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Speaker 1: dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith, and we
Speaker 1: are very glad to have you with us on this Saturday.
Speaker 1: As the draft has wound up and the Titans have
Speaker 1: six new players added to the roster. Amy and I
Speaker 1: are pleased to be joined right now by the head
Speaker 1: coach of U T. Martin, the longtime head coach, I
Speaker 1: should say, Jason Simpson and coach. At pick number two,
Speaker 1: twenty eight, the Tennessee Titans select Skyhawks wide receiver Colton Dowe.
Speaker 1: What are they getting in young mister Dowell.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. We are so excited for.
Speaker 3: Colton, a young man we recruited out of Wilson Central
Speaker 3: High School there I side of Nashville, uh six years ago,
Speaker 3: you know, graduated from UT Martin over a year and
Speaker 3: a half ago, could have left and today's time and
Speaker 3: going to the you know ncaa transfer portal. You know,
Speaker 3: was committed to UT Martin and loyal to the program,
Speaker 3: and you know had over a thousand yard receiver this year,
Speaker 3: you know, ran great numbers in his testing date. But
Speaker 3: more importantly, the type of person that he is, the
Speaker 3: type of family comes from and been the head coach
Speaker 3: here going eighteen years, Mike, But I don't know if
Speaker 3: I've had a you know, a better person and teammate.
Speaker 4: Than Colton now coaching your time watching Colton throughout his
Speaker 4: career at UT Martin, was there a time or a
Speaker 4: moment where you realize this kid's got potential to take
Speaker 4: his game to the next level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of those moments, guys, There
Speaker 3: really was from the standpoint of, you know, everybody that
Speaker 3: we played and you're talking about a guy that's almost
Speaker 3: sixty three, that's two hundred and ten plus pounds, and
Speaker 3: it didn't matter, you know, in the OVC. You know,
Speaker 3: he ran past everybody, and it didn't matter if we
Speaker 3: were playing Knoxville, Boise State, uh, you know, Florida, whoever
Speaker 3: we played, you know, And so for his opponents that
Speaker 3: we've you know that we played throughout the years, he
Speaker 3: was always running past corners and so extremely great body, uh,
Speaker 3: physical receiver and tremendous outside speed.
Speaker 1: Jason. When you talk about his speed, what are we
Speaker 1: exactly talking about time wise.
Speaker 3: I believe in his pro day it was four four three,
Speaker 3: you know, with uh four four three forty one and
Speaker 3: a half, it's vertical.
Speaker 2: What do you do then? Uh two twenty five.
Speaker 3: I think he did twenty three twenty four times forty
Speaker 3: and a half vertical.
Speaker 2: Like I said, eleven to one broad jump.
Speaker 3: So, you know, tremendous athletic, but with a you know,
Speaker 3: big strong, durable body.
Speaker 1: Were you surprise he was not invited to the combine?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: You know, he was hurt a little bit last year
Speaker 3: in twenty one. I think he went down our fifth game,
Speaker 3: you know, and had to miss the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: So you know, we knew how good he was, and
Speaker 3: you know he only played five games, made a whole conference,
Speaker 3: you know, in our league.
Speaker 2: So a little bit.
Speaker 3: He's certainly, you know, based on his numbers and stuff,
Speaker 3: I knew he would he would certainly represent himself well
Speaker 3: if he got that invite, but he didn't.
Speaker 5: And he's the kind of kid. He's very low maintenance.
Speaker 3: He's very great humility about himself and he'll put his
Speaker 3: head down and go to work.
Speaker 4: Now, coach, you've talked a lot about him and his
Speaker 4: attributes on the field. I want to talk about him
Speaker 4: off the field because you keep saying this couldn't have
Speaker 4: happened to a better guy. He's he's a great kid
Speaker 4: to work with. What is it about him that makes
Speaker 4: him such a good guy.
Speaker 3: He's a great teammate. He's a great friend to his teammates.
Speaker 3: You know, last weekend, I spent the weekend with him.
Speaker 3: He was in Tuscaloosa with our quarterback dresser dresser Win
Speaker 3: and there to see my son Ty at his spring game. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, down in Tuscalooso. So he's just a very
Speaker 3: loyal you know, there to support others. I remember Mike
Speaker 3: McIntire son was our receiver coach uh in twenty season,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one season, and I think just about every
Speaker 3: morning seven am, Colton was in the building with Jay McIntyre,
Speaker 3: you know, having a Bible study. So he's very grounded
Speaker 3: in his face and like I said, just gave our
Speaker 3: guidance in our locker room for anybody that was struggling
Speaker 3: or needed you know, needed a friend. Him and his
Speaker 3: family or just just just great you know, just great
Speaker 3: people and very grounded.
Speaker 1: This is Jason Simpson, the head coach at U. T.
Speaker 1: Martin talking about Colton dal the Titans seventh round pick
Speaker 1: wide receiver out of U. T. Martin, a couple of
Speaker 1: football questions to wrap up coach Simpson. Number one, where
Speaker 1: does he play most comfortably in terms of lining up
Speaker 1: on the field?
Speaker 3: You know, I had a lot of NFL scouts call
Speaker 3: me and you know, different people have you know, had
Speaker 3: those opinions. You know, early in his career here he
Speaker 3: played inside some from the standpoint of of we have
Speaker 3: some other good receivers that are playing in the NFL now,
Speaker 3: one with Pittsburgh Steelers and one.
Speaker 2: With the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: So early in his career he played some inside and.
Speaker 2: Was able to work on safeties. But the last couple
Speaker 2: of years, Mike, you know, he's been an outside guy.
Speaker 3: Running vertical is running post, you know, running shat of crosses.
Speaker 2: You know, to me, that's that's what he's really good at.
Speaker 1: Special teams attributes. Where could he help the Titans in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three on special teams?
Speaker 5: Well, like I said, he's very willing and with a
Speaker 5: really good body.
Speaker 3: Like I said, he's he's big as you know some uh,
Speaker 3: bigger than most safeties and you know, probably the size
Speaker 3: of some linebackers that you know, two fifteen or so
Speaker 3: whatever he's weigh in. But you know, I could see
Speaker 3: him on punt team.
Speaker 2: I can see him on you know, kickoff return, on
Speaker 2: punt return. Very willing, long arms and like I said,
Speaker 2: you know, just a great physical body.
Speaker 1: Jason Simpson, the longtime successful head football coach at U T. Martin,
Speaker 1: Another big moment for you and the Skyhawks today as
Speaker 1: the Titans draft one of your guys, Colton Dow. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the time on the OTP.
Speaker 3: Hey appreciate that. A matter of fact, one of our
Speaker 3: coaches is now in your staff. That's right, Matt Jones.
Speaker 5: So you know we we've always been Titan fans.
Speaker 2: Here in the stay of Tennessee. So now we got
Speaker 2: a chance to pull even harder for him.
Speaker 1: Thanks very much, coach. We appreciate you. Thank you guys,
Speaker 1: all right, Jason Simpson obviously excited about Colton Dowe six three,
Speaker 1: two fifteen out of Lebanon this year. Sixty seven catches
Speaker 1: for one thousand and thirty six yards and six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his career, one hundred and seventy seven catches for
Speaker 1: nearly twenty eight hundred yards average, nearly sixteen yards of catch,
Speaker 1: and nineteen touchdowns. So he's got speed. I mean, you
Speaker 1: hear what coach Simpson was saying, and the Titans were
Speaker 1: certainly looking for a big bodied guy with speed local day.
Speaker 1: He was here, and they they didn't exactly make him available.
Speaker 4: Uh No, you didn't hear much about much about the
Speaker 4: fact that he was here.
Speaker 6: He was kind of hmmm. I mean, they didn't talk
Speaker 6: about it much.
Speaker 1: So let's wrap up Day three. Moving backwards, the Titans
Speaker 1: drafted three players on Saturday. We mentioned Colton Dale wide
Speaker 1: receiver Ut Martin at number two twenty eight. They go
Speaker 1: with an offensive lineman, Jalen Duncan at one eighty six.
Speaker 1: Jalen Duncan has primarily been a left tackle at Maryland.
Speaker 1: Many thought he would go earlier in this draft. There
Speaker 1: were some who thought he could be a third round pick.
Speaker 1: He was projected by most a fourth or fifth round pick.
Speaker 1: He goes early in the sixth to the Titans. Excellent
Speaker 1: size nearly six to six three oh six, some questions
Speaker 1: about his consistency, too many penalties in his career, but
Speaker 1: an incredible physical talent and a guy that the Titans
Speaker 1: are going to be excited to see if they can
Speaker 1: get into the rotation.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean we're talking depth, depth, depth at that position just.
Speaker 6: All off season.
Speaker 4: That's what we've been talking about, and being able to
Speaker 4: bring someone in with an incredibly high ceiling, someone that
Speaker 4: you can really coach up and mold into what the
Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans need him to be. I think is a
Speaker 4: great choice.
Speaker 1: And then Josh Wiley was the first pick of the
Speaker 1: day in the fifth round at number one forty seven.
Speaker 1: Josh Wiley is nearly six ' seven, roughly two hundred
Speaker 1: forty five two hundred and fifty pounds out of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: really really good athlete who caught eighty eight passes in
Speaker 1: his career eighty six over the last three years to
Speaker 1: be exact, and fifteen touchdowns, so he knows how to
Speaker 1: get in the end zone. And playing for Luke Fikel,
Speaker 1: he's had to block The Titans knowing that there was
Speaker 1: X depth in this tight end class, understanding that they
Speaker 1: would be in a position to get a guy on
Speaker 1: Day three, they choose to do it, and the guy
Speaker 1: that they select is Josh Wiley. It's spelled w h
Speaker 1: y l E. But it is pronounced wiley.
Speaker 4: Oh that's good, Mike. You always come through with the pronunciation.
Speaker 1: Well we try, yeah, we try.
Speaker 6: That's what we do here on the OTP, of.
Speaker 1: Course on day one. Peter Skronsky uh in here and
Speaker 1: Scarronsky is a big offensive lineman. And as I have
Speaker 1: described him through the interview that I did with him yesterday,
Speaker 1: he's an offensive lineman.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm through and through.
Speaker 1: He acts like an offensive lineman. He walks like an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, he talks like an offensive lineman. He's got
Speaker 1: the mentality of he And again I'm being a bit repetitive,
Speaker 1: but I know everybody hasn't had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: everything we've done this weekend on Titans Radio.
Speaker 5: He is.
Speaker 1: Very in interested in just being below the surface. He
Speaker 1: was very courteous to me. He gave a good interview.
Speaker 1: If you heard the OTP last night, you know it.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't all about me. It was I mean,
Speaker 1: so you just got the sense this is a guy
Speaker 1: who's going to be ready to come to work, understanding
Speaker 1: his role and understanding the job.
Speaker 4: He is a tried and true offensive lineman. He is
Speaker 4: when you think about him, and you think about some
Speaker 4: of the great offensive linemen that have been with the
Speaker 4: Tennessee Titans for the most part, that's what you think
Speaker 4: about it. That's exactly right, guys who were just here
Speaker 4: kind of running below the radar, doing their jobs, getting
Speaker 4: it done, being consistent, contributing to this team. But you
Speaker 4: didn't hear a whole lot from him. That is an
Speaker 4: offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: That's an offensive lineman, and that's exactly who this guy is.
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about what's going on with the Titans
Speaker 1: draft picks as we review on this edition of the OTP,
Speaker 1: But I remind you who is it time for a
Speaker 1: dunk and run Titans fan?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it the coffee, the one dollar classic donut, the
Speaker 1: two dollars stuffed bagel mini, or the three dollars sausage,
Speaker 1: egg and cheese that you can add to that coffee,
Speaker 1: or the fact that you can actually leave the office.
Speaker 1: But see, if you'd left the office today, you'd have missed.
Speaker 2: A draft pick.
Speaker 6: Now, put on the radio, turn on something.
Speaker 1: There you go, Rett Bryan on Titans Radio. Yep, the answer,
Speaker 1: of course is yes, it's always time for a dunk
Speaker 1: and run. Great deals on food for one two or
Speaker 1: three dollars with a medium or larger coffee. And as
Speaker 1: we always like to say, America runs on Duncan. The
Speaker 1: Titans will be running some on TAIJ spears. TAIJ spears,
Speaker 1: thank you. A little over five to ten, a little
Speaker 1: over two hundred pounds. A guy that had a knee
Speaker 1: problem in high school in Ponta Lucha, Louisiana and injured
Speaker 1: a knee there. He gets to college, he has another
Speaker 1: knee injury. It was no secret we certainly discussed during
Speaker 1: our time at the Senior Bowl because he was one
Speaker 1: of the standouts at the Senior Bowl. Seeing him play
Speaker 1: against some of the best players in the country with
Speaker 1: an offensive line that he had never worked with before.
Speaker 1: He was one maybe the most dynamic player we saw
Speaker 1: in mobile at the Senior Bowl. He can catch it,
Speaker 1: he can run it, he takes contact, he can make
Speaker 1: people miss. I mean, he is a really really special player,
Speaker 1: which is why the Titans took him at number eighty
Speaker 1: one and many say, well, a running back, why I
Speaker 1: this running back is somebody that you say for a
Speaker 1: third round pick and a late third round pick, mid
Speaker 1: to late he is a very dynamic player that is
Speaker 1: going to help you score touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you find a way to use a player like that,
Speaker 4: You find a ways to add him into what you're
Speaker 4: trying to do. He does something that is so different
Speaker 4: from what the Titans currently have that you find ways
Speaker 4: to make that work. You want that guy on your
Speaker 4: football team just because having that person with that skill
Speaker 4: set makes your football team better.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And so these are the stories
Speaker 1: of the weekend to this point again, Peter Skoronsky offensive
Speaker 1: lineman at number eleven, Will Levis quarterback at number thirty three,
Speaker 1: Taj Spears running back at number eighty one, Josh Wiley
Speaker 1: tight end at number one forty seven, Jalen Duncan offensive
Speaker 1: tackle at one eighty six, Colton Dow wide receiver at
Speaker 1: two twenty eight. That is the Titans draft class for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The story of the weekend, though, remains
Speaker 1: Will Levis. And when the Titans picked Will Levis last night,
Speaker 1: everything went crazy.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh yes, everything crazy across not just in Nashville,
Speaker 4: not just amongst Titans fans, but the whole league has
Speaker 4: been talking about this.
Speaker 6: This has not been a small moment in time.
Speaker 4: This has been a major point of conversation, and so
Speaker 4: Mike I say, we also converse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about it because I think
Speaker 1: as there's there's been a disconnect between what the ratings
Speaker 1: are in terms of a lot of the national guys
Speaker 1: think this was absolutely one of the steals of the draft.
Speaker 1: You can pick up a lot of articles by some
Speaker 1: of the best people in the business and they're saying,
Speaker 1: it's an A it's it's an A minus, it's a
Speaker 1: I mean to get this player a quarterback with you know,
Speaker 1: six four, two thirty, all kinds of athleticism, we know
Speaker 1: about the arm. To get him at thirty three, you
Speaker 1: essentially gave up a move back in the third round
Speaker 1: of nine spots, and then you gave up a third
Speaker 1: round pick next year. If this works and if he
Speaker 1: ends up being your starting quarterback and he ends up
Speaker 1: being successful, then you got him at a tremendous rate
Speaker 1: in terms of salary cap for the first part of
Speaker 1: his career for a second and a third round pick.
Speaker 1: There are some people who aren't crazy about this pick, though,
Speaker 1: and some of the national pundits are chiding those people.
Speaker 1: They're saying, how can these fans not absolutely love it?
Speaker 1: And there's a bit more to it, and I think
Speaker 1: the context is important. I don't know that any of
Speaker 1: the national pundits will listen to the OTP, and I
Speaker 1: know there are some of you literally around the world
Speaker 1: who are wondering why there is such a hubbub. He
Speaker 1: has been a lightning rod to start with. Correct in
Speaker 1: the whole.
Speaker 4: Thing, yes, from the beginning.
Speaker 1: And the whole draft process. But here he has been
Speaker 1: a lightning ride. Because we're inn sec country, yeah, and
Speaker 1: in particular we're in Kentucky Tennessee territory. Yes, and we
Speaker 1: have a lot of fans, a lot of Titans fans
Speaker 1: in the Bluegrass. Obviously the majority are in Tennessee, but
Speaker 1: probably have a few more in the Bluegrass now, so
Speaker 1: we are innately connected with both states in a different way.
Speaker 1: I think you have to start. Mark Stoops has done
Speaker 1: a very good job as the head coach of Kentucky.
Speaker 1: They are more successful, more consistently than quite possibly anytime
Speaker 1: in Wildcat history. They've had good teams over the years,
Speaker 1: but they've rarely been this solid and able to compete
Speaker 1: this consistently.
Speaker 6: I agree with that.
Speaker 1: So Wildcat fans are fired up about this. They should be.
Speaker 1: They get to talk a little smack, they get to
Speaker 1: join in. You know, they've won some big games in
Speaker 1: the SEC, so they've gotten to enjoy it. And in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one it was a high water mark. They
Speaker 1: start six and oh they end up winning ten games.
Speaker 1: It's a really, really good season for the Wildcats. Their
Speaker 1: quarterback is the transfer from Penn State, Will Levis. He
Speaker 1: played well, not necessarily over the top statistically phenomenal, but
Speaker 1: he played well, but well. He's still through thirteen interceptions,
Speaker 1: but amy he accounted for thirty three touchdowns in a
Speaker 1: ten win season, and they have not really had a
Speaker 1: quarterback that got them this excited since Tim Couch, who
Speaker 1: was a native of the state of Kentucky and is
Speaker 1: a legend in that state and always will be. So
Speaker 1: they fell in love with Will Levis in the Bluegrass.
Speaker 1: The fans were gushing, the media was gushing, and that
Speaker 1: he's returning for twenty twenty two. So then everybody starts
Speaker 1: the gushing to a point that you would say, did
Speaker 1: they go overboard? Well, that's subject debate. The other thirteen
Speaker 1: SEC schools would say they did, and the ones that
Speaker 1: would be sort of most offended by all that gushing
Speaker 1: would be the Tennessee fans. Now here's what you need
Speaker 1: to understand about this if you don't know the backstory.
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans hate it when Tennessee fans brag about volunteer basketball.
Speaker 1: They hate it. Kentucky has massive tradition in basketball. They
Speaker 1: are one of the blue bloods for sure. They think
Speaker 1: Tennessee basketball is fraudulent. They're complete pretenders. You know. They
Speaker 1: dismissed Tennessee basketball with the wave of a hand. Now
Speaker 1: the flip of that is Tennessee football fans hate it
Speaker 1: when Kentucky gloats about their own football success, like what
Speaker 1: has happened in recent years. They see UK football as
Speaker 1: completely beneath them, like Miles beneath them. They don't want
Speaker 1: to hear it. So they have this tie in. Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans do not want to hear about Tennessee basketball. Tennessee
Speaker 1: fans do not want to hear about Kentucky football. Right now,
Speaker 1: the two sides will actually agree on that. That may
Speaker 1: be the only thing they will agree on, but that
Speaker 1: is something. So let's go back to last spring and summer.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to twenty twenty two. Kentucky's coming off
Speaker 1: the ten win season. Will Levis is the darling of
Speaker 1: the state of Kentucky. He's doing TV commercials, he's got
Speaker 1: nil deals. Many think he's a serious Heisman candidate. UK
Speaker 1: is hyping him in every way they can, almost as
Speaker 1: if he's a Peyton Manning type figure. I know, and
Speaker 1: a lot I know, but they're hyping the program in
Speaker 1: the because Mark Stoops has them in a place where
Speaker 1: they've never been before. This this is a moment where
Speaker 1: they're thinking, we're on the threshold.
Speaker 6: You've got to take advantage of the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tennessee fans don't like that so much. No, No,
Speaker 1: other SEC fans don't too, but the Tennessee fans are
Speaker 1: are really not amused by all this. It continues into
Speaker 1: October of twenty twenty two. Kentucky gets off to a
Speaker 1: four and oh start. They go to number seven in
Speaker 1: the country. It looks like it's going to be another
Speaker 1: year like twenty twenty one, But then the wheels start
Speaker 1: to fall off the wagon. Kentucky loses a couple of games,
Speaker 1: will Levis does not play well. Finally, they come to
Speaker 1: Knoxville for the rematch of the twenty twenty one game,
Speaker 1: which Tennessee won in Lexington forty five to forty two,
Speaker 1: much to the delight of all fans. Even though Kentucky
Speaker 1: had the great ten and three season, they didn't beat Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and so Tennessee fans loved that well. Tennessee never let
Speaker 1: him get off the bus. They tortured will Levis. He
Speaker 1: did not play well. The final score was forty four
Speaker 1: to six. It was not a close game. The score
Speaker 1: was very indicative of the game. The Wildcats see all
Speaker 1: that hype that's been out there. It doesn't age well.
Speaker 1: You know it never it happens to all of us.
Speaker 1: Happens to all of us in sports. When you hype
Speaker 1: something and it doesn't work out, it doesn't age well,
Speaker 1: and so your opponents are only thrilled to remind you.
Speaker 1: And that's the nature of sports. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: fun of sports too. Yeah, but not great if you're
Speaker 1: the team having to take it.
Speaker 6: What happens.
Speaker 1: Will Levis doesn't play as well as he did in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. He did, and opposing fans are quick
Speaker 1: to remind Kentucky fans of that over and over again.
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans are right at the top of that list.
Speaker 1: But remember, folks, this isn't new. Tennessee and Kentucky have
Speaker 1: been doing this to one another for one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty years. I mean, so this so this is a thing.
Speaker 1: So the draft process starts and Will Levis has a
Speaker 1: few missteps on social media. Hendon Hooker, Tennessee's quarterback, has
Speaker 1: no missteps on social media. But because of his ACL surgery,
Speaker 1: he can't throw. So Levis among the between the two
Speaker 1: of them, gets way more attention, and people are talking
Speaker 1: about him being a potential top five pick, and they're gushing.
Speaker 1: Hooker is being mentioned as a player who could sneak
Speaker 1: into the first round. That doesn't make sense to some people,
Speaker 1: because Hooker beat Levis twice, he has better stats, there's
Speaker 1: zero questions about his personality or what's going on in
Speaker 1: his life whatever, So they think this is the way
Speaker 1: this is going to go. And then Will Levis doesn't
Speaker 1: go in the first round Thursday night. Many Tennessee fans
Speaker 1: at that point believe that Hooker could be taken ahead
Speaker 1: of him on Night two. So when the Titans trade
Speaker 1: up to thirty three, many are convinced that the pick's
Speaker 1: going to be Hendon Hooker. The Titans take Will Levis.
Speaker 1: To some, it's the Kentucky hero over the Tennessee hero.
Speaker 1: Hooker goes thirty five picks later to Detroit. So the
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans aren't just angry because Levis went to Kentucky.
Speaker 1: They believe with every fiber in their being that Hooker
Speaker 1: will be the better pro quarterback than Will Levis. To
Speaker 1: those folks, the Titans might have made a mistake. And
Speaker 1: who knows what would have happened had Hooker not had
Speaker 1: the ACL injury and the surgery on December thirteenth. We'll
Speaker 1: never know, but that's where we are. We'll see in
Speaker 1: about ten years who was right. Maybe we'll know even
Speaker 1: before that. But what you have done, understand, the Titans
Speaker 1: spent a ton of time on this. They brought both
Speaker 1: players in, they went to see both players, they had
Speaker 1: private sessions with both players, and in the end, the
Speaker 1: Tennessee brass decided that at this moment in time, Will
Speaker 1: Levice is the better answer for the Tennessee Titans. That's it,
Speaker 1: nothing else. They just made a decision. Jobs are lost
Speaker 1: over decisions like these, or careers are made over decisions
Speaker 1: like these. You project which player you think is going
Speaker 1: to be the most successful in your system. You make
Speaker 1: a pick, you take a leap of faith, and here
Speaker 1: we go, and that's what happened.
Speaker 6: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: And that's why some people national people think this was
Speaker 1: a tremendous value pick to get a guy that they
Speaker 1: had projected in the first round at number thirty three
Speaker 1: in the draft. It's also why there are people who
Speaker 1: if you didn't understand that, now maybe you do that
Speaker 1: there's there's a thing and that there's a belief and
Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker is an outstanding player and he may well
Speaker 1: be an excellent NFL quarterback. So we shall see. I
Speaker 1: think that the big thing to keep in mind here
Speaker 1: to me, you're every person is entitled to their opinion
Speaker 1: on whether it was the perfect pick or not. And
Speaker 1: eventually this discussion will be moot because we're just going
Speaker 1: to see him play in months.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not that far. Yeah, weeks, months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean some of the social media silliness
Speaker 1: about Will Levice he's twenty three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Put mayonnaise in his coffee, He ate a banana without peeling,
Speaker 1: it happens. He's taking his picture with his shirt off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, also happen.
Speaker 1: Probably not going to do that once you're a pro quarterback,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think. But if that's your biggest transgression, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of twenty three year
Speaker 1: olds that do that sort of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think we should be picking our NFL quarterbacks
Speaker 4: based on how they eat their fruit, right, That just
Speaker 4: seems it seems like minutia to me. I understand, But
Speaker 4: I think that we should. I think there's more to
Speaker 4: the human the position, the ability to do a job
Speaker 4: than the way that you eat a banana, I agree,
Speaker 4: or take your coffee.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you have to have awareness
Speaker 1: in this job, correct. I mean, Kentucky's a great place,
Speaker 1: but you're not in Kentucky anymore. You're in the NFL, YEP,
Speaker 1: and so every move you make, especially as a potential
Speaker 1: face of the franchise, is going to be judged. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you a bad person. All will Levis
Speaker 1: has done is graduate from two outstanding universities with near
Speaker 1: perfect grades, make friends at both of those universities where
Speaker 1: they said excellent things about him, play good, if not great,
Speaker 1: good football at both places. I mean, he played in
Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference, I don't know, you know, about the
Speaker 1: injury thing or the offense thing or whatever. We're gonna
Speaker 1: touch on that in a minute with somebody who does know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, the fact of the matter is he
Speaker 1: really hadn't done anything. He hasn't done anything. He didn't
Speaker 1: ask for all the hype. Maybe he liked it, but
Speaker 1: he did Kentucky's doing what they're gonna do. Medium members
Speaker 1: doing what they're gonna do. All of this. I mean,
Speaker 1: Will Levis didn't ask to be sitting there in the
Speaker 1: green room and having his picture taken with his parents
Speaker 1: and I guess that was his girlfriend or whomever. But
Speaker 1: but the bottom line is he didn't ask for that.
Speaker 1: And so I think where we've got to get with
Speaker 1: him is, now that we've come to this point, he's
Speaker 1: got to be judged as a Titan. Yes, now again
Speaker 1: he's got to be ready for that. But if he
Speaker 1: does a good job as a Titan, a lot of
Speaker 1: this other stuff will go in the rear view mirror.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's correct. It's time for him to I
Speaker 4: say it's time for him. He's been a Titan for
Speaker 4: twenty four hours as we record this, essentially, but this
Speaker 4: is it this is the next step, and the next
Speaker 4: step means showing up for work, doing the work, and
Speaker 4: putting yourself in a position to make this team better
Speaker 4: in whatever capacity that ends up being.
Speaker 6: That's his job.
Speaker 4: Now, if he does that, and he just shows up
Speaker 4: and is doing the very best he can and is
Speaker 4: working hard, and is taking the coaching and is doing
Speaker 4: everything within his power to help the Tennessee Titans win
Speaker 4: football games, we can't judge him.
Speaker 1: The footballicism is legitimate. He threw too many interceptions. Even
Speaker 1: the people who really like him say as much. And
Speaker 1: so he can't get the I mean, while you want
Speaker 1: him to come in with a chip on his shoulder
Speaker 1: because he lasted until the second round, you want him
Speaker 1: to work hard, he does have to understand that he's
Speaker 1: got to play better, he's got to play smarter, got
Speaker 1: to he's got to do it in a little bit
Speaker 1: different way. And that you can't be you can't have
Speaker 1: a shield up to the point where you say, all
Speaker 1: these people are are giving me a hard time for
Speaker 1: no reason.
Speaker 4: Right, right, But can you think of a better group
Speaker 4: of people for a player like that, with so much potential,
Speaker 4: with so much work to do, who needs to continue
Speaker 4: to learn. Can you think of a better opportunity than
Speaker 4: to be on a mic variable coaching staff.
Speaker 1: No, with Tim Kelly and Charles London. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: mean he's got some people around him who can teach,
Speaker 1: who can I think he's in a really good place too.
Speaker 1: I think he's in a really really good place for
Speaker 1: what he does well. I think they can expand on that,
Speaker 1: and I also think they can improve him in some
Speaker 1: other areas. They've certainly improved the offensive line. You're going
Speaker 1: to see them continue to add bits and pieces in
Speaker 1: other places to improve the scheme. This is a team
Speaker 1: right now with sixty nine guys on the roster, they
Speaker 1: do have some cap room. The puzzle fitting together that
Speaker 1: we've talked about this whole offseason is not near being finished.
Speaker 6: Oh No.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing about the draft ending on
Speaker 1: April the twenty ninth, is there is this feeling that
Speaker 1: it's over and this is the team you go to
Speaker 1: camp with, and I mean, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: more to come. I'm looking forward to seeing him. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to meeting him. You've had a chance to
Speaker 1: meet him.
Speaker 4: I met him very briefly when we were in Kansas City,
Speaker 4: the day before the draft, the Wednesday before the first round,
Speaker 4: they had a community event. I've talked about it on
Speaker 4: the OTP and had the opportunity to after the community
Speaker 4: event was done, kind of wander around and talk to
Speaker 4: different players, do some little interviews things like that, and
Speaker 4: I will Levis had had a bit of a crowd
Speaker 4: around him, and so I was able to be there
Speaker 4: and just observe for a while, watch him interact with people,
Speaker 4: and then also had the ability to ask him a
Speaker 4: question or two. Thought he was very well spoken. Thought
Speaker 4: he was incredibly thoughtful in the way that he answered
Speaker 4: his questions. I thought he was very gracious with the
Speaker 4: amount of people who were around him and at a draft.
Speaker 4: It's not all these well seasoned have been doing this
Speaker 4: for twenty years working for the athletic and ESPN and
Speaker 4: all of it. There are a lot of local reporters
Speaker 4: who are not usually on a sports beat. There are
Speaker 4: a lot of students and kids. There were a lot
Speaker 4: of people there from the University of Missouri and other
Speaker 4: schools that have journalism programs who sent people to cover
Speaker 4: and whether it was someone he recognized from the national
Speaker 4: media or it was a kid he gave them the
Speaker 4: same level of attention and professionalism. I notice things like that.
Speaker 4: You know, as someone who interacts with a lot of
Speaker 4: different people.
Speaker 1: Well, because we've seen people at different points. You have
Speaker 1: and I have both who when the cameras on they're nice, yep,
Speaker 1: and when the camera's off, they're just nasty. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: and that's I mean, there are people like that. If
Speaker 1: I told you some of the names, you wouldn't believe them, Yes,
Speaker 1: you would, absolutely, you know, you would not believe them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you I mean even younger.
Speaker 4: Guys, younger guys and guys who were in that position.
Speaker 4: I mean, especially that close to draft day, once you
Speaker 4: are one of the invited guys, as a very select
Speaker 4: group of people, that group of people, every single one
Speaker 4: of those guys believes in their soul the twenty four
Speaker 4: hours before the draft that they are going to be
Speaker 4: the number one pick in the NFL Draft and they
Speaker 4: are going to be the man for an entire calendar year.
Speaker 4: Nobody can take that away from them. And they all
Speaker 4: believe that they're that guy. And you get a lot
Speaker 4: of guys with pretty nasty attitudes because they are the
Speaker 4: guy and they are untouchable and this is their time
Speaker 4: of their life, and you can just leave my presence
Speaker 4: now and again with the names people I have interacted
Speaker 4: with at drafts over the years who have been very
Speaker 4: not fun to deal with, would blow your mind. He
Speaker 4: was not that at all. And I noticed it, I
Speaker 4: appreciated it, and I logged it away because to me,
Speaker 4: that's indicative of someone who understands the position that you
Speaker 4: are about to be in, because you understand that treating
Speaker 4: people well is what you do as a pro. It's
Speaker 4: how you interact we it's how you make friends, it's
Speaker 4: how you make relationships, it's how you make money for
Speaker 4: yourself in this league. Is to be a decent human being, right.
Speaker 4: You can't really coach that. That's innate, And so I
Speaker 4: thought that that was that very brief experience was very
Speaker 4: telling to me.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to convince people one way or the other, No,
Speaker 1: because my whole thing is you're as a fan, you
Speaker 1: are you, you do you, You are a title to
Speaker 1: your opinion, and you know that is that is totally
Speaker 1: up to you. I'm saying that he's a Titan.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They picked him, they wanted him, Mike Rabel, who we
Speaker 1: think is one of the best of the best wanted
Speaker 1: this guy.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: And so if that's what Rabel thinks, I'm down with
Speaker 1: Rabel because Vrabel is a special guy. Ran Carthon was
Speaker 1: down with this. In spending more time with him this week,
Speaker 1: I'm impressed with what his thought process is. And so
Speaker 1: now we see and that's what this is all about.
Speaker 1: I guess the only thing I'm saying is for whatever
Speaker 1: there is around this kid, he has caused very little
Speaker 1: of it, right he is and now. But but he's
Speaker 1: got to live up to being a pro very very quickly,
Speaker 1: because he has to understand that this is going to
Speaker 1: be part.
Speaker 6: Of the challenge.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's bad, it's still making you a millionaire.
Speaker 1: So how bad is it? I mean it could be
Speaker 1: it could be worse. Yeah, So you've got to say
Speaker 1: this is part of this job. I've got to buckle
Speaker 1: down and go get it and show people what I
Speaker 1: am as a player and as a person.
Speaker 6: Yeah, circle back to me in like six months.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: Maybe there are times the OT people know this.
Speaker 4: There are times that I will stand on a table
Speaker 4: for a player because I know them as a human being.
Speaker 4: I just I will defend him to the hills. There
Speaker 4: are some players that I'm like that I think what
Speaker 4: you want, I don't gear see you.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I don't know him, and either I
Speaker 1: know people who do, and I trust those. I have
Speaker 1: not met anybody who has had anything but good things
Speaker 1: to say about how he deals with people.
Speaker 4: Yep, but circle back to me in six months. If
Speaker 4: I'm standing on a table, you'll know it.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. Well, this is an
Speaker 1: interesting part of the story, and I wanted to let
Speaker 1: you hear this because we had it on Titan's radio
Speaker 1: right after he was picked. His better of the two years,
Speaker 1: as we referenced, was twenty twenty one. Liam Cohen was
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. Liam Cohen is basically a pro guy.
Speaker 1: He left and went to the Rams as their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two wasn't as good for Kentucky without Liam
Speaker 1: Cohen there. Liam Cohen has actually now returned to Kentucky
Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator. Our first call last night when
Speaker 1: the Titans picked Will Levis was to try to get
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen on the phone. A lot of colleges do
Speaker 1: not let their assistant coaches talk. A lot of them.
Speaker 1: It's really kind of crazy and strange and I don't
Speaker 1: get it, but okay, that's another OTP.
Speaker 6: You can't. But Mike Keith coming after sids on the old.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not just I mean, it's just odd, but okay,
Speaker 1: he called us right back. Wow, he called us right back,
Speaker 1: and he gave us a very interesting interview about what
Speaker 1: things were like with Will Levis, and he started off
Speaker 1: with something that was really really interesting about how he
Speaker 1: saw fit. Want to let you hear it on the OTP.
Speaker 1: This is Kentucky offensive Coordinator Liam Cohen on the OTP.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you first and foremost, you hear the
Speaker 1: news Will Levis to the Tennessee Titans. You feel good
Speaker 1: about the fit just from the jumps.
Speaker 2: Couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7: This has been the ideal landing spot the entire time.
Speaker 7: I mean, if you talk to Will, you talk to
Speaker 7: his you know agency, if you were to talk to
Speaker 7: me and we were all in alignment that yes, would
Speaker 7: have loved to go in the first round. We have
Speaker 7: loved to go top early like that. But this was
Speaker 7: the place. This was the place he felt the most comfortable,
Speaker 7: This was the place he felt the most believed in,
Speaker 7: and we all felt was the best fit for Will
Speaker 7: to have the most successful career moving forward.
Speaker 8: What is his best attribute?
Speaker 7: Will's best attribute physically is his arm, straight arm talent.
Speaker 7: Can make every single throw in the field, tight windows, outcuts,
Speaker 7: in cuts, go ball. He can make any throw on
Speaker 7: the field at any given time. And by the way,
Speaker 7: he's the first one in the last one to leave,
Speaker 7: the type of guy that's gonna put everything that he
Speaker 7: has into this whole thing. Just a guy that truly
Speaker 7: wants to be great. It's not like he just wants
Speaker 7: to come in and enjoy being a pro. He wants
Speaker 7: to be great and it's been in him since.
Speaker 2: He's been a little kid.
Speaker 7: And all he wants to do is try to help
Speaker 7: this organization win football games.
Speaker 8: Coach.
Speaker 9: As players and prospects are in the draft, they're picked
Speaker 9: apart in a million different ways. How has Will handled
Speaker 9: all of those questions that he's had to endure about,
Speaker 9: you know, the turnovers and different things like that building
Speaker 9: up to this moment, I.
Speaker 7: Think he's been fantastic. I mean Will as Will and
Speaker 7: what I what we kept talking about was whoever takes
Speaker 7: Will is going to truly see him for who he
Speaker 7: is and loved that about him. And he's intense. He's
Speaker 7: gonna freak him be on it. In terms of every meeting,
Speaker 7: every time he's talking to you, he's going to be there,
Speaker 7: He's going to be present, and he's going to be
Speaker 7: in the moment. So he has been picked upart in
Speaker 7: a lot of ways, and that happens so often, but
Speaker 7: he's so true to himself. I mean the story that
Speaker 7: I talk about how at the NFL Combine his Penn
Speaker 7: State academic advisor was in the stands to watch that game.
Speaker 7: If this kid isn't an all around kid that makes
Speaker 7: an impact on people, I'm not sure that that actual
Speaker 7: situation would occur for many guys.
Speaker 10: Coach, I want to go back to something you said
Speaker 10: a moment ago about this was the best fit for
Speaker 10: him as far as with the Titans from the get go,
Speaker 10: was it?
Speaker 8: Did it build from the combine?
Speaker 10: And did it kind of cap off or crest at
Speaker 10: his pro day, which I know that the Titans were at.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they'd come up and met with him before the
Speaker 7: pro day and spent a lot of time with him.
Speaker 7: I mean they did. They had will really prepare for
Speaker 7: a meeting. I mean he had to make a cut up,
Speaker 7: he had to make representative clips of good, bad, ugly
Speaker 7: pretty and talk through it with those guys. I mean,
Speaker 7: they really invested time into the evaluation process of Will
Speaker 7: and he felt that he felt that evaluation, he felt
Speaker 7: that connection, and he felt that Coach Rabel was going
Speaker 7: to challenge him as the player moving forward, and they
Speaker 7: had some really healthy dialogue about how he can improve
Speaker 7: and at some point play from the Titans.
Speaker 1: And certainly, you know coach Rabel and you know that
Speaker 1: Mike has a bit of an edge to him. It
Speaker 1: feels like that's something that Will Levis kind of actually liked.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's a really strong match because I
Speaker 7: believe coach Ray was a football coach where he's a
Speaker 7: guys guy football coach, right and understands real ones, real competitors. Now,
Speaker 7: is Will perfect?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: Is any of these guys perfect. No, But you'll go
Speaker 7: to bat with him every single day, And he's a
Speaker 7: competitor that you want. If you're going about if you're
Speaker 7: gonna go compete at the highest level of football, He's
Speaker 7: gonna go compete at that level before you. Every single meeting,
Speaker 7: every single walk through, every single practice, every single game.
Speaker 7: I got to believe that coach verbel is gonna like
Speaker 7: that intensity coach.
Speaker 9: I don't want you to talk about, you know who
Speaker 9: coached him last year or anything, but when you watch
Speaker 9: film of him, was there, what did you say different
Speaker 9: from him the year you were with him?
Speaker 8: And last year?
Speaker 2: A few things.
Speaker 7: A lack of protection and then a lack of trust.
Speaker 7: And when it comes to the protection, you lose three
Speaker 7: offensive linemen to the NFL. One's the starting center for
Speaker 7: the Jaguars, ones, the frount pick the Chiefs. They lost
Speaker 7: a lot of players up front that were meaningful to
Speaker 7: a lot of MINIFU reps. Right men, Oh by the way,
Speaker 7: you lose Wandell Robinson, josh A Leis. With the Falcons,
Speaker 7: you have two true freshmen playing wide out. Now, those
Speaker 7: two true freshmen are gonna be talented kids. But you
Speaker 7: didn't know. He didn't know last year if a curl
Speaker 7: route was going to get run at twelve, ten, eight
Speaker 7: or fourteen. And then, oh, by the way, he's staring
Speaker 7: down the barrel when it comes to some of the
Speaker 7: protection issues and some of the youth that had to
Speaker 7: play last year. So I think some of those things
Speaker 7: started to really accumulate, and maybe he felt like he
Speaker 7: had to do too much in order to win games.
Speaker 7: But I know the player he can be, and I
Speaker 7: definitely think this is a great match.
Speaker 8: I want to ask one more question when to let
Speaker 8: Red ask one as well.
Speaker 1: But the story that intrigues me the most about him
Speaker 1: is he's a graduate transfer from Penn State. He comes
Speaker 1: in and within days he's the guy. How does he
Speaker 1: do that? And what was it about him that grabbed
Speaker 1: what turned out to be a good football team and
Speaker 1: made himself their leader.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was eight pros or nine pros from that team.
Speaker 7: I mean he walked in the building. He was absent
Speaker 7: from spring practice. He was graduating from Penn State. He
Speaker 7: came here at the end of May, which is our
Speaker 7: discretionary period, so you don't have to be here June.
Speaker 7: Workouts start June fifth, mandatory. Well, he got here as
Speaker 7: soon as graduation at Penn State ended and got here
Speaker 7: for the whole month of May. He earned he was
Speaker 7: going to be the starting quarterback within like the first
Speaker 7: days in May, but we just so happened to put
Speaker 7: him with like the twos and threes. When he got
Speaker 7: into training camp, he won this job. He became a leader,
Speaker 7: a captain within a week of being here, because of
Speaker 7: the work ethic, because of his time on task, because
Speaker 7: of the way that he went about his business, the
Speaker 7: way he carried himself and handled himself. He became a
Speaker 7: captain and a starter.
Speaker 2: Within a month.
Speaker 10: Coach, you've just spoken about the person that he is.
Speaker 10: Let's go back to the player that he is. You
Speaker 10: talked about a lack of protection in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 10: and it was reported that, you know, he get a knee,
Speaker 10: a shoulder, a toe, all these things. Is that the
Speaker 10: kind of guy he is in terms of toughness and
Speaker 10: trying to just move through it and keep helping his team.
Speaker 7: He's a warrior, I mean twenty twenty one, I mean
Speaker 7: we were a threat of his I mean, and that's
Speaker 7: he's very athletic. He can run, rush for almost four
Speaker 7: hundred yards in twenty twenty one, and so that's him.
Speaker 7: That's a weapon of his. So to not be able
Speaker 7: to do that because he had the turf toe, he
Speaker 7: had a shoulder, he had some stuff going on in
Speaker 7: twenty two, well, that's a big part of his game
Speaker 7: is to be able to let him run and use
Speaker 7: his legs and be able to get an open field.
Speaker 7: So but He's a warrior, man, I mean so tough.
Speaker 7: Just all he wants to do is get out there
Speaker 7: and give it is all every single practice. Guy's is
Speaker 7: full tilt, full tilt. There's no kind of hanging out.
Speaker 7: Let me come get loose and relax. I mean, he's
Speaker 7: full tilt all the time and it goes. It carries
Speaker 7: over into each game the kids. So he's tough as rocks.
Speaker 1: Coach Cohen, we certainly appreciate your time and your incredible
Speaker 1: insight on the newest Tennessee Titan quarterback Will Levis.
Speaker 8: Thanks for joining us on Titans Radio.
Speaker 7: Congratulations guys, this is awesome.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: I'm really happy for this kid.
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen, who is an offensive coordinator at Kentucky. It's
Speaker 1: kind enough to join us on the OTP. We as
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Speaker 1: So Liam Cohen took the time to talk with us,
Speaker 1: and now we're getting ready to see these rookies. The
Speaker 1: undrafteds will sign again caution on the whole undrafted thing.
Speaker 1: And then this happened again last year. There were reports
Speaker 1: in various places that guys had agreed to terms with US,
Speaker 1: and then they ended up signing somewhere else. Until they
Speaker 1: sign they are are not here. Now. Over ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the reports will be correct about the undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents that agree to terms with certain teams, but there
Speaker 1: will always be one or two that so and so
Speaker 1: we'll get a better deal somewhere else, or the team
Speaker 1: will say, you know, we just found you know, we
Speaker 1: never did that. There was confusion on that. Somehow we
Speaker 1: talked to the guy, but we didn't offer him a contract.
Speaker 1: And I mean, this can be sketchy.
Speaker 4: They're not Titans until the Titans.
Speaker 6: That's exactly.
Speaker 1: They're not Titans until the Titans say they're Titans, or
Speaker 1: the Rams say they're Rams, or so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: Different teams do that at different times. The Titans generally
Speaker 1: don't make an announcement until the rookie Mini camp time,
Speaker 1: and the rookies are scheduled to report Thursday, May the eleventh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so just hold your horse, So.
Speaker 1: Keep up with the names, follow the names, enjoy all
Speaker 1: of the revelry. And you know, the Titans probably going
Speaker 1: to bring in several undrafteds.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they will fun time.
Speaker 1: Well, they will be attractive for undrafteds because, like I said,
Speaker 1: right now, with only six draft picks and less than
Speaker 1: seventy guys on the roster, a couple of undrafteds had
Speaker 1: a great shot, maybe four or five have a great
Speaker 1: shot to make this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's a good I mean a lot of
Speaker 4: this time where they are trying to get the undrafteds
Speaker 4: and are having those conversations. I mean a lot of
Speaker 4: it is making a sales pitch almost. You're recruiting guys
Speaker 4: to come and be a part of your organization. And
Speaker 4: because some guys have multiple teams that they're having conversations
Speaker 4: with and you're trying to, you know, get the best
Speaker 4: guys that you can possibly get to be Tennessee Titans
Speaker 4: and come in and work out for this team and
Speaker 4: try to earn a spot. And when you have jobs
Speaker 4: to be had, that's a big selling point. There are
Speaker 4: actually tangible ways that you can make this ball club
Speaker 4: just by the numbers.
Speaker 6: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Final thoughts, Uh, fascinating week fascinating weekend. Titans went after
Speaker 1: a quarterback, which I didn't know if they would do that.
Speaker 1: They got Scaransky who looks better and better as you
Speaker 1: as you sort of not only put on the tape,
Speaker 1: but you see where he was projected so many different places.
Speaker 1: I think not every team got a true first round
Speaker 1: pick in terms of talent. The Titans did get a
Speaker 1: true first round pick. Day three filled needs with Wiley
Speaker 1: the tight end, Dow the wide receiver, and then in
Speaker 1: the offensive line to get Duncan, who, like I said,
Speaker 1: he was seen as a three or four in terms
Speaker 1: of the round he was supposed to go. To get
Speaker 1: him in the sixth. Uh, he's got a chance to
Speaker 1: contend for a spot among that eight or nine in
Speaker 1: the offensive line room, but maybe even contend for playing time.
Speaker 6: Those are all good final thoughts.
Speaker 1: Your final thoughts.
Speaker 4: I'm sad it's over. You know, the whole process. I
Speaker 4: love the pre draft process. Leading up to the draft.
Speaker 4: Once we get to this past weekend, love having new
Speaker 4: Titans come on board, really excited about what's to come
Speaker 4: for this team starting up. OTA's the off season program,
Speaker 4: all of the things that get guys out on the field.
Speaker 6: A little bit.
Speaker 4: But there's something really fun about about all of the
Speaker 4: build up. You know, all the hype, all the meetings,
Speaker 4: the rumors, all the.
Speaker 1: We've been working on it for over three.
Speaker 4: Months, all the funny little things you hear on Twitter
Speaker 4: that sometimes aren't so funny, just all the excitement and anticipation.
Speaker 6: It's like Christmas is over.
Speaker 1: The TV ratings for Day one and then the ratings
Speaker 1: in terms of across all platforms phenomenal, yeh, I mean
Speaker 1: just phenomenal to think that the NFL Draft does better
Speaker 1: TV numbers than other sports playoff games. And there is
Speaker 1: not even a football at the NFL Draft, not even
Speaker 1: the ball that we play the game with. It's not present,
Speaker 1: and yet something that is basically like a primetime football
Speaker 1: soap opera, and it is, I mean exactly. And you know,
Speaker 1: the Titans second round draft pick Will Levis was the
Speaker 1: focus of the whole thing. He was he was seen
Speaker 1: with all this pub coming in and I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: when he didn't get picked, he was on camera twenty
Speaker 1: seven times, which I you know, I don't.
Speaker 6: Think was totally necessary.
Speaker 1: No, but but that that's the storyline of what this is.
Speaker 1: And I guess that's trama. And that's what I'm saying
Speaker 1: about the whole Levice thing period is whether it's fair
Speaker 1: or not, whether it's right or not, that's the life.
Speaker 1: And that's what he's going to have to come in
Speaker 1: and be ready to handle in a mature way before
Speaker 1: he even turns twenty four. I don't know if that's fair,
Speaker 1: but that's going to be part of this job and
Speaker 1: part of his path to success if he's going to
Speaker 1: have it in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Bright lights, big city.
Speaker 1: Bright lights, big sit.
Speaker 6: It's time.
Speaker 1: Let's right, it's time and for all these guys did
Speaker 1: a great job in Kansas City. Ashley Pharaoh did a
Speaker 1: great job in Kansas City. Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 6: That's fine.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Brad Hopkins for helping our draft coverage.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Ramon Foster for helping our draft coverage.
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and Rett Brian were fantastic, and then Brent
Speaker 1: Hubbs added so much on Friday Night. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was a totally different broadcast than we've ever had. And
Speaker 1: with all of the Levi stuff going on, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he covers the SEC and he covers Tennessee
Speaker 1: and he covers Levis, there was a there was a
Speaker 1: real different perspective because our broadcast turned in to a
Speaker 1: talk show about Will Levis due to the fact that
Speaker 1: the Titans jumped up to pick a quarterback who was
Speaker 1: such a big story you couldn't ignore it. And you know,
Speaker 1: we got people on the air. We got Tim Couch
Speaker 1: on the air, We got Cole Kublick on the air
Speaker 1: from the SEC network in ESPN you heard earlier. We
Speaker 1: got Liam Cohen, the offensive coordinator from Kentucky. It is
Speaker 1: a totally different draft than we've ever done. I hope
Speaker 1: people thought it was interesting because we were trying to
Speaker 1: talk about the things you were most interested in.
Speaker 6: You did a great job.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. We tried. It was very entertaining and
Speaker 1: now it's I mean, it's certainly going to be a
Speaker 1: fascinating may.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's gonna be a fun may I mean,
Speaker 4: no matter what, and hopefully.
Speaker 1: We'll have the schedule in less than two weeks. That's
Speaker 1: what we're hoping.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I didn't even remember the schedule is so
Speaker 4: it's closed because workouts are just around the corner and
Speaker 4: I'm starting to feel football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go, Oh Framie Wells. I'm Mike Keith,
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