Eckles to be your slot or third corner, now he’s your fourth. It’s exactly what you want and especially at that position that’s hard to find.
Frankly, I don’t worry about any of those things. I mean, it it’s a good problem to have. Eckle’s also a special team value as you know and that so and this is kind of what I wanted to get into with this in terms of the bigger picture and you you got into this uh in the first segment but I I definitely wanted to dive a little bit more into it and that’s because the NFL and and football in general is going to you’re starting to see a lot more cover four and a lot of people like who don’t understand the X’s and O’s just will think okay cover four means you have four deep and That’s a very deep coverage concept. Well, not
don’t they run all over you? I always get that question. Don’t they have like super light boxes? No, cuz the safeties are very aggressive downhill players. Right. Exactly. Especially if they’re if the if first off, if there’s not a number two eligible on one side of of the formation, that side safety pretty much is already dropping down. just
kind of think like Cam Chancellor, you know, like a traditional strong safety position in that those instances. Yeah.
And so you already have extra run support there for whatever guys you have up front.
And then I mean with cover four, you can have as many as nine defending the run the moment the ball is handed off to the running back.
If the two safeties both crash down, you can have nine defending the run. Then it’s it’s also a the best way I can describe it is that it is a zone coverage with man principles. So you can line your corners up five yards off the line of scrimmage and they can still be responsible for a deep quarter. You can have your safeties lined up a little closer to the line of scrimmage if you wanted to, but still have to be responsible for their deep quarter. Um it just depends on what all the eligibles are doing on each side of the of the formation. So it is I And and you said it earlier, there’s just so many more things they can do than what they did last year. And I’ll be very critical of them if they don’t. I assume that’s the plan. You know, I think you and I are pretty well educated on this stuff.
And an art to doing our job is reading the tea leaves of what they’re not telling us.
I I think their moves really imply that changes in coverage has to come
for us to maximize the Watts and Highmiths of the world as pass rushers, too. And along those lines, with the exception now of safety, they have just great depth at every defensive position. You know, like
right,
Sawyer’s a lot different than Herbig. Hulkcom’s in the mix. We talked about all the corners. Dline might be the deepest position on the team.
So, let let me let me put this in a historical context for everybody just at the safety because right now the the concern is, well, how do you replace Ma Fitzpatrick? Okay, let’s put it this way. the
ask the guy to do different things,
right? Okay. Well, okay. So, the 2005 Steelers defense, the two starting safeties on that team were Troy Palamalu, obviously phenomenal.
Sure. You like that?
All great. All time great. The other guy, do you remember who it was?
No, I’m really bad. Like, if you say 2005, I I I can’t think of like starters off the top of my head. I need I my brain works weird weird that way. So, it was Chris Hope.
Oh, okay. Yeah, that was the other safety.
Fine player. Yeah, he was good. Third round pick out of Florida State, you know, right?
Fine player. Not anything overly special. Not a bad player at all. You could live with a guy being pretty decent.
Yeah.
If Juan Thornhill is pretty decent, nothing special,
nothing amazing, doesn’t get, you know, obviously burned a whole bunch, but you have Joey Porter Jr. and Darius Slay and Jaylen Ramsay and all these guys that can just lock down in man coverage. You will take that. You’re not weak at safety at that point. Like because you don’t really need to be over I would rather have
a star there is great but I can live with two adequate players,
right?
You know, especially if the pass rush is great and the and the and the corners are great. There’s a reason those things are
more coveted. Yeah. And here’s one thing I’ve been saying on the drive with Dale is think about like the 15 defensive players that’ll play the most snaps. You know, we’re going to include an extra D lineman, Herig, Slay, you know, if Thornhill’s the 15th best of that group, I don’t care. That’s fine. You know what I mean? I mean, Beanie Bishop was that guy. You know what I mean? Like
the guys that are out there a lot, if Thornhill is your weakest link, it’s a lot better than it was last year. Oh my gosh, it’s so much better.
Yeah,
seriously. Like
I don’t I’m not even implying he’s a weak link. I mean, if that’s just your the guy they want to try to go after, it’s not as easy said and done either
because the because before the trade, your weakest link was like in your nickel defense, which again, we’ll go to the defense the Steelers are in most often. Your weakest link was Beanie Bishop and it was a pretty significant gap between finding the next guy who would be the weakest link.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now it’s Juan Thornhill most likely and it’s not that bad of a drop off. And
he’s a harder guy to attack. I can attack the slot corner like crazy. I mean, if I’m attacking a safety downfield, it’s going to take longer to do it and it’s harder to pull off and I can help him easier. Yeah.
Yeah. It’s it’s a lot easier to protect um a center field free safety in cover one or cover three than it is to uh pretty much have to tailor your entire coverage schemes around corners that cannot do certain things like they had to do last year or they’ve had to do in pretty much so many previous years because even after they drafted Joey Porter Jr., you’re not trusting Levi Wallace to do that. You’re not trusting Dante Jackson to do that. right now.
Jackson was a weak link, too. Yeah. So, that’s what I’m saying. Like, corners corners will
having corners that can man cover pretty much do almost everything solves a lot of issues for your defense. And if you’re better in coverage, you’re going to get more sacks even if you don’t blitz more.
Right. Right. 100%. And if you can mix in blitzes, great. I mean, if TJ can not get doubled and tripled every time, great. You know, um I mentioned it earlier in the show. These are their numbers against slot receivers.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Bring it up. Yeah.
14.4 yards per catch.
H
last in the NFL. Yeah, that’s not surprising.
52% of their passing yards allowed were the slots, as were 10 of the 23 passing touchdowns they allowed.
Yeah.
So, at least they recognize it. You know what I mean? I mean,
they’re not going to just roll out undrafted free agent slot guys anymore, you know? And the and the one the one good thing that I I wanted to like the other the main takeaway I I had and this was like in the moment when the trade happened was you cannot say that they that this team does not have any kind of sense of urgency about making changes after last year.
And I hate that the people what’s the plan? I don’t understand the plan. Well that’s your fault. I mean the plan’s very obvious to me for short term and long term.
Yeah. and they’re trying to walk that fence of both which is hard to do but I really like their I really like their you know what they’ve done
he made this tra Omar who by the way news of the day we haven’t even mentioned that Omar Khan got a contract extension he he made that trade without getting rid of any of his draft capital in 2026 that’s what I mean and the other okay you lost your fifth round pick two years from now well you’ll trade a sixth next year and get that fifth back during in the draft. You know what I mean? Like you don’t even know.
It’s a It’s a day three pick. It’s not even the best of the day three picks. It’s you’ll you’ll gladly take that. And even if you do And now the thing is like you still have 12 picks lined up for next year. You
But you’re not going to use them all, by the way.
No, you’re not going to use them all. You can still trade one of them to go get your WR2 during training camp or or sometime in August.
Get that guy. Dude, it’s
they’re set up so well. I mean, the fact that people don’t think they have vision or plan is makes me insane. Maybe it’s not as easy to see for Joe Blow, but I think we do a good job of laying it out cuz
Yeah.
And they’re going to draft the quarterback the first round next year.
Probably. Most
probably. Most most likely. That That’s what That’s what I’m guessing. But anyway, we’ll uh we’ll go ahead and wrap this up. This is a fun one. Uh we’ll definitely get more into uh the I mean, shoot, man. We got less than three weeks of training camp already.
I know. It’s crazy.
Crazy. It’s crazy how fast this is flying, but uh it also helps when you go on vacation for 10 days. So, uh we’ll be back next week. Uh definitely talk about more, you know, whether it’s another trade that happens or maybe we’ll just dive more into this stuff, man. What is this defense going to look like? You know, are they going to blitz more? You know, who knows?
We didn’t talk about John Smith all that much. We’ll talk about more.
We didn’t even talk about John Smith almost at all, but yeah, that’d be curious. Yeah, let’s go to Johnny Smith. Johnny Smith next week. So,
uh, yeah, appreciate you guys checking in, listening in. We’ll see you next week. Catch you on the flippity flip.

In this episode of The South Side Beat, Chris Halicke and Matt Williamson react to the trade between the Steelers and Dolphins that brought Jalen Ramsey and Jonnu Smith to Pittsburgh.

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