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Speaker 1: On today's OTP Road to Nashville, Titans legend Chris Johnson

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Speaker 1: eight and reflecting on an amazing career. Titans Radio's Dave

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Speaker 1: McGinnis has insight into what teams are doing in the

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Speaker 1: final hours before the draft and shares why Arizona's selection

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Speaker 1: at number one will have ripple effects all the way

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Speaker 1: through the first round. That's today on the OTP Road

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Speaker 1: are drafted in Nashville. Welcome to the OTP Road to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith with Amy Wells, and we are honored

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Speaker 1: to have with us this morning one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: came to the facility here at same time of Sports

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Speaker 1: Park and retired. It's hard to believe, Chris Johnson. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: that's having you look great. I'm gonna pull that mic

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Speaker 1: you decided you wanted to do it, you wanted to

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Speaker 1: do that? What led to the decision? Um it was

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Speaker 1: always important. You know, I already been tired, retired for

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Speaker 1: over a year now, and just you know, it was

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Speaker 1: more of you know, a lot of people had parts

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Speaker 1: So it was only right. What are you the most

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Speaker 1: you know, all the blassed sweating tills put forth and

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Speaker 1: So I feel like that's probably my biggest accomplishments so

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Speaker 1: that accomplishment. I would say all the all the long runs,

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Speaker 1: Of course, is there a run or a play that

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Speaker 1: meant everything. It was the worst ever. I tell Hockeyley

431
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: every time I see him. I mean it. He apologized

432
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: for the call later done help now, but it was

433
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: it was bad and it as you said, he had

434
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: a chance to go after Dickerson's record. He had a

435
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: chance to get that thing, and he but the player,

436
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: the player. Let's get back to see just a minute. Sure,

437
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: one of the most electric dudes ever on a field.

438
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: He could actually make a whole stadium stand up. He

439
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: could when he when when he touched it. The three

440
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: fastest guys, and I've been in about six hundred and

441
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: fifty NFL games, The three fastest guys I've ever seen

442
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: in person on a football field in pads in a

443
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: game Willie Galt when I was with the Bears. Because

444
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: that's world class speed, and it was. It was mind

445
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: blowing to look at Dion Sanders, Yes and c J

446
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: two K and that's pretty fast company. Yeah to say

447
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: at least, yeah, those are some fast guys. Speaking of

448
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: Coach Mac and his strong opinions, do you have something

449
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: I was going to go at Frank Clark, That's what

450
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: I was going to get. It was. I thought it

451
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: was a good transition, nicely done. Shame. We were just

452
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: talking about the Frank Clark trade. What is your reaction

453
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: to that? Well, first of all, you knew Seattle had

454
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 1: already set things in motion with this trade guys when

455
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: they put the franchise tag on him. Once they put

456
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: the franchise tag on him, and then when they gave

457
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback the huge contract and all that money. You

458
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: can't keep everybody together on that type of money. Now,

459
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 1: could they have done it? Maybe? Possibly? Yes? Were they

460
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: out of money where they couldn't have paid him, No,

461
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: but franchising him, being able to have his rights, giving

462
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson the money, and then finding a trade partner

463
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: that wanted to move that had lost an edge person.

464
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: And trades are only good if they benefit both parties.

465
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: Both parties benefited from this trade, I think it was

466
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: a good trade. John Snyder wanted more picks in this draft.

467
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: Would he come into it with Mike four and so

468
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: he yeah, he wanted he wanted some more picks. But

469
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: I think it was a really good move by both

470
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: by both squads, you know, because you know, Frank Clark

471
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: is still a young player, a very productive player. But

472
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: at the at the same time, in this day and age,

473
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: you have got to make you have got you when

474
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: it's like driving a car, You've got to look at

475
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: all your mirrors when you're driving your franchise down the road.

476
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: And they knew that sooner or later this was going

477
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: to be a money issue. And John Snyder, I mean,

478
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: they took a chance on Frank Clark. They drafted him

479
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: at the end of the second round in two fifteen.

480
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 1: He had off the field problems at Michigan which dropped

481
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: him down and then last year thirteen sacks in his

482
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: fourth year. So they got taking that chance, they got

483
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: good production, and now they get a number one out

484
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 1: of him, a number two next year out of him.

485
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: They clear seventeen million dollars worth of cap space. Looks

486
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean, John Snyder pretty good at his job. Yeah,

487
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 1: it is. And the other thing that it tells you

488
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: is how is how is how strong and entrenched Andy

489
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: Reid is because you know the issues they've had there

490
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: with some off the field player issues with that franchise,

491
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,239
Speaker 1: and to be able to absorb and bring another that

492
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: has a hit you know in his past. He hasn't

493
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: done anything now, but at least it's still it's always

494
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: going to be just as you mentioned it. It will

495
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: always be part of the conversation. But you have to

496
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: he would have had to have gone to an organization

497
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: that was strong enough to be able to take that in.

498
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: And clearly the Chiefs and Andy Reid are okay. So

499
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: that's the big move that has happened since we were

500
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: last on the air. Let's talk about twenty four hours,

501
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: the last twenty four to thirty hours of the draft.

502
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: The draft will start at seven o'clock tomorrow night. What

503
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: are NFL teams, coaches, personnel people, people in the offices,

504
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: what are they doing right now to prepare for tomorrow night?

505
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: In for the week. It's all about the phone right now.

506
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: I mean they're on the phone. There are a lot

507
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: of things going on on the telephones, you know, trying

508
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: to find out the landscape around where your pick is.

509
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: You're looking forward, you're looking behind. You're also the board

510
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: is set, the board is set, and now what you're

511
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: what you're doing, You are working the board mentally in

512
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: your mind. And you're also when you're making calls, you're

513
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: gonna make calls. I may call Amy, but in a

514
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: roundabout way, I'm going to call her to find out

515
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: if she's talked to you, you know, about anything that's

516
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: going on with your so that so that because I

517
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: might be really wanting to find out information about about

518
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: Mike Keith's team and what he's thinking, but I don't

519
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: want to call Mike Keith. You know, I'm going to

520
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: call Amy because I know Amy may have talked to

521
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: Mike Keith on something else. And that way you try to,

522
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: you try to and you're gonna have to give a

523
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: little information, but you try to get a lot more,

524
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: but you go, you know, you go around about method

525
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: right now because you've got to find out what the

526
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: landscape is around you. Because there's going to be some

527
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: moves in this draft, this drafted. There's gonna be some

528
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: moves in this draft because it's it's going to be

529
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: pretty interesting to see what happens and it's all it's

530
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: all going to cascade off of this first pick. Speaking

531
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: of snooping around, you were the head coach in Arizona.

532
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: She's awesome. Um, you know the Bidwell family, you know

533
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: their general manager, Steam come, you know sports in that

534
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: scene in the valley. So as we're trying to figure

535
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: out what in the world is going to happen with

536
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Arizona's number one pick, what can you

537
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: kind of shed some light on talk maybe about some

538
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: of the factors that are coming into play there. Well,

539
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, when I was out there

540
00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: at the franchise, the whole thing was getting the stage

541
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: because if they hadn't gotten the stadium. You know, when

542
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: when we finally did do it, and it was it

543
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: was a long arduous process going through. I mean I

544
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: spoke to more states assemblies and you know, I did

545
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: more politicking than I I mean, I was a politician basically,

546
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: you know, for three years trying to get that thing

547
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: done and we finally got it done. But in the

548
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: in the in the in the context of doing that,

549
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: the valley has grown so much and you know, they've

550
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: got they've got four major sports franchises out there. I

551
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: mean they got you know, they got the Suns, they've

552
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: got the Coyotes, they've got the Diamondbacks, and they've got

553
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Well, every one of those franchises right now

554
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: in the valley is in the tank. They're not good.

555
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just true. This is a chance,

556
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, from Michael Bidwell who's in charge now, to

557
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: capture that valley, and they need to do it. Their

558
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: ticket sales have been down. They've been down because they

559
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: haven't been good. They've just fired a head coach, Steve

560
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: Wilkes after nine months on the job, you know, which

561
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: is that's that's rough, and so that that that that's

562
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: some instability that people look at and people you don't

563
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: have a tendency, especially out there. Guys, it's a lot

564
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: different because not everybody out there's from there. You're not

565
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: from there. You've got to adopt a team when you

566
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: do come in there, because that's that's a destination place

567
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: for people. You know, for years it has been and

568
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: it's still expanding and growing. So they've got a chance

569
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: to capture this market. And one way to do it

570
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: is you is you draft, you get a young head

571
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: coach in there that that comes from an air raid offense,

572
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: that that throws the ball all over the lot, and

573
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: then you get the top quarterback in the country that

574
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: runs that offense. All right, now, does that move the needle?

575
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: Some of the things that I've heard and the people

576
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: I've talked to out there, you know a lot of

577
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: people is that when they when they kind of chum

578
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: the water with Murray and threw it out there, it

579
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: didn't move the needle that much. People were like, Oh,

580
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: that's not okay. So what they're trying to figure out now,

581
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: because look, they're in a prime position. They can either

582
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: trade that pick they can take the best defensive player

583
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: of the draft, or they can they can say, all right,

584
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade Josh Rosen, who we traded up to

585
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: get in last year's draft, and get Kyler Murray in there,

586
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: and then make that our identity, you know, with Cliff

587
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: Kingsbury in this new offense, and let's go. People buy

588
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: tickets and let's go. So right now, it's very interesting.

589
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: I believe it. I believe it when I hear because

590
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: I've talked to too many people in too many areas

591
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: out there. They're still not decided yet. So for the Cardinals,

592
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: is this their prime opportunity, this twenty nineteen draft for

593
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: them to kind of take control of the sports scene

594
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: in the valley because everybody else is bad. I mean,

595
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: everybody else's real figures to be bad for a while.

596
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and you start looking. I mean, you know,

597
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: they've just fired a coach, right it's you know, and

598
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: I don't you know that the Suns. I mean, they

599
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: they've done somethings. It's down, it's not good. And so

600
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: they've got a chance to capture it because when they

601
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: were going really good, you know, when when they had

602
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: that thing going, you know, with Kurt Warner and those

603
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: guys out there, that they'll support it. People will support it,

604
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: people will come and it's a beautiful stadium, and I

605
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: mean that's they'll support it. And they are there. They're

606
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: in a division right now where if they can come

607
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,239
Speaker 1: back and recapture the thing. Now they're still not very

608
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: good on defense, but if they can do that, they've

609
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: got a chance to generate some momentum right now to

610
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: get it gin in a little bit again. But this

611
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be very interesting. This this is gonna be

612
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: a big, big topic on this draft. Who's making the call?

613
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: You know what. Michael Bidwell was in charge. Michael Bidwell

614
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: is in charge. I mean, let's just you know, let's

615
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: just get that out there. Steve Kain was an area

616
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: scout when I was there, and I and I got

617
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Steve kin Good. He's very

618
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: good at what he does. He's very good at what

619
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: it does. He stood with me and stood on a

620
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: table in a draft room when nobody else wanted an

621
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: Kuombolden because that was his area he was in. You know,

622
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: he stood with me on him. He stood with me

623
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: on Kyle van Deenbais Okay, he you know, he he'd

624
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: stood with me on some guys. Adrian Wilson. Yeah, he

625
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: stood with me on that. We didn't win that one though, Yeah,

626
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,479
Speaker 1: we didn't win that one. But anyway, I respect him

627
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: as a football man. I respect him as it. But

628
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: Michael Bidwell is running that Michael Bidwell runs that show. Okay.

629
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier and we should probably circle back to this.

630
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: You mentioned Cliff King's very hard name to say and

631
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: his air raid offense. Talk a little bit about what

632
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: exactly that is and the difference between college and the press.

633
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: It's all about It's all about the hash marks on

634
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: the field. Because the hash marks on the field, you know,

635
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: in college football, you've got one side of the field

636
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: in college football at the balls on a hash that

637
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: is a lot of land, it's a lot of areas.

638
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: There's different throws, there's different you know, route concepts. You know,

639
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: out of these, out of these offenses in college in

640
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: NC DOUBLEA, the route, the route. The route concepts aren't

641
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: the same as National Football League because the windows are

642
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: so large. They're so large, they're mainly running just areas

643
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: and stopping and looking and you don't really have to

644
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: read a whole lot of coverage because unless you unless

645
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: you really really take your defense and move it all

646
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: to the wide side of the field and bring it,

647
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: it's hard to cover all of that space, you know.

648
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: So that's why you see so many of these these

649
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: defenses in college football. They're doing so well. Starting with

650
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, they play a lot of press man coverage.

651
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: They'll play man coverage on the outside and so they

652
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: can help compact the n side of that of the field.

653
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: Now for the National Football League, with the hash marks

654
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: moved in, you know as to where the uprights are,

655
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 1: that everything's the middle of the football field. Every windows

656
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: are tighter in the National Football League, So he's going

657
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: to have to adapt his route concepts. And when you

658
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: adapt your route concepts in your windows become tighter for

659
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: your quarterback to throw through. All Right, That's that's going

660
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: to be a little bit of the difference. It will

661
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: still work because you've got an athletic quarterback if we're

662
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: talking about Kyler Murray that can move. Either have to

663
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: have one or two things. You either have to have

664
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Speaker 1: a quarterback that can maneuver the cylinder and give those

665
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: windows a chance to open up, or you've got to

666
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: have a guy that's got a tremendous gun that could

667
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: just stand back there and spin it. Okay, Kyler Murray

668
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: is an accurate passer, not as accurate foot Baker Mayfield

669
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: was in that, but he's a guy that can move,

670
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: could have manipulate a pocket. And he's a cylinder thrower.

671
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: He's thrown you know, he's thrown in the cylinder a

672
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: lot in his career. But you have to adapt it

673
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: because of the hash marks. Okay, So if Arizona decides

674
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: to not go with Kyler Murray. Can Josh Rosen operated

675
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: the area. I don't know that. I mean, I he

676
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury is gonna have to adapt. First of all.

677
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's gonna have to adapt the National Football League.

678
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: But that's what he's gonna have to do. But Josh Rosen,

679
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, vetting Josh Rosen, you know, coming out of UCLA,

680
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: He's he's he's more of a he's more of a

681
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: progression thrower. He's more of a five step you know,

682
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: drop thrower, a cylinder thrower, got a good arm, good arm,

683
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: got good anticipation, those types of things. But he and

684
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray are two entirely different types of quarterbacks. Now, okay,

685
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: so if you're I'm just listening, but tell me if

686
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm completely wrong here. If Cliff Kingsbury wants to do

687
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: at least some of what he wants to do, even

688
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: adapting to the NFL, sounds like he needs Kyler Murray. Yeah.

689
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: Well here, here's here's something about coaches. And you guys

690
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: have been in this business a long time, not longer

691
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: than I have. But it's not your fault. Okay, I

692
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: can't help when you were born. Okay, Here's here's the thing.

693
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: Coaches coach what they know, right, This is what Cliff

694
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: Kingsbury knows. There's a reason Michael Bidwell fired a coach

695
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: which after a year, and I think Steve Wilkes is

696
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: a really good football coach, much respect from coach mic

697
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: for him. I like him. I like what he does.

698
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: But they got rid of him, and then he made

699
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: a bold move to go get Cliff Kingsboro, who had

700
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: been fired from Texas Tech, who had just been in

701
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: the offices at USC for about five weeks, maybe hadn't

702
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,959
Speaker 1: had any time to put his books down there, so

703
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: he hired him for a reason, all right, And I

704
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: would say that Cliff Kingsbury is in there pretty you know. Again,

705
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have that much inside information because

706
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: they won't say that. But it just when you look

707
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: at it on the outside and see what's forming up

708
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: if they if they don't take him, they still got

709
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: a quarterback and Cliff Kingsborough will be still be able

710
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: to run an offense and they'll still be able to

711
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: do that stuff. But that's why it makes so much

712
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: sense for Murray right now. But at the same time,

713
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: then they start looking at it and if it didn't

714
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: move the needle like they thought it was going to

715
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: move for the public, we'll see, all right. So with

716
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: all of this being said, coach Mac said, I don't know.

717
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: He jumped the gun on my question. Did they or

718
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: not they take Kyler Murray? I don't know. I really don't.

719
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: But you know, Michael Bidwell, I do know, Michael. You

720
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: know the valley and you know what they're up against,

721
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: and you know Kingsbury's offens. I mean, you're I mean,

722
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: we're doing a science project in essets here because we're

723
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: looking for a hypothesis. That's that's a big word. But

724
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: I do know what it means. Sure you do. But

725
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I really do, and that

726
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: that's the that's the beauty, that's the beauty of the draft. Sure,

727
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: but that is also and again now this is conspiracy theory,

728
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: but that that the drama of this draft. With that

729
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: going on, the drama of this draft, you know who's

730
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: loving it. Everybody involved with the National Football and everybody involved,

731
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: everybody involved with television, everybody involved with what we do,

732
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: because when that thing comes on, I mean you've got

733
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: every network in the country covering this right. I mean

734
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: they're all down here, everybody, everybody, I mean every network, Indica,

735
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, Telemundo, everybody's here, okay, And so when you

736
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: look at it, this is the big everybody's this is

737
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,479
Speaker 1: the big weight moment that will be the that time

738
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: on the clock. I mean, we're gonna be sitting there

739
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: going what do we do? What do we do here?

740
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: Because go ahead, all right? So try this. Charles Davis,

741
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: our friend, NFL Network, Fox the best of the Best

742
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee Sports Hall of famer as of June the fifteenth,

743
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: By the way, congratulations to him. His theory that he

744
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: just floats is that they could trade down, Arizona could

745
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: trade down and still end up with Kyler Murray. And

746
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: here's the theory. What if they make a trade with Oakland.

747
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: Oakland goes up to one. John Gruden doesn't want a

748
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback because John Gruden hates rookies anyway, but he

749
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: does not want to deal with the rookie quarterback, so

750
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: they take a defensive player or something. Then at number two,

751
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: San Francisco takes a defensive player. At number three, the

752
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: Jets take a defensive player, and then sitting right there

753
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: at four, Arizona, having traded down, could still take kind

754
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: of mind and that to me, that would be beautiful.

755
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: It would be beautiful. I mean, that would be something

756
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: and and it's and I agree with and plus a second,

757
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: what you say about Charles the best. I love this,

758
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: But that makes sense and as much as anything makes

759
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: sense right now at this point, but what does make sense?

760
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: That's I said anything that's and that's that's the beauty

761
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: of the draft, and especially as to what the draft

762
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: has grown into. I mean, this is gonna be I did.

763
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: I did a big thing last night, you know, with

764
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 1: great co Sell and we had a lot of people,

765
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole just the vibe around this thing.

766
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: And when you look at downtown and we're going to

767
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: do another, you know, we've got things going. Until people

768
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: actually get on the clock, it's it's wonderful. I mean,

769
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: it's it's great. But people can start, you can. Charles

770
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,959
Speaker 1: may have something there, but we're going to find out

771
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: because here's who knows those the people in the draft

772
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: room that are doing what we started this When my

773
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: section of this podcast with after c J two k

774
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 1: ran a four two out of here when he was

775
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: when when he was done is That's what these phone

776
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: calls are about right now. That's what this time is

777
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: about right now. When you know, when you guys ask,

778
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. That's when this this stuff is

779
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: percolating right now. Whatever, What does John Robinson want to

780
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 1: happen with Arizona and Kyler Murray? I think I think

781
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: I think it doesn't matter to him. It doesn't really

782
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: matter because it's that far up there, okakay. And and

783
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: if if I don't think Kyler Murray will fall all

784
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: the way will cascade all the way down, you know,

785
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: and start pushing people that far. Just what you you

786
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,439
Speaker 1: put out there, what Charles said to the fourth rep.

787
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: That would make no difference whether it's first pick or

788
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: fourth pick, that makes that makes no difference. What happens

789
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: is if it starts to affect that pod from about

790
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: from about twelve to thirteen, that makes a difference. Well,

791
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: because what's interesting with it is if Kyler Murray goes

792
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: one to Arizona, then the next quarterback off the board

793
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: is actually Josh Rosen because he's getting traded somewhere. So

794
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: that means somebody who would select a quarterback is not

795
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: going to because they're going to trade for Josh Rosen.

796
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: So is that New York Giants? Is it Washington? Here

797
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: you go? You know? Is it Denver? Who would that

798
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: be next? I still think the Giants at thirty seven

799
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: because the Giants have six, they have seventeen, and they

800
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: have thirty seven. Ye if they offered thirty seven for

801
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, let him come back up, Eli Manning. If

802
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: it works, great because they probably draft two defensive players

803
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: at six and seventeen and get their quarterback who was

804
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: the tenth pick in last year's draft. If it doesn't,

805
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: they're out of second round pick. Life goes on. Don't

806
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: you love the draft? I love it so much? I

807
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: mean ninety two, I mean, don't you really? Seriously? Don't

808
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: you just love this? And when I was coaching this,

809
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: of course I needed a lawnmore battery on my phone

810
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: because I was on the phone constantly. You know this,

811
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: This is the best person to talk on the phone too.

812
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,280
Speaker 1: During all of this. Who's called did you enjoy the most?

813
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 1: For whether it be an NFL person, a media person,

814
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: who who who was it that spun it? Who? Who?

815
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: Who was it? You would take their call every single time.

816
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis, I would never not take a call. That's

817
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: number one. At this time of the year. You never

818
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: not take a call. Okay, that's just you don't. You don't,

819
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: you don't not take a call. There are some people.

820
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: The ones that I liked dealing with were the ones

821
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: where I could say, Mike, here's what we're here's what

822
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: we're doing. Are you in on this? The calls I

823
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: didn't like is is guys that were going who was

824
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: going like CSI, you know, going clear that we're going going.

825
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: You know, I'd finally say, look, what are we doing here? Yeah?

826
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: It doesn't take that. Look, you know, I've I've been

827
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: in the cattle business. Like either want it or you don't.

828
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: If not, I'll move it out of the pen. But

829
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: let's go. You know though, See that's why you understand

830
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: John Robinson because he grew up in West Tennessee. We're

831
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: all alike. Yeah, I mean it's I mean it's not

832
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: it's not dissimilar at all. No, it's about a barbed

833
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: war fence differences, that's about it. And then but but

834
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: that that to me and there and there are guys

835
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: in the league that that And the longer you're in

836
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: the league, the more respects. You have four people and

837
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: the more they have for you. So when the phone rings,

838
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: they know you've got something going on. Now, there are

839
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: some people that when you get on the phone. I

840
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: mean a guy that was beautiful on the phone, as

841
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: you guys would would think that I was in a

842
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: draft room with for long years. Was Jeff Fisher. I

843
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: mean he was because you know, but but anyway I'm

844
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, with other people, Jimmy Johnson. When

845
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: I when I'm listening when Jimmy came into the league,

846
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: of course I wasn't. I wasn't quite I wasn't I

847
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: didn't quite have enough water in my bucket yet when

848
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy came in the league to be you know, talking

849
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: you know there, But what he did, he was such

850
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: a maverick when he came in the league. And Jimmy

851
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: Johnson is brilliant, brilliant and you know, and we've we've

852
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: looked at the chart that he started. You know that

853
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: now everybody has evolved a chart off of his. It's

854
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gone through a lot a lot of changes.

855
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: But he he really got people thinking a little bit

856
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: in this league too. You know, he come in the League,

857
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 1: you know, one fifteen, the figure, here's a college coach

858
00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: and I'll say he turns it on his ear. You know,

859
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: here's herschel Walker. Let me have all these and guess

860
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: what we're getting ready to do. You know the amazing

861
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: thing about the herschel when they traded herschel Walker to

862
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota for all those picks, they never used any of

863
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: those draft picks. Never. They turned every one of them

864
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: into something else, exactly right. Wow, he got players in

865
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: the deal. I mean, I think Jack del Rio might

866
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: have been that deal. Yes, but they but the pick,

867
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: all the picks. He would take the fifty fourth pick,

868
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: and he spun it into two threes, and he ended

869
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: up with some defensive back from West Texas, an m

870
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: A and I who ended up being a really good player,

871
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was. It was incredible, it

872
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: really was. And he was he was because he was

873
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, because I worked with Dave Wanstadt,

874
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, and of course Jimmy was there and when

875
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: you you know, he was fascinating because he was so

876
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: forward thinking and and he was a you can imagine

877
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: what type of recruiter he was as a head coach

878
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: in college and of course his you know, his his

879
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: college teams. You know, look at that Miami team that

880
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: had so many people. He just understood how to put

881
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: a football team together. It was it was really fascinating

882
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: to watch. Well Amy, you'll love this one. So my

883
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: boss was friends with him, and so in my previous

884
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: life when I hosted a sports talk show, he got

885
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: me an interview with Jimmy Johnson when he was at

886
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: the height of being the Cowboys coach super Bowl champions. Yeah. Wow.

887
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: And for a little old guy from a little old

888
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: radio station, that was a big deal. So we're gonna

889
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: meet in the lobby of a hotel and do this interview.

890
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: And he comes down, shakes my hand, he says, you

891
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: have ten minutes, started the timer on his on his watch,

892
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: I was done in nine fifty two. Look at you.

893
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: But sheared to death. But he fascinated, fascinating, great interview, great,

894
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: answered every question. And so he gets up and and

895
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: so I got ready to thank him, and he just

896
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: shook my hand and just basically walked off Smarta's whip. Yep,

897
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: you think social you'd like to throw out, Amy Wells.

898
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: Here's one question. This is kind of a logistical question.

899
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: On the General Jackson this evening, Yes, are there going

900
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: to be or during the draft just throughout are there

901
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: going to be players on there who are doing autograph

902
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: signings or no? I think there are players on there, Okay,

903
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: I would assume there would be autograph signings. I apologize

904
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: for not knowing. I will get the answer to that.

905
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: Tweeted out. We're on the General Jackson tonight at six

906
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: o'clock and we're live on Titans Radio all our Titans

907
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: radio stations, including one H four, five Zone, and then

908
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: we're doing radio starting tomorrow night at six and then

909
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: on Friday night at six. And selfishly, I'm embarrassed that

910
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, but I've been

911
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: concentrating on doing five hours of radio and I'm almost

912
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: sure that's true. I'll get the answer, and tweeted out

913
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: they're all sold out. Season ten ticket members have bombed

914
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: everything we've done. We did season ticket member events yesterday

915
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: with Eddie George and Charles Davis and it's packed. We're

916
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: going from here to do a season ticket member event

917
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: with Keith Bullock and Blaine Bishop and Kevin Carter and

918
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: Dave McGinnis and Amy Wells at the Country Music Hall

919
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: of Fame pays to be a season ticket member. So cool,

920
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: But what a great transition into tomorrow's show. Tomorrow's show.

921
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: Why did we do this program? Many of ask, including

922
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: everyone who works not us. We've been excited about it,

923
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: But the reason we did it was to give you

924
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 1: a sampling of everything associated with the twenty nineteen NFL draft.

925
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: And so tomorrow is the OTP Exam review. Tomorrow night's

926
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: the exam starts the exam. We're going to give you

927
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: a complete review. We're going to tell you what you

928
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: should be watching when you when you're watching or hopefully

929
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: listening to the draft on Titan's radio, if you're going

930
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: down there, what you need to know. We're gonna make

931
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: you sound smart in front of your friends. Tell them again,

932
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: what was the message? Walk in a room and go,

933
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: I hope the Titans draft Dawson Knox so they can

934
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: run more thirteen personnel. See if you walk in and

935
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: say that, how smart? Will your friends think you brilliant?

936
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: And we will hit everything in between. Tomorrow is the

937
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: Exam review. So, because we know you're gonna be like

938
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: nine hours away, you're gonna be hyper yep. And so

939
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna make sure you have the right app address

940
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: that you that you know where to go for everything.

941
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you straight on the OTP on draft day.

942
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: Can I give it my review for the OTP? Sure,

943
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: this has been brilliant. It was bad, I tell you too,

944
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: But this, this, this has really been something that you

945
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: guys have done. I mean, it's been informative. It's it's

946
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: it's it's it's been it's covered the range of so

947
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: many things, and it's and it's it's contextualized everything as

948
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: to where people could understand it. You guys done a

949
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: great yet well thank you. I mean, it's been fun.

950
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: Like we had Cody Webb on the other day, who's

951
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: going to be the face of the NFL network's coverage

952
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: with their open We had Anthony Pastrana and Enjoy Baranco

953
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: on who will make the literal picks for the Tyson

954
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: So good we I mean, we've got and we've been

955
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: all John Robinson walked in here one day. We've been

956
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: all over the road, you know, and that was the

957
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: idea because this is fun. This is so exciting. If

958
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: you haven't been downtown and seen the stage, you may cry. Yeah,

959
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, wait until tomorrow and be surprised.

960
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: It's allid up though. I mean, it's it's how it's

961
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: going to look. I stopped. I was walking to the

962
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: George Jones last night and I just stopped and stared

963
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: at it. It's huge, It's huge, and I'm thinking, this

964
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: is here, this is I mean, every day it becomes

965
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: more real that it's happening. It is draft fever. I

966
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: put on my draft shirt today and that's how I

967
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: knew it was real. It's it. I've got a pull over. Yes,

968
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: so it's happened. Coach Mack. Thank you all right, thank

969
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: you for your expertise. Save me wells. Thank you as well.

970
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 1: We remind you that it is just one day until

971
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: players are drafted in Nashville. I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for

972
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: joining us for the OTP Road to Nashville. Have a

973
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: great day, everybody,